Darren Naish has noted a common error in books of the late 20th century to depict "Barosaurus" as a kind of brachiosaur-like short tailed dinosaur with raphes on its neck and body, and often curving the upper half of its neck downwards into a U-shape, citing it as an example of a Palaeoart meme. This originated with a drawing by Robert Bakker in a 1968 article, which in which two "Barosaurus" appeared to have short tails due to a mix of foreshortening and one obscuring the other.