Important anatomy note: the holes at the very end of the snout are not the air holes. In phytosaurs like Redondasaurus, the breathing openings were set farther back near the eyes, which is one of the biggest clues that it was not a true crocodile. Hashtags: #Redondasaurus #Phytosaur #Triassic #LateTriassic #PrehistoricAnimals #Paleontology #FossilHistory #AncientReptiles #NotADinosaur #CrocodileLike #TriassicWorld #NewMexicoHistory #ScienceArt #EducationalPrintables #AtlasAdventuresTX
Look closely. This is not a crocodile. This is a Phytosaur. This is Machaeroprosopus pristinus from Late Triassic North America
Triassic Crocodilians
Aside from dinosaurs, the only other archosaurs to make their home on the present-day Specworld are the crocodiles. These semi-sprawling, cold-blooded archosaurs first appear in the Triassic, emerging, together with dinosaurs and several other groups, from the chaos that marked the end of the Permian. Since then, crocodiles have experimented with a number of lifestyles, from terrestrial ambusher and herbivore to marine shark- or mosark-like predators, but their favorite niches have ...
Smilosuchus looks like an enormous Triassic crocodile, but it was actually a phytosaur—a completely different kind of reptile. When unrelated groups independently evolve similar features, scientists call it “convergent evolution.”
Triassic Crocodilians
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Triassic Crocodilians
A crocodile-like beast the length of a Volkswagen Beetle terrorized prey in the late Triassic oceans about 210 million years ago.
Reconstructie van een Batrachopus grandis, een crocodylomorph die mogelijk meer dan 110 jaar geleden leefde en ...
