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| Title |
A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales
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| Published in |
Science, July 2014
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1253351 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Pascal Godefroit, Sofia M Sinitsa, Danielle Dhouailly, Yuri L Bolotsky, Alexander V Sizov, Maria E McNamara, Michael J Benton, Paul Spagna |
| Abstract |
Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous deposits from northeastern China have yielded varied theropod dinosaurs bearing feathers. Filamentous integumentary structures have also been described in ornithischian dinosaurs, but whether these filaments can be regarded as part of the evolutionary lineage toward feathers remains controversial. Here we describe a new basal neornithischian dinosaur from the Jurassic of Siberia with small scales around the distal hindlimb, larger imbricated scales around the tail, monofilaments around the head and the thorax, and more complex featherlike structures around the humerus, the femur, and the tibia. The discovery of these branched integumentary structures outside theropods suggests that featherlike structures coexisted with scales and were potentially widespread among the entire dinosaur clade; feathers may thus have been present in the earliest dinosaurs. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 133 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 18 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 16 | 12% |
| Spain | 6 | 5% |
| Belgium | 6 | 5% |
| Canada | 4 | 3% |
| Mexico | 2 | 2% |
| Argentina | 2 | 2% |
| South Africa | 2 | 2% |
| Japan | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 12 | 9% |
| Unknown | 63 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 106 | 80% |
| Scientists | 21 | 16% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 2% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 200 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 4% |
| Chile | 2 | 1% |
| Brazil | 2 | 1% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Argentina | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 181 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 40 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 16% |
| Researcher | 32 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 12% |
| Professor | 12 | 6% |
| Other | 34 | 17% |
| Unknown | 27 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 76 | 38% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 55 | 28% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 5% |
| Environmental Science | 6 | 3% |
| Chemistry | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 14 | 7% |
| Unknown | 36 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 794. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 March 2024.
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#24,326
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#1,119
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#141
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#6
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