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Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

The hollow-tailed lizard ( scientific name : Coelurosauravus ) is a primitive diphthorn reptile with specialized wing-like structures that allow it to glide. These are strip-like structures with skin covering them. The average length of the empty-tailed lizard is 60 cm long, while the body is long and flat, which is conducive to gliding. The skull resembles a lizard , with a pointed snout and a broad tiara at the back of the head with a jagged edge , resembling a horned dragon. It lived in Permian Germany and Madagascar. Because it was once misunderstood as the ancestor of the hypochondria, it was also translated as the first hypochondria.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

Supplements: Brondo Scorpion (scientific name Brontoscorpio anglicus), also known as the Brontoscorpio Scorpion or Thunder Scorpion, is a 1-meter-long aquatic scorpion in the Clilian period. The Brondu scorpion resembled the scorpion of today, but was larger and had larger compound eyes. For the large animals that survived at the time, they were an important predator. Although it is only 1 meter long, according to the bite marks of the Brondo scorpion, it can be speculated that the Brondu scorpion is 2.5 meters long, and the maximum is more than 3 meters (excluding claws and tails).

In the Devonian Period 370 million years ago, due to climate changes, the evolution of various life forms took a qualitative leap. The planet began to warm, swamps full of weeds, and large ferns flourished. At this time, insects and amphibians began to appear on land. The Brondu scorpion is 1 meter long, with huge gills and stout needles. The gills and lungs of the Brondo scorpion are made up of hundreds of layers of thin, thin tissue through which oxygen can be transported into the bloodstream. Thanks to this anti-hypoxia system and armor to protect it from sunlight, it is able to find food on land along the coast. The blanch scorpion's tail has sharp spikes that can be used to help prey, especially fish. Because the Brundo scorpion became the first animal to travel from the sea to the land, the Brondu scorpion climbed onto land earlier than the vertebrate. This is a major leap forward in the history of biological evolution. At that time, the air had a very low oxygen content, and its respiratory system could resist low oxygen. Although the Brondu scorpion is only one meter long, according to the bite marks of the Brondu scorpion, it can be concluded that the length of the Brondu scorpion is 2.5 meters (excluding the tail and claws).

The crested crocodile ( genus name : Estemmenosuchus ) , meaning " crocodile with a crown " , was a large , early omnivorous theoretic foraminifera , a basal dinosaur that lived in the Middle Permian , about 255 million years ago. The crested crocodile was one of the largest land animals of the era. They are characterized by a pronounced horn-like structure on the top of the head, which may have been used as a visual display within the species. Two species of crested crocodiles are known to have been found in perm oblast in the Cis-Urals region of Russia.

The crested crocodile is a large, clumsy-looking animal that is as large as an adult bull and has limbs in a gait that extends in two directions. The head is tall and large , and has several large horns that grow from the top of the head and on both sides upwards and backwards , resembling the antlers of an elk.

The skull of the crested crocodile resembles the skull of the orcalyptus, but the horns of the two are formed from different bones; the horns of the crested crocodile grow upwards from the frontal bone, and the horns of the ornithimer grow from the transverse bone to the back.

Two species of crested crocodiles are known; they differ in body size, skull shape, and horn shape.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

All scorpions after the Paleozoic era were terrestrial, and it is believed that the Cyrulian period changed from aquatic to terrestrial. Whether to escape predators or to hunt down prey, it is estimated that the Brondo scorpion can leave the water and reach land. But because they are difficult to support their weight, it is believed that they are going to return to life in the water, at least when they are shedding. They prey on small marine animals such as fish , echinos , heteromethora , tiny scorpions , and trilobites. The fish preyed on by the Brondo scorpion are mainly head turtles. (Attached: Another name for the Silurian Chronicle)

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)
Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

Listooth, also known as Liz. The Latin name Gogonopsid, origin = In: Permian, 250 million years ago. Early plesiosaurs were generally no larger than a dog, while late plesiosaurs averaged 45 cm in skull length and a few large populations could reach the smallest rhinoceros size. Carnivorous, wolf-like, with a shuddering double saber tooth, was an important breakthrough in the history of biological evolution, and many mammals later had similar fangs, which could easily tear apart the flesh, just like a hot metal knife sliding through the butter, and it had the title "Permian Wolf".

