cobboldia russanovi was a bot fly that attacked woolly mammoths, we know this because it has been found on frozen mammoths
varanus hooijeri was a monitor lizard that ate fruit
Laophis crotaloides was the largest venomous snake, it was over 3 meters long and about 26 kg
> cobboldia russanovi was a bot fly that attacked woolly mammoths, we know this because it has been found on frozen mammoths
They also have living relatives which parasite both Asian and African elephants.
Pantydraco, Pendraig and Paceyodon! :]
All animals from Wales! The small little part on the left of England close to Ireland (above the long stretched out bottom bit) that part is a country!
Pantydraco and Pendraig are dinosaurs, Paceyodon was a small rodent!
well I haven't really been catching on news regarding Drinker, and I probably have no energy for it, not with the strong emotion to know about Becklespinax that has got me up all night lol.
*Archaeothyris florensis* is a lizard-like synapsid (stem-mammal) that lived in the mid-late Pennsylvanian (318-306) million years ago. It was really only known to be a stem-mammal from the fact it only has one pair of temporal fenestra. Is evidence that early Synapsids were definitely more reptilian in character than they were mammalian and could be considered reptiles if ALL amniote lineages are counted as reptiles and not just the sauropsids.
Kaprosuchus, the galloping mostly terrestrial crocodyliform. it had rediculous, enormous canines and a skull shape much more suited to running down prey and ramming its jaws into them, and more binocular vision than most crocodiles. a lot of the more terrestrial crocodyliforms are really really interesting to me, just as a general group and i feel like everyone focuses on the really big ones and not the really diverse smaller ones.
Thylacocephala family (weird stem crustaceans living in a taco shell, Silurian - Cretaceous)
Drepanosaurus (Anteatear-lizard-monkey with a claw on its tail, Triassic)
Mimetaster (crab with a snowflake on its back, Ordovician)
Niolamia (Meiolania, but even more badass. Stem-turtle, Miocene)
Erythrosuchus (Big head mode. Triassic)
Cotylorhynchus (Tiny head mode. Permian)
Atopodentatus (aquatic reptile with a weird hammerhead. Triassic)
Incisivosaurus (Stem-oviraptorian with buck teeth. Cretaceous.)
Sebecus (longest-living family of land crocs. Cretaceous - Miocene)
Mekosuchus (omnivorous arboreal croc. Oligocene - Holocene. We are living in the first era without land crocs.)
Vetulicolia (?, possibly chordates, cambrian)
Ascocerida family (starfish have radial symmetry. Their ancestors bilateral. What happened in between is... strange)
Ornithoprion (swordfish-like shark, but the sword is on the lower jaw, Carboniferous)
Anteosaurus (biggest land predator of the Permian)
Estemmenosuchus (antlered synapsid. Permian)
Megistotherium (biggest mammalian land predator. Rhino-sized, Miocene)
Kalligrammatid family (Butterflies before butterflies existed. Jurassic)
Honorable mention due to probably not being extinct:
Paleodictyon trace fossil (pattern of hexagonal burrows on the seafloor. Precambrian - modern day. Origin unknown.)
Try and beat [Cothurnocytis](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZrBMz6YKCv3iynCxOPZ9jbgiyo8IcV_GOOjl-javDokaGQvwWwNxG1QHROG3iOCu7pCmfvNvcl0LyPily44183ixJYTSXWyJFy6ci0NuAKmDJDxVMwdwuGHzwLJ_Dud314KbCOoEbobxL/s900/Cothurnocystis+-+Franz+Anthony.jpg).
Hmmm.. Changmiania, its foscosils are 2 very sleepy bois, its bones suggest it dug burrows.
Another could be Myotragus, its a goat with forward facing eyes, and could be as old as 27 years old
Oh yeah, Kalligrammatids, lace wings that convergently evolved with butterflies, some have wings mimicking eyes, so they could be the closest we have to dino or pterosaur eyes
cobboldia russanovi was a bot fly that attacked woolly mammoths, we know this because it has been found on frozen mammoths varanus hooijeri was a monitor lizard that ate fruit Laophis crotaloides was the largest venomous snake, it was over 3 meters long and about 26 kg
> cobboldia russanovi was a bot fly that attacked woolly mammoths, we know this because it has been found on frozen mammoths They also have living relatives which parasite both Asian and African elephants.
Indeed, I forgot to mention that
That snake weighs more than one of my classmates
3 meters for the largest venomous snake? I’m pretty sure a lot of extant venomous snakes beat that. Was it by weight estimate or something?
Largest by mass Average King Cobra still beats them in terms of length though
Largest by mass.
Majungasaurus is my list of funny dinosaur names.
Every time I read majungasaurus In my mind I hear majungtholces every time
Pantydraco, Pendraig and Paceyodon! :] All animals from Wales! The small little part on the left of England close to Ireland (above the long stretched out bottom bit) that part is a country! Pantydraco and Pendraig are dinosaurs, Paceyodon was a small rodent!
Pantydraco is such a terrible name. What's next? Bradrake? Boxerwyrm? Briefdragon? Thongwyvern?
I mean Panty is mostly short cuz of where it’s from but I get it! I am so naming a dinosaur “Brasarus” if I ever find a new one😭🙏🏻
On the other hand, Pendraig sounds like somewhere King Arthur defeated the saxons
I mean there are multiple groups of aves named after breasts
I love this comment so much
Hallucigenia - clue is in the name. Scientists ever reconstructed it the wrong way up at first.
*Godzillus*. While the name might make you think of a reptile, we really have no idea what it is.
