Teleocrater was one of the early relatives of the dinosaurs and pterosaurs. It was a medium sized predator from the Middle Triassic which looked like a cross between a monitor lizard and a theropod. Teleocrater’s fossils were first found in Tanzania during 1933. However, it wasn’t officially named until 2017. The discovery of Teleocrater led to the recognition of the clade Aphanosauria, which is first group known to have evolved which was more closely related to the dinosaurs (including birds) than to any other living animals.

Link to the paper describing Teleocrater: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

00:00 Introduction
01:14 Discovery
02:42 Anatomy
05:46 Aphanosauria
07:06 Evolution
08:21 Metabolism
08:53 Feathers
10:03 Extinction
11:13 Conclusion
11:47 Outro