Megazostrodon

I created this map several years ago and recreated it more recently. In version 1, there was a random selection of colors, but later I decided to select them in accordance with the periods of habitat of the animals. I have already published several similar maps with other parts of the world. I will gradually post all of them here, and if they get a lot of likes, then perhaps soon I will create a new map, with North America. I took all the data from the Paleobiology Database.

So, which animals from this map do you like the most? I find it difficult to name anyone specifically, but I want to draw your attention to Lissodus (107). In the Triassic, this area was located in the depths of Pangea, but shark-like fishes still lived in the lakes. This really surprised me during the process of creating the map.

1) Moschorhinus kitchingi 2) Coelophysis rhodesiensis (=Megapnosaurus) 3) Massospondylus carinatus 4) Nqwebasaurus thwazi 5) Australochelys africanus 6) Lystrosaurus murrayi 7) Lesothosaurus diagnosticus 8) Lydekkerina huxleyi 9) Megazostrodon rudnerae 10) Cynognathus crateronotus 11) Peratobelus foersteri 12) Brachypterygius extremus 13) Majungasaurus crenatissimus 14) Rapetosaurus krausei 15) Masiakasaurus knopfleri 16) Rahonavis ostromi 17) Ammonitoceras ramboulai 18) Vulcanodon karibaensis1 9) “Camarasaurus” from Mashonaland, Zimbabwe 20) Malawisaurus dixeyi 21) Malawisuchus mwakasyungutiensis 22) Asilisaurus kongwe 23) Tendagurutherium dietrichi 24) Dicraeosaurus hansemanni 25) Giraffatitan brancai 26) Kentrosaurus aethiopicus 27) Elaphrosaurus bambergi 28) Kenyasaurus mariakaniensis 29) Giant abelisaurid from the Lapurr sandstone, Kenya 30) Priohybodus arambourgi 31) Macronarian sauropod from The Mugher Mudstone, Ethiopia 32) Goniopholis sp. 33) Nerinea somaliensis 34) Mactromya rugosa 35) Epimayaites falcoides 36) Kababisha sudanensis 37) Ceratodus humei 38) Nubianophis afaahus 39) Brachiosuchus kababishensis 40) Titanosaurid from the northern Sudan 41) Paralititan stromeri 42) Mawsonia libyca 43) Bawitius bartheli 44) Aegyptosuchus peyeri 45) Psephosauriscus sinaiticus 46) Cretodus longiplicatus 47) Spinosaurus aegyptiacus 48) Haimirichia amonensis 49) Gryphaeostrea canaliculata 50) Simoliophis libycus 51) Large abelisauroid from the Nalut District, Libya 52) Onchopristis dunklei 53) Tataouinea hannibalis 54) Lytoceras ovimontanum 55) Elosuchus broinae 56) Stanocephalosaurus amenasensis 57) Carcharodontosaurus saharicus 58) Neoceratodus africanus 59) Sarcosuchus imperator 60) Jesairosaurus lehmani 61) Paratypothorax sp. 62) Chebsaurus algeriensis 63) Gregoryceras fouque i64) Atlasaurus imelakei 65) Rubricacaecilia monbaroni 66) Aegisuchus witmeri 67) Squalicorax pristodontus 68) Alanqa saharica 69) Rebbachisaurus garasbae 70) Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) tethys 71) Azhdarchid from Senegal (Arambourgiania?) 72) Asteracanthus sp.73) Schizorhiza stromeri 74) Chenanisuchus lateroculi 75) Libycoceras crossense 76) Rugops primus 77) Ouranosaurus nigeriensis 78) Nigersaurus taqueti 79) Elrhazosaurus nigeriensis 80) Suchomimus tenerensis 81) Kaprosuchus saharicus 82) Goronyosaurus nigeriensis 83) Onchosaurus sp. 84) Sokotosuchus ianwilsoni 85) Araripesuchus wegeneri 86) Brillanceausuchus babouriensis 87) Kamerunoceras eschii 88) Ellimmichthys goodi from Equatorial Guinea 89) Scapanorhynchus raphiodon 90) Mosasaurus sp. 91) Halisaurus sp. 92) Ligulella sluysi 93) Zambiasaurus submersus 94) Diademodon tetragonus 95) Batrachosuchus concordi 96) Palaeoaxinidium orapensis and other Cretaceous insects from Botswana97) Kannemeyeria lophorhinus 98) Titanogomphodon crassus 99) Etjosuchus recurvidens 100) Microgomphodon oligocynus 101) Baculites klingeri 102) Cardiocorax mukulu 103) Angolachelys mbaxi 104) Angolasaurus bocagei 105) Tylosaurus iembeensis 106) Angolatitan adamastor 107) Lissodus cassangensis 108) Teffichthys lehmani

