Headscratchers / Dinosaur Train

• Okay so... Time Travel is a reality in the dinosaur society. It's so commonly used that the various dinosaurs react to time travelers in pretty much the same way as they would with tourists. Than again, it's basically the writer's way to avoid Temporally Misplaced Wildlife, which is fine.
• Plot Bunny: Suppose a few dinosaurs miss the train, and the local train station only gets a train at very rare random intervals. They decide to start a new family in their new time and end up creating a new occurrence of their species either before their actual appearance, or after their extinction. Time paradox at its purest.
  • Remember, the show is for children who are just learning to identify different animals by name. But the producers did kind of acknowledge this idea. There is an episode where Tiny accidentally leaves her favorite toy in a friend's nest before boarding the train (it is rescued by another pterosaur) and that's more than enough drama for the target audience.
  • That might have happened already.
    • And it looks like it happened again.
  • In the "Mom Was a Kid Once" episode, we meet Tilly, Mom's was childhood friend. Mom said that Tilly "[hasn't] aged one bit." Tilly replied "Well, that's what the time travel train will do for ya."
• In the episode "Back in Time", the Conductor explains that Dimetrodon is a synapsid, a group of animals that includes mammals. The accompanying image on the projection screen shows silhouettes of modern mammals, even though none of the characters present know about the Cenozoic.
• What is carrion made out of and how did the Dinosaur Train dining car get a hold of of it? Is Buddy eating some of his dinosaur friends? That explains why we never see some of them again.

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