Shringasaurus: The Horned, Long-Necked Triassic Reptile

[@chimerasuchus]

This video is a remake of an older video I made. Although that video is now unlisted, it can still be viewed here if anyone wishes to compare the two: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKuWdJKljNymiqs.

[@SpliffingBrit]

You would suggest you pin this comment

[@posticusmaximus1739]

Great remake! Love your dedication to making the best paleo content!

[@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz]

Carnotaurus: Who are you? Shringasaurus: I'm you but more quadrupedal

[@42ZaphodB42]

I have honrs, but other then that I am nothing like you** ftfyi

[@admiralcat3809]

"I'm you but with arms"

[@jakubsolar4670]

And with wackier bodyplan.

[@johngr1747]

I'm you but with big forelimbs

[@1998topornik]

Shringasaurus is one of the coolest trissic weirdos in my opinion. It looks like those outdated dinosaur depictions from early XX century.

[@bonemarrow3439]

As indian, paleontology in India is a very underdeveloped field. This is very saddening as India during the Mesozoic was basically the new Zealand or Madagascar of it's time. A seperate island with it's own unique biosphere. Who knows what's buried in the sands here.

[@LudosErgoSum]

I look forward to hearing about Currysaurus, Naantyrannus, Pterotandoori and Ghandisuchus!

[@bonemarrow3439]

@@LudosErgoSum lol

[@alioramus1637]

Several genera of late cretaceous abelisaurs and titanosaurs have been discovered in india and even archosauriform.

[@ravenouself4181]

@@bonemarrow3439 Let's say I do go to India and do paleontological work. Would I be guaranteed access to "The Isle", "Saurian" and some home made delicious food?

[@shadowking1795]

I don't know much about India but yah that does sound sad

[@dralord1307]

Ok this narrator was better than the previous one. I still prefer your narration though. Its easy to tell you have a true passion for your videos.

[@jacobdalland1390]

I appreciate how you highlight the reptiles discovered in the past 10 years or so. In the 2000s I knew almost any Mesozoic reptile name I saw, but you're giving me a lot of new ones!

[@blondbraid7986]

Regarding the sexual dimorphism, while males are larger and more prone to interfighting in many mammals and crocodiles, in serveral large bird species it's the females that are larger and fighting one another for mates and territory. Given that Shringasaurus was an arcosaur, I find it a possibility worth pondering.

[@thomasborg6341]

Yes, but these are more like reptiles than dinos or avians, and take the green anole, for example. They fight for mates as well. Also it's very rare to have bird females fight for mates. I have finches and some like siskins and Cubans do fight for females, most of the time to the death!

[@calessel3139]

Who would have thought that silly slurpsaurus from the old 1950 & 60s dinosaur movies would accidentally turn out to be a rendition of a real prehistoric reptile.

[@majidskinnerkhan6960]

What I love about your channel is that you focus on dinosaurs and other beasts which no one has ever heard of. And they don’t get any weirder than this… 👍

[@jacobdalland1390]

The more you look at Triassic fauna, the wackier the Triassic period appears.

[@Alberad08]

Great documentation about a rarely featured contemporary of the early dinosaurs.

[@mymom1462]

Thanks for taking the time to cover less-well known fossil findings!

[@theprehistorichubert9448]

The very thing that I love about ur channel is how u focus on the less popular fauna and the less popular time periods such as the permian and the triassic, keep that up pls, also a fan request from me:could u cover the the different eurypterid [Sea scorpion] families , and I don't mean the popular ones instead more of the ones that people don't know about.

[@chimerasuchus]

I am glad you enjoy the videos, although prehistoric invertebrates are outside of my area of expertise/

[@nightmoth8808]

Plz 👉🥺👈

[@Mefilas._intrepidus7]

Awesome I love shringasaurus who else does

[@Ozymandias067]

Good video, keep it up. And greetings from Serbia.

[@parkerpshebnisky1051]

Thanks for doing a video on one of my fav Prehistoric animals!

[@AntoekneeDE]

Thanks, really enjoying the presentation of these lesser known species. Also reminds me to go and read up on when synapsids were reduced to a limited number of cervical vertebrae unlike the sauropsids…

[@thelaughinghyenas8465]

Good video, fascinating critter I have never heard of, and a good narrator.

