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• The wide gape is based on figure 6 in 'Bakker 1998'. The head shape is based on specien AMNH 666, what Bakker calls 'Creosaur style allosaur'. [1] 'Creosaurus' is genrally thought to be synonymous with Allosaurus. A study in 2015 using computer models came to a similar conclusion. [2]
• The skin details are partly speculative. A juvenille allosaur is known to have had scaly skin on some parts of its body[3]. Up until recently large theropods with skin impressions have shown 'typical dinosaurian' scales.[4] In 2012 Yutyrannus was described, it showed that large theropods could have been covered in feathers [5]. There are many dinosaurs being discovered from all over the family tree with evidence of quils or feathers so it is possible that allosaurs also had them (see Feathered Dinosaur).
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↑Pinegar, Richard. Tyler; et al. (2003). "A Juvenile Allosaur with Preserved Integument from the Basal Morrison Formation of Central Wyoming". SVP Conference Abstracts.
↑Currie, Philip J and Kevin Padian , ed. (1997) , Academic Press, p. 100
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