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Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,388 Views)
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There's no such thing as an implausible but possible concept, it's the scenario and situation that makes it implausible.
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I love it. I've brought up this basic idea before, of allowing for one bizarre factor, seeing what could become of it. Of course, I think I was using or my super powered animal world, but more subdued ideas like this are nice too.

Anyway, I've had the idea of a world populated by bears stuck in my head lately.
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How about a terraformed planet where the only vertebrates are amniotes. No fish or amphibians. This is kind of an experiment to see what extant tetrapods can take fish niches. Amphibians are excluded because they'll win out by retaining gills with neoteny. What will replace fish in places tetrapods can't effectively colonize, like the deep sea?
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Almost certainly Squid and other cephalopods. Maybe shrimp and crustaceans. Possibly those wierd slugs that look and swim like fish. Most likely Squid though, as they already inhabit deep sea and are highly populous and intelligent.
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Feb 9 2017, 09:04 PM
Almost certainly Squid and other cephalopods. Maybe shrimp and crustaceans. Possibly those wierd slugs that look and swim like fish. Most likely Squid though, as they already inhabit deep sea and are highly populous and intelligent.
Hmmm. Now let's remove cephalopods.
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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You're not left with many options. Asides from crustaceans, there aren't that many options after that. Non amphibian tetrapods are VERY unlikely to evolve false-gills, unless you're a Fitzroy river turtle. But, river turtles are not very adaptable, and you got rid of a whole lotta potential food sources.
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Feb 9 2017, 09:49 PM
You're not left with many options. Asides from crustaceans, there aren't that many options after that. Non amphibian tetrapods are VERY unlikely to evolve false-gills, unless you're a Fitzroy river turtle. But, river turtles are not very adaptable, and you got rid of a whole lotta potential food sources.
Well, they can still eat "invertebrates", right?
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Yeah. I guess. Though how'd you get turtles to reproduce underwater is another problem altogether.
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Which amniotes are gonna take the niches of small fish? Can you imagine a bunch of tiny lizards swimming in a coral reef instead of fish? Can there be shrew sized cetaceans?
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


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Which amniotes are gonna take the niches of small fish? Can you imagine a bunch of tiny lizards swimming in a coral reef instead of fish? Can there be shrew sized cetaceans?


Unless lizards take notes from the river turtles and learn to breath through their cloaca, I don't think it's that's very likely. Also, I don't think baleen whales could ever be able to be anything other than large filter-feeders. They're too specialized to take up the mantle that fish left. And toothed cetaceans rely heavily on fish, so they'd be extinct in no time flat.
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Which amniotes are gonna take the niches of small fish? Can you imagine a bunch of tiny lizards swimming in a coral reef instead of fish? Can there be shrew sized cetaceans?


Unless lizards take notes from the river turtles and learn to breath through their cloaca, I don't think it's that's very likely. Also, I don't think baleen whales could ever be able to be anything other than large filter-feeders. They're too specialized to take up the mantle that fish left. And toothed cetaceans rely heavily on fish, so they'd be extinct in no time flat.
Will amniotes be able to fill anything more than large predator niches (we know they can do that with no problem)?
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


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Which amniotes are gonna take the niches of small fish? Can you imagine a bunch of tiny lizards swimming in a coral reef instead of fish? Can there be shrew sized cetaceans?


Unless lizards take notes from the river turtles and learn to breath through their cloaca, I don't think it's that's very likely. Also, I don't think baleen whales could ever be able to be anything other than large filter-feeders. They're too specialized to take up the mantle that fish left. And toothed cetaceans rely heavily on fish, so they'd be extinct in no time flat.
Will amniotes be able to fill anything more than large predator niches (we know they can do that with no problem)?

The best answer I can give is either river turtles or mutant lizards. However, I've just come to the realization that live birth can obstruct cloacal respiration. So unless they retain their lungs as makeshift swim-bladders, and can use them during labor, you've run outta options.
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Which amniotes are gonna take the niches of small fish? Can you imagine a bunch of tiny lizards swimming in a coral reef instead of fish? Can there be shrew sized cetaceans?


Unless lizards take notes from the river turtles and learn to breath through their cloaca, I don't think it's that's very likely. Also, I don't think baleen whales could ever be able to be anything other than large filter-feeders. They're too specialized to take up the mantle that fish left. And toothed cetaceans rely heavily on fish, so they'd be extinct in no time flat.
Will amniotes be able to fill anything more than large predator niches (we know they can do that with no problem)?

The best answer I can give is either river turtles or mutant lizards. However, I've just come to the realization that live birth can obstruct cloacal respiration. So unless they retain their lungs as makeshift swim-bladders, and can use them during labor, you've run outta options.
What about water shrews?
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


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Water shrews are ironically terrible at staying underwater. They can only stay under for 15 seconds at a time. You've got better chance of making false-fish out of crab-eating macaques.
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The irony being that Crab Macaques rarely eat crabs, anyways
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