Gertie

Gertie is a grass-attributed Seismosaurus and is a move card assistant of the D-Team.

## Character design

### personality

Gertie is the main reason for the meaning gentle giant. she is huge yet as gentle as a daisy, a 40 ton daisy. She uses her long neck to help those who need it and she deserve several awards for "longest body" or "best neck", however she is aware of the Diplodocus debunk and how her species is technically diplodocus but doesn't care that much about it

### anatomy

As a Seismosaurus, Gertie is a very large sauropod with a length 24–26 meters (79–85 ft). Modern mass estimates for *Diplodocus carnegii* have tended to be in the 12–14.8-metric-ton (13.2–16.3-short-ton) range.

Gertie has an extremely long tail, composed of about 80 caudal vertebrae, which are almost double the number some of the earlier sauropods had in their tails (such as *Shunosaurus* with 43), and far more than contemporaneous macronarians had (such as *Camarasaurus* with 53). Some speculation exiss as to whether it may have had a defensive or noisemaking (by cracking it like a coachwhip) function. The tail serves as a counterbalance for the neck. The middle part of the tail has "double beams". They provide support for the vertebrae, or perhaps prevented the blood vessels from being crushed if the animal's heavy tail pressed against the ground. These "double beams" are also seen in some related dinosaurs. Chevron bones of this particular form were initially believed to be unique to *Diplodocus*; since then they have been discovered in other members of the diplodocid family as well as in non-diplodocid sauropods, such as *Mamenchisaurus*.

Like other sauropods, gertie's manus (front "feet") are highly modified, with the finger and hand bones arranged into a vertical column, horseshoe-shaped in cross section. gertie lacks claws on all but one digit of the front limb, and this claw was unusually large relative to other sauropods, flattened from side to side, and detached from the bones of the hand.

gertie's head is very small compared with the size of these animals. gertie has small, 'peg'-like teeth that pointed forward and were only present in the anterior sections of the jaws. Its braincase was small. The neck is composed of at least 15 vertebrae and may have been held parallel to the ground and unable to be elevated much past horizontal.

### Skin

gertie has narrow, pointed keratinous spines, much like those on an iguana and up to 18 centimeters (7.1 in) long, on the "whiplash" portion of their tails, and possibly along the back and neck as well, as in hadrosaurids.

gertie's scales range in size and shape depending upon their location on the integument, the smallest of which reach about 1mm while the largest 10 mm. Some of these scales show orientations that may indicate where they belonged on the body. For instance, the ovoid scales are oriented closely clustered together and look similar to scales in modern reptiles that are located dorsally. Another orientation on the fossil consists of arching rows of square scales that interrupts nearby polygonal scale patterning. It is noted that these arching scale rows look similar to the scale orientations seen around crocodilian limbs, suggesting that this area may have also originated from around a limb on gertie. The skin fossil itself is small in size, reaching less than 70 cm in length. Due to the vast amount of scale diversity seen within such a small area, as well as the scales being smaller in comparison to other diplodocid scale fossils, and the presence of small and potentially “juvenile” material at the Mother’s Day Quarry, it is hypothesized that the skin originated from a small or even “juvenile” *Diplodocus*

## Abilities

* Big Foot Assault: Gertie appears and stomps on every opponent on sight.