>>5011067
So when you see shit like THIS, you know something is very wrong. Pretty much all Mamenchisaurs have their cog above their forelimbs or even IN FRONT OF THEM. This is physically impossible and it means that something fishy is going on with the group. Since they're from china, it's likely they've all been heavily doctored - probably to score a superlative claim as a form of what I call "science nationalism" - in this case "dinosaur with longest neck". "Science nationalism" btw, is a term I've coined for shit that third worlders pull - mostly chinks, spics and pajeets where they make shit up and publish false papers to try to get their country "on the map" so to speak. Chilesaurus was a product of science nationalism and is clearly a hoax composed apparently mostly of juvenile Mussaurus remains. Paleontology is the only field I'm aware of where fraud of this kind tends to regularly be associated with famous names in the field. In the case of china it's typically Xu Xing. In the case of South America, it's typically Martin Ezcurra, for india it tends to be Sankar Chatterjee (though he's located in america). Chatterjee in particular is infamous for his chimeras, yet he never has trouble finding work.