Doswellia: The Enigmatic Reptile From Late Triassic North America

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  • Опубліковано 17 лис 2024

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  • @posticusmaximus1739
    @posticusmaximus1739 Місяць тому +71

    "The fauna of the Triassic was much more varied" that's an understatement lol.

    • @kban77
      @kban77 Місяць тому +2

      I thought there are more kinds of species in cenozoic than triassic? Maybe he meant different. Not varied?

    • @georget4141
      @georget4141 Місяць тому +3

      @@kban77*more varied than the jurassic and cretaceous

    • @tobiaschaparro2372
      @tobiaschaparro2372 Місяць тому +1

      Idk, you have to consider the passage of time. Some 150 million years later in the late cretaceous Dinosauria is made up of groups perhaps more distantly related than archosaurs in the Triassic.

    • @bruh949
      @bruh949 Місяць тому +1

      The fact even giant arthropods still existed at this time such as Theiatitan a near 1 metre long and half metre wingspan killer Grasshopper that acted like a Praying Mantis (the last of the mighty family the Titanoptera). So cool to see how Arthropods continued after their peak on land and air and sea in the Carboniferous, to dominating in the air till the arrival of Pterosaurs where they would surrender the skies, like one day Pterosaurs would to birds.

  • @beneficent2557
    @beneficent2557 Місяць тому +4

    The Triassic was my favorite period

  • @Alberad08
    @Alberad08 Місяць тому +10

    Thanks a lot for introducing me to Doswellia! What a great and informative as well as entertaining documentation - really liked it.

  • @TotallyRedMist217
    @TotallyRedMist217 Місяць тому +30

    It looks like a fusion of monitor lizard and a gharial.

    • @nyeti7759
      @nyeti7759 Місяць тому +2

      I was going to say, some of those reconstructions make it look very water-monitor-like.

    • @michaeldougherty6036
      @michaeldougherty6036 Місяць тому +2

      Makes me think of Joanna from Rescuers Down Under.

  • @Darth-Nihilus1
    @Darth-Nihilus1 Місяць тому +3

    I was looking at the sedimentary rock map of Pennsylvania and I live in Pennsylvanian aged sedimentary rocks from the Glenshaw and Casselman formation with Monogehala on top of the hills. Appalachian basin is awesome for fossil hunting because we have everything from Precambrian to Jurassic

  • @posticusmaximus1739
    @posticusmaximus1739 Місяць тому +14

    Yass!!! I've been waiting for this obscure obscure archosauromorph!

  • @bruh949
    @bruh949 Місяць тому +2

    The Triassic was truly crazy…
    The fact even giant arthropods still existed at this time such as Theiatitan a near 1 metre long and half metre wingspan killer Grasshopper that acted like a Praying Mantis (the last of the mighty family the Titanoptera). So cool to see how Arthropods continued after their peak on land and air and sea in the Carboniferous, to dominating in the air till the arrival of Pterosaurs where they would surrender the skies, like one day Pterosaurs would to birds.

    • @AncientWildTV
      @AncientWildTV Місяць тому

      thats fascinating fr. But I wonder what led to the decline of giant arthropods in the face of evolving predators like Pterosaurs and later birds?

  • @owli-wankenobi3727
    @owli-wankenobi3727 Місяць тому +7

    So, it's almost an otter croc. That's awesome! There always seems to be another strange non-dinosaur archosauromorph that I didn't know about... this is why the Triassic is my favorite period of the Mesozoic. lol

  • @thedimple773
    @thedimple773 Місяць тому +6

    Oooh another one so soon. Blessed!

  • @anthonyhiggins6342
    @anthonyhiggins6342 Місяць тому +5

    Love this video. Keep focusing on these little known/lesser known animals, please.

  • @beneficent2557
    @beneficent2557 Місяць тому +3

    Archosaurian Metabolism is something I wish we had a better understanding of in recreating behaviors.

  • @bibia666
    @bibia666 Місяць тому +6

    CHimerasuchus 👍
    🙏Thanks for the uploads!
    Very interesting as usual 😃
    Greetings bibia 👋

  • @caseypalmateer4515
    @caseypalmateer4515 Місяць тому +5

    You produce some of the best videos on you tube.
    Thank you for your work man.

  • @gaufrid1956
    @gaufrid1956 Місяць тому +4

    It does seem to be very much like a monitor lizard, and of course there are water monitors. The armour is interesting. I guess if you are semi aquatic in the Triassic you need some protection, because a lot of very dangerous predators were in and around the water.

  • @alexandermorrison1010
    @alexandermorrison1010 Місяць тому +5

    By overall body shape this animal reminds me of Prolacerta. A very monitor lizard shaped beast. Low slung and rather elongate.

  • @Gfan2015-o5g
    @Gfan2015-o5g Місяць тому +4

    Hey mate. Love your channel. I know you mainly do videos on pseudosuchians and Triassic reptiles, but would it be possible for you to do a video on Dryptosaurus? It's a super underrated dinosaur related to Tyrannosaurus that has a very interesting history within paleontology. For some reason, I feel like it would not be out of place in your catalogue since you mainly discuss obscure taxa.

