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The episode then details the decline of the Archosaurs such as the Placerias, who are gradualy being ousted from the Triassic ecosystem by such large grazers as the Prosauropod Plateosaurus. the episode highlights the lives of a group of Coelophysis, a reasonably well - known early Theropod, which is presented as being a relatively adaptable and flexible creature, opportunistic hunter, and occasional cannibal (this assumption is now known to be false, with recent scientific study revealing that what had appeared to be the bones of a younger specimen within that of an adult, were in fact two seperate skeletons that had perished on top of each other, and been compressed into one). The first episode, set in the Arizona of the late Triassic, tells of a time when the dinosaur group had yet to gain a sure footing in the Mesozoic ecosystem.
#Walking with dinosaurs coelophysis series#
produced by director Tim Haines, the series used advanced CGI and animatronic technology, and is now renowned as being one of the most accurate prehistoric documentaries made to date.
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The series intended to show the life and times of these facinating reptiles right from their earliest beginnings in the mid - Triassic, right up to their Cretaceous-Paleogene_Boundary cataclysmic demise at the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago (Although, in the series, the extinction was said to be 65 million years ago). Walking with Dinosaurs was a six-part television series produced by BBC and aired first in the UK in 1999.