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* The theropterans will reduce in number due to their status as giant flying carnivores, similar to how large pterosaurs went extinct.
* Tylophytes and nodophytes will survive due to their adaptations for extreme climates, which might allow them to endure long periods without sunlight.
* The theropterans will reduce in number due to their status as giant flying carnivores, similar to how large pterosaurs went extinct.
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* Aside from the thalattotheres, the odontognathans will survive due to their semi-aquatic lifestyle making them less reliant on terrestrial plants to sustain prey populations, coupled with their ectothermy and slow metabolisms, similar to how crocodiles survived the K-T extinction event.
* The island megafauna of Crescentia and Pyronesia are also doomed to extinction, leaving room for other species to expand into their niches or new species to colonize the islands.
* Of the opisthopterans, latopterans and magnopterans will survive due to their malacovorous and scavenging behaviors, respectively; malacoforms would inevitably survive due to their small size and diversity, and the extinction event will leave behind many dead bodies. As such, these clades will still have plentiful food supplies after the initial throes of the event. Picopterans and sphenopterans will more than likely decline due to their reliance on chromatophytes and larger prey to feed.
* The island megafauna of Crescentia and Pyronesia are also doomed to extinction, leaving room for other species to expand into their niches or new species to colonize the islands.
* Of the opisthopterans, latopterans and magnopterans will survive due to their malacovorous and scavenging behaviors, respectively; malacoforms would inevitably survive due to their small size and diversity, and the extinction event will leave behind many dead bodies. As such, these clades will still have plentiful food supplies after the initial throes of the event. Picopterans and sphenopterans will more than likely decline due to their reliance on chromatophytes and larger prey to feed.
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This will be a WhamEpisode featuring a [[ApocalypseHow mass extinction]], so presumably some pretty big changes will occur. For instance...
* The titanopods and euonychodonts are almost certainly doomed, the former due to their high food requirements and the latter due to their low population density. The leptopods may die out too, due to being specialized herbivores with a high metabolic rate.
* The allodonts and lystrocheirids will probably survive, being small adaptable social omnivores that can survive on a wide variety of food. In particular, the small burrowing nocturnal rhamphodonts may radiate into a new diversity of dominant megafauna, much like mammals during the Cenozoic or dicynodonts during the Triassic.
* One lineage of malleognathan may survive, due to being cold-blooded omnivores that require very little food and can obtain it from a wide variety of sources. Due to being some of the last synischians, they may [[VegetarianCarnivore revert to herbivory]] much like pandas or therizinosaurs, and become the first post-extinction megafaunal herbivores.
* The zygophytes may outcompete the xylophytes as the new dominant tree, much like how angiosperm trees outcompeted gymnosperms.
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* Rhamphodonts, particularly oryctocheirids, will become more widespread and diverse due to their generalist lifestyles.
* Social onychodonts like the prionodonts and xenopsids will outcompete the more solitary cryptodonts for the title of dominant macropredator.
* The animals endemic to Isla Proxima will find their way back onto the mainland and either adapt in new ways or go extinct.
* Zygophytes will become the dominant non-xylophyte plant clade on the planet, or at least more prevalent.
* Social onychodonts like the prionodonts and xenopsids will outcompete the more solitary cryptodonts for the title of dominant macropredator.
* The animals endemic to Isla Proxima will find their way back onto the mainland and either adapt in new ways or go extinct.
* Zygophytes will become the dominant non-xylophyte plant clade on the planet, or at least more prevalent.
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[[WMG: Predictions for Episode 13]]
The theme of this episode will be about the reunification of the continents, and the resulting interractions between the species. Let's go!
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* More osteopod species will form parental bonds with their offspring, with some even developing something like milk or cropmilk.
* Herding and/or higher intelligence will become prevalent among titanopods, fitting with their elephant-like nature.
* Herding and/or higher intelligence will become prevalent among titanopods, fitting with their elephant-like nature.
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* Certain malacoformes will develop a form of HiveMind, becoming the planet's equivalent to bees, termites, or ants.
* Certain malacoformes will develop a form of HiveMind, becoming the planet's equivalent to bees, termites, or ants.
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[[WMG: Predictions for Episode 12]]
The theme for this episode will be about the devolpement of various social interactions. Let's go!
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** Jossed in the episode itself, but eventually confirmed in the following episode.
* As mentioned above, the lystrocheirids will develop an insect-like larval stage and metamorphosis that will allow them to take a wide variety of niches.
* As mentioned above, the lystrocheirids will develop an insect-like larval stage and metamorphosis that will allow them to take a wide variety of niches.
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* Some small animals may find themselves rafting to islands on piles of floating debris-like logs and branches, similar to how the ancestors of South America's rodents and monkeys are thought to have migrated from Africa, along with the ancestors of Madagascan lemurs.
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The leptopods are a likely candidate for developing this adaptation, as their hindmost limbs are already specialized for rapidly generating force backwards, and they are under the same evolutionary pressures for speed that caused the onychodonts to adopt hexapedalism. On the other hand, the megalobrachid clades may benefit more from such an adaptation than the leptopods, as their large bodies and stiff skeletal structure might make them slower at turning around, incentivizing them to invest in ways of defending from multiple directions at once.
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* A terrestrial diplostome species (such as a type of xerostracan or dolichostracan) will be isolated from the mainland and re-evolve into niches their ancestors were forced out of by the osteopods.
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* Some clades, particularly flying ones like basal pleuropterans or opisthopterans, will undergo a burst of adaptive radiation to specialize for different resources, much like Darwin's finches or Hawaiian honeycreepers on Earth.
* More clades will become at least semi-aquatic to avoid competition by feeding on algae or aquatic animals, similar to how marine iguanas specialized for a life along the rocky coasts of the Galapagos islands.
* More clades will become at least semi-aquatic to avoid competition by feeding on algae or aquatic animals, similar to how marine iguanas specialized for a life along the rocky coasts of the Galapagos islands.
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* Some kentrodonts might travel to the ground and develop long slender bodies, making them fill a similar niche to terrestrial venomous snakes. (Especially since a long body will allow them to absorb oxygen more easily despite their inefficient breathing system.)
* If any brachyphytes grow in nutrient-poor soil, this may lead to them developing carnivorous habits, much like Venus flytraps or pitcher plants.
* Some kentrodonts might travel to the ground and develop long slender bodies, making them fill a similar niche to terrestrial venomous snakes. (Especially since a long body will allow them to absorb oxygen more easily despite their inefficient breathing system.)
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* Due to the relative small sizes of some of the islands, many of the species on the islands may undergo some form of either gigantism (smaller animals growing to larger sizes from abundant food sources or lack of predators) or dwarfism (larger animals becoming smaller due to scarce food sources).
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* Since the pronocanthids rely more on venomous spines than the flexible shell of their desmostracan ancestors, they may internalize their shell to act as a spinal cord, much like the coleostracans, to act as internal support, especially since their shell is divided into multiple flexible segments unlike the stiff gladius of the coleostracans.
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