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Effigia okeeffeae was an archosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico. The six-foot-long (2-meter) fossil was discovered by Edwin H. Colbert in blocks of rock from the Ghost Ranch Quarry, which were excavated in 1947 and 1948.
The fossil was rediscovered in January 2006 by graduate student Sterling Nesbitt at the American Museum of Natural History, who was looking for Coelophysis fossils. Nesbitt and Mark Norell, curator at the museum, named it Effigia okeeffeae in January 2006 after Georgia O'Keefe, who spent many years at Ghost Ranch (her ashes are scattered there).
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