A rostral beak, a highly keratinized tissue covering the perioral region of the skull, has been hypothesized for many sauropodomorphs and eusauropods over the past few decades by several authors, based on dental, morphological, and neurovascular evidence. However, there has so far been no objective and comprehensive way to assess and test this hypothesis. We here present the first analytical framework for investigating and reconstructing the per…
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