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Tenontosaurus muscle anatomy study

My muscle study of Tenontosaurus! With another ornithischian due and the last theropod in the series being Deinonychus, Tenontosaurus felt like the clear choice. It may not have the celebrity status of the previous entries, but it's a personal favourite. There's a lot of meat in that tail. Tenontosaurus tilletti is known from a high abundance of fossils, some of which I've been able to directly study, so there was a lot to work from here. Skeletal previsualisation was mostly informed by my direct observations and photoscans of fossil material, but Forster's Tenontosaurus osteology paper, Ostrom's original description, and Thomas' skull description were also useful. This reconstruction is scaled as a larger-skewing adult. As was the case previously, the scale bar = 1 metre, and the scale comparison human is approx 1.75 m tall.

Useful dinosaur muscle resources: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zomk6qwjqcn48lt/Muscle%20References.pdf?dl=0