#sauropods

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Sauropods [Explained]

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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

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.