Interesting and super complex article about a fairly unpopular but long lasting strain of idea within the study of dinosaurs that mid-sized predatory sauropods existed in the triassic and even gave rise to certain theropods.
The most insane part is that this whole idea happened when Richard Owen, in 1842, assigned teeth from a predatory archosaur, Paleosaurus, to the body fossil of a primitive sauropod, Thecodontosaurus.
What really took me back was, just how little we STILL know about Paleosaurus. It’s been almost 200 years and we still only have a few teeth. Image And those teeth confused a community of paleontologists for over a century and yet we know nothing about the animal itself.
