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Lemuria; fictional continent,that split off from pangea in triassic
Topic Started: Apr 23 2010, 10:01 AM (1,774 Views)
Ook
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i have got idea of making fictional greenland sized continent,somewhere in indian ocean or pacific ocean and there will be false dinosaurd(evolved from some members of non dinosaur dinosauromorpha) there will be some terrestrial bridges in middle jurassic and eocene,since i need later birds and some mammals.

Silesaurus
herbivore dinosauromorph
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teratosaurus
carnivore rauisuchian
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Scleromochlus

small omnivore
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random lizard like Diapsid

randomlizard like anapsid

Eudimorphodon
pterosaur
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Placerias
herbivore dicynodont
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what is sprawling gate?translator translate it as destroyed gate :D
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Gait is the way you walk.
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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Woops, I mean gait.

Sprawling gait means the legs are out to the side, like crocodiles. Monotremes are the only living mammals with sprawling legs.
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See it's legs? They're out to the side.
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Actually, crocodiles can pull their legs underneath them in an erect gait.
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yeah,thanks....what about crocs?they have got that forms,but in history,there was many crocs,that walks like normal quadrapedal

and that picture is 2D,maybe they are at half way from sprawling gate to basic horse like pose
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The land crocs were a branch that died out. And if crocs stay in their niches they will not lose their sprawling limbs, but they might if there were a lineage of neo-land crocs.
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Modern crocodiles can walk sprawling or erect. When scooting on the ground they sprawl. When moving over long distances they high walk with an erect gait.
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Bexi
Apr 24 2010, 12:42 PM
normal quadrapedal
What pose does a 'normal quadrupedal' have?

Frogs are quadrupeds. So are antelope, lizards, dinoceratans and dinocephalians. And they don't all have the same gait.
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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