  • @alekrex5905
    @alekrex5905 15 днів тому +2

    I think Doswellia should be an animal that swam in search of aquatic invertebrates, for example, bivalves, molluscs and even insects that buried themselves at the bottom of a river, for example.

  • @vibuma
    @vibuma Місяць тому +4

    Great video,love hearing about obscure extinct animals,specially when we have an almost complete fossil to get info from.

  • @rileyernst9086
    @rileyernst9086 Місяць тому +6

    Another cool video about another cool archosauroforme!

  • @ecurewitz
    @ecurewitz Місяць тому +3

    Thank you very much

  • @HassanMohamed-rm1cb
    @HassanMohamed-rm1cb Місяць тому +2

    I’ve got some great ideas and some great suggestions for you to make UA-cam Videos Shows about some more Prehistoric Extinct Crocodilian Species, such as Lazarussuchus, Plesiosuchus, and Metriorynchus adding that to the episodes on the next Saturday on the next Chimerasuchus coming up next!!👍👍👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

  • @rileymanders2167
    @rileymanders2167 Місяць тому +4

    so good

  • @joeshmoe8345
    @joeshmoe8345 Місяць тому +4

    Great, loved it

  • @mlggodzilla1567
    @mlggodzilla1567 Місяць тому +3

    Another great video 😎

  • @robertomontini5479
    @robertomontini5479 Місяць тому +5

    do you make a video on the whole history of anapsids from Carbonfoero to today? Please please 🐢

    • @posticusmaximus1739
      @posticusmaximus1739 Місяць тому +2

      I'd like to know more about the parareptiles, including the holdovers that survives the great dying into the Triassic

    • @beneficent2557
      @beneficent2557 Місяць тому

      Orbital Fenestrae for the win

  • @Severe.Stupidity
    @Severe.Stupidity Місяць тому +15

    I've been waiting for the day CHimera posted.

  • @katboi7140
    @katboi7140 Місяць тому +11

    This thing look like it'd make a good pet
    I want one

  • @posticusmaximus1739
    @posticusmaximus1739 Місяць тому +2

    Now that we've had an obscure Triassic proterosuchid, I'd like to nominate the opposite side of that spectrum: Archosaurus Rossicus, the Permian proterosuchid and oldest known Archosauriform. It's name gave rise to Archosauria although it's no longer considered a true Archosaur. Last year a ground breaking study concluded it was a high derived form, thus meaning Archosauriforms evolved millions of years earlier. This implies Archosauromorphs evolved even earlier, possibly during the Guadalupian epoch. The seeds of the age of Reptiles were planted in the Permian.

    • @AncientWildTV
      @AncientWildTV Місяць тому

      Given the implications of this study, how do you think the environmental conditions of the Permian might have influenced the early evolution of these reptiles?

    • @posticusmaximus1739
      @posticusmaximus1739 Місяць тому

      @AncientWildTV I think it pushed them toward being endothermic. Being during the Karoo ice age plus the flucuating climates caused these animals to gradually increase their metabolism

    • @AncientWildTV
      @AncientWildTV 29 днів тому +1

      @@posticusmaximus1739 I also think their physiology, like improved respiratory efficiency or changes in insulation, enabling them to retain heat more effectively.

  • @maozilla9149
    @maozilla9149 Місяць тому +2

    nice

  • @HardCoreSciFi
    @HardCoreSciFi Місяць тому

    Feeding on crustaceans sounds like the most plausible hypothesis. I wonder, maybe crustaceans (and/or crustacean analogues) were somewhat different during Triassic, which required narrower snout to hunt them.

  • @One_Lepage
    @One_Lepage Місяць тому +1

    Интересно, интересно...

  • @android65mar
    @android65mar Місяць тому +1

    Looks like a platypus tail!

  • @HannahHäbler
    @HannahHäbler Місяць тому

    Sadly I have a hard time listening to the sound of your voice
    I love the information in your videos and work you put in them
    I mostly listen by UA-cam premium while doing different things or before I go to sleep with closed eyes. (Sorry for mistakes I’m foreign)

  • @1998topornik
    @1998topornik Місяць тому +1

    This creature seems like analog to water monitor lizards.

  • @georget4141
    @georget4141 Місяць тому +1

    visually it seems almost more like a nile monitor than a crocodilian

  • @ashb8036
    @ashb8036 Місяць тому

    Maybe the built things in the mud like beavers with the flat tail

  • @mistersir3020
    @mistersir3020 Місяць тому

    The Triassic was radical

  • @nathancomixproductions466
    @nathancomixproductions466 Місяць тому

    When you said "the Newark supergroup", I thought "When Dinosaurs Roamed America".

  • @미제드론
    @미제드론 Місяць тому +1

    Is this a first pseudosuchia??

    • @chimerasuchus
      @chimerasuchus  Місяць тому +3

      No, it is just outside of Archosauria.

  • @aldogallegos-k6d
    @aldogallegos-k6d Місяць тому

    A1 👍👍👍

  • @beneficent2557
    @beneficent2557 Місяць тому

    Crocodiliform Mustelid?

  • @Zach-ku6eu
    @Zach-ku6eu Місяць тому

    Sound recorded in an old soup can?? 🙉

  • @sammykane5967
    @sammykane5967 Місяць тому

    3:16 he's got a lot on his mind