Coelophysis | The Triassic Speed Demon
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- The Triassic is well-known for being a brutal time. Giant Pseudosuchians ran amok on land, while Phytosaurs claimed the waters, and harsh conditions in the form of severe droughts made sure that chaos thrived throughout Pangaea. Yet, in this seemingly hopeless world, where not even dinosaurs were safe, a small and fragile dinosaur was still able to survive and prosper. However, this seemingly harmless creature was also hiding a dark secret, that it was a cannibal!
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As a Diné (Navajo), I always think it's neat to hear dinos (like Dilophosaurus) & other prehistoric animals being found in & around our ancestral home.
Does that make them Diné-saurs?
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@@2degucitas no it's silver and turquoise.
I'm curious about your folklore and how your people would have interpreted the fossils they would have found. There is no way in hell someone didn't stumble upon what is indisputably a bone throughout your history while hunting or foraging in a wash or other eroded place where fossils emerge.
Also, the 'flocking' brings to mind migrating birds. You'll also see hundreds of birds, modern day, seemingly flying in great clouds. They aren't unified in any way - it's every bird for itself - but it seems the older, more experienced flock members seek out food sources while younger less experienced birds follow to take advantage. The result appears to be unified action.... I'd hate to be identified as weak or injured during the Triassic: could you imagine hundreds of these little Critters homing in on you to get a bite before "all the good stuff" is gone"
It would be like a school of land-dwelling Piranhas.
Well said. ✅
Coelophysis is basically the prototypical example of a Dinosaur. Hard to beat the OG, but 200 million years is such a difficult timeframe to imagine.
That would be Nyasasaurus
@@sqrt2295 how about Eodromaeus?
No, Dinosauria evolved a few dozens of million years earlier.
The funny thing is that Coelophysis wasn't unique at all, other several arcosaur groups developed a very similar body shape such as selesaurus lewisuchus,it still a mystery how exactly dinosaurs surpassed other reptiles at the end of triassic period, but the increase of humidity seemed to help the increase of dinosaur population.
@@An-kw3ec May not be very unique, but that's sorta the point; they're a very easy to recognize example of "a" Dinosaur because they have such broad traits. I wasn't necessarily inferring that they were the first Dinosaurs, just that most people would probably imagine a Coelophysis-like animal as the prototypical Dino.
Just looking at the Coelophysis and other 'Running Lizard' type early dinosaurs makes me think... you must have had feathers. The sheer surface area of these skinny bipedal creatures who cant curl up or huddle the ground to conserve heat like snakes or lizards immediately suggests some kind of integument would have been extremely handy, even if they were warm blooded.
Nowadays lack of evidence becomes evidence... Just cause a bunch of small and some medium theropods here and there, had feathers, we can find some paleo "artists" drawing every member of the clade like this. There's no evidence of feathers on this species that were not even dinossaurs.
Indeed
they were warm blooded
Thank you for sharing this well made doku on Coelophysis! BTW I read that Coelophysis, if caring after their eggs, would have eaten all those hatchlings that died while hatching or close there after, like some contemporary dinosaurs also do; and dead chicks occur with nearly every greater clutch. So, in that case, no real cannibalism, but just no wasting of protein.
There is a great deal of criticism of taxonomy for drawing a distinction, at the level of class (if people will shut up about referring to it as a 'clade' all the time), between dinosauria and aves. I am currently reading a book where yet another author does not recognise any separation between the two. However, until official taxonomic revision, this distinction exists, and I feel should therefore be observed. We all know that the only difference between a theropod and a bird is flight - probably. Taxonomy is full of foibles like this. It would be better to give it time to catch up, rather than be ignored - just so that we're all 'reading from the same page'.
I love that comment where you said the ones that disagree that they weren't pack hunters said that there's no evidence that they did that. there's no evidence of even what color they were so why would we know about their day-to-day lives. Yeah we can speculate but really why would so many be in one area if it was just because of a water source they would be spread out then. Hell maybe they were the trolls like you know games like rust where you get the zergs running around in a huge group. But they are not a clan or tribe. So maybe that's how they hunted in a large group with no leader or connection other than being hungry
I just woke up to a good vid
I always love Coelophysis.
