The Fauna of Hell Creek: Life in the Cretaceous
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- From tiny mammals, too odd reptiles, to giant dinosaurs, this is one of the most well studied fossil formations in North America!
Take a journey with me into our prehistoric past as we explore this vast ecosystem, and the wonderful array of life contained within.
Welcome, to Hell Creek.
I do not own the music or photos/art used in this video. The Thumbnail is art by Andrey Atuchin.
If you ever do another "Fauna of" style video, I would love to see your take on the western interior seaway (Hell's Aquarium)
It's planned to happen at some point!
@@TheDinoFaxdo Morrison next
@@Allosauroidea_index he's already done Morrison.
@@citipati_osmolskae3735 yay
@marshalmarrs3269alamosaurus
I like how you also gave the non-dinosaur paleofauna the attention they deserved
Yes! He did the same with the morrison formation too
Complete Timestamps (Holy crap this was hell to write)
0:00 Hell Creek Formation, Laramidia
2:08 Flora - Angiosperm
3:32 Mussels and Ammonites
3:56 Amphibians (Frogs, Siranidae)
4:21 Bony Fish (Bowfin/Dogfish, Gar, Saltwater Spinacanthidae)
5:35 Sharks (Galagadon, Hybodontiformes)
6:29 Stingray (Guitar Fish)
6:47 Mammals - Multituberculates (Neoplagiaulacidae)
7:46 Metatheria (Didelphodon, Marsupial Relatives)
8:15 Eutheria (Placental Mammals), Stem Primates
9:25 Reptiles - Squamata (Polyoglyphandontia, Paleoanguimorpha), Boa (?),
10:26 Turtles (Baenidae, Compsemy, Large Soft-Shelled Turtles)
11:58 Coristothera ("Basal Sauria", Champsosaurus, No Osteoderm Armor)
13:11 Crocodylomorphs (Crustacean Predation Brachichampsus, Thoracosaurus, "Modern" Borealosuchus)
15:21 Pterosaurs (Azhdarchids)
15:51 Dinosaurs - Ornithopods, Ornithischia (Possibly Unfeathered Thescelosaurus garbani and assiniboines, Non-Migratory Soft Plant-Eating Edmontosaurus)
18:20 Pachycephalosaurids ( -Dracorex?- , Stygimoloch?, Platetholus, Sphaerotholus) Combat and Mating
21:18 Early Ceratopsians (Leptoceratops)
22:23 Large Ceratopsians (Weak-Crested Torosaurus, Long-Horned Damaged Triceratops)
26:23 Nodosaurid Ankylosaur (Denversaurus)
27:55 Ankylosaurus (Solitary Osteoderm-on-Eyelids)
29:26 Theropods - Ornithomimidae (Heavy Slender-Armed Ornithomimus, Larger Struthiomimus) being Big-Brained, Bald-Headed, Possibly Omnivorous
31:29 Avarezsauridae (Single-Clawed Trierarchunkus)
32:47 Caenagnathus (North American Oviraptor-Like Anzu)
34:59 Tyrannosaurus rex (Most Complete Sue, Largest Scotty, Smell, Hearing, and Eyesight-Focused Brain)
42:20 Eunamiraptora - Troodontidae (Comb-Toothed Pectinodon)
43:32 Dromaeosauridae ( -Deinonychus- , Acheroraptor, Raptor Prey Restraint Method)
46:00 Dakotaraptor (Validity, Quill Knobs and Large Feathers, Sickle Claws and Tubercles)
49:43 Ornithurae aka. Birds - Presbyornithidae, "Waterfowl" Anseriformes (Styginetta)
51:32 Hesperornithes (Flightless Toothed Birds, Brodavis)
52:54 Avisauridae, Enantiornithes, Avialae (Raptor-Like Avisaurus)
Thank you
Tank you man
Truly the wonderful diversity of the mesozoic era aside from just dinosaurs
@@Banana_bread_man Tank: 💥
That was a LOT of effort, generously given. Thank you!
