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Mu: The Lost Continent; New name for this project!
Topic Started: Jun 11 2010, 09:59 PM (3,473 Views)
TheCoon
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I'm gonna remake my project about a small island in which dinosaurs survived. But instead I'm gonna make it more weird and interesting than the tipical cliche lost island.

It has come to my attention that maybe the permo-triassic extinction only occured in mainland, because China and Siberia, which were isolated during the time of the extinction, had "living fossils" all the way up to the Triassic. So, if my large island managed to stay isolated for the rest of the Earth History, then I can make it a paradise were Permian living fossils live alongside pterosaurs.

So, this is the Late Permian of our timeline:
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And this is the map with my island, in an alternate timeline:
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The island separated from the rest of the world during the middle permian, so the creatures from said island weren't affected by the P-T extinction event. Furthermore, the separation produces a strange magmatic fluctuation in the surrounding area of the island (In fact, you can see said fluctuation on the map, in the water current near the island), which prevents it from re-joining other landmassess until the fluctuation looses it's strength.

Long story made short, there's a tidal wave underneath the tectonic plates, and causes the island to bounce in the pacific ocean instead of coliding with the landmassess.

In further posts, I'm gonna describe the wildlife of the island across time, until we reach present.

Also, I would really like Parasky/Pandorasaurus too make me a subforum for this project.

Thanks :)


Edited by TheCoon, Jun 14 2010, 10:36 AM.
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Sounds interesting. Good Photoshop. But if it separated in the Permian and never rejoined, the only dinosaurs that could arrive to the island would be birds.

And it's too early to request a subforum. Wait a while to see how it goes, and if you keep it up you just might get it.
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It was going to originally have dinos, but then I decided to make it weirder. Birds will be present, but also will be pterosaurs.
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looks interesting,so if yyou separated it during permian,will be here in holocene descendants of mammal like reptiles?(i dont mean mammals ;) )
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could i suggest an animal?
because i was thinking you should include a species of aquatic scutosaur, which would be like a manatee :geek:
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List of animals that inhabited the island when it became separated:
Temnospondylids:

Zatrachidae:
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Eryopidae:
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Amphibamidae:
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Leptospondylids:

Keraterperontidae:
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Lysophoridae:
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Anapsida:

Procolophonidae:
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Pareiasauridae:
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Captorhinidae:
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Pelycosauria:

Caseidae:
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Varanopidae:
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Ophiacodontidae:
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Sphenacodontidae:
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Therapsida:

Burnetiidae:
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Anteosauridae:
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Tapinocephalidae:
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Basal Gorgonopsidae:
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Therocephalians:
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It's most probable thar during the late permian they will only shrink. The real thing will begin during the early triassic, when the world started to dry out. Lots of semi-deserts and savannahs.
Edited by TheCoon, Jun 12 2010, 12:58 PM.
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this is really interesting, will this island affect human history at all may i ask?
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Yes. The island in present times is located South of the Japan Archipielago. The fluctuation will not allow Hawaii to form, so Hawaii islands don't exist in this world. Also, probably Japanese and Chinese would arrive to the island, and maybe even use it to arrive to Mesoamerica.
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i love modern world history i would be happy to help with that if you would like?
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Yeah sure. Just wait till I get there. There's still a lot I would like to discuss about this island before we talk about it during present times.
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of course i understand in the mean time are you taking species suggestions?
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Yep. I need to talk about the Early-Middle Triassic. The world is drying. Lots of deserts and savannahs exist, and this island is no exception. Some pocket swamps and forest exist, but the main habitats of the island by this time are dry and hot. I personally think it's a great oportunity for the Pelycosaurs to develop. They became extinct in the rest of the world but in this island, the conditions are excelent for them.
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Jun 12 2010, 01:14 PM
Yes. The island in present times is located South of the Japan Archipielago. The fluctuation will not allow Hawaii to form, so Hawaii islands don't exist in this world. Also, probably Japanese and Chinese would arrive to the island, and maybe even use it to arrive to Mesoamerica.
Actually Hawaii was made by the Yellowstone Supervolcano. So I don't think it would stop Hawaii.

Also I'm not sure about your amphibians. Their diversity was pretty low in the Permian, and that caecilian-like one I'm pretty sure lived in the Early Permian, rather than Late Permian.
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okay how about the Pareiasaurs become aquatic much like manatees?
i could imagine this during the jurassic when the world was much wetter.
Edited by dialforthedevil, Jun 12 2010, 01:44 PM.
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Actually Hawaii was made by the Yellowstone Supervolcano. So I don't think it would stop Hawaii.

Also I'm not sure about your amphibians. Their diversity was pretty low in the Permian, and that caecilian-like one I'm pretty sure lived in the Early Permian, rather than Late Permian.
Yes. Hawaii will exist, but they'll be smaller and closer to America, due to the fluctuation. Or, the resultant explotion could expand the island. Make it bigger.

Caecilian ones were from the early-mid permian. The piece of land formarly became an island during the mid-permian.
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