Sideshow Apatosaurus sans background
January 23, 2015
I made these for my own use in talks, and then thought, why be selfish? Like everything else on this blog, these images are now released to the world under the CC-BY license. Have fun with them.
You can read my review of the Sideshow Apatosaurus here; the TL;DR is that it’s awesome. And if you’re bummed that you missed out on getting one last time around, they’re rereleasing it later this spring with a slightly different paint job – details here.
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week 
January 23, 2015 at 7:45 am
Oh, right. “For talks”. Got it.
Folks, here is the real reason he made these images!
January 23, 2015 at 9:03 am
Hey, I put one of them in Don Henderson’s SVPCA talk on which I was second author.
But, yeah, the other one was forged in the fires of D&D. Only there can it be unmade. What am I on about?
January 25, 2015 at 5:47 am
Fantastic, more free pictures of this great sauropod. Over at wikipedia we are considering getting the article for this creature up to snuff, and I was wondering if there were any major publications to look at or get that will improve the referencing situation (including any of your own that I have stupidly forgotten about). Btw, is the model a specific taxon, or just generic.
January 25, 2015 at 8:43 am
Surprisingly, the Sideshow maquette does not seems to be of any specific Apatosaurus species. For what it’s worth, it feels louisaey to me.
The most important references for Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus remain Marsh 1879 (initial description), Marsh 1883 (first skeletal reconstruction), Marsh 1891 (second skeletal reconstruction), Gilmore 1904 (first monographic description), Gilmore 1936 (monograph on A. louisae), Berman and McIntosh 1978 (the skull) and Upchurch et al. 2005 (monograph on a specimen of A. ajax). There is of course plenty of other stuff (including our own Wedel and Taylor 2013 on caudal pneumaticity) but those papers remain the descriptive core.
January 28, 2015 at 12:26 am
Mike, I cannot seem to find a paper by Gilmore published in 1904 regarding Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus. What paper is it you’re referring to? Also, do you perchance happen to have a copy of the Riggs 1903 paper on Apatosaurus, for I have not been able to find one of that either.
January 28, 2015 at 7:39 am
Sorry, ijreid, as you probably guessed I was alluding to Riggs 1903, but in my rush I got both the name and the date wrong! You can pick up a copy at http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tmp/Riggs-1903_Structure%20and%20relationships%20of%20opisthocoelian%20dinosaurs.%20Part%20I.%20Apatosaurus%20Marsh.pdf
January 31, 2015 at 9:45 pm
Not to be any more of a bother, but do you know where I could find Gilmore’s paper?