Talk:Acrocanthosaurus
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[edit] Taxobox
The group "Allosauroidea" is mentioned in the text, apparently as a supgroup of Theropoda and a supergroup of Allosauridae. Ought this not to appear in the taxobox? SpectrumDT 21:19, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
Good question. There are almost as many group names as there are species. If we put all of them in the taxobox, you would give up before you got to the end. For Acrocanthosaurus, it would be: Sauropsida(Reptilia)-Diapsida-Archosauria-Avesuchia-Avemetatarsalia-Ornithodira-Dinosauromorpha-Dinosauria-Saurischia-Theropoda-Neotheropoda-Tetanurae-Avetheropoda-Carnosauria-Allosauroidea-Carcharodontosauridae-Acrocanthosaurus-atokensis... and that is just using the most commonly referenced names, and only starting from the beginning of reptiles.
Sheep81 10:35, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Popular culture
I cut this from the main article. Originally, there were two video game appearances as well, but this seemed to be the closest to notability since the acros were major secondary characters. Keep it out?
- In the novel Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker, it hunts down some of the Utahraptor that the novel centres around. J. Spencer 13:25, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
- No, don't keep it out. One of the acro's video game appearances would be in Jurassic Park:Operation Genesis and I think it's just as important as the other dinos. --Silverstag89 02:37, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
- I don't think the video game appearances are important to Acrocanthosaurus... they may be important to the articles on those particular games, but what does one learn about Acrocanthosaurus by knowing it made a cameo in a video game full of dozens of dinosaur species? Is it important to the plot of the game? Dinoguy2 03:39, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
- Go ahead, put a video game reference in, see what happens. Mwahahahaha... :) Sheep81 08:14, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- I don't think the video game appearances are important to Acrocanthosaurus... they may be important to the articles on those particular games, but what does one learn about Acrocanthosaurus by knowing it made a cameo in a video game full of dozens of dinosaur species? Is it important to the plot of the game? Dinoguy2 03:39, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
