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Postozoic
Topic Started: Apr 19 2010, 12:01 PM (6,714 Views)
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Since my old topic died and I had so much revision I just created a new topic.

In the Postozoic I will focus on 4 (rather than 3) time zones. They will be 25, 90, 120, and 200 million years future.

In 25 million years future the world is 1 degree hotter than 2010, and rain forests cover the equator but Africa-like savannas are dominant. In the sea dolphins hold their niche but seals filter feed and otters have taken the role of seals and the ambush predator niche north of the equator, where they can't compete with the better adapted crocodilians. An order of primates descended from the Hamadryas baboon start to compete with carnivora for the niche of apex predators.

In 90 million years the world is 1 degree colder than 2010, and there are no rain forests with Mediterranean climate replacing them. The savannas and grasslands are more spread, up until the taiga (boreal forests) that start around the height of Canada. Mammals are at their height. An order of neo-mesonychids descended from pigs have overthrown the carnivore baboons. Carnivora is extinct except in South America. Bats have become more dominant, keeping most birds as raptorial-like forms. During this period a mass extinction in between KT and P-Tr arrives, heating up the world and bringing an end to the reign of mammals and the extinction of monotremes.


In 120 million years the world is a hot place rules by reptiles. Amphibians have been in decline ever since the human extinction, and the 90 MYF extinction brought their end. All birds also go extinct in the extinction, except for an Asian group of quadruped birds, descended from junglefowl. Bats rule the skies, with the group that rules the skies losing another finger from the membrane, allowing them to walk better and grow bigger. All the continents are connected except for South America and Antarctica, which is the only place that mammals are still dominant. Monitor lizard descendants are the apex predators. Mice and antechinus descendants rule the insectivorous niche. In the trees a group of carnivorous primates rule predator niche and another group rule the fruigivorous and insectivorous niches, all descended from the 1 monkey that survived the extinction. A group of arboreal geckos rule the rodent niche. In Antarctica a group of swingers similar to monkeys have evolved, descended from bats. In the sea dolphin-like sharks rule the dolphin niche and giant filter feeding squid rule the filter feeding niches. A new class of reptile-like chordates descended from pangolins emerge from Lemuria when it crashes into India, including the neo-theropods descended from lizargolins, which had the chance to rise with the extinction of Emperor Birds.

In 200 million years all the continents have grown in a neo-Pangea. Birds and neo-reptile pangolins have taken control of the land, winning over mammals because of their better water conservation. In the trees the monkey bats has a cosmopolitan range in the coastline rain forests from when Antarctica collided with neo-Pangea. Antechinus now completely control the insectivore niche, and opossums from South America rule the rodent niche, and are the last marsupials. A few armadillos, neo-ground sloths (from South America) and ground Kinkajou (from Antarctica) roam in the southern rain forests of neo-Pangea. Flying lizards descended from the rodent geckos have taken pterosaur-like form and fill a niche similar to what bats have today.

Another change that I'm doing from the original Postozoic is that instead of doing all the time zones at a time, I'm going to go time zone biome by time zone biome.

The other change is in the survivor list. The only changes I'm doing is that hoatzin are extinct and sloths are extant, to fit my plans for the future.

And so, welcome to the Postozoic!
Edited by Pando, Apr 23 2010, 09:35 PM.
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Got pictures and a new species!

Abada:
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Abada-Human Comparison:
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Now for the species:
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Zooltomophagos
Common Name: Shrew Mouse
Ancestor: Mice
Diet: Insects
Habitat: 90 MYF North American plains
Origin of the Greek Name: "ζωολ" (rodent) (zool), "εντομοφάγος" (insect eater) (entomophagos)
Shrew mice are insectivorous descendants of mice. After humanity left Earth, they started to radiate into new forms, including insectivores. By 90 MYF, they had overtaken shrews.

Shrew mice are very similar to current day mice, except for their long claws which they use to dig and their long nearly toothless mouth.

The genus Zooltomophagos is the most populous North American shrew mouse, and can often be seen scurrying in the grass. There is an arboreal species though that hunts insects in the neo-bamboo forests, Zooltomophagos Oentra. It's species name comes from the Greek "δέντρα" (oentra), which means "tree".



Shrew Mouse:
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Very Nice Panda :D you would never see a horned rabbit any where else apart from spec :lol:
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You welcome. I really liked the Abada legend, so I wanted a realistic spec version.

And it's Pando.
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My mistake sorry ^_^ yeah i get most of my creature inspirations from myths as well :lol:
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That was just a one-time thing, for the Postozoic. No other animals here are based on legends.
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I have to said this is a great project! I like the shrew mouse!
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Thanks.

I'm finishing off the grasslands, can't think of anything else. I'm now starting the South American rain forest of 25 MYF.

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Ptirasito
Common Name: Parasite Bat
Ancestor: Vampire Bat
Diet: Blood
Habitat: 25 MYF South America Rain Forest
Origin of the Greek Name: "παράσιτο" (parasite) (parasito), "πτήση" (flying) (ptiri)
A 1 inch long descendant of vampire bats, they have increased their blood sucking ways. They have decreased in size everything except for their wing finger.

They live in the trees, waiting for prey to come below the tree they are in, when they jump on the back. They then bite the victim, inserting a numbing poison. After a few minutes when the area is numb, they quickly tear into the back of the animal and suck out all the blood they can. They then fly off into the nearest tree, and after relieving themselves of extra water go back in wait for a new victim.

Although they are rarely killed from the animals they prey on, they rarely prey on flying animals, instead bats and birds like eating the parasite bat.


I've got some more ideas, like ground sloth like primates and a diversification of bats.
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Ducrunemdo
Common Name: Sloth Monkey
Ancestor: South American Monkeys
Diet: Mostly leaves
Habitat: 25 MYF South America Rain Forest and surrounding forests
Origin of the Latin Name Name: "duos" (two) "crur" (leg) "nemus" (tree) "edo" (devour). Translates into "Two legged tree eater".
The Ducrunemdo order live in the Neo-Amazon and the surrounding forests. The neo-amazon ones and the forest ones are two different suborderss. Their diet is composed mostly of leaves, although they are not hesitant to eat wood, flowers, fruit, and occasionally insects and small bats.

The order is characterized by long and strong fingers, a long and strong mouth, a rotund belly, they walk on all fours, and are a lot larger than South American monkeys.

The forest suborder is defined by short toes in the back feet and a near-total loss of the tail, using it mostly for a fat storage in the winter. They have a usual length of 15-25 feet long and sharp claws, and have no natural predators.

The Neo-Amazon suborder still have long toes and a prehensile tail. They live in the trees usually, where the leaves are. They have an average of 5-20 feet in length. The larger species have no natural predators, but the smaller ones do.

I would really like some help on this one, since I'm unsure if it's possible. Also, I've been asking about this one since the old thread <.<
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I don't see why they would have to have an entire fat storage organ in the rainforest.
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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Those aren't the rain forest ones, but the forest ones.
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Sorry, i was misled by the thing.

Are the forest ones still active in winter, or have they evolved hibernation?
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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I'm pretty sure a no is the right answer here. The forests do get occasional snow and the leaf supply decreases but there isn't a need to hibernate.
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I could see them living more like gorillas than monkeys if you are going to make them that size
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I never said they were like monkeys. They evolved from the South American monkeys.

And they'd act more like ground sloths than gorillas.
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Ground sloths? With the leaf-stripping?
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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