This implies that Shringasaurus was probably sexually dimorphic, with only adult males having fully-formed horns. Even more interestingly, some fully-grown adults lack horns, while some juveniles have very small horns. While all the 3 taxa were herbivores, their differing morphologies indicate a good degree of niche partitioning: the short, lizard-like rhynchosaurs would've fed primarily upon roots, tubers & other tough, low-lying vegetation the dicynodonts would've been low-browsers feeding on ferns and club mosses, while the long-necked Shringasaurus was likely a proficient high-browser, much like the later sauropods, feeding on higher vegetation.įossils of Shringasaurus show the horns developed with age, with adults having larger horns than juveniles. The environment in which it lived is thought to have been a semi-arid, seasonal floodplain, not too dissimilar to the region today. It would've shared its ecosystem (what would become the Denwa Formation), with several other herbivores, including medium-large dicynodonts as well as a large rhynchosaur, another archosauromorph reptile. At 4m in length, Shringasaurus is the largest known azendohsaurid, and as of yet the only known species that possessed a pair of short cranial horns. Within this clade, Shringasaurus belonged to the Azendohsauridae, a family of medium to large herbivorous reptiles that appeared to have been on the same evolutionary trajectory as the sauropod dinosaurs (which had yet to appear). They weren't particularly closely related to the Archosauria (crocodylians, dinosaurs, pterosaurs & allies), but were still more closely related to them than to any other reptilian lineage. Shringasaurus (meaning horned lizard) was, despite the name, not a lizard but an allokotosaur, a clade of archosauromorph reptiles that lived in the Middle and Late Triassic and included a number of rather odd-looking taxa. A large male in breeding colours meanwhile struts around hoping to catch their attention. Ortega (15-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) returns to action on March 27, when he challenges current featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski (22-1 MMA, 9-0 UFC) in the UFC 260 co-main event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.īefore he faces Volkanovski, relive Ortega’s dominant win over Jung in the video above.Cutting it a bit close but last entry for #triassicweekĪ pair of female Shringasaurus indicus browse on conifer leaves while a third basks on a rock. 1 contender in the UFC’s featherweight division. Ortega swarmed him, but Jung was able to survive.įrom that point on, the momentum would shift completely in favor of Ortega, as “T-City” went onto outland Jung for the rest of the fight, sweeping the judges’ scorecards to cement himself as the No. After a back-and-forth first round where Ortega briefly dropped Jung with a straight left, Ortega would have Jung in serious trouble when he dropped him with a spinning back elbow in Round 2. He switched stances throughout the fight, especially after “The Korean Zombie” inflicted serious damage to his lead leg. Ortega displayed a patient approach, not rushing in and slugging it out like he has in some past outings. Ortega returned against Chan Sung Jung in the main event of the October event in Abu Dhabi, where he looked to earn another crack at the featherweight title. At UFC Fight Night 180, Brian Ortega looked flawless despite nearly two years away from competition.
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