Man, your channel is absolutely awesome! Because of its narrow specialization, among the other youtube paleontology channels it looks like an anteater among regular herbivores and carnivores :) please go on doing those videos, and I predict that one day this channel will definitely grow to have a huge audience. After learning how diverse and successful croc relatives were in their own time, I suddenly had a question - why did they lose to dinosaurs in competition to become the big terrestrial creatures of Mesozoic? It feels like they could have had a chance for that. I would be very interested in watching a video on that topic :)
On its own it might be too short, though it could be a section in a larger video. As for why the dinosaurs were dominate from the Jurassic onwards, it was a combination of two factors. First, after the mass extinction at the end of the Triassic period, the only surviving pseudosuchians were small crocodylomorphs. Each of the major groups of dinosaurs had much larger survivors, leaving them in a better position to take over. The other was metabolism. While ancestrally terrestrial, most Cretaceous crocodylomorphs were ectothermic. Endotherms are usually better suited for the role of large terrestrial animals. Still, for a clade that started the Jurassic not much better off than mammals, crocodylomorphs did surprisingly well.
Its good to sometimes learn about some interesting mesozoic animals which are not dinosaurs or pterosaurs. Prehistoric crocodiles are extremely underrated
remember when I said that Barinasuchus needs more pop culture love. this goose to all the cool crocodylomorphs you've talked about like Quinkana, Simosuchus, and Voey Robustus.
The country I live in was flooded during the Mesozoic period, so few fossils are found on and around it. I recently learned that a crocodile fossil named turcosuchus was found around my country, and you made this video on it. It came across very well. Thanks for the video!
Wow i did not know the genus was so diverse or long lived. Thanks for the vid, glad to have a channel focusing on crocodiliformes. I think most of Gondwana aside from Australia and Antartica was close to the tropics for most of the mesozic, which would explain the domination of land crocs at the smaller end of the food web. Also perhaps the fact that they never experienced the drop in tempretures that parts of Laramidia(i butchered that didn't i?)did and thus crocodiliforme supremecy over these niches was never really challenged.
I love crocodilians and their extended families. They give the impression that if a niche is left open long enough, you can bet money a crocodilian will find a way to steal it. It is fascinating to imagine how a warm-blooded crocodilian would behave. I can't help but think of fantasy analogs for these animals, like drakes from D&D which are basically small dragons. The resemblance is uncanny.
Great channel! It's fascinating to see these little-known (to me!) species, and it really fleshes out the picture of the biodiversity of the prehistoric landscape. The illustrations are excellent and evocative, and they really bring the animals to life. The window into paleontology's classification of fossil remains - the ability to determine species with fragmentary remains - is eye-opening to this lay-person.
1. It's pronounced (AH-ruh-REAP-eh-SUE-cuss). 2. If you think that _Araripesuchus rattoides_ deserves a separate genus, I predict that this new genus would be _Rattosuchus_ which means "rat crocodile". Ps.: I just came up with that name myself.
I'd hate to be seen as pedantic in analogous ecology(okay you got me, I'd love to be seen as such, becauseits very importantin communicating and understanding), but i would pick anatosuchus a better spoonbill or maybe a swan or duck analogue. You can't call everything similar to a heron because at some point it ceases to be helpful. Looking at you giant crocodile stork with sail.
Excelent video. The only thing missing was the subtitles. Truly, ancient Crocs are way more diverse than i expected. And with each video i learn about the diferent kind of the group. Really fascinating stuff.
Man, your channel is absolutely awesome! Because of its narrow specialization, among the other youtube paleontology channels it looks like an anteater among regular herbivores and carnivores :) please go on doing those videos, and I predict that one day this channel will definitely grow to have a huge audience.
