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Like all sauropod dinosaurs, Brachiosaurus was a quadruped with a small skull, a long neck, a large trunk with a high-ellipsoid cross section, a long, muscular tail and slender, columnar limbs. [51] Large air sacs connected to the lung system were present in the neck and trunk, invading the vertebrae and ribs by bone resorption , greatly ...
English: Reconstruction of USNM 5730, the "Felch Quarry Skull," which has been attributed to Brachiosaurus sp. Known material is shown in white, unknown material in gray. . Unknown regions have been restored following the more complete skulls of Giraffatitan and Abydosaur
Other specimens also exist, but do not overlap with any other ‘’Brachiosaurus’’ specimens USNM 5730 ("Felch Quarry Skull"): This is the skull that Marsh used for his Brontosaurus restoration. It is nearly complete but crushed, and has been drawn after Carpenter’s skull diagram.
USNM 5730 ("Felch Quarry Skull"): This is the skull that Marsh used for his Brontosaurus restoration. It is partially complete and crushed. A 99 cm cervical was also present at the dig site but was destroyed during excavation. Shown in lime. BYU 12866 and 12867 ("BYU Cervicals"): C5 and C10, respectively.
Traditionally, the distinctive high-crested skull was seen as a characteristic of the genus Brachiosaurus, to which Giraffatitan brancai was originally referred; however, it is possible that Brachiosaurus altithorax did not show this feature, since within the traditional Brachiosaurus material it is known only from Tanzanian specimens now ...
On the perilous Jurassic Period landscape of western North America, it was good to be big. Paleontologists have conducted a study scrutinizing bite marks left by meat-eating dinosaurs on the bones ...
The replica outside the Field Museum of Natural History in 2013. In 1999, an all-weather cast of Riggs' Brachiosaurus was installed on the museum's northwest terrace. The replica was visible from Lake Shore Drive and became "iconic for donning the jersey of various Chicago teams during sports seasons", according to Chicago Park District. [5]
A 13,600-year-old mastodon skull was uncovered in an Iowa creek, state officials announced this week. Iowa's Office of the State Archaeologist said in a social media post that archaeologists found ...