Uintatheres - The Dawn Kings of the Eocene

The aftermath of the KPG extinction event which saw all of the non-avian dinosaurs go extinct, as well as a large swath of other animals at the end of the Mesozoic left open a great amount of niches in its aftermath. Said niches, particularly those of large herbivores, were swiftly filled by many taxa, many of them being mammals, which were now unburdened by the presence of the dinosaurs, one of these key early groups being the Dinoceratans or Uintatheres. I hope you enjoy.
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[@gattycroc8073]

the early Cenozoic is a tremendously underrated and underrepresented time period in prehistory due to the many different mammals and other creatures that were evolving during the aftermath of the KPG extinction.

[@KhanMann66]

According to the general public anything that isn’t in the ice age doesn’t exist.

[@The_PokeSaurus]

I remember always having a toy of a Uintatherium as a kid but never knew what the Hell the name was.

[@jamesivie5717]

I live in Utah. I was fascinated, as a child when I saw a Uintatherium in the museum in Vernal. Loved em' ever since. I have a very detailed vinyl model in my study, made by collectA. Thanks for the video.

[@BigBossMan538]

I believe that uintatherium needs to be in a documentary or a video game, accurately reconstructed. They don’t get the time to shine

[@invisiblejaguar1]

They are briefly encountered in Turok Evolution

[@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking]

Ark II is coming out. We can hope :)

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

Imagine not being a taxonomic mess thanks to Cope and Marsh. Leidy rare *W*

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Anytime those dudes got involved, things became a hot mess. XD

[@Never_heart]

The joys of 2 paleontology tsunderes going at it

[@KhanMann66]

Still cleaning up their mess today. Being a paleontologist requires great patience.

[@reeyees50]

They did do great contributions to paleontology. So far the biggest drama in the paleontology scene after the million dollar trex skulls

[@mhdfrb9971]

@@KhanMann66 Paleontology is still a new field at that time. What do you expect?

[@DragonFae16]

I would most definitely be interested in a video about Smilodon's sabres. Because, considering the way enamel behaves if it isn't kept moist, Smilodon must have had some kind of adaptation to allow them to have such long and protruding teeth.

[@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking]

_Cause saber fangs are tight!_

[@jameswilliams2075]

There are theory they had mastif like lips

[@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking]

@@jameswilliams2075 _Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!_

[@a.r.h9919]

​​@@jameswilliams2075it would have been utterly impractical and detrimental at such sizes to have such lips and if the cave art in Arizona actually depicts a smilodon it would have shown exposed canines I don't get honestly how musk deer isn't proof enough that mammals can have exposed canines, Tasmanian devils also have partially exposed canines

[@SoulDelSol]

There are boars with protruding tusks that are fine

[@bookwyrms.2658]

So many fascinating creatures i wish still existed (admittedly often only if safely protected from)

[@rileyernst9086]

And them from us!

[@SoulDelSol]

​@@rileyernst9086i think that's what they meant

[@generaldissatisfaction5397]

Oooh, awesome beasts the Dinoceratans. This should be good.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Was very fun to work on! Had a lot of diversity!

[@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking]

"Alright God, I've got some ideas for your next creation!" God: "Hit me!" "Well, it's a group of large mammals..." God: "How novel!" "I know, right? Well, they'll pre-date rhinos and hippos, with a similar body." God: "Ok." "Many options for accessories here - just choose between ossicones, horns, bony noses, and saber fangs, and we're done!" God: "Yes!" "Wait...which ones did you want? You need only choose a single-" God: "Yessssss!"

[@reeyees50]

Sometimes this very early group reminds of the hippos, huge bodies and heads, and scary canines that arent used for eating meat but messing each other up

[@josephjohnson6849]

I first saw this animal when I was 4 or 5 in some old golden book with a stamp on each page. Called Utah beast.

[@kuitaranheatmorus9932]

When i remember having this guy in Jurassic Park Builder he always peak my interest for sure and this video was great

[@Kentuckyhunter58]

Love these types of videos

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Much appreciated! I'm aiming to make more after my exams finish for the year. :)

[@Svensk7119]

Decent video. My previous didn't address that. Thanks.

[@minted1841]

Admire the time/work that goes into making these videos. Keep going Henry you’re doing great :)

[@madderhat5852]

Thanks Henry, I love the great beasts and so much more needs to bring them and their neighbours to light.

[@_robustus_]

What if gobiarherium’s snout was a snorkel? Not unlike some crocodilians.

[@Ektor-yj4pu]

Uintatheriums were the kings of this planet in the Early Eocene: no other animal could stop them from doing whatever they wanted and travelling everywhere.

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

*Begun, the Bone Wars have.*

[@reeyees50]

Crazy big animals

[@troycoley-cn5bb]

Amazing Video XD

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Glad you liked it!

[@auditect950]

Who else misses Uintatheres?

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

I sure do. They would have been really cool to see alive.

[@HassanMohamed-rm1cb]

🦈Hey Henry The PaleoGuy, are you still thinking and planning on making a KZbin Videos Shows about Helicoprion, the “Buzz Saw-Toothed Shark”?!🦈👍👍👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

I will do down the line, don't worry. :)

[@maozilla9149]

nice

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Thanks!

