Postosuchus didn't appear in any specials. The mature female Postosuchus, the prominent animal in focus during this episode, shown drinking from her local river in what is now Arizona (filming location, being New Caledonia) Specials The mature female Postosuchus quenches her thirst in the wet season. It is sometimes referred to as the T-Rex of the Triassic. Postosuchus is a genus of rauisuchian reptile that lived during the late Triassic period throughout what is now North America.

What may well be her skull is glimpsed as a prop in the deserts (perhaps showing the forested area she died in had at least temporarily turned to desert) If not, it is still definitely of another Postosuchus, as the skull is unique. Postosuchus, a merciless ambush predator, the largest carnivore on Earth Walking with Dinosaurs: New Blood. Finally, as she died, she was eaten by a pack of Coelophysis. Then she was chased out of her territory by a healthy male Postosuchus, as she was unable to fight with her wounded leg. She successfully killed it, but was gored by a Placerias' tusk, on her leg. She was first seen attacking a Placerias. A female of the species played a prominent role. Postosuchus featured in the first episode of the series - New Blood. What is certain, is that the crurotarsan archosaurs to which Postosuchus belongs, were formidable palaeo-ecological rivals to the Dinosauria, and their decline and later demise must have surely been to the benefit of the 'upstart' Dinosaurs. It went extinct at the end of the Triassic, possibly because of competition from dinosaurs, its close Archosaurian cousins - though it should be noted that there was also a huge extinction event at the Triassic-Jurassic Period boundary, which killed off thousands of species of ancient reptiles and amphibians as well as others, so generally it could be assumed that Postosuchus (or at least, relatives of Postosuchus), may just be another casualty of this. Episode 1: 'New Dawn' Episode 2: 'Age of the Titans. The Seires focuses on the rise, success, and fall of the dinosaurs as the original miniseries did. While using the original filming locations, the models and selection of fauna will be charged from the original series to keep up to date with the latest advances in paleontology. It was the largest predator of the region of North America in which it is found (although a South American 'big brother' of Postosuchus, called Fasolasuchus tenax, is known to have been an 8-11 metre long, 2 tonne giant, only surpassed by the largest Theropod Dinosaurs)Īdult Postosuchus were afraid of nothing - except perhaps, other, larger Postosuchus. Walking with Dinosaurs is a remake of the 1999 BBC miniseries. They were the apex terrestrial predators in their Triassic habitat. Postosuchus was a large, 4-6 metre long, 3/4-1 tonne Rauischian Archosaur from the Late Triassic Period, with dagger-like teeth up to 7-8 cm long.

Postosuchus walking with dinosaurs