Category Archives: “Prosauropoda”

China 2014 part 1

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Heinrich Mallison

My colleague Michael Pittman is a young, ambitious and smart researcher who has done some very nice work on tail stiffness in archosaurs. Now, Michael has a grant going for a project that expands on his previous work, and there … Continue reading →

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A wonderful Plateosaurus drawing

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Heinrich Mallison

Currently, I am horribly busy and thus not able to blog much. But here I have something that I must show you, now that I have finally managed to scan it. click for larger size Last fall I received this … Continue reading →

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Holding hands with Plateosaurus

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Heinrich Mallison

Although I did not start my professional career in palaeontology as a dinosaur researcher, but (can you believe it?) as a palaeobotanist, the Upper Triassic basal sauropodomorph dinosaur Plateosaurus engelhardti from Central Europe has been accompanying me for a very … Continue reading →

Posted in "Prosauropoda", 3D modeling, anatomy, Biomechanics, classic CAD, Digitizing, Dinopics, Dinosauria, locomotion, Navel gazing, Open Access, papers, Plateosaurus, Sauropodomorpha, Tübingen | Leave a comment

A wonderful Plateosaurus watercolor

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Heinrich Mallison

Last fall, on my big US round trip that ended with the SVP meeting, I spent a few days in New York, working on photogrammetrizing oviraptors (two links) at the AMNH. One evening I spent with the incomparable Gary Vecchiarelli … Continue reading →

Posted in "Prosauropoda", Dinopics, Dinosauria, FUN!!!, Palaeoart, Plateosaurus, Sauropodomorpha | 2 Comments

the science behind the sneak previews part 1

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Dieser Beitrag auf Deutsch. Today, I’ll finally explain a bit about the sneak previews I recently posted. All goes back to a crazy idea I had a long time ago, which I have elaborated on publicly for the first time … Continue reading →

Posted in "Prosauropoda", 3D modeling, Digitizing, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, locomotion, Plateosaurus, Sauropodomorpha, SIMM | 4 Comments

Another science sneak preview update

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Dieser Beitrag aud Deutsch. It has been deathly quiet here, because I was desperately trying to finish my paper. It was due on April 30, and that deadline wooshed by spectacularly. However, I managed to get the thing into a … Continue reading →

Posted in "Prosauropoda", 3D modeling, Biomechanics, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, Diplodocus, locomotion, mammal models, Mammalia, Plateosaurus, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, sneak previews | 9 Comments

Science sneak preview update

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Dieser Beitrag auf Deutsch. the fiddling pays off: hind limb muscles of Plateosaurus engelhardti, with some corrections made following hints from my colleagues Vivian Allen and John R. ‘The Hutch’ Hutchinson, and with wrapping objects in. This one is ready … Continue reading →

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Another science sneak preview

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Dieser Beitrag auf Deutsch. fiddling with a SIMM model. I am adding the wrap objects that make sure muscles do not run through bones or other muscles. And let me tell you: it is a bother!

Posted in "Prosauropoda", 3D modeling, Biomechanics, Dinosauria, Plateosaurus, Sauropodomorpha, sneak previews | 4 Comments

How not to do science

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Dieser Beitrag auf Deutsch. So there is a recent paper out in PLOS ONE by Georgi et al. They hypothesise that semicircular ducts scale closely with head size, testing this on dinosaurs. What’s a semicircular canal? Read up on it … Continue reading →

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Science preview elucidation

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

Yesterday I showed you a sneak preview on some research I am doing. That triggered some rather incredulous emails and private messages, especially after I hinted in a comment that the artificial track is from Plateosaurus. After all, Plateosaurus lived … Continue reading →

Posted in "Prosauropoda", 3D modeling, Digitizing, Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae, ichnofossil, Ornithischa, Ornithopoda, Plateosaurus, Sauropodomorpha, sneak previews, Theropoda, WTF? | 10 Comments

My early Xmas present to myself

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Today, I got myself this, courtesy of the 3D Lab (German homepage only, sorry) of the Department of Mathematics of Technical University Berlin. click for larger size

Posted in "Prosauropoda", 3D modeling, Digitizing, Dinopics, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, Plateosaurus, Sauropodomorpha, Tübingen | 7 Comments

Palaeontology of SW Germany 2.2: Keuper

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Previously, I gave a quick overview of the Buntsandstein and Muschelkalk in SW Germany, now we finally make it into the Keuper. Archosaur time! Luckily, SW Germany went dry again after the Middle Triassic, and the lowermost part of the … Continue reading →

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The end of an era

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

This weekend I am at the 18th Meeting of the Research Unit (Forschergruppe – FOR) 533 “Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: The Evolution of Gigantism” of the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG). It will be the last meeting, … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Dinosauria, FOR 533, Plateosaurus, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha | 8 Comments

It’s time for even more Plateosaurus! (prosauropod proportions)

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Yeah, it really is! It’s been an awfully long time since I last posted on that poor critter, in fact over six weeks, and this time I have some stunning visuals, courtesy of the go-to guy for skeletal drawings, Scott … Continue reading →

Posted in "Prosauropoda", 3D modeling, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, Plateosaurus, Sauropodomorpha | 4 Comments

Theropod Thursday 19: the mysterious “Frickopod”

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

The Sauriermuseum Frick in Frick, Switzerland, exists because of the Tongrube Keller in Frick is one of the three localities in Europe yielding large numbers of skeletons of Plateosaurus. I’ll show you some of the finds at the end of … Continue reading →

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