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A. altus is poorly known, but not as poorly known as A. fragillimus: it was first described for vertebrae, a pubic bone and a femur (Cope 1878), but a scapula, coracoid, ulna and partial skull were later referred to it.
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) Darren Naish 2007
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A. altus is poorly known, but not as poorly known as A. fragillimus: it was first described for vertebrae, a pubic bone and a femur (Cope 1878), but a scapula, coracoid, ulna and partial skull were later referred to it.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Some sources note that "alt" is derived from the Latin word "altus," which means "high," referring to the rising yeast.
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Based on these remains, A. altus was similar in size to Diplodocus carnegii and probably around 25 m long (Paul 1994a, b), and it is particularly interesting among diplodocoids in that its femora were markedly elongate and slender.
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) Darren Naish 2007
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Some workers have regarded A. altus as particularly close to Diplodocus, in which case it would be a diplodocid diplodocoid, and probably a diplodocine diplodocid diplodocoid.
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) Darren Naish 2007
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Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writer Unboxed’s CONTEST, CONTEST! 2007
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In fact it strongly resembles the vertebrae of the first named species of Amphicoelias, A. altus, which Cope described in February 1878.
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) Darren Naish 2007
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Carpenter argues in his new paper that, in fact, A. fragillimus seems to have differed from A. altus in a number of anatomical details, and that the two might not have been congeneric after all.
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) Darren Naish 2007
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Several authors have thought so, and in fact have gone so far as to state that ‘it is doubtful … if the characters described by Cope warrant the placing of the type [of A. fragillimus] in another species different from A. altus’ (Osborn & Mook 1921, p. 279), or ‘there is no reason not to consider [A. fragillimus] a very large individual of A. altus’ (McIntosh 1998, p. 502).
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
biocon commented on the word altus
L altus (adjective) = 1. high, lofty; 2. deep; 3. profound (wisdom); 4. loud, deep (sound); 5. intense (heat, cold); 6. thick (fog); 7. high-born; 8. tall; 9. shrill; 10. noble; 11. deep-rooted; 12. far-fetched.
July 30, 2011