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Paleo-King In reply to Majestic-Colossus [2018-01-11 05:28:52 +0000 UTC]

Taylor's is basically a kitbash of GSP's "Giraffatitan" (which is largely HMN SI for the neck, not a true Giraffatitan, hence the shorter neck) with a longer tail and torso to fit with the B. altithorax material. Hartman closely follows Taylor. Mine is scratch-built from the ground up.

Though I do admit, when I first saw this, I thought Paleop did base it on my skeletal. Taylors (as I recall) had a shorter neck.

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Majestic-Colossus In reply to Paleo-King [2018-01-11 12:54:32 +0000 UTC]

I also thought he had used your skeletal when I first saw it. One good thing about Taylor's skeletal is that it shows a neck curvature, which appears to makes sense, in my opinion. At least when it comes to brachiosaurids. I'm okay with Hartman's view on necks but... I don't know, it just seems like this posture fits them better.

Also, Taylor's skeletal doesn't give the impression of size as well as in your skeletal, I guess it's not as tall at the shoulder or something. I also suspect it looks slimmer than yours, correct me if I'm wrong. 

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Paleo-King In reply to Majestic-Colossus [2018-01-12 04:48:23 +0000 UTC]

Taylor's version uses a GSP Giraffatitan neck and tilts it down a bit.  Due to a few scaling discrepancies in the neck and forelimbs it looks lower to the ground than mine. The humerus is eroded at the bottom end so it needs a bit more length, and the lower arm too seems to be underscaled (again, from a GSP Giraffatitan clone). I don't blame Dr. Taylor, because he is very busy and probably didn't have as much time to build his skeletal as I did for mine. Also I edited mine a few times after finding more data and specimens to fill in some gaps.

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