Contents Plot Biota Featured 220 million years ago, Late Triassic (New Jersey). Coelophysis. Placerias. Icarosaurus. Rutiodon. Desmatosuchus. Trilophosaurus.
Postosuchus. Boreogomphodon.
Arcticodactylus200 million years ago, Early Jurassic (Connecticut). Ammosaurus. Scelidosaurus. Dilophosaurus. Calsoyasuchus. Podokesaurus.
Dimorphodon150 million years ago, Late Jurassic (Texas). Diplodocus. Camarasaurus. Stegosaurus. Mesadactylus.
Allosaurus. Camptosaurus. Ceratosaurus.
Dryosaurus. Ornitholestes. Schillerosaurus. TrioracodonTrivia.
The title says it all. Using DM's WWD pack, I've decided to recreate WWD in ZT2 photos. Note that there will be various differences from the original TV series, namely I'll be doing the episodes in order of what's released, rather than following the original order.
Also, I'll be adding a few of my own bits and pieces to the episodes, but for the most part they will remain the same. And now, the feature presentation.NEW BLOOD:Imagine you could travel back in time, to a time long before man. As you travel you can see huge changes in the vegetation and the climate.
Even the surface of the Earth itself would move as mountain ranges are pushed up by colliding continents.Now, we've reached the first stop on our voyage through time. We've arrived on a lush scrubland 220 million years ago, and this is where our story begins.Suddenly, there is movement among the tall horsetails.The slender shape of a female Coelophysis emerges into the open. She is one of the first dinosaurs and, although she doesn't know it yet, she is the founder of a dynasty that will last 160 million years.To Be Continued. Here's part 2 of New Blood, and I got it done in the same day as part 1!A herd of Placerias come down to the river's edge for a late morning drink.These strange animals are part of an ancient group known as therapsids, or mammal-like reptiles.
Millenia ago, these creatures ruled Pangaea, but now only a handful of therapsids remain. Placerias may look fearsome, but they are vegetarians. Their tusks are primarily used for digging up roots.However, these tusks can also be used in fearsome jousting tournaments between angry males.On the opposite bank, the female Coelophysis reappears.She spots a lungfish in the water, and assumes attack position. Dinosaurs such as herself have an advantage over other reptiles: they can move on two legs, which frees their front limbs to be used for manipulating objects. The positioning of dinosaur legs is different than that of other reptiles as well, they are held erect directly underneath the body instead of being sprawled out to the sides, and the long tail can be raised level with the legs when running to aid in balance. These features allow dinosaurs to be swift, streamlined, agile, and beautifully adapted.for killingWhile the dinosaur busies herself with stalking the lungfish, other predators are also at work nearby.Dragonflies, the river's resident flying predators, dart about over the water.Insects first evolved around 100 million years before the first reptiles, and some of them quickly took to the wing and became aerial killers.The presence of the dragonflies attracts another, more exotic flying hunter.This is Peteinosaurus, part of a newly-evolved group of flying reptiles called pterosaurs. Pterosaurs are the first vertebrates to master powered flight.
Their wings consist of an elongated fourth finger that supports a leathery membrane. Their bodies are covered in short fine hairs, and many species have long tails that can be used to steer during flight. Like dinosaurs, they are warm-blooded and active animals.Peteinosaurus is a natural-born insect hunter.
She swoops after the dragonflies, snapping them up on the wing one by one.On one hilly riverbank there is a small burrow.And dwelling within is one of the valley's most bizarre and fascinating animals.To Be Continued.
Walking With Dinosaurs Placerias Videos
Hesternus compared to a humanPlacerias was one of the largest in the Late Triassic, measuring up to 3.5 metres (11.5 ft) long and weighing up to a tonne (1000 kilograms) with a powerful neck, strong legs, and a barrel-shaped body. There are possible ecological and evolutionary parallels with the modern, spending much of its time during the wet season wallowing in the water, chewing at bankside vegetation. Remaining in the water would also have given Placerias some protection against land-based predators such as. Placerias used its to slice through thick branches and roots with two short that could be used for defence and for intra-specific display.
Placerias was closely related to and similar in appearance.Discovery. Restoration of a herdFossils of forty Placerias were found near, southeast of the in the of. This site has become known as the 'Placerias Quarry' and was discovered in 1930, by and, of the.
Features of the site indicate a low-energy depositional environment, possibly flood-plain. Bones are associated mostly with and a layer that contains numerous carbonate nodules. It is also known from the of.Placerias was originally considered the last of the Dicynodonts until fossil finds from Queensland were reported in 2003 to have revealed that the Dicynodonts survived until the Early Cretaceous. Agnolin et al. (2010) called for a reconsideration of that Australian specimen, noting its similarity to crocodyliforms such as. See also.References. Paleofile.
Retrieved 20 February 2010. Gaines, Richard M. Retrieved 2016-04-28. Thulborn, T.; Turner, S. 'The last dicynodont: an Australian Cretaceous relic'. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.
270: 985–993. Agnolin, F. L.; Ezcurra, M. F.; Salisbury, S. 'A reappraisal of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaur faunas from Australia and New Zealand: Evidence for their Gondwanan affinities'.
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 8 (2): 257–300.External links.
Walking with Dinosaurs was a six-part television series produced by BBC and aired first in the UK in 1999. The series intended to show the life and times of these facinating reptiles right from their earliest beginnings in the mid - Triassic, right up to their at the end of the, 66 million years ago (Although, in the series, the extinction was said to be 65 million years ago). Produced by director Tim Haines, the series used advanced CGI and animatronic technology, and is now renowned as being one of the most accurate prehistoric documentaries made to date.EpisodesNew Bloodthe first episode, set in the Arizona of the late, tells of a time when the dinosaur group had yet to gain a sure footing in the mesozoic ecosystem. The episode highlights the lives of a group of, a reasonably well - known early, which is presented as being a relatively adaptable and flexible creature, opportunistic hunter, and occasional cannibal (this assumption is now known to be false, with recent scientific study revealing that what had appeared to be the bones of a younger specimen within that of an adult, were in fact two seperate skeletons that had perished on top of each other, and been compressed into one). The episode then details the decline of the Archosaurs such as the, who are gradualy being ousted from the Triassic ecosystem by such large grazers as the plateosaurs.
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