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Flora/Fauna Ideas; for all your concept development needs!
Topic Started: Oct 6 2014, 06:20 PM (1,320 Views)
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This is the thread for discussing what your ideas are; this is of course, more than just sprouting the ancestral groups of your creations, but will help establish behavioral and appearance details before actually writing up your creature.

This should also help you make sure it is plausible (and thus decrease the chance of rejection) and coordinate with other members to create organisms that interact with each other (say.... two different species of a unique family created by two different users).

(discussing on skype is also okay)
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I suggestr deer like and semiacuatic dichobunids
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I suggestr deer like and semiacuatic dichobunids
I already have plans for one deer like Dichobunid.
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How about hippopotamus like thyreophorans?
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Alright, since this thread isn't getting enough attention, I'll throw out all my ideas for animals:

- A group poison-dart frog-like anurans descended from fire-bellied toads.

- A ravine-dwelling titanopteran native to Dusa that preys almost exclusively on vertebrates as adults.

- An sleek, heron/unenlagiine-like coelophysid.

- ctenosauriscids. that is all.

- Blood-sucking moths! Mosquitos would not naturally arrive to the archipelago.

- Massive ground-sloth/therizinosaur-like prosauropod; exceeding one tonne.

- Woolly silesaurs!

- Flightless arboreal dimorphodonts, carnivorous of course.

- Small social parrots, very colourful and with toxic feathers (from eating poisonous fruit) for protection.

- Other more specific and thought-out ideas, but they'll be revealed in time.
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Massive ground-sloth/therizinosaur-like prosauropod; exceeding one tonne.


I'm working on something similar to that; could they be apart of the same family perhaps?

Also I had an idea for choristoderes. Not too big, but they aren't amphibious.
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.
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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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- A ravine-dwelling titanopteran native to Dusa that preys almost exclusively on vertebrates as adults.


Currently working on one with the "ravine-dwelling titanopteran native to Dusa" part. Perhaps they could be relatives?

Also, omnivorous/herbivorous coelophysids, ala Limusaurus, but with coelophysids?
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I currently have some anteater-like coelophysids in development. I've already made the picture, but I haven't come up with a name for them yet.

And I may do a spinosaur-like dilophosaur as well.
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I was thinking of a stealthy and predatory heterodontosaur, but I wasn't certain if I should change it to an early synapsid instead.
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- A ravine-dwelling titanopteran native to Dusa that preys almost exclusively on vertebrates as adults.


Currently working on one with the "ravine-dwelling titanopteran native to Dusa" part. Perhaps they could be relatives?
Sure thing, although yours would be smaller I presume, because of course you need to be reasonably large to specialize on vertebrates; I'm thinking somewhere around 32-40cm in wingspan, obviously would be huge.
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I've started the bloodsucking moths. Also had some flightless dimorphodonts about half done.

How about a large, semi aquatic browser? The moose of the island. But maybe not a mammal.



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Maybe not even a synapsid?
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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Oct 10 2014, 02:56 PM
How about a large, semi aquatic browser? The moose of the island. But maybe not a mammal.



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How about hippopotamus like thyreophorans?


Concepts seem close enough.
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Well if you want my ideas I have...

-Either turtle-like placodonts or a placodont that's like a mix between a armadillo and a sea iguana. It depends if there's cyamodontoids or placodontoids on the island (can we get some confirmation of which?).

-Armoured/spike tailed dichobunids.

-An entry for Ceratodus.

-Maybe snake-like poposauroids.

-Something with phytosaurs.

-Possibly weird mole-amphisbaenian morganucodonts.
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-Arboreal turtles

-Some sort of endemic seabird not closely related to living groups

-Fossorial choristoderes

-semiaquatic silesaurs

-heathland pterosaurs

-some more proboscideans
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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