Talk:Spinophorosaurus

Thagomizer
Obligatory link to thagomizer -- I'm not sure just what sort of source we'd need to include it in the article. -- 201.53.124.69 (talk) 14:54, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Tom holtz referred to it as a thagomizer in the comments at the SV-POW blog post about it, but I'm not sure that meets the criteria for references. Dinoguy2 (talk) 15:51, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Outdated names of UoM?
Isn't metric ton, short ton and all the rest of it now outdated for scientific purposes? In this scientific article I suggest we simply use tonne. 5.81.164.70 (talk) 12:54, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

New paper and skeletal
There's a very nice skeletal reconstruction + size comparison of Spinophorosaurus in this paper about neck mobility:. Somewhat puzzlingly, it's missing the tail spikes... Lythronaxargestes (talk &#124; contribs) 19:11, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks, the lacking spikes were anticipated by a conference abstract, see the section on them: Seems there's a bit of work to do... FunkMonk (talk) 19:24, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
 * That makes sense - same lead author on this paper as the abstracts... Lythronaxargestes (talk &#124; contribs) 19:31, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I've now added some new images. The old skeletal has been placed in the tail spikes section for historical purposes (will probably be renamed at some point), and the taxobox image has been replaced with one that cropped out the tail spikes, but was also in higher res. The life restoration will probably need an update down the line, once a paper dealing explicitly with the tail spikes/clavicles is published (or maybe it should be replaced entirely, the posture is also off now). The new paper doesn't address it past the diagram. and I will try to add the new info, but any help is of course welcome! FunkMonk (talk) 20:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)