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| Topic Started: Feb 10 2010, 06:34 PM (557 Views) | |
| sam999 | Feb 10 2010, 06:34 PM Post #1 |
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What if some sort of disease wiped out early dinosaurs such as Coelophysis during the late Triassic, what kind of creatures would have evolved in their absence? |
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| Canis Lupis | Feb 10 2010, 06:48 PM Post #2 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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Pterosaurs might've. Some marine reptiles could have taken to land again. But most likely, mammals would have started their reign early. |
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| Venatosaurus | Feb 10 2010, 07:33 PM Post #3 |
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It would have been very interesting to have a Pterosaur dominated Mesozoic, with mammals tagging alongside them ! |
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| ATEK Azul | Feb 10 2010, 07:50 PM Post #4 |
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Crocodillians will have a field day at 1st and perhaps form an unheard of diversity of Herbivores, Omnivores, Carnivores and certain aquatic niches. Of course after this initial dominance I see Mammals and Pterosaurs growing in dominance until Pterosaurs are the top predators and Mammals have niches within the niches of Dog to Rodent sized niches. The Crocodillians will still keep a bunch more niches than they have on our world though. I see many of the larger animals going extinct in the K-T but I don't think it will be as bad since most of the animals will be smaller and require less resources during the extinction allowing more to survive on the low resources. A consiquence I see happening is the extinction of Placentals and possibly Marsupials since they seem to diversify into larger niches quickly which might cause them to die during the extinction by expanding into large niches in the Mesozoic. What this means is that there might be Multituberculates and Monotremes ruling the Earth presently, unless they stay in niches close to their Earth counter parts in which case the world is ruled by Pterosaurs and Crocodillians making this the Age of the Archosaurs. |
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| Kamidio | Feb 11 2010, 12:10 PM Post #5 |
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What about saipient pterosaurs? |
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| Rick Raptor | Feb 11 2010, 01:28 PM Post #6 |
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Like this one for example? http://nemo-ramjet.deviantart.com/art/Sapient-Azhdarchid-152547939 |
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| The Dodo | Feb 12 2010, 12:53 AM Post #7 |
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How come when I made a topic like this almost no-one was interested, oh well. Protosuchians and Sphenosuchians would go alright I think. |
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| Margaret Pye | Feb 12 2010, 09:12 PM Post #8 |
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Why does a sapient azhdarchid need to be flightless? Why not a sapient flying azhdarchid? |
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| TheCoon | Feb 12 2010, 10:50 PM Post #9 |
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It would be like: Crocodilians and Kannemeyerids rule this world. Coelophysis dies/never evolved, and Crocodilians took their positions. Kannemeyerids and other mammal-like reptiles still became extinct because of the lack of food and water. Crocodilians terribly decline due to the lack of prey. Most food chains colapse, and mammals and pterosaurs take over. |
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| Carlos | Feb 13 2010, 04:09 AM Post #10 |
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Adveho in me Lucifero
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True, I've always imagined my sapient pterosaurs as flighted |
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| Holben | Feb 13 2010, 04:10 AM Post #11 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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Taking off, flying and landing use up a lot of brainpower. That siad, humans became so sapient as they freed up parts of thyeir brain tied up in sensory stuff and co-ordination. If you want reptile sapients, they would have to be very erect (like a maniraptoran style erect) and have really big heads. They would need much bulkier bodies and limbs, and their tails would have to thicken. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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