Alamosaurus

Perot Museum of Science Dallas, TX | 2012

This was the first large sauropod skeleton to be completely digitally developed. Scanned cervical vertebrae from the Perot Museum, scanned caudal vertebrae and forelimbs from the Smithsonian, and prepared and scanned fossil elements of a complete dorsal series, hip, fore and hindlimbs of an associated skeleton from Big Bend found by Wann Langston for the University of Texas, Austin were all used for the development of an Alamosaurus skeleton. The original fossil material from these three institutions had enough overlapping elements that we could confidently scale the elements to an accurate full scale skeleton of the largest Titanosaurus from North America.