Mux Waxface

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Mux Waxface
(Diankistrotherium incultavenator)
Artwork of Mux Waxface
Species is extinct.
25/?, unknown cause
Creator Rhinobot Other
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Subkingdom
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Subphylum
Superclass
Class
Subclass
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Binucleozoa
Symbiovermes
Thoracocephalia
Vermitheria
Cephalischia
Dromeodonta
Metaverma
Cryptosagmatia
Latrotheridae
Diankistrotherium
Diankistrotherium incultavenator
Week/Generation 23/146
Habitat Jaydoh Desert
Size 2 m Long
Support Unknown
Diet Carnivore (Quilltail, Scaleback Tamow, Plated Limbless), Scavenger
Respiration Active (Microlungs)
Thermoregulation Endotherm (Feathers)
Reproduction Sexual, Two Sexes, Oviviporous, Crop Milk


The mux waxface split from its ancestor the jaydoh waxface. As larger creatures evolved in the Jaydoh Desert, so did the waxeface. Continuing it's desert life style, it has developed stronger legs, lungs, and nostrils. The nostrils have moved up and towards the front of the face to pick up more useful scent. It's body has changed colors so that the upper part of it's body looks like the night sky while the lower part of it's body looks like the rusty sand of the desert. It's tusks have grown larger to cut through meat.

They are still mainly nocturnal hunters, but now hunt partially in the day. Their quilltail hunting tactics have evolved and now search during the day for their burrows and dig the quilltail out with their tusks while still hunting them at night. Along with the quilltail, they now hunt scaleback tamow as their second food source. They will hunt the scaleback tamow at day and mostly night for the advantage of the scalback tamow being asleep. Instead of suffocating it's pray, it will puncture the throat with it's tusks for a faster and easier kill. With quiltails, they will keep for themselves, but with scaleback tamow, they will share the kill with others. Since they can not eat the scaleback tamow whole, they will cut pieces of meat to swallow with their tusks. They rarely hunt for plated limbless or scavenge. They mainly do this in times of little food.

They live in tight packs of five to six individuals. They breed and raise their young the same way as their ancestors, but do not force the offspring to leave the pack as much.

Living Relatives (click to show/hide)

These are randomly selected, and organized from lowest to highest shared taxon. (This may correspond to similarity more than actual relation)
  • Pirate Waxface (family Latrotheridae)
  • Quilled Probeface (order Cryptosagmatia)
  • Prospector Finback (subclass Metaverma)
  • Cardicracker (class Dromeodonta)