Implicating allosaurus → dinosaur
Link to implication

Reason:

Because.

Going to semi-derail this thread for some real dino talk.

The main bullet points here should imply dinosaur, with the child tags implying the parent tags

• Assorted marine dinosaurs
• mosasaurus
• ichthyosaurus (which is an ichthyosaur)
• ankylosaurs
• ankylosaurus
• euoplocephalus
• minmi
• scelidosaurus
• ceratopsians
• chasmosaurus
• diabloceratops
• mojoceratops
• pentaceratops
• protoceratops
• styracosaurus
• triceratops
• hadrosaurs
• charonosaurus
• corythosaurus
• hadrosaurus
• hypacrosaurus
• lambeosaurus
• parasaurolophus
• saurolophus
• ornithopods
• iguanodon (alias iguanadon to this)
• pachycephalosaurs
• dracorex - technically a dinosaur species, seems to currently be attributed to a fictional species
• pachycephalosaurus
• stygimoloch
• plesiosaurs / pliosaurs
• elasmosaurus
• liopleurodon
• plesiosaurus (alias pliesiosaur to this)
• prosauropods
• sellosaurus
• pterosaurs
• pteranodon (alias pterodactyl to this)
• quetzalcoatlus
• sauropods (looks like this branch was taken care of already in terms of implications, so look here to see how the others would look)
• apatosaurus (whether brontosaurus is an alternate name for this species is still debated, apparently)
• brachiosaurus
• diplodocus
• stegosaurs
• gigantspinosaurus
• kentrosaurus
• stegosaurus (alias stegasaur to this)
• theropods
• baryonyx
• carnotaurus (which is an abelisaur)
• ceratosaurus (which is a ceratosaur)
• dilophosaurus (alias dilophosaur to this)
• gojirasaurus
• staurikosaurus
• The tyrannosaur grouping
• gorgosaurus
• tyrannosaurus_rex
• there's a lot more to this family but it seems the t-rex hogs all the attention. :(
• The allosaur grouping
• allosaurus
• carcharodontosaurus
• giganotosaurus
• spinosaurus
• The raptor grouping (unalias from velociraptor), technically known as dromaeosaurs, which includes:
• austroraptor
• deinonychus
• dromaeosaurus
• microraptor (also a dino-bird)
• utahraptor
• velociraptor
• lithulraptor - a fictional raptor species.
• The dino-bird grouping, which includes:
• archaeopteryx
• microraptor
• oviraptor
• The ornithomimid grouping, which includes:
• gallimimus
• ornithomimus
• honorable mention to the dimetrodon, which isn't actually a dinosaur, but a pelycosaur.
• and the megalodon is actually just a prehistoric shark.

This series of articles is actually a fun read and goes into the main types of dinos. It's where I got all of this information. Would be nice if we could get some branches established (theropod, dromaeosaur, hadrosaur, etc) off the dinosaur tree for accurate tagging. Then dino nerds can find everything they're looking for!

I spent more time on this post than I care to admit.

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After starting some of Kida's suggestions, I'm thinking that implying most of these straight to dinosaur might be a lot simpler to do. I also think the ones that only have 1 or 2 posts aren't really worth bothering over.

What does everyone think about this?

Whew, alright. I've made the following changes:

• Implication: mosasaurus -> dinosaur (approved)
• Implication: mosasaurus -> marine (approved)
• Implication: ichthyosaurus -> marine (approved)
• Implication: ichthyosaurus -> dinosaur (approved)
• Implication: protoceratops -> dinosaur (approved)
• Implication: styracosaurus -> dinosaur (approved)
• Implication: parasaurolophus -> dinosaur (approved)
• Implication: corythosaurus -> dinosaur (approved)
• Implication: iguanodon -> dinosaur (approved)
• Alias: iguanadon -> iguanodon (approved)
• Implication: pachycephalosaurus -> dinosaur (approved)
• Implication: liopleurodon -> dinosaur (approved)
• Implication: plesiosaurus -> dinosaur (approved)
• Alias: plesiosaur -> plesiosaurus (approved)
• Implication: pteranodon -> dinosaur (approved)
• Alias: pterodactyl -> pteranodon (approved)
• Implication: kentrosaurus -> dinosaur (approved)
• Implication: theropod -> dinosaur (approved)
• Implication: carnotaurus -> theropod (approved)
• Implication: ceratosaurus -> theropod (approved)
• Implication: dilophosaurus -> theropod (approved)
• Alias:: dilophosaur -> dilophosaurus (approved)
• Implication: tyrannosaurus_rex -> dinosaur (deleted)
• Implication: tyrannosaurus_rex -> theropod (approved in forum #170180)
• Implication: allosaur -> theropod (approved)
• Implication: allosaurus -> allosaur (approved)
• Implication: allosaurus -> dinosaur (OP denied) - it's being implied through allosaur
• Implication: spinosaurus -> allosaur (approved)
• Implication: austroraptor -> theropod (approved)
• Implication: deinonychus -> theropod (approved)
• Implication: dromaeosaurus -> theropod (approved)
• Implication: microraptor -> theropod (approved)
• Implication: utahraptor -> theropod (approved)
• Implication: archaeopteryx -> theropod (approved)
• Implication: oviraptor -> theropod (approved)
• Implication: ornithomimus -> theropod (approved)
• Implication: lithulraptor -> theropod (pending) - Fictional species, not sure what to do with this. Edit: Approved

