Palpebral (bone)
The palpebral bone is a small dermal bone found in the region of the eye socket in a variety of animals, including crocodilians and ornithischian dinosaurs. In ornithischians, it can form a prong that projects from the front upper corner of the orbit. It is large in heterodontosaurids,[1] basal ornithopods like Bugenasaura and Dryosaurus,[2][1] and basal ceratopsians like Archaeoceratops;[3] in these animals, the prong is elongate and would have stuck out and over the eye like a bony eyebrow. As paleoartist Gregory S. Paul has noted, elongate palpebrals would have given their owners fierce-looking "eagle eyes".[4] In such cases, the expanded palpebral may have functioned to shade the eye.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Norman, David B. (2004). "Basal Ornithopoda". In Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 393–412. ISBN 0-520-24209-2. Unknown parameter
|coauthors=ignored (help) - ↑ Sues, Hans-Dieter (1990). "Hypsilophodontidae, Tenontosaurus, Dryosauridae". In Weishampel, David B.; Osmólska, Halszka; and Dodson, Peter (eds.). The Dinosauria (1st ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 498–509. ISBN 0-520-06727-4. Unknown parameter
|coauthors=ignored (help) - ↑ You Hailu and Dodson, Peter. (2004). Basal Ceratopsia. In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmolska, Halszka (eds.) The Dinosauria (2nd Edition). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 478–493.
- ↑ Paul, Gregory S. (2000). "Restoring the Life Appearances of Dinosaurs". In Paul, Gregory S. (ed.). The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 102. ISBN 0-312-26226-4.
- ↑ Naish, Darren (2001). "Ornithopod dinosaurs". Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. London: The Palaeontological Association. p. 79. ISBN 0-901702-72-2. Unknown parameter
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