Occidendum occisor

Occidendum occisor (meaning Murder killer in Latin) is the first species in the genus Occidendum, this species would go on to evolve into every other species in this genus, and even other genera later on. It is the first species in the clade Purpurakilla (Purple Killa). It evolved around 268,333,333 years ago, and went extinct 1 million years later, due to it evolving into Occidendum konta. This species would eventually evolve into Occidendum occidendum. Common names for Occidendum occisor include, Catus Huma Killa, The Murder Killer, The First Murderer, and The First Killa. The males and females are around about the same size as each other, they can get up to 0.60m tall (23 inches) and 1m long (3 feet) but later species would get bigger. There have been seven fossil specimens of the species found, one of which was nearly complete, and another one is complete, the rest are just jawbones, a skull, a foot bone, little bits and pieces here and there.

Anatomy

Their faces have reduced eyestalks that can't be retracted, their eyesight is as good as a bear. They have nostrils, their sense of smell is slightly stronger than an Earth bear. They can hear through an internalized hearing system. Each one of its teeth is identical to the other, and serves the same purpose, and functions the exact same way, for cutting meat. They have a dinosaur-like or crocodile-like snout filled with sharp teeth for eating meat. It has a normal tail. It walks on six legs, each foot has one toe on the end of it, and each toe has one claw on the end of it. The front pair of legs has the foot pronated forward, while the middle and back pairs are pronated backward. Now for their internal organs, we can safely assume from its modern-day descendant's organ layout that it couldn't have been much different because its modern-day descendants appear to be what is known as a living fossil, even though the term living fossil is kind of misleading its modern-day descendants appears to fit the textbook definition of one. So the organ layout and the organ functions were probably the exact same if not only slightly different. as for what its organs were, nothing special, heart, lungs, stomach, intestines, all that good stuff.

Habitat

The point of origin is believed to be somewhere in the middle of North Primaterra, no specimens have been found near what was once the coastlines and shorelines of North Primaterra, no specimens have been found near The Great Hume Mountains either. Just like its modern-day descendants, it started out life as killies in the swamplands, eating whatever they could fine, but when it grew up it would have gone into the woods and filled up a similar niche as a fox or bear.

Diet

It's diet is debated, some belief because of its modern-day descendant it's probably had the exact same diet, that of an earth bear, while others belief that because of it's smaller size then it's modern-day descendants they believe it probably was a mesocarnivore like a fox, with a diet of 70% meat and 30% plants, while others belief that it was mostly carnivorous or entirely carnivorous because of its sharp teeth.

Breeding

Like most Killa, their mating season is not in autumn right before winter because unlike bears they still need to lay eggs so they can't afford for their eggs to freeze over winter, they would Parish, so instead they're mating season is in the spring. The bare-skinned ones don't hibernate, they migrate to warmer areas because they can't afford to just hibernate in a cave, they don't have fur, they would freeze to death. Most of the year they are territorial animals and will attack others of their own kind if they wander into each other's area, but during The Mating Season, they make an exception. Some species will get straight into the action, others do a mating dance before the mating begins and if the mates don't like each other's dances they will move on, others have to bring a food offering before the mating starts, basically, buy me dinner first. The males have a penis inside their cloaca that they bring out to mate with. I don't need to explain how it works we all know. After mating, the mother will make a journey back to the same spot she grew up in, like a sea turtle, and she will lay her eggs there. After this, the mother will watch over them until they hatch, once they hatch the baby killas called killies, are on there own, and in some cases, the mother may eat her own Young. Other believe this species would abandon its eggs after being laid.

Adaptations

Because it's the first Killa it doesn't have that much in the adaptations Department unless you count it's backwards-facing feet, but scientists don't fully understand what those are for, both today and back then.

Threats

Because it's already dead it has no threats today, but back then they have to face are mostly other ones of their own species wandering into their area, and the ever-changing climate of the planet.

Additional Information

Discovery: it was discovered by a xenopaleontologist named John Weasley in the John Weasley formation.

Name of the person who discovered it: John Weasley

Jokes: N/A

Intelligents Level: near human intelligents.

Can you eat it or no?: No because it's dead but if it was still alive it probably wouldn't taste too good.

Assessment: None because its dead but if it was still alive. Minimal Danger, because it would probably would only attack on rare occasions, like if it's sick, or you corner it, or maybe if it's starving, it's probably will more than likely going to run away from you if it sees you, but just in case don't approach it.

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalisaliena

Phylum: Xenochordata

Superclass: Cathibian

Class: Catus

Order: Catuses

Suborder: Huma

Family: Killa

Genus: Occidendum

Species: Occisor

No adding subspecies here, only planned on there being one.