Re: Was: Largest dinosaur bones...

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Vladimir Socha wrote:

> >"...unnamed Middle Jurassic Moroccan sauropod (Monbaron et al., 1999)
> >2,36 m."
>
> Could this unnamed giant be an originator of the footprints of
> *Breviparopus taghbaloutensis*?

The 2.36m long sauropod femur from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco was 
described by Charroud and Fedan (1992); I have not seen this paper.  
Monbaron et al. (1999), in their description of _Atlassaurus_ (also from the 
Middle Jurassic of Morocco), mention this huge femur and imply that it may 
belong to the same sauropod that produced the footprints named 
_Breviparopus_.  The ichnotaxon _Breviparopus taghbaloutensis_ comes from 
the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of the High Atlas Mountains.


> "...(Dry Mesa sauropodian) scapulocoracoid is reffered to
> Brachiosaurus (Curtice et al., 1996)."
>
> Is there any mention of its size? I don't think _Brachiosaurus
> altithorax_' scapula was over 2.5 m. long.

I don't believe any Dry Mesa brachosaur scapula reached this size.  If this 
is the scapula described by Jensen (1985) and referred by him to 
_Ultrasaurus macintoshi_, then the size given by Jensen is an overestimate.



Tim

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