Giraffatitan: Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong #18
Channel: Chaotic Good
Date: 2016-04-19

http://thegeekgroup.org/ - You've heard of Brachiosaurus, but is the dinosaur you're picturing actually that genus?  Steven takes a look at the giant African high-browser, Giraffatitan. Like our videos? Consider supporting them through Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/thegeekgroup


Video Links:

1:30  http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23141903

1:52  http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015061972488;view=1up;seq=16

2:10  https://books.google.com/books?id=PXc6AQAAIAAJ&ots=sSsoGPsgGj&dq=richard%20lull%201919%20brachiosaurus&lr&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false

2:17 http://svpow.com/2014/11/14/how-did-the-horrible-yale-brontosaurus-skull-come-to-be/

2:25 http://gspauldino.com/HunteriaBrachio.pdf

2:48 http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/pubs/taylor2009/Taylor2009-brachiosaurus-and-giraffatitan.pdf

2:58  http://svpow.com/2009/09/09/brachiosaurus-brancai-is-not-brachiosaurus/

3:13  http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3848.1.1

3:29 http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/pubs/taylor2009/Taylor2009-brachiosaurus-and-giraffatitan.pdf

4:34 serengeti photo
by user Haplochromis
 CC BY 3.0    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Little_Serengeti_in_Arusha_NP.JPG
bison photo
by user Yunner
CC BY 3.0   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_fight_in_Grand_Teton_NP.jpg

6:19  http://svpow.com/2014/06/09/how-heavy-was-giraffatitan-brancai-i-mean-really/

6:30  https://sauroposeidon.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/wedel-2009-air-sacs.pdf

6:42 Taylor & Wedel 2013 necks  https://peerj.com/articles/36/

6:49  http://svpow.com/2014/09/22/wheelbarrow-handles-for-vertebrae-the-cervical-rib-bundles-of-sauroposeidon-and-other-sauropods/

7:05  http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0078573

11:16 https://svpow.com/2014/02/10/giraffatitan-skull-photos/

13:38 http://www.thegeekgroup.org/

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