The New Dinosaurs (Unofficial Remake)

Note this project is a remake of the 1988 book written by Dougal Dixon. It was made to add some info that reflects our current understanding of dinosaurs and paleontology.

***The Cenozoic Dinosaurs*** (2022) is an unofficial remake of Dougal Dixon's *The New Dinosaurs*. It depicts an alternative world, suggesting how the dinosaurs would've evolved over the last 66 million years if the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event was minor.

## Species (Including some original species to diversify things)

### Cephalopods

* **Glowing spiralfish, *Photoceras abyssus***, an ammonoid that lives a lifestyle similar to our firefly squids (Oceania).
* **Kraken, *Giganticeras cnidophorus***, a massive floating ammonoid with a shell 13 feet in diameter. Its tentacles are covered with barbs like those of a jellyfish. These deadly tentacles spread out in an area of 67 feet in diameter. The kraken only fears the pelorfish, who is immune to its venomous stings (Cosmipolitan).
* **Crowned spiralfish, *Coronaphorites regis***, a spiny ammonoid that is a bottom-dweller similar to octopuses (Pacific Ocean).
* **Illusory octopus**, ***Praestigoctopus mirus**,* a color-changing octopus with no close relatives in the real world (Pacific Ocean).
* **King conefish, *Scoriconus triangulatum***, a large triangular belemnite that disguises itself as coral (Indian Ocean).

### Dinosaurs

* **Balaclav, *Pagomenosaurus avipus***, a large mountain-dwelling pagomenosaurid (a descendant of the thescelosaurids). It feeds mostly on mosses, lichens, and fungi, scraping snow to get it (North America).
* **Bricket, *Cristatosaurus petasus***, a cristatosaurid covered in proto-feathers (Eurasia).
* **Coneater, *Coniferophagia borealis***, a large social prionodontid with an elongated snout to store large batteries of cheek teeth (Eurasia).
* **Crackbeak, *Fortirostrum carpophagus***, an arboreal enantiornithean that evolved specialized perching feet. They use their beaks for cracking seeds and hard fruits (Australia).
* **Crilsis, *Crilsisaurus phoenix***, a flamingo-like enantiornithean with sieves for straining soda lakes for microorganisms (Australia).
* **Dipping neustor, *Icthyophoneus montanus***, a fish-eating mountain-dwelling regisaurid theropod (South America).
* **Gimpbird, *Melliphilornis parvus***, a nectar-sipping arboreal neornithine (Aves) (South America).
* **Lumber, *Corythotitan giganteus***, a large therograde with a short crest (Eurasia).
* **Monocera, *Monoceras occidentalis***, a furry one-horned novaceratopsid dinosaur (North America)
* **Mountain Sprinter, *Tundroraptor cursorialis***, an agile mountain-dwelling dromaeosaurid (North America).
* **Nauker, *Pseudopicus aye***, a woodpecker-like enantiornithean (North America).
* **Neckbreaker, *Collicaesor xiphodens***, a strong-jawed predatory regisaurid (South America).
* **Neep, *Nipponhesperornis longicollum***, a grebe-like hesperornithine (Asia).
* **Northtoe, *Tachypodius perfectum***, a predatory dromaeosaurid (North America).
* **Numbskull, *Sphaeracephalus riparocola***, a rainforest-dwelling pachycephalosaur (Asia).
* **Bluemouth penguin, *Cyanostomatornis rotundus***, a species of penguin.
* **Pouch, *Pelecanosaurus sp.***, a genus of pelican-like maniraptoran theropods with webbed feet, a stiff tail, and a transparent throat pouch like that of a pelican (Australia).
* **Rajadon, *Ganeshatitan titanops***, a socially-sophisticated therograde (Asia).
* **Sandle, *Fossofalco sp.***, a genus of burrowing owl-like falcons (Africa).
* **Shorerunner, *Brevipterus insularis***, a small mobile island-dwelling pelagornithid that behaves like a gull, beachcombing and eating the corpses of any animal stranded on shore. Although it's wings are slightly shorter than most of its relatives, it is still capable of true flight (Oceania).
* **Soaring windmaster, *Cicollum angustualum***, an albatross-like bird (Coasts)
* **Tachysaur, Family Tachysauridae**, antelope-like ornithopods. They come in two forms: short-tailed crested tachysaurs and long-tailed tachysaurs without crests (North America).
* **Taddey, *Lipornis moffati***, a panda-like parrot (South America).
* **Tarantate, *Scutorex armatus***, a desert-dwelling ankylosaur (Eurasia).
* **Trombill, *Gravornis borealis***, a massive flightless grazing paleognath from the Arctic regions (Eurasia).
* **Turtitan, *Chelarmatus goliatha***, an armored therograde (South America).
* **Varaclab, *Pagomenosauroides anserops***, a species of ornithischian evolved convergently with the Balaclav (Eurasia).
* **Waterking rail, *Diluvoraphus hauristus***, a water buffalo-like rail (South America)
* **Whiffle, *Adescator rotundus***, a flightless insect-eating neognath (Eurasia).

