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For a paleodictyopteran living in the late Hangenbergian, life is good. The spread of coal forests following the previous mass extinction has ensured food sources and living space to be plentiful. Griffinfly attacks are not to be scoffed at, for sure, but it has been almost 30 million years since the last one perished in the Pylian cloud-forests. To expect a predator? Not until fish climb trees. Evidently though, they did.

Iactocauds, more commonly known as flingers, are descendants of canopy Theloplacs which have adapted to an unconventional way of locomotion. They utilize the coriolis effect to fling themselves from tree to tree, with their muscular 'tails' excerting the bulk of the force. To travel longer distances, their claspers, ancestrally loaded with a skin flap for sexual display, have elogated to form a pseudo-wing. Though they cannot fly, they are the closest vertebrates will get to the sky for a few millenia. The pictured Iactocaud is a medium-sized insectivore, intercepting their prey mid-flight.

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

Description
For a paleodictyopteran living in the late Hangenbergian, life is good. The spread of coal forests following the previous mass extinction has ensured food sources and living space to be plentiful. Griffinfly attacks are not to be scoffed at, for sure, but it has been almost 30 million years since the last one perished in the Pylian cloud-forests. To expect a predator? Not until fish climb trees. Evidently though, they did.

Iactocauds, more commonly known as flingers, are descendants of canopy Theloplacs which have adapted to an unconventional way of locomotion. They utilize the coriolis effect to fling themselves from tree to tree, with their muscular 'tails' excerting the bulk of the force. To travel longer distances, their claspers, ancestrally loaded with a skin flap for sexual display, have elogated to form a pseudo-wing. Though they cannot fly, they are the closest vertebrates will get to the sky for a few millenia. The pictured Iactocaud is a medium-sized insectivore, intercepting their prey mid-flight.

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