#tambachformation
Bromacker Contest Submission #3
DREAMS ON THE HIGH PLATEAU
Thuringian Forest Basin - Early Permian
In the shadows of ferns and giant horsetails, primitve lifeforms dream away.
How does sleep look like in prehistoric times? Will they sleep in pairs like this Diadectes sideropelicus or just piled up like the Orobates pabsti? Surely sleeping with fellows provides not only comfort but a certain level of protection from the roaming predators. Meanwhile the varanoid Tambacarnifex unguifalcatus caught one unlucky fellow that slept solo: the amphibian Rotaryus gothae.
While the giants are sleeping, the dwarves get buissy. Long bodied Tambaroter carrolli crawl out their tunnels and all over the sleeping diadectid tetrapods.
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Bromacker Contest Submission #2
DINNER AT DUSK
Thuringian Forest Basin - Early Permian
From the dry season to the wet season - During periodic heavy rainfall ephemeral water sources appear. While the basal tetrapods at the tambach formation are well adapted to the dry climate, lots of them are in fact amphibians. Living on a dry savanna that doesn’t know gras yet, amphibians still need warter sources to reproduce. Here you can see speculative larvae and spawn stages of those primitive amphibians, called Temnospondyli. Swimming throug the newly formed pond Georgenthalia clavinasica feasts on the only avaible aquatic life forms: clam shrimps (Lioestheria andreevi), sweet water jelly fish (Medusina limnica) and of course the amphibian spawns. Alternative proteine sources are the nests of non-amphibian tetrapods. Here raided by another Temnospondyli called Tambachia trogallas.
The big caseids Martensius bromackerensis are also drawn to the pond. While their young get their nurishment from insects like Palaeodictyoptera, it is believed that the adults can gain the ability to digest plant material like ferns by enriching their guts with special bacteria.
The biped bolosaurid Eudibamus cursoris surely is one highlight of the bromacker paleobiota but here it’s just enjoying the pool.
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