Lemuria / Phase I / the desert part 3

Lemuria is a new spec evo project for and by the #paleostream community.
Like the Atlantis project beforehand it deals with a fictional piece of land in 3 phases.
Lemuria is an already existent concept that was invented before the recognition of plate tectonics to explain certain distribution patterns of animals and plants. In our case Lemuria is a continent consisting of India and Madagascar. We speculate how animals and plants would evolve if these two would never separate. This has MANY consequences. And the further we progress through time the more natural history will change.
Phase one deals with the Cretaceous, when things are still rather "normal".