Megaquarium

Megaquarium

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Tenth Architect  [developer] 16 Nov, 2020 @ 4:13pm
Animal and location suggestions
Here is a place to put suggestions for eras further out that I can refer back to when planning out future collections. I will not be making animals over ten meters in length and only few over three meters.

Edit: Now that I'm further along, I'll list what packs I'm still working on here. The Cretacous Collection I & II are under development and I have yet to decide the roster of the following:

Paleogene Saltwater: Tethys Sea 41-33MYA

Paleogene Freshwater: Green River Formation 53-48 MYA

Neogene Saltwater: Pisco Formation and Pacific Coast 15-2.5 MYA

Suggestions for animals that don't fall into locations and times are still welcome, but I don't have a solid plan for what packs I'll do after the Neogene Collection I
Last edited by Tenth Architect; 11 Mar, 2021 @ 7:19pm
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Xan Bazam 17 Nov, 2020 @ 8:37pm 
hello, i love this mod series, and am excited for new releases, while i can't think of anything immediately perhaps, one pack could be these larger but not too much larger specimens, like aegirocrassis hibbertopterus? if not that is fine, but for periods perhaps something from the big 3 dino times, like bananogmius and enchodus? love your work hope you do well day to day
Tenth Architect  [developer] 18 Nov, 2020 @ 9:04am 
Thank you so much Xanzax, glad to hear you are excited for new releases! Aegirocrassis is one I would like to do if I make a second Ordovician Collection. As for the other three, they are all in the size range I might make, I'll keep them in mind when planning future collections
ThyCheshireCat 20 Nov, 2020 @ 9:22am 
Suggestions for a few periods:

Carboniferous:
Hibbertopterus
Crassyghrinus
Lepidodendron 'trees' (not miffed on the size as long as the aesthetic is pinned down TBH)

Permian:
Cotylorynchus
Archeria
Xenacanthus

Triassic:
Mixosaurus
Atopodentatus
Dinocephalosaurus

Jurassic:
Temnodontosaurus (If we only get one big boi, I'd hope it'd be this.... not sure if 9-12 meters is in the packs scope tho.)
Macroplata
Plesiosaurus
Teleosaurus
Crinoid Logs (not sure what genus but it'd be cool to get Crinoids attached to driftwood.)
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Ezer 21 Nov, 2020 @ 2:15pm 
Permian:
Campylocephalus
Cooperoceras
Dorypterus
Hybodus
Euproops
Pleuracanthus
Araxoceras

Carboniferous:
Ornithoprion
Brachydectes
Hibbertopterus
Harpagofututor
Sibyrhynchus
Tullimonstrum (my favorite carboniferous animal)
Allenypterus

Triassic:
Sclerocomus
Psephoderma
Foreyia
Pinacoceras
Ostenocaris
Thalattosaurus
Hypsocormus

Jurassic:
Dollocaris
Ancyloceras
Clausocaris
Cylindroteuthis
Aspidorhynchus
Hydrorion
Megateuthis

Cretaceous:
Adriosaurus
Bananogmius
Baculites
Galagadon
Calcarichelys
Didymoceras
Rostropycnodus

Paleogene:
Siphonia
Tylocidaris
Eolactoria
Eomola
Histionotophorus
Acanthnemus
Assilina

And final Ediacaran:
Andiva
Spriggina
Haootia
Charnia
Kimberella
Eoporpita
Inaria

Hey, i love your collections, and i hope they get better and better every tyme, and have a nice day:steamhappy:

Xan Bazam 21 Nov, 2020 @ 2:39pm 
oh also, do you believe you'll maybe be able to do terrarium stuff? i'd love to have a brontoscorpio and meganeura
Tenth Architect  [developer] 21 Nov, 2020 @ 4:49pm 
Thank you all for the suggestions and the kind words! As for terrarium stuff, I'm thinking of leaving that out for my first go through of the eras. If I have time afterwards I'd like to do stuff like make a few terrarium collections (perhaps broken up by Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic) an Ediacaran collection, revisiting the early Paleozic and a couple other things
Glarn Boudin 25 Nov, 2020 @ 9:39pm 
Something with the floating crinoid reefs of the Jurassic could be interesting to work with, although it might be difficult to code - perhaps a log that acts as floating cover, but also as a piece of land?

For the Miocene, I suggest the Pisco Formation in Peru - while it admittedly would likely result in calls for megalodons and Livyatan, it was also host to a fascinating array of other animals that could be interesting to speculate on and model.
abiondi1975 26 Nov, 2020 @ 9:10am 
I would really like if you could add the Dunkleosteus!
Tenth Architect  [developer] 26 Nov, 2020 @ 2:46pm 
I avoided making the Dunk for reasons you probably can now guess. I'd love to make a floating crinoid reef, I'm worried about the performance for lower end rigs and maybe even some upper end ones but I'm strongly considering it and will see what I can do when I get to that point.

Thank you Glarn Boudin for the formation suggestion! The Pisco Formation is one of the strong contenders for that era that I'd like to make
Ezer 26 Nov, 2020 @ 3:50pm 
I think, it would be cool to see animals, like Cystoidea or Archimedes
Khaydar 1 Dec, 2020 @ 1:13pm 
Did some brainstorming, yes I know some are over 3m but I thought they were worth mentioning.

