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Description
(Plate I)
“…The Red clays formation is a formation from the foothills of what is now the southern part of the Whitlatch mountains. Deposited around 10 million years or so after the Surachian-Erdanian boundary extinction, which was by far the worst in Elonios’s history, sometimes referred to by Eloniopaleontologists as the “great wiping”, an event which saw a staggeringly large amount of terrestrial fauna go extinct, resulting in an aforementioned wiping of the slate, so-to-speak, for new animals to colonize land. Gone were the megafaunal, terrestrial arthroderms which had dominated land for nearly 100 million years; and the Terrapods benefited greatly from it. The almost total collapse of terrestrial and freshwater habitats allowed for retestomes, such as basal and stem-terrapods, to colonize the lands. The red clays formation captures this boom in terrapod diversity, with a wide range of forms both completely foreign and basal to modern lineages…”
Plate I: (from top to bottom then left to right) Tardigradamimus suipus, Acuticephalus palustris, Macropleurodeles igneus, Archaeodizaaroides artemisae, Siderania baropoda, Whitlatchia longus, Barocephalus robustus

Description
(Plate I)
“…The Red clays formation is a formation from the foothills of what is now the southern part of the Whitlatch mountains. Deposited around 10 million years or so after the Surachian-Erdanian boundary extinction, which was by far the worst in Elonios’s history, sometimes referred to by Eloniopaleontologists as the “great wiping”, an event which saw a staggeringly large amount of terrestrial fauna go extinct, resulting in an aforementioned wiping of the slate, so-to-speak, for new animals to colonize land. Gone were the megafaunal, terrestrial arthroderms which had dominated land for nearly 100 million years; and the Terrapods benefited greatly from it. The almost total collapse of terrestrial and freshwater habitats allowed for retestomes, such as basal and stem-terrapods, to colonize the lands. The red clays formation captures this boom in terrapod diversity, with a wide range of forms both completely foreign and basal to modern lineages…”
Plate I: (from top to bottom then left to right) Tardigradamimus suipus, Acuticephalus palustris, Macropleurodeles igneus, Archaeodizaaroides artemisae, Siderania baropoda, Whitlatchia longus, Barocephalus robustus