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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' has entelodont-like creatures referred as "wolves" by characters, which implies to be a warg subspecies, and by association, canine creatures. Problem is, they look exactly like entelodonts, and are quite accurately portrayed as such.

* In the ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' episode "Dead Clade Walking", the stolen dinosaur skeleton that Sherlock and Joan have to track down is referred to as a "Nanotyrannus". This is a dinosaur species that most scientists think ''didn't even exist''-- it might have just been a juvenile ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. The fossil also looks nothing like a tyrannosaur.

* ''Series/{{Timecop}}'': Ian Pascoe claims to have witnessed a megalodon shark rip the throat out of a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. These animals lived over 47 million years apart, assuming he didn't somehow (?) bring them together.

* ''Series/{{Timecop}}'': Ian Pascoe claims to have witnessed a {{Megalodon}} shark rip the throat out of a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. These animals lived over 47 million years apart, assuming he didn't somehow (?) bring them together.

** "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" had {{Ptero Soarer}}s, juvenile ''[[http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/09/dinosaurs-on-a-spaceship/ Tyrannosaurus]]'' that look like the adults and typical [[RaptorAttack pop culture raptors]].

#* One episode of [[Creator/FoodNetwork 24-Hour Restaurant Battle]] had a caveman-themed restaurant called The Cave-In. ''Every single food item'' was dinosaur-themed, even things like ribs and burgers that could have been named after any animal at all (like, say, mammoths).

** But this is topped by another Third Doctor story: ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]''. Somewhere, a Palaeontologist is [[ExaggeratedTrope Committing Suicide by Placing his Head between Two Convergent Tectonic Plates]].

* One episode of [[Creator/FoodNetwork 24-Hour Restaurant Battle]] had a caveman-themed restaurant called The Cave-In. ''Every single food item'' was dinosaur-themed, even things like ribs and burgers that could have been named after any animal at all (like, say, mammoths).

*** Ironically, the Zords from ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger''/''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' were more scientifically accurate in design than the dinosaurs in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', even though the latter was far more expensive than the former to make and came out only 3 years earlier. [[RaptorAttack Well, except for the Raptor Riders.]] They did not, however, use correct names for some of them: a ''Tupuxuara'' pterosaur was called "Top Galer" in ''Abaranger'' and [[DinosaursAreDragons "Drago zord"]] in ''Dino Thunder''. The latter also referred to a ''Styracosaurus'' as the "Mezodon" zord, though that might be the name of the ''zord'' and not the dinosaur.

** The first issue is the reliance on StockDinosaurs, and they include creatures that technically aren't dinosaurs. Of the four dinosaur-based series all include pterosaurs, ''Zyuranger''/''Mighty Morphin''' has two mammals (a mammoth and a sabertooth tiger) and a NotZilla, ''Abaranger''/''Dino Thunder'' has a ''Dimetrodon'', ''Kyoryuger''/''Dino Charge'' has a plesiosaur, and ''Ryusoulger''/''Dino Fury'' has another sabertooth, another ''Dimetrodon'', and a ''Mosasaurus''. ''Go-Onger''/''RPM'' also has a set of dino mecha with a mammoth.

** Most of these series also tend to show all the dinosaur species existing together regardless of the fact that they were eras apart; though at least in ''Abaranger''[='s=] case this coexistence is explicitly an AlternateDimension where they survived the extinction event(s). (The few that do dodge this issue, including ''Mighty Morphin''', ''Dino Thunder'', and ''Ryusoulger'', only do so by not actually showing prehistoric times onscreen.)

*** ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger''/''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' seems to be pretty far behind. While the ''Tyrannosaurus'' doesn't drag his tail, almost every bipedal dinosaur has scaly skin and pronated hands. The Tyranno even has three fingers on each hand! And while the ''T. rex'' is feathered in ''Kyoryuger'', ''Dino Charge'' has been known to forget that detail in its original footage; and neither show includes feathers on the ''Velociraptor''. ''Kyoryuger'' also makes the mistake of showing a ''Spinosaurus'' as a completely land-based creature, though in the show's defense, the major pile of evidence towards it being partially if not completely water-based didn't drop until shortly after it ended. ''Dino Charge'' doesn't include the ''Spinosaurus'', but adds another inaccuracy by identifying the Brachiosaur as a "Titanosaur" (likely as a MythologyGag to ''Mighty Morphin[='=]''[='s=] Brachiosaur, Titanus). In 65 million B. C. E., in presumably what is now the Hell Creek Formation of western North America, Keeper the alien is trying to protect the 10 Energems --Red, Blue, Green, Pink, Purple, Black, Aqua, Graphite, Gold, and Silver--from the villainous bounty hunter, Sledge. Keeper encounters the dinosaurs and other Mesozoic creatures, to whom he bonds the Energems. He bonds them Energems to ''T. rex'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Velociraptor'', ''Triceratops'', ''Plesiosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', ''Pteranodon'' (ambiguously referred to as the Pterodactyl), and ''Titanosaurus'' (currently known as ''Jainosaurus''). However, of these genera, only ''T. rex'', ''Triceratops'', ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', and ''Pteranodon'' have been discovered in late Cretaceous rock in the Hell Creek Formation. ''Stegosaurus'' lived at least 80 million years earlier, ''Plesiosaurus'' lived at least 100 million years earlier, and ''Parasaurolophus'' lived 10 million years earlier. ''Jainosaurus'' did exist at the end of the Cretaceous (and thus of the Mesozoic), but its fossils were found in India, and by the end of the Cretaceous, the continents were approaching their present-day forms. Therefore, it would have been more appropriate to have the Blue, Purple, Black, and Silver Energems bond to creatures such as ''Didelphodon'' (a carnivorous marsupial mammal), ''Champsosaurus'' (a choristoderan reptile), ''Edmontosaurus'' (a hadrosaurian dinosaur), and ''Thescelosaurus'' (a hypsilophodontid dinosaur).

*** ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger''/''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' seems to be pretty far behind. While the ''Tyrannosaurus'' doesn't drag his tail, almost every bipedal dinosaur has scaly skin and pronated hands. The Tyranno even has three fingers on each hand! And while the ''T. rex'' is feathered in ''Kyoryuger'', ''Dino Charge'' has been known to forget that detail in its original footage; and neither show includes feathers on the ''Velociraptor''. ''Kyoryuger'' also makes the mistake of showing a ''Spinosaurus'' as a completely land-based creature, though in the show's defense, the major pile of evidence towards it being partially if not completely water-based didn't drop until shortly after it ended. ''Dino Charge'' doesn't include the ''Spinosaurus'', but adds another inaccuracy by identifying the Brachiosaur as a "Titanosaur" (likely as a MythologyGag to ''Mighty Morphin[='=]''[='s=] Brachiosaur, Titanus). In 65 million B. C. E., in presumably what is now the Hell Creek Formation of western North America, Keeper the alien is trying to protect the 10 Energems --Red, Blue, Green, Pink, Purple, Black, Aqua, Graphite, Gold, and Silver--from the villainous bounty hunter, Sledge. Keeper encounters the dinosaurs and other Mesozoic creatures, to whom he bonds the Energems. He bonds them Energems to ''T. rex'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Velociraptor'', ''Triceratops'', ''Plesiosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', ''Pteranodon'' (ambiguously referred to as the Pterodactyl), and ''Titanosaurus'' (currently known as ''Jainosaurus''). However, only ''T. rex'', ''Triceratops'', ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', and ''Pteranodon'' have been discovered in late Cretaceous rock in the Hell Creek Formation. Stegosaurus lived at least 80 million years earlier, Plesiosaurus lived 100 million years earlier, and Parasaurolophus lived 10 million years earlier. ''Jainosaurus'' did exist at the end of the Cretaceous (and thus of the Mesozoic), but its fossils were found in India, and by the end of the Cretaceous, the continents were approaching their present-day forms. Therefore, it would have been more appropriate to have the Blue, Purple, Black, and Silver Energems bond to creatures such as ''Didelphodon'' (a carnivorous marsupial mammal), ''Champsosaurus'' (a choristoderan reptile), ''Edmontosaurus'' (a hadrosaurian dinosaur), and ''Thescelosaurus'' (a hypsilophodontid dinosaur).

*** ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger''/''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' seems to be pretty far behind. While the ''Tyrannosaurus'' doesn't drag his tail, almost every bipedal dinosaur has scaly skin and pronated hands. The Tyranno even has three fingers on each hand! And while the ''T. rex'' is feathered in ''Kyoryuger'', ''Dino Charge'' has been known to forget that detail in its original footage; and neither show includes feathers on the ''Velociraptor''. ''Kyoryuger'' also makes the mistake of showing a ''Spinosaurus'' as a completely land-based creature, though in the show's defense, the major pile of evidence towards it being partially if not completely water-based didn't drop until shortly after it ended. ''Dino Charge'' doesn't include the ''Spinosaurus'', but adds another inaccuracy by identifying the Brachiosaur as a "Titanosaur" (likely as a MythologyGag to ''Mighty Morphin[='=]''[='s=] Brachiosaur, Titanus, but still).

** But this is topped by another Third Doctor story: ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]''. Somewhere, a Palaeontologist is [[UpToEleven Committing Suicide by Placing his Head between Two Convergent Tectonic Plates]].

* In the BBC show ''My Pet Dinosaur'', they speculated on human's relationships with dinosaurs had the meteor not hit. Ignoring the likelihood of humans even existing in that scenario, they had sauropods that [[AllAnimalsAreDogs barked]], walked on two legs, and ''were the size of small cats''. They also had a ''Protoceratops'' as the equivalent of pigs and chickens, even though ''[[AnachronismStew Protoceratops]]'' [[AnachronismStew went extinct]] ''[[AnachronismStew before]]'' [[AnachronismStew the meteor, and chickens-or at least chicken-like birds-already existed in the late Cretaceous]]. They also had human-shaped dinosaurs, even though the structure of a dinosaur couldn't have supported that. Also, they had scaly maniraptors. I thought this was speculation, not ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.

* ''Series/DestinationTruth'', the 'flying dinosaur' episode. Let’s see, they identify the creature from the descriptions as a pterodactyl, yet never, not ONCE say its a flying ''reptile'', not a flying dinosaur. The closest thing to a flying 'dinosaur' are the birds, NOT the pterosaurs, which are a completely separate taxon.

*** Ironically, the Zords from ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger''/''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' were more scientifically accurate in design than the dinosaurs in ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', even though the latter was far more expensive than the former to make and came out only 3 years earlier. [[RaptorAttack Well, except for the Raptor Riders, of course.]] They did not, however, use correct names for some of them: a ''Tupuxuara'' pterosaur was called "Top Galer" in ''Abaranger'' and [[DinosaursAreDragons "Drago zord"]] in ''Dino Thunder''. The latter also referred to a ''Styracosaurus'' as the "Mezodon" zord, though that might be the name of the ''zord'' and not the dinosaur.

*** ''Series/KishiryuSentaiRyusoulger'' includes two species made up for the purposes of the show. One is a "Tigersaurus", which is basically a reptilian version of a ''Smilodon'' (allowing them to include one without having to deal with shoehorning a mammal where it doesn't fit). The other is a "Needlesaurus", a fictional member of the ''Stegosaur'' family. ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'' fixes this by just designating them as a Saber-Toothed Tiger and ''Stegosaur'', though that does bring back the problem of treating a mammal as a dinosaur. Even the dinosaurs that are identifiable as real species are heavily caricatured, and in ''Ryusoulger'' they're treated on the whole as creatures that are ''similar'' to actual dinosaurs but not the same thing.

** Elephantine forelimbs on the ornithischians.

* ''Series/{{Timecop}}'': Ian Pascoe claims to have witnessed a {{Megalodon}} shark rip the throat out of a TyrannosaurusRex. These animals lived over 47 million years apart, assuming he didn't somehow (?) bring them together.