Thunderfoot—Alamosaurus (alla-m0-sawross: ‘Alamo lizard')
Typical member of the titanosaurid (gigantic lizard') subgroup that was one of the last sauropod genuses to evolve before the mass Cretaceous extinction.
Tsor
Warrior race of saurian humanoids originating in the Draco (Dragon) Constellation who waged interplanetary war with Berran, precipitating the downfall of both worlds.
Turkey
The Late Pleistocene California Turkey (Meleagris californica) died out 10,000 years ago.
Tusker
Colloquial name for species of Proboscidea—the trunked animals. Geographically refers to Reck's Elephant (Elephas recki) of Africa [extinct 11,000 years ago] and two Pleistocene species on the American continent: the American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) [extinct 9,000 years ago] and the huger Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) [extinct 12,000 years ago]. Refers also to the dwarfed variant of Stegodon once found on Javanese islands.
Uprights
Colloquial name for hominins, the walking apes that led to our Homo genus. Divided into two distinct subtypes: the graciles (four species) and the robusts (three species). This story deals with the latter as Paranthropus boisei. The former is described as the contestable Australopithecine habilis.
Whitetop
Extinct, double-peaked volcanic cone capped with perennial snow and shoed with jungle adjacent to Wastesand. Erosion shaved 300 ft off the top of its 14,000 ft majesty.
Wastesand
Inhospitable desertland twenty miles due south of Home-rock across Firewind Veldt as the hornbill flies.
Watersnout
Specifically describes the extinct, slender-snouted, long-toothed African crocodile Euthecodon brumpti; Murky Watering's resident and partially clairvoyant croc belongs to this species.
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