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Not my best digital sketching but I wanted to get the ideas out. So here are creatures that could exist on the forest floors of Asia and India 15 million years from now.
Starting from the bottom right is the giant Macaque. Around the size of gorillas, they are too heavy to climb up trees and live in large groups for protect though they are equipped with sharp nails and teeth. Their long nails and teeth are specialized for pulling and breaking apart tough vegetation such as bamboo.
Right next to it is a jungle ratel. around the size of the long extinct tigers, the jungle ratel is among the largest of a new group of mustelids aptly named big mustelids (after big cats). Solitary hunters their black and white fur pattern has evolved a more striped patter to blend in with the forest shadows.
On the bottom left is a musk rabbuck (homage to Dougal Dixon's original creation). One of the few rabbuck species to evolve (niches were filled by other species), the musk rabbuck has long, sharped incisors for digging up roots with it then chews up with its back molars (explaining how it can eat with those incisors in the way).
Right above is a gallilamina (blade rooster). This is a pack hunting gallisaur and the closest relative to Australia's gallityrannus. Though they lack the lack the iconic hooked claws of dromeosaurs, the males retained the sharp spurs of their domestic chicken ancestors. Coupled with the claws on their hands and feet, gallilaminas rely on lacerating their prey for bringing them down.
Right next to it is a scythed browser (can't think of a scientific name for it). A large gallisaur that evolved along the lines of therizinosaurs, possessing large claws for bringing vegetation closer to itself.
Finally, you have the titan python. An enormous python descended from reticulated python that grows to over 15 meters in length and is the top predator of the Asio-Indian forest floor.

Description
Not my best digital sketching but I wanted to get the ideas out. So here are creatures that could exist on the forest floors of Asia and India 15 million years from now.
Starting from the bottom right is the giant Macaque. Around the size of gorillas, they are too heavy to climb up trees and live in large groups for protect though they are equipped with sharp nails and teeth. Their long nails and teeth are specialized for pulling and breaking apart tough vegetation such as bamboo.
Right next to it is a jungle ratel. around the size of the long extinct tigers, the jungle ratel is among the largest of a new group of mustelids aptly named big mustelids (after big cats). Solitary hunters their black and white fur pattern has evolved a more striped patter to blend in with the forest shadows.
On the bottom left is a musk rabbuck (homage to Dougal Dixon's original creation). One of the few rabbuck species to evolve (niches were filled by other species), the musk rabbuck has long, sharped incisors for digging up roots with it then chews up with its back molars (explaining how it can eat with those incisors in the way).
Right above is a gallilamina (blade rooster). This is a pack hunting gallisaur and the closest relative to Australia's gallityrannus. Though they lack the lack the iconic hooked claws of dromeosaurs, the males retained the sharp spurs of their domestic chicken ancestors. Coupled with the claws on their hands and feet, gallilaminas rely on lacerating their prey for bringing them down.
Right next to it is a scythed browser (can't think of a scientific name for it). A large gallisaur that evolved along the lines of therizinosaurs, possessing large claws for bringing vegetation closer to itself.
Finally, you have the titan python. An enormous python descended from reticulated python that grows to over 15 meters in length and is the top predator of the Asio-Indian forest floor.