Citations:thagomizer

English citations of thagomizer and thagomiser

arrangement of tail spikes

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The Far Side comic (1982 May 28) which coined the term.

• 1982 May 28, Gary Larson, “The Far Side”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

  “Now this end is called the thagomizer . . . after the late Thag Simmons.”

• 1997, James O. Farlow, M. K. Brett-Surman, editors, The Complete Dinosaur, Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, Glossary, page 302:

  Thagomizer: collective term for the tail spikes of dinosaurs

• 1999, “Stegosaurus Changes”, in Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology‎^[1], retrieved 1999-10-09:

  Also, the spikes on the end of Stegosaurus' tail now have an official name, The Thagomizer, suggested in a Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson.

• 2001, Thomas R. Holtz with Terry Riley, The Little Giant Book of Dinosaurs, page 54:

  Like the thagomizer of the stegosaur, the ankylosaurid tail club was probably used to smash into attackers.

• 2006 July 8, “The word: Thagomizer”, in New Scientist‎^[2], volume 191, number 2559, →ISSN:

  A few animals evolve bones that look different enough to earn their own distinct name, like the thagomizer, the fearful-looking cluster of spikes on the end of a stegosaur's tail.

• 2006, Early Themes: Dinosaurs (Ages 4–6), Balcatta, Australia: R.I.C. Publications, →ISBN, p 34:

  At the end of the tail, there were a number of spikes called thagomisers, which were over a metre in length.

• 2008 August 1, Gary Jeffrey, Stegosaurus: The Plated Dinosaur, Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 30:

  An Allosaurus backbone had a hole in which a Stegosaurus thagomizer fitted perfectly. Over the years, many of the fossil thagomizers that have been dug up have had broken tips.

• 2008 September 17, L. E. Simmons, The Lady of Gold (SnapDragon Adventures 1), 1st edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 135:

  "Not like that," Snap growled, raising her four fists, swishing her thagomizer around threateningly.

• 2011, Heinrich Mallison, “Defense capabilities of Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Hennig, 1915”, in Palaeontologia Electronica‎^[3], volume 14, number 2, page 10A:

  Stegosaurs were not built for rapid locomotion. Instead of fleeing from predators, they probably used their spiked tails as ‘thagomizers’ for defense.

in math

• 2016, Katie R. Gedeon, "Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials of Thagomizer Matroids", arXiv:1610.05349:

  Let M_n be the matroid associated with the graph obtained from the bipartite graph K_2,n by adding an edge between the two distinguished vertices. We call M_n thagomizer matroid.