Have you ever seen a stegosaurus's tail? And the flower motif can be seen on the outside and inside of that carving. Those look more like petal than plates on the back. Your example has the rhino facing away from the camera. \
The can be hard to see sometimes when they are tucked in:
would you mind now looking at the image in the temple carving again. seems to me that not all tails are the same...the one in the temple has a rather large tail compared with that of a Rhino does it not?
I think your rhino image proves my point...the tail in the carving is clearly not that of a rhino (did you even check this before posting it?)
Your claim about petals is absurd...the petal theory ignores the obvious...flower petals dont grow on the backs of animals...its is very clear from the orientation of the objects on the back of the creature in the temple carving that these are drawn in a manner that makes it plainly obvious the artist was intending them to be there...they are part of the animal.
Do any of the other animal carvings in said temple show those same objects physically attached to animals in this way?
btw...the following reply from an article in Creation Ministries answers your claims directly...
Some objectors have pointed out that the water buffalo image immediately above the stegosaur on the temple wall has a decorative design carved above the animal. They therefore said that the supposed ‘plates’ along the back of the stegosaur are merely decorative background symbols also. The carving is thus some other kind of everyday animal standing in front of a flower symbol, or some other unknown ‘leafy’ ornamentation.
However, the plates along the back of the animal are unlike all the other decorative designs in the temple walls. The plates are also seen to hug the line of the back, and follow its curve exactly. The shape of the plates is quite similar to that of known fossil stegosaur plates. Furthermore, the creature’s plates have a noticeably higher relief than the background ornamentation seen immediately above the water buffalo.
The simplest explanation is that the carving at Ta Prohm is a stylized representation of a dinosaur of the Stegosauridae family. In other words it is an artist’s version of what the creature looked like, not a scientist’s version. However, the main elements for a stegosaurian dinosaur are clearly depicted: namely the strongly arched back and dinosaurian body, and, crucially, the plates along the back of the animal.
No other creature known, fossil or living, has a row of such characteristic plates along its back. Did Angkor really see a dinosaur
BTW, did you know that dinosaur bones found in Hell Creek still have a smell? Did you know that many of the fossilised bones found in Hell Creek smell? If bones are millions of years old, how is it that Schweitzer found a t-rex bone with elastic tissue still inside and that the bones have a cadeverous odour? Doesnt that raise your eyebrows even just a little?
Perhaps the pdf from Dr Armitage Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Micro Specialist might interest some on the topic of dinosaur bones found in Hell Creek.
https://dstri.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/armitage_microtoday.pdf