What mammal groups do you classify fanged beasts as?
There’s too many options with descriptions too long to fit on a 12 answer poll so you’ll have to comment your answer on this one, sorry.
People have a lot of opinions on the fanged beasts! I’m surprised nobody raised the idea of groups of them being afrotheres or xenarthrans, which is something I’ve seen before. Anyways it’s my turn to weigh in now.
Bullfango are… well, they’re pigs.
Blagonga, Congalala, Rajang, and Ajarakan I think are a group of cursorial old world monkeys with possible relation to Papionini (so mandrills, baboons, geladas, etc. Kecha Wacha I think is part of the group as well, but possibly descended from an earlier family that hadn’t fully left an arboreal lifestyle.
Bishaten and Garangolm I think also are in the cursorial monkey group but within their own little family as well, and are united by their armored heads, keratinous lips, and weird tail fingers. If you’ve followed me for a while then you know Bishaten’s anatomy makes me kinda mad, especially with his feathers. My best guess was that they’re fur clumps, but they have a central vein like an actual feather. Mammals cannot evolve feathers because we have alpha keratin while diapsids have beta keratin, so fundamentally they’re very different structures. So because of that I had to whip out a crack theory and say that the ancestor of bishitty and garang underwent a horizontal gene transfer event with a bird or bird monster. Possibly by endogenizing a virus that had itself endogenized various hox genes and the genes for feathers and beta keratin. So that explains the duo’s keratinous lips, dino hips, and bishit’s feathers (with garangolm having avian scales).
Gammoth I think is a primitive proboscidean that independently evolved a trunk due to its dentition, but I’ve seen people classify her as an ungulate which is also fair.
Canynes are canines.
Volvidon I think is an armadillo, mostly because I like armadillos.
Arzuros, Goss Harag, and Doshaguma I think are a family of armored bears. Goss and Dosh are likely each other’s closest relatives due to their extensive shagginess and cranial bosses. Bears don’t usually have flexible fingers like Goss though and so I’ve seen some people argue that it could be a giant sloth, and at one point I entertained the idea of it being an ape.
Lagombi is… idk. The beak and the fact that it is described as neither a bear or rabbit throws me for a loop.
I refuse to talk about Bombadgy.