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Along comes a dinosaur making such a loud roar

Thumping with his feet and going stomp, stomp, stomp

The song-related image depicts 28 scale-sized dinos grouped in periods: please note that almost

the stock ones are represented, and only few dinosaurs are not stock...

As just about any six-year-old will eagerly tell you, dinosaurs are awesome. And from Hollywood\'s point of view, they make for great, epic beasts and terrifying monsters, particularly given the fact that they

at one point. Hence, it\'s only natural that writers would want to include dinosaurs in their stories.

Unfortunately, most writers only know a few types of dinosaur (see Small Taxonomy Pools). Even dinosaur enthusiasts may be forced to avoid lesser-known dinosaurs, in case the viewers don\'t get it. As a result of this, series featuring dinosaurs, whether as a result of Time Travel or being set in Prehistoria or One Million BC, are almost

Note that "raptor" traditionally means a bird of prey, such as an eagle or a hawk - and it ultimately comes to us from the Latin word for "to seize",

, to be exact—so this usage is accidentally correct in a way.

(made famous by one of the Jurassic Park sequels, and qualified as "the dinosaur even more Bad Ass than

(The classic tyrannosaur-substitute, especially useful if it\'s necessary to have a dinosaur that lived in the Jurassic as opposed to the Cretaceous.)

(commonly known as "the first bird", but actually more similar to an undersized "raptor" than to a proper bird)

as well: whatever the name, it\'s kind of an inversion of the big/heavy dino image, more like a flightless bird in shape)

(the longer/skinnier brontosaur-substitute, sort of the Naomi Campbell to the Bronto\'s Nell Carter)

in traditional sense (like a taller / more giraffy version of the sauropods.)

(used as the Ultimate Armored Dinosaur, but good luck if you\'ll ever find it correctly-shaped)

(the even hornier triceratops version, can be used as its substitute)

(often shown but rarely named; usually just called "the crested dinosaur")

; more common in older works, in which is called "Trachodon")

(the longest-standing dinosaur in pop-culture, as it was one of the very first non-avian dinosaurs to be discovered by science itself; famous for having spiky thumbs, as well as one of the few prominent dinosaurs to exist outside of North America or Asia)

(known by science only since the 1990s, similar to an Allosaurus with steroids)

(looking like a sorta tyrannosaur thing with a bull-like head)

(like a spinosaur without the dorsal crest but notable for its huge thumbclaws)

(a carnivore famous for its nasal horn, very common in old films but rare in modern media)

(another big carnivore, the first ever non-bird dinosaur to have been described by science [1824])

(a small carnivore common in documentaries as the prototype of an early Triassic dinosaur)

(classically known as "the smallest dino", popularized by the sequel of Jurassic Park)

(often confused with ornithomimids, and once considered the "ultimate egg-stealer" among dinosaurs)

(similar to a Lighter and Softer Raptor, but better chances seeing its Dinosauroid altmode.)

The biggest sauropod of the moment (Calvin and Hobbes shows "Ultrasaurus", Chased By Dinosaurs

(the other well-known Triassic dinosaur, like an early version of the brontosaur)

(like a shrinked-hornless triceratops, once famous because used to be thought the owner of the first ever-found dino-eggs)

(a biped notable for its bulged head, and traditionally shown ramming its conspecifics in headbutt contexts)

(a Parasaurolophus-like hadrosaur but with a different crest, is often shown together with it in dino-books and sometimes movies)

(this hadrosaur may be cited for its scientific relevance, but is quite a rarity outside documentary media)

(often mixed together in one single animal, the "pterodactyl")

(Not even technically a true reptile, nor a contemporary of dinosaurs)

Woolly mammoth and American mastodon (Usually called the ancestors of modern elephants, when they were only relatives; and were distinct animals, not synonyms)

Sabre-tooth "tiger" (Likewise, often portrayed as the ancestor of modern cats, when it was only a relative, and not really a tiger, and thusly it is correctly termed "Sabre-toothed cat" — or even "Smilodon" if you\'re feeling particularly scientific)

If you are checking some Real Life info about these critters, go to the following index.

cash-in, with fossil versions of each of the Rangers\' power animals changing into robot warriors who defended Earth. It\'s remembered (if at all) for its memorably terrible CGI. And also for the fact that, when the Mammoth skeleton transformed into a robot, the

of the mammoth (complete with tusks and trunk) became the

uses some stock dinosaurs, but they have no problem dipping into more obscure territory as well.

. Most of the Petting Zoo People characters are more obscure dinosaurs. Fantastic Racism comes up not only against the human characters, but among the various species (one main character is an oviraptor, whose people faced persecution due to scientific theories that were popular before Science Marches On)

has a story arc with aliens hiding in a museum disguised as dinosaur replicas. The dinos include

, Jurassic Park sized but feathered raptors and "Brontosaur" type herbivores. The

can walk upright but since they are all actually aliens its justified.

appear as minor roles. What appears to be a spinosaur corpse appears in the eruption scene. However, they managed to avert this with titanosaurs as the token sauropods (taking place in the Cretaceous and all), an

(depicted with bull-horns for some reason). There are also other creatures, which all seem to be made-up.

. They also averted this with Japanese plesiosaur

as the main Mesozoic animal of focus, as well as a herd of

named Old Lace. Actually, it\'s first referred to as a Velociraptor, than a Deinonychus. The animal it\'s actually based on are the "Velociraptors" from Jurassic Park, which actually means given its size that Old Lace is actually a Utahraptor. Old Lace is completely featherless - however, she\'s genetically engineered and actually from the future, so that could explain many of the inconsistencies.

Super Dinosaur has all the usual suspects, but they are mostly anthropomorphic.

by Ricardo Delgado is a story only about dinosaurs. No dialogue at all. Deinonychus, Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, and Ceratosaurus among them. It tends to avert this trope and features lesser-known animals.

Most other documentaries of the time (1920-1940) used stock footage from

(see below). Many other documentaries use stock footage from other documentaries, so as to save money, so only original footage or notable documentaries will be mentioned.

(1956) had this in spades, and was the Crowning Moment of Awesome for the film since the FX were handled by Ray Harryhausen AND Willis O\'Brian. Included

(1957) features museum mounts and excavations of dinosaurs.

features a segment about "Possible martian Life" and compares it to how life evolved on earth—going into a pretty lengthy side track about it. Prehistoric life that is identifiable includes many stock animals—Dimetrodon is one of the synapsids. Dinosaurs include Plateosaurus, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Brontosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus. Other reptiles include Rhamphorhynchus and Pteranodon. Birds include Archaeopteryx. Mammals Smilodon, Glyptodonts, ground sloths, and mammoths before jumping to modern animals entirely. These animals were presented as static images moving along a static background. Epic Non-Animation.

Commissioned by the Department of the Interior, an educational film eventually entitled

(1958) featured Allosaurus, Stegosaurus and Brontosaurus...static sculptures. The film is about as active as the sculptures themselves.

(1970) used stop motion to bring dinosaurs to the class room. These animals included: Coelophysis, Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Pteranodon, Ankylosaurus, Glyptodon, Megatherium, Smilodon, Woolly Mammoth, Neanderthals. This footage occasionally found its way into

"The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs" (1977) has mentioned and displayed Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, Dimetrodon, Deinonychus, and Archaeopteryx.

"The Asteroid and the Dinosaurs" has a small, simply animated sequence with Diplodocus and Tyrannosaurus.

