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Mundo Bizarro; The Bizarre World
Topic Started: Aug 15 2010, 06:38 PM (1,654 Views)
TheCoon
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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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TheCoon
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Do scorpions have chelicerae? I thought only spiders had them.

Oh, I never thought of that! We could even make them more intelligent than Portia Spiders!
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Yup, the chelicerae are next to their mouth and used to break up food.

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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TheCoon
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I get my scanner tomorow. I'll upload the image I want to represent Mundo Bizarro in the Dynamic Projects, as well as some sketches on the dominant species of macrofauna and anatomy of the Nepanids and Suchiomammals.
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I'm not aware of an arachnid that DOESN'T have cheli-... Having intelligent scorpions sounds really cool, maybe they could be like mammals in that sense as well -eventually developing to be quite intelligent-.
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Yup, all arachnids are in chelicerata because they have chelicerae.

Indeed, but they'll do far better than mammals! And survive KT, PT...
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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Forgot to mention- if the density of lamellae can be increased, they will find it easier to respire.
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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This project's not dead yet! It has suffered some major twists, thougth.
Mammals will exist here. It's just that, by some sort of reason I can't come up with yet, they suffered a terrible decline, almost to the point of extinction. This allowed mega-arthropods and notosuchians to diversify and, basically, this decline gave more chances to both types of creatures. By when the mammals recovered in the Eocene, many niches were occupied by this creatures. However, the resting time allowed mammals to evolve forms such as mustelid, feline, rodent, and even some small ungulate-like forms. I'll update all of my sketches when I get more time. They're alot of sketches!
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I'm looking forward to those sketches. Glad to see this project running again...
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