Spinosaurus aegyptiacus

"spine lizard from Egypt"

(Stromer, 1915)

    When I first posted the above image on-line a few months ago, it received surprisingly little attention.  Luckily, Ganeosaur has posted it since, and it would seem that more than a few minds have since been changed.  Indeed, this dinosaur shares most, if not all, of the charateristics of the logosaur; the skull and other skeletal features all being the same.  Also noticeable are the neural spines that begin their inclination at the base of the neck.  For me, this is the key feature that sets this dinosaur apart from the others as being the Logosaurus.

    For some reason, people have argued that Spinosaurus can not be the logosaur simply because it does not have the enlarged manual claws that the logo's mascot has.  This is incorrect.  All spinosaurs have enlarged manual claws, Spinosaurus being no exception.  Who started that rumor anyway?

(Note: like Suchomimus, the skull of Spinosaurus is also very incomplete.  So judgments based on the cranial material alone should not be made.)

Additional Comments (not necessarily my own):

    As of late, Hasbro has released the new Jurassic Park 3 toy line, featuring both Baryonyx and Spinosaurus figures.  But as to what dinosaurs will be seen in the movie is presently uncertain, as numerous dinosaur figures were released in earlier toy lines, many of which were not featured in any of the movies.

    I have recently been in contact with an artist who claims to be a good friend of Mark "Crash" McCreery, the conceptual artist for the Jurassic Park series.  This acquaintance seems to be very legitimate, and can most likely be trusted.  He claims to have seen the animatronic dinosaurs being prepared by Universal and confirms the fact that Spinosaurus does indeed appear in the movie.  Moreover, numerous press releases now confirm this fact as well, making the fact that this dinosaur appears in the movie quite solid.

(Picture courtesy of: http://rainbow.ldgo.columbia.edu/courses/v1001/)

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