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Walking with Dinosaurs: Silesaurus

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Silesaurus opolensis
Named by Jersy Dzik, 2003
Diet: Herbivore
Type: Dinosauroform (Silesaurid) dinosauromorph ornithodirian archosaur
Size: 7.5 feet (2.3 meters) long
Region: Europe (Poland)
Age: Late Triassic (230 to 228 million BC; Carnian stage)
Episode:  Sea Monsters- Dangerous Seas (6th Most Dangerous Seas) (as "Coelurosaur")
Info: Living in what is now Poland some 230 million years ago in the Carnian stage of the Late Triassic period, this herbivorous reptile was not a dinosaur at all as it lacks the dinosaurian features that includes an enlarged deltopectoral crest (a muscle attachment on the humerus), and epipophyses (enlarged tendon attachment above the postzygapophysis) on the cervical vertebrae and it is instead a dinosauriform, a clade of archosaurian reptiles that includes dinosaurs and their most immediate relatives. However, Silesaurus does have characteristics it shares with dinosaurs such as a brevis shelf (a bone surface on the ilium that functions as an attachment site for tail muscles), an ischium with a slender shaft, a femur with a reduced tuberosity that borders the ligament of the femoral head, a prominent lesser trochanter, an overlap of the ascending process of the astragalus with the tibia, and a concave proximal articular surface for the reception of the distal end of the fibula on the calcaneum.

Note: Used :iconscotthartman:  

So years ago, I was wondering what creature should I replace the unnamed coelophysid that mispronounced as "coelurosaur" that appear in Sea Monsters, because:
 
  • First off, the model of the coelurosaur is actually an already used model of Coelophysis.
  • Second, while fossil remains of members of the coelurosauria were mainly found from the mid Jurassic to the Cretaceous, possible remains of coelurosaurs may have been found as early as the Late Triassic, but this is speculative, because of the fragmentary nature.
  • Third, the segment is set mainly in the Carnian stage of the Late Triassic period, where some of the earliest-known remains of dinosaurs were found in rocks that date back at that time, which is pretty old for coelurosaurs. 
So for that reason, I decided not to do it and consider it as a Coelophysis due to its physical appearance, while others suggests Silesaurus, Saltopus, Ornithosuchus, etc. 

Then :iconkingrexy: had changed it into Silesaurus recently and so I decided to do that. Sure its not a dinosaur and its a herbivore, this is the closest we get to the original animal.

Ok, for those who don't know, I am gonna post three animals that lived much earlier in the Mesozoic era, this, another animal from the Triassic and one in the Jurassic and then I'll get back to the last days of the dinosaurs fauna that ends with T. rex. Also I apologize for being long awhile because I was making the animals and I want to post three of them today and get back to my main thing.

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The difference between the show's design and the actual creatures anatomy is a lot like the Quetzalcoatlus (who only Vaguely resembled the real thing)