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

Diodonodon ( scientific name : Dicynodon ) was once a herbivorous mammalian reptile that flourished in the late Permian , and was decimated in number during the Third Mass Extinction Event 251 million years ago. New research shows that the catastrophe led to the rise of other herbivores and ultimately led to the emergence of dinosaurs. 1

Diplodonts (diplocodonts belonging to the genus Foramen. The neck is short, the tail is short, and the limbs are thick and powerful. Except for the upper jaw, there are giant teeth on the outside, and there are no other teeth in the mouth, hence the name. Terrestrial, feeding on plants. Lived in the Permian. Lots of variety. Fossils were found in southern Africa, Europe and Xinjiang, China. Cave dwellers, good at digging holes, in the desert area to use the underground shade to avoid the heat, underground caves are connected everywhere, effectively preventing carnivores from attacking.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

Post-crocodiles, also known as post crocodiles, are distant relatives of dinosaurs, and they all originate from the same reptile ancestor. The posterior crocodile has crocodile-like armor on its back. It can reach 6 meters in length and has a strong physique, but it cannot run on its feet like a carnivorous dinosaur.

In 1994, a partial skeleton was discovered in Durham County, North Carolina; in 2008, the skeleton was named the second species, P. alisonae。 The species name is named after Alison L. Chambers, a local paleozoologist. The fossil contains: some head bones, 7 cervical vertebrae, 1 dorsal vertebrae, 4 tail vertebrae, ribs, abdominal ribs, herringbone bones, osteoderm, shoulder straps, most of the forelimbs (except the left wrist and palm), most of the hind limbs (except the femur), and pelvic fragments. At the time of its discovery, the skeleton was found with at least four other animal fossils, including: partial bones of the lizard, the snout of the Plinthogomophodon (canine-like rough-bentodont), the beak bone, the humerus, two metacarpal bones of some kind of diplodote, and a bone of the order Cone. In addition, this post crocodile skeleton is located above a fossil of the beaked crocodile Drobissuchus, whose skull has tooth marks on its neck.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)
Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

Sloan lived in the Permian, 251 million years ago, with an incredibly tough armored cortex. In fact, they are distant relatives of the turtles we see now. Their personalities are very serene. It is a group of animals.

Siberian cup dragons are close relatives of turtles, 5-6 m long, living in Russian Siberia in the late Permian, belonging to the reptiles/aporous suborder/cup dragons, moving in groups, they are toothless like turtles, but have beaks, and can easily enjoy plants

It was a herbivore that lived 260 million years ago, at the same time as the lidont, and was a herbivores and prey for the reeds. They are distant ancestors of turtles, which have no shell but a hard back.

This animal lived in today's Siberia, as large as a rhinoceros, weighing a ton. They have no teeth, grind plants with stomach stones, and digest them with gastric juice.

But, unfortunately, 250 million years ago, the Earth's environment deteriorated, resulting in a third mass extinction, and Siberian cup dragons and lidtooth went extinct at the same time.

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The Triassic period was the rise of reptiles and gymnosperms. Located between the Permian and Jurassic. After the Haixi Movement, many troughs were converted into mountain systems, the land area expanded, and some inland basins were produced in the platform area. This new paleogeographic condition led to changes in sedimentary facies and the biological world. From the Triassic period onwards , continental sediments were abundantly distributed around the world , particularly in China and other parts of Asia. In terms of paleoclimate, the early Triassic inherited the characteristics of drought at the end of the Permian; after the middle and late periods, the climate transitioned to humid heat, resulting in the coal-bearing deposition of red rock formations and the development of xerophytes to hot and humid plants. Plant geography also diverged at the same time

The beginning and end of the Triassic period were marked by an extinction event. Although the rock markers of this time are very obvious and clear, the exact time of its beginning and end cannot be determined very precisely, as in other ancient geological epochs, and its error is in plus or minus millions of years.

