Turf Dispute
Done for someone very dear to me whose favorite dinosaur is Apatosaurus.
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Tess Gallagher's speculation and scientific work on diplodocid scales has destroyed by brain :P. Apatosaurus is known for it's wide neck, so I played a little.
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This Fossil Friday, we bring you the beloved Apatosaurus: a long-necked dinosaur that could reach an impressive size of 73 feet (22 meters) long! The Museum’s first Apatosaurus was discovered at Wyoming’s Bone Cabin Quarry in 1898. When it went on display in 1905, it was the first sauropod dinosaur ever mounted. It’s hard to believe, but this gigantic herbivore maintained its mind-boggling bulk on a diet of plants. A soup of microbes in its belly broke down otherwise hard-to-digest plants by fermentation. In fact, some birds, the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, also have fermentation chambers in their guts.
Photo: D. Finnin / ©AMNH
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Cabazon dinosaur Dinny the Apatosaurus was built by Claude Bell beginning in 1964. It took him eleven years and over $250,000 to finish Dinny.
Dinny is one hundred and fifty feet long and forty five feet high. Bell built her with an entrance in the tail, stairs leading up, and rooms inside, including a large gift shop on the main level. She also has a small bathroom, a room with a sink, and another room about a third the size of the gift shop. A tunnel up to the head also exists to allow for changing of the lights in the dinosaur's eyes.
The original and subsequent paint jobs while Bell was alive were browns and grays, but starting in 2020 the current owners began painting the dinosaurs for the season. The photographs of pink Dinny above were shot in 2021.
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Animal Ghosts. Edited by Claudia Clow. Illustrated by Walt Disney Productions. 1971.
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Big Al Prowling his Territory - A lone Allosaurus jimmadseni strolls across a landscape of sprawling sand dunes as two Harpactognathus feast on the carcass of an Apatosaurus that has died of thirst and two A.louisae ascend one of the giant dunes in the background, 150 million years ago in what is now the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.
Having sustained multiple pathologies throughout their lives, including severe foot infections or rib injuries, “Big Al” and “Big Al ll” were and still remain one of the most fascinating dinosaur specimens ever found in the Morrison Formation.
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Transient Titan
Apatosaurus & Ornitholestes
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Another sketch brought to you by the #paleostream
Apatosaurus in a sandstorm, the Morrison formation was occasionally plagued with intense droughts.
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Happy Fossil Day. Happy Fossil Day! Brontosaurus is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period some 156 to 146 million years ago. The first remains consisted of a fairly complete skeleton was recovered from Como Bluff Wyoming in 1879 by William Harlow Reed who named its Brontosaurus excelsus, meaning "thunder lizard", from the Greek brontē meaning "thunder" and sauros meaning "lizard", and from the Latin excelsus, meaning "noble" or "high". Despite being one of the most complete sauropod skeletons known at the time, the brontosaurus type specimen along with another found in 1880 lacked skulls. In 1903 Elmer S. Riggs argued that Brontosaurus was so similar to Apatosaurus that it should become a synonym. However, when the first skeleton of Apatosaurus was mounted in the American Museum of Natural History in 1905, it bore the name Brontosaurus, in additional confusion because no skulls where known from these animals a faximilally was constructed based off of other sauropod skull remains now know to be Camarasaurus and brachiosaurs which gave the mount a truly bizarre head. This one mounted skeleton is the reason why so much controversy would exist for this dinosaur over the next hundred years. It was not until a 1975 study by John Stanton McIntosh and David Berman re-describing the skull and jaws of Apatosaurus and Diplodocus was published that things would really get moving for more accurate reconstructions. In 1995 the original Brontosaurus mount from 1905 finally got a skull revision to be like that of Apatosaurus, and was also now named as Apatosaurus excelsus. It took the best part of a century to reveal the true shape and form of Apatosaurus, and for most of this time the majority of paleontologists agreed with the opinion of Elmer S, Riggs from 1903 that Brontosaurus should be a synonym to Apatosaurus. One notable exception however was Robert T. Bakker, who in 1998 argued that Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus were distinct. Bakker would be proven right in 2015 when an extremely in-depth sauropod study conducted by Emanuel Tschopp, Octavio Mateus and Roger Benson found that the Brontosaurus type species B. excelsus was infact a valid genus. Reaching 62 to 72 (19 -22m) in length and 30,000 to 38,000 (13,600 -17,250kgs) in weight, brontosaurus was large, long-necked, and quadrupedal with a long tail terminating in a whip-like structure. The cervical vertebrae are notably extremely robust and heavily-built, in contrast to its lightly built relatives Diplodocus and Barosaurus. The forelimbs were short and stout whereas the hindlimbs were elongated and thick, all signs that brontosaurs was remarkably strong and muscular. Brontosaurus would have likely lived in loose herds acting as a nonselective browser feeding upon ferns, cycads, ginkgos, and horsetails, as it coexisted with with a menagerie of other morrison taxa such as the Diplodocus, Barosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, Dryosaurus, Camptosaurus, Allosaurus, Torvosaurus, and Ceratosaurus.
Art Used in this video belongs to the following creators
Brontosaurus excelsus: Paleoguy
https://www.deviantart.com/paleoguy/art/Brontosaurus-excelsus-526754288
https://www.deviantart.com/paleoguy/art/Brontosaurus-780543420
https://www.deviantart.com/paleoguy/art/Brontosaurus-Allosaurus-570575957
Brontosaurus is Back: tuomaskoivurinne
https://www.deviantart.com/tuomaskoivurinne/art/Brontosaurus-is-back-526656913
Brontosaurus through the ages: Nix Draws Stuff
https://nixillustration.com/tag/brontosaurus/
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🎞️Here’s a festive #TBT photo from 1969! On this Thanksgiving, the world-famous parade passed the Museum’s 77th Street turret with a very special float: a sauropod dinosaur. 🦕This inflatable Apatosaurus measured an impressive 60 feet long! The giant green dinosaur featured big eyes, a wide grin, and a 20-foot tail. The original Apatosaurus balloon made its first parade debut in 1963 and was retired from service in 1976. Photo: Image no. 62158_21a, © AMNH Library #amnh #Thanksgiving #Apatosaurus #dinosaurs #MacysParade #ThrowbackThursday #nyc #NewYorkCity #history https://www.instagram.com/p/ClWWiuxLYB7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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