Venetoraptor: The Pterosaur Missing Link?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2023
- Venetoraptor is a new genus of lagerpetid from Brazil, and might be the most unique of them all, and might show some of the traits that led to the evolution of the pterosaurs.
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www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
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Another amazing video from our discoveries, thank you! ✌️
Honestly I just love everything you guys are publishing. I love oddball Triassic animals. Super excited to see some more studies on their potential lifestyles if those are in the works!
Congrats! 😁
This month has been FILLED with awesome discoveries, looking out for August in paleontology!
It's been a super exciting month!
@@RaptorChatter We've had stuff like the new largest sauropod, the largest AND smallest Basilosaid, filter feeding Hupesaurus, Tharosaurus as the oldest diplodocoid is just some thing I remember, and there's certainly A LOT MORE. I guess that also means more work for you 😅
I love learning about the mysterious origins of famous prehistoric animals. Would be cool to understand the evolution of Ichthyosaur as a future topic.
Agreed! I think the Common Descent podcast had an epi on Ichthyosaurs, and Paleo After Dark has done at least one episode reviewing an Ichthyosaur paper (or I think one looking into a paper about the transition between niches for Ichthyosaurs and Mososaurs)
I’ve always wondered where Ichthyosaurs came from, glad I’m not the only one dying to know.
Really wonder what kind of dentition Venetoraptor had. The paper mentioned that the claws are scythe-like and with that raptorial beak Venetoraptor could have been the scourge of small arboreal vertebrates.
wonder if that larger fourth digit was to support a gliding membrane. only so many reasons for the fourth digit to become enlarged, and only so many ways wings can be evolved.
If it was there, they'd probably be able to find attachment points on the bone.
They wouldn't find attachment points because pterosaurs don't have them.
I suspect that is why they are hoping to find evidence for climbing trees. But there are many animals that climb trees that have enlarged digits but dont glide at all. The Aye-aye comes to mind.
I never even knew lagerpetids existed, so this was very informative. Thank you!
They're super neat! They also are usually poorly preserved, so I'm very excited about how much has been found out about them in the last few years.
Thank you for this upload. A very similar (albeit fictional) specimen called a "jesspodopterus" appears in chapter 1 of Carnian Street and was given an eloganted digit to hint transition. If I had known about venetroraptor 2 years ago I would have included it.
Can you talk more about the newly discovered big cat, the Pachypanthera? It's the first known bone-crushing big cat
thank you for mentioning it found some artikles about Pachypanthera.
With Pachy in it's name one would ex[pect a huge and heavy animal, turns out to be the size of a jaguar.
Excellent video, concise and informative as usual. Thanks for reporting another one of our articles. All the best!
Love everything you and your group is finding out of the Triassic. I hope to get to work in the Triassic too once I start grad school.
cool always love learning about prehistory
Great video as always.
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Always informative, keep up the great work!
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This is incredible! I can't believe it had such large 4th digit of its hands.
Maybe we will finally find that sweet "missing link"(as close as possible"
between pterosaurs and Lagerpetids?
I really hope that in my lifetime we’ll finally figure out early pterosaur evolution.
it's funny how the name "veneto" is of italian origin (veneta more precisely), but is likewise a place in brazil (which is not at all strange, given the countless immigrants from veneto in brazil), and that this name is now part of a living being
A lot of animal names are based in Latin, so it's not specifically the Italian influence.
@@RaptorChatterthe Latin had the word "venetus" to refer to the Venetian population, which in Italian has become precisely "veneto"
or rather the word that arrived in Brazil, and which now gave its name to Venetoraptor
i think they are the ancestor of birds
I think convergence and divergence should also be put into account. Perhaps this was a dromaeosaur equivalent in pterosauromorpha (Pterosaurs would be the bird equivalent). That would explain its large claws (for grabbing onto prey) and its bird-of-prey-like beak.
Didn't dromaesaurus lived at the end of the cretaceous? This creature lived 150 million years before.
@@rogeriopenna9014 I said it's the dromaeosaur equivalent, an unrelated doppelganger. An example of convergent evolution
@@rogeriopenna9014 I hope you saw that, to know where I'm coming from.
@@f.u.m.o.5669 sorry, English is not my first language and at first reading, it seemed to me you were saying the exact opposite... that it was a dromaeosaur, equivalent to a pterosauromorpha.
You see, in my language you would never have the word equivalent after the first noun.
You would write
Talvez este seja o equivalente a um dromaeosaur na pterosauromorpha (Pterosauros sendo o equivalente à aves)
Which translated back to English would be like "Perhaps this is the equivalent to dromaeosaurs in the pterosauromorpha (Pterosaurs being the equivalent to birds)
@@rogeriopenna9014 I see, sorry for the confusion.
Running pterosaur goes brrrrr
Not funny anymore.
So these things were basically lizard squirrels
Excelent content
Thanks!
I can see people mistaken this lil dude as a dinosaur
The early evolution of the dinosaurs and pterosaurs is poorly understood, but things like this, which help to fill in the gaps have been super useful.
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Lagerpetid placement next to Pterosaurs is based solely on a few morphological hallmarks among a plethora of differences. If anything, the finding of a Lagerpetid as derived as Venetoraptor this early in their history should probably push back their alleged split with basal Pterosaurs by at least a few million years.
seems like you don't understand how a phylogenetic analysis works
@@KazunariGames Building a phylogenetic tree based on morphology alone is why the Archosaur tree is such an utter mess. There isn't a super strong connection between Lagerpetids & Pterosaurs; their relationship is still up for debate. Just like with the Silesaurids, I guarantee their placement will change given more data & time.
Looks more like a protobird
No
Why was the allosaurus stumbling around? It had one too many lagerpetids