Hupehsuchus does... whatever by some stromatolites.
May 2, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Hupehsuchus does... whatever by some stromatolites.
happy #fossilfriday! this is hupehsuchus, a small marine reptile from early triassic china. hupehsuchus was likely a filter feeder with an ecological niche analogous to modern baleen whales
(art by mark witton)
(art by mark witton)
February 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
happy #fossilfriday! this is hupehsuchus, a small marine reptile from early triassic china. hupehsuchus was likely a filter feeder with an ecological niche analogous to modern baleen whales
(art by mark witton)
(art by mark witton)
Out on a family beach trip, Hilda gets taken a photo of her, but a Hupehsuchus too decided to get in frame
#drawing #HildaTheSeries #hildafanart #hildahilda #johannahilda #bellkeeperhilda #Hupehsuchus
#drawing #HildaTheSeries #hildafanart #hildahilda #johannahilda #bellkeeperhilda #Hupehsuchus
July 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Out on a family beach trip, Hilda gets taken a photo of her, but a Hupehsuchus too decided to get in frame
#drawing #HildaTheSeries #hildafanart #hildahilda #johannahilda #bellkeeperhilda #Hupehsuchus
#drawing #HildaTheSeries #hildafanart #hildahilda #johannahilda #bellkeeperhilda #Hupehsuchus
Results from yesterday #paleostream! Here's Hupehsuchus, Dinosaurus, Guidraco and Protoichthyosaurus.
#paleoart #sciart
#paleoart #sciart
February 7, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Results from yesterday #paleostream! Here's Hupehsuchus, Dinosaurus, Guidraco and Protoichthyosaurus.
#paleoart #sciart
#paleoart #sciart
Marine reptiles in Mesozoic, Faber Castell felt pens
#ichthyosaur #plesiosaur #pliosaur #mosasaur #nothosaur #turtle #placodont #phytosaur #mesozoic #paleoart #art #water
#ichthyosaur #plesiosaur #pliosaur #mosasaur #nothosaur #turtle #placodont #phytosaur #mesozoic #paleoart #art #water
November 16, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Marine reptiles in Mesozoic, Faber Castell felt pens
#ichthyosaur #plesiosaur #pliosaur #mosasaur #nothosaur #turtle #placodont #phytosaur #mesozoic #paleoart #art #water
#ichthyosaur #plesiosaur #pliosaur #mosasaur #nothosaur #turtle #placodont #phytosaur #mesozoic #paleoart #art #water
Sketches from last night´s #paleostream Hupehsuchus, Bobosaurus, Eucoelophysis and Carolowilhelmina
August 19, 2023 at 10:25 AM
Sketches from last night´s #paleostream Hupehsuchus, Bobosaurus, Eucoelophysis and Carolowilhelmina
today's #Paleostream sketches!!!
today we drew Hupehsuchus, Bobosaurus, Eucoelophysis, and Carolowilhelmina
#SciArt
today we drew Hupehsuchus, Bobosaurus, Eucoelophysis, and Carolowilhelmina
#SciArt
August 19, 2023 at 2:01 AM
today's #Paleostream sketches!!!
today we drew Hupehsuchus, Bobosaurus, Eucoelophysis, and Carolowilhelmina
#SciArt
today we drew Hupehsuchus, Bobosaurus, Eucoelophysis, and Carolowilhelmina
#SciArt
so. about that
peerj.com/articles/196...
peerj.com/articles/196...
July 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
so. about that
peerj.com/articles/196...
peerj.com/articles/196...
Hey ya'll. Want to know about an awesome new paleo paper? Great! It's about an Early Triassic marine reptile called Hupehsuchus.
I suspect that many of you don't know what Hupehsuchus is. Let's introduce the weird little dude!
Hupehsuchus nanchangensis is a Chinese animal named in 1972.
I suspect that many of you don't know what Hupehsuchus is. Let's introduce the weird little dude!
Hupehsuchus nanchangensis is a Chinese animal named in 1972.
August 10, 2023 at 4:25 AM
Hey ya'll. Want to know about an awesome new paleo paper? Great! It's about an Early Triassic marine reptile called Hupehsuchus.
I suspect that many of you don't know what Hupehsuchus is. Let's introduce the weird little dude!
Hupehsuchus nanchangensis is a Chinese animal named in 1972.
I suspect that many of you don't know what Hupehsuchus is. Let's introduce the weird little dude!
Hupehsuchus nanchangensis is a Chinese animal named in 1972.
As many suspected, Hupehsuchus probably wasn't a filter feeder after all, at least not in the way baleen whales are
peerj.com/articles/196...
peerj.com/articles/196...
Was Hupehsuchus a baleen whale-style filter feeder in the Early Triassic? A re-examination of the evidence
One of the recurring paleobiological questions over the last three decades has been whether there were any filter feeding tetrapods before whales evolved. Recently, a study proposed that a small marin...
peerj.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
As many suspected, Hupehsuchus probably wasn't a filter feeder after all, at least not in the way baleen whales are
peerj.com/articles/196...
peerj.com/articles/196...
this hypothesis was presented in a 2023 paper authored by zi-chen fang at el pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
First filter feeding in the Early Triassic: cranial morphological convergence between Hupehsuchus and baleen whales
Modern baleen whales are unique as large-sized filter feeders, but their roles were replicated much earlier by diverse marine reptiles of the Mesozoic. Here, we investigate convergence in skull morpho...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
February 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
this hypothesis was presented in a 2023 paper authored by zi-chen fang at el pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
alas our dear sweet hupehsuchus was only a metre long
February 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
alas our dear sweet hupehsuchus was only a metre long
Do you ever just...
