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Oh crap, it is valid!!
Gojirasaurus might be a chimeric fossil with parts from shuvosaurids and coelophysids
Actually, it says that they aren't homologous, meaning they aren't feathers or the same structure. Early dinosaurs and pterosaurs most likely had feathers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09167-9
This also confirms that Longisquama is a drepanosaur and disproves the theory that it's dorsal structures are homologous to feathers in ornithodiran archosaurs.
Almost all of them are for some spec Evo project I'm making
From top to bottom:
Cervotyrannus agilis (neoalioramid, "deer tyrant"), a cursorial form with horns
Neoalioramids are descended from Alioramine tyrannosaurs
Oberon fatarex (neoalioramid, "Oberon, King of Fairies" or "Oberon, King of Fate"), a polar form
Ptomanax lythroscrobis (neoalioramid, "corpse master of the gore pit"), a slow scavenger. Two subspecies exist, P. l. lythroscrobis and P. l. horneri (it is the former).
Apolytovenator tyrannus (neoalioramid, "tyrannical absolute hunter")
Aublysodeinodus sp. ("terrible backwards teeth")
Anikitaspis sp. ("unconquerable shield")
Brachydrakopsis oweni ("Owen's short dragon face"), a small omnivorous form
Wyverns (Wyvernia) are flying reptiles that share a common ancestor with snakes
Great mottled wyvern (Ciliatolophosaurus macropthalmus, "eyelash-crested lizard with a large eye")
Tohorasaurs are a clade of mosasaur-like squamates descended from Cretaceous geckos
Black tatzel (Anoterocolymbus bathypardalis, "high-rank swimming leopard of the depths")
Assortment of amphibians on Planet Dato, not to scale. Verophrynians are descended from olsoniform amphibians while theronurans are descended from Triadobatrachus.
Theronura is represented by an upright frog-like form and an aquatic trunked form. Caudata is represented by an ambystomatid. Verophrynia is represented by a gravid toad-like form. Gymnophiona is just a caecilians. Stereospondyli is represented by a fish-eating species below and a durophages species above it. Allocaudata includes primarily terrestrial salamander-like forms. Anura includes a tree frog, a basal frog, a wobbegong-like pipimorph and a star-shaped pipimorph.
Tsu'chabr (Tyrannobufo fortis, "strong tyrant toad"), the tsu'chabr belongs to a class of stem-tetrapods known as the cotylosuchians. It is shown eating a freshwater shark with a small theropod and plants on its back.
Parapygostylia, a diverse clade of 'birds' (in the broad sense, technically cercornitheans) descended from Archaeopteryx. Left is a corvid and kookaburra-like form, Right is a finch and puffin-like form.
A Thylacosmilus-like non-therian mammal.
Kampiacyonia (meaning "caterpillar dogs"), a class of mesothermic tetrapods with a maggot-like larval stage.
Cielopezia (meaning "sky fishes"), a class of volant tetrapods with fish-like forms). They also possess a larval stage.
Ka'chabr (Bufotitan lipourus, meaning "fat-tailed titan toad), a close relative of the Tsu'chabr within the same family.
Acrura (without limbs), stem-tetrapods similar to slugs and eels.
Triplopsia (three eyes), monstrous stem-reptiles that have a developed parietal eye.
Giant crocodilefish (Gustavipterus potamicola) ("Gustav's fin that inhabits the river") Gustav was the name of a man-eating crocodile. This species is a champsipteriform tetrapodomorph fish that can go on land for a limited amount of time.
Clampiprion sp. (clamping saw) a genus of eugeneodont-like champsipteriform fish.
Common newtfish (Neoporolepis vulgaris, "common new Porolepis" or "common perforated scales" a species of porolepiform fish.
Seijin lungfish (Ceratodus seijinensis, "horned tooth from Seijin")
Charybdizoa ("Charybdis animals", a clade of macroscopic rotifers that includes sessile filter-feeders and cephalopod-like active predators.
Trikefish (Triceropycnodus platypleura, "flat-sided three-horned Pycnodus), a herbivorous pycnodontiform fish.
The shin reaper (Shinigamiavis reptilis, "creeping death-god bird). A troodontid-like cercornithean.
Frostfire bowhead (Toxoceraspis sapphirubeus, meaning "ruby-sapphire bow-horned shield"), a poisonous species of arboreal allocaudata that resembles Diplocaulus due to convergent evolution.
Herbivorous terrestrial bothriolepidid descendants (not part of my project, they just looked cool)
A pointer carp (Cyprindex), a genus of cyprinid fish. Genus name literally means "pointer carp".
Bellowcarp (Bramidocyprinus thalassus, meaning "bellowing carp of the sea",) a saltwater carp species.
Tealback clup (Ventroclupea scombroides), a scombrid-like clupeiform fish.
MacDonald's tuna (Thunnus macdonaldii).
Alienomimids, cotylosuchians that resemble stereotypical aliens. Two species are shown, a grey alien-like form and a smaller martian-like form.
The cyclops or triadevil (Cyclopovenator rex, meaning "king of one-eyed hunters"), a carnivorous triplopsian that actually has three-eyes, the other two are poorly developed.
Ningyo (Anthropichthys ningyo, human-fish (Greek) human-fish (Japanese), a labroningyoid primate, sister taxa to Hominoidea.
Boar dolphin, Kaprodelphis fortirostrum ("strong-beaked boar dolphin"), a descendant of squalodontid whales.
Collection of galeaspids by genus: Vivexcalibur, Shieldaspis, Anclacephalaspis, Felixaspis, Brachygladius, Megalovaniaspis, and Tridentocranium). All are benthic filter-feeders.
