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What if land crocodiles outcompeted mammals?
Topic Started: May 21 2010, 10:39 PM (2,592 Views)
Pando
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Land crocodylomorphs like Protosuchia and Notosuchia were the main competitors of mammals during the Cretaceous. At the KT extinction the mammals survived and the Protosuchians and Notosuchians died off. But what if it was the other way around?

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Birds are also extinct to allow the crocodylomorphs to take over the world in the Paleocene.
Edited by Pando, May 22 2010, 01:40 AM.
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May 22 2010, 11:51 AM
There were NO cenozoic pterosaurs! Those were hadrosaurs!
Sounds like a big mistake to make.
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its possible for notosuchians to evolve fur like things?I already knows that they have a similar teeth-arrangement and "and possibly fleshy cheeks and pig-like snouts" and possibly whiskers too,according to Baurusuchus
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I don't see any reason why not.
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The only thing that would difficult would be hair-like structures.
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