Newbie Guide/Musculata

This page is under construction. Some sections may be incomplete.

Musculata, Oefsy's analog to Earth's animals, is a very large and diverse group. For a newbie, finding a species among all its diversity to evolve from can be a challenging task--thus, this page attempts to break it down into its major lineages based on their similarities to Earth species so that new members can find a good starting place.

Vertebrate Analogs

Tarata is Oefsy's analog to vertebrates, containing every species which has a backbone. It includes various fish- and tetrapod-like lineages, including ones inspired by sharks, whales, lizards, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and more--as well as a few unlike anything on Earth.

Fish Analogs

There are various tarates similar to familiar fish from the real world.

Shark Analogs

Members of Hexapiscidae closely resemble sharks, albeit with a lot of extra fins.
Members of Makognathusensis fill the same niche as sharks, though they are derived from eel-like creatures.

Other Fish

Spinagnathidae, for the most part, are based on eels.
Gendiidae resemble colorful tropical fish with one eye.

Tetrapod Analogs

On a few different occasions, fish-like tarates have crawled onto land and evolved limbs.

Synapsid Analogs

There are currently no direct analogs to any one synapsid group on OFC. However, a few scattered lineages have synapsid-like traits.

Members of the genus Genaialong, though otherwise dinosaur-like similar to other wyverns, can pronate their wrists and have whiskered faces like some derived therapsids.

Reptile Analogs

Dracidae are based on various reptiles, mostly of the lizard-like variety.
Some members of Amfivioslontus also have lizard-like appearances and scaly bodies, though they are largely more amphibian-like

Amphibian Analogs

(INCOMPLETE) The following families have amphibian-like biology and/or life cycles:

Dinosaur Analogs

As dinosaurs are very popular, there are understandably many lineages on Oefsy which resemble them.

The majority of species in Wyvernsauridae resemble some type of maniraptoran dinosaur with membranous wings, with varying flight ability.
Many members of Strutidae are based on herbivorous dinosaurs.
- Members of the genus Strutiocheilius resemble ornithomimids.
- Members of the genus Strutioceras resemble feathered ornithopods.
Valkyriansauridae is directly based on theropod dinosaurs and also contains spinosaurus-like members.

Bird Analogs

Like in real life, most of the bird analogs on Oefsy are descended from dinosaur analogs.

Members of the genus Draconiraptor resemble various seabirds and birds of prey, albeit with teeth.
Members of the family Avianasauridae also resemble birds, having feathered wings and beaked jaws.
Members of the genus Strutiocheilius may resemble flightless birds.

Pterosaur Analogs

Aerialslontus flectopesus and its descendants resemble primitive pterosaurs with 4 wings.

Unique Vertebrates

A few major tarate lineages do not have any obvious analogs on Earth.

Members of Oculolophidae and Acutognathidae are similar in appearance to slugs or snakes and see the world around them exclusively using echolocation. They are among the very few species with no real-world analog.

Arthropod Analogs

Sukopoda is Oefsy's analog to arthropods, and they are indeed strikingly similar. WIP

Mollusk Analogs

Unfortunately, many muscals similar to familiar mollusks such as clams are long extinct.

Helitesta are based on snails.