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! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=86917463 ETSY (PINS!): https://www.etsy.com/shop/SkeletonCre... REDBUBBLE: https://www.redbubble.com/people/skel... 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