Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: y
Art clear?: y
Gen number?: y
All limbs shown?: y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: y
Realistic additions?: y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: y
Creator?: y

Ancestor:
Listed?: y
What changes?: shrank in size, more yellow and spotted, larger jaw muscles stronger bite, serrated teeth, pit nest building, scavenger, mesotherm
[*]External?: y
[*]Internal?: y
[*]Behavioral/Mental?: y
[/LIST]Are Changes Realistic?: y
New Genus Needed?: y, serrated teeth

Habitat:
Type?: 3
Flavor?: 2
Connected?: y
Wildcard?:

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Within range?: y
Exception?: n/a

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaboration
Other?: n/a

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Transition Rule?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: -n/a
Other?: n/a

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y
Other?: mesotherm

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Description:
Length?: good
Capitalized correctly?: y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: replaced in region
Other?: "To better blend in to more open habitats, the Spotted Drakeflune has a more yellowish hide to better blend in with the brown and golden soil " can be worded better



Opinion: approved

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: y
Art clear?: y
Gen number?: y
All limbs shown?: y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: y
Realistic additions?: y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: y
Creator?: y

Ancestor:
Listed?: y
What changes?: spore capsules held above ground on reinforced mycelioid growths, greater reliance on and growth of mycelioid body especially in darkness, pioneering role in ecosystem, symbiosis with purple flora
[*]External?: y
[*]Internal?: y
[*]Behavioral/Mental?:y
[/LIST]Are Changes Realistic?: y
New Genus Needed?: y, spore capsules above ground and increased reliance on mycelioid body for growth regulation

Habitat:
Type?: n/a
Flavor?: n/a
Connected?: y
Wildcard?: n/a

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n/a
Within range?: y
Exception?: n/a

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaborated
Other?: n/a

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Transition Rule?: n/a
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: n/a
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaborated
Other?: n/a

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, airborne spores works just fine
Other?: n/a

Description:
Length?: good
Capitalized correctly?: y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: split
Other?: the increased reliance on the mycelioid body is a fun direction to take for a crystal, generally there has been focus on the photosynthetic side of the lineage but this gives a good view of their potential for symbiosis and detritivore niches.

Opinion: approved

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: y
Art clear?: y
Gen number?: y
All limbs shown?: y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: y
Realistic additions?: y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: y
Creator?: y

Ancestor:
Listed?: y
What changes?:integration genus group, unspecified diversification, symbiosis with a crystal group
[*]External?: n
[*]Internal?: y
[*]Behavioral/Mental?: y
[/LIST]Are Changes Realistic?: y
New Genus Needed?: n

Habitat:
Type?: n/a
Flavor?: n/a
Connected?: y
Wildcard?: n/a

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n/a
Within range?: y
Exception?: n/a

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaboration
Other?: n/a

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Transition Rule?: n/a
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaboration
Other?: n/a

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaborationn/a
Other?:

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Description:
Length?: good
Capitalized correctly?: y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: replaced
Other?: It's a particularly diverse genus group.

Opinion: Approved

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: y
Art clear?: y
Gen number?:y
All limbs shown?: y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: y
Realistic additions?: y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: y
Creator?: y

Ancestor:
Listed?: y
What changes?: bigger, quilled,larger front claws, stronger sense of smell (5 miles), toxin and smell resistance to fraboo for eating, strong immune system to fend off fecal pathogens
[*]External?: y
[*]Internal?: y
[*]Behavioral/Mental?: y
[/LIST]Are Changes Realistic?: y
New Genus Needed?: y, digestive, immune, sensory changes and integument changes

Habitat:
Type?: 2
Flavor?: 3
Connected?: y, weird shape
Wildcard?:

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Within range?: y
Exception?: n/a

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaboration
Other?: n/a

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Transition Rule?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, fullycarnivorous

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?:
Does It Fit Habitat?:
Reasonable changes (if any)?:
Other?:

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Description:
Length?: good
Capitalized correctly?:y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: split
Other?: the coprophagy is curious

Opinion: approved

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: y
Art clear?: y
Gen number?: y
All limbs shown?: y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: y
Realistic additions?: y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: y
Creator?: y

Ancestor:
Listed?: y
What changes?:upright stance, ability to form depth perception via processing changing visual information, section of gill pouch now performs hearing, formation of brachiostegal lung from gills, transcutaneous respiration, limbs and gills parts stiffened with "pseudo-cartilage", adults can survive with salt or fresh water,electrosensitive pits at base of trunk
[*]External?: y
[*]Internal?: y
[*]Behavioral/Mental?: y
[/LIST]Are Changes Realistic?: y
New Genus Needed?: y, lots of changes, including sensory and respiration

Habitat:
Type?: 1
Flavor?: 3
Connected?: y
Wildcard?:

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Within range?: y
Exception?: n/a

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: in the description it is described that limbs and gills have developed a specific support, this ought to be listed i think.

