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| Topic Started: Aug 15 2010, 06:38 PM (1,655 Views) | |
| TheCoon | Aug 15 2010, 06:38 PM Post #1 |
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This project is product of a few ideas I had while brainstorming something for a client, along with the news about Pakasuchus, the mammal-toothed crocodile. In this world, some sort of decease strikes the first mammals. This decease was simple but deadly. It poisoned the milk the baby mammals needed desperately during the first days of life, and so mammals didn't lasted very long. The final blow came during the Triassic-Jurassic extinction. This extinction occurs as normal, but the only difference is, that even if mammals managed to adapt against the decease, there were only a few left. With this small, reduced number of mammals, the class was unable to survive and mammals became extinct. The rest of the animals continue their evolutionary history as normal, with only a few species changing a little to fill this mammalian niches. This include Pakasuchus, and in fact all the Notosuchian sub-order. When the Cretaceous-Terciary extinction occurs, and all the non-avian dinosaurs are wiped out, it is Notosuchians and not mammals the ones that take over the world. More concepts and ideas coming soon. Stay tuned! |
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| colddigger | Aug 15 2010, 07:05 PM Post #2 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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""Disease". Other than that nibbling at the back of my mind it sounds good to me, perhaps a bacterial infection? I look forward to the concepts. |
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| TheCoon | Aug 15 2010, 07:15 PM Post #3 |
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Yeah. I was thinking in some sort of bacteria that gets stuck inside the nipples of the mammal, and when the milk flows, some of the bacteria flow with the milk. Then, when it reaches the stomach of the baby animal, it causes diarrhea until the animal dehidratates and dies. |
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| urufumarukai | Aug 15 2010, 07:30 PM Post #4 |
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Hitler is my spirit animal
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That is some bad diarrhea. |
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| TheCoon | Aug 15 2010, 08:05 PM Post #5 |
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A question for all of you. Would you like to see Spiders replace mammals in Laurasia, while the Notosuchids replace them in Gondwanna? |
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| colddigger | Aug 15 2010, 08:40 PM Post #6 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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I would absolutely LOVE to see spiders replace anything dominant/semi-dominant. Also, diarrhea can easily kill a baby animal so I think this scenario is quite possible. |
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| Toad of Spades | Aug 15 2010, 08:51 PM Post #7 |
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What kind of evolutionary side-effects happened to the tiny notosuchids when they stayed in that niche until the KT Extinction? Mammals stayed in that niche for a very long time and as a result lost their color vision. The little notosuchids wouldn't have been in the niche as long, but would they have experienced anything?
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| colddigger | Aug 15 2010, 10:15 PM Post #8 |
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Um... what? Is the mammals losing their night vision some spec thing? |
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| Toad of Spades | Aug 15 2010, 10:30 PM Post #9 |
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WHOOOPS! I meant color vision. I fixed it. The reason mammals lost their color vision is they've lived more than 180 million years only coming out at night. The majority of mammals today have never regained their color vision. |
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| Cephylus | Aug 16 2010, 07:25 AM Post #10 |
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Torando of Terror
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wha? spiders? anyway I'd love to see notosuchids |
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| Scrublord | Aug 16 2010, 08:45 AM Post #11 |
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why spiders? Not unless conditions go back to carboniferous levels. . . |
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| Holben | Aug 16 2010, 08:49 AM Post #12 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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Then, scorpions have a better chance. Large scorpions... And they can repel dinosaurs. |
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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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| TheCoon | Aug 16 2010, 03:38 PM Post #13 |
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Ive got a few possibilities for mammal replacement in Laurasia. Spiders, Scorpions, and even small theropod dinosaurs. Im gonna use all of them at the same time, with the spiders and scorpions taking place in arid regions while dinos taking place in forested areas. |
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| Ook | Aug 16 2010, 03:40 PM Post #14 |
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not a Transhuman
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or some squamates could evovle to fill this niche,they were already diverget by this time and they could develop viviparity and many other traits
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| TheCoon | Aug 16 2010, 03:46 PM Post #15 |
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Maybe, but as far as I know squamates were exclusive to Gondwana, the place where Notosaurids will replace mammals (Correct me if Im wrong). |
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