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I plan on redoing the texture to make it more detailed etc. Should have more wrinkles
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I have 2 questions with regard to Alamosaurus biogeography and ecology:
1) Did Alamosaurus make it into eastern North America (Appalachia) in the latest Cretaceous? This one may be hard or impossible to answer at this moment. AFAIK no sauropod remains have ever been found of the latest Cretaceous in Appalachia. All sauropods fossils there predate the (25-30 million year) sauropod hiatus, i.e. they are early-mid Cretaceous, not Campanian or Maastrichtian.
Since the Western Interior Seaway (WIS) closed around mid-Maastrichtian, and Alamosaurus appeared around that time or even just before, one would expect them to have migrated eastward as well.
2) I have seen mentioning of an ecological analysis stating that at any one given time there would have been a population of at least 350,000 (adult and sub-adult) Alamosaurus in (western) Texas. What is the source of that information, i.e. does anyone know the article/paper?
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1.) no way to know. It would likely be possible.
2.) no clue
3.) already was in my favorites
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This dinosaur could eat people if it wanted to.
Is this scaled to the Mexican specimen?
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It is tibialamo
brachiosaurus is coming soon btw
any advice for the skin texture?
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Alamosaurus skin texture is good with the studs, maybe adding few smaller ones would make it richer.
For Brachio, I doubt it had any osteoderms. Aside from the typical semi-microscopic speculative quill row behind the head that everyone puts on sauropods now 
I'd bulk up the hindlimbs too, the shins and feet look a bit thin, like a Hartman set of sauropod legs. Nothing against Scott, but the "drumstick" look just isn't all that believable in my book.
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Thank you
I'm not too sure bout green sauropods. Perhaps if moss grew on their skin, but I don't think they would have the pigments for a green hue (maybe a very dull green).
If you were to go on discord I might post real time updates of brach, I will consider bulking up the legs more.
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Well considering that both birds and reptiles do have some species with green scales or feathers, I expect some green non-avian dinosaurs too.
Of course we don't have any pigments from sauropods so we sill have room for a lot of artistic license there. Something about green Giraffatitans, I just can't give up. But again without preserved scales we're all making educated guesses at best. I don't think all or even most sauropods were green, just certain species depending on climate.
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It looks amazing but im not sure im a fan of the color scheme... You should go for you old Alamo colors they'd look pretty good
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cheer up
Toast will either keep it's colors or donate them to argentino
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Im so confused, Im talking about this Alamosaurus sanjuanensis 9/9/16
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it's between bronze and olive
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The human is actually 1000x bigger than the sauropod, it just appears smaller because it is far away.
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