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Redescription of the cervical vertebrae of the Mamenchisaurid Sauropod Xinjiangtitan shanshanesisWu et al. 2013,

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DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1539970 Previous version (just the neck, and a slightly more creative scale): sta.sh/0f8pnmo8e0z

Mamenchisaurids have long been famous for their unusually long necks, even compared to other sauropods, with that of(~9.5m) being the longest known of any animal at the time of its discovery. While still extreme in relation to the total body length and in number of cervical vertebrae, new material and knowledge of sauropod diversity later revealed that some diplodocids and titanosauriforms most likely had even longer necks.Enter. Originally known from a couple of posterior cervicals, a complete dorsal series, pelvic and hindlimb material and two caudals - already decent material for a sauropod of its size-, further preparation discovered an almost complete caudal series, as well as a complete neck - and what a neck it is. Nearly 15 m in length, it blows all other species absolutely out of the water, not only in size but in state of preservation. Fragmentary remains suggest that some other taxa could have had similarly long or even longer necks, but while those measurements are naturally quite speculative, that ofis unquestionable.