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Bruhathkayosaurus. (Pencil Drawing touchups in photoshop)

Although it's described as a theropod according to various DML messages the description is poor and it is suspected by some to be a sauropod, if so probably a titanosaur. [link]

This image is highly speculative and asumes that it is a titanosaur.

It's proportionally based on leg bone measurements. The tibia is apparently 2m.

Other (unknown) leg proportions are based on other Titanosaur reconstructions and measurments suggested by palaeontologists at the Dinosaur Mailing Lists (~3m Femur, ~2.34m Humerus.)

The neck and tail lengths are completely speculative. (If Rapetosaurus and Saltsaurus are anything to go by it would have a shorter neck. These things vary a lot between species) Skull is also speculative.

Please note, this image is not ment to be taken too seriously this animal has been poorly described and is very fragmentry. This image is just to give and vague idea of size.

Some DML posts on this creature:

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I may change this some time as I have recently seen reconstructions for Saltasaurus and Rapetosaurus and both have a really short necks. The tail of saltasaurus is much longer then what I have drawn here, yet Rapetosaurs has a really short tail. So.........I'll probably leave that.

I have since come across Pauls skeletal of Argentinosaurus. If it is asumed that Bruhathkayosaurus had proportions similar to Argentinosaurus the torso would be about a meter longer.

I've seen skulls of a couple of titanosaurs (many incomplete) and they seem to have skulls slightly more diplodicus like, so I may change that.
That said, Malawisaurus seems to have a very boxy Camarasaurus-like skull.

Update: 2/8/09: I have changed the angle of the neck and tweaked some other things.

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:iconrsnature:
Wow, amazing details!
:iconsteveoc86:
Thank you, Its probably not very correct however as its so imcomplete, oh well :)
:iconrsnature:
Yes, but you gave uns a good idea how it may have looked.
:icondarkbinder:
woa¡¡¡¡amazing

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:icontharos222:
god details

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:icontharos222:
*good details :D

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:iconsteveoc86:
Thanks! and thanks for the other favs! :)
:iconpaleo-king:
Wow nice drawing! Really smooth with the shading. Though this preliminary version hardly looks like it could be the "biggest" dinosaur IMO.

It's about the same size as Argentinosaurus, Andesaurus, Argyrosaurus, and a half-dozen other gigantic titanosaurs - if not a bit smaller. They're ALL huge, no doubt, but if Bruhathkayosaurus is anything like what you've illustrated, it's not significantly bigger than any of the others.

I've seen it illustrated elsewhere (though rather crudely) as a legendary monster that towered over Argentinosaurus, and whose wrists were higher than a man's head... though again both interpretations are equally good or bad until somebody writes a much better article on the remains (with more precise measurements and scaled photographs instead of the lousy crude line sketches the authors provided).

Though I do notice he's a bit short-bellied and thin for a titanosaur (a big one anyway). The legs are really good, but Argentinosaurus had a very long and deep torso, and I'd guess this fella did too.

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