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A Speculative Sauropod that I conjured up, that may have lived in the Hell Creek formation of North America during the late cretaceous.It's been said that sauropods may have been too big and cumbersome to live in forests or wetland areas (Which is the reason why we don't find many in the upper half of the continent at that time), but some evidence (As far as I know anyway) suggests that they may have faired well in these conditions, the same as giraffes and elephants.
Infact, many large sauropod bodys alone were now bigger than that of elephants, particularly prehistoric elephants like mammoths and deinotherium and their long necks and tails may have certainly been stable and maneuverable enough to move thru trees if not clustered together.
But that's just my opinion, thou either way I am confident that there is one yet to be discovered in Hell Creek.
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I like seeing pterosaurs and big birds in the same picture. Is it a specific kind of bird?
Paleo-King sure knows more than me about sauropod anatomy. I'd like to add that the tail looks very thin considering the strong caudofemoralis muscles attached to it. Here's Scott Hartmann's blog post about the recent paper in dinosaur tails and how they have long been drawn much too skinny: [link]
But that's all I got to say. Looks nice.
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It would be cool if there were sauropods in Hell Creek. I doubt the environment was to their liking, but at least it was less swampy than the earlier Judith River formation.
Just beware of what you do with the ankles, they were not that high and were probably not bent. Sauropod metatarsal bones are actually very short so the ankle is far lower on the leg, like in elephants.
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Thanks and I apologize for the ankles. Sauropods and elephants are digitigrades yet people draw them as plantigrades. Even with ungulate front limbs so I try to either even them or make them as obvious as possible.
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Yeah... they are digitigrades, but the ankles are still short. They did not have long bent ankles like antelopes. Digitigrades only refers to them walking on their phalanges, it says nothing about ankle length.
BTW to my knowledge no dinosaur is plantigrade. However pterosaur feet are plantigrade... at least in pterodactyloids. So they could not run as well as birds due to their flat feet. Whenever someone confuses pterosaurs with dinosaurs I tell them "look at the feet". The part that most fanboys never pay attention too.
You might be interested to know that sauropod feet are not all the same standard shape. Some of them get very weird. Especially Euhelopus, which should be called Swiss-army-knife-opus.
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Well, can u teach me in doodles? How to and not to draw them, please?
Like for example, show elephant feet in both the correct and incorrect digitigrade feet and what they might look if plantigrade, so it will be more understandable to draw them.
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Hey that's a great idea. I can do those too. But they will probably be on my blog, not here. I need to ramp up my blog anyway.
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