The name Triassic was coined in 1834 by Friedrich von Alber, who collectively referred to the red three-layered rock layers that were prevalent in Central Europe between white limestone and black shale. Today, the Triassic is divided into more sublayers.

The typical red sandstone that marks the Triassic indicates that the climate was relatively warm and dry at that time, without any signs of glaciers. Today it is generally believed that there was no land or ice at the poles at that time. Because there were many on the earth at that time, there were relatively few offshore sediments left in the Triassic period, and only in Western Europe were relatively abundant. Therefore, the stratification of the Triassic period is mainly based on the biological fossils in the reef area.

Since the Triassic began with an extinction event, its organisms began to diverge violently. This is when the suborder Hexapods appeared, as may the first angiosperms and the first flying vertebrates (pterosaurs). 1

Japan first translated the Greek "Trias" as triassic, and China's geological community has used this name.

The formation of strata during this period is called the Triassic system, and the symbol is "T". The Triassic period is divided into three epochs: early, middle and late.

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The Water Dragon Beast, an extinct ancient reptile. The head is large, the neck is short, and the body is barrel-shaped. The body shape was somewhat similar to today's hippopotamus. It is characterized by a significant downward curvature of the face, so the skull is high. The nose is very high, all the way down to the eye hole, the body structure has a number of mammalian progressive traits, but the head is still primitive, living on the edge of lakes and swamps, living as a plant in the late Permian to the early Triassic, about 250 million years ago, is an extremely ancient creature. ,

The Water Dragon lived in the early Triassic period of earth history about 200 million years ago. It is widely distributed in South Africa, India, Antarctica, and all the way to Xinjiang, China. Fossils found on various continents are so similar that they all belong to the same genus, and some can even be attributed to the same species. The Dracosus is often used as evidence of continental drift , proving that continents were interconnected 200 million years ago , and it is considered by many scientists to be the ancestor of all mammals on Earth — and therefore the ancestor of humans.

As a branch of mammalian ancestors, mammal-like reptiles parted ways with other reptiles as early as the Carboniferous Period (more than 300 million years ago). Over time, many species evolved from this group, and Anomodonts were one of them. But this one went astray from the start. Not on the road to mammals, it can be said that they are brothers and sisters of mammalian ancestors. Mammals evolved from the canine tooth group, but it is difficult to solve or even truly determine what kind of origin it comes from.

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The dermatophytes are bulky, with beak-like beaks , and some species have tusks. They were large dominant land herbivores of the early Triassic.

These diodonts are well-adapted herbivores; they have a strong mouth and strong jaw muscles that can chop plants. Although their heads are large, they are lightweight because of the size of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity. Their sturdy shoulder straps and bone discs help support the body.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

Trident (scientific name Thunaxodon), also translated as Trident PalmOsaurus, is a species of theophyllum canine toothed animal. Many scientists believe that the holes in the skulls of trinosaurus show that they have whiskers and that they cover the fur of their coats. Some scientists speculate that they are warm-blooded animals, oviparous animals. The genus name trident means " trident " in ancient Greek " , meaning the shape of its teeth.

Fossils of tridents were found in South Africa and Antarctica, geologically dating from the early Triassic Period, about 248 million to 245 million years ago. The geographical distribution of the fossils of tridents shows that the two continents were connected to each other at that time.