[@Mikethekingboss]

Looks like a carno and a Komodo dragon had a baby

[@yallneedjesus5465]

I love how science goes "that's not how dinosaurs looked" then nature just goes "eyyyyyy"

[@ChrisMortJr.]

The thumbnail looks like two dongasaurus rexes having a swordfight

[@hollyodii5969]

This video was super interesting, thank you!

[@chimerasuchus]

You're welcome. I am glad you enjoyed it.

[@mlggodzilla1567]

Another great video 😎

[@wingedhussar1453]

This thing looks like a dragon without wings

[@joeshmoe8345]

Really cool, thanks G

[@entity_unknown_]

What an amazing bull-like beast. Almost looks more modern than later dinasaurs

[@entity_unknown_]

I say modern ig like speculative biology or the last 55 million years

[@martijn9568]

Hey CHimerasuchus. I'm not sure if you are aware, but I personally enjoy your video's more if you narrate them yourselves, but that's just a small personal preference.

[@govnopochta69]

Great vid as always. Maybe you could do one about Thalassodromeus, the pterosaur that may have walked on all fours much more often than others, and some triassic water reptiles, there's plenty to choose

[@FeralFelineFriend]

I wanna pet it so badly!!

[@sauraplay2095]

Nice video!👍

[@ellidominusser1138]

It looks fuckin amazing more amazing than most other dinosaurs

[@Daisygarcia812]

Look like a Komodo Dragon but with horns

[@lh3540]

My brain still can't accept that these were just casually walking around under our hotels and gyms. It seems like a different planet.

[@glebelrayparcon423]

Hey chimaerasuchus can you do a video on astorgosuchus? Also, great video 🦕🐲🌲

[@chimerasuchus]

Perhaps in the future. My main concern is the limited amount of art depicting Astorgosuchus.

[@glebelrayparcon423]

@@chimerasuchus yeah, astorgosuchus is not very well known like purrusaurus or deinosuchus.

[@kaniq6120]

I don't know why but for some reason I find this animal incredibly cute they're kind of like a very chonky and somewhat derpy dinosaur iguana ♥️

[@kotarojujo2737]

looks like early depiction of Iguanodon

[@denizen9998]

Next they'll find feathered shringasaurus.😱

[@jasonsantos3037]

The closest thing of a real life dragon.

[@Ra-Unhsiv]

Interesting 👍

[@Tuishimi]

Cool video! But, tree-top browsers? They were like, 3 feet at the withers, weren't they? Wouldn't that neck allow them to maybe reach 6 feet? Because they appear to be so "front-heavy" it seems unlikely they would rear up on their hind legs, at least not easily?

[@bibia666]

Liked... 👍 Greetings bibia. Ps YT didn't recommend this vid, despite i've joined this channel 🤷‍♂️.. Luckily i've got here eventually 😅

[@youregonnaattackthem]

Slurpsasarus should be a 7-11 as campaign

[@dunkleosteusyaetuanalien]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@Eye_Exist]

another of those prehistoric animals which look just like the paleontologists have made some crucial error with their looks.

[@ctibortrottelreiner3457]

Sorry to ask, but am I the only one who thinks the horned for looks like the hellhounds (think Zuul) from Ghostbusters 1?

[@theprehistorichubert9448]

Oh, yeh ur right it's more similar to zuul than to carno or other abelisaurs

[@ctibortrottelreiner3457]

There is no shringasaurus, only Zuul...

[@chimerasuchus]

There is actually an ankylosaurid dinosaur named after it. Its full name is Zuul crurivastator.

[@theprehistorichubert9448]

@@chimerasuchus that's cool (and sorta funny) I think somone told me about it before but thx for reminding me of it, btw natovenator is another dino with a funky name that I also find funny

[@danielb3573]

I want to ride one. I am very willing to pay good money for some to recreate this creature.

[@guybob548]

I knew Caveman the Film With Ringo Star was more historically accurate than previous thought!

[@rossmelnyk1900]

What were the other two long necked archosaurs the author mentioned?

[@mertian67]

Vİdeo about scutosaurus would be nice.

[@indrachristian341]

Can we talk about temnospondyli?

[@TheWhoamaters]

Always find it strange when non-dinosaurs are given a saurus name

[@chimerasuchus]

It just means "lizard" or "reptile".

[@thinkbolt]

What is that at 1:25 ???

