Fig. 5 in Dermal armor histology of Saltasaurus loricatus, an Upper Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur from Northwest Argentina

Fig. 5. Schematic sketch of dermal ossicles of Saltasaurus loricatus Bonaparte and Powell, 1980 based on the tissue types and growth marks described in the main text. The growing ossicles are embedded in the dermis (for simplification, only horizontal systems of fiber bundles are showed), which contains layers of perpendicularly oriented fiber (lines and points). Horizontal fibers of the ossicle are shown as being continuous with the surrounding dermis. The distance between successive LAGs decreases from the center to the periphery of the element but the space between two successive lines is always greater at the lateral portion of the ossicles.