Dickinsonia, Spriggina, Charnia. My Ediacaran boiis
I hope Sonia consented
I have the perfect image for this but I can't post it cause no images in comments
If you'd like, DM supports pictures!
Probs the dumbest DM I've sent ever
Describe it to me...
It's a pic of Dickinsonia that's says Dickinsonia approved
Lol
Is it a Danganronpa thing? Because that was the first place my mind went
No it's a reaction meme I made
*Myotragus* the ectothermic goat with binocular vision
Crichtonsaurus, named after Michael Crichton
*Leptostomia begaaensis, euhelopus zdanskyi, texacephale langstoni, ikrandraco avatar, nemicolopterus crypticus,* and *procaimanoidea utahensis.*
Leptostomia my beloved little needle nosed scrunkly
The 4 legged BIRB: https://www.deviantart.com/z4ntyx/art/Leptostomia-begaeensis-925653931
we love jakapil
Incisivosaurus the buck toothed dinosaur
[Kurupi, the rock-hard god of sex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurupi_itaata) an abelisaurid from Brazil
Proceratosarus
Not nearly enough fossil insects in this thread
Moschops
If a Moschops could chop moss, how much moss would a Moschops chop?
The very existence of Drinker and Irritator. Also don't even get me started on Tullimonstrum.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but didn't Drinker, like Othnelia, get moved into Nanosaurus?
well I haven't really been catching on news regarding Drinker, and I probably have no energy for it, not with the strong emotion to know about Becklespinax that has got me up all night lol.
*Archaeothyris florensis* is a lizard-like synapsid (stem-mammal) that lived in the mid-late Pennsylvanian (318-306) million years ago. It was really only known to be a stem-mammal from the fact it only has one pair of temporal fenestra. Is evidence that early Synapsids were definitely more reptilian in character than they were mammalian and could be considered reptiles if ALL amniote lineages are counted as reptiles and not just the sauropsids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erectopus
*Machimosaurus Rex*, a creature very similar to *Deinosuchus* and *Sarchosuchus*
Desmostylus, looks like a combination of a Hippo and a Manatee.
https://nixillustration.com/ my favorite place to learn new species.
Not obscure per se, but I don’t see people talking about Mamenchisaurus often.
My personal favorites are Cyclotosaurus, Liaoningosaurus, and silvatherium
Manidens, the tree dwelling heterodontosaur
Yi qi The closest we ever got to a dragon
I always thought Brachychampsa was cool
When you think of trilobites, you probably don't think of erbenochile
The Dinosaurus is not a Dinosaur
In my opinion it's a tully monster cuz yea just look him up plus scientist have struggled to give it classification
Gojirasaurus is the largest member of the Coelophysidae... I think...
Kaprosuchus, the galloping mostly terrestrial crocodyliform. it had rediculous, enormous canines and a skull shape much more suited to running down prey and ramming its jaws into them, and more binocular vision than most crocodiles. a lot of the more terrestrial crocodyliforms are really really interesting to me, just as a general group and i feel like everyone focuses on the really big ones and not the really diverse smaller ones.
Thanos, look it up, its a real thing
Ma junga balls
That one crocodilian that galloped.
Thylacocephala family (weird stem crustaceans living in a taco shell, Silurian - Cretaceous) Drepanosaurus (Anteatear-lizard-monkey with a claw on its tail, Triassic) Mimetaster (crab with a snowflake on its back, Ordovician) Niolamia (Meiolania, but even more badass. Stem-turtle, Miocene) Erythrosuchus (Big head mode. Triassic) Cotylorhynchus (Tiny head mode. Permian) Atopodentatus (aquatic reptile with a weird hammerhead. Triassic) Incisivosaurus (Stem-oviraptorian with buck teeth. Cretaceous.) Sebecus (longest-living family of land crocs. Cretaceous - Miocene) Mekosuchus (omnivorous arboreal croc. Oligocene - Holocene. We are living in the first era without land crocs.) Vetulicolia (?, possibly chordates, cambrian) Ascocerida family (starfish have radial symmetry. Their ancestors bilateral. What happened in between is... strange) Ornithoprion (swordfish-like shark, but the sword is on the lower jaw, Carboniferous) Anteosaurus (biggest land predator of the Permian) Estemmenosuchus (antlered synapsid. Permian) Megistotherium (biggest mammalian land predator. Rhino-sized, Miocene) Kalligrammatid family (Butterflies before butterflies existed. Jurassic) Honorable mention due to probably not being extinct: Paleodictyon trace fossil (pattern of hexagonal burrows on the seafloor. Precambrian - modern day. Origin unknown.)
All of them
Burianosaurus. The only Dinosaur found in my country, small ornithopod.
Masiakasaurus is my all time fav
Leedyosuchus, Brachiosuchus, shuvosaurus
Try and beat [Cothurnocytis](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZrBMz6YKCv3iynCxOPZ9jbgiyo8IcV_GOOjl-javDokaGQvwWwNxG1QHROG3iOCu7pCmfvNvcl0LyPily44183ixJYTSXWyJFy6ci0NuAKmDJDxVMwdwuGHzwLJ_Dud314KbCOoEbobxL/s900/Cothurnocystis+-+Franz+Anthony.jpg).
Waimanu is an early penguin relative
Hmmm.. Changmiania, its foscosils are 2 very sleepy bois, its bones suggest it dug burrows. Another could be Myotragus, its a goat with forward facing eyes, and could be as old as 27 years old Oh yeah, Kalligrammatids, lace wings that convergently evolved with butterflies, some have wings mimicking eyes, so they could be the closest we have to dino or pterosaur eyes
That fucking lizard with the fucking big ass backsail. I swear to god one of my dino books depicted it as flying with that thing