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Alternative KT Extinctions; KT with different victims. **It is an open project**
Topic Started: Mar 24 2010, 10:36 PM (2,867 Views)
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In this project everything goes along the same as HE until KT (I know its a popular one). It all goes along the same as it does on Earth, except that there are different victims and survivors.

I will do the sea creatures in a few days.

Here are the extinct creatures:
All anapsids (it includes Testudines).
Squamates.
Sphenodonts.
Choristoderans.
Crocodylmorpha.
Neognath birds (Modern birds).
Non-avian theropods.
Sauropods.
Ornthipods.
Ankylosaurs.
Monotremes.
Eutherian (Placental) Mammals.
Gymnophions (Caecilians (Amphibians)).

The surviving animals (To the right is where they are found after KT, but spreading does occur later on):
Azhdarchids (NORTH AMERICA, ASIA, EUROPE, AFRICA),
Ceratopsians (NORTH AMERICA, ASIA),
Pachycephalosaurs (They pwn, wonder why nobody knows of them) (NORTH AMERICA),
Ornithocheirods (Used to live nearly everywhere, but by KT restricted to EUROPE),
Pterodantids (NORTH AMERICA),
Opossums (SOUTH AMERICA),
Late Cretaceous Antarctic Marsupials (ANTARCTICA),
Stagodontid Marsupials (if you don't know what it is, watch this and pause at 0:40) (NORTH AMERICA),
Asiadelphere Metatheres (ASIA),
Deltatheroid Metatheres (NORTH AMERICA, ASIA),
Enantiornithes (NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, EUROPE, ASIA),
Hesperornithes (NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE, ASIA),
Paleognaths (SOUTH AMERICA, AUSTRALIA),
Cimolodont Multituberculates (NORTH AMERICA, ASIA, EUROPE),
Gonwandatheres (Semi-aquatic burrowing beaver-like allotheres) (SOUTH AMERICA, AUSTRALIA),
Salamanders (NEAR-WORLDWIDE),
and Frogs (NEAR-WORLDWIDE).

**NOTE** I'm not counting paleognaths and gondwanatheres in Antarctica because they will die off in Antarctica with no survivors by present day. With the marsupials they will enter Australia like present day after KT happens.

KT world:
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This project is OPEN, so anyone can contribute. I would like to focus on Present day and 50 million years future.

Species format:

Name
Ancestor: x
Time: Present day or 50 MYF.
Size: x
Behavior: Solitary or group behavior.
Area: The area of the continent that they live in.
Then go on with the description, and if you have one at the bottom post a picture of it.

Present day map (just in case you need it):
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50 million years future (note, it is actually a link, not a picture. Just click on it to see the map, but don't take any animals on that website seriously).
50MYF

Again, this project is open, so I would really like contributions.
Edited by Pando, Mar 26 2010, 12:35 AM.
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The only dinos that survived were pachycephalosaurs, ceratopsians, enantiornithes, hesperornithes, and paleognaths.

The only mammals that survived were all the metatherians, gondwanatheres, and allotheres.

Since the land squamates died, small metatherians will probably take the niche, like the antechinus of Australia.

The list of animals per continent:

In Australia there is marsupials, gondwanatheres, paleognaths, enantiornithes.
In South America there is enantiornithes, opossums, gondwanatheres, and paleognaths.
In North America there is stegodont metatherians, asiadelphere metatherians, azhdarchids, pachycephalosaurs, ceratopsians, enantiornithes, and hesperornithes.
In Asia there is asiadelphere metatherians, ceratopsians, stegosaurs, azhdarchids, enantiornithes, and enantiornithes.
In Europe there is herpetotheriid opossums, allotheres, enantiornithes, hesperornithes, azhdarchids, and ornithocheroids.
In Africa there is enantiornithes, hesperornithes, allotheres, and azhdarchids.

In animals there is already ornthipod-like Asian pachycephalosaurs and theropod-like South American enantiornithes.
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Sorry to interrupt, but what European arboreals are there?
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.

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The European opossums that in our timeline died 23 million years ago, because of the Gran Coupure.
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Ok... can i create a group of them? A kind of bird, egg, and waste- eating mustelid-like guy?
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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Yeah, they have the eggs of allotheres, avian dinosaurs, and azhdarchids. And it's an open project.
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Is this still alive? It was kinda nice
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No, replaced by:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3711420/1
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