tail club

The animal could also actively defend itself by means of a tail club.

The tail club of the mount is rather small.

It probably had a bony tail club, for active defence against predators.

Ankylosaurs with tail clubs evolved around 75 million years ago.

The nodosaurids had no tail club; it is not known how they defended themselves.

It's thought that these could be a weapon, such as a tail club, or a sensory organ.

It is uncertain whether Crichtonpelta already possessed a tail club.

The tail club of ankylosaurids has often been interpreted as a defensive weapon.

The tail was moderately long and lacked a tail club.

It has a wide, pointed tail club and the end of its armored tail.

The Ankylosaurus tries to defend itself with its heavy tail club, but it's too weak to fight.

Its small tail club might be a eurypodan synapomorphy.

It was small for a sauropod and would have relied on its tail club as its only defence.

Nodosauridae: no tail club but spikes and bony bumps on body.

The tail club is thought to have been used in defense against predators or in intraspecific combat.

Other artists combined the spikes with the tail club, compounding the inaccuracy.

The last seven tail vertebrae formed the "handle" of the tail club.

Earliest ankylosaurs and nodosaurids did not have tail clubs.

The tail club possessed by Dyoplosaurus is relatively small and narrow, when compared to that of other ankylosaurids.

It was the first sauropod known to have had a tail club, a feature that may have been more widespread than we realize.

Stiffened rear tail vertebrae or a tail club are absent.

Carpenter has rejected this idea, as tail club shape is highly variable among ankylosaurids, even in the same genus.

Many traditional popular depictions show Ankylosaurus in a squatting posture and with a huge tail club being dragged over the ground.

One point of similarity that was found to be spurious was the possession of a tail club.