HIGH TIME FOR MID SPINE | Paleontologists rank METRIACANTHOSAURUS in Jurassic World Evolution 2
His spines may be mid, but his design is mighty, this week The Crew is discussing Metriacanthosaurus, a piece of Julius Csotonyi art come to life. But what even is Metricanthosaurus, and why is it in the game in the first place? And how do two theropods from China fit into the picture when Metriacanthosaurus is from jolly ol' England? Oh also we finally decide to explain the phylogeny talk, it only took 81 episodes!
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Timecodes:
00:00:00 Intros
00:10:22 The Taxonomy Mongers
00:19:07 Do fish exist? Do we?
00:36:54 Real Phylo-Head Hours
00:50:54 Thought the taxonomy talk was over? Too bad.
00:56:42 Theropod Bros (derogatory)
01:25:30 We say we’re going to rank it and then we don’t
01:32:31 RANKING
01:38:50 SPIN! THAT!! WHEEL!!!
01:40:17 Outro & huge THANK YOU to patrons!
Image Credits:
Ornithosuchus drawing: Nobu Tamura CC BY-SA 3.0
Old phylogeny: Figure 18 of Walker, 1964
Sinraptor illustration: Figure 3 of Curry and Zhao, 1993. Illustrated by Donna L. Sloan
Yangchuanosaurus model: Jagged Fang Designs
Sinraptor Skull: From figure 1 of Hendrickx et al. 2020
Plateosaurus pelvis: From figure 9 of Tsai et al. 2018
Siamotyrannus pelvis: Conty, public domain
Keywords: jurassic park, jurassic world, metriacanthosaurus, yangchuanosaurus, sinraptor, allosaurus, metriacanthosaur, carnosaur, tetaneuran, theropod, meat eater, carnivore, china, engalnd, predatory dinosaurs of the world, gregory s paul, gsp, late jurassic, systematics, phylocode, phylogeny, scicomm, science, paleontology, paleontologist, fossil