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Sexual Dimorphism in Stegosaurs

Started by Pachyrhinosaurus, April 24, 2015, 03:34:00 AM

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Pachyrhinosaurus

I found this interesting:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2015/april/sexing-stegosaurus.html
Its strange that they're calling hesperosaurus a species of stegosaurus.

EDIT:
Paper: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0123503
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reinier zwanink

It also mentions a stegosaur graveyard
Have not heared of that before

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Quote from: HD-man on April 26, 2015, 02:34:00 AM
Quote from: Sim on April 24, 2015, 02:34:02 PMThis study has been criticised...: http://news.sciencemag.org/paleontology/2015/04/dino-sexing-study-slammed-critics

Saitta left a comment about everything wrong w/Chen's article.
His response makes a lot of interesting points.  It looks like he believes Hesperosaurus is a species of Stegosaurus.  This made me look into it, and it seems there's disagreement on whether Hesperosaurus is or isn't a species of Stegosaurus.

stargatedalek

I still think its potentially erroneous to assume these differences represent gender dimorphism. It seems like that's the "the-go" assumption for slight differences in fossils.

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