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Armour (zoology), the Glossary

Armour or armor in animals is a rigid cuticle or exoskeleton that provides exterior protection against attack by predators, formed as part of the body (rather than the behavioural utilization of external objects for protection) usually through the thickening and hardening of superficial tissues, outgrowths or skin secretions.^[1]

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Biological defense mechanisms
Dinosaur anatomy

Animal

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Ankylosauria

Ankylosauria is a group of herbivorous dinosaurs of the clade Ornithischia.

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Ankylosaurus

Ankylosaurus is a genus of armored dinosaur.

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Antler

Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family.

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Armadillo

Armadillos (little armored ones) are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata.

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Armour (disambiguation)

Armour (British spelling) or Armor (American spelling) is protective covering.

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Arthropod

Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.

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Arthropod exoskeleton

Arthropods are covered with a tough, resilient integument, cuticle or exoskeleton of chitin.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Biting

Biting is an action involving a set of teeth closing down on an object.

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Bone

A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals.

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Ceratopsia

Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

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Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock.

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Chitin

Chitin (C8H13O5N)n is a long-chain polymer of ''N''-acetylglucosamine, an amide derivative of glucose.

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Claw

A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds). Armour (zoology) and claw are animal anatomy.

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Crocodile

Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

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Crocodilian armor

Crocodile armor consists of the protective dermal and epidermal components of the integumentary system in animals of the order Crocodilia.

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Cuticle

A cuticle, or cuticula, is any of a variety of tough but flexible, non-mineral outer coverings of an organism, or parts of an organism, that provide protection. Armour (zoology) and cuticle are animal anatomy.

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Cuttlebone

Cuttlebone, also known as cuttlefish bone, is a hard, brittle internal structure (an internal shell) found in all members of the family Sepiidae, commonly known as cuttlefish, within the cephalopods.

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Cuttlefish

Cuttlefish, or cuttles, are marine molluscs of the order Sepiida.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dromaeosauridae

Dromaeosauridae is a family of feathered coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs.

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Echidna

Echidnas, sometimes known as spiny anteaters, are quill-covered monotremes (egg-laying mammals) belonging to the family Tachyglossidae, living in Australia and New Guinea.

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Exoskeleton

An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g. Armour (zoology) and exoskeleton are animal anatomy.

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Fish scale

A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish.

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Glyptodon

Glyptodon is a genus of glyptodont, an extinct group of large, herbivorous armadillos, that lived from the Pliocene, around 3.2 million years ago, to the early Holocene, around 11,000 years ago, in South America.

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Hair

Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis.

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Hedgehog

A hedgehog is a spiny mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae.

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Hoof

The hoof (hooves) is the tip of a toe of an ungulate mammal, which is covered and strengthened with a thick and horny keratin covering.

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Horn (anatomy)

A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone. Armour (zoology) and horn (anatomy) are animal anatomy and dinosaur anatomy.

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Keratin

Keratin is one of a family of structural fibrous proteins also known as scleroproteins.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Mineral

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.

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Neck frill

A neck frill is the relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles with either a bony support such as those present on the skulls of dinosaurs of the suborder Marginocephalia or a cartilaginous one as in the frill-necked lizard. Armour (zoology) and neck frill are dinosaur anatomy.

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Organ (biology)

In a multicellular organism, an organ is a collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function.

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Osteoderm

Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates, or other structures based in the dermis. Armour (zoology) and Osteoderm are dinosaur anatomy.

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Pangolin

Pangolins, sometimes known as scaly anteaters, are mammals of the order Pholidota.

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Pincer (biology)

A pincer is the part of an arthropod that enables it to carry loads, to defend against other creatures, or to attack prey.

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Plate (anatomy)

A plate in animal anatomy may refer to several things. Armour (zoology) and plate (anatomy) are animal anatomy.

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Porcupine

Porcupines are large rodents with coats of sharp spines, or quills, that protect them against predation.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Reptile scale

Reptile skin is covered with scutes or scales which, along with many other characteristics, distinguish reptiles from animals of other classes.

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Rhinoceros

A rhinoceros (rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae; it can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea.

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Saltasaurus

Saltasaurus (which means "lizard from Salta") is a genus of saltasaurid dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous period of Argentina.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, whose members are known as sauropods (from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.

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Scute

A scute or scutum (Latin: scutum; plural: scuta "shield") is a bony external plate or scale overlaid with horn, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodilians, and the feet of birds. Armour (zoology) and scute are animal anatomy and dinosaur anatomy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour_(zoology)

Also known as Armor (zoology), Armour (anatomy).

, Skin, Spine (zoology), Stegosauria, Stickleback, Tail club, Terrapin, Thagomizer, Thyreophora, Tissue (biology), Tortoise, Turtle.

Armour (zoology), the Glossary

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See also

Biological defense mechanisms

Dinosaur anatomy

References