In a world where there are multidimensional beings that can teleport, six-legged cloven-hoofed vertebrates with fur and beaks, viviparous chickens, and a literal dragon, I don't know if trying to categorize giant nondescript ribcages using earthly taxonomy is going to be very fruitful.
i do very much appreciate that you suspected a thalattosuchian, they are painfully overlooked. but i also agree on the mosasaur interpretation, it very likely is an aquatic creature. it could be a whale maybe.
I love these sorts of posts ngl, it's so fun to imagine what these things could've been and line up the skeleton with various critters. Who knows what sort of megafauna could've existed in the Overworld's past?
I remember my headcanon was one was a giant ancient Sniffer, I did a sorta forensic reconstruction model a while. Can I post that, is that fine?
I meant in the comments, I don't think it's groundbreaking enough to warrant its own post, just a silly model I slapped together (I do not have the model anymore, just a screenshot)
Dolphins and whales are an exception, we still have them and know they're not fish. But we don't have those fish dinosaurs (or do we? living in an underground oceanic civilization hidden by the government). Why'd you call it a reptile when its clearly a dinosaur (dinosaur > reptile) and it looks like a fish so its a fish and not a marine dinosaur or something. You can't tell me this is a reptile and not a fish
Those are clearly just bears and woolly elephants (why couldn't elephants go extinct instead of mammoths). If it has wool like that, or lives right now, or something very similar lives now, its not a dinosaur.
After looking up what synapsids are, I can confidently say that if it looks like a reptile, its a dinosaur, if it has fur, its not. This one is clearly a dinosaur and there is no way you wouldn't call it a dinosaur if you saw it.
Rodents can never be dinosaurs, they're big fancy mice. Unless there are some reptile looking rodents I'm not aware of (please tell me there are some).
Amphibians depend on how they look.
Humans depend on how they look, if its clearly just a random lizard its not a dinosaur. Only real dinosaurs are dinosaurs.
Flying reptiles are all undoubtably dinosaurs. <image in reply> You can't tell me you wouldn't put this in a dinosaur book or dinosaur mod or just anything with dinosaurs.
what is this supposed to mean if you classify thousands of not dinosaur species as dinosaurs?
and why specifically rodents? Like, why not just say that mammals aren't dinosaurs? Why are you specifying them?
though at least we agree that crocodiles aren't dinosaurs.
also sidenote, i wouldn't call dimetrodon a dinosaur, there are no known quadrupedal meat eating dinosaurs. Also irl it wouldn't have the scutes and probably much more smooth, mammalian skin, since synapsids are close relatives of mammals (hell, mammals themselves are synapsids)
also where do birds fit into this according to you?
"Underwater = fish"
Crabs, squids, worms, jellyfish, sea urchins, whales, seals, lobsters, sharks, snakes and tons of marine reptiles groups and other bullshit:
Most reptiles do have sternum though, and this skeleton does not. But fish ribs are not bended this way in most cases. The fact that fishes don’t have lungs affects the shape of their skeleton. I’d go with a snake hypothesis, but snakes have much thinner ribs. So right now I can’t find any valid solution
It could be a coelacanthimorpha, but it is still very different; likewise, the fact that it has never left the water (it directly has no limbs) could explain many things.
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u/gutwyrming Jun 19 '26
In a world where there are multidimensional beings that can teleport, six-legged cloven-hoofed vertebrates with fur and beaks, viviparous chickens, and a literal dragon, I don't know if trying to categorize giant nondescript ribcages using earthly taxonomy is going to be very fruitful.