tagran-biota
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Table of Contents
A (non-exhaustive) list of the organisms found on Tagra.
Plants
Non-seed plants
- Mosses and liverworts (Bryophyta)
- Kachai: tree ferns (Cyatheales, e.g. Dicksonia)
Conifers
- Celery pines (Phyllocladus)
- Kauri (Agathis)
- Wollemi pine (Wollemia)
- Kachyu: podocarp (Podocarpus)
Flower plants
- Southern beech (Nothofagus)
- Cushion plants (various)
- Heathers, especially crowberry (Empetrum)-like species
- Chaukra: a Kerguelen cabbage-like plant
Animals
Invertebrates
- Glypheid lobsters (related to Glyphaea)
- Wetas (various)
- Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) and other echinoderms
Fish
- Sleeper sharks (Somniosidae)
- Lungfish (Dipnoi)
Amphibians and reptiles
- Temnospondyls related to Koolasuchus
- Crocodiles (Crocodylia)
- Tuataras (Sphenodontidae)
- Sea turtles (Chelonioidea)
- Giant tortoises (similar to Meiolania)
Non-avian dinosaurs
- krukaa: a large ornithopod (descendant of Muttaburrasaurus)
Birds
Mammals
- Marsupial: early possums (Phalangeriformes), koala-, wombat-, and quoll-like forms
- Astrapotheria (trunked and tusked mammals, descendants of Antarctodon), mostly aquatic
- Primitive baleen whales (e.g. Aetiocetus)
- Primitive toothed whales (similar to Janjucetus)
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