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Mamenchisaurus youngi skeletal by *shartman:iconshartman:

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©2007-2009 *shartman
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A true giraffe-morph sauropod from the Late Jurassic of China. I will be most interested to see what the vertebral column of its sister species, M. hochuanesis, looks like now...

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!Piatnitskysaurus May 28, 2007, 11:10:53 PM
I thought M had a cockscomb-like club ala Shunosaurus?

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*shartman May 29, 2007, 6:31:32 AM
Take another look, it does have a club on the end there. It's proportionately smaller than in Shunosaurus, and of course the club is from a different species of Mamenchisaurus, but I've assumed it was present here as well.
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~Megalania1859 May 29, 2007, 3:54:42 PM
nice drawing. I read in a book that Mamenchisaurus' cousin, Omeisaurus, may have had a club (based on clubs found in the same area with different shapes than Shunosaurus). I have seen the Mamenchisaurus skeleton at the museum in LA, but I never thought it may have had a club.

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!Piatnitskysaurus May 29, 2007, 7:50:21 PM
You're right, sorry.

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*shartman May 30, 2007, 10:58:59 AM
A lot of people have doubted that Mamenchisaurus had a tail club (including me), but current authors (including Pi et al, who described M. youngi) maintain that there is a specimen with one, so I have chosen to take the conservative route and include one. Feel free to ignore it if you do a life reconstruction...it won't hurt my feelings any!
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~Megalania1859 May 30, 2007, 11:22:30 AM
well, it may or may not have had one. Remember those clubs i mentioned? They could be Mamenchisaurus's. We don't know. Only time will tell.

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"I am what I am. Someone has to be."- Reynald de Chatillon, "Kingdom of Heaven"

"I'm like a dog chasing cars. I don't know what I'm going to do if I catch one. I just... do."- The Joker, "The Dark Knight"
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~EmperorDinobot Jun 6, 2007, 12:52:57 AM
I now realize this was a very strange dinosaur.
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*shartman Jun 11, 2007, 1:54:19 PM
I'm starting to wonder if it's actually strange, or if our understanding of camarasaurs, brachiosaurs, etc hasn't just been really off. Time will tell...
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~Kawekaweau Dec 2, 2007, 3:11:08 PM
¿Tenía un mazo/bola en su cola? :?

It had a mallet/ball in its tail? :?

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