Gondwana recommendations list
Added 2018-01-07 22:43:21 +0000 UTC
Just a recommendations list for people who want things like an unfrozen Antartida, unsunken Zealandia, brand new gondwanna derived/continent island (i.e. Lemuria).
Here's a list of potential candidates. All "classical" gondwannan taxa, found in the late Cretaceous and earliest Cenozoic.
Mammals
Atlantogenatans
- Afrotheres
- Xenarthrans
Laurasiatheres
- Meridiungulates
- Solenodontidae
- Nesophontidae
Bats
- Duh
Basal Eutherians
- Zhelestids
- Adipisoriculids
Metatherians
- Marsupials
- Sparassodonts
- Polydolopimorphians
Dryolestoids
- Mesungulatids
- Donodontids
- Whatever the Necrolestes + Cronopio + Leonardus clade is called.
Australosphenidans
- Monotremes
- Ausktribosphenids
- Kollikodontids
- Steropodontids
- Vincelestes-like taxa
Allotheres
- Gondwanatheres
- Boffiids
- Kogaoinids
Other mammals
- Haramiyidans
- Whatever the Saint Bathans mammal is
- Volaticotheres
Dinosaurs
Ornithischians
- Stegosaurs
- Hadrosaurs and stem hadrosaurs
- Nodosaurs
- Whatever Serendipaceratops is
- Various small ornithischians I don't care about
Sauropoda
- Titanosaurs
- Possible relictual brachiosaurids or diplodocids
Theropoda
- Abelisaurs
- Noasaurs
- Spinosaurs
- Carcharodontosaurs
- Unenlagiines
- Patagopterygids
- Paleognaths
- Enantiornithes
- Columbeans
- Vegaviiformes
- Gastornithiformes
- Eurypygiformes
- Passareans
Turtles
- Meiolaniids
Pleurodira
- Extant families (seriously, the largest turtle of all time, Stupendemys, is a podocnemidid)
- Bothremydidae
Cryptodira
- Sea turtles (note: recomend replacing these with bothremydids)
- Tortoises (note: recomend replacing these with meiolaniids)
Crocodylomorphs
Notosuchians
- Notosuchids
- Chimaerasuchids
- Sebecians
- Sphagesaurids
- Candidodontids
- Comahuesuchids
Neosuchians
- Crocodiles
- Gavialids
- Tethysuchians
Oher reptiles
Sphenodontia
- Sphenodontidae
- Opisthodontians
Squamates
- Blind snakes
- Madtsoiids
- Palaeophiids
Choristoderes
- Champsosaurs
Amphibians
Temnospondyls
- Chigutisaurids
Gymnophiona
- Caecilians
Frogs
- Leiopalmatids
- Sooglossoideans
- Australobatrachians
- Hylids
- Ranoides