"The Hunt for Chinese Dinosaurs" (1991) shows several dinosaurs from China and from Canada. The first includes Protoceratops. North American setting focuses mainly on Troodon (and the Dinosauroid theory) and Tyrannosaurus rex. We can see animated Troodon as well. Stop motion animation and hand drawn animation are well implemented. It\'s also to note the Lampshade Hanging about the Dinosaurs Are Dragons thing during the entire program. Originally it was it\'s own separate 90 minute documentary, but was shortened for NOVA, cutting some ancillary bits of varied animation including sand-animation and some stop motion sequences.

"Case of the Flying Dinosaur" focuses on the connection between Dinosaurs and Birds (still debated heavily at the time). Archaeopteryx, Pterosaurs, and Deinonychus prominently featured.

"The Real Jurassic Park" (1993) was made to dual-promote science and the movie. See that film for the stock in use.

"Dinosaurs of the Gobi" (1994) focuses more on prehistoric small mammals from the late cretaceous of the Gobi. Protoceratops and Velociraptor are about the only ones mentioned.

"The Curse of T. Rex" (1997) - About a legal battle over a Tyrannosaur Skeleton

hosted by Christopher Reeves is one of the best known dinosaur documentaries of the 80s (as it was shown on CBS as a big event). Spectacular animation by Phil Tippet (who did on

\'s stop motion sequences among many others) really steal the show. The Animation primarily focuses on a family of Hadrosaurs/Anatosaurus\' as they try to raise offspring. Aside from them, there are Tyrannosaurus Rex, Apatosaurus, and a pair of Deinonychus. Most of the footage comes from Tippet\'s earlier short film

And now Phil Tippet has put the original short up on his Youtube Acount: Go watch it!

(1989), hosted by David Attenborough averts it until it actually discusses dinosaurs. Focusing on a plethora of extinct forms from every age of life. Many of the animals tend to go unnamed or compared to modern relatives. Pterosaurs get almost half an episode and feature fossils of many rarely used species but mention Quetzalcoatlus and Pteranodon. Dinosaurs mentioned and featured include Brachiosaurus (Giraffatitan, as its an African specimen), Seismosaurus (now Diplodocus), Archeopteryx, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Protoceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Diplodocus, various Hadrosaurs (Maiasaura among them) and Triceratops. Plants are actually named in a general sense: Tree Ferns, Cycads, Horsetails, Cyprus and Conifers. Transitional fossils and unnamed, unknown invertebrate fossils are given the bulk of screen time.

documentary. Mostly stock dinosaurs. There are animated puppets of Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, Brachiosaurus, Coelophysis, Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, Diplodocus, Maiasaura, and Centrosaurus (some scenes with carnivores are rather Nightmare Fuel -ish). The program also shows "Brontosaurus", Stegosaurus, Carnotaurus (not stock at the time), Parasaurolophus, Deinonychus, Archaeopteryx, Compsognathus, and all the three "record-size" sauropods of the time (

, "Ultrasaurus", and "Seismosaurus"). The mass extinction shown as most instantaneous possible. It also contains a memorable Harryhausen Lampshade Hanging about the correct use of dinosaurs in movies.

(1992) covered many non-stock and stock dinosaurs. Notable for its animated sequences, animals on display there include: Iguanodon, Edmontosaurus, Tyrannosaurs, Stegosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Triceratops, Troodon, Pteranodon, Rhamphorhynchus, Ichthyosaurus, Mosasaurs, and Diplodocus. One of the all time best documentaries.

) was an Italian documentary from 1993, the same year in which the movie

was broadcast in this country. It was extremely well-informed and popular, to the point to be translated in English and broadcast in USA and other countries worldwide.

itself, and stood the competition from the WWD series in the 2000s. Even though inaccuracies are present (a bit of Anachronism Stew), they are balanced out by the host pointing out the uncertainty of scientific statements. Prehistoric Monster is almost averted as well.

, each followed by a commentary. It�s hosted by the most popular Italian science-writer (Piero Angela), and has actually Dale Russell as the paleontological consultant. Curiously, Angela appears split in two �twin hosts� which talk each other: one remains in the studio (shaped like a hi-tech prehistoric cave), while the other time-travels in a �mesozoic world� and interacts with living dinosaurs (animatronic puppets: CGI was still an unknown thing in docus). Like in WWD, landscapes are filmed from Real Life. Particularly remembered is the dramatic asteroid scene in the last episode. There\'s also the synth-played score. All robotic dinosaurs are stock, and almost every pre-

stock dinosaur is shown in the mesozoic travel. Many of them could appear inaccurate to modern eyes, but these mistakes are mainly due to Science Marches On.

making only a brief apparition. Both roar continuously, but only the allosaur tries to eat the human.

became stock just that year). They�re wrongly shown in Late Cretaceous, and portrayed as the classic featherless pack-hunters that attack a much larger animal, rip its flesh with their sickle-claws and begin to eat it alive.

(the show-opener), a featherless, egg-stealing (but also crest-less)

es). In the first episode, one brontosaur almost hits the human with its tail. �Brachiosaurus� (

is portrayed too - mostly quadrupedal, and to show the rise to power of dinosaurs as usual.

shows up only in the last episode (about dinosaur extinction), and is unusually accurate (except for the tail-club which is two-lobed like

, but in the 2nd episode one young is eaten alive by the theropod in a heart-breaking scene. In the same episode, one adult female chases the human away from her nest.

appears only in the form of eggs eaten by Oviraptors. Two oversized (8 m long)

Hadrosaurs show up in all four episodes, in the usual role of �chosen preys� for T.rexes and �raptors� (and also for the giant croc

, who fails the attack). No fewer than four kinds appear:

and �Anatosaurus� (the latest two were still considered distinct at the time). Strangely, the documentary forgets to mention just the most iconic European dinosaur,

The third episode is specially dedicated to pterosaurs and sea-reptiles. The chosen pterosaurs are

became stock only after WWD). The most remembered scene, however, is the human hang-gliding near a gigantic

claw, and an "Ultrasaur" limb. Many other animals are mentioned: among them, Protoceratops (included the famous skeleton clutched with Velociraptor) Styracosaurus, pterosaurs, Archaeopteryx, Ichthyornis & Hesperornis, Mosasaurs, Plesiosaurs, Armored fish, Trilobites, Dimetrodon, Therapsids and some small Mesozoic mammals.

(1994-1997) ran for 50 episodes and thus got to focus on many non-stock dinosaurs. It covered things from obscure island giant rat species to

. It used some old animatronics and painting close ups to show its various prehistoric animals.

(1995) averted this trope. The only stock dinosaurs that appear are Edmontosaurus and Triceratops—and they\'re both ancillary to the episode they appear in. Instead, we get a focus on the development of plants through time. An episode is devoted to bacterial evolution into the cell, another on the Cambrian Explosion (featuring Pikaia, Anomalocaris, Opabinia, Hallucigenia and many others, but the mentioned ones are the iconic animals of the age), another on the development of fish to amphibians (featuring some of the usual suspects but also Pteraspis and Cheirolepis), the evolution of Birds (featuring Confuciusornis

as well as Archeopteryx), the evolution of flowering plants and the final one focused on human evolution.

