Now, in present gravity, that is the way weight has to be supported. In past ages, however, that would not seem to have been the case:
Your problem appears to be that you're looking at the wrong kind of architecture. Here's your seismosaur skeleton again:
and here's a cantilever bridge:
Hrm, how about that? High arched back supporting a neck cantilevered by tendons connecting it to the tail. Of course the seismosaur isn't an arch. That's only evidence for lesser gravity if, like the Romans, your architectural thinking is stuck in the Bronze Age.