User:Piatnitzkysaurus/Prehistoric Camp

Prehistoric Camp is a free online fiction series co-written by freelance authors Rick Charles and Maes Rain (pseudonyms). As well as being written for entertainment, the authors' intention for Prehistoric Camp is to educationally inform its readers about issues on the subjects of life and morality. Prehistoric Camp is unique, in that the characters in the story are reader-submitted. This puts the readers into the characters' shoes, as if they are the ones living the story. Charles came up with this idea in hopes that the readers of Prehistoric Camp would reflect on the story and its meaning, and that they would get something out of reading it aside from pure entertainment.

Prehistoric Camp works like a television series, in that what one would normally call 'books' are referred to as 'seasons'. And what would normally be identified as 'chapters', in Prehistoric Camp are known as 'episodes' or 'days'.

History
Charles originally came up with the idea of Prehistoric Camp one summer camping with some friends in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He came up with the idea of camping in prehistoric times, and autumn of that year began work on the series. The current 'version' of Prehistoric Camp is not the first, however. While working on Prehistoric Camp, Charles encountered a computer crash and lost all his progress on it. It was not until February 13, 2009 that he resumed work on Prehistoric Camp, and it has successfully attained a few faithful readers since the first episode was released.

Seasons in Prehistoric Camp
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List of Fauna Featured in Prehistoric Camp
Because Prehistoric Camp is a fiction series about a group of campers staking out camp in a prehistoric location, after several seasons this list of encounters has increased. Below is a complete list of encountered animals by order of first appearance in Prehistoric Camp. A brief description of their appearance and fictional adaption are mentioned if necessary.

SEASON I - Carboniferous Swamp
 * Ophiderpeton (species unidentified) - Made a brief appearance during the first season, where they attacked several campers who had fallen in the water. While in reality Ophiderpeton were likely terrestrial, in Prehistoric Camp they were mostly or fully aquatic, and swarmed together as piranhas when potential prey became available.
 * Meganeura monyi - Never played a prominent role, however were very common throughout the first season as ambient wildlife.
 * Megarachne servinei - Made a brief cameo. One of the campers caught one with a net and examined it before it escaped.
 * unidentified eurypterids - Several different species of eurypterid acted as scavengers, consuming the dead bodies of lost campers throughout the first season.
 * unidentified amphibious tetrapods - Several different species of amphibious tetrapod resided in the Carboniferous swamp waters, snatching at any low-flying insects.
 * Arthropleura armata - Played a prominent role near the end of the first season, and were the main antagonists. They remained largely concealed until the last day, when they exposed themselves in a group and killed at least two campers. While in reality Arthropleura were likely solitary herbivores, in Prehistoric Camp they were depicted as vicious carnivores that swarmed together in order to take down large prey.

SEASON II - Glacial Borderline
 * unidentified leporid
 * Puma concolor cougar
 * Homo sapiens
 * Mammuthus primigenius
 * Bison bison
 * Rangifer tarandus

SEASON III - Silurian Desert
 * Brontoscorpio anglicus
 * Pterygotus anglicus
 * Eoarthropleura (species unidentified)

SEASON IV - Western Interior Seaway
 * Ichthyornis dispar
 * unidentified hadrosaurs
 * unidentified pterosaurs
 * Troodon formosus
 * Parasaurolophus walkeri
 * Platecarpus ictericus
 * Baptornis advenus
 * Deinosuchus rugosus
 * Hesperornis regalis
 * Nyctosaurus (unidentified species)
 * Daspletosaurus torosus
 * Albertosaurus sarcophagus
 * Orodromeus makelai

SEASON V - Eocene Jungle
 * Currently Season 5 is in active production, and this list will not be updated with Season 5 fauna until the season is complete.