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Published: 2012-07-31 23:48:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 469; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 5
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Description An unidentified titanosaurian sauropod I drew. Set in Late Cretaceous Alberta, Canada 70 million years ago.

Again It's speculation that there have been a sauropod living in the northern parts of North America during the Late Cretaceous.

Again the argument against it is that they were either too big or that those environments were too forested or swampy to support them.

But really, it's a sauropod it can just knock trees over they're the elephants of that day they make clearings and even other animals may have benefited from that. as for swamps or wetlands don't even go on the discussion that they were afraid to get their feet weet.

So really the only thing that they had to worry about were probably trees even bigger than them. But then again they were probably not clustered together.

Any yeah I know there is not a single sauropod specimen recovered from Canada so far but I am confident that there is.

Until then, it's just a speculation. Have a good one Eh.
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Eurwentala [2012-08-29 19:28:23 +0000 UTC]

Hello! I really like the composition here. It's nice that you dare to leave the head of the main creature off the frame: makes it even more clear how huge these animals were.

I'm not in any way an expert on sauropod of ornithopod anatomy, but some of the animal proportions look a bit weird to me. I don't think I have ever seen quite this long-legged and slender sauropods. If they are living further north than their known relatives - and thus, I suppose, in cooler climates - should they not be even more robustly built to conserve body heat? Though I don't know how cold it might have been.

The ornithopods have very nice poses, but is it just me or are their heads somewhat too big for their bodies?

Anyway, I hope you'll color this. It's a very nice scene.

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MoArtProductions In reply to Eurwentala [2012-08-29 20:09:27 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the critiques. Yes I got this alot and I keep telling people it's not perfect and I'm trying my best to improve thats how I learn to do better.

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Eurwentala In reply to MoArtProductions [2012-08-31 12:25:16 +0000 UTC]

Getting feedback from others seems to be the quickest way to improve. I'd claim I improved quite quickly after more experienced paleoartists started actively commenting my mistakes. You might still see some of the bad old ones in the last pages of my gallery, though I've deleted the worst.

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