Your Favorite Prehistoric Animal That [B]IS NOT!!!![/B] A Dinosaur

[cojo965]

For reference, please watch this video.


Everything after 65 million years is allowed here because they come after the Age of Dinosaurs.

One animal that captured my attention is Kaprosuchus, a land crocodile with tusks.

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So what do you guys have?

Edit: Anyone know how to make the title bold?

 

[JoJo]

I like the really weird creatures of the Cambrian, before natural selection had a chance to weed out the crazy inefficient designs. Hallucigenia is the poster child of these:

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Opabinia was cool too:

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Yeah, that's five eyes on it's head.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Does an Elder Thing count?

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No?

Okay, then I'm going with ammonites

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It doesn't get much better than giant swirly jet propulsed squid snails

 

[Silvanus]

I'll go with the Orthocone.

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[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

I'm just put a bunch of them in here because I can't decide.

Spoiler: Anomalocaris: The world's first super predator

Spoiler: Dunkleosteus: The armored tank of the sea

Spoiler: Arthropleura: the biggest land invertebrate

Spoiler: Inostrancevia: the great mammal like reptiles

there's a lot more but those are the only ones I can think of on the top of my head

 

[WolfThomas]

Seriously the Short-Face-Bear. Largest known terrestrial mammalian carnivore. It's going to wreck your day.

 

[DefunctTheory]

I choose the Theoretical, Self-Replicating, Pre-Life, Anaerobic Proto-RNA.

 

[Battenberg]

Sabre-toothed tigers have always seemed pretty cool to me. Also mammoths. Mammoths are boss.

Can't say I've ever given prehistoric animals much thought beyond what I saw in Ice Age but I think both those are cooler than most dinosaurs and most species we have today.

 

[azukar]

Anomalocaris gets my vote too, for being the first major predator on Earth and also looking utterly awesome. Also, the story about its discovery is really interesting.

 

[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

Gastornis, also known as the terror bird.

The missing link between ancient dinosaurs and modern birds.

(puts on nerd glasses)

Technically birds are classified as dinosaurs so your answer is technically not valid.


(I'm sorry I always wanted an excuse to do that)

 

[the December King]

Gonna have to go with the megalodon.

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A perfect eating machine if there ever was one. And I just don't buy the theory that raptoran whales contributed to it's demise. Robert E.Howard wrote of prehistoric carnivores that were just too perfect to live- romantic, I know- but since we just don't know, I'll go with that theory for their time coming to an end in the seas until science ruins it for me.