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Transition Rule?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: juvenile diet is not listed, I think this change should not have happened as it results in ambiguity. Juvenile diet ought to be added back.

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaborated
Other?: n/a

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: n/a
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Description:
Length?: good
Capitalized correctly?:y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: unknown
Other?: whether it replaces or splits from the ancestor should be elaborated. A basic description of the juvenile would be nice.

Opinion: pending, certain things such as diet needs to be worked on.
I'm curious about this method of hearing, I'm not sure it's really that much like tetrapod hearing, but I would need to look more carefully at the parts that go into that system. this doesn't mean it doesn't work, there are many other forms of hearing systems in the world.

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: y
Art clear?: y
Gen number?: y
All limbs shown?: y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: y
Realistic additions?: y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: y
Creator?: y

Ancestor:
Listed?: y
What changes?: became active hunter, increased size,reduced mandible membrane,larger mandibles, serrated mandibles,larger eyes, fins used for greater manueverability, pheromones, sexual spores or gametes
[*]External?: y
[*]Internal?: y
[*]Behavioral/Mental?: y
[/LIST]Are Changes Realistic?: y
New Genus Needed?: y, lots of changes, new reproduction

Habitat:
Type?: 1
Flavor?: 2?
Connected?: y
Wildcard?:

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Within range?: y
Exception?: n/a

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Transition Rule?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: n/a
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y elaborated
Other?: n/a

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, developed sexual reproduction
Other?: n/a

Description:
Length?: good
Capitalized correctly?: y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: split
Other?: n

Opinion: approved

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Sep 18 2022, 05:10 PM)

I...don't think you know what types and flavors are.

It's true, I generally get these things mixed up which is why that part isn't super rigid for me when looking over other peoples stuff.

perfect, then approved

where actually is drake mamut,

Edit

Ah it's on Drake. With the rest and I somehow didn't see an entire biome.

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: y
Art clear?: y
Gen number?: y
All limbs shown?: y
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: y
Realistic additions?: y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: y
Creator?: y


Ancestor:
Listed?: y
What changes?:longer legs slightly longer tail fangs no longer visible when mouth closed ; newly hatched able to fend for themselves???
[*]External?: y
[*]Internal?: n?
[*]Behavioral/Mental?: n
[/LIST]Are Changes Realistic?: y
New Genus Needed?: n

Habitat:
Type?: 2
Flavor?: 2
Connected?: y
Wildcard?:

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Within range?: y
Exception?: n/a

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaboration
Other?: n/a

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Transition Rule?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: loss of scavenger

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: n/a
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y elaboration
Other?: n/a

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Description:
Length?: good
Capitalized correctly?: y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: split
Other?: n/a

[SIZE=7][b][u]approved

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: y
Art clear?: y
Gen number?: y
All limbs shown?: n/a
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: y
Realistic additions?: y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: y
Creator?: y

Ancestor:
Listed?:
What changes?: helixed branches, notable trunk, smaller
[*]External?: y
[*]Internal?: n
[*]Behavioral/Mental?: n/a
[/LIST]Are Changes Realistic?: y
New Genus Needed?: n, not very different

Habitat:
Type?: 2
Flavor?: 7?
Connected?: n?
Wildcard?: n/a

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Within range?: y
Exception?: n/a

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaboration
Other?: n/a

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Transition Rule?: n/a
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: n/a
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaboration
Other?: n/a

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Description:
Length?: short
Capitalized correctly?: y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: split
Other?: minor spacing issue, at least one period lacks a space following it.

Opinion: approved.

