#miryapod

[ungojirasapiente]

four animals from the permian that i drew for three reasons, one, to practice, two, because i was bored, and three, because i wanted to draw some prehistoric animals. these animals are: -Ophiacodon -Eryops -Mesosaurus -Arthropleura (tecnically appeared in the carboniferous, but survived into the early permian) ------ cuatro animales del pérmico que dibuje por tres razones, una, para practicar, dos, porque estaba aburrido, y tres, porque quería dibujar algunos animales prehistóricos. estos animales son: Ophiacodon -Eryops -Mesosaurus -Arthropleura (técnicamente apareció en el carbonífero, pero sobrevivió hasta el pérmico temprano

[john-frog]

1 Million of Years After Abandonment

 The first one million of years is the start of adaptive radiation on the planet Heqet. Many animals and plants started to diversify and specify here, few new Genera appeared, instead the specification led to new species and Subspecies in preexisting genera. The globe was warmer than modern Earth, around 17 degrees celsius, creating a suitable environment for cnidarians, molluscs, most insects and invertebrates, plants and anurans. This is thought to have helped in the diversification and specialization of fauna and flora around the world.

 Continents

There were three main continents at this time, from smallest to largest they are Bufia, Batrachia and Incilia. Each continent has its endemic set of anurans, Bufia has the common toad, Batrachia have the poison dart frogs and giant leaf frogs while Incilia have cane toads and colorado river toads. The continent of Bufia also have endemic alderflies and lacks bromeliads and passion fruits, alongside carpenter bees.

The majoriality of Bufia was covered by the biome of temperate forest with a mountain chain in the north of the continent. Batrachia was majoritarialy savannah with a mountain chain forming on the west. Incilia was mostly desertic as the extense mountain chains in the east created a rainshadow effect stronger than that in Batrachia.

Diversification 

The severe lack of most angiosperms and gymnosperms, tetrapods and invertebrates alongside the total absence of fishes led to the major diversification of the seeded groups, passionfruits, pines, grasses, frogs and principally the invertebrates like dipterans, hymenopterans, miryapods and isopods. Who filled the niches that other groups would have filled on earth.

Flora

With a mid gap in floral species it is expected that many new species evolved to fill in the ecological vacuums, pines dominating most of the world while the arboreal passionfruits took advantage of the lack of specialization to tropical climates of the pines to explode in diversity in tropical regions.

Fauna

Unlike plants there was a massive lack of fauna on the planet Heqet, who led to a major adaptative radiation event, hence the name of this time period. Without herbivores to compete with the millipedes they have grown larger, eating a wide variety of plants or specializing on specific species, most of these large millipedes were somewhat the size of the largest millipede on present Earth, the giant african millipede (Archispirostreptus gigas). Centipedes have experienced great diversification without arachnid and insect competition, but were somewhat limited by frogs where they coexisted. Robber flies were the main predators in open landscapes, predating on all sorts of prey, their monopoly as aerial predators lasted for as long as they were the sole volant predators on the planet. Mosquitoes remained largely the same as they kept feeding on the blood of animals and the nectar of plants, though they had a lot of competition with the carpenter bees as the latter was already specialized to the seeded plants and the plants mosquitoes were specialized into pollinating, (Orchids) were'nt seeded. Both terrestrial and marine gastropods became important herbivores growing to large sizes similarly to the giant African snail (Achatina achatina) in land snails and similar sizes to the sea hare Aplysia vaccaria among marine slugs. Tunicates, cnidarians and cirripedes were the sole filter feeders of the world, some growing to incredible sizes.

The frogs maintained in the same kind of niche as small to medium sized hypercarnivores, and have specialized into other more specific niches (dietary specifications, period of activity, habitat, etc.) in order to avoid competition with the progenitor species.

[john-frog]

So, for my first tumblr post i will talk about my worldbuilding, speculative evolution, seed world project....

...Batrachiterra!

It is a seed world, a genre of spec evo where animals and plants are "seeded" in a planet or moon, generally terraformed, to evolve for millions of years, it is kind of analogue to a mass extinction in concept. The main "seedlings" are frogs, the common toad, giant leaf frog, colorado river toad, cane toad and the genus dendrobates. There are passion fruits, grasses, bromelias and pines for plants, and many invertebrates such as isopods, tunicates, a couple of dipterans, miryapods such as centipedes and millipedes and some more.

It is pretty early on, the unique time period with a page about is the first million of years.

Who contain the first descendants of the frogs(these will be a secret tool who might help us later).

I'm currently working on the 5my page, so follow me in this account(since it is pretty much one of the best platforms to post art rn(please don't collapse or get into crypto or ai arts tumblr), and check the main site for the project:

And join our discord server:

Ciao!