There is lots to love here: for example, you can see that the long bones of the arm are pneumatic, because the margins of the bones show up more strongly than the cores. But you won’t be surprised that I am interested mostly in the neck. As you can see, while the vertebrae of ...
Now that the talk’s done, I’m letting my “abstract” out into the world, here (link) and at the bottom of this post. I put “abstract” in scare quotes because it’s a short paper with references and figures. The freedom to go big with the abstract is what convinced me to tak...
and Rich’s other students look like fools for not seeing it themselves. It ain’t like that. The whole point is thatnobodygrasped the importance of the specimen back then. It would take Rich and me a whole semester of concentrated study just to ...
And a labeled version of the same. A few things to note: One oddity of sauropod axes (and of axes of most critters) is that not only are the articular facets of the prezygapophyses not set forward of the neural arch, they’re set backward, well behind the forward point of the arch...
Look, I’m not saying it isn’t ridiculous; I’m just saying this seems to be more or less where the evidence is pointing. We’ve made a big deal about howthe necks of apatosaurines were more or less triangular in cross-section, rather than round as has often been assumed; perhaps...
you won’t have seen all of them before, because a good number of them didn’t exist; this is sort of a Frankenstein stitched together from previous talks, new observations, and trying tothink about the future. In particular, almost my entire 2012 SVPCA talk is crammed in near the end...