- Triassic

Antarctosuchus polyodon
Gerrothorax pulcherrimus
Anaschisma browni
Smilosuchus adamensis
Cymbospondylus sp (smaller species)
Sclerothorax hypselonotus
Sclerocormus parviceps
Tanystropheus conspicuus
Xenacanthus moorei

- Jurassic

Metriorhynchus
Aegirosaurus leptospondylus
Bananogmius

- Cretaceous

Laganosuchus
Gilicus
Squalicorax
Mawsonia
Enchodus

- Paleogene

Waimanu
Crossvallia waiparensis


Oligocene

Anthropornis
Aetiocetus
Mammalodon

Miocene

Aetobatus poeyi
Eurhinodelphis longirostris
Odobenocetops
Oncorhynchus rastrosus

Holocene

Stellar's sea cow
Great auk
Sea mink
Chinese Paddlefish
Baiji (pretty much extinct at this point)
Tenth Architect  [developer] 16 Dec, 2020 @ 12:09pm 
An update on this, I've tried out my first over 3 meter animal and it worked out better than expected. I'll still be limiting how many animals of such scale I include since most would be active swimmers and therefore only possible to house at rank 12, but if you've been avoiding posting something due to that it is now less of a limit. I will however not be making animals larger than 10meter, as I'll be using the scale calculation to make animals over 3 meters to scale with the base game animals, and that calculator gets wonky past that point
Tenth Architect  [developer] 18 Dec, 2020 @ 2:38pm 
North Paleotethys coast:
- Thalattosaurs (They were Tethys endemics)

Chinle Formation:
- Vancleavea (Apparently they could get huge)
- Chinlea (I like coelacanths, what can I say?)
- Arganodus as a chunky boi?
- Saurichthys?
- Titanopteran could be neat to see if you go Megaterrarium

Posidonia Shale:
- Devil's toenail
- Uncina
- Acanthorhina
- Pentacrinites (Would make for a good distinction from other crinoid species)
- Plesiopterys
- Pachycormus?

Kayenta Formation and North America grab bag:
- Diablophis
- Glyptops

Niobrara:
- Archelon (Could be absolutely terrifying)
- Inoceramus
- Protosphyraena? (It was an absolute monster of a fish)
- Scapanorhynchus
- Cretalamna (If someone won't do megalodon, might as well do its ancestor!)
- Pachyrhizodus
- Edaphodon the giant chimaera?
- Ptychodus could make for an interesting choice for the 'giant shark' - could interpret it to have a hell of a lot of defensive adaptations that never fossilized.
- Baculites (I've done some recon work of these - you'd be welcome to have my take on them if you pick them)
- Hesperornis or Baptornis
- Bonnerichthys?
- Gillicus for sure

Kem Kem:
- Mawsonia (Jesus christ this thing could probably swallow a manatee whole)
- Aidachar
- Madstoiidae ssp.
- Lissodus
- Bawitius
- Aegisuchus

List I got from Glarn Boudin, posting here for reference
Glarn Boudin 20 Dec, 2020 @ 10:06am 
My suggestions for a Holocene 'grab bag':

Asia:
- Chinese paddlefish(?)
- Yunnan lake newt
- Sri Lanka's extinct Pseudophilautus frogs
- Steller's sea cow
- Japanese sea lion
- Baiji
- Pink-headed duck
- Javan lapwing

Africa:
- Aloatra grebe
- Mascarene extinct herons
- Ryukyu kingfisher
- Japanese river otter
- Lake Tanganyika extinct cichlids
- Tropidophora carinata
- Round Island burrowing boa (Megaterrarium)
- Rodrigues day gecko (Megaterrarium)
- Mauritian giant skink (Megaterrarium)

Europe:
- Ivell's sea anemone
- Gravenche
- Extinct tristramellas

South America:
- Pencil catfish
- Galapagos damsel
- Lake Titicaca Orestias
- Atitlan grebe
- Colombian grebe
- Craugastor omoaensis
- Golden toad (Would require Megaterrarium, it was a burrower)
- Guadeloupe ameiva (Megaterrarium)

North America:
- Great auk
- Spectacled cormorant
- Bermuda night heron
- Silver trout
- Yellowfin cutthroat trout
- Blue walleye
- Harelip sucker
- Tecopa pupfish
- Thicktail chub
- The cisco species of the Great Lakes
- Sooty crayfish
- Sandhills crayfish
- Xerces blue butterfly
- Chendytes lawi
- Caribbean monk seal
- Jamaica giant galliwasp (Megaterrarium)
- Puerto Rican hutia

Oceania:
- Smooth handfish
- Kawekaweau (Megaterrarium)
- Bulldog rat (Megaterrarium)
- New Zealand grayling
- Chatham penguin
- New Zealand merganser
- Stephen's Island wren (Megaterrarium)
- Society Islands sandpipers
- Polynesia tree snail (Megaterrarium)
- Bennett's seaweed
Xan Bazam 25 Dec, 2020 @ 7:08pm 
this is probly too big, but koolasuchus would be cool for a cold water pack, actually, a cold water pack of creatures would be neato
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