Fragillimus335
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Post by Fragillimus335 on Jul 23, 2013 6:52:37 GMT 5
Cau's Spinodocus with Sue  |
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blaze
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Post by blaze on Jul 28, 2013 9:30:41 GMT 5
 Updated in December 16th, 2013My Arctodus skeletal, FMNH 24880 is ~149cm at the shoulder while the biggest known individuals are around 164cm tall. |
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Post by theropod on Jul 28, 2013 17:30:35 GMT 5
Outstanding work blaze! Is there some kind of "making of" for this?
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blaze
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Post by blaze on Jul 28, 2013 23:51:44 GMT 5
Not really, or what do you mean?
mmm I think I need to fix the right shoulder somewhat.
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Post by theropod on Jul 29, 2013 1:53:24 GMT 5
I mean how did you make it, step by step?
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Post by blaze on Jul 29, 2013 6:36:54 GMT 5
I'll be honest, I suck at making instructions haha
Essentially, I got as many papers on Arctodus as I could, the main one was Richards and Turnbull (1995) which has photographs in lateral view of most of the bones of FMNH 24880 as well as measurements, then I just traced the photos of each of the bones, resized them at the same scale and articulated them. Didn't you made your skull reconstructions in this way?
Though, I couldn't find photos or illustrations of several bones, like the sternum (I have it redrawn from an illustration of a wolf) or complete cervical vertebrae (Richards and Turnbull don't figure the lateral view of the atlas nor C4, there's only of the axis and C6 but is damaged), the humerus and femur are redrawn from the reconstruction in Figueridio et al. (2010) (which is in turn redrawn from a paper from the 80's whose citation I can't remember) and the hands and feet are redrawn from the skeletal in Matheus (2003).
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Post by theropod on Jul 29, 2013 14:45:49 GMT 5
Yeah, I did, but skulls are not even near as difficult to make as a whole skeletal. Guess why I never made one...
Thanks for the info!
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Post by Grey on Jul 29, 2013 19:49:44 GMT 5
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Post by Grey on Jul 31, 2013 6:53:29 GMT 5
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Post by Grey on Aug 9, 2013 15:22:45 GMT 5
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Fragillimus335
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Post by Fragillimus335 on Aug 11, 2013 5:35:59 GMT 5
The first installment of a Dinosaurian diversity thing I'm doing. These are meant to show a general range of size and morphology of major dinosaur clades. 1st up, theropod diversity.  Skeletal credits go mostly to Scott Hartman and Greg Paul. |
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Post by Fragillimus335 on Aug 11, 2013 5:38:33 GMT 5
Number two, Ceratopsian diversity!  |
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Post by Grey on Aug 11, 2013 17:14:32 GMT 5
Excellent. Giganotosaurus remains one hell of a monster. This is sometimes hard to imagine such a large predatory animal once walked.
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Post by theropod on Aug 11, 2013 18:36:54 GMT 5
Not to mention Spinosaurus... The Concavenator is Ville Sinkokken's, isn't it? Somehow the shape of the tail base and sacrum looks odd. I think there should be muscle and fascia connecting the enlarged spinous processes on the anterior caudals and those on the posterior dorsals and anterior sacrals, creating a somewhat smooth silhouette, like this they seem oddly protruding which you usually don't have with animal spines. |
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(but she has more balls than all of us together 
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