Sea gecko (Geotohorasaurus paralicola, beach-dwelling earth whale lizard), a basal tohorasaur
Sarcopods (flesh feet), a clade of lobopod-like syndermates that contains aquatic and terrestrial taxa.
Synocoronida (fused crown), a clade of unusual syndermates that includes worms and strange filter feeders.
Triffids, a clade of photosynthetic terrestrial syndermates that includes Eutriffidia, Magnolitriffidia, and Stygitriffidia, the latter being sessile.
Emperor picaxe (Picaxocranium imperator, "emperor pickaxe-skull", a woodpecker-like monodactyl, descended from neotenic tapejarids.
Lyrecrest (Lyrajara dimorphis, lyre Lord with two forms), a sexually dimorphic insectivorous monodactyl pterosaur.
Brown batfinch (Nyctofringillus fuscus, "brown bat-finch"), a seed-eating monodactyl.
Zitironidae, a clade of herbivorous antiarchs.
Leilasiatherium draconoides, (meaning "dragon-like plundering beast"), a savannah neoalioramid.
Leptotyrannus erminus (meaning "ermine slender tyrant"), a small neoalioramid.
Vexillivenator altispinus (meaning "high-spined flag hunter"), an abelisaurus-convergent neoalioramid.
Observer (Observer umbra, meaning "shade watcher", a lithe herbivorous triplopsian.
Dwarf triadops (Cristatotherium triops, meaning "three-eyed crested beast"). A small species of triadops.
Common triadops (Triadops immanis, meaning "huge three-eyes"), a ground-sloth-like animal.
A xenognath, a type of terrestrial vertebrate closely related to conodonts and more distantly to hagfish and lampreys, characterized by their false jaws and a torso that is largely head.
Sukko (Panoplochelon spinifer, meaning "spine-bearing well-armored turtle"), a herbivorous doedicaudata stem-turtle.
Doroku (Brantatherium taurinum, meaning "bull-like burnt goose beast") a sheep-like member of a clade of basal ornithischians.
Shiruke (Satanavis pyrosputum, meaning "fire-spitting satanic bird"), a giant cercornithean bird convergent with carcharodontosaurs.
Orukah (Quintaceratosaurus Intrepidus, meaning "fearless five-horned lizard"), a Ceratosaurus-convergent noasaur that hunts in packs.
Kampuxa (Mungoschampsa ferox, meaning "fierce mongoose crocodile"), a semi-arboreal primosuchian notosuchian whose closest analogue on Earth is the fossa.
Aromascolecida (spice worms), burrowing worm-like syndermates. Filter-feeders and ambush predators.
Hoeman (Maochisaurus viridirostrum, meaning "green-snouted spear-toothed lizard"). A coelurosaurs once thought to be a megaraptoran or basal tyrannosauroid, it was revealed to be a type of thwazisaur (meaning "fast-running lizard), a clade descended from Nqwebasaurus, technically making it an ornithomimosaur despite its divergence form it's ratite-like relatives)
Dactylobranchs (finger gills) are stem-tetrapods whose gills have become tentacle-like appendages that aid in feeding and grabbing objects.
Cotylosuchians (socket crocodiles) are a clade of stem-tetrapods that have a mix of pachyderm and amphibian physiology.
The immanis (Kaijudocus titanus, "titanic kaiju beam"), a large paratitanosaur (not quite a titanosaur but a clade of related somphospondyls descended from the genus Ruixinia).
Walking with Monsters
Meet the Invictophantasma nox, which means "unconquerable phantom of the night" (Codenames/Alias: The Sauropod Assassin, The Phantom That Wanders the Night, I. nox, sometimes spelled as I-Nox)
This hybrid contains the DNA of Giganotosaurus carolinii (base), Deinocheirus mirificus (claws and hump, slightly upright posture), Koolasuchus cleelandi (slower metabolism and contributes to head shape), and Utahraptor ostrommaysorum (tail feathers, bulky proportions). It also contains DNA from the toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus mystaceus) (head shape and weird face flaps, search it up), firefly squid (glow and RNA editing) and an unspecified species of lanternshark (glow, shark-like teeth growth pattern and coloration) of the genus Etmopterus.
Other minor genes include arapaima (durable scales), Komodo dragon (anticoagulant and iron-coated teeth), and edited limpet genes (would normally give limpets their strong goethite teeth, the hardest of any living animal, but is tweaked to reinforce the bones of Nox)
Note: They can turn their glow on and off, with the default color of those areas being grey. Invictophantasma nox has a significantly stronger bite-force than the Giganotosaurus but has a smaller and shorter head. It also borrows the Deinocheirus's claws, which it uses for self-defense from other Invictophantasma specimens. One swipe would slit a large sauropod's throat. At least 37 specimens currently exist and people hope it stays that way or less. A female specimen named the "Black Ripper" escaped her enclosure and took at least 153 lives along the way, she was ultimately euthanized. As Invictophantasma are incredibly aggressive, most of them are given anti-aggression meds to avoid another incident.
Changes from 2023 - Removed Argentinosaurus DNA, added a few new genes (since I don't have the same restrictions as last time since it was for a contest with rules)
And then it turns out to be a slightly tweaked ostrich
Somewhat unrelated but I am working on a speculative evolution project of my own (species from Earth taken to another planet from 635-2.58 million years ago)
Granted many pages are unfinished (the wiki is meant to be a placeholder site because I can't really use Google Sites until I get a new laptop since I am aware that many people do not like Fandom)
He's a chunky boy
Therizinosaurus
Wouldn't be surprised if a watermelon dinosaur was one of them
Watermelons are just derived arenysaurin hadrosaurs, I fail to see what is wrong :)
Was Africa just full of 'tiny' lambeosaurs
I'm guessing either Dacentrurus, Miragaia, or one of those semi-obscure Chinese stegosaurs