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Franz-Josef73 — Navajo prosauropod
Published: 2013-09-11 06:00:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1171; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 0
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Quick sketch based on deformed foresets in the Navajo Formation in Capitol Reef National Park east of Torrey, Utah. One suggestion for such deformation is that dinosaurs walking in dune fields created slumps that carried into the subsurface. I imagined a prosauropod sliding down an early Jurassic dune like an elephant in today's Skeleton Coast and doodled this up.Related content
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prosauropods are allways nice to see in deviant art
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Thanks. It's actually the first one I've ever drawn.
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This is really cool prosauropod of the Navajo Sandstone, but this is now known specie named Seitaad ruessi of 2010. Seitaad is the derived generic name from the "Seit'aad", a Navajo mythological sand monster of the folklore who buried it's victims in the dunes, and the specific name honours Everett Ruess, a young artist, poet and naturalist, who mysteriously in 1934 while exploring in southern Utah.
True story.
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Wow. Thanks for the information! I hadn't ever heard of that dinosaur. Very interesting story!
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Yep, all part of the unnamed dinosaur.
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