Usually, it's because the sperm gets into the fallopian tube before the egg is released. Once there, the sperm wait for an egg to arrive. After fertilization, it can take 5-10 days for the fertilized egg to begin to attach itself to the lining of the uterus. Pregnancy begins when this happens.
The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name; the term Thagomizer was coined in 1982 by cartoonist Gary Larson in his comic The Far Side, and thereafter became gradually adopted as an informal term within scientific circles, research, and education.
Gomphotherium was considered paraphyletic by Lambert (2007). Serridentinus was named by Osborn (1923) and synonymized subjectively with Gomphotherium by Tobien (1972), Madden and Storer (1985), Shoshani and Tassy (1996), Lambert (1996), Lambert and Shoshani (1998) and Christiansen (2007).