Nicrosaurus: The Terrestrial Phytosaur
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 มิ.ย. 2024
- Nicrosaurus was a large predator from the Triassic Period, a time when dinosaurs were just beginning to evolve. It was a phytosaur, a type of reptile with a superficially crocodile-like appearance. Unlike the other phytosaurs, Nicrosaurus did not live like modern crocodilians, but waseither primarily or fully terrestrial.
Thank you to the themattalorian for narrating this video.
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00:00 - Introduction
00:35 - Species
01:15 - Archosauriformes
02:07 - Limbs
03:16 - Skull
04:05 - Teeth
05:58 - Relatives
07:19 - Metabolism
08:12 - Conclusion
08:39 - Outro
Land crocs are inevitable, even when its not an actual croc.
Crocs in general seem to be inevitable, even when they're not actual crocs.
You could say that crocs uhh, find a way.
It's cool how these animals look so similar to what dinosaurs were first thought to be like.
Nicrosaurus: "Where's my name? "
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The Triassic period be like "Look at all these specimens, all these devious little creatures, that thing over there sure is crazy right? See those two that look kinda similar? Completely unrelated, you've been had."
These animals are pretty badass and I love these videos
I always like the Triassic animals. Not only they are the weirdest but also one of the coolest!
I love how simple yet complex this creatures are. I love the Triassix persiod especially knowing the diversesity not only being a dinosaur filled time but all this other, how even species was evolving.
You spilled Triassic Triassic just letting you know
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Not only Phytosaur archosaurs evolved convergently to crocodilians but there is some indication that they practised parental care similar to crocodilians as well! I wonder why such a uniquely successful species went extinct suddenly at the end of triassic
Wow, never knew land phytosaurs existed!
I love the thorough analysis and relevant illustrations you show. Thanks for making quality content
Thanks for making this video, Triassic animals don’t get enough attention.
Once again, thank you very much - I always enjoy and really appreciate your uploads!
More excellent research and the new narrator continues to sound great.
in the end i think triassic is the most interesting era
Very fascinating!!
Another great video 😎
Nice video on another Triassic icon.
Smilosuchus and a Guanlong walk into a bar! What happens next is shocking!
Fascinating animals; thanks for the video.
Very interesting creatures. Good episode, well researched. Good narration.
Enjoyed the narration
Great video chimerasuchus!
Nicrosaurus:
Amazing content keep uploading these
An antagonist for an upcoming novel of mine.
nice video
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*Looks at the snout*
Oh come on! Why do the crocs and phytosaurs keep on getting goofier! xD
How big is Nicrosaurus in comparison to all three Smilosuchus species?
Smilosuchus adamanensis was about the same size while Smilosuchus gregorii was larger. I can't actually find any size estimates for Smilosuchus lithodendrorum.
Yes new vid
Cool
I love triassic animals they are so goofy
nice
having a slow metabolism makes a species more vulnerable to extinction since their populations cannot bounce back/ recover fast enough
Crocodilians filled the spot left void after the extinction of Phytosaurs whom before that took the same spot of Temnospondyls after they went extinct.. Same job, similar appearance, different periods of time and lineages..
Interesting name
Nicrosaurus: 🤓
Nicrosaurus: where’s the rest of the title?
I knew I was forgoting something.
Pretty cool 😎. Wonder if there is a prehistoric terrestrial Croc that is as big as a tyrannosaur or allosaurus
The Cenozoic sebecid Barinasuchus was about the size of the average Allosaurus fragilis, and the recently discovered Dentaneosuchus seems to have been about as large. The Jurassic Razanandrongobe was of similar size, which would have made it one of the top predators in its otherwise dinosaur dominated ecosystem. The Triassic pseudosuchian Fasolasuchus was larger than any of them, but still not comparable to Tyrannosaurus.
@@chimerasuchus I remember those big bad crocs. Dentaneosuchus looks awesome and I never know they discovered another croc
I still have an old book in which Teratosaurus is misclassified as a Theropod lol.
He really said "troyasic"
Thank f. Got monarchy all over my media because im a brit
The images all show osteoderms. Do they know that these phytosaurs had osteoderms, or is that just an artistic assumption based on these animals having similar body shape to crocodiles?
Phytosaurs had even more osteoderms than crocodilians do.
@@chimerasuchus Ah, I see, so fossilized osteoderms were found. Are ostederms in both convergent evolution or did the ancestors of both already have these osteoderms? How is the evolutionary relationship between phytosaurs and crocodylians?
It is unclear whether phytosaurs were basal pseudosuchians or merely very closely related archosauriforms. However, given the distribution of osteoderms in Archosauriformes, it seems that they were the result of common ancestry.
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Nicro, why is yr snout shaped like that?
NICRO: I'm Jewish.
An Phytosaurus Is find in Here Brazil
Is this creature related to the Northern Pike? Looks like it.
I thought mammals only had multiple types of teeth. Is this not then a feature exclusive to mammals?
Although it is atypical of reptiles, some are others who are heterodont. The heterodontosaurids are even named after it.
Whatchu call me white boy?
Phytosaurus is closer to Liopleurodon or Bird?
Birds. Although the placement of Liopleurodon's branch of reptiles, Sauropterygia, is unclear, they do not belong to Archosauriformes like the phytosaurs and dinosaurs.
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Nicrosaurus a fake crocodile, or a frocodile for short.
Honestly modern crocodiles 🐊 would probably be better on land than this creature due to more advanced internal features from being a modern animal.
Because Crocodiles are descended from terrestrial ancestor
Try not to miss pronouns that animal.
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