Template:Did you know nominations/Irritator

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:39, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Irritator

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Reconstructed skeleton of Irritator in Tokyo

... that Irritator, a spinosaurid dinosaur, was named after the frustration of palaeontologists who discovered that its skull had been covered with plaster by fossil dealers? Source: "Etymology: from irritation, the feeling the authors felt (understated here) when discovering that the snout had been artificially elongated." "This fabrication was concealed by blocks of matrix removed from other parts of the specimen and a thick layer of IsoponTM car body filler" "The posterior portion of the saggital crest has been fabricated by fossil dealers." (Martill et al. 1996[1]) The animal was originally identified as a maniraptoran but this was corrected by Sues et al. (2002)[2], where it was reassigned to the Spinosauridae.

Reviewed: French submarine Amazone (1916)
Comment: I present a DYK for one of the most peculiar namesakes of a dinosaur. The article passed its GA nom four days ago and is currently being improved for FAC via peer review. ▼PσlєοGєєк ƧɊƲΔƦΣƉ▼ 18:41, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Improved to Good Article status by PaleoGeekSquared (talk). Self-nominated at 18:41, 11 November 2018 (UTC).

nominated within five days of GA status. written neutrally, no copyvio detected. amusing hook. cited. QPQ done. good to go. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:28, 18 November 2018 (UTC)