A couple of months ago, Darren (the silent partner in the SV-POW!

Go to Google and do a picture search for “natural history museum”. Here are the results I get.

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Here is the wonderful Brachiosaurus altithorax mount in its original location, in the main hall of the Field Museum in Chicago.

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On Monday we visited the Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah, the Cleveland-Lloyed dinosaur quarry, and sites in the Mussentuchit member of the Cedar Mountain Formation. Many thanks to Marc Jones for the photos.

We all remember Upchurch and Martin’s (2002) description of the Rutland Cetiosaurus , which remains by some distance the best British sauropod specimen in the literature; and the same authors’ (2003) survey of the genus Cetiosaurus . They concluded that nearly all of its many named species are either nomen dubia or misassigned, and that only C . oxoniensis is a valid, diagnosable species.

A simple picture post, courtesy of John Hutchinson’s tweets [first, second, third]: {.size-full .wp-image-10046 aria-describedby=“caption-attachment-10046” loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“10046” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/03/26/rearing-titanosaurs-of-the-egidio-feruglio-museum/bjqaynpcqaixaed/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/bjqaynpcqaixaed.jpg” orig-size=“1024,1540” comments-opened=“1”

Last time, we took a very quick look at YPM 1910, a mounted skeleton that is the holotype of Camarasaurus (= “ Morosaurus ”) lentus , in the dinosaur hall of the Yale Peabody Museum. Here’s the whole skeleton, in various views. Skip down to the bottom for the science; or just enjoy the derpiness. First, in anterior view: Here’s a more informative right anterolateral view.

Matt’s harsh-but-fair “Derp dah durr” / “Ah hurr hurr hurr” captions on his Giraffatitan skull photos reminded me that there is a sauropod with a much, much stupider head than that of Giraffatitan . Step forward YPM 1910, a mounted skeleton that is the holotype of Camarasaurus (= “ Morosaurus ”) lentus , in the dinosaur hall of the Yale Peabody Museum. Full details on this specimen next time!