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Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,329 Views)
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Looking back on my past projects, I've had a lot of fun dealing with islands and Gondwanaland.

Perhaps I could do something relating to India. For around 35 million years the continent was an island, from the late Cretaceous to the early Eocene. For the first ten million years of the Cenozoic it would have been home to its own unique fauna.

Today, despite being the place Gondwanaland is named after (Gondwana is a region within India) it doesn't get the same recognition for having different fauna that Australia, New Zealand and South America do. Either because it's been swept away by its long contact with Eurasia, or it's just not very famous.

This would require a lot of research, especially on the Deccan traps, since they surely had a massive impact on India.

Of course making this plausible would be tricky, India impacting Eurasia and forming the Himalayas is one of the most important events in the Cenozoic. Change that and you change the whole world. Sri Lanka might work, but then again Sri Lanka only became an island in 15th century when Rama's bridge was severed by storms. Maybe if Sri Lanka was more submerged, and only the southern highlands were above the water?

Seems like a pretty hard area to penetrate. We've got some decent fossils from the Maastrichtian in the Lameta Formation, that suggest India was about what you would expect for a chunk of Gondwanaland, titanosaurs, noasaurids, majungasaurines, madtsoiid snakes. Then in the early Eocene we have the Cambay Shale Formation with primates like Anthrasimias and odd-toed ungulates like Cambaytherium.

Urgh, I need it.
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Luckily enough of it is on Google Books I now know that it's not jut me, the Paleocene is a big blank spot in Indian palaeontology. On the one hand, it seems India like Africa, was close enough to Eurasia that there was interchange though much of the period before the two continents collided. On the other, it is possible the eutherian mammal group Adapisoriculidae originated in India during the Cretaceous and then spread out from there across Africa and Eurasia. So I'd have something to work with.

Another portion of good news, the Seychelles are apparently shards of India that broke away about 65 million years ago, the bad news is that I think I'm just making JohnFaa's Lemuria now.
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Now here's the question i need a answer too, could anyone possibly tell me if the organism i have choosen could survive on this world where no trees exist?

The only organism you listed that would have an issue with a lack of trees, if there happen to be bushes and/or shrubs still there, would be the cassowary. If bushes and/or shrubs aren't there then alpacas might also have trouble.
The cassowary is because they feed primarily on fruit, and the alpacas depending on what sort of plants you'd have instead of bushes and shrubs. If grasses aren't a primary plant, then they'd need the shrubs to get the proper amount of food. And if there's no bushes...
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Now here's the question i need a answer too, could anyone possibly tell me if the organism i have choosen could survive on this world where no trees exist?

The only organism you listed that would have an issue with a lack of trees, if there happen to be bushes and/or shrubs still there, would be the cassowary. If bushes and/or shrubs aren't there then alpacas might also have trouble.
The cassowary is because they feed primarily on fruit, and the alpacas depending on what sort of plants you'd have instead of bushes and shrubs. If grasses aren't a primary plant, then they'd need the shrubs to get the proper amount of food. And if there's no bushes...
Thanks for the answer, regarding your answer grass will be on the planet but i'm not too sure about bushes or shrubs though, they might make in into the project or they might not also i accidentally deleted my post too.
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A pocket universe (or more likely, a series of pocket universes) that were all created by a long-gone hyperintelligent artist.

Everything in (each of) the pocket universe(s) were of the artist's own design, from the overall structure to the different atomic elements.
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A pocket universe (or more likely, a series of pocket universes) that were all created by a long-gone hyperintelligent artist.

Everything in (each of) the pocket universe(s) were of the artist's own design, from the overall structure to the different atomic elements.
When you say hyperintelligent artist, do you mean artist like clay, paint, etc? Because I can totally see these universes having creatures with clay flesh, paint blood, and charcoal skeletons.
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A pocket universe (or more likely, a series of pocket universes) that were all created by a long-gone hyperintelligent artist.

Everything in (each of) the pocket universe(s) were of the artist's own design, from the overall structure to the different atomic elements.
When you say hyperintelligent artist, do you mean artist like clay, paint, etc? Because I can totally see these universes having creatures with clay flesh, paint blood, and charcoal skeletons.
No, that's not really what I meant.

The artist's organisms are usually made of cells not unlike the organisms of our own Earth, though there are a decent number of exceptions.
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So i been brainstorming a lot of ideas for my project, so far the idea like i said is that it takes place on a world with no trees, so instead plants and mabye some fungi evovle to take that role. Anyways here are aome animals that i will introduce onto the terraformed planet.

Mammals:
Somali hedgehog
Pale throated sloth
Stoat
Ring tailed lemur
Echinda
Pgymy right whale

Birds:
Canada goose
Long eared owl


Reptiles:
Blue collared lizard
Tuatara
Tokay gecko
Aligator snapping turtle

Fish:
Angler fish
Betta fish
Bat ray
Carp
Blob fish

Amphibians:
Fire salamander

And various invertebrates as well.
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A terraformed planet where the only amniotes (possibly the only tetrapods, don’t know whether I want to add any amphibians or not) introduced are various lizard species. Species list would definitely include: green iguana, green anole, perentie monitor, jackson’s chameleon, broad-headed skink, prehensile tailed skink, tokay gecko, gold dust day gecko, Argentine tegu, green basilisk, and many other species that I haven’t decided on yet.

Also: a similar idea to the above, but instead of lizards it’s turtles and tortoises.
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An island called Neverlandia, located in the Bermuda Triangle. Isolated since the Late Devonian/Early Carboniferous, Neverlandia is home to the descendants of flora and fauna not seen anywhere else on Earth for millions of years.
Interesting, but implausible as seeds, insects, spiders, birds and bats will colonise any island.

Are you just going to ignore that for the sake of a interesting project? Or incorporate it and have later colonists living alongside the Devonian life?
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I'll incorporate those a little, but the ancient flora and fauna will be far more dominant. The general idea behind the islands isolation is that Neverlandia sits on a large deposit of magnetic ores. This messes with the navigation systems of planes and boats, preventing humans from finding the island. These magnetic deposits also mess with the navigation system of most birds, keeping them off of the island. Insects and spiders will also already be on the island, as they were around in the Carboniferous and rafted/were blown to the island, which was much closer to the mainland back then. (About as far as the middle of the Florida Keys are from the mainland.)


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A terraformed planet where the only introduced animals are sponges and "maybe" trichioplax. These are left to their own devices and eventually evolve forms of symmetry. Basically a whole new set of bilateral and radial organisms. Again, I'm not using any of these ideas.
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