Hyperodapedon: One Of The Strangest And Most Common Reptiles Of The Triassic Period

[@arrpe6935]

Oh wow, that's a "fresh" channel in youtube's paleo-pocket. Took me by surprise honestly, the video is so well presented that I thought it was made by someone who has been on YT for some time already. Great work man, keep it up!

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Just found him today, instant sub deserved.

[@mariastevens6406]

The voice sounds familiar, almost like Moth Light Media...

[@paulfear7860]

He breaks down everything so well and in a very structured way.

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

@@mariastevens6406 I've had the same thought about several different channels and honestly I think it's just a particular type of person is generally drawn to these types of fields and then they all sort of try to mimic one another's presentation, I see it the same in the mythology and religion sphere of KZbin all of the content creators seem to affect the same monotonous droning tone

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@@shinobi-no-bueno idk, I think Moth Light Media's voice is rather soothing. I often play a list of his videos at bedtime because it helps me relax enough to fall asleep.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

I love seeing how alien life on Earth used to be, really makes me wonder if this is the diversity in life you can find on just a single planet just imagine what unimaginable forms of life must exist out there in the universe.

[@angeliquebarbey971]

Yes. I am growing to realize how diverse and interesting the Triassic Period is for land-living tetrapods!

[@MasterHaloOne]

As most people are. Its not her fault. Everyone is told lies in school

[@muggensan8611]

What do you mean?

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@DripSupply TriASSic

[@adhvithnambiar3743]

For so long I used to think that the Triassic was the boring period out of the 3 cz it was the one with the not so cool Dinosaurs. But holy wrinkled rinkosaurs Batman, i was so so wrong! The Triassic is one of the most diverse and fascinating times ever.

[@Accountnolongerexists]

Aww it looks like a like a big hamster iguana Seriously though, what a bird-like face. Crazy how every once in a while we get to see peaks of the relations between animals. Convergent evolution is wild.

[@klashnacovak47]

Yes I can see my aunt Suzie.

[@donnerblitzen1388]

I thought bulldogs and komodo dragons were crossed somewhere, somewhen.

[@waterboyvlogs9130]

I thought it more resembled a snapping turtle crossed with a dog and a komodo

[@danthewatcher9681]

The hamster iguana of death and destruction! If only it was a predator :D A Land Snapping turtle!

[@austinweishaar2710]

Also sort of like a turtle

[@ThePalaeontologist]

They _were_ very common. Nothing lasts forever. They were up to ~70% of the palaeofauna of some mid-late Triassic palaeoecosystems, like that of the Ishigualasto Formation (NW Argentina, San Juan Basin), at the time, in SW Pangaea. They were the mainstay of the prey species for the apex predator of the formation, _Saurosuchus galilei_ which is a Prestosuchid, not a Dinosaur (although fairly closely related as a fellow Archosaurian) _Herrerasaurus ishigualastensis_ was the most common predator around. Even so, the large _Saurosuchus galilei_ was much rarer but even capable of preying on the smaller carnivorous Dinosaurs; I'm sure that the Prestosuchids/Rauisuchians had their violent clashes with the Herrerasaurids - there is even a skull of a _Herrerasaurus_ with what are thought to be bite marks/punctures from a _bigger_ predator than it was. And what carnivore at Ishigualasto was bigger than a _Herrerasaurus ishigualastensis_ indeed? Of course, it was the beastly _Saurosuchus galilei_ itself; the only thing around which could fit their heads in it's jaws. _Herrerasaurus ishigualastensis_ would have preyed on other reptiles like the Rhynchosaurs such as the old _Hyperodapedon_ as a matter of course. They were the most common - but not nearly the biggest - herbivores around; giant Dicynodonts would be far more challenging prey for even the big predators, but yes even they would be hunted down. A range of smaller reptiles and amphibians lived there too. _Saurosuchus_ was the king of it's territorial range; but in reality, the _Herrerasaurus_ was probably the carnivore you'd have to worry about more, because they outnumbered _Saurosuchus_ greatly, at least as far as fossil evidence reveals (preservational biases might be likely however) But what is absolutely crystal clear, is that _Hyperodapedon_ was everywhere! _Hyperodapedon_ also lived in Brazil too, as well India, Europe, North America and Africa. Merry Christmas everybody.

