Re: Shunosaurus, Tail Clubs, and Ankylosauria

[forelf@internet19.fr (Francoise Forel)]

>   I was unaware that *Tianchisaurus* had been attributed with a tail
> club.

It wasn't, at least if new specimens that I would not be aware of have been
discovered. No tail club was found.

> 
>   Sorry. Off the top of my head, here. When thinking "club", and I
> included the polacanthine "war-spike" at the end of the tail, I was
> unaware of any discovery of a Jurassic form with such. Dealing lately
> with Early Cretaceous fauna, I seem to have lost sight of the Jurassic
> entirely.

But isn't *Gargoyleosaurus* known only from a partial skull?

> 
>   Incidentally, where does *Minmi* fit in? It is an ankylosaurid, right?

No. It looks like something between nodosaurids and ankylosaurids, but is
most likely a unique endemic form.

> 
>   What shape is the club? I'm up to my ears in theropods and trikes,
> so I'm not going anywhere near ankylosaurs at the moment.

What tail club?

> 
>   Sorry about the mistake,

But were there any mistake?

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Félix Landry
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