Western University of Health Sciences

Matt Wedel

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This is a *Galeamopus*, roughly two feet long, sculpted by James
Herrmann (who also made the life-size *Aquilops*
[sculpture](https://svpow.com/2017/04/22/there-has-been-an-aquilopsing-have-you-felt-it/)
and [bust](https://svpow.com/2019/06/21/james-herrmanns-aquilops-bust/))
for the Cincinnati Museum Center.

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Here's what it looks like on the other side.

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From behind.

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And from the front.

I dig this. I'm sure someone else must have done this half-skeletal
reconstruction, half-fleshed life restoration style of sculpture before,
but I can't think of any museum-quality examples. The bronze is a nice
touch.

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Here's a convincingly chunky *Allosaurus*.

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About the sculpting process, James wrote (in an email with permission to
cite):

> I worked on all of the museum pieces with Glenn Storrs, Ph.D.,
> vertebrate paleontologist with the Cincinnati Museum Center. He would
> tell me what he envisioned and provide me with reference material, I
> would sculpt it, take the clay to Glenn for his critique, take it back
> and make revisions. We went through several cycles of this for each
> piece and when I received the final approval I took each piece to the
> foundry.

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Tyrannosaurs are to museums what roller-coasters are to amusement parks.
Here's *Daspletosaurus*.

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My favorite thing about these sculptures is *why* they're done in
bronze. It's not just for posterity. James again:

> The idea was to provide a small sculpture of each skeletal
> reconstruction on display for people to touch and feel. It was felt
> that this element of touch would be particularly important to
> accommodate the needs of the visually impaired museum visitor. I will
> feel like I have achieved success when the patina is rubbed off parts
> of the bronze.

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One more, a life-size bust of *Galeamopus*.

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In addition to having these on display at the Cincinnati Museum Center,
James will be producing these sculptures as limited editions. If you're
interested, please visit <http://www.herrmannstudio.com/>.


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James Herrmann’s dinosaur sculptures for the Cincinnati Museum Center

New goodies out today in PeerJ: Tschopp and Mateus (2017) on the new diplodocid Galeamopus pabsti, and Mannion et al. (2017) redescribe and name the French ‘Bothriospondylus’ as Vouivria damparisensis. Both papers are packed with interesting stuff that I simply don’t have time to discuss right now.

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The best-preserved presacral vertebra of *Vouivria damparisensis*
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New goodies out today in PeerJ: Tschopp and Mateus (2017) on the new
diplodocid *Galeamopus pabsti*, and Mannion et al. (2017) redescribe and
name the French 'Bothriospondylus' as *Vouivria damparisensis*.

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C7 of *Galeamopus pabsti* (Tschopp and Mateus 2017: fig. 24).
:::

Both papers are packed with interesting stuff that I simply don't have
time to discuss right now. Possibly Mike and I will come back with
subsequent posts that discuss these critters in more detail. We both
have a connection here besides our normal obsession with
well-illustrated sauropods -- [Mike reviewed the *Galeamopus*
paper](https://peerj.com/articles/3179/reviews/#version-0-1-review-3),
and [I reviewed
*Vouivria*](https://peerj.com/articles/3217/reviews/#version-0-1-review-1).
Happily, both sets of authors chose to publish the peer-review
histories, so if you're curious, you can go see what we said.

For now, I'll just note that C7 of *Galeamopus pabsti*, shown above, is
intriguingly similar in form to Vertebra 'R' of YPM 429, the 'starship'
*Barosaurus* cervical (illustrated
[here](https://svpow.com/2016/09/14/our-barosaurus-preprint-has-risen-from-the-grave/)).
Mike and I spent a lot of time puzzling over the morphology of that vert
before we convinced ourselves that much of its weirdness was due to
taphonomic distortion and a restoration and paint job that obscured the
fact that the metapophyses were missing. Given our [ongoing
project](https://peerj.com/preprints/67v2/) to unravel the wacky
morphology of *Barosaurus*, I'm looking forward to digging into the
morphology of *G. pabsti* in more detail.

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I'll surely irritate Mike by saying this, but my favorite figure in
either paper is this one, Figure 4 from Tschopp and Mateus (2017). I
can't remember ever seeing an exploded skull diagram like this for a
sauropod before, but it's extremely helpful and I love it.

And that's all for now. Go read these papers -- they're both substantial
contributions with intriguing implications for the evolution of their
respective clades. Congratulations to both sets of authors for producing
such good work.

**References**

- [Mannion PD, Allain R, Moine O.]{.self-citation-authors}
  ([2017]{.self-citation-year}) [The earliest known titanosauriform
  sauropod dinosaur and the evolution of
  Brachiosauridae]{.self-citation-title}.
  [PeerJ]{.self-citation-journal}
  [5]{.self-citation-volume}:[e3217]{.self-citation-elocation}
  <https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3217>
- [Tschopp E, Mateus O.]{.self-citation-authors}
  ([2017]{.self-citation-year}) [Osteology of *Galeamopus pabsti* sp.
  nov. (Sauropoda: Diplodocidae), with implications for neurocentral
  closure timing, and the cervico-dorsal transition in
  diplodocids]{.self-citation-title}. [PeerJ]{.self-citation-journal}
  [5]{.self-citation-volume}:[e3179]{.self-citation-elocation}
  <https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3179>


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Two new sauropods in PeerJ today: Galeamopus pabsti (sp. nov) and Vouivria damparisensis (gen. et sp. nov.)