What is the body covering of spinosaurus?

Answer 1

We don't have skin impressions of spinosaurs

yet so we don't know with certainty.

Theropods

like Allosaurus

, Carnotorus

are known to have had scales on at

least some parts of their bodies.

At some point in dinosaur evolution feathers evolved. There is a lot of uncertainty as to where on the family tree this happened.

A small fuzzy dinosaur called Sciurumimuswas described

in 2012 and is thought to be a

megalosauroid,

the same group that spinosaurs

belong to.

If Sciurumimus is actually a megalosaur then feathers might be the most likley

option for spinosaurs.

It's also entirely

possible that if feathers are ancestal

for megalosaurs

they may have been lost in larger forms like Spinosaurus

.

At this point Spinosaurus

could be restored with either scales or feathers or a mix of the two.

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