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Back in 2012, when Matt and I were at the American Museum of Natural History to work on “ Apatosaurus minimus , we also photographed some other sacra for comparative purposes. One of them you’ve already seen — that of the Camarasaurus supremus holotype AMNH 5761.

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Introduction and Background I have three goals with this post: To document the range of variation in epipophyses in the cervical vertebrae of sauropods. To show that the “finger-like processes” overhanging the cervical postzygapophyses in the newly described Qijianglong are not novel or mysterious structures, just very well developed epipophyses.

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Check out this beautiful Lego Diplodocus : {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-10521 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“10521” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/06/18/a-beautiful-lego-diplodocus-skeleton/10954093715_c4c7fe19ec_k-crop/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/10954093715_c4c7fe19ec_k-crop.jpg” orig-size=“480,319” comments-opened=“1”