And here is Kida's tag tree with annotations:

(any ones with no comment were too small for me to want to bother with)

• marine
• mosasaurus - marine/dinosaur
• ichthyosaurus - marine/dinosaur (which is an ichthyosaur unused)
• ankylosaur - nah
• ankylosaurus - dinosaur
• euoplocephalus - dinosaur
• minmi - dinosaur
• scelidosaurus - dinosaur
• ceratopsian
• chasmosaurus
• diabloceratops
• mojoceratops
• pentaceratops
• protoceratops - dinosaur
• styracosaurus - dinosaur
• triceratops - already dinosaur
• hadrosaur
• charonosaurus
• corythosaurus - dinosaur
• hadrosaurus
• hypacrosaurus
• lambeosaurus
• parasaurolophus - dinosaur
• saurolophus
• ornithopod - Unused
• iguanodon - dinosaur
• alias iguanadon to this - done
• pachycephalosaur
• dracorex - All attributed to one character, but it seems more like a hybrid so I'm going to leave this one alone
• pachycephalosaurus - dinosaur
• stygimoloch
• plesiosaur / pliosaur
• elasmosaurus
• liopleurodon - dinosaur
• plesiosaurus - dinosaur
• alias pliesiosaur to this - done
• prosauropod - Unused
• sellosaurus
• pterosaur
• pteranodon - dinosaur
• alias pterodactyl to this - done
• quetzalcoatlus
• stegosaur
• gigantspinosaurus
• kentrosaurus - dinosaur
• stegosaurus - already dinosaur
• alias stegasaur to this - unused
• theropod - dinosaur
• baryonyx
• carnotaurus - theropod
• which is an abelisaur - nah
• ceratosaurus - theropod
• which is a ceratosaur - nah
• dilophosaurus - theropod
• alias dilophosaur to this - done
• gojirasaurus
• staurikosaurus
• tyrannosaur - aliased to tyrannosaurus_rex
• gorgosaurus
• tyrannosaurus_rex - theropod
• allosaur - theropod
• allosaurus - allosaur
• carcharodontosaurus - allosaur
• giganotosaurus
• spinosaurus - allosaur
• The raptor - used interchangeably anyways. I'm not against it, but using this as a subgroup isn't really ideal
• austroraptor - theropod
• deinonychus - theropod
• dromaeosaurus - theropod
• microraptor - theropod
• utahraptor - theropod
• velociraptor - See raptor above
• lithulraptor - Probably good
• dino-bird - unused
• archaeopteryx - theropod
• microraptor - theropod
• oviraptor - theropod
• ornithomimid - Unused
• gallimimus
• ornithomimus - theropod
• dimetrodon is a pelycosaur - meh
• megalodon is a prehistoric shark - meh

Looks good! I think we just need a theropod -> dinosaur implication to tie everything up.

engageforth said:
Looks good! I think we just need a theropod -> dinosaur implication to tie everything up.

:X

Approved

Noticed that some users have been complaining about the spinosaurus -> allosaur implication.

I'm no expert on dinosaurs, but recent research seems to place them in their own Spinosauridae family, instead of Allosauridae. That puts it in the same family as baryonyx, which is implicated directly to theropod. So maybe the spinosaurus implication should be moved there too?

The other alternative would be to add a new tag for the family:

• theropod
• spinosaur <-- new
• baryonyx
• spinosaurus

Genjar said:
Noticed that some users have been complaining about the spinosaurus -> allosaur implication.

I'm no expert on dinosaurs, but recent research seems to place them in their own Spinosauridae family, instead of Allosauridae. That puts it in the same family as baryonyx, which is implicated directly to theropod. So maybe the spinosaurus implication should be moved there too?

The other alternative would be to add a new tag for the family:

• theropod
• spinosaur <-- new
• baryonyx
• spinosaurus

Just noticed this as I attempted my first upload. Spinosaurus and Allosaurus are very different. They didn't even live in the same time period.