Talk:Spinosaurus

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The snout

Please consider referencing: Romain Vullo, Ronan Allain, and Lionel Cavin. Convergent evolution of jaws between spinosaurid dinosaurs and pike conger eels. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (4), 2016: 825-828 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00284.2016

I thought maroccanus was a subspecies?

Title 155.4.124.213 (talk) 20:56, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New Photo

The Field Museum recently installed a cast of FSAC-KK-11888. It includes the new material (tail paddle) and is displayed in a swimming pose. I wanted to see what others thought before incorporating in the article since questions have been raised about the "semi-aquatic" behavior and the fact that this specimen may not be Spinosaurus.

New Spinosaurus Mount

3blindMies (talk) 12:37, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks better than our current taxobox photo, which is also in swimming posture. It's not like it couldn't swim at all even if it wasn't semi-aquatic, so there's nothing inaccurate about it. Might you have a version with background as well? Can also be useful. FunkMonk (talk) 13:07, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a cropped version with the background.

3blindMies (talk) 21:26, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nice, I see it's of course more busy with the background. Either way, these are an improvement, so I think the infobox image should be replaced. FunkMonk (talk) 11:54, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New images look nice, though perhaps the image without background could be cropped more tightly, as currently there's lots of unused space above and below? --Slate Weasel [Talk - Contribs] 19:00, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, thought the same. FunkMonk (talk) 20:35, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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WaspDragon2000 (talk) 17:45, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]