I can add a line about a reinforced skull and jaw to help with diffusing the force of the impact.

As for the front toes, they are like their ancestor, the "missing" toe is just obscured. I'll add the missing legs to show it

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Aug 29 2021, 05:45 AM)

I just looked at the topic sub-title...12 years, you say? I think that's worth putting in the submission trivia. It's certainly longer than my own long-delayed pre-hiatus designs. I've never actually seen the Chumsnapper page before, and I'm shocked to see it's from Generation 137, long before I showed up around Generation 153.

Yeah this dude was meant for ~gen 138-140 but was lost due to the snowball

QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Aug 29 2021, 12:48 AM)

I feel like those front teeth seem ill-suited for cutting through shrog rafts, if anything these teeth look more like they are trying to act like a beak or something.

they don’t cut thru the raft, the act more like a wedge to get into the seams and split at the weak points between logs.

Shrogsnapper (Densarieschelys rupturavenari)

Creator: Mnidjm
Ancestor: Chumsnapper (Discuplacachelys aquachumus)
Habitat: Elerd Temperate Coast, Chum Tropical Coast, Huggs Salt Marsh, BioCat Salt Swamp
Size: 3.8 m Long
Support: Endoskeleton (Bones)
Diet: Adult: Carnivore (Seashrog, Pirate Waxface, Stonebeak Phlyer, Shailnitor, Shorelance, Hustlyn, Shipper Buoyskin, Nagraj, Wadesnapper, Horned Landlubber); Young: Omnivore (Marbleflora, Common Gilltails)
Respiration: Active (Lungs)
Thermoregulation: Ectotherm (Basking)
Reproduction: Sexual, Two Genders, Eggs into Sand

The '''shrogsnapper''' gets it's name from their primary hunting method. They have specialized to hunt [[seashrog]]s, which they will do by diving below seashrog rafts, and quickly breaching underneath the rafts in an attempt to cause the raft to capsize. They will then attempt to drown any organisms they find on the raft, be it a seashrog or a [[Pirate Waxface|pirate waxface]], or any medium to large organism found on it. To aid in this, their front teeth have become more front facing and deep set into their skulls and jaws, allowing them to act as a slice to cut thru the raft seams. Their skulls have zig-zagging sutures allong the structure and spongiform structures to prevent as much trauma affecting the brain.

They breed in the early spring, and will return to the saltwater wetlands of the east central Dixon-Darwin to lay their eggs. Their breeding grounds have not spread far from the waterways of the BioCat-Huggs river system, as they are instinctually drawn to breed in the same location of their birth. They have however seen a subpopulation begin to lay their eggs in the [[|BioCat Salt Swamp|BioCat swamplands]]. While this has the potential to cause a speciation event, breeding is done outside the wetlands in the coastal waters, so there is still signifigant cross exchange between the Huggs stock and the BioCat stock.

At first, the shrogsnapper was an offshoot population of their ancestor. The [[chumsnapper]]s maintained themselves in the Huggs Salt Marsh and even had multiple crossbreeding events, as the shrogsnapper uses Huggs as a breeding ground. However as speciation became of overt and the shrogsnapper grew more robust, the remnant populations couldn't compete for breeding grounds. the male lineages of chumsnappers slowly were outcompeted by male shrogsnappers, until all pureblooded lineages became extinct, and with them the last chumsnappers were absorbed into the shrogsnapper genepool.

I'm moving this to the Graveyard due to lack of timely response. Please resubmit when Next Gen opens

I still say two fins as larva, with the second growing in at puberty

There is now space in Gen 164 for this submission

I'm moving this to the Graveyard until this can be resolved

I'll allow this

Then, as the discussion has expanded beyond the borders of this submission, I'll approve it.

For the moment, I'm more inclined with the removing the pupa from the lineage, and using this post to figure out what the retcon is gonna be

But these do go thru some changes, as the larvae look like baseline miniswarmers

Yeah this’ll need a relocation

The logic is that the Week 23 retcon submissions are dedicated near entirely to fixing the genus groups, so slotting this in back then might be doable.

I might sacrifice the Sunleechers and bump them to Week 23, opening this slot

Fixed

Disgustedorite & OviraptorFan This resolved yet?

Looks good

Looks good

Are the newer additions good?

Looks good now

Definitely a new genus

I used this image on the Geological Timescale page
https://sagan4alpha.miraheze.org/wiki/File:...tic_terrain.jpg

Yeah a bit of elaboration on what the nectar is and how it evolved maybe?

QUOTE (Cube67 @ Apr 3 2021, 07:21 PM)

What is their skin texture like? Is it rough? soft? thick? thin? wet? dry? The flat coloration here makes it seem ambiguous.

Any thoughts on this?