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One articulated Sauroposeidon to go, hold the perspective distortion, with a side of stinkin’ mammal
Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Author Matt Wedel
Order up! Sauroposeidon is stitched together from orthographic views of the 3D photogrammetric models rendered in MeshLab. Greyed out bits of the vertebrae are actually missing–I used C8 to patch C7, C7 to patch C6, and so on forward. The cervical ribs as reconstructed here were all recovered and they are in collections, but they’re in several jackets and boxes and therefore not easily photographed.