Nevertheless, the painted model does provide a colorful, if crude, visualization of the composition of the composite. Here are some more photos of the finished product: A view from the front of the model, compared with a historical AMNH photo of the forelimbs and pelvic girdle. Long ...
short version is that OMNH 1123, the holotype specimen of the giant allosauridSaurophaganax maximus, does not definitely belong to a theropod and may actually belong to a sauropod, and the same goes for some of the referred material, namely the atlas and chevrons. Since neither...
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Panderichthys is a crucial transitional fossil, showing a mid-point in the evolution of the pelvic girdle which made basal tetrapod legs possible. It even had a spiracle, or oxygen-breathing tube, on its head, which later evolved into the stirrup bone in tetrapod ears. This allowed it to ...
but I’ve also Seen Things that have rocked my certainty about my own level of understanding (e.g., Aureliano et al. 2023,this post). I’m cool with that. I think that whatever comprehension of pneumaticity I’m questing toward is going to have to emerge inductively from all the piece...
To answer Mike’s question from the last post, here’s a nice dorsal of Jimbo. All the material’s from the same quarry and has consistent preservation, and this dorsal is a monster. I didn’t try to measure it through the glass. Hey guess what? It’s gonna be another really short...
To get back to Luke’s question, there are loads of interesting things that could be dissected in a sauropod, but since the remit here is Matt Wedel x titanosaur, there’s only one possible answer: the lung/air sac system and its diverticula. For several reasons: ...
The interesting thing about this specimen is that its condyle is completely eroded away. We’re looking at it in anterior view, right into the front of the centrum, and we can see a classic camellate pattern. The network of thin lines is bone; everything in between, now filled with matr...
Matt deliberately left behind his tripod — it’s on the desk where we had the pelvic elements. He has much better tripods at home, and regrets the false economy of bringing that lighter and less stable one. But we figured it would be better than nothing for the use of anyone who turns...
Thatisinteresting. And a bit worrying, since a lot of the “big science” to come in future decades will be big analyses of big datasets. I’m glad to be poking around weird anatomy instead. I think there is wisdom in that. I’m nervous about the idea that if wedid(for example) ...