In the Late Triassic dinosaurs were new to the scene,but after the Triassic they begun their quest to becoming the apex predators,this is the start of their Global Domination

We see a forest

*Ignore the grass*

And it pans down to the forest floor

A Megazostrodon runs away from an Austrodactylus,hidding in a burrow to escape

The camera goes into the burrow

This is Megazostrodon,they evolved from Trucidocynodon,their much smaller,but they still keep the niche of being a burrower

The Austrodactylus flies away after hearing a screech as two Dracovenator appear

These are Dracovenator,measuring 5.5 Meters and weighing 500 Kilograms they are the Apex predators of this region

The two Dracovenator growl at the sky

Dracovenator is similar to Dilophosaurus but it’s slightly smaller,thinner and has different facial anatomy,and right now their looking for prey.

This is a male and female,the male is larger,has large quills and blue highlights,the female is less colorful and has a light fuzz

After a bit they find a small group of Aardonyx feeding

Measuring 6 Meters Long and weighing 1 Ton,Aardonyx are massive,but they only reach the height of an adult man’s shoulders

The Aardonyx rear up,using their tails as balance

Their muscular legs and tail allow them to rear up and get to higher plants

The Dracovenator duo stalk towards the herd,and then,they pounce

Dracovenator wasn’t intelligent enough for true pack hunting,so they mob their prey instead

The Aardonyx herd runs away as the male Dracovenator leaps onto one of them,but gets shaken off,the female pursuits soon after and bite down on the Aardonyx’s Shoulder,but the Aardonyx shakes around as the Dracovenator starts crushing the shoulder,the male appears and leaps onto the prey,the Aardonyx then rears up,making the female let go and the male lose his balance,the Dracovenator female leaps but gets knocked aside by the Aardonyx,the male jumps onto the Aardonyx’s back and bites at the neck,the confused Aardonyx accidentally steps on the female’s leg,she screams in pain.The Aardonyx shakes off the Male Dracovenator and runs away.

Most large predators lose prey more than they get prey

1 Week later

The Dracovenator duo are digging a hole

The Dracovenator are digging a hole for their eggs

The female limps around

Unfortunately the female has a limp,she might not survive

Then we get a Timelapse of 3 weeks of the male getting food for the female and the female getting weaker

The male Dracovenator arrives back with a Heterodontosaurus and he sees the female’s lifeless corpse

The female had a leg infection,she couldn’t survive it

The male Dracovenator smells her corpse

Thankfully she hasn’t started to rot yet,so he has a chance to cover her scent

The male Dracovenator covers the female with dirt and drags her corpse far away from the eggs

While he is dragging it away we see an Austrodactylus flies above the trees

Austrodactylus,it’s a Pterosaur and evolved from Ixalerpeton,it has an exceptional sense of smell and it found the dead Heterodontosaurus

The Austrodactylus starts eating the Heterodontosaurus,but saw the eggs.

Austrodactylus is an opportunistic hunter,it would eat anything from large dinosaur carcasses,to insects,to eggs

The Austrodactylus drags out one of the eggs and breaks the egg shell,it starts eating the yoke

The Egg Yoke is incredibly nutritious,it has a lot of Proteins and Iron

The Dracovenator returns and sees the Austrodactylus eating one of his eggs,he screeches and runs at it,the Austrodactylus runs up a tree

The Dracovenator is to big to climb the tree

The Dracovenator male goes around the eggs

The male doesn’t have feathers so it’s harder to insulate the eggs.

