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* TimeTravelersDinosaur: Lancelot and the children travel back to the time of the dinosaurs in pursuit of the evil Sir Jasper Collywobble. Naturally many different species of dinosaurs appear.
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The reason why the sequel focuses entirely on them.
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* StockDinosaurs: Played straight with ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', ''Allosaurus'', ''Diplodocus'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Plateosaurus''. Averted by most of the Triassic fauna, such as ''Coelophysis'', ''Tanystropheus'' or ''Phytosaurus'', and using ''Scolosaurus'' instead of ''Ankylosaurus''. Also, the most prominently featured pterosaur is the relatively obscure ''Gnathosaurus'' from the Jurassic period.
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: The first book features many of these, including a spitting cobra, honey badger, honeyguide bird, musk ox, tapir, howler monkey, cock-of-the-rock and elephant seal. The second book features mostly StockDinosaurs, but also some seldom-seen Triassic species (see below).

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* RandomEventsPlot: The first book doesn't have an overarching story. Each chapter follows this formula: Lancelot and the kids arrive to an exotic location where Percival was last seen, encounter some strange animals and get into some shenanigans, learn that Percival already left, and move on to the next location.



* WorldTour: The original book.

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* WorldTour: The In the original book.
book, the kids travel around the world with Lancelot in search for Percival.
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* GentleGorilla: Despite his menacing initial appearance, Gorilla and his family are quite friendly to Lancelot and the children once they learn the humans mean no harm.
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* PredatorsAreMean: Mostly averted in the first book, where many of the carnivores (e.g. Killer Whale, Polar Bear and Boa Constrictor) are acknowledged to be carnivores, but are very friendly with the main characters. Played straight in the second book, where all carnivores (''Coelophysis'', ''Tanystropheus'', ''Allosaurus'' and ''TyrannosaurusRex'') are villains, trying to eat the main human cast - the only friendly carnivore is the pterosaur ''Gnathosaurus''.

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* PredatorsAreMean: Mostly averted in the first book, where many of the carnivores (e.g. Killer Whale, Polar Bear and Boa Constrictor) are acknowledged to be carnivores, but are very friendly with the main characters. Played straight in the second book, where all carnivores (''Coelophysis'', ''Tanystropheus'', ''Allosaurus'' and ''TyrannosaurusRex'') ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'') are villains, trying to eat the main human cast - the only friendly carnivore is the pterosaur ''Gnathosaurus''.



* StockDinosaurs: Played straight with ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Allosaurus'', ''Diplodocus'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Plateosaurus''. Averted by most of the Triassic fauna, such as ''Coelophysis'', ''Tanystropheus'' or ''Phytosaurus'', and using ''Scolosaurus'' instead of ''Ankylosaurus''. Also, the most prominently featured pterosaur is the relatively obscure ''Gnathosaurus'' from the Jurassic period.

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* StockDinosaurs: Played straight with ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', ''Allosaurus'', ''Diplodocus'', ''Triceratops'' and ''Plateosaurus''. Averted by most of the Triassic fauna, such as ''Coelophysis'', ''Tanystropheus'' or ''Phytosaurus'', and using ''Scolosaurus'' instead of ''Ankylosaurus''. Also, the most prominently featured pterosaur is the relatively obscure ''Gnathosaurus'' from the Jurassic period.

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