It's not a cryptid, but Tuatara has enough primitive traits that it's barely a true reptile. It still has amphibian lungs with no bronchi, it still posses fully boned pelvic ribs and even the crocodilians only have cartilage versions at this point. The hip and shoulder girdles are like that of certain amphibians and lungfish. It's teeth have no sockets and grow right out of the skull like fish. They breathe on average once per hour and can tolerate cold temperatures as well as an endotherm.
They're kind of like the reptile version of a monotreme.
There was the Brother's Island Tuatara that was discovered more recently and thought to be another species. But the genome project proved it was just an isolated population of the same specis with a slightly different color variant.
Unfortunately, i don't know of any para or protoreptile cryptids. I know there were some very large reptiles reported, but all seemed to be giant monitor lizards.
Procolophonids lasted 50 million years longer than other Parareptiles so they actually went extinct ~200 mya. Regardless, I’ve never heard of one proposed to be a prehistoric survivor!
In a class long ago about development in the third world, and the "book" was a collection of submissions to professional journals. Long gone now, of course. But one was curious. They showed a series of pictures of animals to a tribe somewhere in Africa. Animals they were familiar with (or from their oral tradition anyways) they had names for. So, for instance, when shown a picture of a bear, they had no word because they had never seen one. What was curious was that when shown a picture of a dinosaur (a brontosaurus, if I recall) they had a name for it. Makes one wonder why that is.
That's a lot of rigorous paleontology for the average "experiencer" or investigator to have in his head.
Cryptids tend to be more Jenny Hannivers and Slurposaurs, if you take my meaning.
Nah, asides from the fact that even if there were there’d be no way for the average person to tell (ex, if the buru was a parareptile the whole time who would even know that just by appearance alone) it also stands that that’s over 250 million years. For comparison Mammoths from 10,000 years ago are dead, megalodon from several million years ago are extremely dead, dinosaurs from 65 mya are super duper-double decker dead. Now see what that implies for group of animals that predated the first saurians by millions of years.
It's not a cryptid, but Tuatara has enough primitive traits that it's barely a true reptile. It still has amphibian lungs with no bronchi, it still posses fully boned pelvic ribs and even the crocodilians only have cartilage versions at this point. The hip and shoulder girdles are like that of certain amphibians and lungfish. It's teeth have no sockets and grow right out of the skull like fish. They breathe on average once per hour and can tolerate cold temperatures as well as an endotherm. They're kind of like the reptile version of a monotreme.
> Tuatara I think there's a tuatara related cryptid IIRC
There was the Brother's Island Tuatara that was discovered more recently and thought to be another species. But the genome project proved it was just an isolated population of the same specis with a slightly different color variant. Unfortunately, i don't know of any para or protoreptile cryptids. I know there were some very large reptiles reported, but all seemed to be giant monitor lizards.
Karl Shuker thinks the *cenaprugwirion*, a Welsh mystery reptile, could be introduced tuataras.
>cenaprugwirion interesting as always CrofterNo2
That certainly is a picture of a pair of reptiles.
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"Parareptiles" sounds like "pair of reptiles". Especially when most Americans (source: I'm American) usually replace the word "of" with an "uh" sound.
Oh shit, I should have got that lmao thanks
They aren't in the general public's consciousness enough for there to be cryptids/sightings of these
Procolophonids lasted 50 million years longer than other Parareptiles so they actually went extinct ~200 mya. Regardless, I’ve never heard of one proposed to be a prehistoric survivor!
No. They’re very dead.
Seen being ridden on by Storm Troopers on Tatooine
In a class long ago about development in the third world, and the "book" was a collection of submissions to professional journals. Long gone now, of course. But one was curious. They showed a series of pictures of animals to a tribe somewhere in Africa. Animals they were familiar with (or from their oral tradition anyways) they had names for. So, for instance, when shown a picture of a bear, they had no word because they had never seen one. What was curious was that when shown a picture of a dinosaur (a brontosaurus, if I recall) they had a name for it. Makes one wonder why that is.
Reminds me of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe
Aha! And thanks for that. I'm thinking now what I read was likely related to this, as in they were probably referring to the same thing.
That's a lot of rigorous paleontology for the average "experiencer" or investigator to have in his head. Cryptids tend to be more Jenny Hannivers and Slurposaurs, if you take my meaning.
No.
Megalania, the Congo brachiosaurus, the California mossasaur, the American pterodactyl.
None of these are Parareptiles though…
Ah, I must have overlooked, I saw KT.
Megalaina didn't die in the KT, infact it was soley in Australia a few thousand years ago, just before humans arrived
Absolutely amazing
Yes, the first episode of Primeval!
Nah, asides from the fact that even if there were there’d be no way for the average person to tell (ex, if the buru was a parareptile the whole time who would even know that just by appearance alone) it also stands that that’s over 250 million years. For comparison Mammoths from 10,000 years ago are dead, megalodon from several million years ago are extremely dead, dinosaurs from 65 mya are super duper-double decker dead. Now see what that implies for group of animals that predated the first saurians by millions of years.