Two New Sauropod Dinosaurs coloring pages

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Today's new drawings are of two newly discovered Sauropod Dinosaurs.

Gnatalie the Sauropod Dinosaur

Ganatalie is the name given to a fairly recently discovered Sauropod dinosaur. Gnatalie was found in Southeastern Utah and was around 75 feet long.  It is related to the well-known Sauropod called Diplodocus.  It was long and slender but still huge.  

The humorous nickname for this dinosaur came from the many gnats that harassed the excavation team the first year of the dig.  I *+assume they brought repellent the other several years.  Yes, it took several years to excavate this huge dinosaur.  The gnats I drew harassing the dinosaur are actually scientifically correct.  Gnats first evolved in the middle Triassic Period millions of years before the first dinosaur appeared.  

 I suspect this dinosaur was found in a bend of a Jurassic river where dino carcasses washed up 250 million years ago.  There were other species besides Gnatalie so it was hard to get the assemblage right. In fact, the Gnatalie fossilized skeleton on display at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History is a composite of two individuals. 

Now, the most unique part is that it is thought that subterranean igneous activity acted on these fossilized bones and turned them green.  So this is a green dinosaur.  At least it's fossilized skeleton is green. 

Qunkasaura

The second dinosaur is another fairly recently discovered Qunkasaura.  It lived in what is now Spain on the shores of what is now the Mediterranean Sea.  Qunkasaura was a type of Titanosaur.  It was 65 feet long and had a weight of around 15 tons.  Several South American Titanosaurs were much bigger.  But 65 feet long is not exactly small.  Titanosaurs were the biggest of the Sauropods.  But Qunkasaura was not among those gigantic Titanosaurs.  

The scientific name is Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra.  The species name is from a character in the classic Spanish novel Don Quixote. The Genus name comes from the name of a nearby village and the Latin word for lizard. 

I should add that the Pterosaurs in these two drawings are types of Rhamphorhinchus.  

NOTE:  These drawings can be found in printable form by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology" and then scrolling down to the bottom of the Mesozoic section.  Have fun coloring the drawings of these two relatively new Sauropod dinos.