Please keep up this series! One of the best on the internet
Tyrannosaurs, Mosasaurs (I think), Pterosaurs, Ceratopsians, Hadrosaurs, Ankylosaurs, reptiles, arthropods, mammals, and all of that stuff. Awesome! Can’t wait!
Oooooh i'm so exited hell creek is my favourite paleo formation👍
It’s mine to, and a lot of other’s peoples too
Same
What about the morrison?
THE METEORITE IS HITTING EARRTH WITH THIS ONE🗣️‼️🔥🔥🔥🔥
Borealosuchus is probably my favorite and most underrated creature of the Hell Creek formation due to it outliving the famous dinosaurs in its environment as well as becoming the new apex predator in North America during the Paleocene to Eocene. I would love to see a documentary that explains us that it once lived in the shadows of Tyrannosaurus but now it's the new top predator as it ambushes a Titanoides from the water. for those who don't know Titanoides was a member of the Pantodonts which where the first herbivorous mammals to reach large size after the KPG extinction.
As someone who owns fossils of borealosuchus,
*It's hella underrated.*
The place I live is full of araucarias. I think it's pretty cool, as they are a very ancient family of trees. And as there are trees of the genus Araucaria in Australia and here in Brazil, it means that this genus is at least from the time of Gondwana! Every time I look at those trees I think how ancient and different they are. And no herbivore alive today can touch its canopy from the ground, only a sauropod could
could you also do a fauna video of the cretaceous western interior seaway? or a timeline of the fauna there? it would be much apprecieted! thanks for the hard work!
Good narrative style. No weird affectations . And good information. This is something I can watch
I'm so glad I found this channel. My dinosaur/paleo obsession can finally be satiated (to a certain degree) by binge watching this channel. Keep it up man!
Ohhhh, man, I'm so hyped for this!! Can't wait for you to bring up some awesome facts on my boy, Ankylosarus, and the rest of the fauna of Hell Creek!!
A fauna of Appalachia would be interesting. It's almost never talked about when people talk about Cretaceous North America.
I assume you'd discuss more about unknown animals more along with popular one's like ceratops or tyrannosaurus.
True
*triceratops🤓
Five minutes longer and they could have gotten at least 20 more species in there 😏
@@Primal_guyCeratops and Triceratops are different ceratopsians. Eotriceratops, and Titanoceratops are also some examples of the Ceratopsian genus. Ceratops means "horned face". So Triceratops means "Three horn face". Eos is the Greek word for Dawn. Eotriceratops means "early three horn face" since they're believed to have been the early ancestors of the Ceratopsian genus.
@@lilmike2710 apologies for my mediocre Attitude that i so disappointedly said with the use of the “🤓” emoji.
I am sorry my past self had spewed such disrespect towards the animals we all love.
I would love to see the Kem Kem or huincal formations next. Awesome video you deserve much more attention and more subs.
I think it would be cool if you did some videos on the fauna of different Pleistocene ecosystems, as I think ice age megafauna are really interesting. Obviously, alongside the extinct megafauna, it would include modern animals, but modern animals are just as interesting.
interesting how clear it is that smaller generalists basically shrugged off the extinctions. The generalist crocs go extinct whilst the specialised big one doesnt. Styginetta I presume likely ate both aquatic animals and plants. Really cool that we have this great snapshot of the extinction and those who were lost and those who survived. Also Enantiornithine birds of prey? I had no idea they existed, thats awesome! Brilliant video!
I love watching this stuff at 5am without sleep really makes you think what was life like at the time. Love the video
This is a great, entertaining channel. Glad to have seen it my recommendations.
I would love it if you do a video on the Candeleros or the Huincul Formation, I really want to see you analyze the Carcharodontosaurids of these 2 formations, especially my favorite one: Giganotosaurus Carolinii.
incredible video i love this!!! you can really see he has put a lot of effort into this, hopefully you also do some other formations in the future.
