See Tyrannosaurus Take a Bite out of Alamosaurus
A Tyrannosaurus attacks an Alamosaurus. Courtesy of Michael Skrepnick.
Earlier this week, I wrote about how the sauropod Alamosaurus lived alongside and may have been preyed upon by Tyrannosaurus. At the time I could not think of any illustrations of Tyrannosaurus going after the long-necked dinosaur, but a few readers were able to find some.
Reader ian remembered seeing such a restoration in a children’s book, but he also pointed out an obvious example I had missed:
“Also, in the film Jurassic Park, the visitor center has the mounted skeletons of a tyrannosaurus and an alamosaurus fighting.”
I was also glad to hear from professional paleo-artist Michael Skrepnick. He had illustrated a confrontation between Tyrannosaurus and Alamosaurus in conjunction with paleontologist Scott Sampson sometime before the 2005 paper describing the co-occurrence of these dinosaurs. It looks just like I imagined.
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Well the Jurassic Park example isn’t correct. That is a cast of the very commonly casted and displayed skeleton of a juvie Camarosaurus (which has led to the misimpression that Camarosaurs are smaller than they are).
From what I understand the remains of Alamosaurus aren’t all that complete, and wouldn’t make the best skeletal mount without a LOT of fill in bones.
Comment by Traumador the Tyrannosaur — March 25, 2009 @ 3:35 pm
[...] record suggested that they were all but wiped out by the Cretaceous. (Alamosaurus, a sauropod that may have lived alongside Tyrannosaurus, was an exception.) As scientists have continued their research, however, it has come to light that [...]
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