Balearic Islands

The Balearic Islands is an archipelago consisting of islands with fantastical ecosystems and creatures. The islands first inhabitants first set foot on it as far as 201 million years ago, and possibly even a much older time. The Balearic ecosystems are an interesting example of Foster's rule, or the island effect, where animals increase or decrease in size depending on the resources that are present in an island. It also earned its other nickname, *de los antiguos*, which means "of the ancient", in reference to the number of archaic remnants of lineages once thought to be long gone. The largest island, Mallorca, features the most taxa, and the most diverse and amazing creatures of the archipelago.

## Formentera

The second smallest of the islands, Formentera still manages to hold a wide variety of taxa. It is most notable for its large crocodilians, some even reaching lengths of 30 feet. The island is mostly covered in forest, though the Platja de S'Alga region is a subtropical desert.

### Savina Crocodile (*Balearosuchus megalus*)

*B. megalus* is the type and largest species of the genus Balearosuchus, reaching an average adult length of 27.8 feet(8.5 meters). It is one of the many crocodilians of Estany Pudent, a large lake within Formentera, who have opted out to a specialized diet to avoid competing with each other, and all of them are thought to have been direct descendants of the extremely small Arenysuchus. It is thought that the novo-Arenysuchus genera crossed over to Formentera sometime during the pleistocene, and were trapped there once the ice melted, and so went through insular gigantism, drastically changing in size.

### Army Nodos (*Notobaelarus enigmaticus*)

Little is known about this small, enigmatic species of notosuchian. It appears to have rafted here just a few million years ago.

## Ibiza

Ibiza is the 3rd largest island of the island group, and is situated North of Formentera. It hosts Iguanodontids, Baryonychines, primitive Tyrannosauroids, and much more.

### Common Armok (*Hispanovenator sanjosensis*)

The Common Armok, Hispanovenator sanjosensis(which literally translates to "Spanish hunter of San Jose Region"), is a large Eotyrannid Tyrannosauroid believed to have been a descendant of Betasuchus, a close relative of Eotyrannus once thought to be an Abelisaurid. Females were the biggest of the species, reaching up to 7.8 meters(25.5 feet), while males were usually about a meter smaller, reaching up to 6.5 meters(21.3 feet).

They are the apex predators of the San Jose region of southern Ibiza, and are powerful pursuit predators. It is believed that once ancestors of the Common Armok were stranded by the early Holocene, they grew in size due to the ease of the amount of predators present in their area. This was also a common trend with other creatures in the Balearic Islands. The Common Armok is also one of the largest definitive non-eutyrannosaurian Tyrannoraptorans, surpassing both Sinotyrannus and Yutyrannus in length, though is beaten by the latter 2 in weight.

### Thorny Eledon(*Sacromizerus gojirospondylus*)

The Thorny Eledon is a genus of large robust basal Lithostrotian, derived from *Magyarosaurus dacus*. It is the largest creature of Ibiza, reaching 14.1 meters(46 feet). It is a heavily armoured sauropod, making it near impossible to kill with its size also on its side.