Shunosaurus lii with a funky color pattern

I've given it spotty and stripey, earthy colours with a hint of green as a good camouflage for the dense forests of the lactustrine lower Dashanpu formation, where it would have needed to avoid large predators such as Yangchuanosaurus zigongensis, Leshansaurus and Kaijingosaurus.
It was a fairly modestly sized sauropod, at the size of an adult Indian Elephant, and would have inhabited a somewhat similar environment.
Besides it's small size, it was also built very compactly and robustly, something that is often overlooked in most reconstructions that just show it as a generic sauropod with a spiked tail club.
Contrary to popular belief, Shunosaurus did not have a large spiked tail club: instead, it only had a pretty small ossified bump at the end of it's tail without any projections. I have chosen to cover it in some keratin, and cover it's tail tip with loosely arranged lumps of keratin.

It's fossils have been found in groups of mixed ages, which seem to suggest it may have been a herding animal that moved in family groups.


References by ScottHartman, I do not own references used. www.skeletaldrawing.com/saurop…