#galeamopus

[brokenflaem123432]

Forcing myself to embrace imperfection in my lineart by drawing the constructicons as dinosaurs and leaving the sketch instead of lining it.

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Part 2!

[makairodonx]

Lone Allosaurus fragilis takes down a juvenile Galeamopus

[secularsasquatch]

Galeamopus, one of three ever found, from the Jurassic Period

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Another sketch brought to you by #palsotream!

Galeamopus, just standing there, looking for the fresh leafs.

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

We give a lot of grief to dinosaurs with dumb boring names like Australotitan or even dumber stupid names like Thanos. But I think it’s time to point some appreciation towards dinosaur names that are just, so good, man. 

Like, take Galeamopus. Pretty standard-sounding Latin name there but nope, turns out the authors were on some insane 4th-dimensional chess nonsense with this name.

Galeamopus comes from galeam (helmet) and opus (need), and basically means “needs a helmet” because the braincase of the skull is quite fragile. Now, that on its own is a fun enough name and would probably be a favourite of mine anyway!

But that wasn’t good enough for Tschopp et al. (2015). No, because see the original specimen was discovered by William Utterback in 1902 and described as a species of Diplodocus by William Holland in 1906. Two Williams involved in the history of this dinosaur, neat!

Now, for totally unrelated reasons, let’s take a look at the etymology of the name William:

Bravo

[mesozoicmarket]

A dinosaur tooth of an indeterminate diplodocid sauropod, likely Diplodocus hallorum from the Salt Wash Member, Morrison Formation in Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States. The original species Diplodocus longus, now a nomen dubium, is synonymous with Diplodocus hallorum. While it is almost certainly from the common Diplodocus sp. due to the sheer abundance of this genus, there are many other rarer diplodocids found in this deposit such as Barosaurus lentus, Galeamopus sp., Supersaurus vivianae, Kaatedocus siberi, and Ardetosaurus viator. Diplodocid sauropods are known for their peg or pencil-like teeth, and are likely not diagnostic down to the genus or species level in the vast majority of cases. Apatosaurine diplodocid genera like Apatosaurus sp., Brontosaurus sp., and possibly Amphicoelias altus can be ruled out due to the lack of facets which are present in apatosaurines like Apatosaurus, but absent in diplodocines like Diplodocus.

[sargassos]

For day 10 of Dinovember, I did a Galeamopus nursery. Tbh, it’s not my favorite. I don’t know how accurate it is, and the perspective needs help. I kept thinking I could fix it, but the longer I worked, the less I believed that, and finally I just kind of wanted to be done with it and move on.

But for a color book intended mostly for a six year old, it serves its purpose. And for any others, I hope the rest of the series makes up for what I feel this lacks.

EDIT, 1/11/22: This entire Dinovember series has been compiled and is now available for purchase on Gumroad! The pages can be printed, or thrown into a digital program! Check it out HERE!