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[Insert Generic Alternative Evolution Project Name Here]; Any name suggestions for my island?
Topic Started: Dec 10 2009, 08:58 PM (8,224 Views)
TheCoon
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I'm making a fictional island with animals from mid-late cretaceous period north america that survived in there as the island moved to the ecuator in the middle of the pacific ocean.

Here's a map:
http://lilcthulhu.deviantart.com/art/Lost-Island-Map-146327517

My main problem right now is: Is it plausible for pterosaurs to survive in this island?

Edited by TheCoon, Dec 22 2009, 08:08 PM.
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ATEK Azul
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That could work though you should take into consideration how you want these claws to grow.
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Naa... it would make more sense if it's a creature that cuts grass with it claws in the grasslands and then eats it or uses it in it's nest.
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That works fine as well and is more plausible.
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Other thing: The grasslands are flooded. Is it possible for octopus or crabs to inhabit it? Like beneath the grass?
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Probably but that would be a unique Octopus(one of a kind Swampus) since it would be in fresh water isolating it from the oceans(and the world).

As for the Crab that would be easy since we have those in real life.
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Hmmm... thanks.
That's all the ideas I've got for now. Oh, and also hermit crabs that use small maniraptor skulls as shells but that might be a little unplausible :D
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I think it would work as long as the skull was small enough to be caried by the Crab and had a hole for the Crab to fit.
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Probalby they would live in the hole of the eye orbit or something like that.
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Okay that sounds like it might encourage some Asymmetrical(I think that is the right word) body parts since one side of the body will have more weight then the other(in an akward angle)?
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Probably. I'm not gonna kill this concept. I'll work it to make the concept more plausible.
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Okay sounds great.
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Nah, that kind of pterosaur is near imposible. It would take far more million years to develop something like that. Besides, the only pterosaurs that existed by the late cretaceous period were azhdarchids. In the case that this pterosaurs survived in this island and became flightless, they would look and take more giraffe or antelope forms and niches, instead of a theropod-like fish eater.


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While a giraffe like pterosaur is totoally possible I suppose they would be occupying mostly ratite niches (I mean, they would be quadrupedal, but omnivores, not strict herbivores), unless there's no herbivore dinosaurs in your island.

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I actually doubt that most ornithopods survive in the island. I read that the KT extinction on land was caused by the apearance of grass during the Late Cretaceous. Grass actually appeared just before the KT extinction, so this might be a cause of their dissapearance, since herviborous dinos couldn't digest grass. What do you think?


It turned out hadrosaurs were grazers, and so were some titanosaurs according to coprolites.

@Ddraig Goch: the scizzor head is just as horrible as I imagined. Do you know were I can get a vultursaur pic plz?
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The scizzor head looks strange, when I first saw the image I thought he had mixed it up with a picture of some sort of theropod.
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When I first heard of it I simply sighed and imagined it to be a misclassified flightless vultursaur. However, I have no idea how vultursaurs look like
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http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

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JohnFaa - here's an image of the Vulturesaur (Vultursaurus). It's not perfect, mainly because I scanned it in from a book, "The World of Kong", and the book's falling apart, so doing anything with it is difficult.
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