34 Votes in Poll
Flish = Rhamphorhynchus
Rainbow Squid = Leedsichthys
(Cameroceras considered)
Silverswimmer = Cephalaspis
Sharkopath = Hybodus
(Megalodon considered)
Predatory Silverswimmer = Pterygotus
(Hybodus considered)
Bumblebeetle = Butterfly
(Meganeura considered)
Grimworm = Bark Beetle
Desert Hopper = Protoceratops
(Polacanthus considered)
What are your thought? Which animals would have been better comparisons?
We entered the silurian period about 433.8-419.2 mya but fasted forward to the uppermost epoch of the silurian: the prídolí epoch.
Here in what's now the UK, a group of cephalaspis are swimming away from brontoscorpios. these giant scorpions are one of the largest known scorpions from 33 cm
To a meter (3.3 feet) or more...
The jaw evolved from repeating pharyngeal segements first present in chordate ancestors as respiratory structures.later giving rise to cartilaginous branchial baskets of jawless fish and the bones and cartilages of the facial,upper & lower jaw,jaw support and posterior gill or throat structures.
This is entelognathus primordialis, 20 cm long .one of the earliest jawed vertabrates.the silurian period saw the first jawed animals to ever lived.it's fossils are found in what's now: quijing,yunnan,china
It's name means: complete jaw
The creature is likely a carnivore feeding on smaller fish to survive. he's seen peacefully swimming in the silurian ocean alongside small fishes and cephalopods
Some 3 different trilobite species called aulacopleura, burmastus, odontopleura are crawling on the sea floor
And again...the trilobites survived extinction.
When a fish swims above them...
Fanjingshania revonata was the oldest acanthodian of the silurian that lived in the lower silurian 439 mya, the creature was named after famous UNESCO world heritage site fangjingshan. it's really a bizzare species about two-and-a-half feet long the oldest jawed ancestor
Qianosus duplicis is also a jawed vertabrate based on disarriculated teeth of the lower silurian.
In other parts of south china.
This predator is ready to ambush it's prey...
But it's not qianodus duplicis or other basal jawed fish.
Psarolepis romeri is another basal bony jawed fish from the uppermost silurian period to the very start of the devonian period which lived around 419-410 mya
The creature chases it's prey. it will dispatch the small vertabrate. psarolepis bites it in the side & killed it anyway...
Back at the UK
We saw an anglaspis heintzi.
It lived from the late silurian to the early devonian era. with other cyanthasidiforms individuals.
A pterygotus was watching her from a distance
Pterygotus are the largest eurypterid but that title now goes to jaekelopterus who reached a length about 2.5 meters and pterygotus was only 1.75 meters in length.
She's burried in the sand waiting for something to attack on...
The anglaspis dosen't know what's comming but what protected her is her body armour. theres little known about analaspis since it's not really a well-known species.
While The silurian is the shortest period of the paleozoic but it also saw the start of terrestrial arthropods, meaning tetrapods came on land
Later...
INFO:
Cephalaspis is a species of fish from the very early Devonian. This species is commonly used as a "wastebasket" for most finds, which has left it with over 24 species!
And here's your daily dose of Terrifying Dinosaurs:
Nanotyrannus fights Missingno, but then realizes that he doesn't exist and turns to dust
Requested by @Bajadasaurus234
Thanos Simmonatoi searches for the Jedisaurs
Requested by @Parkersaurus
Lard Farquuad from Shrek gets jumped by a huaxiaosaurus and its 20 ton weight crush Lord Farquuad
Requested by @Anatotitan
Aenocyon battles with Butch and his Mightyena with Mightyena turning on Butch and killing Butch after a lengthy battle with Aenocyon buuuuut Aenocyon hires an assassin, that being Celebi but Celebi hires another assassin, that being Raichu for half of the money they promised, and Raichu hires another assassin, that being Nebby for half of the money they promised and the pyramid scheme of death would later end with Arbok for only 2'000 dollars and so Mightyena would send Aenocyon, Celebi, Raichu, and Nebby to the authorities where all of them would be sent to the slammer (jail) but after that, Aenocyon got so batshit insane that he brutally murders Mightyena after sending Aenocyon to jail and as for Arbok, he wasn't sent to jail after getting away of assassinating Nebby in jail.
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Gladion, Umbreon, and Lycanroc go investigate what was going on and would notice that Siamotyrannus, Siamosaurus, Teratophoneus, Bistahieversor, Latios, Latias, Rayquaza, Xerneas, Giratina, Yvetal, Silvally, Genesect, Zekrom, Solgaleo, and Lunala are fighting. Primal Dialga would later notice the trio and would charge at them only to get into a battle with Palkia after Palkia ambushed Primal Dialga. Zekrom would later be heavily injured and knocked out by Giratina and Yvetal. Bistahieversor, Siamosaurus, Teratophoneus, and Siamotyrannus would later stop the battle after calling for help and would be helped by Lugia and Suicune after they defeated Yvetal and Giratina, now they just need to defeat Primal Dialga and finally end the fight as a whole.
Requested by @Skorpiovenator bustingorry
Since Snom seems to be unable to fully reset the universe, he calls upon Bidoof in order to help him
Requested by @Mimikyutube
Fairy Godmother from Shrek 2 kills a Dakosaurus and an Ornithosuchus
Grimsley puts a 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000-year curse on a Brachiosaurus
Wattson zaps/electrifies a Dimorphodon
Cephalspis gets killed by Pyroar
A = "Pharyngeal" eel, reminded me of Diplocaulus salamandroides
B = Opabinia regalis
C = Cephalaspis lyelli
One more has not arrived yet and it is Anomalocaris canadensis. Pic of it below.
Cephalaspis is a probably monotypic genus of osteostracan anghathan vertebrate
It was a trout-sized detritivorous fish that lived in estuaries of the late silurian and the early devonian,it's name means head shield
Like it's relatives,cephalaspis was heavily armored presumedly to defend against predatory placoderms and eurypterids,as well as to serve as a source of calcium for metabolic functions in calium-poor freshwater enviorments.it had sensory patches along the rim and center of it's head shield,which were used to sense for worms and other burrowing organisims in the mud
Because it's mouth was situated directly beneath it's head,cephalaspis was thought of as beimg a bottom-feeder,akin to heavily armoured catfish of sturgeon.it moved its plow-like head from side to side,cephalaspis easily moved stirring sand and dust into the water,along with it's revealing the hiding places of it's prey,dighing up worms or crustaceans hidden in the mud and algae,as well as dmsidting through detritus(inferred from its lack of jawa and inability to bite)
The genus cephalaspis has long been a waterbasket taxon since agassiz erected it in 1835 for four species,c.lyelli,c.rostracus,c.lewisi and c.lloydi.later,it was eventually determined that the last three species were portion of what would eventually be discribed as the heterostracan pteraspids rostracus.c.lyelli named after sir charles lyell,would be left to be the type species of the genus
