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العربية: جُمجُمة ألوصور: رسمٌ يُظهرُ أقصى حد لِفتحة فم الألوصور كما افترض روبرت باكر
English: Allosaurus skull: Showing the maximum possible gape of Allosaurus as hypothesized by Robert Bakker
• 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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  1. Bakker, Robert T. (1998). "Brontosaur killers: Late Jurassic allosaurids as sabre-tooth cat analogues" (pdf). Gaia 15: 145–158. ISSN 0871-5424.
  2. Lautenschlager, Stephan (2015). "Estimating cranial musculoskeletal constraints in theropod dinosaurs" (pdf). Royal Society Oepn Science 2.
  3. Pinegar, Richard. Tyler; et al. (2003). "A Juvenile Allosaur with Preserved Integument from the Basal Morrison Formation of Central Wyoming". SVP Conference Abstracts.
  4. Currie, Philip J and Kevin Padian , ed. (1997) , Academic Press, p. 100
  5. (2012). "A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China" (PDF). Nature 484: 92–95. DOI:10.1038/nature10906. PMID 22481363.
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