An early Jurassic sauropodomorph, was native to Southern Africa ~ 190 million years ago. It was one of the first dinosaurs described (1850s) and is the namesake of an entire family of mid-sized, bipedal "pro-sauropod" dinosaurs.

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First tweet!
A pair of juvenile Cetiosaurus find protection with an admirably tolerant adult.
Made in Clip studio, with reference to the skeletal by @/DanPalaeon1
( I'm not a professional paleoartist - expect inaccuracies!)

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TS-2/ Sauropod type mech
Second illustration after the previous one.

see: https://t.co/a83xCK9HuZ

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In the JP3 script and novelization, the T. rex was eating the corpse of a Datousaurus, a sauropod; this was a nod to the first novel. In the movie, the carcass belongs to a Parasaurolophus instead.

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Dino Fact!

Spectrovenator (Ghost Hunter) is an abelisaurid from Early Cretaceous Brazil! Its name is a reference to how its first fossils were found right underneath the first fossils of another dinosaur, a sauropod called Tapuiasaurus, which (1/2)

Art by DevinQuigleyArt!

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I could ask "GUESS THE SAUROPOD"...
but there are over 200 species identified, and this looks like half of them.

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Enjoyed reading about the smallest sauropod known to science to be described from Australian fossils - at an estimated 4.2 Tonnes "Oliver" wasn't that small! Our blog has more: https://t.co/NYvugrDVEt

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Our new paper led by Samantha Rigby on juvenile remains of the Cretaceous Australian titanosaur sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus, with , + several others not on Twitter: https://t.co/UOTprM8tLZ

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The Yojorni
A redesign if the sauropod that pays child support

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Amargasaurus cuz no matter how you choose to portray them (whether with Spines or Sails), they will always be the most metal looking sauropod. https://t.co/6HAJvry7hk

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Today’s 30 minute daily Dino drawing is another sauropod. I’ve tried to quickly capture all of their different features (longer front legs than back legs) and give them a little dancing energy each day.

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These could include wattles, dewlaps, spiky frills, spines, filaments, inflatable pouches or distensible flags or flaps. A few artists have explored these possibilities, most notably and ...

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In the most extreme version of the shrink-wrapping meme promoted by one or two palaeontologists and palaeoartists, sauropod necks have been depicted as if these structures should be visible in the live animal, Ely Kish’s apatosaurines from 1983 being the ultimate example...

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Arguments that must have been horizontal-necked do not take account of the flexibility permitted by cartilage, or – in living animals of all sorts – the ranges of motion that happen at zygapophyseal junctions and at the neck base and head-neck junctions...

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My afternoon is all about creating sauropod so in honour of that, here's a suite of sauropodomorphoramas featuring classic taxa for Brontosaurus, Giraffatitan, Plateosaurus, and Diplodocus.

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Pneumatic diverticula between the dorsal processes of dicraeosaurids (& tons of other sauropods) is not speculative at all.

Also, dissect a bird. Diverticula right beneath the skin are all over the place, often for no clear reason (other than maybe streamlining).
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For starters, we have the presence of inflatable air-sacks/pronounced soft tissue on sauropod necks, a purely speculative feature that has seen a fair degree of prominence in the more esoteric palaeontological circles.

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Sauropods with weird throat sacs just feels right

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