We’re working on a series of posts that’s turning out to be a bigger project than we expected: more posts, and each one longer, than anticipated. Here’s a handy index in chronological order.
- Part 1: what we know now
- Part 2: what we found in Utah
- Part 2b: the size of the BYU 9024 animal
- Part 3: the material of Supersaurus
- Part 4: what is the holotype of Supersaurus?
- Part 5: what actually is Supersaurus?
- Part 6: what happens to Supersaurus now?
- Part 7: at last, Dystylosaurus has its day!
- Part 8: we finally get to Ultrasauros!
- Bonus post: Supersaurus before Ultrasaurus!
- Table of old and new BYU specimen numbers
- Supersaurus timeline
- Part 12: how big are the giant diplodocid bones in the Dry Mesa Quarry?
- The Past, Present and Future of Jensen’s “Big Three” sauropods (my SVPCA 2019 talk about all this)
- … maybe later: Dinheirosaurus
(I started writing this series of posts in 2019, and foolishly titled them “Supersaurus, Ultrasaurus and Dystylosaurus in 2019″. Now it’s 2021, and it would be silly to add more posts — as I intend to — under that title. Hence the retitling “… in the 21st Century”.)
See also these (mostly older) posts:
- Getting a look at Supersaurus
- Supersaurus — a diplodocid that lives up to its name
- It’s Ultrasaurus… I mean, um, Ultrasauros… err, Supersaurus!
- The “Ultrasauros” holotype vertebra
- Giraffes’ necks are lamentable
- The holotype dorsal vertebra of Dystylosaurus
- SV-POW! showdown: Supersaurus vs Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus
- How horrifying was the neck of Barosaurus?
- Lovelace et al.’s 2005 poster about the WDC Supersaurus
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week 