[@DieFlabbergast]

My doctor tells me I will be extinct within thirty years, tops. I can identify with these species.

[@ThePalaeontologist]

@@DieFlabbergast "That's not how the force works!" - Han Solo

[@SCP-173_]

hey how do i do italics on my comments?

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

I'm a bit confused, are you refuting something in the video or just doling out some extra information?

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@@SCP-173_ unfortunately you have to be Italian and type sideways

[@universodolucas6023]

Triassic is such an interesting and magnificent period

[@generaldissatisfaction5397]

Permian and Triassic animals are so curious.

[@hoibsh21]

I wish I was there.

[@ThatGuyRomero]

Agreed, touche my ppls, touche

[@ThatGuyRomero]

Wow crazy guys was literally just saying the same things schooling my wife on some prehistory , that the precambrian and triassic epochs are such an epically fascinating time periods of early flora and fauna, damn it would be so incredibly amazing to time travel back and take a peak, lol better wear body armor and not step on any butterflies

[@Blackwolfufk]

@@ThatGuyRomero Fallout 4 armor would work, but I would preferer Stark Tech Nano suits.

[@daniell1483]

I love learning about the history of life on land. So many fascinating, unique animals filling niches that we still recognize today. Evolution looks like an arms race with occasional extinction events clearing the slate, allowing brand new forms of life to thrive. I wonder just how different the world would be if just one of those extinction events hadn't happened, how different things would be today.

[@Blackwolfufk]

And just think, we know of 5-6 major extinction level events, just imagine all the local or species wide event that happens, often.

[@jamesharmer9293]

Well, we probably wouldn't be here to think about it.

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[@petersmythe6462]

Archosaurs: evolve from quadrupedal cold-blooded ancestor with a 3-chambered heart, no fuzzy integument, and horizontal limbs. Pseudosuchians: evolve from bipedal warm-blooded archosaurian ancestor with 4-chambered heart, fuzzy integument, and vertical limbs. Crocodiles: *Reject modernity, embrace lizard!*

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1,000 subs? Now you got 57,000!

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[@Primordial_Soup]

2:31 AM is not the time I should be discovering a new channel to subscribe to and binge, lol. Great content, genuinely one of my favorite extinct animals!

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Wow! Nearly sixty thousand views!! Your channel has really blown up lately. Glad I have been with you from the early days...

[@generaldissatisfaction5397]

18 hours later and it has nearly eighty thousand views!

[@nyeti7759]

I always enjoy your videos, but this one gives a particularly fascinating insight into the world the dinosaurs first appeared in and the chain of events that led them to dominance. Great work!

[@edwardfletcher7790]

It looks remarkably like that fast Martian dog creature from the 2012 movie "John Carter" lol Just like how the Mandalorian "Mud horn" looks incredibly similar to Elasmotherium I guess. Really impressed with your work, instant subscribe 👍

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Lol same

[@anteperic7849]

Woola ❤⚡

[@mikesnyder1788]

Wow! At first glance I thought these guys were the stem mammal Dicynodonts! Thanks for the excellent content!

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[@desertwolf8089]

Fascinating!

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Another channel talking about prehistoric monsters? Instant sub

[@adhvithnambiar3743]

I just want to say I adore your content and information. It's absolutely such a fresh and new influx of learning within the already overrated and yet somehow under explored Mesozoic Era. Thanks you for your work. And also, thank you for working on your narration and sound quality. I know criticism can be tough but you've just sailed through and come out better than ever.

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Great stuff! Keep it up!

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Just don't go back to far. The oldest ones are being remade with better audio for a reason.

