Seitaad
| Seitaad Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | † Sauropodiformes
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| Genus: | †Seitaad Sertich & Loewen, 2010 |
| Species: | †S. ruessi
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| †Seitaad ruessi Sertich & Loewen, 2010
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Seitaad is a
Seitaad is known from an
cladistic analysis, presented by Apaldetti and colleagues in November 2011, Seitaad was found to be within Massopoda, just outside Anchisauria.[2]
Seitaad was first described by Joseph J. W. Sertich and Mark A. Loewen in
generic name is derived from Séít‘áád (Navajo language), a mythological sand monster from the Diné folklore who buried its victims in dunes. Seitaad appears to have been entombed by the collapse of a sand dune. The specific name honours Everett Ruess, a young artist, poet and naturalist, who mysteriously disappeared in 1934 while exploring southern Utah.[1] Seitaad is the second basal sauropodomorph dinosaur to have been identified in North America.[3]