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To be honest, I have no idea what catopsalis looked like. I was working on really limmited references (a speculative illustration of the skeleton) so it's probably highly inaccurate... but fun to draw anyway. I've always liked fleshing out animals from skeletons, ever since I was a kid.

I'm not exactly sure what period in Earth's history catopsalis is from... some sources say the late Certaceous, others say the early Paleocene. I just say, around the time the dinosaurs became extinct, either before or after. *NTamura informed me that there were several species of catopsalis, and that some existed before, and some existed after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.

It belongs to a large extinct order of mammals called the multituberculates. The multituberculates were much like rodents - small, abundant and with large chizzel-like incisors. However, they developed their rodent-like characteristics independantly, and were not closely related to rodents. They were plentiful during the Mesozoic - the age of dinosaurs - but dwindled into a slow extinction as the eutherian mammals took a hold of the Earth.

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To be honest, I have no idea what catopsalis looked like. I was working on really limmited references (a speculative illustration of the skeleton) so it's probably highly inaccurate... but fun to draw anyway. I've always liked fleshing out animals from skeletons, ever since I was a kid.

I'm not exactly sure what period in Earth's history catopsalis is from... some sources say the late Certaceous, others say the early Paleocene. I just say, around the time the dinosaurs became extinct, either before or after. *NTamura informed me that there were several species of catopsalis, and that some existed before, and some existed after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.

It belongs to a large extinct order of mammals called the multituberculates. The multituberculates were much like rodents - small, abundant and with large chizzel-like incisors. However, they developed their rodent-like characteristics independantly, and were not closely related to rodents. They were plentiful during the Mesozoic - the age of dinosaurs - but dwindled into a slow extinction as the eutherian mammals took a hold of the Earth.