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Boy, I haven't done these for a while. Skeletal reconstruction iguanodont Jinzhousaurus yangi.

This has been loong time coming. I think I actually started this one shortly after the description of postcranial skeleton was published. I love iguanodonts. Always wanted to make skeletal of one, so when the full skeleton was finally described I jumped to the chance. It laid dormant in my WIP folder till today. I had to delete some files as I was quickly running out of memory, and photoshop wouldn't stop reminding me of it. Anyways I came across what was essentially almost done skeletal. I had to just trace some bones and and silhlouette and tadaa it was done! So here it is, finally.

*Oh crap, forgot the ossified tendons! I knew I forgot something! arrgh, oh well they have to wait for now.

Now to get some coffee.

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:iconfranchescco:
Can you tell me how you do skeletal reconstructions?, thanks.
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:iconpilsator:
~pilsator Aug 6, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Awesome! And I also dig the posture.
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:iconzakafreakarama:
A 2010 study by A.T. McDonald, D.G. Wolfe and J.I. Kirkland shows that it was probably a very basal hadrosauroid, rather than an iguanodont. It really looks like the latter, though.
Awesome job as usual! :clap:
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:icondinomaniac:
yeah I know. I just often use iguanodont term out of convinience although I know that it's classification wise not a proper term. It's the same with ramphorhynchoids and prosauropods.
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:iconzakafreakarama:
Oh, so you use it in the most generic sense. That's fine; I'm a defender of the infraorder Iguanodontia. ;P

I knew about the prosauropods, by the way, but what happened to the ramphorhyncoids? They're not related to each other anymore?
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:icondinomaniac:
the same thing that happened to "Iguanodonts" and "prosauropods" :)
"rhamphorhynchoids" do not form a clade but a grade towards Pterodactyloidea.
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:iconzakafreakarama:
Oh, I see. They're paraphyletic because they evolved into pterodactyloids, who eventually replaced them, right?
Many paleontologists still use the word "rhamphorhyncoids" though, only to avoid calling them "non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs" (ugly!) ;P
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:iconemperordinobot:
What a totally average Iguanodont.
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:iconlpanzarin:
Very good! I like the pose too :-) Just a thing: shouldn't be the metatarsals slightly longer? (I know they're not preserved in the holotype, however, in derived ankylopollexian/basal hadrosauroids the metatarsal are always longer than 30% of the tibia)
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:icondinomaniac:
thanks! I nned to look into the metatarsal stuff but I have a distinct feeling that you are righ. It's weird because I used mantellisaurus pes a s reference and scaled it using it's tibia so there shouldn't be any problems there...but....metatarsi look awfully short. I need to look into this and see where I screwed up. Anyways thanks for the comments and critiques! Always apreciated! And oh welcome to deviantart!
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