Thank you very much.
Those Coelophysis found on Ghost Ranch may not have "roamed* together, but I'd bet they did *ride* together, then *died* together.
They were riders, providers...
The Jurassic atmosphere was not crystal clear like today. It was at least 10 times thicker and probably had an off color to it.
Thicker how?
@@pablolongobardi7240 samples of atmosphere extracted from amber were under pressure from 5 - 10 bars. Oxygen levels although not a significant difference in ratio when considering that each breathe of a specific volume of air would contain five times as much oxygen.
The heavy atmosphere theory especially at the lowest estimate would help explain why pterosaurs and other winged megafauna could fly. Considering physical test have been done at 1 atmosphere and most of these winged dinosaur models could not even properly glide when accurately built.
They also probably lived in New York
I imagine if they were indeed social it was less an organized pack and more an opportunistic mob like komodo dragons or sharks, they have a focused goal but there is no real social hierarchy or coordination just mobbing a weakened prey item. Once the prey was brought down it was every Coelo for itself with those large enough to muscle in getting to eat and smaller individuals getting scraps if lucky.
The large numbers of Celophisi might also have come together for mating.
I always imagine Coelophysis with feathers
It might’ve, but feathers were from the jurrasic. So I assume ceolophysis would’ve been more similar to lizards than birds
@@joeyjonquantaviusjr9927 true feathers, yes. Proto feathers are believed in to have evolved in the early Triassic
@@joeyjonquantaviusjr9927 who knows proto feathers already existed in the Triassic?
Instead of stupid imagination.... meditate....they were not stupid chikens. Even I can feel that.... dont be stupid.
@@gothboschincarnate3931 I never meant to say that but whatever you say
"...Once again raising beliefs that it was indeed a cannibal."
I mean, just about any animal will consider cannibalism when its normal food supply runs out.
My favorite dinosaurs are Spinosaurus and Triceratops
Up at Valley of fire I made an astounding spot of some tracks that were within 100 feet of the road that nobody had spotted. It is across from mouses tank parking lot with many other dino tracks if you know where to go at about 180-200 million. Navaho sandstone. It is the most astonishing area ever of an interdune lake. So I took pictures and sent them around even I knew they could only be coeolphysis. the buzz got around and we did big meeting up there and everyone was impressed. The eco system at the time was a VAST area of interdune lakes and the exact spot is well documented. problem is nobody spotted those tracks. but celio was in fact running all over the place. the spot dead center valley of fire is an amazing concentration of dino tracks within a few minutes walk.
What a great find!
@@2degucitas Tracks all over the place I simply got lucky "how could this be possible as if footsteps?" they are the largest tracks in valley of fire within its boundaries
@@jaysilverheals4445 Sounds awesome!
One of my favorite Triassic dinosaurs (2nd only to Gojirasaurus quayi)
Because of the large numbers found at Ghost Ranch, Coelophysis is the official State Fossil of New Mexico.
Maine gets a prehistoric pine tree, I'd say you're lucky. Especially since we have a pine tree as our state tree already 🤣
@@jeffheald8228, hey, New Mexico has a pine tree as the State Tree, too!
@@brianroberts783 I had no clue!
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Right after man-bear-pig.
I hate it when people refer to therapods as hunting in packs. Considering their relationship with birds, it should be flocks. But that's just me.
But packs sound cooler
Maybe it should be a murder as with crows
I personally don't think Coelophysis were pack hunters, they are very primitive in the dinosaur lineage and even the dinosaurs who were the most inteligent in later periods at the time would still have a bellow average inteligence compared to modern animals, they may have been social creatures tho
Good video :3
Entertaining and educational!
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I really like the simple editing.
Celophysis wouldnt have had feathers. It's FAR FAR FAR to early for any kind of proto feathers
1:41 awwwwwwwwwww
I'd love q detailed comparison between coelophosis and velociraptor
Too many coelphysis
23% oxygen & 8> degrees with fantastic Coelophysis with ingenuous truth and that's life hell on Earth 200 million years ago!
