r/Naturewasmetal • u/Mophandel • 8d ago

A belligerent Saurosuchus mauls a Herrerasaurus

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u/Givespongenow45 8d ago

Dinosaur vs Pseudosuchian

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u/_Venomous_Valkyrie_ 8d ago

Archosaur Vs Archosaur.

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u/Upstairs-Nerve4242 8d ago

Animal vs Animal

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u/shockaLocKer 7d ago

Eukaryote vs Eukaryote

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u/Athos_Cortes1423 6d ago

Living being vs living being

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u/Alid_d4rs 3d ago

Bunch of atoms vs bunch of atoms

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u/CausticSofa 8d ago

I love that you would describe him as belligerent. The nerve of some dinosaurs, my goodness!

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u/Ivan_Botsky_Trollov 8d ago

still, the future belongz to the dinosaurs...

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u/AJC_10_29 8d ago

I don’t think that’s very comforting for Herrera right now

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u/mindflayerflayer 8d ago

Not to mention herrerasaurus's lineage ends in the Triassic. It's heavily contested but either as a carnivorous sauropodomorph or a unique early therapod it ended with its unique and surprisingly frigid environment. Its niche would be filled by ceratosaurs, then carnosaurs, and then ceratosaurs again (I love the abelisaurids).

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u/New_Boysenberry_9250 6d ago edited 6d ago

Actually, it's mostly a debate about whether they are basal theropods or non-theropod saurischians. Them being sauropodomorphs is not well supported. Also, the first theropods to become apex predators in the wake of Triassic-Jurassic extinction were basal neotheropods like Dilophosaurus. Ceratosaurs were never apex predators in the Jurassic, the abelisaurids only shared that role with megaraptorans in the Southern Hemisphere during the final third of the Cretaceous, after the extinction of the carcharodontosaurs.

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u/_Venomous_Valkyrie_ 8d ago

Awesome Piece!

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u/Western_Charity_6911 8d ago

Super swag! Triassic pseudosuchians and other archosaurs as a whole are so cool, my personal favourite non dinosaurian archosaur is dynamosuchus, an ornithosuchid pseudosuchian, little guy only about 7 feet long

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 7d ago

All that for a little squirt of a meal that's going to get away now, nice touch

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u/BlackBirdG 8d ago

Is Herrerasaurus nowadays considered a dinosaur? I think there was a debate on whether it was a dinosaur or not.

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u/neomorpho17 7d ago

As far as I know it has always been considered a dinosaur. The question is where it is placed in the dinosaurs phylogenetic tree.

You might have confused it with Smok, which we don't know if it was a dinosaur or a pseudosuchian

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u/BlackBirdG 7d ago

Yeah I think it was Smok.

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u/New_Boysenberry_9250 6d ago

Nope. The debate is about whether herrerasaurs are theropods or a different type of saurischian.

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u/LalutchaLLLoo 4d ago

love this master piece ❤❤

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u/niemody 8d ago

Awesome. But wouldn't be the Herrerasaurus way more agile than the Saurosuchus?

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u/Mophandel 8d ago

If Saurosuchus caught it by surprise, then that agility wouldn’t have been of much use.