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| Topic Started: Oct 6 2009, 11:32 AM (5,267 Views) | |
| VulcanTrekkie45 | Oct 6 2009, 11:32 AM Post #1 |
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Hey everyone. I was hoping you guys could give me a hand. I'm in the middle of a project on another forum called Avalonia Alone, in which Avalonia didn't break up into New England and Western Europe as it did in our world. I've got a general idea for climate, which you'll find in the thread. But I was hoping that you could give me a hand with some of the animals native to the island. My guess is it'd be dominated by multituberculates, with some creatures that are descendants of the last common ancestor of placentals and marsupials. But I'd live some more specifics. If you'd like to help me out, that'd be awesome. Also, if any of you are good artists, I'd love drawings as well. |
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| Ook | Apr 30 2010, 02:25 PM Post #151 |
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lasts survives propably to pleistocene.if great american interchange never happened,they will be here |
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| VulcanTrekkie45 | Apr 30 2010, 02:31 PM Post #152 |
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Okay. Well, Avalonia is completely seperate from the Americas. So how could mammals evolve into apex predators with terror birds there as well? |
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| Ook | Apr 30 2010, 02:33 PM Post #153 |
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everything is possible....terrors were in SA top predators,but with they coexistet lot of metatherian carnivores,for example bear like metatherians or thylacosmilus,there could be terrors as top predators too |
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| VulcanTrekkie45 | Apr 30 2010, 03:04 PM Post #154 |
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True. But more multituberculates than marsupials. And very few eutherians, if any. |
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| Ook | Apr 30 2010, 03:16 PM Post #155 |
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i didnt say anything about mammals,just the terrors can be here as top predaots too...multituberculates were only herbivores,you can have got here new groups(metahterians were in SA,so your project can be different)...what about giant carnivore insectivore? |
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| VulcanTrekkie45 | May 4 2010, 09:57 PM Post #156 |
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I'm a bit hesitant about that. Insects will be rather thin in Avalonia. Not all that warm. It's definitely wet, but hardly warm enough for insects to survive in numbers required for an insectivore the size you're postulating. |
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| colddigger | May 4 2010, 10:05 PM Post #157 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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What about woodlice? |
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Oh Fine. Oh hi you! Why don't you go check out the finery that is SGP?? v Don't click v Spoiler: click to toggle | |
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| VulcanTrekkie45 | May 4 2010, 10:11 PM Post #158 |
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Woodlice, yes. But I doubt something that lives on woodlice could be 'giant' by any stretch of the definition. Maybe an intermediary step on the food chain, but not something giant that runs the show. |
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| colddigger | May 4 2010, 10:34 PM Post #159 |
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I doubt anything feeding off of insect sized animals would be particularly large... Unless the food is overly concentrated like in a termite nest... |
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| Ook | May 4 2010, 11:52 PM Post #160 |
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i mean giant insetctivores as for example dog sized shrews,etc.. |
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| The Dodo | May 5 2010, 01:15 AM Post #161 |
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Dog sized still seems too large. |
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| Ook | May 5 2010, 07:15 AM Post #162 |
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what about dog sized hedhehog from mediterran islands?Deinogalerix is his name big insectivores will need have got different metabolism than that small Edited by Ook, May 5 2010, 07:16 AM.
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| The Dodo | May 6 2010, 02:00 AM Post #163 |
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I thought it was cat-sized, and it looks like it would of been eating more than just insects. |
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| VulcanTrekkie45 | May 6 2010, 03:28 PM Post #164 |
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Cat-sized seems better. I think cat-sized creatures that live primarily on woodlice could exist. |
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| Ook | May 6 2010, 03:41 PM Post #165 |
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oh because multituberculates is only herbivores,shrew or its relatives could evolove into bigger carnivore,who preys on them.Maybe analogue of cat or weasel,who eats mice sized multituberculates |
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