Euroborean Forest
390 million years hence
The Neozoic culminated in a mass extinction which heavily impacted marine life, but terrestrial fauna weathered the extinction relatively strongly. By the start of the Joaquinian, Pangaea Ultima has broken into two smaller continents. Euroboreas, formed by what was once Eurasia, eastern Africa, and Australia, is largely forested, with large "trees" formed by symbioses between algae and true plants. It did not take long for these forests to recover, filling in land exposed by the receding northern ice cap.
These forests are rich with giant arthropods, thriving in the highly-oxygenated environment. Giant ants shape the environment, building great fortresses of wood. Millipede-like insects graze the forest floor. Giant spiders hunt from the trees above, and predatory echinoderms can be found in freshwater. All of these arthropods are also potential hosts for parasitic fungi.
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