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| Topic Started: Mar 15 2011, 06:01 PM (4,128 Views) | |
| Jasonguppy | Mar 15 2011, 06:01 PM Post #1 |
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I had this idea in the car of what if some aalien overlordic race took several pterosaur species and relocated them on another planet. These are the species that might work:![]() Hatzegopteryx ![]() Dimorphodon ![]() Anhangueara ![]() Pterodaustro ![]() Nyctosaurus Tapejara ![]() Dsungaripterus ![]() Pteranodon ![]() Anurognathus I have several ideas for creatures. Of course all normal non-tetrapods and amphibians that existed in the late cretaceous were also brought over. Question: As Dimetrodon hips suggest it may have been the only pterosaur able to walk on it's hind legs (bipedally) could it evolve permanent bipedalism rather than just for short periods of time? Edited by Jasonguppy, Mar 16 2011, 07:14 AM.
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| Canis Lupis | Mar 15 2011, 06:07 PM Post #2 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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Dimetrodon was a synapsid in the Permian with a giant frill on its back. It was not a pterosaur. |
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| FallingWhale | Mar 15 2011, 06:23 PM Post #3 |
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None of those are species and there is little time overlap. Your Tapejara is a Tupandactylus. |
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| Jasonguppy | Mar 15 2011, 06:43 PM Post #4 |
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Sorry spellcheck. Dimorphodon. @FW-Ok, so then i will change the thing to tupandactylus. I know they are not species, but i have a real life and didn't want to look up all the species within the genera so i put the genera for all species within the genera. There is no time overlap, true, a hypothetical alien time traveller did it. I don't realy care how they ended up on the oter planet just what happens. BTW, this is a terraforming project on a world like late cretaceous earth |
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| Adman | Mar 15 2011, 08:55 PM Post #5 |
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Totally not lamna
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Whoa, ouch jasonguppy. Of course, i have a life too, you know. Thats why i was off all this time. |
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Projects and concepts that I have stewing around Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients) Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals. Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day. Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent. Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold. The Park- ??? Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth. World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies. The Ditch- Nothing is what if seems.. | |
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| FallingWhale | Mar 15 2011, 10:53 PM Post #6 |
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They all starve for lack of food, you can't bring just one group that only eats meat. |
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| Ook | Mar 16 2011, 02:48 AM Post #7 |
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not a Transhuman
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so,where is any Anurognathid? |
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| Jasonguppy | Mar 16 2011, 07:15 AM Post #8 |
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Its thare. And FW, if you weren't such an ignoramus you would have seen that fish and invertebrates as well as non-archosaur reptiles were brought too. |
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| Carlos | Mar 16 2011, 07:55 AM Post #9 |
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Adveho in me Lucifero
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If only those pictures weren't horribly out-dated... More seriously, though, Dimorphodon's supposed bipedalness turned out to be ficticious. However, an aquatic pterosaur could become a biped, as pterosaurs appearently swam using the hindlimbs, so a specialised aquatic form could develop stronger hindlegs. |
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| Jasonguppy | Mar 16 2011, 08:20 AM Post #10 |
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OK. Yeah, sorry about the horribly outdated pictures, i realized that too, i just needed to show the basic bauplan. |
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| Rick Raptor | Mar 16 2011, 10:25 AM Post #11 |
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I´d say Tupandactylus could evolve into a herbivore. Its short robust beak doesn´t seem to be adapted for eating fish, but it would crack open nuts and fruits without many problems. Hatzegopteryx could become one of the apex predators, like a giant four-legged Terror Bird. The Dsungaripterus could evolve into something similar, too, but more robust and with stronger jaws and teeth. Nyctosaurus could become a flightless swimmer (swimming with its hindlegs like Hesperornithids as opposed to penguins "flying underwater"). Anurognathus could fill the niches of insect-eating birds and bats, and the biggest species might even become owl-like. |
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| Jasonguppy | Mar 16 2011, 11:20 AM Post #12 |
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That is actually the start I had in mind. As JohnFaa said, maybe some of the aquatic nyctosaurs become bipedal. I'm thinking of looking at the world 90 million years after the relocation. |
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I do art sometimes. "if you want green eat a salad" Projects: Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs. Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes. ❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️ | |
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| FallingWhale | Mar 16 2011, 01:56 PM Post #13 |
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Care to check your own posts. Your ad hominem is appreciated. |
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| Carlos | Mar 16 2011, 02:34 PM Post #14 |
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Well, in regards to bipedal aquatic pterosaurs, what we know about swimming pterosaurs mostly comes from ctenochasmatoids, which were the pterosaurs mostly doing the swimming (being aquatic heron and flamingo analogues). Since nyctosaurs had weak hindlimbs and strong wings, maybe actual pterosaur penguins could evolve from them, although to do so they need to have no competitors, as fixing the problems caused by heat loss via wing membranes takes time. |
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| Jasonguppy | Mar 19 2011, 05:58 PM Post #15 |
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Would the Pterodaustros become like Baleen Whales perhaps? |
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