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* PaletteSwap: Of the "Giant of the Skies" iguanodonts.

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* PaletteSwap: Of the "Giant of the Skies" iguanodonts.''Iguanodon'' from ''Series/TheLostWorld2001''.
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[[folder:South American iguanodont]]

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[[folder:South American [[folder:Patagonian iguanodont]]
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* GoofyFeatheredDinosaur: They are the only feathered dinosaurs in the program, and harmless insectivores that run away from everything like spooked chickens.
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* CruelMercy: One poor individual is on the receiving end of this from the ''Giganotosaurus'', which left it to bleed out instead of killing it instantly.
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* AnachronismStew: A more minor example, but it was not a contemporary of ''Argentinosaurus'' (being around 2-3million years older), but its close relative and likely descended ''Mapusaurus'' was. Likewise, ''Giganotosaurus'' is known to have coexisted with a still unnamed but equally massive cousin of ''Argentinosaurus''.

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* AnachronismStew: A more minor example, but it was not a contemporary of ''Argentinosaurus'' (being around 2-3million 2-3 million years older), but its close relative and likely descended ''Mapusaurus'' was. Likewise, ''Giganotosaurus'' is known to have coexisted with a still unnamed but equally massive cousin of ''Argentinosaurus''.
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The snout of Sarcosuchus is narrow but not to the extent of a gharial, and it hunting dinosaurs (though controversial) is supported by some workers.


* AnachronismStew: Very minor example, but it was not a contemporary of ''Argentinosaurus'' (being around a million years older), but its close relative and likely descended ''Mapusaurus'' was. Likewise, ''Giganotosaurus'' is known to have coexisted with a still unnamed but equally massive cousin of ''Argentinosaurus''.

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* AnachronismStew: Very A more minor example, but it was not a contemporary of ''Argentinosaurus'' (being around a million 2-3million years older), but its close relative and likely descended ''Mapusaurus'' was. Likewise, ''Giganotosaurus'' is known to have coexisted with a still unnamed but equally massive cousin of ''Argentinosaurus''.



* CompositeCharacter: Its huge size and general anatomy are based on ''Giganotosaurus carolinii'', but its coexistence with ''Argentinosaurus'' and the mobbing behavior is based on the closely related ''Mapusaurus roseae'' (known from a bone bed with multiple individuals of different ages). [[note]] In the early 2000s, ''Mapusaurus'' hadn't been properly described and was generally assumed to represent further material of ''Giganotosaurus'' until 2006. [[/note]]

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* CompositeCharacter: Its huge size (said to outsize a T. rex) and general anatomy are based on ''Giganotosaurus carolinii'', but its coexistence with ''Argentinosaurus'' and the mobbing behavior is based on the closely related ''Mapusaurus roseae'' (known from a bone bed with multiple individuals of different ages). [[note]] In the early 2000s, ''Mapusaurus'' hadn't been properly described and was generally assumed to represent further material of ''Giganotosaurus'' until 2006. [[/note]]



* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: The resemblance to gharials isn't incidental and it was most likely a strict fish eater. In the show (and artwork) it is only shown ambushing land animals on the shore.

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* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: The resemblance If it's meant to gharials isn't incidental and it be ''Sarcosuchus hartti'', who was most likely a strict fish eater. In much smaller than the show (and artwork) it is famous S. ''imperator'' from Nigeria, as the former was only shown ambushing land animals on the shore.as big as a large Nile crocodile (big by modern standards, but hardly capable of nabbing giant dinosaurs).
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Added for the sake of being informative.

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* CompositeCharacter: Its huge size and general anatomy are based on ''Giganotosaurus carolinii'', but its coexistence with ''Argentinosaurus'' and the mobbing behavior is based on the closely related ''Mapusaurus roseae'' (known from a bone bed with multiple individuals of different ages). [[note]] In the early 2000s, ''Mapusaurus'' hadn't been properly described and was generally assumed to represent further material of ''Giganotosaurus'' until 2006. [[/note]]


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* CompositeCharacter: Its huge size, general appearance, and even its survival into the early Cenomanian [[note]] Based on very fragmentary remains from the Kem Kem Beds tentatively attributed to ''Sarcosuchus'' by some [[/note]] are based on the famous African ''Sarcosuchus imperator'' ("Super Croc") but its presence in South America is based on the much smaller and more fragmentary (and possibly older) ''Sarcosuchus hartti''.


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* CompositeCharacter: Almost entirely based on the iconic ''Pteranodon longiceps'', who is known from extensive fossil material from Late Cretaceous of North America, but its presence in the Mid Cretaceous seems to be based on older, much fragmentary fossils once attributed to ''Pteranodon'' (like ''Bennettazhia'') and/or pteranodontids of some sort (such as scrappy fossils from Mid Cretaceous Australia). See RuleOfCool.


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* RuleOfCool: It looks identical to its appearance in the final segment of ''Sea Monsters'', the latter set 25 million years later. If ''Pteranodon'' had ''hypothetically'' existed that long then logically, the much earlier species would have looked quite different from its successor; likely being much smaller and less specialized (as is usually the case in evolution) instead of the GiantFlyer with an extravagant head crest.
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* AnachronismStew: If it is indeed ''Macrogryphosaurus'', which was a few million years younger than the setting.

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* AnachronismStew: If it is indeed inspired by the then-undescribed ''Macrogryphosaurus'', which was a few lived some ten million years younger than after the setting.setting of the episode. The only evidence of large ornithopods from the Rio Limay Group (where ''Argentinosaurus'' and ''Giganotosaurus'' hail from) are fossilized trackways, which show the presence of roughly ''Iguanodon''-sized animals (like the ichnotaxon ''Limayichnus major'').



* NoNameGiven: Called just "iguanodont", as it was based off undescribed material at the time.

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* NoNameGiven: Called just "iguanodont", as it was based off undescribed material at the time.only evidence of iguanodonts from Cenomanian Patagonia are tracks.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Beside looking more like a ''Pteranodon'' and showing up in the wrong time period, they are referred to as scavengers, whereas actual azhdarchids were more like terrestrial hunters similar to storks and cranes.
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Ptero Soarer is now a redirect to Terror Dactyl which focuses more on the Prehistoric Monster aspect of pterosaurs. These examples are just inaccurate pterosaurs.


* PteroSoarer: Azhdarchids were not specialized scavengers.



* PteroSoarer: Though to BBC's credit, this is the ''most'' accurate (for its time) pterosaur depicted in the series.

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