#koolasuchus

[fossillad123]

megamouth crocomander

[chameleocoonj]

dinovember + diNOvember on the weekends B)

[cleverbunnycompany]

A happy Koolasuchus for you all.

[aquatark]

Koolasuchus - Veiled Sea

Endless Ocean Luminous, Nintendo Switch

this guy freaks me out. he eated a boomerang

[sleepysaurus4]

Some of my favourite Walking with Dinosaurs characters reimagined!

Clockwise: Koolasuchus, Ornitholestes, Cynodont Father, the Female Coelophysis, the Lead Female (leallynasaura), the Old Male (tropeognathus), Ophthalmosaurus Pup, Wandering Peteinosaurus and Adolescent Diplodocus in the background

[ppaleoartistgallery]

Paleostream 4/11/2023

results of today's #Paleostream!!! Today we drew Koolasuchus (mine is juvenile), Jormungandr, Prionosuchus, and Hesperotestudo

[dry-gold]

Links in lieu of propoganda. Kadimakara, a triassic archosauromorph reptile

Kalisuchus, a triassic archosauromorph reptile

Kambara, a cenozoic crocodile

Kimberella, a precambrian bilaterally symmetrical animal

Kolopsis, a cenozoic diprotodontid marsupial

Koolasuchus, a cretaceous temnospondyl amphibian

Kronosaurus, a cretaceous marine reptile

Kunbarrasaurus, a cretaceous armoured dinosaur

[doomyte]

Some guys from the Flocking tonight, with varying degrees of accuracy and stylization.

[justgoji]

Koolasuchus remake

[veloci-raptor]

Flocking Together

Koolasuchus/Jormungandr walhallaensis

Prionosuchus/Hesperotestudo bermudae

[samspicturesandwords]

Some of my favourite ancient fellas!

[zizodino5]

The Koolasuchus cleelandi is not extinct

[alphynix]

Gaiasia jennyae was a tetrapodomorph – an amphibian-like relative of early tetrapods – that lived about 280 million years ago during the early Permian in what is now Namibia.

Although it's only known from incomplete skull and vertebral column material it probably looked quite similar to the colosteids, a closely-related group of tetrapodomorphs with elongated bodies and small limbs. If it had the same sort of body proportions as these relatives it would have been huge, the largest known stem-tetrapod at potentially around 4m long (~13').

It had a wide flat head with a short boxy snout, and large interlocking fangs on the roof of its mouth and at the front of its lower jaw. It would have been fully aquatic and probably not a particularly fast swimmer, instead likely being an ambush predator using suction from rapidly opening its jaws to pull prey into its mouth before clamping down with its fangs.

It's also notable for living considerably later than most other stem-tetrapods, and in an unexpected part of the world. While its close relatives are all known from the tropics of the Carboniferous, Gaiasia was in a location that was much closer to the South Pole during the early Permian (~55° S), inhabiting an immense freshwater lake in a rift valley with a cold-temperate climate.

Its presence in this habitat may suggest that other stem-tetrapod lineages survived and thrived in high latitudes for much longer than previously thought, while the true tetrapods were all diversifying nearer the equator – or it might represent a Paleozoic equivalent of Koolasuchus, an isolated straggler lurking in a cold refugium.

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References:

Marsicano, Claudia A., et al. "Giant stem tetrapod was apex predator in Gondwanan late Palaeozoic ice age." Nature (2024): 1-6. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07572-0

Naish, Darren. "'The whole front of the mouth is just giant teeth.' Prehistoric swamp monster with toilet-seat head dug up in Namibia." Discover Wildlife, 3 Jul. 2024, https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/gaiasia-jennyae

Stollhofen, Harald, et al. "AAPG Studies in Geology# 46, Chapter 6: The Gai-As Lake System, Northern Namibia and Brazil." (2000): 87-108. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255979661_The_Gai-As_Lake_System_Northern_Namibia_and_Brazil

Wikipedia contributors. “Gai-As Formation.” Wikipedia, 8 Jul. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gai-As_Formation

Wikipedia contributors. “Gaiasia.” Wikipedia, 8 Jul. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaiasia

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the #paleostream Koolasuchus, Jormungandr, Prionosuchus and Hesperotestudo bermudae

[punkspacepirate]

Malevolent E12

this fuckass spider. Better stay gone.

Following whispers like that's ever a smart thing to do

It was a mirror

weird that such a rundown hotel has floor length ornate gold mirrors. Seems significant

This recording is very !!! but i love a phonograph

oh another thE kiNg iN YeLLow mention

it's mirror time.

aw john. you aren't alone either

CREEPY ELEVATOR (lift. why you all so american)

ooooh underground city. very verne.

john you have sfx on your voice wdym "im fine"

more boats! there's more boat related horrors in these scant few episodes than in all of my dnd campaign

increasing boat related horror

WORM TRAUMA!!! ALL MY FAV GUYS HAVE WORM TRAUMA!!!

what the fuck in the koolasuchus (look it up) is this thing

what the fuck don't dessicate a corpse like its a coconut

WHAT THE FUCK being summoned into a circle by cultists

arthur. mate. i don't think they're talking to you.

arthur i really don't think they're talking to you.

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!

RIP arthur?? i guess?

oh that actually wasn't the end of the episode my bad i actually thought it ended after "this body is mine" had 2 be told id jumped the gun

local man too depressed about daughter for elder god to possess him. more at 10.

this is actually working. is the power of weird homo adjacent connection reaching through the veil of death to save the day

oh shit hello dreamlands

i keep thinking its ended. guess not. welcome back john. thanks for not giving up on this wet cat human

ending part 3. this time its final.

well that was dramatic. we persist. see you next time.

[aberrantologist]

Paleostream 11/3/2023

Yet another goofy and massively unserious set of roughly twenty minute sketches from today's flocking #paleostream featuring a cool Koolasuchus, a rotated Jormungandr, a questionable Prionosuchus, and a wise Hesperotestudo.