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Description: Sequence of silhouettes to illustrate the differing sizes of Protoceratops specimens considered here. Left to right: Adult animal based on data in Dodson 1976, subadult animal based on MPC-D 100/534, midsized juvenile based on MPC-D 100/526, and finally a very small juvenile based on data from Fastovsky et al. 2011. Scale bar is 1 m.
Title: Protoceratops ontogeny sizes
Credit: (2014). "A New Mass Mortality of Juvenile Protoceratops and Size-Segregated Aggregation Behaviour in Juvenile Non-Avian Dinosaurs". PLOS ONE 9 (11): e113306. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0113306. PMID 25426957. PMC: 4245121.
Author: David W. E. Hone, Andrew A. Farke, Mahito Watabe, Suzuki Shigeru & Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar
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