(1995) manages to go into very decent detail about the life, environment and evidence regarding Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was the series\' only entry on dinosaurs.

is a rare documenatary focusing on Dinosaurs and Australian fauna of the cenozoic. Suffers form some Science Marches On. Includes

and its follow-up series feature every stock dinosaur listed above and just as many (or more) animals that were not heavily featured before. Inspired many to follow in its example.

The original WWD featured Stegosaurus, Utahraptor, Pteranodon, unnamed pterosaurs and Tyrannosaurus among the great stock, Diplodocus, Allosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Rhamphorynchus, Iguanodon, unnamed allosaurs, Anatotitan, and Ankylosaurus among the semi-stock, and Coelophysis, cynodonts, Plateosaurus, Liopleurodon, and Quetzalcoatlus among the rare stock.

WWB featured Smilodon, woolly mammoths, and neanderthals among the great stock, and Gastornis, Andrewsarchus, Paraceratherium, Australopithecus, Megatherium, Megaloceros, and woolly rhinos among the rare stock.

WWM featured Dimetrodon for secondary stock, and trilobites, sea scorpions, Meganeura, Arthropleura, and Edaphosaurus among the rare stock.

The Ballad of Big Al had Stegosaurus for great stock, and Allosaurus, Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and Diplodocus among semi-stock.

Chased by Dinosaurs had Pteranodon and Velociraptor among the great stock, and Argentinosaurus, Sarcosuchus, Giganotosaurus, and Protoceratops among the rare stock.

Sea Monsters had pterosaurs, coelurosaurs, Tyrannosaurus, and Pteranodon among the great stock, hadrosaurs, Ankylosaurus, and Anatotitan among the rare stock, and sea scorpions, trilobites, Dunkleosteus, Megalodon, Liopleurodon, Mosasaurs, Elasmosaurus, Archelon, and giant mosasaurs among the rare stock.

Walking With Cavemen had neanderthals and mammoths among the great stock, and australopithecus and megaloceros among the rare stock.

(2001) focuses on American Dinosaurs (as if they needed more representation). Some non-stock Triassic Reptiles and dinosaurs do make it in early on, however. Among the stock dinosaurs, there\'s Coelophysis, Dilophosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Allosaurus, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, pterosaurs, dromaeosaurs, coelurosaurs, T. Rex, Triceratops, Anatotitan, Quetzalcoatlus, and Ornithomimus.

(2003) focuses on recent extinctions only. It has Irish elk, neanderthals, cave bears, and woolly mammoths.

(2003) mostly averts this, as the majority of dinosaurs highlighted were lesser-known species like Daspletosaurus, Pyroraptor, Tarascosaurus (mainland and dwarf insular forms), Magyarosaurus, Orodromeus, Aucasaurus, and Saltasaurus. Stock ones featured include Velociraptor (which gets a focus episode), Oviraptor, Protoceratops, Iguanodon, Ichthyornis, Maiasaura (receives episode focus), Quetzalcoatlus, Edmontosaurus, titanosaurs, dromaeosaurs, troodontids, plesiosaurs, Giganotosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus.

(2004) focuses on recently extinct animals and thus averts this for at least half the creatures involved. Stock ones featured include woolly mammoths, Smilodon, American mastodon, moas, Haast\'s eagle (actually a modern-day harpy eagle), and Australopithecus.

(2005) - focuses on two killer dinosaurs (Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor) and their prey (Triceratops and ankylosaurs).

"Reveals" both stock and non-stock dinosaurs, including: Dunkleosteus, Mosasaurus, Meganeura, Arthropleura, Velociraptor, Quetzalcoatlus, Pteranodon, Giganotosaurus, Argentinosaurus, Spinosaurus, Phorusrhachos, and Doedicurus. The CGI is sub-par for the time period.

(2008) featured: Tyrannosaurus, Deinonychus, Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Stegosaurus, Megalodon, Utahraptor, Edmontosaurus, and Pterosaurs.

(2009) focused on several mass extinctions across the world. Animals on display include many non-stock animals, as the first focus on times before dinosaurs had evolved. As such, the number of non-stock animals outnumbers the stock in many of the episodes. Stock animals featured include trilobites, eurypterids, Dunkleosteus, Eusthenopteron & Ichthyostega, hadrosaurs, ammonites, mosasaurs, titanosaurs, Protoceratops, Quetzalcoatlus, Triceratops, Troodon, Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, and woolly mammoths.

(2009) has maybe 5 minutes of animation that it re-uses again and again. Inaccurate information compounds its badness. Dinosaurs include Tyrannosaurs, Quetzalcoatlus, Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, Parasaurolophus, and Deinonychus.

did whole segments on prehistoric animals in detail each episode. Largely averting stock animals: Titanis (a Phorusrhachid), Acrocanthosaurus, Amphicyon the Bear-Dog, Tylosaurus (a Mosasaur) and Megalania. Each animal was presented with animals it lived with and hunted, as well as discussing their extinctions. The Titanis episode featured Smilodon, an ancestral wolf (

), Hippidion (a North American horse) and a ground sloth. Spinosaurus has its ego further inflated as "Biggest Carnivore ever" taken to an insane degree and features Sarcosuchus, Carcharodontosaurus, the sauropod Paralititan, and the small theropod Rugops. Acrocanthosaurus features Paluxysaurus (a sauropod), Tenontosaurus (a large ornithopod), Deinonychus and the ankylosaur Sauropelta. Amphicyon features Daeodon (a largely carnivorous swine dubbed the "Terminator Pig"), Moropus (a Chalicothere), Merychippus (a primitive horse), Ramoceros (a pronghorn), and Epicyon (a more true canid). Tylosaurus featured Cretoxyrhina, Dolichorhynchops (a short-necked, long billed Plesiosaur), Elasmosaurus, Xiphactinus and Dallasaurus (see below). Finally, Megalania featured Procoptodon (the largest kangaroo ever), Diprotodon (the largest marsupial ever—a giant wombat), Thylacoleo (the "Marsupial Lion") and humans.

is far from averting Stock Animals, the narration keeps insisting that it does.

(2010) averts it in a few minor cases of it by taking major metropolitan areas and exploring the fossils found in and around them.Some of the dinosaur footage is taken from

, but new footage was made for this series. New York has Mastodons, Short Faced Bears (Arctodus), the Giant Beaver Castoroides, Archelon, Ammonites, Coelophysis, Dilophosaurus, Postosuchus and Eurypterids among others. Dallas, Texas features Mammoths, "Scimitar cats" (ancestors of Smilodon), Mosasaurs, Cretoxyrhina, the sauropod Paluxysaurus and Dallasaurus (a basal mosasaur). Washington D.C. features Megalodon, Amphicyon (a "Bear Dog"), ancient Peccaries, Astrodon, Pterosaurs (Pteranodon) and Utahraptor. Finally, Los Angeles features Plesiosaurs (Elasmosaur), Ice Age Bison, straight-shelled ammonites, Giant ground sloths, Smilodon, Parasaurolophus and another Hadrosaur and a Tyrannosaur.

has Scar, an Edmontosaurus and Patch, a Troodon as the main charchters. Quetzalcoatlus, Albertosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, Edmontonia and a moasasaur show up as well.

is more of a tribute to Dinosaurs in the model of Ricardo Delgado\'s

. So it\'s not really a documentary aside from the talking heads, but stories about dinosaurs. Still fun, but exectuive meddling forced it into a mold it was not ready to fill (it was planned as 6 episodes, but was cut to 4 — and the talking heads were for an after action followup). Because of this, some creatures are modeled after other species due to the changes. It features a healthy mix of stock and non-stock dinosaurs.

