You know how you’ll be doing an image search for some vertebrate fossil and you’ll get a page full of SV-POW!

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You can’t tell me that’s a coincidence. References Taylor, Michael P. 2018. Xenoposeidon is the earliest known rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur. PeerJ 6:e5212. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5212 Supplementary information It’s coming home.

I’m delighted to announce the publication today of my new paper “ Xenoposeidon is the earliest known rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur”. This is the peer-reviewed version, in my favourite journal PeerJ , of the manuscript that became available as a preprint eight months ago — which was in turn a formalisation of a blog-post from 2015.

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We all know that apatosaurines have big honkin’ cervical ribs (well, most of us know that). But did they also have unusually large neural spines? The question occurred to me the other day when I was driving home from work.

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