[@maozilla9149]

your welcome@@HenrythePaleoGuy

[@bkjeong4302]

These weren’t even the first mammalian megafaunal herbivores to have existed. Where the hell did the idea of mammals remaining tiny until they outcompeted the giant birds in the Late Eocene even come from? Because the fossil record had disproven that idea almost a century ago…

[@kaistewart2367]

What are the names of some of the first really big mammals never heard of this?

[@idle_speculation]

@@kaistewart2367Pantodonts were getting big right after the extinction of the dinosaurs, and managed to persist for almost 30 million years after that.

[@bkjeong4302]

@@kaistewart2367 The pantodonts, and on the carnivore side there was Eoconodon (wolf-sized predator from not even a million years after the asteroid) and various giant mesonychians (Ankalagon for example reached lion sizes only 3 million years after the impact).

[@Ektor-yj4pu]

@idle_speculation Pantodonts reached about 600 kgs with their largest species while Uintatheriums reached about 2 tons.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

Uintatheres, being somewhat an extinction rebound species, it would be interesting to know what drives evolution in these strange big dumb creatures, why head bumps is more important than brains

[@idle_speculation]

Leaves just don’t have the energy to support complex brains, and it doesn’t take very much brain power to munch them from branches, especially when there’s nothing alive that can pose a challenge to you.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

@@idle_speculation Having owned cattle I can confirm that statement to be true, Angus cattle mentally is limited to 3 things, Eating, Pooping and getting out, most usually in the most inclement weather possible, and don't even think about getting them back in the way they got out, that will never happen short of something seeing the business end of a solid Hickory axe handle, actually Aluminum feed scoops are good at moving obstinate Angus, that metal Ping has a startling effect.

[@prototropo]

Without yet commanding the most thorough understanding of these genera, I will submit to a candid world my reverence for the sheer euphony lent to the prosody of any citizen paleontologist as she or he utters . . . wait for it . . . "Uintatheres in the Age of Eocene."

[@WhenTheSunLordsFell]

wait like the boxing promotor

[@luukzilla1519]

Here is something i've been wondering, could Crocodilians take over the ocean again like they did in Prehistoric times if all toothed Whales wen't Extinct? i think Sharks are more than likely gonna do it but i would like to know you're thoughts on this.

[@gameguy6003]

There is a known instance where marine Crocodilian successfully coexisted with a wide and diverse whale population for several million years. That being the Mio-Pliocene Pisco Formation of the Sacaco Basin in southern Peru. There large bodied marine Gavialids Sacacosuchus and Piscogavialis lived side by side with many whales (including Livyatan and early Orca relatives), Various sharks (including the Great white and Megalodon) and amphibious marine giant sloths.

[@sampagano205]

Crocodilians weren't ever really the dominant ocean group. Lizards and sauropterygians tended to dominate the ocean.

[@KhanMann66]

They had their chance when dinosaurs went extinct. They never took that opportunity.

[@EternalEmperorofZakuul]

The same reason why penguins failed while cetaceans succeed: live birth

[@sampagano205]

@@EternalEmperorofZakuul penguins have hardly failed. They're a successful and prominent group.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

With those schnozes I bet they could bellow louder than a Diesel engine. Bit-O-Trivia; what the map calls a Wadi (Arabic), Americans call A Wash, the Latinos call them Arroyos.

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

Cool! I've never heard of these animals before. Thank you. Sumpin noo ever Dai!

[@jredmane]

Uintatherium aren't so weird. They are just rhino muntjac walrus hippos

[@gregorysaugustine5236]

Can't you choose another picture of elephant for this video? One of them has a fifth leg.

[@clownphabetstrongwoman7305]

50% of them are born like that.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Which image and where in the video?

[@clownphabetstrongwoman7305]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy 5:37

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

@@clownphabetstrongwoman7305 Ahhhhhh. ;) I thought it was an ai thing, lol.

[@Kevin-ci4mp]

It looks similar to andrewsarchus

[@eliletts8149]

What their closest living relatives are will probably always be a mystery because their DNA is long gone. Therefore, analysis of DNA (which is by far the most reliable indicator of relatedness, or a lack of it) would be impossible to do for these creatures.

[@alisav8394]

There are numerous different valid methods for determining relatives of an extinct or extant animal. Paleontology is far older than the discovery of DNA

[@eliletts8149]

@@alisav8394 yes, but a lot of extant creatures we thought were very closely related to eachother via morphological analysis turned out to not be so. I can only imagine how much we actually have wrong in paleontology because of that. Just because a certain way of doing things is older doesn't necessarily mean that it is better.

[@Svensk7119]

Please don't say, "non-avian dinosaurs" so much. We get it. You are not going to be sued just for saying, "dinosaurs", mister paleo-attorney Okay, I don't mean to get personal, but every paleontology channel uses the same language, and sound like fossil-lawyers.

[@AndrewTBP]

Who died and made you King of English?

[@SarastistheSerpent]

But… they are non-avian dinosaurs

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

Just before 8:20 you repeat a phrase. Your edit includes two copies of that phrase in tandem with each other. Listen...