I'm seeing a lot of misinformation and overreaction to the proposed sinking of Suchomimus into Cristatusaurus.
I implore everyone to read the literature before posting and arguing about it.
Cristatusaurus' holotype is not diagnostic. Suchomimus will prob stick around (thread)
@Antrodemus The correct phrase should be "Cristatusaurus' holotype PROBABLY is not diagnostic", because there's no consensus about this. Sales & Schultz (2017) and Lacerda et al. (2021) argues it is indeed diagnostic besides only alveoli
@YutyTyrant@Paleodude123@Paleonyx_Art@TenontosaurusT Perhaps the fans could actually, you know, learn about how Science works and begin to appreciate that just as much as learning "facts" as if Paleontology was a Pokédex.?
@Paleonyx_Art@YutyTyrant interested in their research (just be kind). But yeah the tech language is a problem you can only surpasses with constant reading and parallel research
@Paleonyx_Art@YutyTyrant Idk if you know this, but there's a site you certainly shouldn't use (/ir) called Sci-hub. This evil site uses the DOI of the papers to break the pay-walling. Alternatively you can e-mail the corresponding author asking for a PDF copy, researchers generally like when someone's
It never occurred to me that the white fur of springbok is not simply hair that they raise, like in pronghorn, but rather a literal skin flap which opens up.
Actually I'm still standing with Seismosaurus, since the type species of Diplodocus(longus) is a nomen dubium, and the last time ICZN has rejected replacing D. carnegii as a new type species of the genus. Diplodocus is now highly unstable, technically.
@Paleonyx_Art Genus aren't relevant in last resort. They're more susceptible to subjective thoughts of each scientist
Think of Tyrannosaurus/Tarbosaurus case
Really doesn't matter the genus name, they're diff species that almost always are recovered as sister taxa
@Paleonyx_Art@YutyTyrant Maybe if you guys just read the papers you'd be able to understand what made the scientists to give names for them. Even if you aren't capable of assess if they're right, at least you'd know the reasons
@Spino_Mira2026 Not exactly a lie. This guy just made a joke with that name and a skeletal and some people started to apply that name to the material of that skeletal
https://t.co/fA4z8prWEF
@SmashAssemble@YutyTyrant Stop larping bro, technically it would be nomen nudum, not nomen dubium
Also no one has ever seriously proposed a name for that material, that's just an internet thing