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New alternative evolution project; new alternative evolution project
Topic Started: May 16 2010, 04:40 AM (614 Views)
Cephylus
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I'm working on a new alternative evolution project, about if the Permian mass extinction did not happen. The home page, in blog format, will be posted soon, but for now, I'm still working on the environments, flora and fauna. There'll be lots of mammalian reptiles and gigantic sea squids. I'll write something about the sepcies in the project, when the home page is finished.
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Holben
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Squiids in the sea- yay! Correct!

What time period is your project set, or is it several timeframes?
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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what will fly here?birds and mammals aren´t here and pterosaurs propably didnt evolve
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Yeah, the flying animal part is hard, I have to create an entirely new race of flying creatures. And my project will be set in several time frames.
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

I'd say your best bet fo a flier is to evolve some sort of reptomammalian "bat".
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or pterosaurs evolve,but will be slightly different than real earth pterosaurs
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Squids can't be in the sea as they evolved from Cretaceous Belemnoids. With a different KT we'd have no squid, or at least no true squid.
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The squids actually appear in the later timeframe, when new diseases have killed many of the synapsids and when mammals and dinos become mainly dominant vertebrates
And thanks for both the reptomammalian bat and alternative pterosaur idea
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But they won't be squid. Squid can't evolve simply because there was such a difference between Earth and here.

If you need any ideas, check out the Synapsidia community project.

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As I said in Synapsidia several times, PTEROSAURS CAN'T EVOLVE. ARCHOSAURS WON'T EVEN EVOLVE. They came right after the P-Tr extinction, which means that they were allowed to evolve with the extinction of the Synapsids. With synapsids they can't evolve, and false pterosaurs thus can't. Your best bets would be Avicephalians (wing-ribbed reptiles) or Therocephalians (small poisonous carnivorous synapsids).
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For the flying animals, reptomammalian bat-like creatures are mostly dominant, with pterosaurs a bit different from our own. there are also diving and land-dwelling pterosaurs as well.
There are birds, flying, diving and land-dwelling forms derived from the maniraptora in the second timeframe, and although they thrive in most continents, they don't completely overthrow pterosaurs and reptomammalian fliers.
There are other forms of flying creatures 'dragons' but they are not entirely airborne
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Did you just read my last post? ARCHOSAURS CAN'T EXIST with no P-Tr! That means NO aetosaurs, NO crocodylomorphs, NO phytosaurs, NO rausuchians, NO pterosaurs, NO non-avian dinosaurs, and NO BIRDS!
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The 'squids' and 'pterosaurs' aren't REALLY squids and pterosaurs, sort of similar but different animals I'm using those terms because I haven't really given names for those groups.
as for the archosaurs, I based their evolution on the theory that they evolved in the Permian; before the Permian extinction anyway even if you don't consider "archosaurus" and "Protorosaurus" as archosaurs then they were archosauriformes, from which archosaurs evolve from, so I think that the evolution of archosaurs without the Permian extinction is plausible. So I based my project on the view that the permian extinction resulted in archosaurs evolving into dominant land animals, not their appearance in evolutionary history
The synapsids do get something like a mass extinction, but much later and much small-scale but nevertheless allow dinosaurs to appear and become dominant
I'll write something about the general timeline
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