I have decided upon doing a WDYLM bracket (yay). I was gonna do a Carnosauria bracket (might still do that at a later date just bc I think it’s a cool idea) but for now I will just do this: A Submission Bracket! Basically, a bracket where the creatures are submitted by you guys. Before you submit, there are rules\guidelines for submitting a creature, and they are:
- Each person can submit 2 creatures tops: If the limit is broken, the 3rd or 4th critter will not be added to the roster (roster size is 32).
- Anything is on the table, from Paleozoic weirdos to the Late Pleistocene megafauna. Anything earlier or later will not be included. The one exception is humanoid-like creatures, (personal preference of mine to not include ‘em, sorry). Great Apes or Australopithecus and similar creatures are ok however. (Also, no Paleobotany).
- Dubious or Invalid genuses are on the table.
- If a Genera has multiple species, the entry will simply be called the Genus’ name. For example, A. europaeus, jimmadseni, fragilis & anax would all make up one submission, Allosaurus.
- If you would like me to use a specific artwork or media appearance for a creature, you have to give me a link\image to the artwork or media appearance. I would prefer accurate, speculative or mostly accurate images (So like no JW Bary or WWD Rex preferably). Otherwise, I’ll just go digging through the animal in question’s paleoart til’ I find smth that speaks to me (irl reconstructions are ok as long as they are accurate, speculative or mostly accurate).
- If an animal has next to no paleoart or media appearances, it can’t be submitted. So animals that the only pictures of them are the fossil material can’t be submitted. Adding onto that, if the creature hasn’t been formally described, it can’t be added either.
- No fictional creatures\characters.
- Submissions will close when this post is a day old, any submissions after that point would be put in the Season 2 list (if I do one that is). If we have not reached 32 creatures by the allotted time, the submissions will continue on for 1 extra day (each person can also submit 2 new creatures if it comes to that). If 32 hasn’t been reached by the THIRD day, everyone can submit as many as they want until there are no spots left.
That’s all. You got 24 hrs to submit 1-2 prehistoric creatures of your choice, so make it count! <]
(Submitting is optional and ya don’t have to if ya don’t wanna)