[@chimerasuchus]

Garjainia, a type of erythrosuchid.

[@gnilogaming]

just... wow

[@darchandarchan7036]

it's almost triassic moose

[@firecracka94]

So a Carnotaurus head on a komodo dragon body

[@chimerasuchus]

Shringasaurus was much more heavily built than a Komodo dragon.

[@firecracka94]

@@chimerasuchus correction an obese komodo dragon

[@chimerasuchus]

@@firecracka94 Maybe a super sole Komodo dragon that never skipped neck day.

[@dinos9441]

how funny. I'm from Russia. If you translate the name into Russian, then etor will be - pangolin unzip your pants 🤣

[@sanjafire]

It would be so fun if the stocky horned ones were females and the herd functioned like hyaena packs :D either way, I love this thing to bits, 10/10 would attempt to own some instead of, like, cows or something

[@TeethToothman]

❤❤❤

[@posticusmaximus1739]

I love the obscurity of archosauromorphs! Proto-ruling lizards!

[@clomiancalcifer]

I wonder if the sex demography of the bone site might not suggest that it was a rutting or lekking grounds like one would see with modern cervids or birds....

[@austinhinton3944]

That's whatbi was thinking and could be one explanation for the larger number of males at the site.

[@chimerasuchus]

The presence of sexually immature individuals at the site makes that seem unlikely.

[@austinhinton3944]

@@chimerasuchus I do not see how the presence of juveniles precludes it being a lekking site. Juvenile shringasaurus could stay around adults for a while before they fledge and unlike humans most animals don't give a damn if young are around when they get their freak on. Did you know that there are birds where juveniles will assist an adult male in his mating dance?

[@shockdrake]

What is the genetically closest modern animal of Shringasaurus?

[@julianshepherd2038]

Dragon

[@rileyernst9086]

Whilst it was certainly browsing higher than anything else at the time I'd hesitate to say it fed from the tops of trees(shrubberies perhaps?), i mean the thing would need a scissor lift, or a chainsaw...

[@Thunderblock7889]

Spec evo does not rock. Its overrated. Also mistakes: -He claimed that Radiodonts and arthropods where related when in reality arthopods are suggested to have evolved from Radiodonts. -Radiodonts are not a "clade" but an order of dinocaridid lobopods. Not all groups are clades nor have to be clades. Taxonomy and phylogeny are different things. -He claimed that evolution's potential was "near-limitless" when thats false as evolution does have limits and resrtictions. This is my problem with the spec evo fandom, that they dont know the limits of evolution. -He claimed that Anomalocaris waa an "apex predator" when thats false as anomalocaris was found to feed on worms since its jaws where found to be too weak to break triblobites. Meaning that anomalocaris was just a regular predator. -Why did he said "non-avian dinosaur"? If just say "dinosaur" everyone knows your not talking about birds just as if I say "lizards" am not talking about snakes or worm lizards despite them being related.

[@admiralcat3809]

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is real!

[@AndrewDavis-sj6mb]

A slurper indeed😅

[@oussamalasfer4860]

Its remind me of more looking synapsid than reptile tbh

[@someoneelse540]

For legged carno

[@someoneelse540]

I sent this two months ago to only find out I spelt to four wrong

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

It could be the horns 📯 could appear in females, but they have no great selective pressure to keep them there. Kind of like nipples in human men.

[@raphlvlogs271]

different species are sexually dimorphic in different ways

[@jacobdawn4735]

eat your veggies chimera

[@rafexrafexowski4754]

What? It's not a fossil chimera, it is a valid species

[@chimerasuchus]

I think they were referring to me, although I wasn't the narrator of this video.

[@The-tyrant-lizard-king]

Obesitysuarus

[@mauddib696]

Great vidya👍

[@beltgirl]

Can you do a video on Sarcosuchus? I wouldn’t mind a lengthy one like the one on deinosuchus, and if you make it I really hope you make it clear that Sarcosuchus was not a crocodile, I feel like everyone thinks it is a crocodile due to the resemblance but it wasn’t and I know because I’m pretty sure I was one of them

[@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana]

The first lizard 🦎 going to be like: I'm innovative and have advanced features (many probably internal with no effect on the fossil record except causing decedents to survive). Stop comparing everyone directly to me. 😭😭😭😭😭 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