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@inproceedings{Main2005TheEA,
  title={The evolution and function of thyreophoran dinosaur scutes: implications for plate function in stegosaurs},
  author={Russell P. Main and Armand de Ricql{\`e}s and John R. Horner and Kevin Padian},
  booktitle={Paleobiology},
  year={2005},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1548133}
}

It seems more likely, as in other groups of dinosaurs, that the variation of dermal armor form in stegosaurs was primarily linked to species individuation and recognition, perhaps secondarily to inter- and intraspecific display, and rarely to facultative thermoregulation.

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