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"lacrimal horns" in most small theropod dinosaurs have no dorsal extension or texturing to indicate the presence of cornified tissues relating to horns. Never have. Paul's ... work ... on the subject have been to romanticize the craziness of tissue in a fairly All Yesterdays approach to making shit up because it looks cool. He had no science to back it up, and plenty of evidence in living sauropsids (reptiles) to confirm otherwise. Work on ornithischian palpebrals has revealed the complexity of their supraorbital soft-tissues, and the result was that almost all orbits in dinosaurs are laterally bounded by some slight or expansive soft-tissue that under girds the brow. The lateral boundary of this tissue structure attaches from the rear of the lacrimal and arcs to the postorbital, where it attaches to a small process. This is true in most animals without very broad intororbital regions, but even in ornithischians with broad interobital regions as in ankylosaurs, this tissue is present and notable by the presence of overlying osteoderms.
Thank you for chiming in. Your opinion means a lot to me and, I'm sure, many others here.
This has lacrimal confusion has taught me a lot about the dangers of trusting reconstructions too much, be they drawings, sculptures, 3D models or whatever, because very rarely is it clear what bones may have been embellished or otherwise incorrectly interpreted. Unfortunately even with at photographs of skulls it's not always clear how much is original material and how much has been filled in by human hand.
This has lacrimal confusion has taught me a lot about the dangers of trusting reconstructions too much, be they drawings, sculptures, 3D models or whatever, because very rarely is it clear what bones may have been embellished or otherwise incorrectly interpreted. Unfortunately even with at photographs of skulls it's not always clear how much is original material and how much has been filled in by human hand.