Line #33 Trivia/DinosaurPlanet


1	* AccidentallyCorrectZoology:
2	** The show’s portrayal of ''Tarascosaurus''. It’s only known from one very fragmentary specimen (two dorsal vertebrae and a partial thigh bone), with an estimated length of only 3 meters, and it’s [[AnachronismStew geologically older]] than ''Pyroraptor'' and ''Rhabdodon'' by close to 10 million years, on top of its fragmentary nature making its classification as an abelisaurid controversial. Likewise, at the time the show was made, the idea of abelisaurids existing in Late Cretaceous Europe was hotly debated (again, due to the extreme paucity of attributed specimens). Flash forward a decade later (2013), and French paleontologists describe ''Arcovenator'', a 6-meter majungasaurine found in the same formation as ''Pyroraptor'' and ''Rhabdodon'' and the first indisputable European abelisaurid.
3	* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/ChristianSlater is the narrator.
4	* FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy: As [[ShownTheirWork scientifically rigorous'' as this show was for its time, some clear mistakes still slipped through.
5	** Both the ''Rhabdodon'' and ''Maiasaura'' are shown galloping on all fours like modern ungulates even though it was well known at the time that large ornithopods were facultative bipeds, walking on all fours and running on two. This is especially egregious since a lot of the same people who worked on this show also worked on ''WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica'', which accurately showed hadrosaurs running on two legs.
6	** While a lot of the dinosaurs were very accurate for early 2000s standards, the few non-saurian animals seemingly got the short end of the stick.
7	*** The giant elasmosaurid that briefly shows up in "Pod's Travel" acts more like a StockNessMonster despite what was already known about plesiosaur biomechanics and behavior at the time, raising its neck out of the water (which plesiosaurs couldn't do due to their weak neck muscles), roars (plesiosaurs likely weren't vocal animals given their poor sense of hearing) and eats Pod's sister (not ''impossible'' but very unlikely, especially in the fashion shown in the episode, since elasmosaurids were predominantly fish-eaters).
8	*** The ''Allodaposuchus'' in "Pod's Travel" is a major case of InformedSpecies, as it's just a reskin of the ''Notosuchus'' from "Alpha's Egg", even though allodaposuchids were more derived crocodylomorphs (possibly basal crocodilians) that looked and acted very similar to today's crocodilians. It wasn't a long-legged and terrestrial creature with a narrow, vaguely lizard-like skull.
9	*** Given that the show had no trouble rendering a lot of feathered dinosaurs, there really was no excuse for not putting pycnofibers on the ''Quetzalcoatlus'', something we knew pterosaurs had since the '70s. Likewise, more complete ''Quetzalcoatlus'' skeletal material was already described in the '90s (the species now known as Q. ''lawsoni''), so there was no excuse for having the animal resemble a long-necked ''Pteranodon''. Compared to the ''Quetzalcoatlus'' from ''When Dinosaurs Roamed America'', this is just a huge step backward.
10	* NoBudget: A number of models are reused for different related species throughout the series, recoloring them for different episodes (sometimes even within the same episode). This usually results in at least one of the species depicted being quite incorrect in its anatomical features.
11	** The ''Saltasaurus'' from "Alpha's Egg" and "titanosaurs" (''Ampelosaurus''?) and ''Magyarosaurus'' from "Pod's Travels".
12	** The ''Troodon'' from "Little Das' Hunt" and the dwarf troodontids from "Pod's Travels".
13	** ''Alvarezsaurus'' ("Alpha's Egg") and ''Shuvuuia'' ("White Tip's Journey").
14	** Mainland (''Rhabdodon'') and dwarf "''Iguanodon''" (''Zalmoxes'') in "Pod's Travels".
15	** ''Allodaposuchus'' ("Pod's Travels") and ''Notosuchus'' ("Alpha's Egg").
16	** ''Pyroraptor'' and the dwarf ''Pyroraptor'' in "Pod's Travels".
17	** ''Aucasaurus'' ("Alpha's Egg") and the mainland and dwarf ''Tarascosaurus'' ("Pod's Travels").
18	** ''Maiasaura'' and ''Edmontosaurus'' in "Little Das' Hunt".
19	* ScienceMarchesOn: While it was very up-to-date (some might even say ahead of its time) with its dinosaur portrayals, modern paleontology has made many discoveries since its debut. [[ScienceMarchesOn/{{DinosaurPlanet}} See here for details]].
20	* WorkingTitle: Prehistoric Worlds.

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