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Fish Dinosaurs; A world were fish have dinosaur body plans.
Topic Started: Oct 30 2010, 05:03 AM (3,097 Views)
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Ive got a new project were fish replace dinosaurs. Giant bipedal sharks with theropod body plans are the top predatores. Remoras have evolved into Pachycephalysaurus like creatures. What coud replace ceratopsians stegasaurs ankylosaurs and sauropods
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You know nothing of clades and cladistics, do you?
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Oct 30 2010, 10:58 PM
We are genuine fish.
Fish with fins and uncovered skin. Im talking about the animals that you see when you go scuba diving nhot when you go down the street.
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Oct 30 2010, 10:59 PM
You know nothing of clades and cladistics, do you?
I know a bit but thats why I popsted this topic so that I could get help from people that know about that stuff
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Silly UT. I don't walk down streets. But I still see fish.
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Oct 30 2010, 10:59 PM
You know nothing of clades and cladistics, do you?
And you don't understand anything. It's pretty clear here what Theropod wants. He only wants those vertebrates that have gills, fins and lack legs. Cladistics might be useful for grouping organisms based on ancestry but it serves absolutely no purpose for actually categorising species based on physiology. For this you'd need taxons.

So how about you just shut up and leave theropod alone. He might not be the most knowledgeable person around here but at least he's not being a giant prick while being wrong.
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Whoa whoa. Let's just take a chill pill and calm down you two.

Anyway UT, what do you mean by fish dinos? Fish coming onto land to become dinos, or becoming like dinos in the water (by that, I mean like liopleurodons)?
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He means like this from what I've read.
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This is what I mean. For example a great white shark that has a trex body plan: It is a great white that has two large back legs, can breathe on land and in water, has two small fins, a massive head and relies on brawn more than brain like a Trex.
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I figure that the replacements -Of course you'd have to wipe out all vertebrates on land, not just dinosaurs- would have to be descended from a single ancestor... so I doubt you'd get shark Trex and pufferfish triceratops...
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And the arthropods and molluscs would take over before sea fish could get on land.
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The fish dont evolve into amphibians, reptiles,dinosaurs but they stay as fish and evolve dinosaur traits. Also I want to use giant eels instead of titanoboas is this possible?
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Oct 31 2010, 08:32 PM
And the arthropods and molluscs would take over before sea fish could get on land.
What do you mean take over? Arthropods came onto land before fish in this world and vertebrates took control so why would it be different.
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Oct 31 2010, 08:39 PM
The fish dont evolve into amphibians, reptiles,dinosaurs but they stay as fish and evolve dinosaur traits. Also I want to use giant eels instead of titanoboas is this possible?
Sorry, but to evolve dinosaurian traits they first would have to get legs and feet and toes to walk around on land before becoming upright fas killers. You can´t simply skip the "Amphibian" and "Reptilian" phases.

And Titanoboa isn´t a dinosaur, but a snake :P




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