Approval Checklist:
Art:
Art Present?: y
Art clear?: y
Gen number?: y
All limbs shown?: n/a
Reasonably Comparable to Ancestor?: y
Realistic additions?: y

Name:
Binomial Taxonomic Name?: y
Creator?: y

Ancestor:
Listed?: y
What changes?:

shorter narrower faster growing more fragile root budding dimorphic sexual spores prefers wetlands and wet areas
• External?: y
• Internal?: n/a
• Behavioral/Mental?: n/a

Are Changes Realistic?: y ?
New Genus Needed?: (If yes, list why) y, very new reproduction

Habitat:
Type?: 1
Flavor?: 4
Connected?: y
Wildcard?: n

Size:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Within range?: y
Exception?: n/a

Support:
Same as Ancestor?: n/a
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaborated
Other?: n/a

Diet:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Transition Rule?: n/a
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a

Respiration:
Same as Ancestor?: y
Does It Fit Habitat?: n/a
Reasonable changes (if any)?: n/a
Other?: n/a

Thermoregulation:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y, elaborated
Other?: n/a

Reproduction:
Same as Ancestor?: n
Does It Fit Habitat?: y
Reasonable changes (if any)?: y ?
Other?: sudden dimorphic airborne spores that may merge, elaboration on this would be useful but not actually necessary to pass in my opinion.

Description:
Length?: short
Capitalized correctly?: y
Replace/Split from ancestor?: split
Other?: second paragraph could use some elaboration, first sentence could be broken into two and possibly written more clearly.

Opinion: approved, other than the simple description of the reproduction method, which isn't objectively bad, it looks good.

How far apart are the host Flora?

If it's a distance from one surviving host to another then forcing the worm to stuff itself makes sense, and then making sure your pollen takes up as much surface area as possible so at least something makes it makes sense too.

Added bonus that if you take all the surfaces area then competition has less surface area to take.

However this may result in your pollen becoming the new surface to use.

Respiration is probably passive Lenticels and support would be cellulose cell walls.

Looks good to me , nice solid little p Plant thing

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Aug 31 2022, 12:08 AM)

Island chains do not have independent genus groups from the mainland.

I'll remove iiteum

Sounds fantastic, and also made me realize the fat korystal doesn't specify that its spores are sexual even though I assumed they were.

Technically speaking there are transgenic plants that produce the monomers which are going to be cash crops in the near future.
I think a metabolic pathway that already exists is less whimsical than a black photosystem that doesn't exist at all in nature.

But I also think all speculative evolution projects are whimsy to some degree.

coastal forests can get trees 50 feet tall fairly comfortably when growing in real soil above the water line, or on eroding cliffs.
They're more stunted when colonizing out into dunes or on barren rocky cliffs, but still often bigger than a person. Pines, alders, firs and the like.

Pangolin, but what if turtle shrew route

PHB was developed in it's ancestor already.

I could just write out the biosynthesis of it so we can see the components that go into it's making. It's not particularly novel other than the polymerization and was directly ripped from an already existing metabolic pathway for creating PHB in real life organisms.

Did the edits, thank you.


Mm, would sheets not be a good term? Pieces? It would be in reference to the fissures, so large unbroken surfaces which is in my experience is a surprise on older trees, smooth bark being common among trees less than 40 years old.

I take template height as max height of a healthy mature individual, rather than an average.

I added their stunted height, they were actually based on shore pine, Pinus contorta sbsp. contorta which I've seen growing directly in the sand dunes above the high tide mark. Very small compared to their forest siblings.

Respiration would probably be Passive (Lenticels)

I like it.

The only thing in the description that I'm wondering about is

"The copper that it absorbs is concentrated at the top of the cell, allowing it to absorb sulfur more easily."

It looks like the copper is being converted to a metallic form out of the solution, so it's experiencing reduction, gaining electrons, and then I assume getting stuffed into an anaerobic environment between two bilipid layers.

I wonder if this reduction process could be involved with sulfur to free hydrogen ions, or something of that nature.

Sounds like a messy rabbit hole that's unnecessary to go down as opposed to a more general statement. Which I cannot think of at the moment.

Probably spring as soon as snow melts, that'll give them a long growing season.
Only question I have regarding that is if detritus would be too far decomposed by other things to be worth eating.

One thing that crossed my mind is that the protospores for the shell symbiont, we need proper names, would initially be Photosynthesic but lose this upon combining.

Honestly I think Lenticels would be a more correct term

This is a really funny and fun critter, I easily visualized these trains moving around and attempting to encircle food

If you wanted to get fancy with it you could really mess with it and give them sexes at the haploid stage, with wind based dispersal of male spores and pistil type catchments for female spores, followed by another round of airborne protospores with mating types that settle into moist soil elsewhere to form the spore modula.

That's a fun and messy idea.