My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A 2023 illustration of the growth rate of Apatosaurus, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOorpoQzM-Ovm9VJ-kQ3jSl60ruPWRNrwcegG3fmvTOFQonrHkldS
"In an old house in Paris,
that was covered with vines,
lived twelve brontosaurs
in two straight lines.
In two straight lines,
they chomped their plants,
and shed their teeth,
and went to bed."
♬ Paralititan, the magic dragon lived by the sea ♬
... hm, doesn't quite work with the rhythm, maybe try a different dinosaur
♬ Paralitherizinosaurus, the magic dragon lived by the sea ♬
... nevermind, going to back to Paralititan.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's my 2023 illustration of a sneezing Apatosaurus, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOorFZpIRsz4gt3snIe2kgKx-ZrYvETlHpS596wX98R4eVCisy-y9
Happy #fossilfriday! 
This is Patagotitan mayorum, one of the largest animals to ever walk the Earth, towering over a crowd of visitors at London’s Natural History Museum. This 2.76 tonne cast of the fossils discovered in Argentina was part of a 2023 special exhibition titled Titanosaur: Life as the Biggest Dinosaur.
@ladyteruki
here's a list someone could use as starting point. It doesn't contain all the dinosaurs, it's only the best dinosaurs, but it's a start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sauropod_species
U is for Udelartitan, a saltisauroid titanosaur from Uruguay
V is for Venenosaurus, presumably non-venemous, but found in the Poison Strip member
W is for Wintonotitan, found on the point bar of a fossil river in Australia
X is for Xianshanosaurus, named after Xian mountain
Y is for Yamanasaurus, a saltisaurid from Ecuador
Z is for Zhuchengtitan, who lived among tyrannosaurs, ceratopsians, and giant hadrosaurs.
P is for Patagotitan, giant of Argentina, known from seven amazing specimens
Q is for Quetecsaurus, named for fiery breath it probably didn't have
R is for Rinconsaurus, whose name means "Amazing in the tail". I heard you giggle
S is for Saltasaurus, smallest and most taxonomically important of titanosaurs
T is for Titanosaurus, described for scrapy bits, of dubious distinguishing characters, leaving a taxonomic mess
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
#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#sauropodSunday
#titanosaurs
#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
#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#sauropodSunday
#titanosaurs
#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
#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#sauropodSunday
#titanosaurs
#brachiosaurs
Amazed at the amount of Morrison formation eggshell and hatchling material discussed in this talk. I had no idea there was so much from the Morrison formation; somehow I'd thought there was much less eggshell material from the Morrison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNSQecSp40o
(Talk given by Jim Kirkland at the Alberta Palaeo Society: https://sauropods.win/@alberta_palaeo_society/114078974239743223 )
#fossilFriday
#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#dryosaurus
Had forgotten @Paleojim had an account here, so now I'm tagging him.
A new twist in an old origin story: Earliest #dinosaurs may have emerged in the Amazon https://phys.org/news/2025-01-story-earliest-dinosaurs-emerged-amazon.html paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01722-6 #paleoart by @markwitton
"the earliest dinosaurs likely emerged in a hot equatorial region in what was then the supercontinent #Gondwana—an area of land that encompasses the Amazon, Congo, & Sahara today... the may have been well adapted to hot, arid environments... #sauropods seemed to retain their preference, keeping to lower latitudes"
Galeamopus
mopes around
because their
skull is famous
but their name is
unknown
at every
dinosaur museum
the skull of
Galeamopus
is shown
but it's
stuck to the neck
of Diplodocus
and the text on the sign
says it's the skull
of Diplodocus
because the skull of Diplodocus
remains unknown
but their name is famous
#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#fossilFriday
#Diplodocus
#Galeamopus
#poetry
I’ve selected this scene because it contains many sauropod dinosaurs. It’s part of a huge 26 metre long mural depicting the Mesozoic Era in China. Others depict the Palaeozoic and Cenozoic.
In our new paper describing these historic murals in the Paleozoological Museum of China for the first time, we attempted to identify all the creatures. See the tables in the open access PDF to see if you agree: https://oiccpress.com/gcr/article/view/8295/9393
Unaysaurus: Beast of the Week https://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2025/01/unaysaurus-beast-of-week.html
"Unaysaurus is was a member of what is referred to as the prosauropod group of #dinosaurs. Like their generally larger relatives, the #sauropods, like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus, they possessed long necks and proportionally small heads, but differed in that they often could walk on their hind legs"
this #fossilFriday , I was reminded of this list of excellent tutorials, available from @svpow.com , the fine blog ran by @mike and Matt Wedel. If you want to learn about sauropods, dinosaur anatomy, and paleontology, this is a great place to start:
https://svpow.com/tutorials/
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
a manual investigation of Titanosaur skeletons has revealed that Titanosaurs rejected the digital revolution.
today I was reminded of how odd sauropod feet are. Rather than try to describe them myself, I will refer you to @TetZoo 's 2019 article of the life appearance of sauropods, which has a short section on feet.
See also @etschopp 's 2015 paper on Camarasaurus feet:
