Mamenchisaurus revision

[TheMightyMegalosaurus]

Mamenchi in the film was pretty much a bootleg Barosaurus. And it's been depicted with a Brachiosaur-like stance for years.

The only major thing wrong is that it's still missing the club at the end of its tail.

 

[mysterydiseased]

TLW Mamenchi has always been tricky, because it wasn't intended to be the large sauropod in that scene (Apatosaurus), it seems as if it was a last minute decision to stretch out and repurpose the JP Brachi model and make a nondescript massive sauropod out of it.

I think that anyone requesting that film design should perhaps be requesting for another massive sauropod, Barosaurus, and role-play it as TLW Mamenchi. And for what it's worth, I'm not a big fan of JWE Mamenchi's design either. It needs a new rig, imo, but I'd take that over what the film version presents its appearance as.

Here's Barosaurus. (credit cisiopurple on Deviantart):

 

[Mjmannella]

Mamenchi in the film was pretty much a bootleg Barosaurus. And it's been depicted with a Brachiosaur-like stance for years.

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The only major thing wrong is that it's still missing the club at the end of its tail.

"Mamenchisaurus" in TLW was largely based on "Seismosaurus" (which is currently a junior synonym for Diplodocus), and the only reason why we call that individual Mamechisaurus was because of merchandise goofing up. Similar case for (pro)compsognathus

 

[gianfranco cembran]

"Mamenchisaurus" in TLW was largely based on "Seismosaurus" (which is currently a junior synonym for Diplodocus), and the only reason why we call that individual Mamechisaurus was because of merchandise goofing up. Similar case for (pro)compsognathus

senior synomym of diplodocus

 

[Erior]

senior synomym of diplodocus

No, junior synonym means it was named later; Diplodocus is a 1878 name, Seismosaurus is a 1991 name, so Seismosaurus is the junior synonym even if it was based on an adult Diplodocus. So, it is discarded as a name.