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Future Dinosaur evolutions and clade extinctions; IDK if this goes here
Topic Started: Apr 14 2011, 12:18 AM (623 Views)
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Ok. I'm writing a book about what would happen if the K-T extinction never occured. I have several families of birds, reptiles, and mammals carved in stone (including dinosaurs), but I could use some ideas. Like, what clades and families of dinosaur should go extinct? And what adaptations would those that survived evolve. For this, I need the help of the alternative evolution group, my bros.
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SmilodonFatalis
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Antartica of the eocene epoch
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I have long been planning a book on the subject, but unfortunately it was not there.
In my version of the asteroid missed the Earth, but then decimated the dinosaurs become more active volcanism.
Only a small dinosaur, crocodiles, turtles, birds and mammals have remained above.
The Eocene period of my birds and small mammals in the rivalry between dinosaurs characterized, and even throughout the Quaternary Period. Maybe I can help you some ideas.
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Rodent-like gondwanathere's, opossumok predatory amphibians and crocodile tesmopdyl the Eocene period.
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Nah. I need larger dinosaurian families stil alive. Larger mammals still evolve in some places as well, along with flightless pterosaurs. And I just recently purchased copyrights to this book, so it's estimated to be out ibn one to three years, as this is a intensly complex project.
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Antartica of the eocene epoch
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By the end of the Cretaceous pterosaur family, only two remained. Pterosaur because of the small turtles remain at the bottom of the birds against the competition.
While the large sized pterosaurs by food shortages and look out for large birds of prey. Of course, in my reality, not a small pebble.: P

I think that Dixon try to break away from the clichés, the subject and try to create something original.
What will be the concept of the book?
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5174130/1/#new

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Without Antarctic ice

Rodent-like gondwanathere's, opossumok predatory amphibians and crocodile tesmopdyl the Eocene period.
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Yes, we really don't need another Spec. The more obscure lineages would be better than the larger dinosaurian lineages. Wipe 'em off. Seeing in more evolutionary terms, smaller dinosaurians have more chance.

The most likely to survive are maniraptora and ceratopsia, the more basal ceratopsians, and perhaps some other ornithischians like basal marginocephalians, already mentioned by Johnfaa. For pterosaurs, azhdarchids and nyctosaurs seem most likely. Possibly anurognathids.
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