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    species also had four. In a 2017 paper, the term thagomizer graph (and also the associated "thagomizer matroid") was introduced for the complete tripartite...
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  • to the then previously unnamed tail spikes of the Stegosaurus as the "thagomizer" because, according to the prehistoric lecturer, a caveman called Thag...
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    such as in the proportions and features of its head and in its lack of a thagomizer (tail spikes). Some of its anatomical features have been compared to chameleons...
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    vertebrae, an ischium, partial limbs, several plates, and four thagomizers, though eight thagomizers were referred based on a specimen preserved alongside the...
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    and rear in top view. Paul described this kind of thagomizer as a "pin-cushion array". The thagomizer of Tuojiangosaurus is not known from articulated...
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    that was used to defend against predators, much in the same way as a thagomizer, possessed by stegosaurids, though at least in glyptodonts it is hypothesized...
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    allowed them to run. This increased the importance of active defence by the thagomizer, which could ward off even large predators because the tail was in a higher...
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    been called a K e ( 2 , p ) {\displaystyle K_{e}(2,p)} or a thagomizer graph (after thagomizers, the spiked tails of stegosaurian dinosaurs, because of their...
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  • rainforest butterfly was named after him; Serratoterga larsoni. The term "thagomizer", a feature of stegosaurus anatomy, was coined in a Far Side cartoon....
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    stegosauridae, this spike arrangement has become affectionately known as the "thagomizer". Dong thought it were possible that there were four pairs of spikes....
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    holotype also included a left tail spike which could have been part of a thagomizer. It is generally shaped as the rear spikes of some Stegosaurus species...
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    would indicate that they ran in two rows. The end of the tail bore a "thagomizer" of two pairs of spikes, the front pair being thicker, the rear pair thinner...
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    organisms named after famous people (born 1950–present) Serratoterga larsoni Thagomizer Clayton, Dale H. (1990). "Host Specificity of Strigiphilus Owl Lice (Ischnocera:...
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    are 29 in number, though 27-29 are coossified for attachment to the thagomizers (tail spikes). The caudal vertebrae are unique, as they have a combination...
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  • face as well as spike protrusions grown from his forearms and a set of thagomizers from his tail's tip. For the 2014 version, Gareth Edwards designed Godzilla...
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  • Jurassic, Bajocian to Bathonian) Niger Originally described as possessing a "thagomizer" similar to those of stegosaurs, but these turned out to be misidentified...
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    armour on their bodies as well as offensive armour appendages such as the thagomizer or a tail club. The armour took many forms, including osteoderms, spikes...
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    the mesoamerican weapon of the same name. This trait is similar to the thagomizer of stegosaurs and tail clubs known in ankylosaurines, though evolved independently...
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  • leg), and increased the leverage of these muscles.: 178 : 147  thagomizer A thagomizer is the four to ten tail spikes seen in stegosaurians. The term...
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  • Predentary Proximodorsal process Rostral bone Sclerotic ring Scute Synsacrum Thagomizer Dinosaur behavior Dinosaur intelligence Album of Dinosaurs (book) Walking...
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  • Velociraptor, the back armor and the tail club of an Ankylosaurus, and the thagomizer and dermal plates of a Stegosaurus. This hybrid dinosaur is featured in...
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    rear of the tail, pairs of spikes were present forming the so-called "thagomizer", a defensive weapon. Each flank had a row of smaller osteoderms, culminating...
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    low-growing vegetation. Wuerhosaurus, like other stegosaurids, perhaps had a thagomizer on the end of its tail, like that of Stegosaurus which featured four bony...
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  • Camptosaurus flee, attacks the Stegosaurus, but in the end a Stegosaurus' thagomizer spiked tail severely wounds it. However, the Allosaurus survives and recovers...
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  • Formation (Late Jurassic, Oxfordian) China May have possessed at least six thagomizer spikes. The rearmost pair was mounted horizontally, directed outwards...
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    Larson humorously suggests the tail spikes on a stegosaur be named the Thagomizer. 1984 Giuseppe Leonardi attributed Early Cretaceous footprints of the...
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    Institution Kimmeridgian Lake Como Member, Morrison Formation, Wyoming Thagomizer Stegosaurus ungulatus YPM 1853 Yale Peabody Museum Kimmeridgian Brushy...
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    located in life; spines at the end of the tail—forming a structure called a thagomizer—are common in stegosaurians, with some taxa also bearing a parascapular...
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  • dinosaur" with a long, sauropod-like neck, as well as stegosaur-like thagomizers on his tail. The toy came with a plastic remote shaped like a rock that...
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