Strong teeth, weak stomach

With the lack of competitors except for the singer of the Resurgence, other animals slowly started to occupy the empty niches left by ducktails. Not only birds but even an emerging group of herbivorous wotters, called ragos.
Their size ranges from a genet to a giant badger, with the largest being the greater rago (Ursicyon relictus): this semiarboreal species has rapidly evolved after just 400.000 years starting from a 500 g ancestor, the charcoal of Thousands.

Thanks to its durophagous teeth and powerful bite, inherited by the first antarctic otter, ragos are able to feed on branches, hard fruits and seeds, which comprise most of their diet. With a digestive system not as advanced as ducktails and rostrids, this geotter must eat large quantities of food, balancing its diet sometimes with invertebrates and carrion. Their ecology has a lot in common with herbivorous ursids, like pandas and spectacled bears.
Greater ragos dwell in the northern forests, where the sub-tropical climate favors the presence of fruits at any season. Alongside ground tyrants, ragos (both large and small) will surely flourish in the lush ecosystems that will rise in the Cambiocene.