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Palaeopathological evidence for intraspecific combat in ankylosaurid dinosaurs.
Article in Biology letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- New information on paleopathologies in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: a case study on South American abelisaurids.BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Palaeopathological evidence for intraspecific combat in ankylosaurid dinosaurs.Biology letters · 2022Article
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Abstract
Ankylosaurid dinosaurs were heavily armoured herbivores with tails modified into club-like weapons. These tail clubs have widely been considered defensive adaptations wielded against predatory theropod dinosaurs. Here we argue instead that ankylosaurid tail clubs were sexually selected structures used primarily for intraspecific combat. We found pathological osteoderms (armour plates) in the holotype specimen of
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