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Kicking out mammals
Topic Started: Jan 13 2014, 08:25 PM (30 Views)
the dark phoenix
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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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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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Jan 14 2014, 01:17 AM
I'm not sure if Bat's could evolve even if mammals survive. There are smaller Dracosuchids that are primarily insectivores.
I meant as a generic example.

It might give Dicynodonts and archosaurs more niches.
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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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DK1000
Jan 14 2014, 05:28 PM
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.
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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the dark phoenix
Jan 14 2014, 10:59 PM
DK1000
Jan 14 2014, 05:28 PM
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.
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.
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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