Like the other official games from the series Carnivores: Triassic also boasts a rich and diverse roster of animals to warrant its own page. The tropes specific to each animal should be listed here.
Edaphosaurus
A large, herbivorous synapsid. These beasts have poor eyesight and low intelligence and are extremely common. They do not attack unless driven into a corner. Ideal for beginning hunters.
- Expy: Of the Dimetrodon. Justified since they are both pelycosaurs.
- Herbivores Are Friendly: Played with. While it will run away if scared, it won't hesitate to fight back if given the opportunity.
- The Goomba: The cheapest to buy and easiest to kill animal in the game.
Lotosaurus
A medium-sized herbivorous archosaur. A relative of the crocodile, the Lotosaurus is just as cunning and will try to flee or trample any human in sight. Though poorly armed, their attacks are known for their viciousness.
- Eye Scream: For some reason its eyes seem to be bleeding (though that could just be an illusion created by natural facial markings).
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has rather disturbing pure red eyes, and while a herbivore it's still definitely an animal it would be wise not to mess with.
Coelophysis
This carnivorous dinosaur has grown used to the taste of human flesh. Cunning but cowardly, they only attack when sensing weakness in their prey. What they lack in size they make up for in brains and agility.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: One of the more colorful dinosaur species in the series.
- Bouncing Battler: Would all leap at their prey.
- Canon Immigrant: Inverted, it's the only animal from the official canon games to appear here.
- Fragile Speedster: It is the fastest dinosaur, but consequently the weakest.
- Shout-Out: Its coloring and patterns are very similar to the Coelophysis in Walking with Dinosaurs.
Placerias
This lumbering synapsid is pure muscle. Herbivorous but ill-tempered, they would charge at anything they see as a threat. Despite their clumsy appearance, they can reach enormous speeds.
- Acrofatic: Turns out to be quite a fast runner despite its portly figure.
- Shout-Out: It is based on the one appearing in Walking with Dinosaurs.
Herrerrasaurus
A medium-sized carnivore. These dinosaurs are notorious for their habit of eating the prey while it still lives. Tough and hardy, they are the best adapted dinosaurs to the Triassic desert.
- Raptor Attack: Along with Liliensternus this is the closest equivalent the game has to a dromeosaur, even though neither of them are related.
Plateosaurus
A medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur. This animal is fast and docile, usually preferring to avoid confrontation, but may still try to trample an unwary hunter. The challenge provided by this animal is suitable for advanced hunters.
- Gentle Giant / Herbivores Are Friendly: Prefers to run away instead of fighting. However, it can still accidentaly trample humans underneath.
Postosuchus
This crocodile-like archosaur is a force to be reckoned with. This cunning predator can lie in ambush for long periods of time, and go on for many days without food or water thanks to its incredibly low metabolism.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Is a relative of crocodilians and is a vicious predator.
- Shout-Out: Is inspired by the one in Walking with Dinosaurs.
- Strong Flesh, Weak Steel: Can take quite a bit of punishment before they die.
Liliensternus
One of the most dangerous theropods, they prefer the fertile oases to the barren desert. Big and heavy, they would often bully smaller predators off their kills, but would not say no to human flesh.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Even more so than the Coelophysis.
- Beauty Is Bad: It's one of the most beautifully-looking dinosaurs, but also one of the most dangerous.
- Bouncing Battler: Loves to jump around and confuse the player, thus often flanking and killing them even faster.
- Mascot Mook: Appears on the main menu screen.
- Raptor Attack: Fulfills the same role as the dromeosaurs from the previous games.
Megalosaurus
Arguably the most dangerous carnivore on the planet, as well as the rarest, this is the ultimate goal of your hunting tour. These powerful theropods will take quite a beating before going down.
- Expy: Has the same role as the Allosaurus, Spinosaurus and Ceratosaurus. Justified since it occupies the same ecological niche as them and in the case of Spinosaurus is in the same clade.
- Lightning Bruiser: Don't let its size fool you, the Megalosaurus is fast.
