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Re: Sauroposeidon
In a message dated 11/3/99 1:44:06 PM Pacific Standard Time,
twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com writes:
> All the characters that link the two species, and have been
> used to diagnose the genus _Brachiosaurus_, are primitive titanosaur
traits.
> (This also applies to the family Brachiosauridae in the old more
inclusive
> sense.)
So were basal titanosauriforms all as high-shouldered as _B. altithorax_ and
_G. brancai_, with later titanosaurs re-equalizing their limb lengths? Or is
it not entirely certain that both _B._ and _G._ were as high-shouldered as
traditionally depicted?
--Nick P.