I am writing this blog-post as a distraction from writing a section of the paper I’m currently working on. I check what’s new on Tweetdeck. I read an article or two. I go and make myself a cup of tea. I play a bit of guitar. But then I...
That paper (codename: superbaro) isin progress, and I would estimate it’s about 40% done. But in that paper, I needed to write a brief section in the introduction about AMNH 6341, the keystone specimen forBarosaurus, from which all our perceptions of that animal derive. And it turned...
Supersaurus: This dinosaur is estimated to have been around 110-125 feet (33-38 meters) long and weighed around 80-100 tons. Its size is based on a single specimen, a set of vertebrae, that was found in the US. Diplodocus: This dinosaur is estimated to have been around 90-115 feet (...
Since we’re not getting this up until the afternoon, you’ve probably already seen that Emanuel Tschopp and colleagues have published a monstrous specimen-level phylogenetic analysis of Diplodocidae and, among other things, resurrected Brontosaurus as a valid genus. The paper is in PeerJ ...
CT sections through a cervical vertebra of an apatosaurine, OMNH 1094 (Wedel 2003b: fig. 6). Scale bar is 10cm. How many other apatosaurine vertebrae (and not just cervicals) have you seen published cross-sections of? I know the answer, and it’s not great!
Curry Rogers, K., M. Whitney, M. D. D’Emic, and B. Bagley. 2016. Precocity in a tiny titanosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Science 352:450–454. Hanik, Gina M., Matthew C. Lamanna and John A. Whitlock. 2017. A juvenile specimen ofBarosaurusMarsh, 1890 (Sauropoda...