Nayatsiatse

Dilophosaurus wetherilli

Nayatsiatse

“ No other people see this dinosaur with skrill, but with their own unfavored saliva. This makes Dilophosaurus a beautiful, but deadly, run in a semi-desert environment. ”

– Eostre

Scientific Taxonomy & Character Information

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Reptilia

Clade: Dinosauria

Clade: Saurischia

Clade: Theropoda

Clade: Neotheropoda

Family: Dilophosauridae

Genius: Dilophosaurus

Species: Dilophosaurus wetherilli

Descendant: Dracovenator?

Named by: Samuel Paul Welles

Year Published: 1954

Size: weighed about 400 kilograms (880 lb), measured about 7 meters (23 ft) in length

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Pantheon: Terran/Gaian

Time Period:  Early Jurassic (Sinemurian–Pliensbachian), 183.7 Ma

Alignment: Neutral

Threat Level: ★★★★★

Diet: Insectivorous/Carnivorous 🥩🥓🪲

Elements: Dark, combat

Inflicts: Darkblight, spitted, poison, gnashed

Weaknesses: Combat, air, light, fae, bug

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Nayatsiatse (Dilophosaurus wetherilli) is the extinct genus and species of theropod dinosaurs that lived in what is now North America during the Early Jurassic, about 193 million years ago.

Etymology

Dilophosaurus' common name was called Nayatsiatse, from Navajo compound words "naaki yá ʼałníiʼgi atsiitʼáá atsá" to "Naayáʼtsiitʼátse", which means "two crested (of zenith crown) eagle".

Physical Appearance

At about 7 m (23 ft) in length and with a weight of about 400 kg (880 lb), Dilophosaurus was one of the earliest large predatory dinosaurs and the largest known land animal in North America at the time. It was slender and lightly built, and the skull was proportionally large but delicate. The snout was narrow, and the upper jaw had a gap or kink below the nostril.


It had a pair of longitudinal, arched crests on its skull; their complete shape is unknown, but they were probably enlarged by keratin. The mandible was slender and delicate at the front, but deep at the back. The teeth were long, curved, thin, and compressed sideways. Those in the lower jaw were much smaller than those in the upper jaw. Most of the teeth had serrations at their front and back edges. The neck was long, and its vertebrae were hollow and very light. The arms were powerful, with a long and slender upper arm bone.


Some modern birds, like the dangerous cassowary, have bony head crests sheathed in a layer of keratin-based material. These coverings can make the crest as a whole significantly taller than the underlying bone. The hands had four fingers (the responsible universe has three fingers); the first was short but strong and bore a large claw; the two following fingers were longer and slenderer with smaller claws; the fourth was vestigial. The thigh bone was massive, the feet were stout, and the toes bore large claws.


Dilophosaurus is currently classified as a member of a different group of theropods than Coelophysis and its relatives in the Earth Responsibly Universe, and this collaboration, including Disney, was called Dilophosauriformes or Coelopysiformes by future paleontologists.


Although scientists consider the Nayatsiatse to be a single species, there is a unique level of diversification and morphological variation among them comparable to domesticated dogs and cats, including bovines; they show evidence of rapid evolution in widely varied habitats.

Abilities

Its ability to spit its own large saliva or booger at its prey is actually made up, and there is no proof that it had such abilities. It had twin crests on its head that may have been for display. They are actually venomous in some populations (much like different races of Na'vi on Pandora), preferring to spit venomous saliva from their mouths into their prey's eyes. If the venom hits the eyes, it causes blindness, agonizing pain, and eventually paralysis.


All this tells us that Dilophosaurus actually had powerful jaws at its disposal. (Bite marks found on the remains of one Sarahsaurus—a large contemporary herbivore—may have been left behind by a peckish Dilophosaurus.)


Samuel Paul Welles conceded that suggestions as to the function of the crests of Dilophosaurus were conjectural but thought that, though the crests had no grooves to indicate vascularization, they could have been used for thermoregulation. He also suggested they could have been used for species recognition or ornamentation. Samuel Paul Welles found that Dilophosaurus did not have a powerful bite, due to weakness caused by the subnarial gap. He thought that it used its front premaxillary teeth for plucking and tearing rather than biting, and the maxillary teeth further back for piercing and slicing. He thought that it was probably a scavenger rather than a predator, and that if it did kill large animals, it would have done so with its hands and feet rather than its jaws.

