Stegosaurus teeth from Eastern Siberia show high wear and replacement rate

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Impression: Dentary enamel with three put on facets of Stegosauria indet. from the Teete locality, Yakutia, Russia Batylykh Formation (Decrease Cretaceous).&#13
Specimens ZIN PH 13/246 (A-D), ZIN PH 19/246 (E-H) in labial (A,…
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Credit: Skutschas et al, 2021, PLOS Just one (CC-BY 4., https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4./)

Stegosaurus tooth from Japanese Siberia clearly show higher wear and substitution price, and could point out adaptations to everyday living at significant latitudes.

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Article Title: Have on designs and dental operating in an Early Cretaceous stegosaur from Yakutia, Japanese Russia

Funding: Monetary help was offered by the Russian Basis for Fundamental Research (job 17-54-12041-NNIO) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG grant MA 1643/22-1). The operate of P.N.K. at the Diamond and Valuable Metals Geology Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences was carried out at the price of governing administration activity funding.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/posting?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248163&#13

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