Thread:JurassicMisfits/@comment-33613830-20180304021345/@comment-34832962-20180304180738

Dinosaurus1 wrote: JurassicMisfits wrote: What is it that I exactly say is so similar? And yes I do work on Voice Acting, but these days who hasn't?

Really; Mind if I see a similar comment from this gent? Well, you regarded that Hoplitosaurus as the Unidentified Ankylosaur Carcass, despite there being no confirmation. Here, you use paleontological speculation as proof, instead of sources and confirmations. Ibarber did this too with the Allosaurus page.

Also, you reverting my edit and saying that it is a Hoplitosaurus without confirmation really fuels my suspicion. Dinosaurus1 wrote:

Okay, look, we don’t know if that skeleton really is a Hoplitosaurus. It’s unconfirmed. Let’s wait for confirmation.

It's a Hoplitosaurus for several reasons.

From the movie perspective we have the Hoplitosaurus' icon in the Holoscape. Clarifying to us that it is present within park, this can further supported by the other no shows that we know are on island or are confirmed for Fallen Kingdom, for example the Koshisaurus.

In the fossil record perspective...

1. Hoplitosaurus has a similar morphology to Polacanthus as precedented within a published paper in 1902 by paleontologist, F.A. Lucus. The dotted connection is present by the arrangement of the spiky-like scutes, as their displayed in a asymmetrical position with each row varying in size, the scutes were positioned outwards and sprawled to the sides like seen in Denversaurus and Gastonia withe exception of Minmi, which its spikes were more located at the tail. This is what see in the skeleton featured in the trailer as the dinosaur shows all the typical Nodosaurian traits.

2. Unlike Ankylosaurs, the skulls of Nodosaurs were narrow, rugouse and less heavily than their later cousins. In contrast the upper jaw was more narrowed than the lower jaw as opposed to Ankylosaurines which evolved the exact opposite. The beaks were often rectangular in shape and were relatively smaller than those of Ankylosaurines, and where the teeth were noticeable in Nodosaurs, Ankylosaurine teeth were positioned farther into the mouth and were a lot wider. Nodosaurs also had very long limbs which made them fast runners. To put it into analogy the Nodosaurs were a cross between the Stegosaurs and Ankylosaurines.

3. All Nodosaurine dinosaurs were heavily on the offense, being decorated with spikes, and had flexible clubless tails that they used as a similar fashion to a mace than the stiff the bony clubbed tail that most Nodosaurs would later evolve with.

4. Nodosaurs all varied in many shapes and sizes with largest Denversaurus growing to equal sizes to Ankylosaurus and the smallest, Minmi growing up to the size of a Dog or Sheep. Hoplitosaurus in comparison to Polacanthus it was roughly about the size of a crocodile measuring in at 5-6 meters (15-20ft) long and stood only about 1 meter (5ft) tall at the hips. Given the back's arch and the passing Military trucks the height size seems to fit the 5ft range. Henceforth with all the evidence displayed to us it is no doubt a Hoplitosaurus.

It's best not to depend on the official resources of films too much and not to stay on the conservative too often. Too much of it is a bad thing.