Yes I *still* have more photos to come from the Tokyo Dino Expo 2011, and it’s nice to get back to the sauropods. More specifically this sauropod, the rarely seen Nigersaurus. One of the rare and unusual rebbachisaurs the characteristic lawn-mower type skull s really rather obvious here, and the neck is pretty short and reminiscent of the dicraeosaurs. For me this was really nice to see as I’d yet to encounter any material or a mount of any member of this group, so even just a general feel for the proportions and to see a few details was nice.
very neat – makes me long for my laser digitizer!
Well that mount is entirely a cast / mould but it looked superb.
Heinrich,
There is a fair amount of Nigersaurus already digitized and freely available on DigiMorph.
thanks, Mike, but that’s nothing more than the boring parts (i.e., skull and mandible).
Not so! There is a very nice C5, for example: http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Nigersaurus_taqueti/C5/
Funny you should capture the head of a Hadrosaur with that picture. I was just thinking how the mouth almost looked like a duck on Nigersaurus.