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Flora/Fauna Suggestions; For all your suggesting needs!
Topic Started: Oct 4 2014, 02:29 PM (4,008 Views)
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You can suggest lineages that weren't mentioned on the flora/fauna topic here.

Remember, be realistic with what can be present on the island. Also watch out for things that might swim/fly away from the island.
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Are Procolophonids allowed? For some reason I want to work with a non-chelonian anapsid aside from Placodonts (I don't feel as though I can fit them anywhere given the fact seals exist on the archipelago, plus there are other reptiles on the island at the moment that are in niches they would take.)
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Aug 17 2015, 03:27 AM
Are Procolophonids allowed? For some reason I want to work with a non-chelonian anapsid aside from Placodonts (I don't feel as though I can fit them anywhere given the fact seals exist on the archipelago, plus there are other reptiles on the island at the moment that are in niches they would take.)
Wouldn't rhychocephalians take their niches?
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Are Procolophonids allowed? For some reason I want to work with a non-chelonian anapsid aside from Placodonts (I don't feel as though I can fit them anywhere given the fact seals exist on the archipelago, plus there are other reptiles on the island at the moment that are in niches they would take.)
Wouldn't rhychocephalians take their niches?
Probably, but, a lot of the later species are burrowing herbivores. They'd compete with the stem-mammals rather than Rhychocephalians due to their similar habits. And there goes my hopes and dreams. Now thinking about this, this probably would not work on even some isolated island from the mainland unless they are in a niche they can get to before Rhynchosaurians can. Plus now looking through the pages, it seems they were suggested when the project was getting started up, and shot down.
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Are Procolophonids allowed? For some reason I want to work with a non-chelonian anapsid aside from Placodonts (I don't feel as though I can fit them anywhere given the fact seals exist on the archipelago, plus there are other reptiles on the island at the moment that are in niches they would take.)
Wouldn't rhychocephalians take their niches?
Probably, but, a lot of the later species are burrowing herbivores. They'd compete with the stem-mammals rather than Rhychocephalians due to their similar habits. And there goes my hopes and dreams. Now thinking about this, this probably would not work on even some isolated island from the mainland unless they are in a niche they can get to before Rhynchosaurians can. Plus now looking through the pages, it seems they were suggested when the project was getting started up, and shot down.
Unless you reworked them as being completely different (like Sheather with his Foons or Frogatebirds) I don't see where they would fit. Maybe small, nocturnal burrowers living on offshore islands would work?
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Plus now looking through the pages, it seems they were suggested when the project was getting started up, and shot down.
Unfortunately yes. I think me, Troll Man, and I think Hybrid wanted them but nobody else was interested.
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A question I've meaning to ask; are there any phytosaurs in the project yet? I've been meaning to create one, but they weren't in the list, and they did appear quite a bit after the islands split off, so I don't know if they can even exist here.
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A question I've meaning to ask; are there any phytosaurs in the project yet? I've been meaning to create one, but they weren't in the list, and they did appear quite a bit after the islands split off, so I don't know if they can even exist here.
Not that I am aware of.

Phytosaurs were on the list in the past if I recall properly.
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Phytosaurs are still on the list.
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We were considering removing them, but they were kept in because of supposed plans to use them that still haven't surfaced properly.
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The initial plan I recall was to partition the phytosaurs and temnospondyls across the islands, with the phytosaurs being dominant in the warmer habitats in the north while the temnospondyls were more prominent to the south in cooler climates, although not much as come from the phytosaur side of things it seems.
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The initial plan I recall was to partition the phytosaurs and temnospondyls across the islands, with the phytosaurs being dominant in the warmer habitats in the north while the temnospondyls were more prominent to the south in cooler climates, although not much as come from the phytosaur side of things it seems.
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You can always have terrestrial phytosaurs.
Or perhaps a more traditional semi-aquatic predator close in size to the extinct Redondosaurus; the biggest Bog Reapers aren't present on Isa, so maybe phytosaurs can replace them there.
Though it would be kind of hard to explain how temnospondyls managed to outcompete phytosaurs in the other islands.
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Though it would be kind of hard to explain how temnospondyls managed to outcompete phytosaurs in the other islands.
They are better suited to the colder temperatures of Dusa and Telu.
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Though it would be kind of hard to explain how temnospondyls managed to outcompete phytosaurs in the other islands.
They are better suited to the colder temperatures of Dusa and Telu.
That makes sense. I didn't think of the climate.
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Hmmm... Not sure if I can still suggest stuff, but I would love to see some anomadonts, Suminia and relatives.
They could fill a woodpecker or ape lie lifestyle, maybe even some heavy browsers, or hyena-like niches. I think they would make good dispersers of seeds and such.
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