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The SE giants project; Brace yourselves, they are here.
Topic Started: Nov 28 2016, 02:48 PM (14,703 Views)
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Third, do you think you could do a chart for the tiniest spec creatures?
I bet you could do an awesome one.
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Paleo-King got like 154 tonnes for the 41m specimen.
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Paleo-King got like 154 tonnes for the 41m specimen.
That's a big one. Though I think an estimate of around 80 tonnes is more likely
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Where is it? I can't find it.

Do you even know how it looks like?

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Third, do you think you could do a chart for the tiniest spec creatures?

I dont think so, I have already 4 charts on the way so I wouldnt have time and space to make a fifth one.

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@Little. I'm aware of that estimate for clarification, but 1) that doesn't take into account the likely allometrics, which would bump it up to 45m probably, and more importantly 2) take the estimate with a huge grain of salt. Nima/Paleoking himself says this is very high upper end and will likely go down in future, which I agree with. Which is the reason why I didn't provide that estimate. It's larger than either femur specimen, that seems definite. But how much is the debate.

@CaledonianWarrior96: based on what exactly? The ones I gave are if anything very conservative proportionally, and even at their most conservative (ie isometric scaling from a conservative Paluxysaurus), they end up well over 90 tonnes for No.2 and even higher for No.3. I'm not saying you're wrong, but what exactly is your justification for this?

This is why I dont bother to look individual specimens for the RL chart, I just peek the design of one of the largest groups of sauropods (the ones that have the largest individuals) I put the most appropriate measures and its all, just a neutral representation of a sauropod, no problem.

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Where is it? I can't find it.

Do you even know how it looks like?


Oh, I see it now.

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Third, do you think you could do a chart for the tiniest spec creatures?

I dont think so, I have already 4 charts on the way so I wouldn't have time and space to make a fifth one.


Eh, that's okay. I don't like to rush you. But it would be cool, don't ya think?
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If it has the proportions of a whale and weighs more than it, yes. The picture on that site makes it difficult to make out its general shape.
On the site's page for the order the Triton belongs to there is a size chart where you see whole body silhouettes. Note the chart is a bit of an odd one, as the Triton on it should not be compared to the silhouettes to the left of it but to smaller copies of said silhouettes to its right. https://sites.google.com/site/projectnereus/home/life/tetrabrachia/ichthyoforma/celeracaudae
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Wait, I think you should save the emperor sea strider for the aliens chart. After, this current one is for descendants of earth life.


Also, I know I asked this before and caused a bit of trouble, but......can you maybe put some of my creatures? Back then was an obvious no-no. But now, I think I have come a long since. I know you haven't seen my project in a while, Dragonthunders, but I think you should take a look.. If the answer is still no, than that is fine. I sincerely apologize if I come off as annoying, demanding, or rude.
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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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Third, do you think you could do a chart for the tiniest spec creatures?

I dont think so, I have already 4 charts on the way so I wouldn't have time and space to make a fifth one.


Eh, that's okay. I don't like to rush you. But it would be cool, don't ya think?
why don't you lead by example?
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Wait, I think you should save the emperor sea strider for the aliens chart. After, this current one is for descendants of earth life.


Also, I know I asked this before and caused a bit of trouble, but......can you maybe put some of my creatures? Back then was an obvious no-no. But now, I think I have come a long since. I know you haven't seen my project in a while, Dragonthunders, but I think you should take a look.. If the answer is still no, than that is fine. I sincerely apologize if I come off as annoying, demanding, or rude.
1. it was less than 6 months ago, so far as i can recall.
2. which of your invert.s is in the same size class as Redwoods and Sea Striders?
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Not to be rude Rodlox, but didn't dragonthunders add the Tiamate from Isla El Mun Perdido to the list? A lot of IIGS arthropods are bigger or as big as it is, or at least his largest ones like the pelagic whale lobster thing I can't remember the name of.
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Apr 14 2017, 10:09 PM
Wait, I think you should save the emperor sea strider for the aliens chart. After, this current one is for descendants of earth life.


Also, I know I asked this before and caused a bit of trouble, but......can you maybe put some of my creatures? Back then was an obvious no-no. But now, I think I have come a long since. I know you haven't seen my project in a while, Dragonthunders, but I think you should take a look.. If the answer is still no, than that is fine. I sincerely apologize if I come off as annoying, demanding, or rude.
1. it was less than 6 months ago, so far as i can recall.
2. which of your invert.s is in the same size class as Redwoods and Sea Striders?
Whoa, not that big. But I have my fair share of giants:

Frugoscorpius
Mystipoda
Ungularafa
Colossoteuthis
Omniblattera
(okay, not THAT big, but still bigger than some of things already on that chart)
Ingentistraca goliathus
Gigantoisopeed
Skyfoogle, Raptocicada gigas
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Some of my exognathomorph leeches
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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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Wait, I think you should save the emperor sea strider for the aliens chart. After, this current one is for descendants of earth life.

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Also, I know I asked this before and caused a bit of trouble, but......can you maybe put some of my creatures?

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Oh, I didn't see that. Stupid me.


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Okay. That's fine.
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Last one crawling: The last arthropod

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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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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I just noticed something on the proto alien chart. There seemed to be something even larger than the emperor sea strider! Just HOW BIG do these aliens get. I love it! Spec aliens>>>>>>>>>>Hollywood aliens.

Oh, and what's that elephant thing with the human face that's taller than the grove crab?
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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


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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IDK, maybe you would find the answer if you put a little effort in checking the first and original chart with patience where it appears and where I took the time to label and write...

Really, you are going to ask what X animal is without first verifying the chart? Is getting annoying, especially when it seems that you only see the image and do not mind checking the text.
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Coming one day
Age of Mankind
Humanity fate and its possible finals.

The Long Cosmic Journey
The history outside our world.

The alternative paths
The multiverse, the final frontier...

Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again!
Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past.
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