Jurassic Park Dinosaurs

Deepu_ravi · Post by **Deepu_ravi** » 06 Apr 2004, 23:16

is pachycephalosaurus an omnivore as mentioned in the jpinstitute website or was it strictly herbivores

Deepu_ravi · Post by **Deepu_ravi** » 08 Apr 2004, 00:36

can any one name the dinosaurs present in the two novels(jp and lost world).

ChanceKell · Post by **ChanceKell** » 08 Apr 2004, 16:42

Deepu_ravi wrote:can any one name the dinosaurs present in the two novels(jp and lost world).

Jurassic Park Novel:
Tyrannosaurs
Maiasaurs
Stegosaurs
Tricerotops
Procompsognathids
Othnielia
Velociraptors
Apatosaurs
Hadrosaurs
Dilophosaurs
Pterosaurs
Hypsilophodontids
Euoplocephalids
Styracosaurs
Microceratops

The Lost World Novel:
Tyrannosaurs
Maiasaurs
Pacycephalosaurs
Procompsognathids
Apatosaurs
Stegosaurs
Tricerotops
Parasaurolophus
Velociraptors
Carnotaurus

Deepu_ravi · Post by **Deepu_ravi** » 09 Apr 2004, 05:37

Deepu_ravi wrote:is pachycephalosaurus an omnivore as mentioned in the jpinstitute website or was it strictly herbivores

can anyone give me an answer for this.

Tyrannis · Post by **Tyrannis** » 09 Apr 2004, 11:10

As far as I know it's strictly herbivorous but I don't know that for sure, it may have been as omnivore but who knows for sure.

Nagisa · Post by **Nagisa** » 09 Apr 2004, 16:01

Might've been like the hippo in that it was mostly herbivorous, but could resort to scavenging corpses in times of shortage.

Deepu_ravi · Post by **Deepu_ravi** » 13 Apr 2004, 00:30

is the chicken sized dinosaur in the lost world and jp3 compsognathus or procomsognathus.what is the difference between them?

tyrant_lizard_king · Post by **tyrant_lizard_king** » 13 Apr 2004, 02:41

Its a Compsognathus. Procomsognathus is a Ceratosaurian while Compsognathus is a Tetanurae. Not to mention that Procomp is quite a bit bigger than the other. By the way, how in the hell was Grant escavating an Asian Velociraptor in North America.

Nagisa · Post by **Nagisa** » 13 Apr 2004, 03:10

tyrant_lizard_king wrote:Its a Compsognathus. Procomsognathus is a Ceratosaurian while Compsognathus is a Tetanurae. Not to mention that Procomp is quite a bit bigger than the other.

Nope.

http://dinosauricon.com/genera/compsognathus.html

http://dinosauricon.com/genera/procompsognathus.html

Procompsognathus is bigger, but not by that much. It's also related to the Coelophysoids, not the Ceratosaurs.

Anyway, to answer your question about Velociraptors in North America...basically the "Velociraptor" in Jurassic Park could be considered 100% imaginary. It's just a generic Dromaeosaur created for the movie by mixing together various members of the family, giving it the Velociraptor name to keep true to the book, and scaling the size up to make it a legitimate threat to the human cast. It's much bigger than the real Velociraptor mongoliensis, it's slightly bigger than Deinonychus antirrhopus & found in the same location, and the film crew tried their damnedest to pretend the movie creatures were Utahraptor ostrummaysorum when that animal was uncovered for the sole sake of publicity (the real-life U.ostrummaysorum was much bigger than the movie animals, so how they expected people to buy their BS is beyond me...of course...a lot of people did buy their BS, which is just saddening...).

I guess you could say all this "OMG ther smartar then apes!!!1111" nonsense could be traced back to Troodon formosus, currently considered the smartest of the dinosaurs. Though...that is a bit of a stretch, and even there the whole "their intelligence surpasses all living things except for humans" claim is a bit much.

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » 13 Apr 2004, 20:47

For a brief time, Deinonychus was considered to be a sub-species of Velociraptor since it is a member and of the same "family" of dinosaurs. Deinonychus was later seperated into it's own genera again, but in the novel version of Jurassic Park it basically mentions that the Velociraptors seen on Nublar are Deinonychus. Why was it kept the same in the movie? For the most part it may have not been noticed at all and the fact the threat level they had at that size. It's much more terrifying to fight something carnivorous at a human size (ex. see the Alien and Predator series of movies).