The Amphiterra Project
  • World
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    • Triadobatrachus
    • Common Eofrog
    • Greater Moistboy
    • Plains Bullpronk
    • Steppe Fraggon
    • Catastrophic Fraggon
    • Splendid Fraggon
    • Arctic Fraggon
    • Lanky Frogget
    • Tree Frixel
    • Temperate Freeple
    • Lowland Dogus
    • Foaming Squander
    • Foaming Trogglefolk
    • Eon Toad
    • Gliding Alloo
    • Marbled Snapapple
    • Banded Suckerlump
    • Tropical Frondle
    • Inhabited Lorge & Colonial Gobolin
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    • Inception
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    • Design
    • Illustration
    • 3D Modeling
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Contact
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Triadobatrachus massinoti guards its spawn at the edge of a pond in the Early Triassic.

Steppe Fraggon

Dracobufo primoris
Era: Early Tertiary

Time: 60,000,000 BCE

Habitat: temperate scrub

Diet: grazing herbivores

Location: Southeastern North America

Size: 13’

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Tremendous ‘trees’ made of fungal colonies echo with the bellowing call of the first true fraggon, the primordial steppe fraggon. The steppe fraggon is the forerunner of one of the most successful families in the world of Amphiterra, the Dracobufidae, a family of large, primarily carnivorous megafauna that would find success all throughout the North American continent as solitary predators, due to each individual necessitating an enormous territory.

The steppe fraggon represents a change in the lifestyle of its ancestors, responding to a changing world. In the steppe fraggon’s time, the earth is a relatively dryer place than in the mesozoic, with the marshy plains of its ancestors disappearing and giving way to dryer scrub and temperate fungal forests. The hot swampy Earth could not remain so forever, and an ice age is not far off. The great age of the fraggons will last until then.

Evolved from nimble pack predator to stolid omnivore, the steppe fraggon’s lifestyle could be compared to a bear, gorging itself to build fat for a winter hibernation.

EVOLVES FROM:

EVOLVES INTO:

Plains Bullpronk
Bufotaurus inmitis

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Catastrophic Fraggon
Dracobufo rex

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Splendid Fraggon
Dracobufo qilinae

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Arctic Fraggon
Dracobufo qilinae

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Triadobatrachus Common Eofrog Marbled Snapapple Banded Suckerlump Tropical Frondle Inhabited Lorge and Colonial Gobolin Foaming Squander Foaming Trogglefolk Eon Toad Lowland Dogus Lanky Frogget Tree Frixel Temperate Freeple Gliding Alloo Greater Moistboy Plains Bullpronk Catastrophic Fraggon Steppe Fraggon Splendid Fraggon Arctic Fraggon Image Map
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  • World
  • Creatures
    • Triadobatrachus
    • Common Eofrog
    • Greater Moistboy
    • Plains Bullpronk
    • Steppe Fraggon
    • Catastrophic Fraggon
    • Splendid Fraggon
    • Arctic Fraggon
    • Lanky Frogget
    • Tree Frixel
    • Temperate Freeple
    • Lowland Dogus
    • Foaming Squander
    • Foaming Trogglefolk
    • Eon Toad
    • Gliding Alloo
    • Marbled Snapapple
    • Banded Suckerlump
    • Tropical Frondle
    • Inhabited Lorge & Colonial Gobolin
  • Downloads
  • About
    • Inception
    • Research
    • Design
    • Illustration
    • 3D Modeling
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Contact
  • Fanart