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Topic Started: Oct 22 2008, 01:32 PM (8,476 Views)
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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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I just realised that I am yet to decide the fate of Conodonts here. Any suggestions?
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You should keep them alive, at least to the K-T.
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Conodonts are in the project. Also going to take up Dial on his story idea.
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Sauropods up on Dino page

http://different-world.weebly.com/dinosauria.html
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So they are prosauropods?
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Not really. Leipsanosauropods are basically their replacements
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I'd just like to say that this project isn't dead.
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On Trilophosauria
Trilophosauria, in our timeline, is an orde of medium sized Triassic diapsid reptiles specialised for eating plant matter. Like many other families they died out with the T-J extinction.
In the DW timeline, they survived, and flourished. From sprawling lizard like animals, they have evolved into swift, erect stance animals more closely reminiscent of the lighter ungulates, especially cervids, antelopes, bovids and equids.
No one is entirely sure how this happened. Certainly, some showed signs of being capable of semi-erect stances, but there is an infuriating lack of discovered Trilophosaur fossils between mid-Jurassic and early Pliocene. Further excavations needed.
Nevertheless, they have gone from strength to strength, taking myriad small-medium agile herbivore niches across Afro-Eurasia and the Americas. Australia, being weird and different as normal, has no species of Trilophosaur, relying on tortoises and ostrich-crocs instead.
Trilophosauria comprises:
Copper Deer: The most widespread group, found in Eurasia and America, mostly as small-medium browsers and grazers in forests and plains, though with some large specimens in other areas, such as the Scandinavian Selamodir and the British Ireler
Saurozelles: The majority group of small herbivores found in Africa, India and China. Generally smaller than Copper Deer.
Hupdalopes and Bossaglers: A mostly African and Indian group comprising large grazers, the only Trilophosaurs to come close to rivalling any of the Aetosaurs. Includes the various 'vocal' Trilophosaurs as well, not to mention the Sauraffe.
Pruxes: A rare and undiverse group containing only five species spread across the Balkans and the Dardanelles. 
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They're the cervid replacements in DW? I've never expected trilophosaurs....
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In-Universe, no one did.
Out of universe, I didn't want to fill every herbivore niche with Aetosaurs, therizinosaur ripoff and Rhynchosaurs, and looked around for things that went extinct then, and found Trilophosaurs. Looked harder, saw adaptable stance, several adaptations for obligate herbivory. Chose them.
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Just like to remind anyone that I welcome suggestions.
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Updated again - Conodont page up, some things on Aetosaurs
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That's a really unique idea... hammer-headed conodonts that glow in the dark. Were humans to exist in this timeline, I'm sure these conodonts would make pretty awesome pets.
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They'd be all the rage. Screw Neon Tetras, I have Calesps!
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I don't know if I introduced you to some of the Aetosaurs
http://different-world.weebly.com/aetosauria.html

Currently have a bit of a conundrum. Should they have beaks or fleshy lips?

Also, there are no blank pages on the site now. Huzzah
Edited by SIngemeister, Apr 2 2011, 10:35 AM.
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