"All good ships have appropriate names. Our ship was christened Diplodocus, with a picture of the beast painted on the side for our talisman - also as a lure for dinosaurs under the ground."
So wrote Barnum Brown in 1935, opening an article about using an airplane to survey the western USA for fossils.
I have mixed feelings about these old articles from the history of paleontology, but here it is:
https://archive.org/details/naturalhistory3615newy/page/94/mode/2up?q=Diplodocus
which dinosaurs are genuine dinosaur genera?
#sauropodSaturday reading:
Matt Wedel's short blog post and video of the cervicals (neck bones) of the dicraeosaur sauropod Suuwassea:
https://svpow.com/2018/03/20/cervical-vertebrae-of-suuwassea-on-display-at-the-academy-of-natural-sciences-in-philadelphia/
the description of Suuwassea by @dinogami and Peter Dodson:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250104160735/https://doc.rero.ch/record/15018/files/PAL_E2172.pdf
https://doc.rero.ch/record/15018/files/PAL_E2172.pdf
well - actually not until I'm done shoveling snow. : )
I was in Philadelphia and New York last week, visiting colleagues on the East Coast and getting in some collaborative research. Much more to say about that in the future – even just the touri…
Gemma Hazeborg has posted a wonderful review of some of the strangest and most wonderful historical paleoart:
https://chasmosaurs.com/2024/12/11/vintage-dinosaur-art-hubrecht-at-the-lyceum-part-1/
I keep looking at the furry Ceratosaurus in the background and thinking "what the heck??"
But I really like the sea creatures, and the plants, even if they're not especially up to date.
#fossils
#pterosaurs
#sauropodSaturday
#paleoart
#art
#dinosaurs
This #SauropodSaturday , I've been re-reading a few posts in the wonderful series Your Friends the Titanosaurs . But for now I'll just link to the whole series:
https://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/p/your-friends-titanosaurs.html
@futurebird @RationalizedInsanity
I could find the will write
about Abydosaurus
how it lived its life
the tall trees it stripped bare
and how it died
buried in rock
for a hundred million years
while the green river carved a canyon near
but all the million forams?
that I can't bear
and each annoying conodont?
no
I won't
sauropod factoid: among english letters, U and W are tied for the fewest sauropods beginning with the letter: only Uberabatitan and Udelartitan begin with U (sadly I must set aside both Ultrasaurus and Ultrasauros), and only Wintonotitan and Wamweracaudia begin with W. Xenoposeidon, Xingjangtitan, and Xianshanosaurus begin with X, and all other english letters have at least 4 genera. A sauropod themed alphabet book would have plenty of choices.
if you like art, or dinosaurs, or great landscapes, and you don't know who Douglas Henderson is, you should read this review:
Gemma Hazeborg reviews Douglas Henderson:
https://chasmosaurs.com/2023/05/14/vintage-dinosaur-art-the-news-about-dinosaurs-part-2/
there is a dinosaur named Bustingorrytitan. You could look up the reason it has that name, but you'll have more fun if you just imagine it.
llewelly