I’m not good with paleobotany. But I love paleontology. I love to read dinosaur books and watch dinosaur videos. You are definitely the best Dinosaur UA-cam channel
It's a fascinating area, the thing about the distant past is the time, our lifespans are so brief, especially when you talk about millions of years, it's hard not to feel insignificant when contemplating the eons.
Very excited! Hell Creek is my favorite dinosaur location
So much detail and information stuffed into a yt video.
Well done and please keep them coming.
If DinoFax ever did another "Fauna of" video, I think it should be about the Nemegt Formation.
You would do Great as a narrator for a Dinosaur documentary ❤
That would be a dream come true for me, honestly
@TheDinoFax, you should the fauna of horizon it has robot dinosaurs
Hell Creek is Fascinating.
I am loving these videos! Could you maybe do the Nemegt formation next?
I used to have magnolia trees that grew in my garden at my old house. Wild to think that magnolia trees have been around since the Cretaceous
Music has me thinking I'm at the login screen of a fantasy game.
This is an awesome video. I have loved dinosaurs for as long as I can remember but I have always wanted to know more about the other animals that they shared their environment with. Please make more of these.
I'm proud to live in the Hell Creek region
Thank you. This video was very grade A informing.
13:49 i hoped thoracosaurus was in this and now i know that it is
Im sitting in my seat eating birthday cake and drinking fanta while watching this amazing video
It was my birthday the day this video was released so thanks for the birthday gift dinofax
Wow--very impressive command of taxonomy and extinction patterns.
The music is sometimes too insistent to permit the concentration necessary for digesting such a steady stream of detailed information. But the illustrations compensate! They are fantastic, and I'm often left wondering how we are so lucky to have so many paleo-artists. Where, when, how and why did they acquire such rarified sets of skills quite specific to giving the world astonishing, super-competent, often daring yet utterly credible images of animals that never met a human retina?
Really appreciate such a detailed video
Dro Jurrasic was so good can’t wait!
Hell Creek one of the most buetifull remnants of Dinosaur history
Beautiful*
I waited a long time for a video like this 🦖
Just one thing - not complaining but the music gets a bit loud, but I can still hear you clear enough 🦖
Please, please, please more long form content like this
I would love to see the Cedar Mountain Formation!
I was surprised that there haven't been any sauropods discovered at Hell Creek!
Dude ive been following you on tiktok for a while didnt know you had full docuseries. So cool i recognized your logo 😅
It’s interesting that we’re deciding a lot of species are the same just different ages. It’s really cool and a little sad too. Because that means we’re losing some beloved creatures even though we’re not actually losing them
I got to see the sue skull a few years back and man that thing really put in perspective how absolutely insane these animals where ! Man I always thought it would be so cool too see them in real life what a time to be alive that would have been so wild
This was just straight up awesome
Please do a Winton formation the Cretaceous of Australia. Fascinating flora and fauna
Yesss!
Tremendous effort, great video.
good show
Can you do the Wessex formation of the Isle Of Wight please, as well as possibly the Wealden as a whole. I often find many geological formations other than the Hell Creek and Morrison aren’t talked about enough in mainstream media. The Wessex is also one of the key formations in the history of dinosaur discoveries by people like William Buckland.
So great to see this come out!
Fingers crossed we can see the Nemegt and Dinosaur Park formations!
As an Appalachian, I applaud you for saying it correctly my dude
Great video with a lot of hard work put into it. My one critique is that I found the music kind of distracting. I would rather have calmer, more ambient and consistent background music rather than the changing "epic" style movie tracks. Your voice is even and pleasant to listen to, and the music kind of clashes with it. Other than that, fantastic work.
Damn the wait was breath taking
Genuine question ¿what music did you use for this video as well as the morrison one?
Hell creek sounds awesome. Wish I could've been there. What a party, huh guys?
