#typothorax

Last night's flockign paleostream paleoart :3

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here's today's #Paleostream flocking sketches!!!

today we sketched Himalayasaurus, Typothorax, Lunataspis (i drew L. aurora), and Kunpengopterus (drinking the nectar from a Weltrichia)

Pseudosuchian Typothorax coccinarum, of Late Triassic, North America!

Our next archosaur, and our first pseudosuchian of this Archovember is Typothorax coccinarum! Pseudosuchians, the lineage that would eventually lead to crocodilians, dominated the Triassic, and did many of the things first that dinosaurs would do later on. Typothorax was an aetosaur, a unique group of pseudosuchians that evolved body armor similar to ankylosaurs. Typothorax was herbivorous, possessing small, leaf-shaped teeth, and had an upturned, shovel-like snout. Their forelimbs also seemed to be uniquely adapted to digging, suggesting they may have found food by rooting around in the soil for roots and tubers.

Typothorax coccinarum is known from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation of Arizona, as well as the Bull Canyon Formation of New Mexico and Texas. In the Chinle Formation, Typothorax would have lived alongside other aetosaurs like Rioarribasuchus and Scutarx, along with smaller pseudosuchians like Hesperosuchus and Revueltosaurus. It would have been preyed on by large rauisuchids like Postosuchus and Vivaron. Other archosaurs Typothorax could have seen in the Chinle Formation would have included lagerpetids like Dromomeron, allokotosaurs like Trilophosaurus, and dosweliids like Vancleavea. Dinosaurs were only just getting a foothold in the Late Triassic, and Typothorax could have come across early saurischians like Chindesaurus and Coelophysis. In the Bull Canyon Formation, the environment was similar, with the addition of the giant, beaked poposauroid Shuvosaurus, as well as the aetosaur Paratypothorax and the phytosaur Machaeroprosopus.

Flocking Together

Himalayasaurus/Typothorax

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