After learning how diverse and successful croc relatives were in their own time, I suddenly had a question - why did they lose to dinosaurs in competition to become the big terrestrial creatures of Mesozoic? It feels like they could have had a chance for that. I would be very interested in watching a video on that topic :)
On its own it might be too short, though it could be a section in a larger video. As for why the dinosaurs were dominate from the Jurassic onwards, it was a combination of two factors. First, after the mass extinction at the end of the Triassic period, the only surviving pseudosuchians were small crocodylomorphs. Each of the major groups of dinosaurs had much larger survivors, leaving them in a better position to take over. The other was metabolism. While ancestrally terrestrial, most Cretaceous crocodylomorphs were ectothermic. Endotherms are usually better suited for the role of large terrestrial animals. Still, for a clade that started the Jurassic not much better off than mammals, crocodylomorphs did surprisingly well.
Great job!
Its good to sometimes learn about some interesting mesozoic animals which are not dinosaurs or pterosaurs. Prehistoric crocodiles are extremely underrated
remember when I said that Barinasuchus needs more pop culture love.
this goose to all the cool crocodylomorphs you've talked about like Quinkana, Simosuchus, and Voey Robustus.
Thanks...., now I love crocodiliomorphes....
Greetings bibia and thanks for the video 👍
The country I live in was flooded during the Mesozoic period, so few fossils are found on and around it. I recently learned that a crocodile fossil named turcosuchus was found around my country, and you made this video on it. It came across very well. Thanks for the video!
what country is it?
@@marko7552 Turkey.
Wow i did not know the genus was so diverse or long lived. Thanks for the vid, glad to have a channel focusing on crocodiliformes.
I think most of Gondwana aside from Australia and Antartica was close to the tropics for most of the mesozic, which would explain the domination of land crocs at the smaller end of the food web. Also perhaps the fact that they never experienced the drop in tempretures that parts of Laramidia(i butchered that didn't i?)did and thus crocodiliforme supremecy over these niches was never really challenged.
I love crocodilians and their extended families. They give the impression that if a niche is left open long enough, you can bet money a crocodilian will find a way to steal it. It is fascinating to imagine how a warm-blooded crocodilian would behave. I can't help but think of fantasy analogs for these animals, like drakes from D&D which are basically small dragons. The resemblance is uncanny.
I did learn something interesting. Thanks!
Great channel! It's fascinating to see these little-known (to me!) species, and it really fleshes out the picture of the biodiversity of the prehistoric landscape. The illustrations are excellent and evocative, and they really bring the animals to life. The window into paleontology's classification of fossil remains - the ability to determine species with fragmentary remains - is eye-opening to this lay-person.
Can you review Libycosuchus next time?
Hopefully in the future. It would be difficult right now due to the lack of available reconstructions of it.
1. It's pronounced (AH-ruh-REAP-eh-SUE-cuss).
2. If you think that _Araripesuchus rattoides_ deserves a separate genus, I predict that this new genus would be _Rattosuchus_ which means "rat crocodile".
Ps.: I just came up with that name myself.
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I love hearing about crocodylimorphs. I know so little about them. Thank you very much
I'd hate to be seen as pedantic in analogous ecology(okay you got me, I'd love to be seen as such, becauseits very importantin communicating and understanding), but i would pick anatosuchus a better spoonbill or maybe a swan or duck analogue. You can't call everything similar to a heron because at some point it ceases to be helpful.
Looking at you giant crocodile stork with sail.
Yesss more crocodylomorph videos please. Always fascinating to see the different off shoots of these animals.
Man I was a dog croc
I generally like your channel, but you tend to guess at pronunciations. For example, FINITE is pronounced, "fye-night".
Crocodiles have very vascularized osteoderms. I did not know that. interesting...
Nice video, RUclips needed more dinosaur channels
It'd be cool to find out they was venomous like snakes
Good boi croc :3
So cute
you are a hidden gem of a channel brother thank you
It's fun how you pronounce "Araripe".
But why are all of them so adorable ❤❤❤❤❤
Excelent video.
The only thing missing was the subtitles.
Truly, ancient Crocs are way more diverse than i expected. And with each video i learn about the diferent kind of the group. Really fascinating stuff.
Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for bringing the problem with the subtitles to my attention. I will try to fix them tomorrow.
So it turns out I simply forgot to publish them and they were still in draft form. It should be fixed now.
@@chimerasuchus thanks.
It's much better understand the things with subtitles.
Bow wow croc
awesome video
You forgot to include foetodon.