Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring

13 Responses to “Taylor (2009) on Brachiosaurus and Giraffatitan”

1. Chris Traxon Says:

   
   December 29, 2009 at 5:33 pm

   Hi could you please have a look at the following vertebra http://www.christraxon.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Vertid.htm and tell me what it might be from. I thought it might be Pliosaur but have been informed that id is not so i am now a little confused. It is from the Kimmeridge clay if East Yorkshire, and measures 2.5″ x 2.5″ x 2.5″.

   many thanks

   Chris
2. The Archosaur Musings 2009 Awards « Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings Says:

   
   December 31, 2009 at 1:04 am

   [...] the name nor the specimen are exactly new as such, but this has to go to Giraffatitan. How many names prompt the author to put an apology in the acknowledgements of his [...]
3. What’s up with the Brachiosaurus coracoid? « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week Says:

   
   January 25, 2010 at 2:09 pm

   [...] 25, 2010 In no-long-quite-so-recent paper on Brachiosaurus and Giraffatitan, I gave as one of the autapomorphies of Brachiosaurus proper that the [...]
4. Say hello to Abydosaurus mcintoshi « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week Says:

   
   February 26, 2010 at 2:36 am

   [...] am sort of nonplused by this.  I’m certainly not saying that my 2009 paper is unassailable: as soon anyone comes along with evidence that Brachiosaurus and Giraffatitan [...]
5. Guest post: A brand new brachiosaur « Dave Hone’s Archosaur Musings Says:

   
   February 27, 2010 at 12:14 am

   [...] of the few sauropods I am in anyway familiar with is Giraffatitan (formerly Brachiosaurus) and as a result I have developed more of an interest in the brachiosaurs [...]
6. Today is Document Freedom Day! « The Reinvigorated Programmer Says:

   
   March 31, 2010 at 5:04 pm

   [...] change without warning at any time.  [The Brachiosaurus altithorax reconstruction above is from this paper.  White bones are ones that we know are definitely from that species; light grey probably are; [...]
7. 169 years of sauropod research in 26 pages « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week Says:

   
   October 11, 2010 at 4:59 pm

   [...] Sauropoda) and its generic separation from Giraffatitan brancai (Janensch 1914) — published in [...]
8. The Archbishop … restored! « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week Says:

   
   October 15, 2010 at 11:26 pm

   [...] “The giant Brachiosaurus finds of the Germans” are now, of course, Giraffatitan. [...]
9. Tutorial 14: How to actually write a paper « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week Says:

   
   July 6, 2011 at 11:46 am

   [...] my Brachiosaurus/Giraffatitan paper (Taylor 2009a), though, I subverted the usual structure by postponing the Systematic Palaeontology [...]
10. Neural spine bifurcation in sauropods, Part 6: more reasons why Haplocanthosaurus is not a juvenile of a known diplodocid « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring Says:

    
    April 15, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    [...] Start with an existing matrix, add constraints, re-run it, and see how the tree-length changes.  Since I am familiar with it, I started with the matrix from my 2009 paper on brachiosaurs. [...]
11. Brachiosaurus « Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings Says:

    
    April 26, 2012 at 7:21 am

    [...] for once this really is Brachiosaurus and not Giraffatitan. Quite some time ago I put out a call for photos I could use on the Musings to help provide [...]
12. stepping into the breach | dinosaurpalaeo Says:

    
    September 12, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    [...] Tanzania. If you want to know why this animal is named Giraffatitan and not Brachiosaurus, here‘s your [...]
13. Personal milestones: publishing the Ph.D « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring Says:

    
    February 19, 2013 at 10:16 am

    [...] 1 (the sauropod-history review) was in the Geological Society dinosaur-history volume;  chapter 2 (the Brachiosaurus revision) was in JVP; chapter 3 (the Xenoposeidon description) was in Palaeontology; chapter 4 (the [...]