[@janegael]

@@chimerasuchus LOL Audio doesn't bother me if the content is good and yours looks pretty darn good.

[@crocopix]

Great job, subscribed.

[@VictorianTimeTraveler]

I had a nice opportunity to view and enjoy the impressive fossil collection at my local Community College recently. They had a beautiful hyperadapted on specimen.

[@maozilla9149]

awesome video of Hyperodapedon

[@ArieteArmsRAMLITE]

Good report thank you.

[@blueraptorgaming064]

Fantastic video!!!!!! Please keep up the great work

[@roxyamused]

It's interesting how much hyperodapedon is to lystrosaurus. They are the unsung heroes of extinction events. I think the Lystrosaurus is the capybara of the PTE. I guess Hyperodapedon is the late Triassic capy

[@oliveisalive]

Underrated channel

[@RosieTheMushrum]

yes! another paleo-channel for me to binge! this video was awesome and I love this hamster looking boi!

[@dimitargueorguiev9088]

Who is the artist signed Tiko on some of the images? Very nice work

[@bloodandempire]

Awesome video ❤️

[@davidegaruti2582]

Is there some kind of rule as to why these kind of small stocky erbivores come to dominate ecosystems so completely during and afther mass extinctions ?

[@DeandreSteven]

I imagine its an easy niche to fill whilst there are no specified herbivores or many carnivores to prey on/compete with them

[@Kyle-vg2io]

I think it's because they focus their resources on eating and reproducing(as opposed to say, fighting or complex and specialized feeding strategies). A sudden drop in predators and specialized competition makes those investments start paying out hand over fist.

[@davidegaruti2582]

@@Kyle-vg2io oh , so they are essentially like rabbits , they are breeding like rabbits

[@lavona8204]

We see a far greater density of prey animals than predators even in modern times. Gotta have a balance.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Another ancient critter channel that YT has hidden from me until now? Why, YT? Why? Still, I'm impressed with the quality of this video, so here's not only a like and a comment for the Almighty Algorithm, but a new subscriber, too!

[@mikeyerke3920]

Nice presentation. I’m in. Subbed.

[@cygnusprime6728]

Thanks for the info, very interesting

[@guyh.4553]

Cool video. As I learn more, the earlier Epochs get more & more interesting.

[@Thenoobyone2981]

i jjust learned something new than just dinosaurs coelanthus mawsonia but Hyperodapedon thank oyu for teaching me a new creature i didnt know existed!

[@buzzbee8869]

Yt really out here hiding gems like this from me huh. Nice video dude🙌🏿

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hey! great channel! you deserve many many more subscribers!!!!!! keep it up! i just subbed!

[@goyoelburro]

I am fascinated by "transitional" periods. Thank you for making this video.

[@stephenl5416]

I effing love this channel

[@chimerasuchus]

I am glad you enjoy it.

[@mortified776]

Great video! And covering something others haven't. Look forward to seeing this channel claim it's niche in the paeleotube ecosystem.

[@whereskentuckybruce8245]

I remember seeing a drawing of a herrerasaurus eating a hyperodapedon in a book I had. I never knew what it was until now Edit: 6:09 there’s the image!

[@ksternberg7407]

Great video 👍👍 : ) i'll be checking out more on this channel for sure

[@mmaxmax6]

omg tysm for the accurate subtitles 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Afrologist]

Don't take this the wrong way bro, but I actually really like your voice. Idk why it's just perfect.

[@chimerasuchus]

Thanks. It is certainly a major improvement from my earlier videos, where my narration was so poor I am rerecording them.

[@Afrologist]

@@chimerasuchus Cringing at past content is perfectly natural, but I'd watch the reups anyways. I never get tired of paleo vids as a Zoology major myself

[@Brumbasse22]

Amazing 🧡

[@posticusmaximus1739]

4:25 barney the dinosaur color scheme?

[@janbaltes2863]

Thanks, this was awesome :)

[@Clearlight201]

Very interesting, thank you!