I thought the cannibal theory was disproven now?
Why do artists exaggerate dinosaur legs so much? In art they always seem so much "leggier" than their skeletons indicate. Not all artists, mind you. But many do.
Music was distracting. I do not like music in videos normally anyway, but more distracting than most videos I have watched from you.
Just amazing how many time machines are out there in use by these people claiming to be scientist, yet one can not find them readily available for purchase anywhere. 😭
Excellent.
I always imagine these small dinosaurs hunting in packs, easily able to take down larger prey.
some fo these clips were from wwd but what about the clip were they fight that triassic thing?
A lot of clips are from Prehistoric Planet narrated by Ben Stiller
Its from dinosaur alive!
They are plainly Skeksis.
Just add soiled frilly clothes.
And clearly, the gelflings killed them all.
Why do they portray coelyphysis with feathers
Fun fact: When it was first discovered, it was thought to be a species of coelurus
awesome video
Is there any evidence that it was feathered?
As far as I know there's no proof that Coelophysis had feathers.
Despite all the dinos killing and eating other bigger dinos I think most of them ate much smaller (boring) prey, and t-rexes eyes had to have been much larger than what is depicted today. They must present them smaller to make it looker bigger and scarier?
trex had massive eyes but they were mostly concealed by its eye lids. still large even with the eye lids covering part of the eyes.
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I like you videos, but they're way to short.
2;31, a foot, not a hand.
meep meep!
All speculation!
Hard dinosaur.
Teeth.
This is wrong it was a bird 🐦
its a dinosaur. birds are dinosaurs, dinosaurs arent birds. birds evolved in the jurassic.
if it was found with a juvenile in its mouth that doesnt necessarily mean it was eating the juvenile... crocodiles carry its own infants in its mouth... big cats do too.. if it died in a flash flood with its own juvenile in its mouth then that is why it is there
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Super great video. Loved it!
Never in the history of this planet has a flash flood ever wiped out an entire species.
who said that? it was stated a flash flood wiped out a bunch of them not the species
No one said that...
Flash flood that in a series of weeks that killed everything on earth. The flood bud
tripe
The yet undiscovered reality of dinosaur era is that the earth was swarming with animals in density we fail to realize. There was an overpopulation and the problem was not to find prey but to not fall prey to bigger predators that drove the gigantism. In all those animation you see very few species at the same time, which is incorrect. it literally was a population explosion, like high traffic hours 24/7. Sleeping was not an option and many animals were able to sleep standing like hens do. All the shields and horns were for protecting in an overpopulated earth. Also there were many dead animal littering the floor and the skin of dinosaur was thick to protect them from bacteria of decomposing flesh everywhere. The reason flight developed was not just to escape predators but to get away from the ground littered with dead animals spreading diseases. Almost all dinosaurs were scavengers. All this nonsense hollywood of dinosaur chasing and battling never happened. All they had to do to feed is scavage including T-Rex. And that is the true explenation for T-Rex ridiculously miniscule arms. Fights was only caused by pecking order, hunting was inexistant. Killing was unecessary, there was just to much abondance of rotting flesh.
Also was is poorly understand is that micro organisms were not yet as effective and fast as today. Metabolism too was more slow. It took months for dead large animal flesh to decompose. The challenges of survival were not hunting and fighting, that is a hollywood mistake. The real challenges were :
- Micro organism competing with Macro organism. Diseases and immune system evolution
- The evolution of a digestive system bacteria flora back when bacteria were much less efficient as today required much bigger quantities of food to produce energy than today. Driving the gigantism. The large teeth was mostly to scavenge to get sufficient protein. A race against time to sustain the huge bodies need in food. There was a strict pecking order between species and fights were avoided easily by abundant food and size drive pecking order.
Wildly speculative.
@@Dr.IanPlect ..and so is the so called consensus, it's only an assemblage of bs that is regularly proven totally wrong every decade or so.
@@goognamgoognw6637 I see your ignorance is wanton; muted.
@@Dr.IanPlect F u
whats with the stupid feathers? dinosaurs weren't chickens.
Feathers are idiotic.