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Flora/Fauna Suggestions; For all your suggesting needs!
Topic Started: Oct 4 2014, 02:29 PM (4,014 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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While that thought's there, what about the possibility of Madtsoiidae on the islands? They could probably raft from either India or Madagascar with little problem.
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If I'm not mistaken, megaherbs are also not canon but were merely discussed.



If this is the case, then I need to edit the Schwaye entry...
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.
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I'm not entirely sure about snakes; while they are interesting they are also squamates and I personally want as few of those as possible. Hybrid also apparently has an idea for another limbless reptile...
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Well if said group evolved before snakes did, then I find it to be plausible :)
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I think no snakes would be nice. We can have something else instead. Lots of islands don't have snakes.

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If this is the case, then I need to edit the Schwaye entry...


also re; megaherbs - they only exist as they do in large part because there are no large herbivores on the islands. Also NZ subantarctic islands are a very long way from the islands so the chances of them getting to the project islands is really very very small. It could be possible to have something similar on some smaller offshore islets but they'd have to be far enough away from the main islands to prevent herbivores getting there.
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I don't like the idea of squamates because reptiles from the Triassic on the island could easily evolve the same role. Is it just me or are people giving Cenozoic beasts more attention?

Thought tortoises would make a lot of sense, given where the island is and their tendency at colonizing islands.
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If this is the case, then I need to edit the Schwaye entry...


also re; megaherbs - they only exist as they do in large part because there are no large herbivores on the islands. Also NZ is a very long way from the islands so the chances of them getting to the project islands is really very very small. It could be possible to have something similar on some smaller offshore islets but they'd have to be far enough away from the main islands to prevent herbivores getting there.
Well I was manly going by DT's map, and apparently the Anisian islands are not too far away from the Kerguelen islands.
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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It'd be great if we had a map to orient ourselves :)
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We do.
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.
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I think he meant a habitat one.
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Well I was manly going by DT's map, and apparently the Anisian islands are not too far away from the Kerguelen islands.


I suppose they could have arrived before the Antarctic flora died out on Antarctica.
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Indeed. On offshore islands they will live, but it seems on the main island they won't. I edited my post accordingly.
Edited by Adman, Oct 8 2014, 03:19 PM.
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.
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Hybrid also apparently has an idea for another limbless reptile...

That reminds me, could we have Yarasuchus-line poposauroids on the island? If not then either I'll have to retcon my idea or scrap them.
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I still want poposauroids, ctenosauriscids in particular because neo-dimetrodons; herbivorous ones are also alright.
Yarasuchus should also be alright.

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Since we have "elephants" what's the possibility of maybe getting other sorts of Afrotheria? Hyraxes in particular have been around for a very, very long time.

Maybe not directly them, perhaps a sister group to our modern day animals?
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