History Literature / TheNewDinosaursAnAlternativeEvolution

* In Africa, pterosaurs are depicted as having outcompeted herbivorous dinosaurs such as ornithopods and sauropods because the latter didn't manage to reach the continent in time. Even though several sauropods were already known from Africa at the time, most famously the Late Jurassic fauna of Tendaguru such as ''Dicraeosaurus'', ''Tornieria'', and the African ''Brachiosaurus'' (now ''Giraffatitan), whose fossils have been known since the 1910s, and the Mid Cretaceous iguanodont ''Ouranosaurus'' was also described in 1976, so it was already confirmed that large plant-eating dinosaurs inhabited Africa throughout the Mesozoic.

** The book shows ''Megalosaurus modernus'', a LivingRelic still existing on the island of Madagascar (likely referencing how the local lemurs are "living fossils" compared to mainland simians). While ''Megalosaurus'' used to be a major wastebasket taxon, which included fragmentary fossils found in Late Cretaceous rocks in Madagascar, by the '80s this was no longer the case, and the Madagascar fossils were reclassified as ''Majungasaurus'' back in 1955 (though it wasn't recognized as an abelisaurid until more complete remains were found in the '90s).

** The gimps are a type of nectar-drinking dinosaur like a featherless, flightless hummingbird with a mouth evolved into a tube that can only lick up nectar. However, even specialized nectarivores like hummingbirds still need to eat other food like insects or pollen because nectar alone doesn't have enough nutrients to survive on it alone. It would also be incredibly difficult for the gimp species to each survive on only ''one'' species of flower, especially since they cannot fly to search far and wide for flowers (even the most specialized hummingbird species can choose between multiple species of flower).

* The book shows ''Megalosaurus modernus'', a LivingRelic still existing on the island of Madagascar (likely referencing how the local lemurs are "living fossils" compared to mainland simians). While ''Megalosaurus'' used to be a major wastebasket taxon, which included fragmentary fossils found in Late Cretaceous rocks in Madagascar, by the '80s this was no longer the case, and the Madagascar fossils were reclassified as ''Majungasaurus'' back in 1955 (though it wasn't recognized as an abelisaurid until more complete remains were found in the '90s).

** For some reason, there are ''Megalosaurus'' in the present day. In [[MisplacedWildlife Africa]] (''Megalosaurus'' went extinct in the Middle Jurassic - of Europe - long before its fellow dinosaurs died out). ''Megalosaurus'' was long used as wastebasket to contain various large theropods from throughout the Mesozoic, but this had mostly been sorted out by then.