title: Response to Comment on "A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales".
abstract: Lingham-Soliar questions our interpretation of integumentary structures in the Middle-Late Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur Kulindadromeus as feather-like appendages and alternatively proposes that the compound structures observed around the humerus and femur of Kulindadromeus are support fibers associated with badly degraded scales. We consider this hypothesis highly unlikely because of the taphonomy and morphology of the preserved structures.
authors.affiliation: Directorate, Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium. pascal.godefroit@naturalsciences.be.
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Godefroit
authors.affiliation: Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology, and Cryology, 26 Butin Street, 672 014 Chita, Russia.
authors.forename: Sofia M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Sinitsa
authors.affiliation: UJF-CNRS FRE 3405, AGIM, Université Joseph Fourier, Site Santé, 38 706 La Tronche, France.
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dhouailly
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geology and Nature Management, FEB RAS, 1 Relochny Street 675 000, Blagoveschensk, Russia.
authors.forename: Yuri L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Bolotsky
authors.affiliation: Institute of the Earth Crust, SB RAS, 128 Lermontov Street, 664 033 Irkutsk, Russia.
authors.forename: Alexander V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Sizov
authors.affiliation: School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Science, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK.
authors.forename: Maria E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: McNamara
authors.affiliation: School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Benton
authors.affiliation: Directorate, Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Spagna
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D025061:Dinosaurs / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D004817:Epidermis / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005241:Feathers / Q000033:anatomy & histology*