Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates, or other structures based in the dermis. Osteoderms are found in many groups of extant and extinct...

Osteoderms are dermal bone structures that support the upper layer of skin and serve as protection against the elements in a large variety of extinct and...

far recovered from North America. The specimen also preserved in situ osteoderms, keratin, and skin remains. In 2014, Theropoda Expeditions LLC was excavating...

snouts, erect limbs, and a body ornamented with four rows of plate-like osteoderms (bony scutes). Aetosaur fossil remains are known from Europe, North and...

collected 77 osteoderms while excavating a Tyrannosaurus specimen in the Lance Formation of Wyoming in 1900. He mentioned these osteoderms (specimen AMNH...

armored top shell (carapace) that was made of hundreds of interconnected osteoderms (structures in dermis composed of bone). Other pieces of armor covered...

built for crushing, and its back was covered with thick hemispherical osteoderms. One study indicated Deinosuchus may have lived for up to 50 years, growing...

that time, the genus was only known from fragmentary bones including osteoderms and vertebrae. However, since then many more fossils have been found,...

certain tissues such as in horns of cattle and rhinos, and armadillos' osteoderm. The only other biological matter known to approximate the toughness of...

southern Laramidia, including a complete skull, tail club, a number of osteoderms, limb elements and part of its pelvis, among other remains. It was described...

of India. It was described in 2025 on the basis of multiple isolated osteoderms that were nonetheless distinct in their appearance from not only the contemporary...

Glyptodontopelta mimus, is known from numerous specimens that consist of osteoderms, a dentary, supraorbital and bone fragments. It was named in 2000 by Tracy...

armour of bony plates embedded in its skin. Such small bony plates, called osteoderms, have since been found on other titanosaurians. The fossils of Saltasaurus...

the fact that many known lithostrotians are preserved with osteoderms. However, osteoderms are not a distinguishing feature of the group, as the two noted...

Preserved elements show the presence of a rigid shield of hexagonal osteoderms just behind the head, followed by a series of mobile bands similar to...

and/or dorsal vertebrae fragments, complete and fragmentary thoracic osteoderms, and other unidentifiable postcranial fragments. The holotype specimen...

armored carapaces (top shell) that were made of hundreds of interconnected osteoderms (structures in dermis composed of bone). Other pieces of armor covered...

right radius (CAMSM J.29482), a cast of phalanx (CAMSM J.29479) and an osteoderm (CAMSM J.29481). It was synonymised to Ornithopsis humerocristatus by...

muelleri. Garzapelta is known primarily from an associated collection of osteoderms, although some other bones such as ribs are also known. The anatomy of...

Euoplocephalus lacks round osteoderms at the base of the squamosal and quadratojugal horns. Compared with Anodontosaurus it lacks small osteoderms at the bases of...

characterized by its small body size and distinct arrangement of fused osteoderms forming a maquahuitl-like tail weapon. In February 2018, the skeleton...

or more epiperietals, or triangular osteoderms. A midline triangular osteoderm is absent. Likewise, no osteoderm straddles the parietal-squamosal boundary...

against predators like Tarbosaurus with a tail-club. On the torso keeled osteoderms were present. Saichania bit off plants in its desert habitat with a horny...

dinosaur fossils of its size ever found. It preserved not only the armor (osteoderms) in their life positions, but also remains of their keratin sheaths, overlying...

Norian stages of the Late Triassic. Scutarx is a medium-sized reptile with osteoderms belonging to the Aetosauria, a heavily armored and more herbivorous clade...

includes the great majority of dinosaurs with armor in the form of bony osteoderms, similar to turtles. Ankylosaurs were bulky quadrupeds, with short, powerful...

from very fragmentary fossils, elements of the skull, dentary, teeth and osteoderm. Remains of a mesocrocodylian were found in Portugal; it was named Iberosuchus...

block containing a partial skeleton, including numerous vertebrae, ribs, osteoderms (bony plates), and other bones. This block, USNM 244214, has been designated...

yangyanensis, is known from a partial postcranial skeleton preserving osteoderms and ossified tendons. It was named in 2013 by Rongjun Chen, Wenjie Zheng...

species name scutorectangularis meanwhile alludes to the fact that the osteoderm scutes that covered the animals back were rectangular. The holotype specimen...