RE:who made the Art?

[Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia <fabdalla@box.tin.it>]

<<Quite frankly, during my eight years in Iran, I never had any reason to
discuss dinosaurs, except during my visit to the the remote Triassic age
footprints and ripple marks some tens of kilometers from the city of Kerman
in Krerman Province.
Like my observations of Indian crocodiles in Iranian Baluchistan, these
accounts have become questionable, since my field notes and data were seized
by the  agents of the late 'Ayatollah Khomeini during the Iranian
Revolution. My measurements of juvenile crocodile footprints [hence,
hatchlings and a viable population], and my survey of tridactyl trackways
disappeared during the Iranian Revolution. Therefore, I have no scientific
proof regarding these matters.>>

Those footprints are early Jurassic in age and have been studied and
published. See LAPPARENT & DAVOUDZADEH (1972) - Jurassic dinosaur
footprints of the Kerman area, Central Iran. Geol. Surv. Iran. Rept. 26,
pp. 5-22.

I have a copy, thanks to the editor of Parineh.

The Islamic Revolution occurred in 1979.

Cheers,
Fabio
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Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia, PhD
Museo Paleontologico Cittadino
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