Talk:Elasmosaurus

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Name Change

Both Cinefex #7 and King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson identify this creature as Elasmosaurus. --Collector1 (talk) 02:08, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Renamed. Titanollante ( roar to me! | my footprints! ) 02:50, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
Yes, but just because those books written decades after the film choose to identify the creature as an Elasmosaurus doesn't mean that was necessarily the original intent or the official name, unless those books actually say Willis O'Brien and the filmmakers intended the creature to be an Elasmosaurus and named it so. The King of the Monsters (talk) 17:59, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
I don't see why the article shouldn't be named Elasmosaurus. Obie may not have intended this creature to be Elasmosaurus, but what evidence do we have it's not Elasmosaurus? Furthermore, what Obie thinks may not be what the other filmmakers thought. For example, in King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson, the book states that there's been a debate on whether or the theropod that Kong fights was a T. rex or an Allosaurus. Obie and Delgado said the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex, but Cooper stated that it was Allosaurus. --Collector1 (talk) 00:50, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Yes, but do we have any evidence that anyone who worked on the film intended this to be an Elasmosaurus? At least O'Brien and Delgado are on record stating that the theropod was a T-Rex, but the only things I've seen calling the Cave Serpent an Elasmosaurus are books written long after the film by people other than the filmmakers. The King of the Monsters (talk) 21:32, 24 February 2017 (UTC)