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--- tagran-biota [2020-05-24 13:40] – [Animals] concavenator
+++ tagran-biota [2022-08-20 22:42] (current) – [Animals] concavenator
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 ==== Plants ====
 === Seedless plants ===
+  * Red and green algae
   * Mosses and liverworts (Bryophyta)
   * //Kachai//: tree ferns ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyatheales|Cyatheales]], e.g. //Dicksonia//)
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   * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushion_plant|Cushion plants]] (various)
   * Heathers, especially crowberry (//[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empetrum|Empetrum]]//)-like species
+  * Proteas ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteaceae|Proteaceae]])
+  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtales|Myrtales]]
   * //Chaukra//: a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringlea|Kerguelen cabbage]]-like plant
 ==== Animals ====
 === Invertebrates ===
+  * Bivalves (e.g. clams, oysters, mussels)
   * Squids and cuttlesquids (descendants of //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachyteuthis|Trachyteuthis]]//)
   * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glypheoidea|Glypheid lobsters]] (related to //Glyphaea//)
-  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta|Wetas]] (various)
+  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta|Wetas]] (Anostostomatidae)
   * Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) and other echinoderms
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 === Non-avian dinosaurs ===
   * //krukaa//: a large ornithopod (descendant of //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttaburrasaurus|Muttaburrasaurus]]//)
-  * Social ornithopods with quill-like ferathers, descendants of //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaellynasaura|Leaellynasaura]]//
+  * Social ornithopods with quill-like feathers, descendants of //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaellynasaura|Leaellynasaura]]//
-  * Large megaraptoran theropod (descendant of //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australovenator|Australovenator]]//)
+  * //yachakri//: large megaraptoran theropod (descendant of //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australovenator|Australovenator]]//)
   * //[['Ikra]]//
 === Birds ===
-  * Duck-like birds (descendants of //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegavis|Vegavis]]//)
+  * Duck-like birds (descendants of //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegavis|Vegavis]]// and //Polarornis//)
   * Pelagornid (pseudotoothed birds, descendants of //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasornis|Dasornis]]//)
   * Giant penguins (//[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeospheniscus|Archaeospheniscus]]//, //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeeudyptes|Palaeeudyptes]]//, //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropornis|Anthropornis]]//)
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   * Astrapotheria (trunked and tusked mammals, descendants of //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctodon|Antarctodon]]//), mostly aquatic
   * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litopterna|Litopternans]], related to //Notiolofos//.
-  * Primitive baleen whales (e.g. //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetiocetus|Aetiocetus]]//)
+  * Primitive baleen whales (e.g. //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetiocetus|Aetiocetus]]//, //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanocetus|Llanocetus]]//)
   * Primitive toothed whales (similar to //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janjucetus|Janjucetus]]//)
+==== Other organisms ====
+  * Lichens, fungi, mushrooms (e.g. //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyttaria|Cyttaria]]//, parasite of //Nothofagus//)
+  * Kelp ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelp|Laminariales]])
+==== Sources ====
+  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Polar_region_of_the_Cretaceous|South Polar region of the Cretaceous]]
+  * "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_flora|Antarctic flora]]" (original flora of Gondwana, today found in South America, Madagascar, Australia, and New Zealand): Podocarpaceae, Araucariaceae, Proteaceae, //Nothofagus//, //Dicksonia//
+  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumeralla_Formation|Eumeralla]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winton_Formation|Winton]] and other formations (Australia, 110-100 Ma): //Leaellynasaura//, //Diamantinasaurus//, //Australovenator//, //Muttaburrasaurus//, //Koolasuchus//, //Corriebaatar//, lungfish, monotremes, crocodyles, meiolaniids, unspecified Dromaeosauridae
+  * [[https://people.ohio.edu/oconnorp/PDFs/Roberts%20etal_2014-Vega%20Isand%20Stratigraphy.pdf|Vega Island]] (Antarctica, 70-66 Ma): //Vegavis// and other birds, unspecified Hadrosauridae, Araucariaceae, various mollusks and crustaceans
+  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Meseta_Formation|La Meseta]] Formation and other sites of Seymour Island (Antarctica, 55-40 Ma): //Dasornis//, giant penguins, //Antarctodon//, //Notiolofos// Gondwanatheria, opossums, //Llanocetus//, sharks, //Glyphaea//, various bivalves
+  * Biogeography: sparassodonts (South America), sphenodonts, weta (New Zealand), marsupials, ratites (South America & Australia), mussels, //Empetrum//, Somniosidae, large cetaceans (bi-polar distribution)