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Kheper Palaeo


A selection of pages on various creatures from the Earth's past

About Kheper Palaeo

This section contains a number of sub-sections and pages on various groups of prehistoric animals, etc. These were originally part of the "Kheper - History of Gaia" section. However, as there was a lot of common ground and overlap, these pages were merged with Toby White's "Vertebrate Notes" to form the present external link Palaeos website, and the "History of Gaia" pages taken down from this site as an unnecessary duplication.

More recently, I decided to put these original pages (at least the better and more complete ones) back up. The reason for this is:

  1. The original pages followed a different evolutionary taxonomy (linnaean rather than cladistic), and some people might find this different slant of interest
  2. They have many illustrations (mostly from various books and papers) that weren't included in the Palaeos edition
  3. I am going through this material to make it into wikipedia articles, but again the wording will be a bit different, and wiki material of course won't have these illustrations (because of copyright concerns)
  4. As I develop my Theory of Everything and integrate a New Evolutionary Synthesis based on concepts of Metamorphosis, I would like to use examples from the history of life on Earth, and the current well illustrated pages might be useful.

What we have then is a three-way fork; the same origianl material going and evolving and combining in three different directions (Palaeos, Wiki, and the currect section). To faciliate cross reference, each page will include where applicable an icon linking it to the corresponding Palaeos Palaeos page, and another to the corresponding Wikipedia Wiki page

Groups so far included

Dinosaurs (incomplete)

Pareiasauridae - ox-sized primitive herbivores of the Permian

Pelycosauriae - Permian fin-backs and their relatives

Thecodonts - Archosaurs of the Triassic

Therapsids - Permo--triassic mammal-like reptiles


more to be added...


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page uploaded 5 July 2005, relocated and last modified 1 September