5 Days Later…

The Male Dracovenator is lying down,looking starved

The Male is unsure about eating since then,there is no Dracovenator to defend the eggs

The Dracovenator decided to finally leave,but he covers up the eggs with dirt

On his search for food it starts to rain

The Rain masks the Dracoveantor’s scent,allowing him to sneak up on prey,unfortunately he’s to weak to hunt the normal large prey so he decides to look for smaller prey

The Dracovenator comes across a Heterodontosaurus and starts to stalk,but then he sees a Megapnosaurus start a chase,after a bit more Megapnosaurus start chasing,soon enough at least 7 Megapnosaurus start chasing the Heterodontosaurus,after a few second the Megapnosaurus start eating the Heterodontosaurus alive.The Megapnosaurus are so focused on their own prey and each other,that they don’t realize the Dracovenator is stalking them,the Dracovenator leaps and bites down on the neck of one Megapnosaurus,killing it instantly.The others flee

Dracovenator rarely hunt Megapnosaurus,but desperate times call for desperate measures

The Dracovenator returns and starts eating his food.

3 Hours later….

It’s night,it’s hard to see but thankfully we have heat vision to see the animals.

Nearby a few large herbivores walks by,waking close to the Dracovenator eggs.This startles Dracovenator and he wakes up

Then we get a closer look at this animal

This is Ledumahadi,measuring 10 Meters in Length and weighing 8 Tons,it’s to big for even a pair of Dracovenator to hunt.and they could easily trample the Dracovenator’s eggs.

The Dracovenator rears up,trying to look bigger.The Ledumahadi ignore him so he starts jumping and biting,the Ledumahadi eventually goes around.

Later on,in the day…

The Dracovenator sleeps,but then he wakes up to eggs cracking

After a month,the eggs are hatching

Out comes 3 Male Dracovenator and a Female

The babies start,trying to stand up and falling

It will take them about an hour to master standing up

The female starts to stand a bit but before she fell dad holds her up

Without help from dad of course

One male learned how to run and starts running down the hill,but before he falls Dad picks him up in between his crests

Other than mating,it’s possible that this is a use for their crests

After a bit the dad decides to bring his kids to a watering hole

A few other Dracovenatorare there and they look at him(Cringe+Not Sigma),one tries to steal his baby but he bites at them,eventually he starts drinking and his kids copy him

He is teaching them important life lessons for the future

They go back to the nest before dad goes to find food,and he shows them how to dig

This is important,as that’s their only defense against predators like Megapnosaurus and Austrodactylus

The dad goes away and after waiting a bit,a pair of Megapnosaurus appear,sniffing the air

Megapnosaurus has an amazing sense of smell

The Dracovenator babies stay still under the sand,still,looking like rocks,and then the Megapnosaurus see a Megazostrodon and chase that instead.

They smell their dad and they get out of the dirt and start exploring

Their dad is nearby.so their free to explore the forest

One stumbles upon an abandoned Megazostrodon burrow and goes in

Megazostrodon burrows are absolutely massive,this one measures nearly 10 meters in length and nearly 3 Meters deep

After a bit dad returns with a juvenile Ledumahadi and starts looking for his kids,he finds 2 of them in the abandoned Megazostrodon den,he careful digs them out and picks them up

1 Year Later

We see the 4 baby Dracovenator a grown up

At 4 Meters long their now able to hunt with their dad

After a year the dad can finally eat the prey he usually eats

The 5 Dracovenator encounter an Aardonyx and her juveniles,but they don’t attack,as there is a Ledumahadi that is too big for them to attack

Sometimes species will adopt other species

Eventually they find a small congregation of Aardonyx and Heterodontosaurus and start their ambush

They can only reach their top speed of 40 Kilometers Per hour for about 2 Minutrs,so they have to get close

Eventually,they get close enough,as dark clouds brew

Dark Clouds,that’s not a good sign

Then,they strike,they run towards the prey

The Aardonyx and Heterodontosaurus flee as the Dracovenator catch up

The male jumps onto it’s prey and bitches down,digging it’s claws into the prey,the juveniles start biting and eventually the Aardonyx dies.

