Late Triassic Connecticut by adorety
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Description
This is a landscape conception of the Connecticut region from the late Triassic. The area was much further south and east of its present location. The continents were beginning to break from being one landmass just before this time and by the end of the Triassic, a rift formed between the borders of the North American/European plates and the South American/African plates that would become Gondwana in the south and Laurasia in the north. Gondwana was made up of Africa, South America, India Australia and Antarctica while the north was North America, Europe, Eurasia and Asia.
In the swamp lands of Connecticut at this time, the crocodile like phytosaurs called Rutiodon are well known from fossil finds as is the small prosauropod, Anchisaurus. There are numerous fossilized trackways in the region, but no one has definitively identified what type of dinosaur(s) they may belong to. Suggestions range from Dilophosaurus or a relative, to, possibly, a species of Plateosaurus. Hopefully more finds will appear and fill in the blanks. Flora fossils from this region and era show cycads, ferns, conifers, horsetails and rushes.
On another note, I apologize for not keeping up with comments. I've been very busy with a music project that is finishing up and have a new client for the studio at this time and these have been taking up a lot of my spare time along with fall clean up and the now inevitable holiday party/travel planning.
Comments (15)
iborg64
A really excellent quality scene the vegetation is very well done and the water looks top notch .I do like the POV you've used like flying over with in a helicopter.
Madbat
Actually, that's a dead ringer for my back yard right now. Dratted thistles...
Tracesl
excellent
rajib
Splendid creation. Looks really good.
Paulienchen
ein sehr schöner Render
crender
Wow Outstanding
jmb007
bien
eekdog Online Now!
Well done.
Ken _Gilliland
great image
RodS
An amazing work on the older version of Connecticut, Art! I have to wonder what Triassic Missouri looked like... Probably the bottom of a sea. It's pretty common around here to pick up a chunk of limestone and find all kinds of tiny fossils - mostly plants, but sometimes you'll see things like tiny hydras and such, or maybe a trilobite if you're really lucky.
I see RL is keeping you hopping, too - but that's cool about the music and studio! Maybe someday I'll get something going and tell this infernal day job to kiss off! :-D
rhol_figament
Great looking image and awesome work on the flora... :)
saphira1998
very great
flavia49
marvelous
BellaDark
This is stunning, Art. The warm, golden light, the reflections in the water... the foliage too. SO realistic. GREAT work.:)
Savage_dragon
That looks like the exact spot where I once spent the night on the Texas Louisiana border in 1979 where I got bit by mosquitoes the size of small dogs. I still carry a scar on my ankle from one. Pretty realistic to invoke such memories.