[@ryarod]

The rational ways I should be considering this creature are, unfortunately, being overridden with a powerful wish to pet it. I wonder how one of these might have reacted to a head scratching.

[@BadVoodo0]

An unsung hero, thank you for being the hot pockets which allowed the dinosaurs to exist

[@Lcmusic1-v3x]

This is a very interesting channel! The Hyperodapedon reminds me a lot of turtles in how they look, my turtles have a bit of a similar beak as well haha (although this is most likely convergent evolution, I don't know what the exact evolutionary history of turtles is actually)

[@agen5573]

If their beak was exposed then it does look like a rodent's front teeth, also nice video dude!

[@arrpe6935]

One afterthought - saying that dinosaurs were a prelude to mammals is... Kind of inaccurate. Dinos have been a dominant group in earths ecosystems for multiple times longer than mammals 😁

[@chimerasuchus]

It is very inaccurate. However, that is how the dinosaurs were viewed for a long time. My point was neither the dinosaurs nor Hyperodapedon should be seen as just prologue to the story of something else.

[@MrSkeltal268]

@@chimerasuchus i think humans in general have a tendency toward viewing everything on a linear path to something “better”. You get older, you get wiser. You work at a hobby, years later you’re a master. We tend to view evolution this way too. But it isn’t that way, at least it has no conscious decision of “better” just survival and procreation. And multiple periods of time during earths long life have had different environments suited for different creatures. Some creatures look absolutely primitive to us absolutely excelled in the timeframe they lived in. It’s not black and white as “here is the archaic predecessor to X animal” but instead a much more complex picture….

[@DrewWasMe]

Interesting video. How closely are the hyperodapedon related to our current Tuatara species?

[@chimerasuchus]

They are pretty distant relations. The tuatara is the last survivor of Rhynchocephalia, which is part of the same branch of reptiles as Squamata (lizards and snakes). Hyperodapedon is a member of Archosauromorpha, the same group of reptiles as crocodlians and birds.

[@-oysterthief4444]

Great video! Tip: work on your pronunciation for “foliage” and “especially”. Great video though, seriously 👍

[@LudosErgoSum]

The menagerie of Triassic biota look like the weird dinosaur models I got in a plastic bag along with palm trees and rocks. This age was that weird.

[@kevinwilson140]

From the looks of it I would postulate that it was filling the ecological niche currently occupied by beavers. Probably not aquatic and trees have changed quite a bit but essentially the same.

[@andrewshepherd7504]

Very informative seen alot of dinosaurs I've never heard of lol maybe you can make a vid that has every dinosaur that's ever lived with timelines? That's something I've always wanted to see but most vids and books only show so much

[@karlhakansson1706]

Good jobb.

[@primus6677]

Strange, I love it!

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

On first glance it kinda looks like some kind of Protoceratops but without a big neck shield on its head or more like an entirely different type of animal that started to develop similar attributes to fill what seems like a similar niche in the places it lived, it also seems smaller and lower to the ground.

[@douglasthescottishtwin3989]

7:19 Unaysaurus

[@hoibsh21]

Dey r soo cuuute!!

[@effoednagy1]

7:48 Does anyone know what therapod that's supposed to be? It looks really cool

[@davidegaruti2582]

I suppose it would be cryolophosaurus , the crested arctic lizard

[@effoednagy1]

@@davidegaruti2582 Thanks

[@gamewithadam7235]

Randomly clicked on 1:24 and was like wtf??

[@shinigamiusagi4463]

I didn’t ask for this KZbin….. But thank you…

[@sweedy6647]

7:18 Giraffe-dinosaur instills a certain fear in me that I cannot describe

[@stevensmith6445]

Me and a group of friends were going town to a hidden waters reserve, doing our Scooby Doo thing at about 3am. When we got down to the edge of the lake/spring we saw a group of white to beige frog/duck (All I could think of. Frog body, bird like beak) like creatures that all fled into the water making such a ruckus I didn't hear all of my friends leaving me by myself!! When I seen this thumbnail I almost $hit a memory brick!! The eyes and mouth are unmistakable.

