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This is a Myriacanthid. A descendant of the myriapods from a time long before the Great Dying. Myriapods are the group that contains centipedes and millipedes.
The Myriacanthid, oblivious to the Tyrannodon, inspects a spore on the side of a cycad and bites at it.
Centipedes and millipedes are small. This creature is a meter long, a size that was allowed by the special conditions of the Triassic. They are fast, easily able to outrun any crocodilian predator.
A growl escapes the Tyrannodon's mouth. It charges and confronts the Myriacanthid.
The Myriacanthid is not a predator. It feeds on detritus and ferns. But if it is attacked, it has one trick up its antennae.
A spray of a spore-like gas is emitted by the Myriacanthid. The Tyrannodon shakes its snout and steps back. The Myriacanthid flees.
The Arthropod emits a foul chemical. It is designed specifically to discourage Chordata, back-boned animals. This allows the the Myriacanthid to escape, and it move away as fast as its 50 legs can carry it. But in this world, another danger is always just around the bend.
The startled Myriapoda moves off course, and blindly flees from the ditch. Panicked, it shuffles out into the open desert.
Daylight during the wet season is what a Myriacanthid should avoid at all costs. But this unfortunate bug is to panicked to realize where it's going. When it finally regains its composure, it's far too late. The attack comes not from a ground hunter, but from above.
As the Myriacanthid blunders into the desert, it find itself in a colony of flying reptiles. The vicious things dive at the Arthropod, screeching.
A colony of Pax, giant pterosaurs. Their name means "peace", but they seldom live up to it. It's over for the Myriacanthid. These reptiles are insectivores.
A few Pax flip over the Myriacanthid, and the group proceeds to tear into the bug until nothing is left. It is all very gruesome.
After a great deal of infighting, biting, scratching, and screeching, the bug is devoured by the Pax.
The Pax strech their wings and take off, screeching to one another.
Pax are 2 meter wide pterosaurs that have migrated inland from the coast for the wet season. They are here to feed off of carcasses and insects.
The pterosaurs fly off into the desert sky. Day and night they travel, toward a shape in the distance.
The pterosaurs leave the desert, flying towards cliffs on the horizon. Coastal cliffs.
The Pax reach the cliffs and roost.
These craggy cliffs provide needed protection from predators like Tyrannodon and Fasolasuchus. Later in the wet season, the Pax will perform mating ceremonies on this very spot. Life in this pterosaur world will go on.
We move from the cliffs down to the shoreline. As far as the eye can see, waves swirl on the ocean surface.
This ocean, called Panthalassa, stretching over nearly the entire planet. It is the only ocean, and it has been surrounding Pangaea since a hundred million years before the Great Dying.
We move to the seashore, where bits of shell and seaweed wash up.
The shores of this ocean are bombarded with torrential storms. Thousands of sea creatures and other life are killed or broken apart. Some land creatures take advantage of this and search for easy pickings left over from this natural disaster.
A Tyrannodon is stalking the beaches, sniffing and looking around.
This Tyrannodon is scavenging the beaches for a bite. These mammals are very opportunistic creatures, finding food wherever they can. Whether it's a rotting carcass, a freshly killed cynodont, or a beached cephalopod, they don't care.
The Tyrannodon sniffs as a shell with an oozing substance around it. It is a small cephalopod, but unfortunately nothing of it is left. It then pads up to a large tide pool and peers into the murky water. It can see bits of debris, like broken sponges and urchins.
A coastal Tyrannodon has stumbled across a tide pool. This large puddle is likely a result of the storm. Soon it will be teeming with new life, from fish to crabs to sea sponges. But now, something lurks in the depth of the water, looking up at this mammal.
With a splash a large creature stirring in the tide pool, and a bizzare reptile scrambles out, flexing a scary, but vulnerable, neck.
To be continued.
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