Outline: a typical early sauropodomorph
Seitaad
Type species Seitaad ruessi
- Lived
- 193 to 175 million years ago, Early Jurassic
- Group
- Early sauropodomorphs
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Sertich and Loewen 2010
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
185 million years ago
Field notes
About Seitaad
What it was like
Seitaad was an early relative of the giant sauropods, a small plant eater known from a skeleton without the head, neck or tail.
Its world
It lived in the Early Jurassic in what is now Utah. Its bones come from the Navajo Sandstone, which formed as a vast desert of sand dunes. The skeleton may have been buried by a collapsing dune. The small predator Segisaurus lived in the same desert.
How it was found
Sertich and Loewen named it in 2010. The type species is Seitaad ruessi. Its name comes from a sand monster of local legend.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Sauropodiformes
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. J. W. Sertich and M. A. Loewen. 2010. A new basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone of southern Utah. PLoS One 5(3):e9789