>>4751977>as I've said twice now, the bones easily allow movement of the head to the groundNot the extent where they could eat like a goat
>sauropod necks are usually found contorted into positions that you say they couldn't achieve in life
Because they're dead, duh. Many humans were found in positions that were impossible to get alive.
>The Morrison Formation was almost entirely savannah, and it's reasonable to assume the many sauropods there were grazing on it at ground leve
Savannahs host tall trees that could be plucked. If there werent, giraffes wouldn't roam the Serengeti.
>the posture of the head is assumed based on the range of motion of that atlas/atlantal intercentrum joints combined with the angle of the semicircular canals, which only indicates the NORMAL posture,
NOT the range of possible postures.
Pure speculation, that doesn't consider the musculature and vascular system which in sauropods was so huge many theorized they had secondary hearts in the neck.