Everything Dinosaur confirms that it will be stocking the recently announced Haolonggood Sauroposeidon models.  These special figures will be supplied with a base, a sixty-centimetre-tall model tree and two pterosaur figures.  In addition, each box will include a full-colour Sauroposeidon poster.  Once the initial batch run of these figures have been sold, the Sauroposeidon figures might be made again, but the accessories will not be included.

The models are:

• HLG-185a Sauroposeidon Qing Shu Bao
• Product code HLG 185b Sauroposeidon Xv Mao Gong
• HLG 185c Sauroposeidon Heterochromatic version

The three Haolonggood Sauroposeidon models. HLG-185A (left), HLG-185b (centre) and HLG-185c the Heterochromatic version (right).

To view the range of Haolonggood figures in stock at Everything Dinosaur: Haolonggood Prehistoric Animal Models.

Three Haolonggood Sauroposeidon Models

Each Haolonggood Sauroposeidon model measures fifty-one centimetres high.  They are beautifully detailed sauropod figures. It is ironic that a model tree will be supplied with the initial production run, as when the fossilised bones were first discovered they were so big, they were thought to represent petrified wood.  This Early Cretaceous sauropod from North America is known from several fragmentary but partially articulated fossils.  Size estimates vary, but it has been suggested that this dinosaur could weigh more than forty tonnes.

The genus name translates as “Earthquake Lizard God”, a reference to its huge size and the Greek god Poseidon. Furthermore, it is the state dinosaur of Texas.

The HLG 185c Sauroposeidon Heterochromatic version rearing up to reach the top of the tree. Each Sauroposeidon figure stands 51 cm tall.

It was initially thought to be a brachiosaurid and closely related to Giraffatitan and Brachiosaurus. However, more recent analysis suggests it was more closely related to titanosaurs. It was scientifically described by Wedel, Cifelli and Sanders (2000). One species is currently recognised – Sauroposeidon proteles.  Sauroposeidon was one of the last known sauropods from the Early Cretaceous of North America.  Sauropods seemed to have become extinct in North America for some forty million years until their reappearance in the United States fossil record with Upper Cretaceous remains assigned to Alamosaurus.

To read an earlier article from Everything Dinosaur about this huge sauropod: The Amazing Sauroposeidon.

Sauropods could have remained in America, the lack of fossil evidence could be explained by a sampling bias or an absence of exposed surface strata that preserve remains. In the original scientific paper, the authors pointed out that the demise of sauropods from North America predates the radiation of flowering plants.  The extinction (if any) could not be as a result of the evolution of angiosperms.

This batch of Haolonggood Sauroposeidon model will be supplied with a sixty-centimetre-high tree model, two pterosaur figures and a full-colour Sauroposeidon poster.

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Mike from Everything Dinosaur commented:

“These three sauropod figures are splendid. They will be in stock soon.  However, only the initial production run for these figures will come with the accessories”.

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