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An arboreal Theloplac gazes into the distance longingly. For the past few days, she has been navigating the lycopsid canopies in search of prey. Perhaps the next tree will make the difference.

Theloplacs are a clade of arboreally adapted Acripods, placing them parallel to all Latapods discussed so far. Though Acripods were ancestrally semi-aquatic burrowers with robust digging forlimbs, the group that gave rise to Theloplacs found them useful for ascending scale trees as well. Though most stem Theloplacs climb using their limbs primarily, some more derived clades, such as the canopy species pictured, use their muscular bodies, climbing in a 'hoop-like' fashion akin to tree snakes on Earth. Such clades use their forlimbs to aid prey capture instead, developing holding 'spikes' on the inward facing sides of their hands. Theloplacs are generally insectivorous, though some smaller and more abherrant clades could be considered frugivorous, feeding mostly on the seeds of seed ferns and proto-conifers.

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This is an excercise of speculative evolution in which introduced Devonian biota colonise a ruined alien habitat.

Description
An arboreal Theloplac gazes into the distance longingly. For the past few days, she has been navigating the lycopsid canopies in search of prey. Perhaps the next tree will make the difference.

Theloplacs are a clade of arboreally adapted Acripods, placing them parallel to all Latapods discussed so far. Though Acripods were ancestrally semi-aquatic burrowers with robust digging forlimbs, the group that gave rise to Theloplacs found them useful for ascending scale trees as well. Though most stem Theloplacs climb using their limbs primarily, some more derived clades, such as the canopy species pictured, use their muscular bodies, climbing in a 'hoop-like' fashion akin to tree snakes on Earth. Such clades use their forlimbs to aid prey capture instead, developing holding 'spikes' on the inward facing sides of their hands. Theloplacs are generally insectivorous, though some smaller and more abherrant clades could be considered frugivorous, feeding mostly on the seeds of seed ferns and proto-conifers.

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This is an excercise of speculative evolution in which introduced Devonian biota colonise a ruined alien habitat.