Spiny

Spiny is a Spinosaurus who is a member of the D-Team

## Character design

### Personality:

Spiny is quite a skilled fighter being a water-attributed dinosaur, however, despite his eagerness and helpfulness, he isn't that very bright. He often takes things way too literally, as assuming that something that has food in their name like Saltasaurus is actually made of food. He also acts like a brother to Ace, particularly when it comes to athleticness, and is the mate of Tank in some funny way.

## Anatomy

### Size:

As a Spinosaurus, Spiny is he longest and largest theropod dinosaur as among the most massive theropods in their surveys, at 15 meters (49 ft) in length and upwards of 6 metric tons (6.6 short tons) in weight.

### Skull:

His skull has a narrow snout filled with straight conical teeth that lacked serrations. There are six or seven teeth on each side of the very front of the upper jaw, in the premaxillae, and another twelve in both maxillae behind them. The second and third teeth on each side are noticeably larger than the rest of the teeth in the premaxilla, creating a space between them and the large teeth in the front of the maxilla; large teeth in the lower jaw faced this space. The very tip of the snout holding those few large front teeth was expanded, and a small crest was present in front of the eyes. Using the dimensions of three specimens known as MSNM V4047, UCPC-2, and BSP 1912 VIII 19, and assuming that the postorbital part of the skull of MSNM V4047 had a shape similar to the postorbital part of the skull of *Irritator*, Dal Sasso and colleagues (2005) estimated that the skull of *Spinosaurus* was 1.75 meters (5.7 ft) long, but more recent estimates suggest a length of 1.6–1.68 meters (5.2–5.5 ft). The Dal Sasso and colleagues skull length estimate is questioned because skull shapes can vary across spinosaurid species and because MSNM V4047 may not belong to *Spinosaurus* itself

### Postcranial skeleton:

Life restoration depicting swimming pose
As a spinosaurid, spiny has a long, muscular neck, curved in a sigmoid, or S-shape. Its shoulders were prominent, and the forelimbs large and stocky, bearing three clawed digits on each hand. The first finger (or "thumb") would have been the largest. *Spinosaurus* had long phalanges (finger bones), and only somewhat recurved claws, suggesting that its hands were longer compared to those of other spinosaurids.

Very tall neural spines growing on the back vertebrae of spiny formed the basis of what is usually called the animal's "sail". The lengths of the neural spines reached over 10 times the diameters of the centra (vertebral bodies) from which they extended. The neural spines were slightly longer front to back at the base than higher up, and were unlike the thin rods seen in the pelycosaur finbacks *Edaphosaurus* and *Dimetrodon*, contrasting also with the thicker spines in the iguanodontian *Ouranosaurus*.

Spiny's sail is unusual, although other dinosaurs, namely *Ouranosaurus*, which lived a few million years earlier in the same general region as *Spinosaurus*, and the South American sauropod *Amargasaurus,* might have developed similar structural adaptations of their vertebrae. The sail may be an analog of the sail of the Permian synapsid *Dimetrodon*, which lived before the dinosaurs even appeared, produced by convergent evolution.

The structure may also have been more hump-like than sail-like, as noted by Stromer in 1915 ("one might rather think of the existence of a large hump of fat [German: *Fettbuckel*], to which the [neural spines] gave internal support") and by Jack Bowman Bailey in 1997. In support of his "buffalo-back" hypothesis, Bailey argued that in *Spinosaurus*, *Ouranosaurus*, and other dinosaurs with long neural spines, the spines were relatively shorter and thicker than the spines of pelycosaurs (which were known to have sails); instead, the dinosaurs' neural spines were similar to the neural spines of extinct hump-backed mammals such as *Megacerops* and *Bison latifrons*. In 2014, Ibrahim and colleagues instead posited that the spines were covered tightly by skin, similar to a crested chameleon, given their compactness, sharp edges, and likely poor blood flow

## Abilities

### Shockwave:

A water funnel rises around Spiny, and then shoots off as tendrils to surround his opponent, immobilizing and drowning them! The tendrils can also surround Spiny in defense and cancel Moves that hit them.

### Tail Smash:

Spiny smacks his opponent with his tail once, twice, then a powerful third swing! However, agile dinosaurs can dodge it.

### Futaba Super Cannon:

Futaba Futabasaurus appears and shoots a high-powered blast of water at Spiny's opponent!

### (Shockwave/Volcano Burst Fusion Move):

A dual attack with Terry that combines a blast of fire with Shockwave's water tendrils shooting off together.

### Water Sword:

Spiny shoots a long sword-like blade of water from his mouth and swings it at his opponent!

### Anhanguera Dive:

An Anhanguera flies in divebombs Spiny's opponent!

### Hydro Cutter:

A crescent of water rises in front of Spiny, and he knocks it spinning to fly forward and slice his opponent!

### Ultimate Water:

While wearing DinoTector Armor, a tidal wave rises behind Spiny, pushing him forward down a path lined by geysers to ram into his opponent!

## Move card gallery

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