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Different World
Topic Started: Oct 22 2008, 01:32 PM (8,477 Views)
SIngemeister
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I just realized this has some crurotarsians in it, like in TA. Whoops. Soz JF

Aetosauria - Elephant/Pig like forms
Phytosauria - Crocodiles
Prolacertiformes - Small scavengers, except for Shavopteryx descendants, and isolated large creatures
Rauisuchia - Big carnivores, and some gallimimid like forms
Rhynchosauria - Hippo like creatures
Trilophosauria - Ungulate like life forms
Younginiformes - Lizards
Avicephala - Bird like, chameleon like in some forms
Thalattosauria - Sea-lizards
Sphenosuchia - Most non volant arboreal carnivores

I'll get some work started on this soon. If anyoone would like to help, just ask.

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Hmm maybe the prosauropods could end up like the dodo... absolutely useless in defending themselves and practically doomed for extinction
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dodo was not a stupid animalt was just island species,they were strog in their untouched enviroment,all of them,mytragus,giant shrews,new zealand birds,its human and non native predators who cause their extinction
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Yes but you get what i mean....they get lazy from a lack of competition
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They won't be defenceless. There are still predators there, just no competitors for browsing.
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Check the site. Couple of updates about.
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Could you say which ones are updated, because it is a bit tedious clicking on each link to find the ones with the updated material.
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Aetosaurs and Sphenosuchia.
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Thanks, I like the Sphenosuchia page, especially the Screaming Custodian. Though I'm wondering if the Aetosaurs would be able to make it to the present day.
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Why shouldn't they make it? I think they would survive
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They're mostly in the 'large herbivore' niche, especially as browsers. They had competition with sauropods, but that ended up splitting into elephant/giraffe roles (respectively)
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That's what I mean, if they are large animals they are a lot more prone to extinction.
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They were hit quite hard by K-T, harder than most of the other surviving lineages, but survived a lot better than the sauropods. Less specialised to browsing.
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But they would of had some smaller species in order to survive the K-T.
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just like artylodactyls,there are specialized giat giraffes,but also a tiny chevrovtains
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Of course there were smaller ones that did survive. They mostly kept the Sauropods out of the mid-range herbivore niche. Sauropods were mostly large herbivores, and thus were hit very hard. Prestosuchids and suchian Poposuchids were the dominant land predators alongside some non-avian dinosaurs, and thus were hit hard. Raiusuchids were generally smaller, whilst Ctenosauriscids seem to have incredibly amounts of luck on their side.
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