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Sauroposeidon

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Composite skeletal reconstruction of Sauroposeidon proteles, including the holotype OMNH 53062 & the referred Cloverly formation material described by D'Emic & Foreman (2012), scaled as OMNH 53062. Human silhouette is myself.
Taxa Sauroposeidon

Composite skeletal reconstruction of Sauroposeidon proteles, including the holotype OMNH 53062 & the referred Cloverly formation material described by D'Emic & Foreman (2012), scaled as OMNH 53062. Human silhouette is myself.

Sauroposeidon

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Sauroposeidon: Beast of the Week
Sauroposeidon: Beast of the Week
United States Cretaceous Early Cretaceous Dinosauria Sauroposeidon
 This week we will be checking out a huge dinosaur with an equally impressive name.  Enter Sauroposeidon proteles!Sauroposeidon was a sauropod dinosaur (long neck) that lived in what is now Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming, USA, during the early Cretaceous period, about 113 million years ago.  Its genus name translates to "Lizard Earthquake God" after the Greek god, Poseidon, who in addition to his more famous association with the ocean, was also the god of earthquakes in Greek mythology. Since not
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