K is for Kaijutitan, from Argentina, land of Kaiju Titanosaurs
L is for Lohuecotitan, a Spanish titanosaur from a vast bonebed of titanosaurs
M is for Magyarosaurus, Nopcsa's dwarf titanosaur, from Hatzeg island and Transylvania
N is for Nemegtosaurus, a skull whose body may or may not be Opisthocoelicaudia
O is for Overosaurus, a small titanosaur from a land of large titanosaurs
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#brachiosaurs
F is for Futalognkosaurus, whose carcass was so huge it changed the course of a river
G is for Giraffatitan, Tanzania's famous Brachiosaur
H is for Huanghetitan, named after the Yellow River
I is for Inawentu, whose skull is convergent with its distant relative, Nigersaurus
J is for Jainosaurus, a nice skull from the home of Titanosaurus
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#brachiosaurs
A is for Abydosaurus, whose head and chest where buried in rocks overlooking a river which ran through a dry country.
B is for Brachiosaurus, a large-armed sauropod in a land of small-armed sauropods
C is for Cedarosaurus, curiously found with many gastroliths
D is Dreadnoughtus, famously found with well preserved forelegs
E is for Europasaurus, small and cute among sauropods
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#brachiosaurs
@BG_Grace
Matt Wedel (co-author on the paper) blogged about the paper on @svpow.com :
https://svpow.com/2024/12/22/about-that-saurophaganax-paper/
it's #SauropodSunday , and today were celebrating this paper, in which most of the backbones formerly known as Saurophaganax are promoted to sauropod status! Congratulations to the dinosaur bones formerly known as Saurophaganax. A few remaining odds and ends were used to describe the new species Allosaurus anax, the third species in the genus Allosaurus.
https://svpow.com/2024/12/22/about-that-saurophaganax-paper/
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29404
Matt Wedel of Sauropod Vertebra of the Week blog ( @svpow.com ) has a great post up about novel anatomy, the amazing fact that there is still novel anatomy to be discovered, yes, even in humans, and some thoughts on how and why it hasn't all been discovered already, and why people should keep looking.
https://svpow.com/2024/09/07/were-not-going-to-run-out-of-new-anatomy-anytime-soon/
1/n
bringing back the "if ghosts of fossil life forms were real" thread:
Paleontologists would start an iNaturalist-like site where interested folk of all knowledge levels could report and upload possible fossil ghost sounds, ranging from the strange keening songs of the first Devonian insects to the rumblings of Mesozoic sauropods to the mysterious tick-tick-ticks of strange Paleozoic invertebrates.
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#SauropodSunday
#fossils
#Ghosts
#PaleoSpeculation
#HalloweenEve
#spookyGeology
hooray, a new episode of Love In the Time of Chasmosaurs is out!
https://chasmosaurs.com/2024/08/31/podcast-show-notes-episode-36-sean-rubin-and-tudor-humphries/
by the incomparable Natee ( @Himmapaan ), Gemma, and Marc.
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#Sauropods
I am a bit saddened to learn the book _The Iguanodon’s Horn_ (by Sean Rubin) was originally conceived as narrated by an Iguanodon, but later that had to be (mostly) removed for reasons of classification and publication.
it has been said that some titanosaurs lacked phalanges (finger bones) in their fore feet. Some say this made them "obligate knucklewalkers" but other people say they chose to do manually what others did digitally.
@mike I think maybe you should hashtag this toot with #dinosaurs , #fossils , #anatomy , and #SauropodSunday hopefully that will help it get attention.
Diplodocus, Diplodocus,
how did you die?
Buried in a landslide,
trapped in earth I died
Diplodocus, Diplodocus,
where does your skull lie?
Far, far away,
where you'll never find
That's the skull
of my sister,
Galeamopus,
you have mounted
on that neck of mine
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#PoemsForYesterday
#poetry
#Diplodocus
if ghosts were real
would they haunt and moan
when paleontologists
unhomed a dinosaur bone?
would ghosts of strange
Devonian forests haunt
Gilboa, in New York?
would a long-dead
Parasauralophus
play haunting tunes
in south Alberta?
would southern Germany
swarm with ghosts
of ammonites and pterosaurs?
would the ghosts of vast
Titanosaurs stalk Patagonia?
would the rockies
of British Columbia
host the unquiet dead
of the Cambrian?
