Oh wow, massive congratulations! This is a fantastic piece of work!

Lastly, I want to thank: all our co-authors as this was a collaborative effort between palaeontologists, engineers and artists;
reviewers Joep Schaffer, Darius Nau and one anonymous reviewer and to the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology editoral team whose comments were immensely helpful
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This work started off as Sina's Master's thesis at Zurich who did a fantastic job on the osteological description

This work was supported by my @snsf.ch postdoctoral fellowship at Zurich and will be the first of (hopefully) several more papers from my fellowship (7/n)

In 2020, the specimen was turned into a display at the Natural History Museum of Zurich, complete with the skeleton and a life-sized restoration of the animal, complete with pathology.

This restoration was done by the company 10tons www.10tons.dk
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Previous reported cases of osteomyelitis in dinosaurs usually involves a couple of toe bones or adjacent vertebrae

So to have most of an entire right pectoral girdle infected is really unusual (and most likely painful!)

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The scapula (left C and D) has been completely remodelled and separated while the proximal part of the humerus is also heavily reworked

We interpreted this as some form of chronic osteomyelitis/septic arthritis (infection of the bone)

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The skeleton is an almost complete individual, missing only the skull and neck

But what was most interesting about the specimen was it's heavily infected right shoulder and upper forearm... (3/n)

The specimen was discovered in 2018 from the Klettgau Formation in northern Switzerland (Late Triassic) and was excellently excavated and brought to Zurich by Ursina Bachman and Ben Pabst, pictured (2/n)

We only looked at archosauromorphs for this study but it would be good to expand this to other modern and extinct groups, such as mammals

I'm guessing maybe something like a bowhead whale might be most head? Or perhaps a swordfish if you included all the sword

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