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Nr kriit mägedest kolmanda
Topic Started: Feb 28 2011, 05:35 PM (1,400 Views)
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I have too. My ideass for no K-T should go somewhere, so here you go. No K-T. Yup. Pretty cliche.

the name. it mean NO K-T in estonian. Cretaceous is named after the kreta chalk mountains, and tertiary means, well, tertiary
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hard to say what will be dominant carnivorous group,just looks how many groups of carnivorous mammals exist...mesonychids,creodonts or sparassodonts but they are no more

same with the every one niches,jstu look how many rhinoceros like animals existed in cenozoic ;)
generally i think that small omnivorous animals are best..perhaps long necked browsing ceratopsians(evovled from Leptoceratopsidae) herbivorous maniraptorans or mammals(evovled in some isolated areas or in north and then (perhaps with SA connect NA,if they are from SA)spread to the rest of the world)

Notosuchians and other land crocs can't be ignored



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tiny,ostercatcher convergent pterosaurs
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All of you. That list says SURVIVOR list. The ceratosians I'll take out. Those are the groups that made it past. And plesiosaurs lived long and were very adaptable.
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Well, there were all those now-extinct herbivores in our timeline in the Cenezoic, the oreodonts, the pantodonts, the brontotheres, the uintatheres, the meridiungulates, the condylarths, and they are all extinct. Unable to adapt, outcompeted, replaced by new herbivore clades. Carnivores as well. The creodonts, the nimravids, the mesonychids, the metatherians, all those carnivore groups, now extinct. Things never stayed the same, so why would they in our world? Why hadrosaurs and tyrannosaurs still dominant? (Maybe hadrosaurs can take a sauropod/gomphothere niche and make it into the Holocene, but I still doubt that since the large...) Bexi is totally right. I took beaked dromaeosaurs as the major carnivore group, probably the dominant carnivores are maniraptorans.

And why kill off ceratopsians? They were adaptable, not the chasmosaurines, but the smaller ones. They were omnivorous, not too picky about what they eat. They sure have a lot more survival chance compared to hadrosaurs or tyrannosaurs. I can see them taking small or giraffe-like browser niches, scavenger niches, even predator niches.
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I would say the ceratopsians would survive well in forested environements. Perhaps have small arboreal ceratopsians? Or what would be cool is having pachycelplasaurs as the main grassland animal. They are adaptable and could easily be seen eating grass. Ornithomimids are also very good contenders. Hadrosaurs would probably become like sauropods. Therizinosaurs are overused but yes its likely they will survive.
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I will have just leptos as I can just see them in trees. Pachys will be dominant on NA soil. Just because the tyrannosaurs are like wolves doesn't mean they aren't deadly. And wolves are scary. I would know. I've had close encounters with them.
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I have several pics to update later today:
A river mosasaur
A domestic tyrannosaur
A grazing hadrosaur
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Faux-Plume Opossums
In Nr kriit, bats never evolved. This was probably due to competition from pterosaurs and birds, however there is another group of odd flying mammals. In Oz, the pterosaurs never really took hold. So thriving in the air are a group of flying marsupials with psuedo-feathers enabling their flight. They are the Faux-Plumes. This group is descendant from the sugar gliders, but uses feathers for a light weight wing stucture. These "feathers" are actually flattedned hairs that branch of, splitting along advanced follicles. These mammals have spread throughout Oceania and can reach sizes rivalring some modern birds, with 2 meter+ wingspans. Some species include:
Burns' Double-Stripe- Psuedopteryx burnsii
Giant Pterapossum- Megalomammus psuedosauria
Dwarf Islander - Psuedopteryx floresiensis

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Domestic Tyrannosaurs
All domestic tyrannosaurs are within the species Luporynchus domesticus. They have been domesticated by the sapient unenlagians and are bred in many different forms from the fuzzy Spotted Retriever to the burrowing Snip-tooth. They come in many breeds akin to earth dogs and then more. They have degenerate forelimbs that exist only as a small double claw. They have coats that are formed from the hairlike protofeathers and are very common in the society of the sapients.

Roostercrests
The plains of America are populated by large grazing hadrosaurs and have been for over 100 million years. One such group is the aptly named Roostercrests, thanks to the triple crest of several species that resembles a cocks-comb. The narrow beak of the roostercrest is excellent for finding food under the snows of winter andtheir thick fatty layers insulate them in mountainous or cold conditions. This group ranges from the far northern Musk Whiffles to the Andean Llama Crest.
Roostercrest Plains- Gallolophosaurus americanus borealis(the one in the picture)
Desert- Gallolophosaurus americanus mohave
Llamasaur Llamasaurus andea
Musk Whiffle Gallolophosaurus arctus

River Dolphosaurs
A group of the dolphin like mosasaurs, the river dolphosaurs are known for their hook jaws and tiny eyes. They navigate large rivers such as the Yangtze and the Amazon hunting fish. They have tiny eyes and rely entirely on their sense of smell to navigate the murky rivers they call home. Like all other dolphosaurs, they have no external hindlimbs and instead rely on propulsion from their powerful caudal fins and front flippers. All in this group have a hooked snout that closes and grips slippery fish and small turtles.
Amazonian River Dolphosaur Allorynchus amazonia(in picture)
Yangtze River Dolphosaur Allorynchus yangtze
Ganges River Dolphosaur Allorynchus allorynchus
Indus River Dolphosaur Allorynchus indus
Nile River Dolphosaur Allorynchus africanus
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The Domestic Rex shown is a husky-like breed and is named Rex
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Domestic Tyrannosaur because it went over post limit.
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well,the dolphosaurs looks certainly interesting
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Thank you
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That feather opossum idea... I was gonna use that for Terra Ornithischia.... :confused: Oh well I'm just gonna use it anyway. Maybe I can expand on the idea, go further... *image of quill-feathered marsupial pterosaur flashes through brain*

And that tyrannosaur is well drawn. Although it seems that a tyrannosaur reaching dog intelligence is a bit unlikely.... Lower it down to cat level? Caracals and servals have been known to be used as hunting animals.... Although they would not be 'truly' domesticated animals....
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Yeah, not exact dog smarts, just an early domestic animals, good at command-following.

I will have other updates after i finish my art report.
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Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

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Ill have you know, this is not dead, as i have another domestic animal to put up.
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Updates when the scanner works: The sapient unenlages
Their beasts of burden
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Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

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