#Make all dinosaurs have subspecies, not a cloned one with a different look and species name.

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dry forum
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??

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What are you thinking a subspecies is

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and the alt system is very efficient, no need to change it

stark echo
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should be one camarasaurus

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and u can pick which species

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cant really explain it

dry forum
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Subspecies and Species aren't the same thing

stark echo
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like path of titans kinda

dry forum
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There are no subspecies in paleontology anyway

stark echo
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so ur sayin tyrannosaurus mcraeensis

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doesnt exist

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i mean like that camarasaurus ingame

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has 3 species

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grandis

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lentus

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and whatever the otherone is

rose shard
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alt species/genus used to be all under the same animal tab, but that made some players confused and because of it, they were all turned into their own individual tabs on the hatchery menu

stark echo
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so i havent explored the features like that

dry forum
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mcraeensis is a species of tyrannosaurus

snow vapor
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The species is tyrannosaurus

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What ur saying is the genus

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aka

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subspecies

dry forum
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Dude what

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a genus is not a subspecies

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dry forum
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It's not 'my terms' it's what it is

snow vapor
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huh

dry forum
snow vapor
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Where are the claims?

dry forum
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The genus is tyrannosaurus, the species is mcraeensis

dry forum
snow vapor
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nvm ig i'm wrong, checked it

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anyways

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Sub species exists prob cuz think of it as a tree

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The genus is the root

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and the branches are species

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So sub species is a creature that shares the same genus but a different species

dry forum
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It doesn't exist in paleontology, as in paleontologists don't make subspecies because it's too difficult to tell from fossils afaik

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snow vapor
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ah

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So it's practically

snow vapor
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leaves

dry forum
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I guess kinda

snow vapor
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aight

dry forum
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I'm pretty ill informed compared to a lot of other people in this server lol

snow vapor
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now uh, u won't commit capital punishment on me for getting smth wrong like 99% of the paleo community right?

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charred vigil
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Just to clarify
Camarasaurus for example is a genus, in modern animals the best analogy would be the genus panthera, a species is what comes next like P leo( lion ), Panthera pardus( leopard ), Panthera tigris( tiger ), Panthera atrox( american cave lion ) etc. Theyre basically completely different animals. Now for example for tiger, we have 5 subspecies of which 2 are extant, P. t. tigris and P. t. sonadica are the ones that are still living, these 2 can breed with each other and make offsprings that can also breed so theyre the same species but have enough differences to not be considered the same subspecies
So the first name is referring to the genus, the second name is the species name and the third name if present refers to the subspecies
I hopw it was helpfull and aided you in understanding the naming system, its hard to understand at first

keen swan
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well

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I should say pre pleistocene paleontology since theres quite a few pleistocene species that have them

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keen swan
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dire wolf has 2 subspecies; guiydayii and dirus

dry forum
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Interesting

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I vaguely remember seeing the name Smilodon fatalis californius? Is that a thing?

keen swan
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if it is its not widely recognized; although you might remember that from Ecos La Brea; which uses that ingame

zinc drum
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Thylacoleo most likely has one

keen swan
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apparently woolly mammoths have a crapload of subspecies proposed

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alot are chronospecies

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M. intermedius, M. chosaricus, M. p. primigenius, M. p. jatzkovi, M. p. sibiricus, M. p. fraasi, M. p. leith-adamsi, M. p. hydruntinus, M. p. astensis, M. p. americanus, M. p. compressus, and M. p. alaskensis

keen swan
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cool

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tell me more

zinc drum
keen swan
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ohhhh yeah that tracks

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also random question but would have tasmanian megafauna persisted later than mainland megafauna