According to a 2003 study, certain early cynodonts may have been burrowing animals, such as trichonodonts [1]. Tricuspids is a carnivorous animal with sharp teeth and a low body, which may subsist on small animals. According to fossils, trigeminates were more mammalian-like than their arch-toxoptera ancestors. They have a sizable skull and a hole in the front, indicating that they may have a beard and their bodies may be covered with fur. The lower jaw has large tooth bones, and the teeth are located in the collus. The chest and abdomen of trigeminates may be separated from the abdomen by a transverse diaphragm, a muscle that touches the lungs that allows trigeminals to breathe more efficiently than their ancestors.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

The genus Lycaenops, also known as wolf-faced beast, is a genus of the extinct Homothenian order, belonging to the suborder Theodondae of the order Theropoda, fossils found in the Cistecephalus assemblage zone in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, geologically dated to the Wujiaping Steps of the late Permian.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

The ancient crocodile ( genus name : Proterosuchus ) was the largest land reptile of the early Triassic period , equal in size to that of modern Komodo dragons. Ancient crocodiles resemble primitive crocodiles in appearance and share many characteristics with modern crocodiles; however, ancient crocodiles retain their own characteristics, such as long legs and hooked mouths. This mouth makes it almost impossible for prey to prey, such as watersaurus, to escape from its mouth. Like most modern crocodiles, the ancient crocodile was an ambush predator, waiting in the water for prey to enter the water and then attacking below the surface. As an ambush predator, the ancient crocodile, for the most part of its body, has been in the same environment for most of its life. This is a great way to save energy and can even leave predators without eating for up to a month. Although ancient crocodiles can survive and swim in the water, ancient crocodiles should more often hunt land animals than fish. Their eyes are located above their heads, allowing them to hide under the surface of the water, waiting for their prey to come to the water's edge to drink, and then dragging the prey to the water's edge into the water.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

The crocodile is a large but clumsy animal with short, powerful limbs and a large head. It was one of the largest carnivores on land in the early Triassic period, feeding on other reptiles. When hunting, it bites its prey with its powerful upper and lower jaws, and then tears it to pieces with its sharp teeth. Lived in the early Triassic period.

The crocodile is about 5 meters long and 2.1 meters high, making it the largest predator in the early and middle Triassic periods. The crocodile walks on all fours, with its limbs semi-upright under the body. They had large, dinosaur-like heads, up to 1 meter long, and multiple sharp, conical teeth. In the Late Triassic Period, the ecological niche of the alligator was replaced by the lizard crocodile and the Post crocodile.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

Paleorhinus ( Paleorhinus ) is a genus of Phytosaurus , a semi-aquatic , crocodile-like small animal that lived in the late Carni order of the Late Triassic.

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Mesosuchus is an extinct reptile of the suborder Diplodontidae, belonging to the order " Diplodocus " . It lived in South Africa in the early Triassic period. The model species is M. browni。

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)
Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

The Chisel-toothed Crocodile (Smilosuchus) is an extinct plantosaur reptile that lived in North America in the late Triassic period. In 1995 , the chisel-toothed crocodile was originally classified as a species of Leptosuchus , L. Gregorii.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

The Batrachotomus (Batrachotomus) belongs to the Family of Crocodile Velociraptors, about 6 meters long, found in Germany during the Late Latin Period of the Middle Triassic Period, living in swampy areas, and its name comes from its love of preying on mastodonsaurus, an amphibian living in this area. It has evolved completely from a crawling position to an upright posture, with a strong and agile body, and like other Roylon's crocodiles, it has two rows of tiled bone plates on its back.

The Batrachotomus is a prehistoric ancestral dragon whose fossils were found in Latin Strata of the Middle Triassic period in southern Germany, where they lived about 228-231 million years ago. The frog-tearing crocodile was described by paleontologist David Goyle 22 years after its discovery.

The Torn Frog Crocodile (Batrachotomus) lives in swampy areas and takes its name from the Greek frog (batrachos/βάτραχος) and cut/tear (tome/τομή), which refers to its predation on the large amphibian shrimp toad. In contrast to other large reptiles such as crocodiles, this large predator is very agile in movement because of its upright posture. A prominent feature of the torn frog crocodile is that it has a row of pairs of flat bone plates on its back. The frog-tearing crocodile may have been a competitor to the early predator postosuchus, both of which lived in the era when dinosaurs first appeared.

