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Flora/Fauna Suggestions; For all your suggesting needs!
Topic Started: Oct 4 2014, 02:29 PM (4,011 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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I have some bivalves planned, descended from older species.

Also, would Euparkeriids be allowed? They are in the right location, and are from around the timeline the archipelago split. I was also looking at Erythrosuchids, and while most species are in Europe and China, one species exists in South Africa. Proterosuchids seem like a possible candidate as well.
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What about a Worm that Takes up residence in the Sinus cavities of Certain animals?
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Are prosauropods allowed?
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Nov 30 2014, 12:38 PM
Are prosauropods allowed?
Yes. There are some in the project already actually.
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I just felt I should point out that the list of accepted species needs updating.
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I don't know if any other bird groups have been confirmed, but I think that falconiformes, albatrosses and Charadriiformes would all have arrived on the island.
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Wouldn't falconiformes come into competition with bludgeons though?
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Wouldn't falconiformes come into competition with bludgeons though?
Good point. I didn't think about that. I suppose they could occupy more specialised niches (aerial predator etc.) that bludgeons wouldn't.
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I am pretty sure there are predatory aerial bludgeons. That is the whole point of bludgeons, an aerial predatory parrot. That does not mean they could not exist on the archipelago, but, they would have to be more specialized, and take a niche that bludgeons have somehow not taken. Pseudo-terror birds?
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I am pretty sure there are predatory aerial bludgeons. That is the whole point of bludgeons, an aerial predatory parrot. That does not mean they could not exist on the archipelago, but, they would have to be more specialized, and take a niche that bludgeons have somehow not taken. Pseudo-terror birds?
I thought the bludgeons were predators of terrestrial animals, I.e: drop from a tree onto prey?

Pseudo-terror birds would only work on islands where theropods/silesaurs are non-existent.
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We have a pseudo-Gastornis on the islands north of Isa, but, that's an herbivore, and is descended from the same group as bludgeons.
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Jan 3 2015, 12:32 PM
We have a pseudo-Gastornis on the islands north of Isa, but, that's an herbivore, and is descended from the same group as bludgeons.
Yeah but that's not only a herbivore, which are probably more likely to coexist, but it's also a parrot which are highly adaptable-even herbivorous ones.
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You know, we leave most of the answers here quite vague. Should we officially accept or reject the suggestions here for clarity?
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Aside from bludgeons, and well, dinosaurs, what other bird groups could make it to the archipelago and be fine? I was thinking finches, since they have island hopped before. Or do bludgeons have a near monopoly on birds on the archipelago?
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