Figure 9. Digital reconstruction of the osteoderms of the holotype of Mambachiton fiandohana (UA 8-25-97-132). Both paramedian rows of osteoderms (alternating purple and red = right side; alternating pink and turquoise = less side) in dorsal (A) and ventral (B) views. Less paramedian row in lateral (C), dorsolateral (D), ventral (E), and medial (F) views. Isolated osteoderm from the less paramedial row in dorsolateral (G), lateral (H), medial (I), and ventral (J) views and isolated osteoderm from the right paramedial row in dorsolateral (K), lateral (L), medial (M), and ventral (N) views. Arrows indicate anterior direction. Scale bars = 5 in A–F and 1 cm in G–N. Abbreviations: ap, anterior process; gap, groove for anterior process.

Published as part of Nesbiư, Sterling J., Patellos, Emily, Kammerer, Christian F., Ranivoharimanana, Lovasoa, Andre, Wyss, R. & Flynn, John J., 2023, The earliest-diverging avemetatarsalian: a new osteoderm- bearing taxon from the Triassic (?Earliest Late Triassic) of Madagascar and the composition of avemetatarsalian assemblages prior to the radiation of dinosaurs, pp. 327-353 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 199 (2) on page 338, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad038, http://zenodo.org/record/8426293