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Collared lizard

Roadrunner

Dolphin

Rays

Lanternfish

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Rate of Speciation:

Tetrapods:

Invertebrates:

Lifespan: Typically only a few years on average, with a few exceptions

Breeding: Typically hundreds to up to millions of eggs

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First one million years:

Fastest to evolve 🔥

1.) Invertebrates

Giant terrestrial crabs

Swarming predatory ants

Forest termite

Giant coastal velvet worms

Giant grazing grasshopper

Bird moths

Giant freshwater crustaceans

Giant aquatic mayfly

Large raptorial cephalopods

2.) Fishes

3.) Lizards

Raptorial

Herbivore

4.) Roadrunners

Raptorial

Insectivorous

Frugivore

5.) Rays+Guitarfish

Brackish-fresh water cownose ray

6.) Dolphins

Slowest to evolve ❄️

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Epochs of focus:

Genezoic

🏜️ Initicene: 0-10 million years post establishment. 10 my

(Ice at the poles year round)

Highlight: The first million years

End Epoch: 10 million years post establishment

🌋 Cinicene: 11-45 million years post establishment. 34 my

(Warming trend into a mass extinction event)

End Epoch: 45 million years post establishment

Ressureozoic

🌺 Thermocene: 46-65 million years post establishment. 19 my

(Hot house era post mass extinction event)

Highlight: First 2 million years post extinction

End Epoch: 65 million years post establishment

❄️ Cryocene: 66-107 million years post establishment. 41 my

(Cooling trend, minor extinction event leading into a glaciation period)

Highlight: Middle Epoch glaciation and extinction, 86-89 million years post establishment

End Epoch: 107 million years post establishment

🌾 Novocene: 107-125 million years post establishment. 18 my

(Glaciation reduction, ice still at poles year round)

Highlight: Current era, 125 million years post establishment

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Map 107-125 million years post establishment.

(final epoch of focus)

Continental Climatic trends and Geography:

• North-Eastern:

(Tundra with scattered taiga and temperate forests in the north. Central grasslands, savannas and desert shrubland common. Southern peninsula and islands, tropical and forested.)

• Eastern Central:

(Desert and xeric shrubland in the northernmost regions, central grasslands and savannas common, dry forests and rainforests common along the coast and further south.)

• Western:

(Tundra, taiga and temperate forests in the northern regions. Grasslands, steppe and shrubland are the most common biomes. Tropical forests present along the southern horn.)

• Southern Polar:

(Tundra and polar grasslands common bordering the coastline, central continental glaciation present.)

Established fauna per biome post seeding (PS):

0-10,000 years PS:

Polar

(Tundra)

Bees

Lepidoptera

Orthoptera

Tardigrades

Nematodes

Grasslands

(Prairies, Savannah, Floodplains, Steppe)

Roadrunners

Lizards

Termites

Ants

Bees

Orthoptera

Lepidoptera

Springtails

Tardigrades

Velvet worms

Gastropods

Annelids

Nematodes

Arid

(Deserts, Shrubland, Badlands)

Roadrunners

Lizards

Termites

Bees

Ants

Lepidoptera

Orthoptera

Tardigrades

Nematodes

Freshwater

(Rivers, Lakes, Swamps, Marshland)

Mayflies

Branchiopoda

Copepods

Amphipods

Decapods

Tardigrades

Bivalves

Gastropods

Annelids

Nematodes

Flatworms

Cnidarians

Coastal

(Coastline, Mangroves, Reefs, Seagrass, Kelp forests)

Batoids

Brachiopods

Bivalves

Gastropods

Cephalopods

Horseshoe crab

Barnacles

Branchiopoda

Copepods

Amphipods

Decapods

Crinoids

Sea stars

Flatworms

Nematodes

Annelids

Cnidarians

Sponges

Open ocean

(Pelagic, Mesopelagic, Ice sheets)

Delphinids

Batoids

Lantern fish

Cephalopods

Gastropods

Copepods

Amphipods

Ostracods

Decapods

Krill

Tunicates

Cnidarians

Deep sea

(Hydrothermal vents, Bathypelagic, Abyssalpelagic)

Lantern fish

Cephalopods

Gastropods

Bivalves

Brachiopods

Copepods

Amphipods

Ostracods

Decapods

Tunicates

Crinoids

Sea stars

Annelids

Nematodes

Cnidarians

Sponges

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Established Fauna:

(size chart of notable fauna)

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🪶 Tetrapods:

• Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra)

• Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus)

• Collard lizards (Genus: Crotaphytus)

🌊 Fish:

• Bat ray (Myliobatis californica)

• Common stingray (Dasyatis pastinaca)

• Cownose ray (Rhinoptera bonasus)

• Common guitarfish (Rhinobatos rhinobatos)

• Lantern fish (Family: Myctophidae)

🐚 Mollusks & Brachiopods:

Breeding: 2-9 pups twice per year

• Brachiopods

• Bivalves (Clams, Oysters, Mussels etc.)

• Gastropods

• Decapodiformes (Squid, Cuttlefish etc.)

• Octopodiformes

🦗 Arthropods:

• Horseshoe crabs

• Barnacles

• Copepods

• Amphipods

• Ostracods

• Branchiopoda (Brine shrimp, Triops etc.)

• Decapods (Shrimp, Crabs etc.)

• Krill

• Springtails

• Orthoptera (Crickets, Grasshoppers etc.)

• Lepidoptera (Moths, Butterflies)

• Termites

• Ants

• Bees

• Mayflies

🪸 Other invertebrates:

• Tardigrades

• Onychophora (Velvet worms)

• Tunicates

• Crinoids

• Asteroidea (Sea stars)

• Platyhelminthes (Flat worms)

• Nematodes

• Annelids

• Cnidarians (Jellies, Anemones, Siphonophores etc.)

• Porifera (Sponges)