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| planning out the mock dinosaurs | |
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| the dark phoenix | May 31 2013, 05:15 PM Post #1 |
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ok how can my ahem.... our dinosauromorphs survive in this different world I see Lagerpetid as two legged predators that will sooner or later develope some form of feathers maybe competing with my more non-subterranean Geosuchids as for Silesaurids I see them starting to be like sauropods or just very light weight animals like camels. as for Saltopus, Marasuchus, and Lagosuchus....I need assistance with what they can be |
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| DK1000 | May 31 2013, 05:38 PM Post #2 |
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Silesaurids could certainly move into the high-browser role, no herbivore was especially adapted towards that in the Triassic (other than the now defunct prosauropods), so it's an open niche that silesaurids could easily evolve to fill considering their general body shape. As for Saltopus, Marasuchus and Lagosuchus, they don't necessarily have to "become" anything. They're generally quite similar to lagerpetids, so they could either just fizzle out as the lagerpetids evolve, or be an alternate starting point for that route of evolution, outcompeting the lagerpetids instead of the other way around. Or maybe nothing even needs to happen to them, they could just fade out of existence from the fossil record. |
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| the dark phoenix | May 31 2013, 10:54 PM Post #3 |
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On second thought I see the Lagosuchus out competing Lagerpetids and Marasuchus developing more larger forms so while lagos are more like compies, maras will be more like crest-less dilophosaurs then again could dinosaurmorphs have crests? |
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| DK1000 | May 31 2013, 11:55 PM Post #4 |
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Well they don't seem to show any specific adaptations that could lead to them growing crests, but if you plan on giving some crests, try to make them unique, because then we'd be falling into the trap of just evolving these creatures as exact replacements of the creatures in Our-Earth. This was the downfall of 'Mesozoic Nova' when we first started out, just replacing the dinosaurs with rauisuchids that are exactly like them, except they're rauisuchids (remember "Acrocanthosuchus", "Allosaurus", etc?). With a spec-evo project we have to think "how could these animals evolve?" instead of "how can we replace everything with these animals?" I have no problem with dinosauromorphs evolving into small-medium carnivores, so long as you can make it work. They have a fair bit of competition to compete with, including crocodiles, rauisuchids and cynodonts, remember. |
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| the dark phoenix | Jun 1 2013, 11:23 PM Post #5 |
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ok and BTW I made some names that sounded similar but they did not basically look like rachie analogs to dinos and sadly I used the name "velocisaurus" before I knew it was already a dinosaur XD I might make them appear in areas where those are rare and who knows I might make one that eats the competition before it can it it >:3 |
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