Comments on: Whatever Happened to Seismosaurus?

By: siesmofan

siesmofan — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:14:40 +0000

I think its stupid that you think siesmosaurus, the king of the sauropods. Diplodicus is a wimp when compared to its huge cousin, yes they look similar, but doesnt tyrannosaurus and albertosaurus, and they are different dinosaurs, so yeah… diplodocus is gay, siesmo rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Jaime A. Headden

Jaime A. Headden — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:41:39 +0000

What Bill says is true. If we leave the species as it stands as valid, and it is not in fact just a large type of Diplodocus carnegii or Diplodocus longus; then it makes you wonder if we could just name those two species something else other than Diplodocus; the animals would never change themselves, nor their relationship to one another.

By: Bill Parker

Bill Parker — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:03:55 +0000

Leaving it as the same species demonstrates that it is believed by the revisors that S. hallorum is a valid diagnosable taxon, so why not just keep it as Seismosaurus? Generic names are fairly meaningless anyhow.

By: Seismosaurus « Sunlit Water

Seismosaurus « Sunlit Water — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:47:44 +0000

[...] over the years whatever became of it. Now Brian Switek has the answer with an interesting post explaining how it was determined that Seismosaurus was actually smaller than initially thought and [...]