The Speculative Therapsid Project

[Yutyrannus]

I already have quite a few projects going but this idea was too cool to resist. It is a project like The Speculative Dinosaur Project, only about a world where the P-Tr extinction never happened and therapsids dominate. Anyone who wants to can contribute to this project. Anyone can pick any of the likely groups (including trilobites) to focus on. So far I'll deal with the gorgonopsids and therocephalians but anything else is great. I would really like to see this project become as extensive as the Spec project someday.

[Balaur]

This sounds really cool! I'll do dicynodonts and dinocephalias.

[Yutyrannus]

Sounds great !
Also, I opened a deviantART group for it : http://surviving-therapsids.deviantart.com/

[Yutyrannus]

I'm currently drawing my first picture: a head profile of a lion-sized scavenging gorgonopsid . He's pretty cool so far.

[Yutyrannus]

Here it is:

[Balaur]

I especially like the ear tufts. Is he a modern Gorgonopsid?

[Yutyrannus]

Thanks! And yes he is a modern gorgonopsid species, though I will also eventually post some ice age gorgons . So how are those marine dicynodonts coming?

[Balaur]

I am drawing one today. It's a relative of Lystrosaurus, but quite bizarre.

[Yutyrannus]

I am drawing one today. It's a relative of Lystrosaurus, but quite bizarre.

Sounds cool !

[Libraraptor]

Interesting idea, I will follow your work. Reminds me of the Safari Inostrancevia that´s still on my acquisitions - list...

[Yutyrannus]

Thanks!

[Balaur]

Here is my first entry.



248 million years ago, Lystrosaurus began to diversify across the world. One group took advantage of the water and adapted features, such as long necks and smaller hind limbs, and longer tails. The one above is an unnamed Jurassic lystrosaur. Unlike previous dicynodonts, they are omnivorous, feeding on fish and small sharks, and also hunt squid by sucking them into their mouths, and also feed on algae and seaweed. By the Cenozoic, they began to decrease in diversity. At one point in the Eocene, only one species (pictured below) existed. However, by the Miocene they began to diversify again. At the beginning of the Ice Age 2.5 million years ago, they began to diversify, and now they are in moderate diversity in the modern day.

[Yutyrannus]

Yay! Very cool! Also, don't forget to put it on the deviantart group in featured and in dicynodonts. Evolution of the therocephalian skull by me coming soon, by the way.

[Balaur]

Thanks! How do I add it into the group?

[Yutyrannus]

Thanks! How do I add it into the group?

Go to Gallery and click the +'s by the folders you are uploading the picture into then pick the picture you are uploading from your gallery.

[Balaur]

Just so people know this project is still on going and now we have a website and a Deviantart group. We've expanded a bunch since the last time you saw us!

http://the-speculative-therapsid-project.wikia.com/wiki/The_Speculative_Therapsid_Project_Wiki
http://surviving-therapsids.deviantart.com