Erythrosuchids: Bobble Headed Predators
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- Erythrosuchidae (meaning "red crocodiles") are a family of large basal Archosauriform carnivores that lived from the Early to Middle Triassic. Among the first Sauropsid apex carnivores, these reptiles essentially moved into the niches once occupied by the Gorgonopsid Therapsids during the Permian. With their massive skulls and sharp teeth, Erythrosuchids were ambush hunters, targeting large Dicynodonts and smaller Archosauromorphs. By the Late Triassic, they had been replaced by the true Archosaurs.
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Bruh, this is literally what dinosaurs were supposed to look like back in the 1850s
Yeah you're certainly right about that!
This animal is basically a trex head on a crocodile body.
Erythrosuchus shall be my Mount into Battle
It's crazy how much these look like the super early reconstruction of Megalosaurus.
No kidding. These guys feel like they were born from the misconceptions what people thought dinosaurs were. Big meaty lizards.
I feel like Late Permian/Early Triassic animals are what you get when you push the slider on a character creator to only the maximum or minimum.
Spore epoch yh
The triasic period. Were nature was drunk while designing the wild life.
Absolutely! Seems to be what happens after a terrible mass extinction.
You should have seen the Cambrian animals
@@RandomPerson8492 don’t you dare criticize my boi animolocaris
Especially when you compare these to the later rauisuchians who seemed much more refined than the erythrosuchids.
@@dr.polaris6423 like the crocodilians taking yet another shot at the land based predator slot, before loosing it,.yet again.
A very interesting line of development. They almost looked like frog heads on lizard bodies in the earliest forms, adapting from there.
They certainly are strange looking!
Evolution is wild. You just take a Starting point and make it work or die.
They have the special hunting adaptation of making their prey to be too busy laughing to escape.
The terrible bobbleheads
Sounds like a great band
I know right.
I get the feeling they were designed to swallow huge hunks of tissue or even entire bodies of lesser animals allowing them to eat in minutes and amble away thus avoiding fighting over left overs or just being out right attacked.
Tazzy devil style!
The notch on the upper jaw seems to be a favorite adaptation for many archosaurs.
Thanks for letting me know of these amazing creatures.
No problem!
Wow I did not know that these creatures even existed! Thanks for showing the extremely obscure prehistoric creatures
I think its a really important time in prehistory, I think they can tell us a lot about the transitional ecosystem of this time, this era is a bit of a blank, and its kinda nice to see where all these archosaurs fall within the progression of the triassic, its amazing how there's so many ecosystems throughout the triassic, and its not til the very end that we have a more clear picture of what's to come
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Thanks a lot for sharing this - made my evening!
When God asked them "how large head should I give you?", Erythrosuchids said "YES"
i have enormous respect for you!!!
what a crazy example of convergent evolution, a quadraped reptile with the head of a large therapod dinosaur.
Baby animals in Minecraft be like
WHAT'S WRONG?
Does this guy actually have a doctorate? He goes into enough depth to make me think so.
I'm actually a PhD student at the moment!
The Trassic period is basically nature on all the drugs on earth.
im still genuinely curious how cotylorhynchus even functioned with such a small brain to body ratio, its intelligence was probably more like an arthropod than a stem mammal.
We got an pin headed stem mammal and then an bobble headed archosaur. Either God is drunk if you are religious or is evolution drunk or having an sense of humor.
@@andrewgan557 the aliens, used child drawings as there base this time.
Many early terrestrial Tetrapods look like the drawings of a four year old brought to life.
Not really that unusual for very large herbivores/filter feeders to not be that smart. Are exceptions, but when you don't have to worry about predators or hunting down food, don't need to expend that much energy into brain size (very very energy hungry organ, at least our species expends 20% of our energy into it). Doesn't mean they were necessarily dumb as rocks, are instinctual behaviors that seem more primitive/ widespread than it would seem, but yeah, wouldn't count on it being even small mammal or shark esque smart
@@andrewgan557 "Who you callin' pinhead?"
Okay, what wiseguy put the T-rex skull on the komodo dragon body?
i love learning new things.