[@bradalexander6252]

Good Video

[@degeneration6493]

1:23 It’s those martians from John Carter!!

[@anteperic7849]

That speedster dog Woola ⚡🤣🐕

[@Kiwi_Tea]

Eee you mentioned our Tuatara

[@screamingbaboon664]

Half toad half lizard creature. Pretty ugly but not bad, woulda bin a nice pet. Cuter than a bulldog.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

And probably could breathe a hundred times better!

[@michaeldy3157]

Love it

[@ChicagoScorpion]

4:04 I remember that image from a certain book I used to read a long time ago. Forgot the name of the book though.

[@chimerasuchus]

It is from Dinosaur Worlds by Don Lessem.

[@80sday36]

I guess the martian dog on the John Carter of Mars movie was inspired by this Hyperodapedon looks.

[@anteperic7849]

Woola ❤⚡

[@patriotjohn3179]

Nice video well researched Your changing the images a little to fast though I would suggest staying on an image longer

[@ice9594]

WOW! The creatures @8:50 look so real it’s like a photo! Great artwork. In school we only learned about a few of the ancient animals, so this is very interesting, thanks.

[@douglasthescottishtwin3989]

6:34 That looks so creepy.

[@maozilla9149]

yeah it does its like looking at you

[@douglasthescottishtwin3989]

@@maozilla9149 Looks high

[@maozilla9149]

@@douglasthescottishtwin3989 ikr

[@rileyernst9086]

They look like little parrot lizards. I guess they could make short work of low hanging nuts amd dig for roots and tubers. The triassic was pretty dry and arid so I'd imagine plants would have invested in underground tubers and rhyzomes that they might retreat to during the dry season, and sprout from during rains.

[@Medicbagg]

Triassic creatures are interesting maybe even more interesting than the jurassic or the cretaceous creatures

[@Medicbagg]

Also a fresh and new healthy channel I hope you get to be a big boi

[@tylernaturalist6437]

Sorry for the awkward question, but what part of the country are you from? I’ve heard a few other KZbinrs pronounce “during” as “dearing”, rather than the more common “durr-ing” that I hear during my time in the Northeast and California

[@christosvoskresye]

6:33 In this reconstruction it looks like it is trying to be a very early, very small ceratopsian.

[@JonFrumTheFirst]

I remember these - I used to see a lot of them when I went for walks.

[@falcoperegrinus82]

One small nitpick: Genera (jen-er-uh), not Genre.

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

If they can stabilize the climate, we should bring them back. I want one for a pet.

[@AidanMartin]

wow this would have been very useful for the research for the first episode of my remnants of time series which you should checkout.

[@joshuabradshaw9120]

Interesting how different time periods in history had animals that filled every niche we can think of for modern mammals.

[@baneblackguard584]

my first thought was 'turtle without a shell'

[@spymaine89]

their vision was great, note the bone rings in the eye. eye muscle attachment sites giving great range of vision. .

[@thelaughinghyenas8465]

I enjoyed it. Somehow it seems "bare," but at the 1K viewer stage, you're doing well.

[@自由吗]

That's my pug.

[@cosmobane6995]

The thumbnail art makes them look like terrestrial dunkleosteus

[@Accountnolongerexists]

Me hearing about ancient reptiley dudes that could probably eat me : only 1.5-2 metres, that's not that big! Also me when a little bitty mouse runs across the floor : * jumps into my partner's arms like Scooby Doo and Shaggy at the mention of a ghost *

[@Aledahal]

Looks like the martian dog thing in john carter

[@flavortown3781]

Good movie and books

[@Brahbrahbrah]

Are they related to hyper dapper dons we see today by any chance or is that a whole other species?

[@MermaidMakes]

“Hello, science? ….yes, I’ll take one, please.”