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English: A diagram showing the comparitive size of one of the more complete Alamosaurus specimens USNM 15560 compared to a human.
• Silhouette based on fig 11 in 'Lehman, T.M. & Coulson, A.B. 2002, which represents Alamosaurus specimen USNM 15560. . The Silhouette was scaled using the scale bar provided. The neck was reposed for ease of length comparison.
• Larger fragmentry titanosaur remains have been refered to Alamosaurus. They suggest that Alamosaurus could reach sizes comparible to Argentinosaurus and Puertasaurus .
• The human is scaled to ~1.80m.

References

  1. Lehman, T.M.; Coulson, A.B. (2002). "A juvenile specimen of the sauropod Dinosaur Alamosaurus sanjuanensis from the Upper Cretaceous of Big Bend National Park". Journal of Paleontology 76 (1): 156–172. DOI: <0156:AJSOTS>2.0.CO;2 10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0156:AJSOTS>2.0.CO;2.
  2. Fowler, Denver W.; Sullivan, Robert M. (2011). "The first giant titanosaurian sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of North America.". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (4): 685–690. DOI: doi:10.4202/app.2010.0105.
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