#psuedosuchia

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[thedrawinggizzard]

A somewhat stylised dakosaurus i made a while back. Had the idea to make the back scutes form a dorsal fin like structure, but im not sure whether i like the outcome.

[majingojira]

Low-slung straight-necked biped Postosuchus still friggin' kills me. Decades of 'huh, land crocs with super straight legs' and it turns out these things were even more teeter-totter shaped than tons of theropods. Parallel evolution's a trip.

It's weird how, now that Dinosaurs are largely feathered, the Psuedosuchians are ending up being closer in design style to the Paleoart dinos of the 1980s-1990s

[mesozoicsuggestions]

So how about them pre human crocodiles? Were they too so very good at pretending to be logs?

!!!! I AM CERTAINLY NO LOG PRETENDER!

(art by Nobu Tomura - http://spinops.blogspot.co.uk/ )

Nor is my spiky aetosaur friend!

(Credit to Dr Jeff Martz, then Tomura again)

Postosuchus might look like a log, if logs looked angry! 

(my cousin postosuchus is actually lovely)

Do logs have sails on their backs? if so, I guess Arizonasaurus does sterling work pretending to be a log:

(Tomurrrrra art credit again, thank you for drawing all the psuedosuchians for wikipedia!)

Look! Another log! Oh wait, it’s Ctenosauriscus!

I don’t know what the logs are like from where you are from but if they look like Prestosuchus then sure, she’s a log as well

(art by Dmitry Bogdanov, who also does a lot of psuedosuchian art for wikipedia)

Ah yes another log:

(Thanks Dr Jeff Martz)

But okay, you are asking about crocodiles, not the rest of us psuedosuchians.

So… do the crocodiles pretend to be logs?

Yes.

Very

Very

Big Logs

(Art by Raul Martin)

-MOD SHUVO

[mesozoicsuggestions]

Suggestion, bring cheer to someone’s day by telling them a Psuedosuchian fact:

Let’s start off with psuedosuchian meaning fake (psuedo) crocodile (suchian), something with includes real crocodiles. Ergo, all crocodiles are fake.

Next, let’s get one things straight, WE ruled the Triassic. Tell your friends this.

A third fun fact; some psuedosuchians are what you might call ‘dinosaurs’ if you think dinosaurs look like big scaly things full of teeth and are a FOOL, and sometimes people dig fossils up and say “this looks like a dinosaur,” for they are FOOLS, and later have to reclassify the fossil when they realise the FOOLISH FOLLIES OF THEIR WAYS. If they were unsure they should have hopped in a time machine, travelled back to the Triassic and asked me politely rather than jumping to conclusions based on my BONE STRUCTURE.

This has been children’s fun fact science corner

-Mod Shuvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

Suggestion: try to use some less outdated phrases when speaking:

“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”? No no, “A postosuchus in the hand is worth two in the bush.”

“Birds of a feather fly together”? Ha, my friends, the new phrase is “Aetosaurs of a plate are the best mates.”

“As free as a bird”? Try “as free as a Deinosuchus”, no one is going to cage up one of those any time soon.

“The early bird gets the worm”? The early Poposaurus gets the... gets the... the food. Yes.

Did a little bird tell you something? How about you heard it from a Shuvosaurus instead, eh?

Mod Shuvo

[mesozoicsuggestions]

So sad you are being oppressed by all these dinosaur obsessed anons. I am truely not among these anons. No not me. Shifty Eyes

Good, because HERE’S THE THING: Psuedosuchians are better than dinosaurs.

Everyone goes ‘lets talk about the Terrible Lizards’ but have you even considered the ‘Fake Crocodiles’?

-Mod Shuvo