#xenoposeidon

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Xenoposeidon (2026), soap ground etching with aquatint

The letter "X" from the series Nothing Left But Their Names. This print is available on my store.

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Bobby [Self Submission] via /r/ImaginaryMonsters http://ift.tt/2oUSHfw

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Samurid [Self Submission] via /r/ImaginaryMonsters http://ift.tt/2EXOce2

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Insectoid [Self Submission] via /r/ImaginaryMonsters http://ift.tt/2BWj7TD

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Xenoposeidon poneneukos

Source: http://everythingdinosaurs.weebly.com/xenoposeidon.html

Name: Xenoposeidon proneneukos

Name Meaning: Alien Poseidon

First Described: 2007

Described By: Taylor & Naish

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Sauropodomorpha,Plateosauria, Massopoda, Sauropodiformes, Anchisauria, Sauropoda,Gravisauria, Eusauropoda, Neosauropoda

Xenoposeidon, our other basal Neosauropod, was a dubious genus from the Berriasian age of the Early Cretaceous, about 145 to 135 million years ago. It was found near Hastings in East Sussex, from the Hastings Bed Group, in England. It is known from a portion of a vertebrae with unusual features, different from other sauropods, though it can be attributed as a sauropod. It couldn’t fit comfortably into any established Neosauropod group, and could have been a derived member of one of them, or a neosauropod of uncertain placement. Based on the bone, it may have been anywhere between 15 and 20 meters long and 9 and 4 meters tall (depending on whether it was like a brachiosaurid - the former set of numbers - or like a diplodocid - the latter set of numbers). 

Sources: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoposeidon

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/x/xenoposeidon.html

Shout out goes to alahannah!