What if...? (a different Cretaceous)

Feb 17, 2007 20:21

And now, after long enough of a delay, its time for me to remove this gardening gloves, and to start weeding the evolutionary tree ( Read more... )

maniraptors, speculation, opposite birds, cretaceous, evolution

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Curious Coyote anonymous February 18 2007, 06:15:30 UTC
interesting, are you wiping out the small "ornithopods"?
(God I hate that wastebasket)The Pachycephalosaurs?Stegosaurs?
I'm going out on a very long limb here to say Tyrannosauroids will
be around, maybe even Tyrannosauromorphs.Ah screw the crocs, long live
the Tyrants!

(Bad phony russian accent)
I want a Tyrannosauroides regina to _crush_ the nodosaurs!MWHA-hahahaha!

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Re: Curious Coyote rodlox February 18 2007, 06:58:14 UTC
thank you for the prompt reply.
I suspect the pachys wouldn't show up...between the maniraptors and the nodosaurs, there wouldn't be space for pachys.

Basically for this speculation, imagine if all the herbivores of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary survived to some degree (Titanosaurs competing with - Therizinosaurs?)

Oops; I mentioned the stegosaurs in the original draft, but forgot to put them in the posted form; sorry. The stegosaurs - what managed to get into the Cretaceous - become increasingly specialized, and they don't make it past the mid-Cretaceous.

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