#sauropods

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Sauropods [Explained]

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[A sauropod with a normal long neck and tail, crossed out with a large red X.]

[Two sauropods with very short necks and tails and an eel-like sauropod queen composed of sauropod necks winding off both sides of the panel with a single head and tailtip visible, and a green checkmark.]

[Caption below the comic:]

"Thanks to modern paleontological reconstructions, we now know that most Sauropods had short necks, and all those extra vertebrae belonged to the Sauropod colony's queen."

[sauropoko]

Into The Living Slaughter, I Come From Primal Lands Of Love and Wonder

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[ID: Digital Illustration of a Brachiosaurus with unnatural posing floating over a light blue/purple rectangle on an off-white background. The brachiosaurus has sparse quill-like structures along its spine, starting behind the head, and brealing up mosway down the neck and back. Its head faces left, its neck turned into a circular shape. it sits above one outstretched front leg, the other more straight behind that. its back legs are more bunched gathered underneath the brachiosaurus. Its relatively short tail sits underneath its body. The sauropod has a light color pallette, with a pink head (other than yellow air sacs leading to the nostrils) that goes down the spine to the tail. the ends of its legs are blue, and the rest of its body yellow either striping. in the upper left corner is a watermark reading: “LEAVES AND INKS” /end ID]

Brachiosaurus

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[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Despite being ill I think this first formation #paleostream of the year turned out pretty good. The Upper Elliot Formation from the early Jurassic of South Africa is an important piece for our understanding of sauropod evolution but beyond that it's just a really cool assemblage...

Preserved here is a seasonal floodplain, framed by dunes. Unfortunately there is very little on the local paleobotany from here as the sandstone of the Elliot formation is really bad at preserving plants. Most famously the UEF has a LOT of Sauropodomorphs going from very basal...

looking taxa too something that appear close to a "normal" sauropod. Especially Massospondylus has been found en mass! Down to eggs and embryos it is one of the best known early members of this incredibly successful lineage...

Besides the long bois there are theropods, ornthishians, synapsids, pseudosuchians, fish and at least one really fucking huge temnospondyl! Size charts by discord member Eru.

As a few might have guessed already this photo by Charles Davis was a major inspiration, as were many landscape shots from Australia were similar environments can be found today.

[makairodonx]

A pair of subadult male Diplodocus drink from one of the few reminding streams of water in the middle of the dry season; the coloration and color patterns are based off a groundbreaking study on the sauropod’s skin integuments from last year.

[stavrosskundromichalis]

Patagosaurus fariasi and friends being very much Beach in the Early Jurassic of Argentina 🦕🏄‍♂️🌊

[strigidoesart]

PaleoJourney Animals! Brachiosaurus, Harpy Eagle sized future stingray and an apatosaurus sized Future stingray