What Compression Left

The skull is three to five millimetres thick. Lake and ash did that.

In the lower jaw forty-five sockets still sit in the first two thirds of the bone — more than any therizinosaur they have named.

They call that a record, or niche-splitting, or four ways to share one floodplain.

The leftover isn’t the count. It’s what stayed clear after the crush — empty rooms for teeth already set for the higher leaf while the sutures were still open.