Sentence examples for rows of plates from inspiring English sources

Paleontologists had long thought that Stegosaurus had two parallel rows of plates, either staggered or paired, and that these afforded protection to the animal's backbone and spinal cord.

Derived traits include a sacral yoke, a long prepubic process, a long thighbone and two rows of plates or spikes.

They had bony armor in the form of two rows of plates extending from head to tail, and this armor is retained by most modern crocodilians.

Most members of the family Dissorophidae also have armor, although it only covers the midline of the back with two narrow rows of plates.

"Pies," from 1961, shows rows of plated slices — lemon meringue, cherry, chocolate, maybe pumpkin — each hand-painted so that its gooey fillings seem almost to ooze off the canvas.

The Natural History Museum's beautiful new stegosaurus – the most complete skeleton of this unmistakable dinosaur, with its bizarre row of plates along its back and tail, that has ever been discovered – is a phenomenal thing to see.

So the row of plates on Stegosaurus were in good company.

The more general case of a row of plates which are simply supported along the two longitudinal edges and coupled through compliant and dissipative joints is also investigated.

By 1891, Marsh published a more familiar view of Stegosaurus, with a single row of plates.

Because each type of osteoderm was found in mirrored left and right versions, it seems probable that all types of osteoderms were distributed in two rows along the back of the animal, a marked contrast to the better-known North American Stegosaurus, which had one row of plates on the neck, trunk and tail, and two rows of spikes on the tail tip.

They have bony plates (scutes) covering the head and five longitudinal rows of similar plates along the body.