Australian Sauropod Skeletals

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Here are rigorous skeletals of all Australia's sauropods that I could find. I couldn't find any pics of the fossils of Austrosaurus mckillopi (although Mary and Elliot should be good enough, right?), and there's more material for Rhoetosaurus browneiDiamantinasaurus matildae and Elliot that I haven't added to the skeletals.

Top front: Diamantinasaurus sp. (via Poropat et al., 2016)
Top back: Diamantinasaurus matildae (Matilda) (modified from Hocknull et al., 2009)
Middle left: Savannasaurus elliottorum (via Poropat et al., 2016)
Middle right: Rhoetosaurus brownei (modified from Longman, 1926)
Bottom far left: Austrosaurus sp. (Mary) (© 2003 Steve Salisbury, modified)
Bottom left: Austrosaurus sp. (Elliot) (© 2003 Steve Salisbury, modified)
bottom right: Wintonotitan wattsi (Clancy) (modified from Hocknull et al., 2009)

Scale bars = 1 meter
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It's cool to see them all in one place. I hadn't realized how much smaller the second Diamantinasaurus specimen was! This makes me want to get back to work on those sauropod skeletals I have unfinished...

Some additional information on these sauropods: New material of the Diamantinasaurus type individual not figured by Hocknull et al. 2009 is known, including two dorsal vertebrae, a partial sacrum, a coracoid (originally described in part as a sternal) and a radius. Rhoetosaurus was a vulcanodont-grade sauropod so I'd recommend reconstructing its proportions after Barapasaurus, Spinophorosaurus, Shunosaurus, and/or Tazoudasaurus, with a shorter neck. There's a paper describing the partial hind limb of Rhoetosaurus, and mentions fairly substantial additional material of the type individual. I haven't been able to find the papers that describe anything else of it, unfortunately. Where did you get the image of its caudals?

Finally, just FYI, the Wintonotitan, Diamantinasaurus, and Savannasaurus skeletals are CC-BY which means you should cite the source if you use or modify them.