Fiction:Evolution on Clompagnow

This is a project I am doing, where I will update on the evolution of a new species while I play the game.

Clompagnow is a temperate planet, that is very unlike Earth in many ways.

Planetary Characteristics
Ecology and enviroments

Clompagnow orbits a Red dwarf star, and has just began to evolve life. The planets's flora is dark blue, so that the flora can absorb and photosynthesize blue high-energy light more easily. However, due to the fact that red dwarf stars are unstable, large solar storms can occur, so fungi-like trees (much of the flora is more like fungi than plants) have evolved to shelter themselves using large fruiting bodies.

The planets average temperature is 10°C, slightly cooler than Earth. All animal life has heat sensitive eyes, as well as normal vision so they can detect oncoming solar storms so they can run for cover. Evenings and nights can get very dark, so certain creatures are bioluminescent. So far, the land based animals appear like terran invertebrates (insects, arachnids) and echinoderms (sea urchins and crinoids).

Landscape

The landscape is quite mountainous, with valleys and steep hills. There are some strange rock formations and caves.

Evolution
''I have created a unique taxonomic system for Clompagnow. My page is following the story of my creature, who's evolutionary trail is purple.''

YOL means Years After Orgin of life.

Primordial era 0 - 200 million YOL
The first life on Clompagnow were carbon-based prokaryotes (cells without a nucleus), but after a 200 million years they evolved into Eukaryotes and multicellular (Multizoan) life forms.

Domain         --Superkingdom:Prokaryote bacteria (extremely simple microbes without a nucleus) *Organic life - --Superkingdom:Eukaryote bacteria (Cells with a nucleus, typical bacteria) --Superkingdom:Multizoa (Clompagnow's multicellular kingdom that splits into plant and animal life) *Inorganic life - Virus's, viroids and nanobes

Cellular era 1.3 billion YOL


Eventually, the first complex multicellular life evolved. They evolved from the Multizoa kingdom (1 billion YOL), which split into two main phylums 1.3 billion YOL.

This icluded the Stenoidia superphylum, which were early blind cells that fed on smaller microbes using protien receptors to "sniff" out prey. Eventually, the Stenoids evolved an eyespot, a simple receptor for detecting light. The Blopunia superphylum evolved with improved motion and a bioluminecent features that enabled it to attract prey. A significant difference between Stenoidia and Blopunia is that the Blopunia is an omnivore, which feeds off other cells and the early photosynthesizing Eukaryotes.

Another superphylum evolved called Nearflorae, which were animals that learned to photosynthesize. Nearflorae evolved into odd floating seaweed-like organisms, but could swim weakly. They were grazed on by early cells. --Florae Kingdom (photosynthesizing algae and plants) Superkingdom Multizoa --Faunae Kingdom (animals) |                   |                                                      |                          |                    |                                                      |                        Superphylum Stenoidia    Superphylum Blopunia       Superphylum Nearflorae(plant/animals)

Ocean Era 2.1 YOS
For the next few hundred millon years, many new groups of macroscopic animals and phyla began to appear (although we need not mention them yet). This sudden burst of evolution was caused by two continents that had come together, causing the wide ocean barrier between to be closed. This promoted both evolution and extinction.


 * The first plants started to evolve on land.

Early landfall 2.7 YOS


The semi-aquatic Qaudrapods started to explore its surroundings on land. The Sea monsters had made the oceans a terrible place to live, so the first land animals began to evolve. They evolved internal lungs (external gills collapse is air), better vision and hearing for air, and strong legs for clambering out of the swamps. They were one of the first animals to colonize the lands of Clompagnow. --Phylum Qaudrapodia (four footed creatures) --Subphylum Vertebria (Chordates) Superphylum Blopunia --Subphylum Spoodishia (A unique alien sporecast created by Spoodish, to give Clompagnow a theme)

At 2.8 YOS, the amphibian-like class of animals, Sibersia had evolved. This class had long legs, and was suitable for living in the esturies and mud flats around seas and rivers. The class mostly had slow creatures, which still retained fins. However the creatures would chase their prey into bodies of water, where they were a little bit faster. Many animals of this class had bioluminescent parts.

Phylum Quadrapodia --Class Sibersia