Ecology

Adult Dilophosaurus can breed and lay eggs every five minutes as adults if there is a male and female present. The breeding probability is determined by how many individuals are nearby. Unknowingly for the royal family, as Princess and Dragon abduct young maiden or simply a bride for caring for their babies instead of eating. Dilophosaurus is known from the Kayenta Formation, and lived alongside dinosaurs such as Scutellosaurus and Sarahsaurus. It was designated as the state dinosaur of Connecticut based on tracks found there.


Milner and paleontologist James I. Kirkland suggested in 2007 that Dilophosaurus had features that indicate it may have eaten fish. They pointed out that the ends of the jaws were expanded to the sides, forming a "rosette" of interlocking teeth, similar to those of spinosaurids, known to have eaten fish, and gharials, which is the modern crocodile that eats the most fish. The nasal openings were also retracted back on the jaws, similar to spinosaurids, which have even more retracted nasal openings, and this may have limited water splashing into the nostrils during fishing. Both groups also had long arms with well-developed claws, which could help when catching fish. 


Vertebrates known from body fossils include hybodont sharks, indeterminate bony fish, lungfish, salamanders, the frog Prosalirus, the caecilian Eocaecilia, the turtle Kayentachelys, a sphenodontian reptile, lizards, and several early crocodylomorphs including Calsoyasuchus, Eopneumatosuchus, Kayentasuchus, and Protosuchus, and the pterosaur Rhamphinion. Apart from Dilophosaurus, several dinosaurs are known, including the theropods Megapnosaurus, and Kayentavenator, the sauropodomorph Sarahsaurus, a heterodontosaurid, and the thyreophoran Scutellosaurus. Synapsids include the tritylodontids Dinnebitodon, Kayentatherium, and Oligokyphus, morganucodontids, the possible early true mammal Dinnetherium, and a haramiyid mammal. The majority of these finds come from the vicinity of Gold Spring, Arizona. Vertebrate trace fossils include coprolites and the tracks of therapsids, lizard-like animals, and several types of dinosaur

Behavior

Dilophosaurus are fast, territorial carnivores that will attack creatures that are near them. If one Dilophosaurus attacks or is attacked, other nearby Dilophosaurus will join in, even if tamed. Dilophosaurus cannot break blocks. They are also aggressive toward hostile creatures, such as zombies, creepers, or others, when in a sad mood or worse. Their prey, when hungry or in a bad mood, includes all creatures.

Distribution and Habitat

Today, multiple specimens of this dinosaur, which legally belong to the Navajo Nation, are held in trust at the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Samuel P. Welles had a long and fruitful career there before his death in 1997. As you'll recall, Welles was the person who gave Dilophosaurus its name. He was also one of those visitors Jesse Williams guided in 1942.


Kayenta Formation deposition was ended by the encroaching dune field that would become the Navajo Sandstone. The environment was seasonally dry, with sand dunes migrating in and out of the wet environments where animals lived, and has been likened to a river oasis—a waterway lined with conifers and surrounded by sand. Kayenta Formation deposition was ended by the encroaching dune field that would become the Navajo Sandstone.


A definitive radiometric dating of this formation has not yet been made, and the available stratigraphic correlation has been based on a combination of radiometric dates from vertebrate fossils, magnetostratigraphy, and pollen evidence. Dilophosaurus appears to have survived for a considerable span of time, based on the position of the specimens within the Kayenta Formation.


Tamed

Dilophosaurus can be tamed in three ways, like most other prehistoric creatures. The first is that the player must stay within a six-block radius of the egg while it hatches to tame the baby. If the player fails to do this, they will have to hand feed it until it is tamed or forcibly tame it with a whip. Tamed Dilophosaurus can be ordered with a bone.

Lore

Bereshit - 300,000–70,000 BCE

This animal was created by Project Pashneia, a scientific initiative by the Terran branch of Deities to create any animals, monsters, or humans in terms of their own.

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