#lemuria challenge

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Lemuria Phase II is done,

at least when it comes to streams! In 19 pieces we canonized over 800 taxa, probably closer to 900. So here they are again, the Oligocene of Lemuria, laid out for you! Let me know which are your favorite!

Coral reefs

Snail reefs

Seagrass meadows

Coasts

Mangroves

Karstic stone forests

Rivers

Tropical rainforest

Canopy

Leaf litter

Pluvial temperate forests

Open woodlands

Bushlands

Subterranean

Hot deserts

Cold deserts

Central wetland

For people not aware: Lemuria is a spec evo project of the #paleostream community. It follows the evolution of organisms living on the fictional continent of Lemuria (fusion of Madagascar and India) from the Cretaceous to the Pleistocene. We are in the Oligocene #LemuriaChallenge

I have to thank the team behind the organisation of this challenge, our Lemuria council as well as the many many people who submitted their work to be included.

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Lemuria Phase II canonised taxa list (Part 4)

This is part 4 of my list of the 43 canonised taxa I had in the #Paleostream #LemuriaChallenge going environment by environment and showcasing their original submissions, you can find part 3 here

The Central Wetlands:

Pseudoanthos maiae (Iunturodentephyllum lemurensis) (Williamsonispina acuta) (repeat!)

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*SPEC EVO*

Lemuria flocking 6-27-25

Megalognathus, Harbinger Bird, Cervidavtylus, The Last Stegosaur

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some lemuria art!

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Now that Lemuria Phase II is done, you may now witness everything I made for this phase

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My newest submissions for the Lemuria challenge, both baurusuchids tho with different approaches.

While the family is present on Lemuria due to Pabwehshi, baurusuchids come in two flavours. Baurusuchines and pissarrachampsines. For a while Pabwehshi was treated as closer to Baurusuchus but the most recent paper has it as a pissarrachamspine. Given that all other baurusuchids besides Pabwehshi are exclusively known from South America, its really anyones guess which one should be present. Especially given the big unknown that is baurusuchids in Africa.

Anyways, so that its not just the same animal reskinned I obviously went into different directions. Cuonchampsa I kept on the smaller side and left "naked", something informed by what we see in Pissarrachampsa, which despite being known from ample material preserves not a single osteoderm in its vicinity. Baurusuchids are already light in terms of armour and likely didn't use it to stabilize their gait, so this loss is far from improbable. Still, I did elect to keep it smaller because of that anyways. I also made them group animals, inspired by Pissarrachampsa nesting sites, tho again exaggerating things for the sake of spec.

With the baurusuchine I was aiming for something larger, more robust and gnarlier looking. I kept the osteoderms, tho in accordance with recent papers I opted to hide them under extensive soft tissue, going for a kinda cracked texture of sorts (so not quite the leathery softshell turtle dermis the paper uses as an example). Tho the two wouldn't usually encounter another, I kinda went for a bit of a tiger - dhole energy between the two (also referenced by the genus name of the former).

I also did some rough scaling to highlight the size difference

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My two most recent Lemuria submissions

A nautilid genus

And a horseshoe crab genus

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The first two pieces of Lemuria Phase II are done and here you get the coral reefs! An incredibly crowded mess of sessile and mobile critters trying to get by. One of my whales also sometimes visits here but since it's 11 m long I only show it's lower jaw/skull here...

63 Species made it in here, all created by the community and curated by me and the Lemuria council. Besides corals and sponges you also get a first look at our new major reefbuilding clade, the worm snails, more on that in the next mural.

For people not aware, Lemuria is a spec evo project of the #paleostream community. It follows the evolution of organisms living on the fictional continent of Lemuria (fusion of Madagascar and India) from the Cretaceous to the Pleistocene. #LemuriaChallenge