Prehistoric Animals

[megamania]

Sabertooth tiger
Giant Sloth
Wooly Mammoth
Wooly Rhino
Cave Bears

Then I'm not sure but as said before, many of these are out there.

 

[demiurge1138]

The problem with doing prehistoric animals nowadays is that Frostburn got a lot of them. But, off the top of my head, ones that they didn't cover are:

Phorusracus
Dinicthys
Chalicotherium
Carnivorous kangaroo (don't remember scientific name)
Thacyoleo
Thacyosmilus
Diptorodon
Diatryma

I do apologize for any mispellings.
Demiurge out.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

When you think of prehistoric mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, etc (non-dinosaur!), what creatures do you think of?

All my life, I've waited for someone to ask me this question....it's been a beautiful day...*sniff*

Fish:
Leedsichthys--Gimongous plankton eating fish discovered in England last year.

Birds: Titanis--Flightless predatory bird from Florida (2 MYA) that "re-evolved" clawed forelimbs in place of wings.

Mammals:
Dinohyus--Buffalo sized relative of pigs. Tooth scoring in fossils indicate it was a scavenger and possibly even active predator.

Embolotherium--One of the brontotheres, large rhinoceros like grazing animal.

Thylacoleo carnifex--The Australian "marsupial lion". Vicious front claws and saber like incisors!

Arctodus--Giant Short faced bear from Calfornia (larger and heavier than the Grizzly)

Reptiles:
Megalania--a 20 foot long monitor lizard from Australia's Pleistocene

Sarcosuchus--40' foot long, 9 ton super croc.

These are just a few of what I came up with in just a few minutes. I'll be happy to supply more!

 

[Morpheus]

Megalodon (fish)

If a 30-50 ft. shark can be considered a fish (like a guppy), I'd go with this...

 

[Captain Howdy]

Phorusrhaus (bird) - Phorusrhacus longissimus
Simlodon - Smilodon fatalis, or Smilodon populator

In other words, missing a [c] and got the letter order wrong on those two. You don't really need the species name, although Smilodon fatalis vs. Smilodon populator is pretty significant -- jaguar-sized vs. lion-sized.

Just out of curiosity, what is your profession? If you aren’t some kind of biologist/paleontologist, WHY NOT?!?
Oh, and to stay on topic, when I think of prehistoric (non-dinosaur) animals… I think of Smilodon, like everybody. The other one I always think of is some sort of giant prehistoric armadillo, though I can’t recall its name… Joshua, help me out with this one!

 

[Doug McCrae]

Liopleurodon was an awesome marine reptile. The top predator of its day, 25m long, estimated to weigh 150 tons.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Oh, dude, I'm the wrong guy for that question. I start thinking of "which faunal assemblage is he wondering about?"

What are faunal assemblages?

 

[Desdichado]

Just out of curiosity, what is your profession? If you aren’t some kind of biologist/paleontologist, WHY NOT?!?

For years and years I wanted to be, actually. Until I found out what the profession was really like; busting your hump playing politics to get tenure, assuming you got a job that paid anything at all. Hardly anyone with degrees in paleontology actually works in paleontology, I'm afraid to say.

Oh, and to stay on topic, when I think of prehistoric (non-dinosaur) animals… I think of Smilodon, like everybody. The other one I always think of is some sort of giant prehistoric armadillo, though I can’t recall its name… Joshua, help me out with this one!

You're probably thinking of Glyptodon; a big relative of the armadillo with a single piece shell and a spiked mace-like appendage on the end of its tail.

 

[Desdichado]

What are faunal assemblages?

All of the animal life that lives in a given area during a given period of time. The Rio Limay faunal assemblage, for example, are all the fossil animal-life that has been found in the Rio Limay geological formation of Neuquén Argentina, and includes such famous creatures as Argentinosaurus huinculensis. Giganotosaurus carolinii and others.

 

[Captain Howdy]

You're probably thinking of Glyptodon; a big relative of the armadillo with a single piece shell and a spiked mace-like appendage on the end of its tail.

Indeed I was. I remember them from this old stop-animation video I had as a kid... I'm trying to think of other animals from that... Oh yeah, here's one. It is like a cross between a dinosaur and an ostrich. It was about 9 feet tall and really mean. There was another one too, a tiny horse, I think named Eohippus. Hey Joshua, how about that bird animal?