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[Eotyrannus]

Even the mightiest of beasts can be toppled by fate.
 A pack of Saurophaganax were close to their victory. A mighty Brachiosaurus's will to live was the only thing between it and them. One of them jumped forwards too early, and was rewarded by the titan swinging its neck and knocking it back down again. The brachiosaur bellowed as loud as it could, but was cut off by its own sickly coughing. One of the theropods lurched forwards when it wasn't looking, tearing a strip of flesh from its back leg. That was the last straw on the sauropod's back, and it collapsed in a 30-ton heap. Before it could take its dying breath, though, and before the allosaurids had their prize, history itself was forever altered.
 They were there, then there was a bright light, and then they simply weren't.
 Around the world, chaos started. Ornithocheirus were swept up in a mighty wave, broken by the water's mere touch. The isles of Europe, and all who inhabited it, were washed into oblivion when the same wave hit them. Pliosaurs coming up for breath were boiled alive as a mighty cloud of steam shot across the water's surface. The first birds plummeted to their deaths when their trees trembled and fell. Stegosaurs were blinded after looking at the blast zone, and fled in every direction before they were all instantly vapourised. Dryosaurs were crushed under pines as the forests shook, and their corpses and herd-mates burned as they were set alight. The impact crater continously exploded as the ocean flooded into the molten earth and turned to steam.
That was just the beginning.
Mammallian mothers watched their offspring starve as food became near-impossible to find. Surviving herbivores were forced to eat the flesh of their own. Pterosaurs perished in the thousands as the sky became dark and they could no longer catch fish or insects. Compsognathids devoured all in their path in a desperate bid for survival. Fish suffocated in the polluted ash wastes that had once been the surface of the ancient Pacific. Nothing was unscarred. Even the insects suffered casualties.

It has been years since the disaster. A meteorite the size of a mountain had ploughed into Earth, 80 million years earlier than it should have, in the Cretaceous. Instead, it wiped out the fauna of the Jurassic. Now, though, the few that survived the event will get to see their reward.

A small mammal sees its first ray of sunshine.

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Hello, and welcome to the alternate Earth of Jurassic Split! This project is about what might have happened if the KT meteorite hit in the end of the Jurassic Period, and has been looked at and not-disapproved by the Speculative Evolution community. I'll link to the posts in this one, at the bottom. And now, for some pseudoscience about it!

The official, scientific name for Jurassic Split is Terra Jurassicus. Like other timeripped planets such as Acrogeos and Terra Copepoda, Terra Jurassicus was made by an intrusion into the target planet's past, sending the timeline on an alternate direction. Unlike those examples, though, Terra Jurassicus was made by accident, as a recently tested gear to prevent interaction with the timeline failed. A meteorite collided with the timecraft with a glancing blow. Due to the deflector fields on the craft, the meteorite and the craft remained unharmed, but the would-have-missed meteorite struck the Jurassic Earth, causing the Jurassic-Cretaceous Mass Extinction, or J-K event. Test showed that the actual K-Pg meteorite will miss, due to slight variations in the Earth's orbit caused by the impact.

Jurassic Split was quantumlocked with Earth's timeline, to prevent creation of more timelines during intertimeline travel. Animals are studied using probes, either manned or unmanned.
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DINOSAURS
Archeopterygids
Crested wyvern (Europe)
Scruffy derpie (Europe)
Compsognathids
Pinecone branchfox (Europe)
Heterodontosaurids
Einstein's direlunch (Europe)
Greater durk (Europe/European seas)
Special: Short-armed durks, George and David (Europe/European seas)
Greater avicow (Europe)

PTEROSAURS
Pterodactyls
Leaf-eater dactyl (Europe)
Dimorphodontids
Devil's harlequin (Europe)

SQUAMATES
Lizards
Giant crystie (South America)
Strongjaw ripper (South America)

RHYNCHOCEPHALANS
Sphenodonts
Big-headed cursoritara (South America)
Pleurosaurs
Greater crabber (European seas)
Pencil pleur (European seas)
Trapjaw pleur (Tethys ocean)
Tyrant pleur (Tethys ocean/European seas)

PLESIOSAURS
Plesiosaurs
Riverine molly (Europe)

CHELONIANS
Turtles
Schoolyard turtle (European seas)
Mossback turtle (European seas)

MAMMALS
Therians
Giant ovissa (Europe)
Docodonts
Sandsynth (European isles)
Pringleman's amblecete (European seas)
Multituberculates
Lesser shoegrabber

AMPHIBIANS
Temnospondyls
Southern suchamander (South America)

CEPHALOPODS
Ammonites
Lesser thulu (Europe)

[Eotyrannus]

Updated with a lizard (strongjaw ripper), mammal (lesser shoegrabber) and turtle (mossback turtle).