#brachiosaurid

[fastman27]

Brachiosaurus.

[vickysaurus]

Me giving a Brachiosaurus scritches because I deserve it and so does the Brachiosaurus.

[minifloatingcows]

[vickysaurus]

Big puppies. Sauropods are fun to draw! These are a Brachiosaurus, a Diplodocus, and a Titanosaurus with a speculative trunk I wanted to try out.

[soybeenss]

A giraffatitan wanders under a tree to find both food and shade from the evening sunlight. 

It may not be a Jurassic World post, but you people really did like my Scorpios Rex. I didn’t draw a scientifically accurate amount of teeth because for some reason brachiosaurid teeth freak me out. 

I really suggest looking at giraffatitan on the web. Paleoartists come up with beautiful patterns for this guy! I myself used a reference for this piece. 

[minifloatingcows]

Brachiosaurid

[the-dinosaurs]

Sauroposeidon

'Sauroposeidon protelis' is a genus of Brachiosaurid dinosaur. It is only known from four neck vertebrae that were found in South-Western Oklahoma. The fossils were discovered in an early Cretaceous period rock layer, a time-span in which sauropods were thought to have greatly dimminished in both size and number, making Sauroposeidon the last great Sauropod on the North American Continent. When the fossils were discovered in 1993, their size and time of origin caused them to be missclassified as petrified tree trunks, until 1999, when a further study revealed the truth. When this was realised, it caused a media frenzy.

The name comes from Greek sauros, meaning lizard, and the Greek sea god, Poseidon, who was also the god of earthquakes, often being called Ennosigaios, "The Earth Shaker". This is a reference to the notion that this sauropod was so massive, when it walked the earth shaked.

The species name, protelis, also comes from Ancient Greek, meaning "Perfect before the End", refering to Sauroposeidon's status as the Last Great Sauropod.

 Sauroposeidon's neck length is estimated at 11.25-12 m. (37-39 ft.), compared to the 9m (30 ft.) neck of Giraffatitan. Sauroposeidon could likely raise it's neck 17 m. (56 ft.) off the ground, the equivalent of a six story building.  In comparison, Giraffatitan could probably raise it's head a modest 13.5 m. (44 ft.) into the air. Sauroposeidon's height at the shoulder is estimated to be 6-7 m. (20-23 ft.), and it's body legnth ranged from 28 m. (92 ft.), to 34 m. (110 ft.), making it one of the longest Sauropods, and very likely the tallest.

[cramdaniel]

changed my url back to brachiosaurid

i just love dinosaurs too much

(hugsfromvoldemort = brachiosaurid)