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Different World
Topic Started: Oct 22 2008, 01:32 PM (8,487 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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What's thew difference between a griffon, gryphon, griffin, and griphon?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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In this, a griffon has powerful wings and is capable of good, long flights. Gryphons are more terrestrial and isn't so aerocapabble.
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OK.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Hieraccosphinxesare even less aerial, rarely using their wings except for powered jumps.
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They could just have vestigial wings.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Nah, I want them to have some wings.
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They could use them to cool down like elephant ears.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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That's one shared use of their ribwings by all avicephalids
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That may have been why pterosaurs evolved theirs.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Talk to JohnFaa about that
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Anyway, in this world is the atmosphere the same?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Oh yes. No reason it shouldn't be. Unless of course the TJ extinction was due to atmospheric changes.
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Well, was it?
Volcanic winter, maybe.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I don't know. Triassic-Jurassic seems to be little known about.
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A little synopsis on the island of Majorca

Whilst many of the islands can boast truly a magnificent display of fauna, few in Europe can best that of Majorca. Britain is similar to mainland Europe's despite the Ctenosauriscidae predators, Sciliy shares much with Italy, and even the bizarre fauna of Greece and nearby islands are rather uniform to that area. Majorca, and many other Balearic Islands can show truly magnificent examples of evolution. Minorca for instance has main predators displaying similarities to African griffons, alongside small apelike bat-likes in the trees, and strange aquatic Pseudornids who act like rabid swans.

Majorca however, has the most amazing of all of these.
Present on the island are example of Raiusuchids, Sphenosuchids, Rhyncosaurs, Dinosaurs, Drepanosaurs, Mammaliformes, and Phytosaurs.

The Raiusuchids are represented by only one member: The Dwarf Mallorcan Ornlu. Despite being a midget compared to its many close cousins, it is the largest and most powerful truly terrestrial predator on the island, capable of bringing down the large Rhyncosaurs and herbivorous Drepanosaurs and Mammaliformes of the island. Compared to their worldwide cousings, Ornlus are very lightly built, and are desgined for speed and manouevrability, sacrificing some of the stamina and durability of their relatives. Nevertheless, in amongst the thick forests and open maquis that make up the most part of the Mallorcan landscape, these are incredibly important abilities to have. They have been found on the lower parts of the mountains, but these are normally the realms of the Tramuntanan Dragon, other avicephalids and several little sphenosuchids. Beach-combing is not unnatural either. Normally reaching about 1.2 metres at the shoulder, and about 2.6 metres long, they are typical of Ornlus in their intelligence and hunting-pairs, and have been seen setting up ambushes; one driving smaller Rhyncosaurs back to their burrows whilst the other lies in wait before leaping out and killing it. The only real danger to them, besides angry Mediterranean Scaleswine, are the Insular River Beasts that plague most of the Med.


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