Prehistoric Animals

[Andrew D. Gable]

Bringing this thread back, are Dinichthys and Dunkleosteus the same?

 

[tarchon]

Bringing this thread back, are Dinichthys and Dunkleosteus the same?

Dunkleosteus is a kind of dinichthyid (same family), but Dinichthys and Dunkleosteus are different genera.

 

[Algolei]

I'm using a "crypto-zoology/ mythology" route IMC planning (alternate history age of exploration/ pirate theme, if I ever get a chance to run it)

For instance, perhaps the Giganthropus in your campaign is the "Barmanu" ("Big Hairy One" reputedly living in the Pakistani wastelands) or the "Buata" (Polynesia), "Hibagon" (Japan), or "Trauko" (South America)...

There's tales of a giant (Dire?) bear from Kamchatka, named "Kainyn-Kutho" or "God Bear"...

Genyornis could be "Malakalata" (Central Africa), and the Senegalese "Kikiyaon" could be a gaint owl...

"M'Kolo-M'bembe" is a classic for your Apatosaurs, and I always figured the Archaeopteryx and Cockatrice were too much alike not to be the same...

A lot of names like this can be found on the Internet...

I've been looking for a good source of real-world names for mythical critters for ages now. Got any links? Any good books out there on the subject?

 

[BOZ]

are baluchitherium and indricothere the same creature or just very similar?

 

[tarchon]

are baluchitherium and indricothere the same creature or just very similar?

It appears to be an unresolved question:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/beasts/know/fortelius.html

 

[Desdichado]

Indricotherium pervum is the same thing as Baluchitherium grangeri and Paracaratherium sp. They're all the same actual animal. I haven't even seen any evidence that the genus is split into more than one species.

EDIT: Just saw your post, tarchon, and read the reply in there. Although it uses a different species name for Indricotherium than previously mentioned, he also says he only recognizes a single type of animal there. Paracaratherium is a little known genus, and apparently lacks sufficiently good remains to be a type speciman. Because of that, the name will likely sink into obscurity barring the finds of more specimans that further define the creature and separate it from Indricotherium.

 

[BOZ]

OK thanks - i thought so, but wasn't sure.

 

[Ferret]

Giant sloth, Velocorapter, some kind of small rat thing, T-Rex.

 

[WmRAllen67]

I've been looking for a good source of real-world names for mythical critters for ages now. Got any links? Any good books out there on the subject?

Just off the top of my browser:

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bz050/HomePage.czlinks.html

http://www.strangeark.com/cryptofiles.html

http://www.pantheon.org/areas/bestiary/articles.html

In one of the old Dragon Magazines, there was an article about using the "AKA" system of naming your monsters, which was what inspired me on this-- unfortunately I don't have the Archive CD handy, so I can't get you the reference. Anyone?

The Dragon Mag articles on playing in Africa also had a bunch of beasts like the Chemosit, &c

http://wererat.net/werewhere.htm has a bunch of names for your werecreatures...

Tim Martin used to have a list of RW animals from ancient Australia, but I can't find his site any more... it used to be Mazaron's Castle. He had also done writeups on Dixon's After Man and some conversions of old 1E Dragon Magazine monsters for use as PCs ( Urisk and Hurgeon from one of the Creature Catalogs) His site is where I also yoinked the term "Buata", which he used as a form of Orc for Polynesian-type islands...

I have no idea where to find the many names and types of ghost/ ghoul/ vampire, but it was a site along the lines of "Where's the Were?" above...

I also cribbed some stuff from the Gurps Archives site, specifically this file, for some historical names of demons & angels: http://gurpsnet.sjgames.com/Archive/Magic/Rituals/Besti.htm

Looking through the old Roleplayers they have online could give you some info, too...

I really should have kept the links, or at least made footnotes on my list, huh?

Browsing the cryptozoology stuff should get you started...

 

[Algolei]

Thanks for the links.

Browsing the cryptozoology stuff should get you started...

Mmm, yeah. I googled some cryptozoology sites last night. Spent five hours looking at pictures of unamazing things. Clearly the men in black have been spreading disinformation.