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Sauropoda>Neosauropoda>Titanosauriformes>Brachiosauridae>Giraffatitan>G.brancai
Janensch, 1914
Time: Kimmeridgian-Tithonian (~150-145 million years ago)
Length: Up to 24.6m (80.7ft) long when fully grown.
Height: Up to 6.8m (22.5ft) tall at the shoulder when fully grown.
Weight: Up to 43.3 tonnes when fully grown.
Habitat: The Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania, Africa.
Ecology: Enormous terrestrial megaherbivore. Due to its size, it would have fed on treetop vegetation, likely 13+ meters off the ground.
Diet: Treetop foliage, mostly originating from large conifers and gingkoes. Juveniles, too small to reach the treetops, would've eaten lower foliage like tree ferns, cycads, and possibly horsetails. The daily food income of Giraffatitan was likely greater than 180kg (~400 lbs) in order to maintain an active metabolism for a herbivore of that size.
Locomotion: The maximum speed of sauropods like Giraffatitan has been estimated around 25km/h (15.5 mph) by unknown methods, but 3d runcycles for Diplodocus indicate that it more likely moved between 10-18km/h (6.2-11.2 mph), although higher maximum speed are posible. Being much heavier, large brachiosaurs like Giraffatitan probably did not move at higher speeds. Regular walking speeds, as estimated from trackways, would be around 4-5 km/h (2.5-3 mph).
Potential predators: Hatchlings would have fallen prey to the ceratosaurian theropod Elaphrosaurus, while subadults would be on the menu for the giant carcharodontosaurid Veterupristisaurus and the theropods Ostafrikasaurus and ''Megalosaurus'' ingens, of unknown classification. Fully grown adults had no natural predators.
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Yay, well-known sauropods! Requested by
. Haakwa is short for ''tree eater'' in some Colorado native language I forgot the name of.
Update 06/30/17:
-Lineart completely remade.
-Replaced human scale figure.
-More accurate size estimate, now along the centra as is the norm, instead of in a straight line.
-Minor text corrections.
Skeletal reconstruction by
Janensch, 1914
Time: Kimmeridgian-Tithonian (~150-145 million years ago)
Length: Up to 24.6m (80.7ft) long when fully grown.
Height: Up to 6.8m (22.5ft) tall at the shoulder when fully grown.
Weight: Up to 43.3 tonnes when fully grown.
Habitat: The Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania, Africa.
Ecology: Enormous terrestrial megaherbivore. Due to its size, it would have fed on treetop vegetation, likely 13+ meters off the ground.
Diet: Treetop foliage, mostly originating from large conifers and gingkoes. Juveniles, too small to reach the treetops, would've eaten lower foliage like tree ferns, cycads, and possibly horsetails. The daily food income of Giraffatitan was likely greater than 180kg (~400 lbs) in order to maintain an active metabolism for a herbivore of that size.
Locomotion: The maximum speed of sauropods like Giraffatitan has been estimated around 25km/h (15.5 mph) by unknown methods, but 3d runcycles for Diplodocus indicate that it more likely moved between 10-18km/h (6.2-11.2 mph), although higher maximum speed are posible. Being much heavier, large brachiosaurs like Giraffatitan probably did not move at higher speeds. Regular walking speeds, as estimated from trackways, would be around 4-5 km/h (2.5-3 mph).
Potential predators: Hatchlings would have fallen prey to the ceratosaurian theropod Elaphrosaurus, while subadults would be on the menu for the giant carcharodontosaurid Veterupristisaurus and the theropods Ostafrikasaurus and ''Megalosaurus'' ingens, of unknown classification. Fully grown adults had no natural predators.
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Yay, well-known sauropods! Requested by
. Haakwa is short for ''tree eater'' in some Colorado native language I forgot the name of.Update 06/30/17:
-Lineart completely remade.
-Replaced human scale figure.
-More accurate size estimate, now along the centra as is the norm, instead of in a straight line.
-Minor text corrections.
Skeletal reconstruction by
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Surprised by how fast these things could go. It's hard to imagine them doing that with all those documentaries showing them always walking regardless of theropods grazing their flesh. We really need some more CGI of a sauropod going fast, I can only recall the Dippies from "The Ballad of Big Al".