1 Hour Later

The Aardonyx is enough food for a few days,but there is another problem

Some lightning flashes

Dry lightning,it’s lightning without rain,this makes forest fire caused by them

The lightning hits a tree,alerting a herd of Ledumahadi

Even deadlier

The fire quickly spreads and then Dracovenator hear it

Instinctually, the dad leads his kids to a shallow lake and they submerge every part except for their snout like allligators

Animals get engulfed in the fire and it lasts around 2 Hours

2 Hours later…

The Dracovenator leave and they walk in the ashy forest

The forest fire may be devistating,but it’s important for the ecosystem,the ash works as amazing fertilizer and the trees will grow easier

A Ledumahadi walks around and sees a dead baby Heterodontosaurus,and eats it

Even though their herbivores,modern herbivores eat meat to supplement their diet

The Dracovenator eat the carcasses from the fire

2 years later…

Now his juveniles are adults,and they will soon leave

After they leave he searches around,and we go to the Earth

Earth,Pangea is no more,and large carnivores roam the globe,Saltriovenator in Europe,Dilophosaurus in North America,Sinosaurus in Asia,and even Cryolophosaurus in Antarctica,Dinosaues now rule the Earth,but the truely remarkable animals live later

We see a Monolophosaurus eat food

Monolophosaurus,it may look like Dracovenator,but it’s more derived and it’s eating the animal that evolved from Ledumahadi,

Shunosaurus,in the last 30 years China has been a gold mine for prehistoric fossils,but this is just a tiny bit of these are showcased here,these are the Chinese Dragons

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Creatures

Left to Right

Megazostrodon(I oversized it on accident)

Length:15 Cm

Weight:85 Grams

Litargosuchus

Length:45 Cms

Weight:2 Kilograms

Lesothosaurus

Length:1 Meter

Weight:5 Kilograms

Megapnosaurus

Length:3 Meters

Weight:20 Kilograms

Massospondylus(Brown Sauropodomorph)

Length:6 Meters

Weight:400 Kilograms

Dracoventor

Length:6 Meters

Weight:500 Kilograms

Aardonyx(Short Sauropodomorph)

Length:5.5 Meters

Weight:350 Kilograms

Antetonitrus(Longest Dinosaur)

Length:8.5 Meters

Weight:2000 Kilograms

Profiles

Megazostrodon:Megazostrodon wasn’t much bigger than a mouse,but it’s a legend in our evolution,we will evolve from this creature and become the dominant predator of the earth,however the best for these creatures is to lay low and hunt insects

Litargosuchus:This little cheetah croc is a vicious animal,and the main predator of Megazostrodon,it’s only around 45 centimeters long,but it’s not to be messed with

Aardonyx,Massospondylus and Antetonitrus:These are three closely related Sauropodomorphs:Their home is here in the desert.Lets talk about smallest one first,Aardonyx,it’s short legs are the reason for it’s short height,not even reaching the shoulder of an average man,it’s diet mainly consists of short growing Shrubs.Massospondylus is the most common Sauropodomorph here,it was around the size of a bear,it’s diet was of mid growing leaves and its limbs were much longer than Aardonyx,meaning these 2 didn’t have to compete much at all.Finally is Antetonitrus,an early try of the general sauropod build,this build will eventually rise and the old Sauropodomorphs will evolve into new,stronger build

Dracovenator:Dracovenator was related to the famous Dilophosaurus,it was as big as 2 lions and was as long as a Nile Crocodile.It’s jaws had a weird curve near the start,a powerful weapon that makes any prey caught hard to let go.It is the top predator and not to be messed with

Megapnosaurus:A close relative of the famous Coelophysis Megpanosaurus were the Coyotes of prehistoric Africa,they hunted Litargosuchus and Lesothosaurus,they were fast and agile but very lightly built,that’s why they didn’t hunt prey much bigger than a Cat.

Lesothosaurus:Leaothosaurus was as fast and agile Dinosaur,their legs and tail were long and lean making them fast and able to make quick turns,which is helpful when your main predators weigh 4x your size,their not much bigger than a cat.

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