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| the dark phoenix | Jan 13 2014, 08:25 PM Post #1 |
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We can obviously still use cynodonts but can we also nip the crown mammals in the bud? I can see a lot of our stuff being a reality with these out of the way and it gives us new ideas cynodont bat and lemurs anyone? |
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| Jack Frost | Jan 14 2014, 01:17 AM Post #2 |
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I'm not sure if Bat's could evolve even if mammals survive. There are smaller Dracosuchids that are primarily insectivores. |
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| the dark phoenix | Jan 14 2014, 01:57 AM Post #3 |
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I meant as a generic example. It might give Dicynodonts and archosaurs more niches. |
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| DK1000 | Jan 14 2014, 05:28 PM Post #4 |
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Nipping crown mammals in the butt, possibly, although non-mammalian mammaliaformes were pretty good at doing what crown mammals did so I doubt they'd disappear. They were pretty much mammals, those things, they just fall out of the clade's definition is all. |
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| the dark phoenix | Jan 14 2014, 10:59 PM Post #5 |
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So if no crowns are already doing well, why do we need the crown ones? All I see from them are lemurs, moles, shrews, rodents, and hedgehogs. |
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| DK1000 | Jan 14 2014, 11:19 PM Post #6 |
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That would be the point of an alternative-evolution scenario, no? Since non-mammalian mammaliaformes (and possibly other eucynodonts) don't die out when they do in EP, that alters the path of evolution, and thus crown-mammals never actually evolve. |
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