K-Pg Extinction

(Scene made using Animal Revolt Battle Simulator)

66 Million B.C

Four Months after the Chixculub Impact

Hateg Island is unrecognisable from what it had been before the impact. As the ash clouds covered the Earth, plants are no longer growing in any great fashion, and the island’s native herbivores are the first to suffer. Since most of the herbivores are dead, the remaining carnivores are having a temporary buffet of carcasses to scavenge. A starving abelisaur (“Megalosaurus hungaricus”) feasts on the remains of a small theropod. It’s his first meal in three days.

And that is what makes the death of the mother T.rex in Death of a Dynasty (Walking with Dinosaurs) even more tragic then the death of Littlefoot’s mother (The Land Before Time)

The idea is for an End-Cretaceous pack, I.e, creatures that were around to see that asteroid hit.

Which four-pack do you choose?

1: Magyarosaurus (Romainia’s insular dwarf sauropod), Rapetosaurus (coexisted with, and was prey for, Majungasaurus (which is already in both JWE games) in Madagascar), Stegouros (the small Chilean ankylosaur with a battle-axe tail), and Maip macrothorax (a Megaraptoran from South America), plus a feathered skin for the Pachyrhinosaurus ala Prehistoric Kingdom)

2: Rajasaurus (from volcanic India), Morrosaurus (the game’s second Antarctic Dino like Cryolophosaurus, and the Morrosaurus would also be the game’s first herbivore with feathers), Leptoceratops (the game’s first small ceratopsian that is facultatively bipedal), and Maisiakasaurus (noasaurid from Madagascar like Majungasaurus and Rapetosaurus)

But the question is why.

Let's take a look at its traits. It's small, it's compact, it's herbivorous. It's also naturally tough with those characteristic osteoderms on its back, and possibly lived in burrows as well. Not only this, but Simosuchus is a crocodylomorph, a very successful vertebrate group. Crocodylomorphs survived two mass extinction events with remarkable resilience, but Simosuchus didn't.

The question is, even with all of its good traits, adaptabilities, and advantages, why did Simosuchus die out during the K-PG extinction event while other crocodiles made it through.

If you think about it, the pug-nosed crocodile has a lot of the traits necessary for survival of the meteor impact. It's small, and the organisms that survived the extinction were all small and thus had a better chance to survive. It could possibly burrow, and a lot of burrowing animals like mammals, insects, small reptiles, etc. made it through because they could shelter from the impact and such. It's fully terrestrial and would've been able to hide in cover from the natural disasters started by the meteor. And lastly, it was a crocodile, which probably should've guaranteed its survival. Maybe if the meteor hadn't struck, Simosuchus would've been around for much longer.

Maybe it was its purely herbivorous diet that led to its demise, but then again there's no ruling out the possibility that Simosuchus could've been partly insectivorous or omnivorous. Maybe it was the isolated environment in Madagascar in which it lived, which meant that populations couldn't grow to a large extent.

So why do you think Simosuchus didn't make it pass the K-PG mass extinction.

You can make any amount of comments here.

Rule 1: Don’t complain about this being the Japanese dub.

…of the Kp-G mass extinction event, and why is that portrayal your favourite?

Do you think that this scene (of bald-eagle coloured Imperobators huddling together in the impact winter) could go in the page for Imperobator?

A nocturnal, beachcombing enantiornithine of an unknown genus has noticed a new “star” in the night sky, but it doesn’t know what that “star” will soon do…

(Edited Roblox scene of the game Feather Family by ShinyGriffin)

(The glowing orange areas on the sorounding continents are fires ignited by the fireball’s heat)

Meanwhile in North Carolina:

I grew up knowing the dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. Just a few years ago I came across the fact of it was closer to 66 mya. So that's what I went with since then.

But, closer to 66 means it could be still somewhere between 65.5 and 66, so when did the asteroid actually strike? Is there an "exact" time frame that's theorized or is it just 66 mya now?