is a BBC Documentary that features largely non-stock dinosaurs from places rarely covered until the last 5 years or so: China, South America, Africa and so on.

may be one of the Trope Makers here. It shows off a random cross-section of prehistoric life in the space of a few minutes. It includes many ancient forms of life not normally committed to film (Trilobites, ancient fish, etc), but lots of stock animals too. Prehistoric animals include:

Dinosaurs: Plateosaurus, Brontosaurus, Diplodocus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Ceratosaurus, Troodon, Struthiomimus, Archaeopteryx, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Brachiosaurus, Psittacosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Chasmosaurus, and four hadrosaur kinds (Parasaurolophus, Anatosaurus, Corythosaurus and Kritosaurus)

Non-dinosaurs: Trilobites, Ammonites, Nothosaurus, Dimetrodon, Kannemeyeria, Placochelys, Tylosaurus, Elasmosaurus, Pteranodon, Hallopus, and Dimorphodon. There are also a lot of modern-day creatures, many of them are obscure invertebrates used to represent Life\'s first evolutionary steps.

25 years later, the Disney Imagineers created a Primeval World diorama for the 1964-1965 New York World\'s Fair, with many of the individual scenes apparently inspired by

. This diorama, which is currently installed at Disneyland in California, is a slight improvement on the film — the first scene shows dimetrodons in a Coal Age forest of giant horsetails (and

giant dragonflies, thereby combing the Carboniferous and the Permian), and then moves to a Jurassic swamp with some generic sauropods, followed by scenes featuring

(all Cretaceous). So far, so good; the sauropods look ridiculous and should not be munching water weeds in a swamp, but that can be put down to a combination of 1960\'s paleontological ignorance and artistic license. But then the final scene depicts a

battling some large theropod beside a violent lava flow. If the theropod is supposed to be a

, as the narrator usually states, why does it have three fingers per hand, and what is the stego doing in the Cretaceous? You could ignore the narrator and assume that the setting has reverted back to the Jurassic for some reason, and the stego is fighting an

tail spikes. Sigh. (Also, lava is really more of a Cretaceous thing.)

Word of God states that the creature is a Tyrannosaurus, but it doesn\'t have three fingers because it

. It\'s because people actually did used to think

true, it\'s recently been discovered that Tyrannosaurus did have three fingers, but the third was vestigial and would not have been visible on the animal\'s hand.

played straight the trope with a Five-Man Band made of four dinosaurs and one pterosaur; three of the dinos are Great Stock (

, with the sauropod obviously being the lead character), while the flying reptile is the iconic

. We can also see a brief cameo of the stock mammal-like reptile

.... with a snake-like tongue. However, this film make some aversions as well: the forth Five-Man Band dinosaur is the relatively obscure

, has some resemblance with "Edmontosaurus", and her parents brood the eggs like

; thus it may better qualified as a Mix-and-Match Critter duckbill (true

as well as a skeleton appear however). Rooter is an old-fashioned

), with two wrong spikes on the tip of its tail and very slow-moving like a turtle. This may be one of the first times that the bonehead

appears in a movie, although portrayed as a fearsome predator trying to kill Cera with headbutts. We can also see an egg-robbing

, a generic ankylosaur, and some small bipedal dinos similar to

. And then some generic pterosaurs (one of which resembling

), several modern reptiles (lizards and turtles, one of them is snapping-like), a long-tailed frog, some insects (dragonflies, beetles, crickets and spiders), a little rodent-like mammal, and two unusual sea reptiles at the beginning of the film: the smaller one resembles an Avicephalian, while the larger one trying to eat the former may be a Thalattosuchian (fish-like crocodile). We have in total 5 Great Stocks, 4 Middle Stocks (if you count the official identification of Rooter and Ducky) and 1 Little Stock (the pachy), while Non-Stock Dinosaurs are absent (but may be present among non-dinos). The only missing Great Stock is the �raptor�, but only because the film was made

(don�t worry, it has appeared in the first sequel which was made

Curiously, the sequels have a friendly Tyrannosaur and have featured popular (or fun to animate) recently-discovered animals in the cast as well. Also, the cartoon series has a feathered

(Ruby), as well as a returning Chomper (the friendly

Anyone wishing to believe the former is true; Littlefoot has previously been identified as a "Brontosaurus" and a "Bracheosaurus" (which is not only the wrong species, but the wrong damn spelling) on video and DVD releases. It seems this is one time where Word of God deliberately didn\'t know or didn\'t care.

deliberately averted this trope in several ways:

By avoiding all the four classic �Great Stock dinosaurs� in favor of three �Middle Stock� and one "Little Stock� equivalents which are related with their respective relatives. Brachiosaurus instead of Brontosaurus, Styracosaurus instead of Triceratops and Ankylosaurus rather than Stegosaurus are examples of the first case; the notable avoidance of

for Carnotaurus makes the second case. (This one is obviously the most often mentioned aversion).

Having several Little-Stock and/or Non-Stock creatures: the no-horned ceratopsian Pachyrhinosaurus, the small bonehead Stygimoloch (instead of the prototypical Pachycephalosaurus), egg-stealing Oviraptor instead of the classic ornithomimids, and Microceratops and Talarurus, as well as the toothed bird Ichthyornis, the giant amphibian Koolasuchus and a flying, chameleon-behaving Longisquama (one of the few meddled animals).

Showing two �great stock� animals in a non-traditional way: dromeosaurs here have the correct Velociraptor\'s shape, not the wrong

one, and the flying reptile carrying Aladar�s egg is the obscure

Having a Middle Stock dinosaur as the lead character:

. The film has the merit to have done justice for the first time to one of the most important dinosaurs in paleontology. In conclusion, we have in total 2 Great Stocks, 6 Middle Stocks (the four already mentioned plus

series averts the trope about mammals: obviously woolly mammoths and smilodons are in the spotlight, but we can see many critters that resemble some unfamiliar prehistoric mammals (although not named, thus acting as Genius Bonus). And the two marine reptiles in the second movie seem Non-Stock as well, with one of them resembling fish-like sea crocodilomorphs.

, there were also lesser-known dinosaurs such as a pack of

-mounted Buck and the possum brothers, ravenous wolfish

named Rudy - Buck\'s eternal enemy and threat to the

(1914) is the first film to feature Dinosaurs in a non-animated capacity: a full scale mechanical

(1916) features an armored sauropod battling an Ape Man. Cavemen also appear. Its followups,

Re-use the model but also include an Emu-like prehistoric bird.

(1918) Using Stop Motion, Wilis O\'Brian brought a Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, Triceratops to life. The film also had the prehistoric terror-bird Diatryma. This is also the earliest filmed battle between Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus.

also started the trend, but subverted it as well. The main big predator named is Allosaurus (though Tyrannosaurus appears for one scene). Other Dinosaurs include Trachodon (now Edmontosaurus), Brontosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and Pteranodon. Then it includes the now discredited genus

, which has an iconic battle with Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus.

have Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, Pteranodon, a serpentine Plesiosaur, Styracosaurus. Then there\'s the weird things like the Dragon-like creature, thick-headed Elasmosaur, Giant Bear, Teratornis, and two-legged, carnivorous lizard among other oddities.

