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Biggest biological plot twist
Topic Started: Nov 6 2016, 12:28 PM (19,614 Views)
IIGSY
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T rex was indeed nothing more than a pathetic scavenger
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
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ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

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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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Arthropoda is polyphyletic: modern chelicerates evolved from dinocaridids, crustaceans evolved from nektaspids, while myriapods, remipedes, and cephalocarids are descended from Microdictyon.
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Inceptis
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Arthropoda is polyphyletic: modern chelicerates evolved from dinocaridids, crustaceans evolved from nektaspids, while myriapods, remipedes, and cephalocarids are descended from Microdictyon.
1. What about hexapods?

2. Nektaspids are within crown group arthropods
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


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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TrilobiteCannibal
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to be fair, that would be a pretty crazy paradoxical plot twist
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Inceptis
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Hexapods pretty much are crustaceans.

I meant that trilobitomorpha didn't lead to chelicerates, but to crustaceans.
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Inceptis
Apr 25 2017, 06:11 PM
Arthropoda is polyphyletic: modern chelicerates evolved from dinocaridids, crustaceans evolved from nektaspids, while myriapods, remipedes, and cephalocarids are descended from Microdictyon.
1. What about hexapods?
til now, you've had a very good grasp on the point of this thread.
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Rodlox
Apr 25 2017, 10:39 PM
Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
Apr 25 2017, 06:37 PM
Inceptis
Apr 25 2017, 06:11 PM
Arthropoda is polyphyletic: modern chelicerates evolved from dinocaridids, crustaceans evolved from nektaspids, while myriapods, remipedes, and cephalocarids are descended from Microdictyon.
1. What about hexapods?
til now, you've had a very good grasp on the point of this thread.
Sorry. Was a little mind numb at the moment. But anyway.


Tapeworms are actually highly derived conodonts.
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.

Quotes


Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Inceptis
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Conodonts are actually cephalochordates.
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Cephalochordates are actually convergently evolved nematodes.
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Nematodes evolved straight from bacterial colonies convergently evolving multicellularity.
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Elephants are just extremely derived snouters.

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Testudines similarly to crocodilians were initially ectothermic living active lifestyles as the family Ceratopsidae, amusingly, testudines are actually the forerunners of all Ornithischia. Didelphimorphia is a living fossil order, made up of marsupials that would later spur the entirety of placental mammals, and thusly, us. Euarchonts are actually highly derived Chiroptera, while Chiroptera are not even truly 'mammalian', being live bearing, lactating descendants of the obscure Nikkasaurus.
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