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<blockquote data-quote="Mecheon" data-source="post: 9229760" data-attributes="member: 6801776"><p>In a blog post these were described as being the <a href="https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-salute-to-erythrosuchidae.html" target="_blank">equivilent of sticking a howitzer on a golf cart and calling it a tank</a>. Lovely we get two of them showing up as they're incredibly obscure critters who people are most likely not to know about</p><p></p><p>Despite us thinking of the Mesozoic as the age of the dinosaurs, they didn't really get going until the mid to late Triassic. Before that, things were a lot crazier. This lead to a lot of absolute weirdos, like these guys. Thankfully something else grabbed D otherwise we might have to talk about Drepanosaurs and we are not ready for me to go off about a bird-headed weirdo trying its best to be a silky anteater and a chameleon all at once (and that's before we get to the ones that might have glided)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Fun fact: Basically every single Brachiosaurus reconstruction you've seen is probably based on Giraffatitan instead. It was split, ala Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus, and Girrafatitan was the name we've gone with</p><p></p><p>I think its actually become the official word at this point. Not so much informal lingo at this point as "Yeah, that's just. What we call stegosaur/ankylosaur/sauropod tail weapons"</p><p></p><p>Leptonectes is an ichthyosaur, not a dinosaur. Ichthyosaurs were.... Well. Its been debated for basically forever. The current position is they're somewhere in an extended group of non-standard reptiles that includes turtles, dinosaurs and crocodiles, but that's a massive 'somewhere' which is basically just saying "more related to them rather than lizards, snakes and the tuatara" so, y'know. A bit of a wide group. The current theory is the three weirdo marine reptile groups, the 'inevitably compared to dolphins or whales' Ichthyosaurs, Sauropterygia (A grab-bag of various aquatic ones like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henodus" target="_blank">"This is just trying to be a turtle" Henodus</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothosaurus" target="_blank">"This is a reptile trying to be a seal" Nothosaurs</a>, and the long-necked plesiosaurs and their various short-necked relatives) and the far more obscure <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalattosauria" target="_blank">Thalattosaurs</a>, are each other's closest relatives as just a weird reptile sub-branch that went in on returning to the water and were dang good at it</p><p></p><p>Notably absent from the 'weirdo marine reptiles' are the famous mosasaurs. This is because mosasaurs are basically the sister family to snakes, so we at least know where they sit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mecheon, post: 9229760, member: 6801776"] In a blog post these were described as being the [URL='https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-salute-to-erythrosuchidae.html']equivilent of sticking a howitzer on a golf cart and calling it a tank[/URL]. Lovely we get two of them showing up as they're incredibly obscure critters who people are most likely not to know about Despite us thinking of the Mesozoic as the age of the dinosaurs, they didn't really get going until the mid to late Triassic. Before that, things were a lot crazier. This lead to a lot of absolute weirdos, like these guys. Thankfully something else grabbed D otherwise we might have to talk about Drepanosaurs and we are not ready for me to go off about a bird-headed weirdo trying its best to be a silky anteater and a chameleon all at once (and that's before we get to the ones that might have glided) Fun fact: Basically every single Brachiosaurus reconstruction you've seen is probably based on Giraffatitan instead. It was split, ala Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus, and Girrafatitan was the name we've gone with I think its actually become the official word at this point. Not so much informal lingo at this point as "Yeah, that's just. What we call stegosaur/ankylosaur/sauropod tail weapons" Leptonectes is an ichthyosaur, not a dinosaur. Ichthyosaurs were.... Well. Its been debated for basically forever. The current position is they're somewhere in an extended group of non-standard reptiles that includes turtles, dinosaurs and crocodiles, but that's a massive 'somewhere' which is basically just saying "more related to them rather than lizards, snakes and the tuatara" so, y'know. A bit of a wide group. The current theory is the three weirdo marine reptile groups, the 'inevitably compared to dolphins or whales' Ichthyosaurs, Sauropterygia (A grab-bag of various aquatic ones like the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henodus']"This is just trying to be a turtle" Henodus[/URL], the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothosaurus']"This is a reptile trying to be a seal" Nothosaurs[/URL], and the long-necked plesiosaurs and their various short-necked relatives) and the far more obscure [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalattosauria']Thalattosaurs[/URL], are each other's closest relatives as just a weird reptile sub-branch that went in on returning to the water and were dang good at it Notably absent from the 'weirdo marine reptiles' are the famous mosasaurs. This is because mosasaurs are basically the sister family to snakes, so we at least know where they sit. [/QUOTE]
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