The 2005 remake, on the other hand, averts this by saying that various species had evolved differently over the ages on the island. The companion artbook/in-universe journal explains these all in fairly great detail, even if it\'s written as if by a 1930\'s group of scientists.

has Brontosaurs, Dimetrodon, Ceratosaurus and a Flesh-Eating Giant Ground Sloth. Admittedly, people

suggested that giant sloths were carnivores (or at least omnivores) in the past (and

shows one driving sabertooths off a kill and eating it)... but not as active predators. The major problem is that the sloth has sharp teeth and looks like a cross between a gorilla and a bear.

— Featuring Pteranodon, Brontosaurus and Triceratops (the later two of which are apparently Immune to Bullets), as well as a Slurpasaur that all sound nothing like dinosaurs.

"I\'m seeing Dinosaur, but I\'m hearing Elephant" - Crow T. Robot.

was originally going to feature dinosaurs and prehistoric animals, but it was changed to giant animals later in production. One bit does survive, a

! The stop-motion model is good and the creature interacts well with the environment and actors—but the composure realized how silly it looked having a "Giant chicken" attack the cast, and made the music to emphasize that. To add insult to injury, the heroes eat the bird after roasting it up.

features one of the earliest Saber-Toothed Cats in film. Frozen in ice and revived by black magic, it\'s a bit larger than it would have been in life. MST3K Mantra is in full effect, but the cat looks excellent!

; they were both resurrected because of their popularity. It\'s largely responsible for the overuse of

The original film plays straight the trope with the aforementioned

may be considered another partial aversion, because the former used to be quite rare in films before JP (and remember that the sauropods belong to

thing is a case on its own because dromeosaurids entered in pop-culture mainly after this film; it may be considered as another aversion though, since the iconic dromeosaurid in books and in pre-JP fiction was

. In total there are 2 Great Stocks, 2 Middle Stocks, and 3 Non-Stocks (which became stock

In a small twist of irony, in one of the early scenes of the film, Sam Neill\'s character has a bit of a laugh when a boy suggests that a

fossil looks a bit like a "six foot turkey", given that

universe are big scary violent monsters. Have a look at this

and tell me the kid\'s wrong. Deadly they may be, but real

look a bit like a turkey. Some would argue they\'re kinda cute too.

�The Lost World� features all the dinosaurs from the first movie except

(probably with the purpose not to continue with such an incorrectly-portrayed animal) and

, and also added other animals: two Great Stocks (

, but it�s not named and make only a brief cameo).

. Completely new dinosaurs were Middle or Little Stocks:

(all these have starring roles, and are not named). The only yet notable aversion is famously

(again, another example of dinosaur that become stock thanks to the series), especially seeing it killing �The King�

(a very discussed scene among both dino-fans and non-dino-fans).

s is that of "they�re going to carry people away and eat \'em!". And these are

(whose name means "wings with no tooth") with

could lift up a person, even a 13-year old. A

did briefly appear in the second film, where it was shown correctly without teeth, but it was perching on a branch, which a real

wouldn\'t be able to do. Oh well. It�s worth noting that the movie did start with Grant telling us that the animals on the island aren\'t real dinosaurs because of mistakes in their creation and the mixing in of other genetic material. They\'d need an actual lampshade to make it more obvious.

If we put together all the movies we have: 5 Great Stocks (only

is missing), 3 Middle Stocks, and several Little Stocks. In a sense, the Jurassic Park series has not true Non-Stocks because almost all its dinosaurs which were not known among general public became automatically members of the stock ensemble thanks to endless JP-inspired imitations, comics and toys. The proportion of Stock Dinosaurs in the movies is

larger than that of the two novels (and the total number of genera is far smaller, see further). Spielberg decided it was better to play mainly this trope straight, since he was coping with large audiences...

plays this trope straight with the return of

skeleton can be seen in Jurassic World\'s Main Street, before being destroyed during the

has an Invisible Dinosaur terrorize a group of treasure hunters. This trope is completely averted as, though the creature appears to be a medium-sized theropod, it is unidentifiable and is unidentified through the film.

has both a Tyrannosaurus and Brontosaurus, who Fight until the Brontosaurus sinks in quicksand. The

starts averting it, using lesser known prehistoric mammals such as Uintatherium, Diatryma and proto-giraffes. But when they get to the Dinosaurs, it\'s all stock: Brontosaurus, Anatosaurus, Styracosaurus, Stegosaurus, Pteranodon and Ceratosaurus.

has several stock dinosaurs: Ceratosaurus, Triceratops, Allosaurus, Brontosaurus, Pteranodon AND Rhamphorhynchus (oversized and

). Harryhausen also threw in a Giant Iguana and Giant Spider Homage to the original

which as nothing but Slurpasaurs. Awesomely, people thought that a giant turtle was used for the Archelon, blown up to massive proportions anyway, but that too was a stop motion model.

has Pteranodon, Struthiomimus, Styracosaurus and Allosaurus. The film also throws in prehistoric mammal

, the "Dawn Horse", which confuses the cowboys and brings them all to the Lost World.

averts it pretty well. Sure, it has Brontosaurus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus that acts like a Horror Film Slasher to the stranded astronauts. It also has lesser known dinosaurs such as Polacanthus, Coelophysis, Dromiceiomimus and a Centrosaurus that\'s Immune to Lasers! It\'s a pretty bad film, but the FX are awesome.

"Like a stop motion gift from god!"

has lots of Stock Dinosaurs, but more often averts it...through Special Effects Failure. Stock include Allosaurus, Diplodocus, Ceratosaurus, Triceratops, Rhamphorhynchus, Ceratosaurus, Plesiosaurus, a "Giant Crocodile" (visually more of a mososaur) and Styracosaurus that apparently all think humans are VERY tasty or just don\'t like them. The film also features the stegosaur

but with the plating reversed. Oddly, despite the enlargement of them as well as the shortened neck, the Pterodactyls in the film are pretty accurate—they don\'t even use their claws to snatch people up, using their jaws instead. Too bad their wings and bodies are absolutely

has four prehistoric animals: Tyrannosaurus rex, a Uintatherium (identified as a Ceratopsian), Triceratops and Pteranodon. Also, there were Cavemen.

B-Movie Aversion occurs in the...what can only be labeled as "Fantasy"/Fur Bikini epic

features Giant Elasmosaurs, Rhamphorhynchus, a Chasmosaurus and a creature that can only be seen as an homage to

. It also had People-eating Plants and Giant Crabsfor no particular reason other than to have more things to kill helpless cavemen with.

Though not a dinosaur film, 10,000 BC features stock prehistoric mammals instead. Mammoths and (Giant) Smilodons, and a group of silly-looking Terror Birds in the Old World. According to interviews, they were put in so they could technically have dinosaurs in the movie —without having dinosaurs in the movie.

1976: This production from Spain features two mosasaurs that do battle, giant turtles, Dimetrodon, creatures resembling giant lizards and a King Kong knockoff (which actually was featured in a dream sequence in the original novel).

1998: A TV film has a predatory Iguanodon (lampshaded by the group\'s scientist) and Raptor People.

2008: This 3D film features only one dinosaur, a

with thumbs). In another scene, a flock of Plesiosaurs appear in an Always a Bigger Fish-type situation.

features a battle between an Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur. The first use of prehistoric animals in fiction, done way back in 1864.

