Inostrancevia & Gorgonops Tribute

Tribute to real kings of permian period. Song by 44 Long.

Inostrancevia was a genus of gorgonopsid therapsid found in Sokolki, on the Smaller Northern Dvina River near Arkhangelsk in Russia. The animal lived 251 million years ago during the Late Permian. The species I. alexandri is known from an almost complete skeleton missing some minor rib and vertebrae attachments. As with all other gorgonopsid species, it was a quadruped that had an upright posture of 1-4.3 metres long (as large as a bear), with a bone structure characteristic of strong muscle attachments. The skull of 45 cm in length contained a smaller eye socket and larger temporal opening than other less advanced therapsids, like Biarmosuchus tener. The teeth were quite large, the upper palate containing 6 large incisors, 2 large canines and 10 smaller back teeth and the mandible contained 6 large incisors and 8 smaller incisors.

Gorgonops (literally "Gorgon' face") is the name given to an extinct genus of therapsid which lived about 255-250 million years ago, during the latest part of the Permian Period. It was a typical representative of the Gorgonopsia, the dominant predators of their day, which in the largest forms grew to over four meters long. Gorgonops possessed highly developed, 12-cm long "sabre" canine teeth

From Wikipedia.

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[gckbowers411]

The gorgonopsid in primeval is Gorgonops longifrons.

[dinox3raptor]

@gckbowers411 When I make this vid I didn't know about it

[pinjimandvakito]

gorgonopsid

[dinox3raptor]

Yes, Inostrancevia is gorgonopside

[KCNofear]

muy bueno

[titodelibero]

Hideously fugly looking mutt... e_O'

[solnegrolunaroja]

@prjerry7 That's an interesting point. Some years ago nobody thought catastrophes had such an important role. Certainly, we must add it to the evolutionary pressure, they are more important than we thought previously! Extinction always rise adaptive radiation, so we could explain "short" term developments like flying. 10 years ago, many scientists thought the evolutionary pressures from ecology would have been enough. By the way, thanks for taking the time to reply such an old post! :)

[prjerry7]

@solnegrolunaroja Evolutions unpredictable. Today, the troubled polar bears have been registered making ofspring with the grizzleys. Our intelligence about 10,000 years ago got to the currenct point, problem solving & tool making seems like the motive for that change, still were the same, though our technology's very different today, its due to the nature of expodential expansion technology has thanks to our problem solving ability.

Evolution eliminates slowly, catastrophese eliminate quickly

[Raphael041]

the inostrancevia is featured in dino crisis 2, cool!!

[solnegrolunaroja]

@Tom101229 That's why it's very difficult

to find intermediate fossil forms, this features are under a high evolutionary

press. There is an example of this

conceerning primitive flying insects. There is a fossil

of a three pair winged insect that rapidly

dissapear in the register and is replaced by

the standard scheme we know today in insects.

Perhaps that's why our intelligence did

"jump" in relative terms, it's a logic of "all or nothing"

[solnegrolunaroja]

@Tom101229 You certainly pointed out some very important issues about evolution. I agree with you. Even been very extraordinary in terms of evolution, it's clear we are still very close, biologically, to the rest of the animals of this planet. I had a conversation with a PhD candidate about the fast evolution of some specific features like flying and intelligence. It seems that some characteristics are rapidly selected, they respond to a zero tolerance logic like "work- doesn't work"...

[Tom101229]

Many animals do demonstrate grief and sadness like humans. But they don't demonstrate our intellect nor our understanding of the world around us. Most of them have the intellect of a two year old or less. Only the smartest animals have shown to have an intellect higher than a baby, cats, dogs or wolves, foxes, greater apes, certain monkeys, parrots, octopuses, dolphins, but even they aren't even close to our intellect. The smartest dolphin has the intellect of a 7 year old, everything is less.