Ok being a monster girl of erythrosuchus would be an amazing thing as in monster musume or monster musume dr
t-rex head on a chubby skinks body
Idk about u doc but watching your videos always brings me back to "The future is wild" because I wonder so much, especially with the change of land scapes across the globe by humans, what will evolve in the future. In my home nation of canada I get a glimpse at such changes threw the coywolf as many call it. A hybrid of coyote and wolf. Its smaller yet keeps the stamina and teeth, yet also has increased its brain size. Well "Hybrid" is often used as a dirty word, I see it as evolution simple given opportunity due to unique circumstance created by humans.
Fascinating! That's the beauty of speculative evolution. Lots of room for imagination.
Evolution is a slow mutation usually forced by a changing ecosystem. Man so quickly changes ecosystems that extinction is far more likely than evolution.
Great video! But don’t forget to credit the artists of the paleo art.
That was my mother.
@@davidrichard3582 That’s amazing!! She’s a talented lady, you must be proud (I’d be). Also, I’ve *never* gotten that answer on that before, lol.
Well, well, the kids only care about dinosaurs, and when you get old, you care more about synapsids, parareptilians and/or more exotic evertebrate critters. It's tough for the erythrosuchids how we humans relate to extinct critters.
he's a chunky boi
Alright. I think this is the animal I have issues accepting to have existed. Nature came up with weird stuff that I am fine with. Big headed gator thing though is not sitting right with me.
You have to accept it, we have platypus.
@@serpentinewolf7085 This is true
When I was a kid, Euparkeria was called a "thecodont". Is that still a thing?
hehehe. They look oddly pettable, though I'd probably get my hand chomped. Reminds me quite a bit of tasmanian devils though
Can you do the Carolina butcher crocodile that was as big as a T. rex and walked just like one but a bit more up right
It was 3m bro.
@@rosaderosa648 what do you mean it was 3m I do t get it
@@Bake-kurijra It means that is it's 300cm long.M=3,3 foot and meter long.
@@rosaderosa648 so is that larger then T. rex or smaller
@Jesse Mathis so was the Carolina Butcher smaller hmm I always thought it was bigger well very strange but still it would be nice of him to do a video on it would you not say so
Do you think they developed such big heads as a convergent response to the Dinocephalians who came before them like Anteosaurus?
Dinocephalians' heads weren't as proportion ally large as the heads of Erythrosuchids.
@@eybaza6018 some definitely were big, like Anteosaurus
@@Kurotitan7125 I meant proportionally to the rest of the body, not general body size as I'm aware of Anteosaurus (and Titanophoneus's because most Paleoart of it portrays the juvenile specimens) size.
Ever considered doing a video on the fellow archosaur relative euparkeria?
Those beats remembers me to a giant Tegu...
Bacana demais este canal.
The archosaurs emerged during an age when mammaliformes were dominant. Makes me wonder if crocodilians couldn’t evolve and diversify until mammals are once again driven underground and we end up with bipedal warm-blooded therapod-like crocodilians and massive, perhaps long necked quadrupedal herbivorous crocodilians millions of years from now.
TRex school of oversized heads full of dangerous teeth lol.
Why are they called red crocodile?
Big brain time
How could such a huge head offer evolutionary advantage? Unless that big ol' head was housing a big ol' brain.
They look like Spaniels, with the heads of Wolf Hounds.
It seems Erythrosuchids have a lot of features that would become the hallmarks of later archosauriformes and eventually true archosaurs.
You: "Guchengosuchus is one of the earliest archosauriformes"
*Archosaurus, an archosauriform that existed before the permian extinction, would like to know your location.*
they look like either an bobble head or someone attach an therapod dinosaur head on an crocodile.
I also noticed how you sort of moved away from Erythosuchids and entered Euparkeriidae a bit. Looks like Erythrosuchids were too boring for you! :P
Not too much more to say about them really. They are known from scrappy fossil material and Euparkeria and kin are fairly close relatives of them.
onebitesatietosaurus or instasatietosaurus
Cool
I have a hard time believing this is a real animal. Are they certain they didn't mix up two different species fossils?
Articulated remains of Erythrosuchus itself are known.
Yeah, it really looked this strange. So did most of the lineage.
Looks like Gon from Tekken 3 irl
Big head = good
First
Who cares?