- Misplaced Wildlife: A Jurassic dinosaur in a region full of Permian and Triassic animals.
Gojirasaurus
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- Adaptational Badass: The real Gojirasaurus was a most-likely dubious, big-sized but still slender and fast coelophysoid dinosaur. This one is a straight-up Godzilla expy.
- Final Boss
- Expy: It's very obviously based on the Indominus rex. Both are bioengineered animals used both as an attraction and as a Living Weapon. Both of them prove to be too dangerous to contain and escape, wreaking havoc and killing both humans and other animals.
- The above is technically incorrect; the creation of Triassic's Gojirasaurus actually predates that of the Indominus.
- Hybrid Monster: Though most of it's components are unknown, the base animal was a Ceratosaurus. Add in some alien radiation and this monstrosity is what results.
- Implacable Man: It is powerful enough to destroy houses, military vehicles and even kill a T. rex !
- Named After Somebody Famous: Both In-Universe and in Real Life. It is named after Godzilla due to its fearsome size and reptillian predatory nature. Unlike the real Gojirasaurus however, this thing is a man-made genetic abomination which pays homage to its namesake.
- Prehistoric Monster: Played dead straight. Though it's not a prehistoric animal per se, rather an artificially created mutant on an alien planet filled with fauna and flora resembling those from Earth's distant past.
- Nuclear Mutant: Not specifically nuclear, but it's the end result of DHC's experimentation with hybridization and alien radiation.
- Walking Spoiler
Desmatosuchus
A bulky archosaur that slowly scours the wasteland in search of soft vegetation to dig up. They are more resistant than an Edaphosaurus, but are also slower, giving a fair challenge to a beginner.
- Expy: Of the Ankylosaurus.
- Herbivores Are Friendly
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Related to crocodiles.
Estemmenosuchus
A primitive and lethargic therapsid that prefers to live near bodies of water and will only venture inland in search of food. However, it's most distinct feature is it's bizarre looking skull that sports a multitude of horns for display.
- Acrofatic: Surprisingly fast despite its size.
Arizonasaurus
A singular creature that sports a sail on it's back, Arizonasaurus is a scavenger, but won't hesistate to attack a potential threat and it can charge at a respectable speed to reach it's attacker.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: A relative of crocodiles.
Scutosaurus
A heavy parareptile, albeit small. It has a hard skeleton covered with powerful muscles, along a thick coat of armored scutes under it's skin. It may not seem like it, but this animal can reach surprising speeds for it's weight.
- Acrofatic
- Herbivores Are Friendly
- Shout-Out: Based on the ones appearing in Primeval and Walking with Monsters.
Gorgonops
A medium sized predator that resembles a primitive version of the Smilodon, but aren't related at all. It's canines are so large, they have little trouble in penetrating the tough hides of some of herbivores like Desmatosuchus.
- Expy: Of the Smilodon from Carnivores: Ice Age.
- Shout-Out: Due to the animal becoming famous and popular thanks to Primeval and Walking with Monsters, it just had to be included in the roster somehow.
Shringasaurus
- Slurpasaur: Resembles a lizard with glued-on horns from an old movie. But this is (or rather was) a real animal.
Peteinosaurus
- Expy: Of the Dimorphodon. Justified, since they are a related species of pterosaur.
- Shout-Out: To the one from Walking with Dinosaurs.
Lystrosaurus
- Dirty Coward: Since it's an ambient, it chooses to run rather than defend itself. It's incapable of fighting back.
- Herbivores Are Friendly: It only eats plants and it's harmless to the player.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Possibly due to being a mammal relative, it resembles an adorable chubby toy.
Daemonosaurus
- Carnivores Are Mean: Averted- it's one of the few predators which will not attack. Though this is due to its diet consisting of small animals and carrion.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning
Teratosaurus
- Artistic License – Paleontology: It's depicted as bipedal, while in reality it was actually a quadruped. Ironically, the Postosuchus is the opposite situation so it's possible the Teratosaurus was deliberately made this way to look differently and serve as its contrast.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: As a rausuchid, it's a relative of crocodiles.
