RE: (TFT) Dinosaurs for TFT

["RMORGER" <RMORGER@mail.ev1.net>]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Marc Gacy" <mgacy@maad.com>
Reply-To: tft@brainiac.com
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:06:21 -0600

>What I've read was that Dimetrodon was not a dinosaur(or even a 
contemporary
>of the dinosaurs), but a much more primitive creature called a 
pelycosaur
>from the Permian period of the Paleozoic era. Dimetrodon died out 
with the
>Trilobites in the great Permian-Triassic catastrophe.
>
>To put it another way, not that this has any bearing on their 
play in TFT or
>elsewhere of course, but chronologically, a T.Rex would be more 
likely to
>encounter a human (65 million years difference) than a dimetrodon 
(160
>million years difference from extinction of dimetrodon to 
appearance of
>T.Rex).

Very true the other thing is that a Dimetrodon (Paleozoic)is more 
closely related to a mammal than to a true dinosaur which didnt 
appear until the Triassic period.

>
>- Marc Gacy
>
>> 
>> >one point though. I thought it was fairly well established that
>> Dimetradon
>> >(with the Sail) never existed... a mix up with multiple
>> fossils....
>> >
>> I have never seen or heard that explanation I have seen many 
books
>> that have been published in the last couple of years that still
>> talk about Dimetrodon in them. I guess it all depends on what 
you
>> look at. Same thing with speeds of the creatures some people say
>> all dinosaurs were slow and plodding creatures others that they
>> were quick and nimble.
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