drawingwithdinosaurs: fess3y: Vote Drepanosaurus to win Triassic March Madness 2020! These incredib

drawingwithdinosaurs:

fess3y:

Vote Drepanosaurus to win Triassic March Madness 2020!

These incredible animals have huge front claws, a claw at the tip of their tail, a hump back, a birdlike head, and a monkey-like prehensile tail! Truly a strange animal, but what else would you expect since it came from the triassic!

I have been able to see fossils of these lil guys firsthand, so I am incredibly biased when I say I love these animals and they will always have a place in my heart.

I highly suggest learning more about these adorable weirdos and hopefully they are as interesting to you as they are to me!

for more of a general overview I suggest 

Paleo Profile - Drepanosaurus, by TREY the Explainer 

Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest, by PBS Eons

Or the lovely guide made by WTF-Triassic.tumblr.com

Thank y’all for reading, and remember, VOTE DREPANOSAURUS!

Ichthyosaurs like Shonisaurus went on to become icons of the Mesozoic oceans, flourishing in the Jurassic and survived into the Cretaceous.

Nothosaurs were precursors to the plesiosaurs, who went on to be as big icons as the ichthyosaurs.

Postosuchus was one of a whole panoply of stem-crocs, and a close relative of the crocodylomorphs that would go on to survive to the present day.

Drepanosaurs are a true one-of-a-kind Triassic oddity. They appeared in the Triassic, they died in the Triassic, and there was nothing like them EVER before orsince! Drepanosaurs embody the zaniness of the time period, their anatomy is preposterous, their evolutionary histories are mysterious.

VoteDrepanosaurus!