Would you consider a formation of the tenduguru? The formation Acrocanthosaurus lived in? And the Wessex formation?
Very cool video ! I know this kind of format is not for everyone but I personally love it.
Maybe tone down the music a bit though, I know it is too add a bit of rythm but it is also very distracting when too loud.
Fantastic work!
I'm not afraid of a cataclysm cuz then I'd be proud to be a part of the last group of people that helped inspire the next group
22:22 Torosaurus 🦖 I also prefer to think she's distinct from Triceratops. Although my reasoning is a lot less scientific - I learned about her when I was a kid, back when the books were all telling me Torosaurus and Triceratops were completely different.
Why her??
Torosaurus not only female
@@pierre-samuelroux9364 If you don't get the reference, you don't get the reference. But it's no big deal. Have a nice day. 🦖
I just sat down for 50 minutes to watch a man talk about smelly prehistoric lizards. 10/10
So, in the state of Colorado, there is a there is a unique site that seems to cover the first million years after the impact.
According to this fossil bed, it took roughly 500 thousand years for the ecosystem to recover fully from the event.
How much I would give to see the Hell Creek Formation millions of years ago.
awesome video (music is a little loud) but this type of broad overview of a formation is awesome
This is amazing more langerstatten!
W video bro always liked your longer videos better
So I just woke up and the first thing I here is Hell Creek and I don’t think I’ve ever laughed right after waking up
E.annectens definitely weighed more than five tons
Yeah, they reached up to 10 tons or more
Pretty sure 14-15 are the largest estimates, 5 tons are about the size of the eds in large herds due to them not being fully grown at that point
Thanks For Making This Video TheDinoFax
Are there any crabs in hell creek?
Music at the beginning made me feel like I was gonna fight the entire covenant fleet
I like how hell creek had the largrst tyrannosaur. Ceraropsian. And ankylosaur. A true arms race
Where do you get all this information do you research it all or is there a main website where you relay the information from
Fantastic my friend.
Great Video
I wonder if you would do a funa video of the prehistoric animals from the Moenkopi Formation?
Suggestions for other formations:
Dinosaur Park, Los Colorados, Wessex, Nemegt, Yixian
Great video bro 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Fascinating
I loved the reference of Obamadon
cant wait for this, gonna be epico as hek!
What do you think dinosaurs tasted like?
Chicken 🐔
Stringy
You know birds are dinosaurs so you already know?
I really liked the video but the music was very loud and distracting. I appreciate having music in the background but it was really bombastic and loud in this video
Future video suggestions:
Ghosts of the jungle: the scant fossil record of Africa
Fauna of prehistoric Canada
Fauna of prehistoric Mongolia
If I didn’t know any better that the great Lord made the world I’d believe this crazy mumbo jumbo, jimbo
I can't wait I love everything dinosaur❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Since this video is about Hells creek, you guys should give Fossil Fiend a try, he does digs in that area and the last video I saw he found the neural arc of an Edmontosorous
OH GOD YESSSSS!!! Been waiting for so long
I’m excited for this video. I’m in Melbourne and we have the most complete fossil of a triceratops (from the Hell Creek formation) which is called Horridus. It’s my favourite piece in the museum.
Yeah, I think we need to just do-away with the Torosaurus / Triceratops debate.
No Animals skull can change that much, they’ve also been found is slightly different localities than the other, showing they may have had even slightly different roles in the ecosystem.
They’re just so visually different, and with the different age ranges between Torosaurus and Triceratops specimens themselves, with us having found quite young Torosaurus, defeating the whole argument.
Pls do the kem kem formation I would like to see spinosaurus 😊
Where is the music you used throughout the video from?
I really enjoyed this presentation. However, I think that the music is mixed too loudly.
Awesome content
That's hell creek... not hell mountain or hell desert... although it is now,it wasn't then.... what did you say was there? Water?
Have you done a Fauna of Dinosaur Park Formation Video?