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*** As of the post-mass extinction period, the xylophytes have become a clear counterpart to specifically coniferous trees, as they used to dominate all forest environments, but have since been replaced in low-latitude forests by newer, more successful trees and now reside primarily in the colder climates.
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** One type of chromatophyte, the zygophytes, have evolved colonial behavior with different individuals acting as one organism and filling different roles, like a terrestrial floral equivalent of siphonophores. One lineage, known as the harpactophytes, are carnivorous plants that hunt with sticky flypaper-like leaves, much like sundews.
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*** After the mass extinction, the zygophytes give rise to the zygodendrales, a new type of tree that quickly becomes the most successful lineage of trees in the new era. This puts them in a similar role to angiosperms (flowering plants) in the Cenozoic, compared to the xylophytes as gymnosperms/conifers.
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* In a loose, narrative sense, the synischians and polyschians are similar to the synapsids and sauropsids, being the two main lineages of terrestrial vertebrate-analogues which are distinguishable from each other by differences in their skeletal structure. In Episode 14, it turns out that the synischians became an analogue to most reptilian prehistoric life -- with ''all of them'' except the hybognathans dying in the mass extinction.
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* In a loose, narrative sense, the synischians and polyschians are similar to the synapsids and sauropsids, being the two main lineages of terrestrial vertebrate-analogues which are distinguishable from each other by differences in their skeletal structure. In Episode 14, it turns out that the synischians became an analogue to most reptilian Mesozoic prehistoric life -- with ''all of them'' except the hybognathans dying in the mass extinction.
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* In a loose, narrative sense, the synischians and polyschians are similar to the synapsids and sauropsids, being the two main lineages of terrestrial vertebrate-analogues which are distinguishable from each other by differences in their skeletal structure.
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* In a loose, narrative sense, the synischians and polyschians are similar to the synapsids and sauropsids, being the two main lineages of terrestrial vertebrate-analogues which are distinguishable from each other by differences in their skeletal structure. In Episode 14, it turns out that the synischians became an analogue to most reptilian prehistoric life -- with ''all of them'' except the hybognathans dying in the mass extinction.
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** The odontognathans are deinognathans that have evolved into semiaquatic ambush predators compared to crocodiles, and the dolicognathans that branched off from them could be considered a counterpart to the gharial due to its diet of fish-analogues and elongated, narrow mandibles with needle-like teeth.
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** The odontognathans are deinognathans that have evolved into semiaquatic ambush predators compared to crocodiles, and the dolicognathans that branched off from them could be considered a counterpart to the gharial due to its diet of fish-analogues and elongated, narrow mandibles with needle-like teeth. While most of these died out during the mass extinction, the hybognathans survived just like how crocodiles managed to survive extinction events to this day.
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The phalacrobrachids are a very large browsing lineage of allobrachid that not only lost most of their fur to aid in thermoregulation like many large mammals and non-avian dinosaurs, but also lay their oothecae in large social nesting colonies, much like hadrosaurs.
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** The phalacrobrachids are a very large browsing lineage of allobrachid that not only lost most of their fur to aid in thermoregulation like many large mammals and non-avian dinosaurs, but also lay their oothecae in large social nesting colonies, much like hadrosaurs.
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** Chromatophytes rely on animals to pollinate them, but unlike the carnophytes, incentivize them to do so by rewarding them with nectar or fruit rather than tricking them, and thus have evolved bright colouration to make themselves more noticeable to their pollinators, making them TIRA's equivalent of angiosperms. One type of chromatophyte, the zygophytes, have evolved colonial behavior with different individuals acting as one organism and filling different roles, like a terrestrial floral equivalent of siphonophores.
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** Chromatophytes rely on animals to pollinate them, but unlike the carnophytes, incentivize them to do so by rewarding them with nectar or fruit rather than tricking them, and thus have evolved bright colouration to make themselves more noticeable to their pollinators, making them TIRA's equivalent of angiosperms. A lineage of chromatophyte, the aphyllophytes, have lost their photosynthesis in favor of using their roots to steal nutrients from other plants, much like many parasitic plants on Earth.
** One type of chromatophyte, the zygophytes, have evolved colonial behavior with different individuals acting as one organism and filling different roles, like a terrestrial floral equivalent ofsiphonophores.siphonophores. One lineage, known as the harpactophytes, are carnivorous plants that hunt with sticky flypaper-like leaves, much like sundews.
** One type of chromatophyte, the zygophytes, have evolved colonial behavior with different individuals acting as one organism and filling different roles, like a terrestrial floral equivalent of
** Episode 13 introduces two new lineages of kentrodont: the trypophorans, which have heat-sensitive pits on their faces like many vipers, and the deinoglossids, which are parasitoids that inject eggs into their victims and use them as living incubators much like many parasitic wasps.
** The diplocurrids are freshwater hadrorhachids with long sensitive barbels like many catfish. The astrapophorans are a lineage that produce electric fields to both sense their environment and stun their prey, like many electric fish on Earth.
The phalacrobrachids are a very large browsing lineage of allobrachid that not only lost most of their fur to aid in thermoregulation like many large mammals and non-avian dinosaurs, but also lay their oothecae in large social nesting colonies, much like hadrosaurs.
** The acrocheirids are a type of rhamphodont that feed their young a regurgitated material from their crop, roughly equivalent to the milk of mammals or the crop milk of some birds. One lineage of acrocheirid, the apatocheirid, are brood parasites that deposit their young in the nests of their more social cousins, much like cuckoos or many brood parasitic hymenopterans.
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** Cryptodonts and ensidonts have each independently adapted to become more efficient predators, with the former developing more raptorial forelimbs like mantises and the latter developing large pedipalps that face each other instead of downwards, similar to derived clades of spider on Earth. The prionodonts are a lineage of ensidonts that have developed pack-hunting behavior, much like wolves or lions.
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** Cryptodonts and ensidonts have each independently adapted to become more efficient predators, with the former developing more raptorial forelimbs like mantises and the latter developing large pedipalps that face each other instead of downwards, similar to derived clades of spider on Earth. The prionodonts are a lineage of ensidonts that have developed pack-hunting behavior, much like wolves or lions.lions, while the tachydonts are a type of cryptodont that specialized more for small and fast-moving prey to avoid competition with their larger cousins, much like cheetahs.
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** Malleognathans are small, durophagous deinognathans that shifted from being predators to opportunistic scavengers, bringing to mind hyenas and the extinct borophagin canids.
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** Malleognathans are small, durophagous deinognathans that shifted from being predators to opportunistic scavengers, bringing to mind hyenas and the extinct borophagin borophagine canids.