The frog crocodile is a stout, huge four-legged reptile up to 6 meters long, and compared to other primordial dinosaurs, the frog crocodile is characterized by a series of pairs of small bone plates connected to the back of each vertebra. A large number of small bone plates form a defensive device called scale armor. The scales are flattened leaf-like, gradually decreasing in size along the spine from the back of the head and disappearing at the tail. But there is also evidence that subcutaneous osteogenesis in other animals also grows on the abdomen, such as the iron crocodile found in the region, and small bone pieces are even distributed on the flanks, abdomen and limbs.

Like other Lloyd's crocodiles, the body of the frog crocodile is erect , although the limbs are not directly under the torso. Its forelimbs vary in length, with forelimbs about 70% of the hindlimbs, and it may have four toes on its forelimbs and five toes on its hind limbs.

The tall and narrow skull of the frog crocodile is estimated to be 40 to 50 cm long, with five pairs of holes on it, including the eye holes and nostrils, and two pairs of temporal foramen behind the eye holes. These holes help reduce the weight of the skull and make the action of the jaw more powerful. As a typical ancestral dragon, the frog crocodile has a pair of anterior orbital foramen between the eye hole and nostril, and a small pair of openings in the posterior mandibular area.

The frog crocodile has sharp teeth that are arranged in different shapes and sizes on the jawbone, known as heterontates. These teeth grow on the slender anterior maxilla, rather than the posterior edge of the jaw. The frog crocodile has 11 teeth per upper jaw, four for the foremandible and 11 teeth for the lower jaw, for a total of 52 teeth.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)

Lagosuchus, a rabbit crocodile is a rabbit-sized carnivore who may have been the ancestor of dinosaurs. Stand up on two legs. Many in the industry believe that the rabbit crocodile is likely to be the ancestor or very close early branch of dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Although it is only about the size of a rabbit, it may be a dexterous beast that can catch prey with its long claws. North and South America lived in the middle of the Triassic.

The rabbit crocodile is considered a dubious name by some, while the second species, Lagossuchus lilloensis, was newly established by Paul Sereno in 1994 as Mala alligatorosaurs.

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Phytosaurus ( genus name : Phytosaurus ) is a suspected name for " Phytosaurus " , and was the first of the order Phytosaurus to be described , described by G. Jaeger in 1828 ; a group of extinct main dragons that resembled crocodiles. Edosaurus had a crocodile-like body structure, but their nostrils were above the head, rather than the front of the snout. The genus name " Plantosaurus " means " Plant Lizard " , but they are now considered carnivorous , and the model species is P. Lops . cylindricodon。

Phytophthalosaurus was a four-legged carnivore that grew during the Triassic period and resembled crocodiles. They live in the water and live mainly on fish and small reptiles. Some plantosaurs can grow to very large. Dracaena is a thickly armored semi-aquatic reptile whose fossils are found in the Late Triassic Period (206 million to 227 million years ago). Dracosus were not dinosaurs, but both belonged to archosaur, a large group of crocodiles and pterosaurs (flying reptiles).

The jaws used to bite physiosaurs showed that they were predators, but the first narrator of Edosaurus mistakenly assumed that the specimens he studied were herbivores.

Fossils of plesiosaurs have been found in North America, Europe and India, but the southern continents have not yet been found. Familiar genera include Phytosaurus, Belodon and Rutiodon, which are more than 3 meters (m) long and have skulls about 1 m long.

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Saurosuchus (scientific name: Saurosuchus) means "lizard crocodile", is an extinct main dragon belonging to the order Laurie crocodile, which lived in Argentina in the late Triassic period. It is 7 meters long and is the largest crocodile besides the Fasola crocodile.

Popular Science: Paleontological Encyclopedia, so much that you don't know! (Part 2)