(one of the two iconic dinosaurs at the time along with

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1912) was the first novel to show a prehistoric fauna instead of isolated creatures, in a remote place in South America. It\'s interesting because it reveals to us which animals were the most popular among people at the time; their "stock ensemble" was different to ours.

had been described only 7 years before, while

was already known for 35 years (discovered during the Bone Wars in 1877); thus,

in popularity as the "most fearsome meat-eating dino". The other two large meat-eaters known by paleontologists were the horned

(the popularity of both began to fall only in 1970\'s, after the Dinosaur Renaissance). In the novel, human characters encounter an enormous theropod and argue about which of the four aforementioned genera it belongs (without succeeding to identify it). The other two dinosaurs are the still-popular

, while there are no sauropods, no ceratopsians, and no hadrosaurs (this may be considered an aversion before the trope itself really got going, since these groups were already very well-known at the time); and obviously "raptors" are missing, since they were unknown at the time. In total, we surely have only one of the modern Great Stocks (Stegosaurus).

The same issue applies to the gigantic Pterosaurs encountered by our human heroes; the scientists of the group argue about which genus it is, and concluded that it may be either

was not the iconic flying reptile yet, or maybe we\'re coping with another proto-aversion). Marine reptile were the same chosen by Jules Verne:

) Conan Doyle seems also to avert the trope (at least to modern eyes) about post-dinosaurian critters: we haven\'t any sabertooth or mastodon/mammoth, substituted by Toxodon, Glyptodont, the Terror Bird Phorusrhachos (all South American) and the "Irish Elk" Megaloceros. Some of them are not named due to Unreliable Narrator, but are pretty obvious to someone who knows.

takes a singular approach, playing straight the trope and largely averting it at the same time. This because we can see

which is only mentioned in the list but never shown). All the other creature were Non-Stock or Little Stock. However, the following Spielberg\'s film made really stock two of Crichton\'s animals:

— in both cases the movie followed the same errors from the book, adding some other inaccuracies that were missing in the relatively more accurate novel. The ptoken pterosaurs, meanwhile, actually averted this trope for once, being

One word about "raptors" (a nickname invented by Crichton): few people know that

(The Other Wiki shamefully omits this detail

only because Crichton was inspired by paleontologist Gregory Paul and his famous book "Predatory Dinosaurs of the World", in which

scientists have followed Paul in this soon-rejected theory, since these two animals were largely different between each other, as said in Prehistoric Life Birdlike Theropods). At one point Alan Grant sees a hatchling and one of the scientist of the park says is

) as well: the cloner guy says yes and tells to Alan that there already are

of this species and shows them to the paleontologist. These are the raptors that later will chase the humans until the end of the novel.

is the real Big Bad from the story (other than the rex).

has a similar approach to the former: many Great Stock dinosaurs, some Middle Stock and much more Little Stocks and Non Stocks. The most notable of the latter is perhaps

: this is the very first time that this horned predator has ever appeared in a successful pop-work, and became a real stock after its second important portrait in Disney\'s Dinosaur, possibly substituting the "out-fashioned"

(however the third JP film decided to be traditional and showed the old Ceratosaur and not Carnotaurs).

does what it can to subvert this as much as possible. The mix of animals is justified by the fantastic setting. On top of that, the popular dinosaurs tend to be relegated to smaller roles; the main characters are instead made up of species who are the most fun to paint. Anatomically correctly, for the most part. Those were some damn good-looking books.

The first dinosaur the main characters see is the rarely-seen stock

character later in the books), and unlike most other dinosaurs in the setting she is able to speak (indeed, the species is well known for its translators due to their strong vocal range).

In Megamorphs #2, our heroes go back in time, morphing dinosaurs. Thanks to Tobias\'s (previously unmentioned) detailed knowledge of dinosaurs rivaling with that of a six year old\'s, they establish that they\'re in the late Cretaceous Era, and fight (among others) Spinosaurs. At the end of the book, Tobias says paleontologists believe Spinosaurs had died out by the

-Cretaceous. "Who are you going to believe? Me, or a bunch of guys with old fossils?"

were also from the Early Cretaceous, and the meteor impact is portrayed as happening in California, when it really took place in southeastern Mexico.

, as one would expect from a book written by a Paleontologist. Limited to

series by Steve Alten. The prologue of the first book features Dinosaurs, and

is one of them. The Trench and Hell\'s Aquarium also makes use of stock marine reptiles, inasmuch as there are stock marine reptiles. (

itself could be considered a \'stock prehistoric creature\'

jumping on a bed and hitting his head, a Stegosaurus riding a bike and smashing his spike, a

walking all alone and being dried up into bones.

series, which features lesser-known genera like

. Played straight, however, with the main heroes:

, had "Dinozords", of which only three were actual dinosaurs —

, but called "Pterodactyl" in the American version), and a Godzilla-like "dragon".

. The main characters did have powers stemming from the overused stock

-themed Next Tier Power-Up and corresponding zord. The Sixth Ranger was cool, since his animal was a

, an obscure pterosaur with a large head crest. Neither show really identified the

) originally arrived in the dimension known as the Human World (Earth) when it was originally the Dino World (despite the mastodon not being a dinosaur). In

they are merely known as the "Paleozord(s)" and have no historical setting.

features the Kyoryu Origami (Kyoryu = Dinosaur) which is an undefined Sauropod with pointy teeth (which is believed to be the

for secondary Rangers and mecha. Beyond that, there are about a dozen more different powerups, some of which are represented by non-stock dinos:

combines the Rangers\' individual weapons into a BFS, while the others are weaponized abilities like

turns you into paper, Ammonite makes the target dizzy,

is Me\'s a Crowd. The last two are unique in that they represent fossils discovered in Japan.

-related literature and discussion often insist on calling the animal Hiro is fighting in Isaac\'s painting a

. A Carnotaurus has a bulldog snout, horns, warts, and three prominent fingers. The

actually manages to play this trope straight while averting it at the same time; While almost all of the prehistoric creatures to appear are more obscure than those seen in most media, the only actual

The third season broke the trend, featuring three dinosaurs: a

(though a great deal of liberty was taken with its design, giving it an

"accurately sized". It was a baby. Meaning we still didn\'t get a "proper-sized" Velociraptor. We never see an adult in the third season. Same thing happens with the Deinonychus, the only ones seen in the third season aren\'t fully grown. However we do see adult Deinonychus in the second season.

featured most, if not all, of the stock dinosaurs, with raptors being the most common.

featured all sorts of stock dinosaurs, and gave them nicknames on top of it. Tyannosaurus, Allosaurus, Coelophysis, Triceratops, Apatosaurus (called Brontosaurus) and Pteranodon among them. They also had other monsters such as a Two-Headed Elasmosaur and a fire-breathing Dimetrodon. The 90s remake featured Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Apatosaurus, a Mosasaur and Pteranodon. It also mentioned or showed remains of prehistoric mammals such as Dire Wolves and Smilodon. The Movie features Dromeosaurids, Compsognathids, Pteranodon, Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus.

round out the core stock. The series also includes

, a Mosasaur, a Azhdarchidae Pterrosaur (acting like a shrike) and a descendant of

, among his other animal-based powers, gets a Super Mode form based on the great stock trinity of

has featured very few, most notably the Brachiosaurs and the Ankylosaurus. Their large carnivore role is filled by Carnotaurus rather than T. rex and their raptors come from two different fictional species. A spinosaur (nicknamed Empirosaur) appeared in one episode.

