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| Psuedodracus delus; Deceiving false dragon | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 19 2013, 10:38 PM (81 Views) | |
| Jack Frost | Dec 19 2013, 10:38 PM Post #1 |
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Genus: Psuedodracos Species: Delus Name means: Deceiving false dragon Stats: Average size: 13 feet long, 4 feet tall Average weight: 30 pounds Notable features: Fingers are connected by a webbing that also runs to half way down the body Location: Patagonia and Brazil Temporal Range: 180 Mya- 175 Mya Description: Fairly large and robust, fully bipedal, with a long stiffened tail that makes up half its total body length. Neck is short and heavily muscled, with large powerful jaws designed to crush bone. A pair of short horns emerge from the back of the skull, curving upward. Back of the neck, body and tail is covered by a ridge of over lapping scales, with two more rows running along the upper sides of the body, which is tall. Arms are fairly long, about as long as a human arm, but useless, the small “ Wings” being used for courtship and territorial displays. Dull brown in color, with a creamy under belly and tan strips running down the length of the back and tail. Males develop rusty red crests during the mating season. Young tend to be thinner than adults, with narrow skulls and no horns, before filling out as a sub-adult. Facts: An apex predator and contemporary evolution to true dracosuchids, Psuedodracos is a primitive psuedodracosuchid, which branched off from the main line a few million years earlier from the main line. Built for power, if rauisuchids where the tyrannosaurs, Psuododracos was the allosaurus. It had powerful bone crushing jaws, and was agile and fast, making it one of the top predators of the time. At home as much as the plains as it was the forests, it preyed on anything the was smaller than it, including it’s cousin Protodracosuchus. Unike it’s cousins, who developed into gliders, Psuedodracos couldn’t glide, it’s “wings” being too small to be of use. Instead they were used in courtship displays, males flushing blood in them and performing a primitive mating dance, as well as to intimidate rival males. If the intimidation does work, they them switch tactics, butting there reinforced craniums by rearing back and slamming forward. Mating season usually takes place during the end of the dry season, with the mother laying eggs in small mounds then abandoning them. The young usually hatch around the start of the wet season, and feed on insects and small mammals. Edited by Jack Frost, Jan 30 2014, 10:08 PM.
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| DK1000 | Dec 20 2013, 10:02 PM Post #2 |
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Liking the new species! The reversal back to a terrestrial lifestyle from a gliding ancestry is a great angle. |
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| Jack Frost | Dec 21 2013, 02:28 AM Post #3 |
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I do try Been meaning to get to work on these guys for awhile now lol.
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Been meaning to get to work on these guys for awhile now lol.
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