How to View Moropus in 3D
Moropus 3D Viewer runs a Miocene clawed chalicothere mammal - not a dinosaur - length about 3-3.5 m (panel 3.3 m), shoulder about 2.4 m, mass about 1179 kg. Drag, zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person, and click a body region.
Open the Moropus page and take the camera
Open the Moropus 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit Moropus with the pointer and zoom with the scroll wheel or a two-finger pinch. Fullscreen expands the wrapper so the controls stay visible beside the scene. After first paint a license-clean CC-BY-SA 4.0 glTF may swap in automatically from the CDN; if that load fails the page stays on the procedural quadruped silhouette with zero regression.
Use the four Moropus controls under the canvas
Under the Moropus canvas, four controls handle view and scale:
- Fullscreen - fills the display while keeping the buttons visible
- Stop rotation / Auto-rotate - freezes or resumes auto-spin
- Idle motion - adds subtle body sway; tap again for Stand still
- Size vs human - shows a 1.8 m person at the honest panel length ratio used by the viewer (3.3 m within the about 3-3.5 m published range)
Read the Moropus facts panel and click a body part
The Moropus facts panel lists length about 3-3.5 m (panel baseline 3.3 m), shoulder height about 2.4 m for large M. elatus, mass about 1179 kg for one estimated specimen, the Miocene window about 20.4-13.6 million years ago in North America (panel 20-14), herbivore diet with large forelimb claws, and naming from Marsh 1877 (type species M. distans; M. elatus among the largest). A short click - not a drag - on a body region surfaces a short fossil fact. Soft-tissue color is an artistic reconstruction. When the CC-BY-SA 4.0 glTF by seth the yutyrannus via Printables loads, the status text notes a real model with that credit - a stylized reconstruction, not a laser scan. This model is not a fossil-accurate skeleton. Moropus was a Miocene chalicothere mammal with large forelimb claws - not a dinosaur. For another mammal on this site see the Ground Sloth 3D Viewer.
What the Moropus how-to guide is not
The Moropus how-to guide is a controls walkthrough for the in-browser viewer only - it does not place the model in your room (no AR), does not claim Moropus was a dinosaur, does not invent soft-tissue color accuracy, does not invent game score or win states, and does not claim the optional glTF is a scientifically exact reconstruction. For the size story see Moropus size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Moropus 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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