Protopyknosia: A new group of Triassic reptiles with pachycephalosaur-like domes.

[@hoibsh21]

Optimus Prime: For I am the leader of the GoBots and..... Triopticus Primus: Hold my dome.

[@nickkorkodylas5005]

Congratulations! This is your first video I had to wiki the title! Few other paleochannels managed to do that.

[@terririnella4032]

Predatory headbutting.... the Triassic really was all about experimentation... I know it was a stretch but I would have loved for that to be true and to still exist... I know many creatures knock prey down before attacking, but headbutting seems like a herbivorous trait nowadays but the idea of an ambush where it comes out of now where, crashes into you with its head, probably in the flank or ribs then finishing off with a bite (or imagine it killed it's prey with a headbutt), that deserves a video

[@glynncordry5965]

"Triassic really...about experimentation" I think that is a misconception. Not in that there wasn't a lot of experimentation, but that the period or the experiments were unique compared to other periods. The Triassic was ~50 million years. The Jurassic about ~56. The Cretaceous about ~80. Post Cretaceous about ~65. There were extinction events at the boundary between each, (and the Permian/Triassic) except for between the Jurassic and Cretaceous. There was rapid diversification in the recovery periods for each, and then waves of radiation and diversification as geography and climate changed. We have plenty of odd mammals, birds, dinosaurs, archeosaurs, ect....it is just our notion of "odd" changes as fossils of extinct species are discovered. I think whale evolution is just as weird as anything the Triassic came up with, and mosasaurs are basically the same story.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Happily given like, and humorous or insightful comment, for the Almighty Algorithm, here. 👋😊 Watching many of these in a row, and doing other things, so you get a copypasta. Carry on.

[@danielled8665]

There are iguanas with a similar dome, are there not?

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

One more piece of Weirdness Gifted from the Triassic, the original Home of the Weird.

[@shibolinemress8913]

Protopyknosia sounds so much like prosopagnosia that I get the words mixed up. However, I doubt I'd ever fail to recognise that face! 😉

[@posticusmaximus1739]

I guess this vid is now on deck for a remake?

[@chimerasuchus]

Yep.

[@thenewguyinred]

0:32 It looks a like a lizard with a dolphin head.

[@donkeykong6426]

my guess is they ate soft grass, bushes,some roots and leaves sometimes flowers or fruit as well

[@chimerasuchus]

Grass and proper fruit had not evolved by the Triassic Period.

[@DulceN]

I am extremely interested in the content of this channel as I find it fascinating, but could you please pronounce words more clearly?

[@posticusmaximus1739]

What a strange request

[@shockdrake]

Does Genetically closest modern animal of Protopyknosia is crocodile and bird?

[@chimerasuchus]

@@shockdrake Yes.

[@fryeguy7109]

Pachy stem species?

[@posticusmaximus1739]

If non-dino archosaurs weren't obscure enough, than you have the non-archosaur Archosauromorphs like that famous bobblehead Erythrosuchus and then the not so famous... uhh these ram killer things

[@joeshmoe8345]

How come your voice is so nasaly? It’s like half of your sounds are partially voiced through your nose

[@DulceN]

It’s quite hard to understand, I sadly missed some of what he said because of it.

[@TeethToothman]

🫀🦖🫀

[@brianedwards7142]

Sleestaks.

[@babbarr77]

Your speaking is.garbled

[@jeffbourke7901]

Totally aurally unintelligible......