Rutiodon

1) At the end of the Furongian (late Cambrian) and beginning of the Ordovician, the temperature of surface waters in the equatorial zone reached 43.9°C (111.02°F), which is significantly higher than today. By the end of the Ordovician, as a result of global cooling and the onset of glaciation, these temperatures dropped to 24.2°C (75.56°F), which is lower than today.

2) Both the shortest (Induan) and longest (Norian) non-Quaternary ages are included in the Triassic period. Induan was almost four times shorter than the Quaternary period, while Norian lasted almost as long as the Neogene period.

3) There are indications that fires occurred as early as the Silurian due to the spread of terrestrial plants.

4) The Karoo Ice Age ended about 260 million years ago. The next, Late Cenozoic glaciation, began ~34 million years ago with the freezing of Antarctica. During the ~226 million years separating them, the Earth maintained a greenhouse climate. Pterosaurs and non-avian dinosaurs appeared and went extinct during this interval.

5) Scorpions became the first fully terrestrial apex predators and remained so until the Carboniferous period.

6) Latimeria is a living coelacanthiform fish. The youngest fossilized coelacanthiforms were found in Maastrichtian sediments, indicating a gap in fossil record of 66 million years.

7) The last geomagnetic reversal occurred before Homo sapiens evolved.

8) Formed as a result of powerful eruptions in central Pangea about 201.4 million years ago, the Central Atlantic magmatic province originally occupied an area larger than modern Australia.

9) People began using glue and brewing beer before the Holocene epoch.

10) We still don't know when the first insects appeared. One molecular analysis suggests they may have appeared in the Early Ordovician or even Cambrian. A gap of about 100 million years is in the history of insects in that case.

And here is Rutiodon, a phytosaur from the Norian age.

I have been thinking about holding one of these types of things for a while. Today is the day I actually hold one. So this is the competition that I will be holding. Each member of the community can pick one of their favorite animal from each major time group for a who do you like more tournament. The time groups are Cenozoic(the age of the mammals and the current one going on right now), Mesozoic, and paleozoic(any animal from prior to the Triassic like dimetrodon, Anomalocaris, and things like that). Some restrictions apply so one animal, in particular, doesn't win by a landslide t rex is not allowed to be picked to at least make it fair for other animals to have a chance and once an animal is picked by someone it is not allowed to be picked again. I will be making a bracket for this that will be randomly assigned. Any type can be included meaning aquatic, aerial, and land as long as it went extinct it can be included.

My animals are Brontoscorpio, Rutiodon, and Gigantopithecus

In spirit of my favorite period of ALL TIME I have decided to celebrate Triassic week with this spin wheel battle!

The contestants:

Rutiodon

Saurosuchus

Postosuhus

Placerias

Erpetosuchus

Prestosuchus

Arizonasaurus

Teratosaurus

Tikisuchus

Let the celebration begin!

I was happy..but now am angry, pissed off and sad at the same time because Arizonasaurus pushed Placerias into the sidelines

Saurosuchus has defeated the smaller but more popular Postosuchus. So much for episode 1 of walking with dinosaurs....

We have plant eating crocodile action here as Rutiodon ambushed and defeated Teratosaurus around the same place postosuchus was defeated

Tikisuchus used his tiki powers to send Prestosuchus to the sidelines

Rutiodon saw its chance to attack another Triassic predator and ambushed Tikisuchus. Safe to say tiki powers didn't help

the giant Saurosuchus was battling with the small Erpetosuchus and won obviously what did you think?

The 3 remaining Triassic predators look at eachother. Arizonasaurus used this time to push Saurosuchus over! It did absolutely nothing but the spin wheel chose it so I guess Saurosuchus is on the sidelines

Arizonasaurus and Rutiodon stare at eachother. They both know they have a 50 50 chance of winning this fight. In Triassic week spirit, they charge. Rutiodon crocodile gallops towards the running Arizonasaurus. Arizonasaurus puts up a fight and since this was out of water Rutiodon was getting hurt. But it remembered about Placerias and snapped but only once at Arizonasaurus's head and the sailed boi fell and was on the sidelines next to Placerias. They all ran over to congratulate Rutiodon

The winner: Rutiodon!

Gorgosaurus Vs. Rutiodon

The gorgosaurus reaches the beach of bodies. It then swims away to kill and eat a pachyrhinosaurus in the distance. The pachy has got onto an island of a giant volcano and gorgosaurus follows. But the gorgo is interrupted by the arrival a similarly-sized phytosaur named Root boi. Rutiodon then bites the leg of gorgan but gorgan tries to resist. Root boi tries to pull down the tyrannosaur and drown it but is kicked in the face. The gorgan continues swimming and finally reaches the volcanic island. Gorgan then dodges one of root boi's ambush and bites him in the neck.

Gorgan: See you never... discount sarco

Root boi: No no nonon ONONONOOOOOOOOOO *dies*

Gorgan snaps root boi's neck, ending the life of a short-lived meme.

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭RIP SUSSY ROOT BOI AMORGOS POG

At the moment Gorgosaurus has 50% of the votes(9 votes), while Rutiodon has 44%(8 votes). The rest 6% was taken by the "Idk" choices.

ANGONGUS ROOT BOI😭😭😭😭;CCCCCCCCCCCc