, being a show about parallel universes, had two episodes with dinosaurs in them. The first one had them in a wildlife preserve of Dinosaurs run by humans, the other which was a caveman and dinosaur fantasy world where the cavemen went extinct thanks to another group of Sliders escaping their world for that one. The first one referenced many dinosaurs (including Stegosaurus and Archeopteryx), but only an Allosaurus showed up. It also included an Evil Poacher. The later featured Parasaurolophus and Tyrannosaurus Rex.

An Invisible Monster Dinosaur (a Tyrannnosaur) ended up being the undoing of the hero in

Artist Charles R. Knight is responsible for setting up a lot of the iconic images of Dinosaurs. For a while, he had more artwork in more museums than any other artist because of his dinosaur restorations. He painted virtually every dinosaur that was stock at his time (early twentieth century) and then some. The artwork he created was used as reference material for several films (including

) and were reprinted in children\'s books until the 1970s; even modern books on paleontology can include them for nostalgia purposes. Ironically, even though some of his paintings are over 100 years old, a select few remain surprisingly accurate to our current understanding of Dinosaurs—he was the first to portray Dinosaurs in the posture we now accept (IE: not dragging its tail), and did so with his iconic image

Czech artist Zdenek Burian was the European equivalent of Knight, or successor, since his most famous and influential works came only after the "Knight Era". His paintings have been reproduced and recreated countless of times in many, many books, and some of his classic set-ups (mountain-like

Actually, it would be the other way around: Godzilla\'s design seems to have been partially based on Burian\'s

reconstruction, as well as his incredibly famous rendition of an erect

) have become memes of their own among paleo-artists.

" crafted between 1944-1947 helped define much of the popular image of dinosaurs as well, and covered time periods not generally covered in most other sources. Despite being out of date it is still on display where it was painted at the Yale-Peabody Museum—and is appropriately dinosaurian in size: Over 14ft tall and over 114ft long.

The 1964 World\'s Fair had an exhibit of "Life Size" dinosaurs supported by the Sinclair Oil company (whose logo was a brontosaurus). It featured the following dinosaurs:

Famous palaeontologist Bob Bakker (one of the main authors of the "dinosaur renaissance") depicted active, warm-blooded dinosaurs in the sixties. Its iconic drawing is a fast-running, extremely lively

(the dinosaur inspirer of the "renaissance"). Many artists have followed his example in the next decades:

Palaeontologist Gregory Paul depicted many theropods in black-and-white in his successful book

; these drawings was a major font of inspiration for Michael Crichton and his

. He\'s also co-responsible to certain errors present in the novel (in particular the Velociraptor-Deinonychus misunderstanding).

John Sibbick has been perhaps the most influential dino-artist at the end of the twentieth century, portraying many lively and colorful dinosaurs (and other ancient creatures as well) that now are stock in modern dinosaur books. Sibbick\'s paintings are spectacularly rich of details, even though some could find them somewhat static — and some are also partially outdated by Science Marches On: in his oldest series the only non-bird dinosaur depicted with feathers is

. Sibbick\' influence was so strong that the next generation of artists often depicted dinosaurs with the same colour schemes, and even certain anatomical details. For example, green

with huge inflatable airsac on its head, the frontal view of the head of

have been copied by many other paleo-artists. Even some films and TV programs of the 1990s-2000s were clearly inspired from Sibbick\'s illustrations: the

of Walking with Dinosaurs look a lot like Sibbick\'s hypsilophodon, and even the

es of Jurassic Park III are inspired from the artist\'s portrait, with their multi-colored crest.

features brontosaurs, triceratops, pterodactyls, and Tyrannosaurus rex in the main game, while the playfield includes a mastodon, a Slurpasaur, and a Whateversaurus.

, dinosaurs in the past include a tyrannosaurus, a triceratops, a beaked pterosaur, a duckbilled hadrosaur, and a giant serpent.

A lot of toy companies, starting in the 1980s, began to subvert the stock after having set it up for years. Sure, the stock dinosaurs are the most common, but with regular frequency, non-stock dinosaurs appear.

. Other characters with dinosaur alt-modes followed, mostly using the dinosaurs popularized by the Dinobots (with the exception of Sludge, the

). Nearly all of these characters were exclusive to the Japanese fiction, although the toys got released in the US (where Magmatron\'s three beast modes were misidentified horribly. How does a

A "Power Core Combiners" line, featuring "Commander" bots that can combine with sets of drones, managed to make a Dinobot team with no species overlap with the established one: the Commander, Grimstone, is a

The newest movie has the Dinobots back to more common dinosaur types, with the addition of Scorn (

). Swoop\'s stand-in, Strafe, is the only one that really stands out - his beast mode has two heads for some reason.

. There were no raptors, unfortunately, but a dead one did appear in an image in the building manuals, which had a section dedicated to dino science.

, a line featuring four basic, giant-sized action figures which could be rebuilt into other stock dinos or even Seldom Seen Species. These were:

There were also promo sets of prehistoric babies sold in polybags:

and block-raptors (may be justified in that they were

\'\'Dino 2010\'\' and its US-counterpart \'\'Dino Attack\'\' had "mutant lizards", a "raptor", a clear Ptero Soarer and a "T-Rex". These were all supposed to be mutant freaks, so apart from the only even slightly recognizable dino of the bunch (T-Rex), it\'s neigh impossible to deduce what species they might be.

The (mostly) unreleased "Doom Island" series of Godzilla toys by Trendmasters was planned to take advantage of the post-Jurassic Park dinosaur craze and feature mutated dinosaurs. These included T-Rex, ankylosaurs, a stegosaurus, and \'raptors\'

with a really long tail, Woolly Mammoth (

), and humanoid mutants. However, they avert this with a nodosaur tribe.

named Diablo and Sauron and a dromeosaur named Talon, who was actually depicted with feathers. Armadon and Vertigo were both Mix-and-Match Critters, the former being a bipedal ceratopsian/ankylosaur/stegosaur hybrid while the latter was based of the more obscure

with a bit of cobra thrown in. The other two main characters, Blizzard and Chaos, on the other hand, were giant apes instead of dinosaurs.

games do have stock dinosaurs (such as Aerodactyl = Pterosaur, Rhyperior = Ankylosaur/Theropod/Rhinoceros, etc.), there\'s also more obscure species/genera in there; Sceptile, for example, resembles the REAL

The Pok�mon actually revived from fossils generally avert this. Aerodactyl is mentioned above, Rampardos and Bastiodon are the stock pachycephalosaur and ceratopsian, and Archeops is an archaeopteryx, but Omastar is an ammonite, Kabutops is a horseshoe crab, Cradily is a sea pen, and Armaldo is, amazingly, an anomalocarid, and Carracosta could have been based on a number of prehistoric sea turtle such as Archelon.

The 6th-generation fossil Pok�mon, however, are both based on stocks: Tyrunt and Tyrantrum are based on tyrannosaurids, and Amaura and Aurorus are based on sauropods (though Tropius has covered this ground already).

