Sound the clarion! It’s time to help SV-POW! once more!

I’m working on a paper about mounted rearing skeletons of sauropods, and I want to include figures that show various examples. To be included in a CC By open-access paper, it’s simplest if the photos are also CC By. But for some of the mounts I know about, I’ve not been able to find CC By images, or contact the owners of otherly-licenced images to ask for an exception.

So I am asking our loyal readers to help out by sending their own photos of the relevant mounts and licensing them CC By (taking new photos if necessary!). Obviously I will mention all contributors in the acknowledgements. You can comment here with links, or email [email protected]

Here are the ones I need (there may be more in future):

The Smithsonian’s subadult Camarasaurus

The smaller of the two skeletons in this photo:

This photo is by Ben Miller of Extinct Monsters, who I’m sure would be happy to licence it, but it’s … well, it’s not very good. It has the mount in question as a bit-player, and it’s from an angle that doesn’t do a great job of capturing the rearing. Can anyone do better?

The Houston Museum’s Galeamopus

This photo is from Facebook with no license specified — posted by the museum itself, but in my experience I’ve not been able to establish good communication with its staff. If anyone in and around Houston has a good photo, that would be great!

The Australian Museum’s Jobaria

This is in Sydney. The photo is from Wikimedia, but it’s CC By-SA, and I can’t find a way to contact the uploader or photographer.

The University of Zurich’s “Diplodocus“

This one is an oddity. The photo I have here seems to be the only one of the exhibit on the whole Internet. It’s from a Reddit post by a user (EmptySpaceForAHeart) who has been banned, and is consequently uncontactable. So if anyone has, or can find, or can take, another photo of this skeleton, that would be great!

That’s it for now! Thank you, all!

Thanks to everyone who’s contributed! I now have decent CC By photos of the Smithsonian juvenile Camarasaurus (from Matt Wedel) and the Houston Galeamopus (from Ben Miller). I have a promise of photos of the Zurich baby diplodocid (from Tom van der Linden) when he visits there shortly. And the photographer of the Australian Museum Jobaria has replied to my comment on the Flickr page. So it looks like I’m all set!

Thank you all.

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