### Testudinatans

* **Hornskull, *Brazilania ankylocerops***, a species of meiolaniid stem-turtle with a long neck, the only living member of that group (South America).
* **Colossal softshell turtle, *Trionyx goliath*,** a large species of softshell turtle that preys on small dinosaurs (Eurasia).
* **Boomerang turtles, Family Sinemydidae, subfamily Dicaulonemydinae,** despite their boomerang-like shells, they evolved their shells independently from the early Cretaceous *Sinemys (*Eurasia, North America*)*.

### Squamates

* **Pangaloon, *Pangalun tubirostra***, a pangolin-like lizard (South America).
* **Pelorfish, *Pisciforma sicamalus***, a fish-shaped mosasaur that eats fish. It also hunts the kraken and is one of the few predators that is immune to the kraken's venom. (Oceans).
* **Scaly Glider, *Lepidalatus volans***, an arboreal lizard with a fan of plates along its sides for gliding (South America).
* **Sharksnatcher, *Selachophoneus atrox***, a large shark-eating mosasaur with a dorsal fin. (Oceans).
* **Treewyrm, *Plesiophiops longiformis***, an arboreal snake with a slender face (Asia).
* **Waspeater, *Vespaphaga parma***, a thick-scaled drepanosaur-like lizard that eats wasps (Asia).
* **Wharfs (*Nesosauria),*** a clade of filter-feeding mosasaurs. (Oceans).
* **Wyrm, *Vermophis perdebrachius***, a snake with thick belly scales, and an armored head used as a shield when burrowing (Africa).

### Mammals

* **Debaril, *Saltopodomys***, a small genus of running and hopping multituberculates (Eurasia).
* **Dingon, *Xenodorsum microphoneus***, a meter-long predatory monotreme with sexual dimorphism. Males have a sail atop their backs. The rays in this sail are tipped with venomous barbs, containing venom derived from sweat glands. Females are larger, non-venomous and look more like a typical monotreme (Australia).
* **Flurax, *Dermalatus volans***, a gliding predatory mammal (Asia).
* **Footle, *Currerus elegans***, an agile squirrel-like two-legged arboreal predatory mammal (North America).
* **Gestalt, *Formitherium delacasa***, a colonial multituberculate. They build fortresses in trees. Males serve as soldiers in the colonies (Eurasia).
* **Glanna, *Macrosaurus flavus***, a kangaroo-like cimolestan. It inhabits grasslands and deserts. It has a pseudo-thumb (North America).
* **Hanuhan, *Saltopodomys pernipes***, a fleet-footed rock-dwelling multituberculate (Asia).
* **Tree Hopper, *Arbrocola bernardi***, an arboreal leaping predatory placental mammal (Africa).
* **Treepounce, *Raminsidius jacksoni***, an agile marten-like arboreal mammal (North America).
* **Tubbie, *Pigescandens robustus***, a slow-moving koala-like marsupial with a pot belly and short legs. Its tail is shorter than its ancestors. It eats mostly eucalyptus leaves (Australia).
* **Zwilli, *Naremys platycaudus***, a swimming zalambdalestid mammal (Eurasia).

### Crocodylomorphs

* **Gourmander, *Gulosuchus segnogradia***, a scavenging species of sebecid (South America).
* **Klarc, *Simonasus griseus*,** a species of folivorous notosuchian (Madagascar).
* **Mosramosra, *Suchoides phycapatos***, a species of shore-dwelling crocodile that blend in with algae.

### Pterosaurs

* **Harpy, *Cristaphora robusta***, a flightless scavenging pterosaur (North America).
* **Quetzan, *Quetzalia latala***, a large stork-like pterosaur (South America).
* **Goon, *Abrachius rufus***, a small flightless cariama-like pterosaur with no wing-finger and flexible feet (South America).
* **Paraso, *Chlamypterus solitara***, a solitary heron-like pterosaur (Africa).

### Amphibians

* **Amphatee, *Lutabatrachus asiaticus***, an aquatic neotenous anuran with no back legs (Asia).
* **Madagascar sprinting frogs, Cursobatrachidae**, a family of cursorial mammal-eaters (Madagascar).