Think about Hupehsuchus?
Think about Hupehsuchus?
October 6, 2023 at 6:06 AM
Do you ever just...
Think about Hupehsuchus?
Think about Hupehsuchus?
hupehsuchus is the namesake of the clade hupehsuchia, a group of marine reptiles with a complex taxonomic history, recently considered relatives of ichthyosaurs in the 2015 paper that named eretmorhipis pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
A New Specimen of Carroll’s Mystery Hupehsuchian from the Lower Triassic of China
A new specimen of an enigmatic hupehsuchian genus is reported. The genus was first recognized by Robert L. Carroll and Zhi-ming Dong in 1991, who refrained from naming it because of the poor quality o...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
February 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
hupehsuchus is the namesake of the clade hupehsuchia, a group of marine reptiles with a complex taxonomic history, recently considered relatives of ichthyosaurs in the 2015 paper that named eretmorhipis pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
"The hupehsuchians were a unique group in China, close relatives of the ichthyosaurs, and known for 50 years, but their mode of life was not fully understood." - Zichen Fang
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-whale-filter-feeding-prehistoric-marine-reptile.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-whale-filter-feeding-prehistoric-marine-reptile.html
August 8, 2023 at 10:27 PM
"The hupehsuchians were a unique group in China, close relatives of the ichthyosaurs, and known for 50 years, but their mode of life was not fully understood." - Zichen Fang
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-whale-filter-feeding-prehistoric-marine-reptile.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-whale-filter-feeding-prehistoric-marine-reptile.html
The authors show in a few different ways that Hupehsuchus was almost certainly a filter feeder and that baleen-like structures were almost certainly present in the upper jaw. It would have swam forward while engulfing water or sediment and filtered out the zooplankton--its only food source.
August 10, 2023 at 4:59 AM
The authors show in a few different ways that Hupehsuchus was almost certainly a filter feeder and that baleen-like structures were almost certainly present in the upper jaw. It would have swam forward while engulfing water or sediment and filtered out the zooplankton--its only food source.
Well, a few Hupehsuchus skulls may give an answer. Motani et al. (2015) reported an upside-down skull that showed features indicative of baleen, including grooves on the jaw margin resembling the same grooves in rorqual whales.
Additionally, the thin lower jaw was adapted for bending/bowing.
Additionally, the thin lower jaw was adapted for bending/bowing.
August 10, 2023 at 4:51 AM
Well, a few Hupehsuchus skulls may give an answer. Motani et al. (2015) reported an upside-down skull that showed features indicative of baleen, including grooves on the jaw margin resembling the same grooves in rorqual whales.
Additionally, the thin lower jaw was adapted for bending/bowing.
Additionally, the thin lower jaw was adapted for bending/bowing.
Hupehsuchus - een fascinerende vishagedis (of in elk geval een verwant ervan) die op een manier vergelijkbaar met baleinwalvissen voedsel uit het water filterde. Deze werd maar een meter groot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM-Q...
The First Filter-Feeding Reptile
YouTube video by Raptor Chatter
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September 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Hupehsuchus - een fascinerende vishagedis (of in elk geval een verwant ervan) die op een manier vergelijkbaar met baleinwalvissen voedsel uit het water filterde. Deze werd maar een meter groot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM-Q...
#faunaemfoco #Paleontologia #EvolucaoConvergente #Hupehsuchus #Baleias #Triassico #Fosseis #Ciencia #DescobertaCientifica #ReptilMarinho #Biologia
February 14, 2026 at 6:07 AM
FANG, Z. et al. First filter feeding in the Early Triassic: cranial morphological convergence between Hupehsuchus and baleen whales. *BMC Ecology and Evolution*, v. 23, n. 36, 2023. Disponível em: doi.org/10.1186/s128.... Acesso em: 14/02/2026.
February 14, 2026 at 6:07 AM
FANG, Z. et al. First filter feeding in the Early Triassic: cranial morphological convergence between Hupehsuchus and baleen whales. *BMC Ecology and Evolution*, v. 23, n. 36, 2023. Disponível em: doi.org/10.1186/s128.... Acesso em: 14/02/2026.
Isso corrobora a hipótese de que o *Hupehsuchus* empregava uma alimentação por filtração contínua por arrombamento (ram filter feeding), similar às baleias-francas e baleias-da-Groenlândia, em vez da alimentação por abocanhamento (lunge feeding) dos rorquais.
February 14, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Isso corrobora a hipótese de que o *Hupehsuchus* empregava uma alimentação por filtração contínua por arrombamento (ram filter feeding), similar às baleias-francas e baleias-da-Groenlândia, em vez da alimentação por abocanhamento (lunge feeding) dos rorquais.
A análise geométrica morfométrica, comparando o crânio de *Hupehsuchus* com 130 amniotas aquáticos modernos, incluindo mysticetes e odontocetes, posiciona o réptil no morphospace das baleias.
February 14, 2026 at 6:07 AM
A análise geométrica morfométrica, comparando o crânio de *Hupehsuchus* com 130 amniotas aquáticos modernos, incluindo mysticetes e odontocetes, posiciona o réptil no morphospace das baleias.