Though Amaura and Aurorus are clearly based on Amargasaurus

rather than Apatosaurus, since the fossil used to resurrect them is their signature "sail" vertebra spines.

at first features Stock Dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor (

sized), Compsognathus and Pteranodon, but also features the weirdest of the weird Therizinosaurus

adds Giganotosaurus, Allosaurus, Oviraptor, Triceratops, Inostrancevia (a Gorgonopsid of some size), Mosasaurus and Plesiosaurus.

uses many of the stock favorites as rare and special characters, while the game\'s Com Mons (and some of the more powerful types) tend to be more obscure dinos. Although your "starter" is always an Altispinax/Beckelspinax, but at the beginning, you get to answer a series of questions in order to pick a stock dinosaur that is "special" to you (such as Triceratops, Maiasaura, Parasaurolophus, etc).

, as a Jurassic Park simulator, includes stock species, but it actually ranks them according to the actual popularity in the real world (with an obvious Jurassic Park bias). Stock species include Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Velociraptor, Allosaurus, Spinosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Parasaurolophus (along with Corythosaurus and Edmontosaurus) and Gallimimus; as well as the seldom seen Styracosaurus, Dilophosaurus (it IS Jurassic Park after all) and Ceratosaurus, but some choices are quite rare, such as Acrocanthosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Albertosaurus, Ouranosaurus, Camarasaurus, Torosaurus, Kentrosaurus, Homalocephale (for some reason MORE popular that Pachycephalosaurus) and Dryosaurus, whose popularity is so low that they may as well account for some expensive and prone to die ambient.

Examination of the game files show several Dummied Out species, and those include both stock and non-stock species: Deinonychus, Ornithomimus, Iguanodon, Apatosaurus and Diplodocus are the most striking ones, but there are also familiar faces such as Baryonyx, Maiasaura or Tenontosaurus, as well as really rare dinosaurs such as Alioramus, Yangchuanosaurus, Panoplosaurus, Wuerhosaurus or Thescelosaurus.

episodic series features most of the classic stock dinos from the film series (Well, the first two movies, anyway), along with newcomers Herrerasaurus, Troodon, and a Mosasaur for a particularly terrifying underwater sequence.

subverts the trope by having (of a total 7 dino classes) only 2 "stock" dinos. Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus Rex. The other five are the Dilophosaur, Desmatosuchus, Stygimoloch, Protoceratops, and Styracosaur.

include stock dinosaur Expys. Most prominent is Un-Goro, which includes T-Rex, Raptors, Stegosaurus, and Pterodactyls.

seem like Stock Brachiosauruss at first due to their shape, but this is actually a subversion: They are actually creatures with the body of a turtle and the head of a King Cobra, But it invokes the look of a stock sauropod, thus the subversion.

game features stock dinosaurs, but it also features many more obscure species.

, but plenty of Pleistocene fauna. You can encounter wooly mammoths, sabre-toothed cats (called just sabrecats, for brevity) and cave bears.

currently only has Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus and Ankylosaurus. But other animals are planned to be added in the future. Alphodon, Azdarchids and Troodon are currently listed for the future and the developers stated community feedback will influence whatever else is added.

features Paeleontologist Raptor Banditos, one of whom becomes his sidekick. It\'s also worth noting that when the author was e-mailed about a velociraptor being more like a "Deinonychus, or a Utahraptor," he lampshaded it, responding "I just want to let you know that all that real life dinosaur stuff is crazy confusing in my brain, and I\'m just going by the Jurassic Park version."

has the Allosaurus...as the President of the United States of America. And he just beat Cthulhu (we hope) for second term.

has three stock dinosaur appearing in each issue:

, a dromeosaurid and an ornithomimid. The last two are aversions if you count the genera: the dromeosaur is

(the least-famous of the three North American ornithomimids).

Somewhat averted in the frequent dinosaur cameos in Chaff City

- Dromaeosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus and what appears to be a Carnotaurus have all made recent appearances in the strip.

: Partially averted. There aren\'t too many Great/Middle Stock Dinosaurs (

. She\'s a Diplodocus. In 1914, it was a very popular dinosaur, partly because Steel Mogul Andrew Carnegie had one named after himself and balyhoo\'d it.

(1980) has many pieces of humor, and as many dinosaurs. Tyrannosaurus, Styracosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Ankylosaurus, Stegosaurus, Ultrasaurus, Triceratops, long necked pterosaurs, Corythosaurus, an ornithomimid and possibly hypsilophodonts.

franchise had dinosaurs from virtually everywhere, plus the obligatory pterosaurs and

. A spinoff line of prehistoric mammals provided another example of this trope, with an entelodont (giant pig-thing) alongside a giant ground sloth, saber-toothed cat, and woolly mammoth. Then again, this is a series that concerns the exploits of aliens waging war on prehistoric Earth with the help — voluntary in the case of the good guys, not so much in the case of the bad guys — of the animals. Rule of Cool heals many a wound.

is the villain and another is on the protagonists\' side. The teens\' dino forms are

. Or so the official Web site says, but they\'ve gotten species wrong at least once, reportedly. Just saying.

took a unique approach to this; Each of the heroes was a different type of stock dinosaur, with an Evil Counterpart of a different, roughly comparable species. The Hero was an

that is usually smaller than a Chihuahua, but quite smart (although even in that state he voluntarily acts like a dog). It is Earth\'s food that causes both his body to grow and his brain to shrink, and he needs food from his (and the other late Jurassic dinos\') homeworld to return to normal.

invokes this with the Dinobots. We\'ve got Grimlock (

), Slag (Triceratops), Sludge (Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus), and Snarl (Stegosaurus). Swoop technically doesn\'t count since he is a Pteranodon. On the Decepticon side there was Trypticon, whose robot mode was a Godzilla-sized

. Bonus points for actually looking like Godzilla.

, a now-defunct series of children\'s fact & trading cards that focused on living, extinct & mythical creatures and ran from 2003-2006, zig-zagged this trope in its Monsters of the Past category. Popular creatures like

were featured, as well as more obscure animals like the megalosaur

Museums often play straight the trope, showing only the most famous/spectacular dinosaurs to the public (while other less-dramatic fossils are kept hidden in the museum-basements). For example,

counts hundreds of mounts around the world... but in Real Life the known specimens are less than twenty! This because most museum mounts are simple copies of the original skeletons. Other very common dinosaurs are

(the latter is the most common sauropod mainly thanks to Andrew Carnegie, see the Useful Notes). However, there are some very popular dinosaurs which have been quite rare in museums: ex. before the 1990s the only

mounted skeleton was the famous one in Berlin (now renamed

). There are also some non-stock guys that are quite common: a skeleton of the iguanodontian

(a Portmanteau of Din[osaur] A[ni]mation) was a company which built and exibited robotic dinosaurs in museums worldwide from 1986 to 2001. Its moving/roaring dinos are generally stock, see the list

Science and Pop-Culture are closely tied about the dinosaur argument perhaps more than any other scientific field. Many paleontological circles have begun to receive more financial funding

-mania, and almost with the purpose of thanking Crichton and Spielberg some paleontologists have started naming new species of predatory dinosaurs with

-related names since that. In particular, almost all the new species of dromeosaurids have been called with the suffix -raptor (while among pre-Jurassic Park dromeosaurs,

Canadian basketball team from Toronto has been named Toronto Raptors: another gift Spielberg has given to us.

But even a much older gent - Sees itself forced to wander - Goes by the name Diplodocus - And belongs among the fossils - Mr. Carnegie packs him joyfully - In giant arcs - And sends him as gift this way - To multiple monarchs

" This is the translation of a a little poem written in Germany in early 1900, celebrating the diplo\'s skeleton gifted by Carnegie to a local museum.

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