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** ''The Dinosaur Alphabet Book'' zigzags this trope, as on the one hand, none of the dinosaurs are feathered (then again, it was published in 1991), ''Xiaosaurus'' is seen dragging its tail, and the Q page features a sauropod called a “''Questrosaurus''” (properly ''Quaesitosaurus'') that appears to be comically tall compared to the trees (or are those some other kind of plant? The illustration makes it hard to tell) in the background. On the other hand, not only does he use “''Questrosaurus''” to illustrate how dinosaurs may have been brightly colored in real life, by having one picture of it be in grayscale and another show it with psychedelically vibrant magenta, yellow, and blue skin, but he also has several other brightly colored dinosaurs throughout the book, includes a few entries on some non-dinosaurs such as the pterosaur ''Rhamphorynchus'' and marine reptile ''Kronosaurus'' before lampshading it and including an actual dinosaur entry, acknowledges the fact that ''Oviraptor'' was brooding its eggs rather than eating them, and includes several obscure genera such as ''Yangchuanosaurus,'' the aforementioned ''Xiaosaurus,'' Korean ''Ultrasaurus,'' and ''Riojasaurus.''
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** ''The Dinosaur Alphabet Book'' zigzags this trope, as on the one hand, none of the dinosaurs are feathered (then again, it was published in 1991), ''Xiaosaurus'' is seen dragging its tail, and the Q page features a sauropod called a “''Questrosaurus''” "''Questrosaurus''" (properly ''Quaesitosaurus'') that appears to be comically tall compared to the trees (or are those some other kind of plant? The illustration makes it hard to tell) in the background. On the other hand, not only does he use “''Questrosaurus''” "''Questrosaurus''" to illustrate how dinosaurs may have been brightly colored in real life, by having one picture of it be in grayscale and another show it with psychedelically vibrant magenta, yellow, and blue skin, but he also has several other brightly colored dinosaurs throughout the book, includes a few entries on some non-dinosaurs such as the pterosaur ''Rhamphorynchus'' and marine reptile ''Kronosaurus'' before lampshading it and including an actual dinosaur entry, acknowledges the fact that ''Oviraptor'' was brooding its eggs rather than eating them, and includes several obscure genera such as ''Yangchuanosaurus,'' the aforementioned ''Xiaosaurus,'' ''Xiaosaurus'', Korean ''Ultrasaurus,'' ''Ultrasaurus'', and ''Riojasaurus.''''Riojasaurus''.
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* The ''Literature/JurassicPark'' novel actually doesn't commit this crime ''too'' much. Author Creator/MichaelCrichton took then-current ideas about dinosaurs as his starting point, and the novel builds on them in ways that actually make a lot of sense logically. The mix-and-match assembly of species from different periods is attributed partly to pure luck - after all, they could only revive dinosaurs for which they had found preserved DNA - and partly to the fact that John Hammond, the guy in charge, was just relying on the RuleOfCool. The name of the park was chosen to appeal to investors, and to customers (had it opened for business), and not with any regard for accuracy. The whole "can't see you if you don't move" is actually attributed to ''all'' the dinos, not just the ''T. rex'', as they had to fill in genetic gaps with the DNA of similar modern day reptiles and amphibians, many of which actually ''do'' have motion-based vision. It's true that the ''Velociraptor''s are a lot closer in dimension, even in the books, to really large ''Deinonychus''es, but even this can be partially justified in that Crichton was relying on a classification that called ''Deinonychus'' a kind of ''Velociraptor''. However, this classification was the sole opinion of the famous paleoartist Greg Paul, in his widely-read book, not backed up by paleontologists.
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* The ''Literature/JurassicPark'' novel ''Literature/JurassicPark1990'' actually doesn't commit this crime ''too'' much. Author Creator/MichaelCrichton took then-current ideas about dinosaurs as his starting point, and the novel builds on them in ways that actually make a lot of sense logically. The mix-and-match assembly of species from different periods is attributed partly to pure luck - after all, they could only revive dinosaurs for which they had found preserved DNA - and partly to the fact that John Hammond, the guy in charge, was just relying on the RuleOfCool. The name of the park was chosen to appeal to investors, and to customers (had it opened for business), and not with any regard for accuracy. The whole "can't see you if you don't move" is actually attributed to ''all'' the dinos, not just the ''T. rex'', as they had to fill in genetic gaps with the DNA of similar modern day reptiles and amphibians, many of which actually ''do'' have motion-based vision. It's true that the ''Velociraptor''s are a lot closer in dimension, even in the books, to really large ''Deinonychus''es, but even this can be partially justified in that Crichton was relying on a classification that called ''Deinonychus'' a kind of ''Velociraptor''. However, this classification was the sole opinion of the famous paleoartist Greg Paul, in his widely-read book, not backed up by paleontologists.
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* Both used and lovingly averted in James Gurney's ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}''. Okay, yes, every prehistoric creature from ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia Opabinia]]'' to woolly mammoths is coexisting in a continent the size of Australia, and the reason for this is {{hand wave}}d, roughly anything that walks on land is smart enough to have a language and participate in a peaceful {{Utopia}} alongside humans, large not-quite-lingual pterosaurs can take off and fly while carrying humans, and small ceratopsians can speak any language. But Gurney is also up-to-date on the world of paleontology, and although his raptors were naked in early books, he painted them with feathers in later ones. And everything has the right physiology. Dinotopia is a children's story with enormous detail in the dinosaurs.
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* Both used and lovingly averted in James Gurney's ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}''. Okay, yes, every prehistoric creature from ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia Opabinia]]'' to woolly mammoths is coexisting in a an island continent the size of Australia, and the reason for this is {{hand wave}}d, roughly anything that walks on land is smart enough to have a language and participate in a peaceful {{Utopia}} alongside humans, large not-quite-lingual pterosaurs can take off and fly while carrying humans, and small ceratopsians can speak any language. But Gurney is also up-to-date on the world of paleontology, and although his raptors were naked in early books, he painted them with feathers in later ones. And everything has the right physiology. Dinotopia is a children's story with enormous detail in the dinosaurs.dinosaurs.
** The first ''Dinotopia'' book has the island be several times smaller both north-south and east-west than in the later books. Gurney simply scaled it up to give enough space to fit all of the additional creatures in.
** The first ''Dinotopia'' book has the island be several times smaller both north-south and east-west than in the later books. Gurney simply scaled it up to give enough space to fit all of the additional creatures in.
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* ''Literature/GodzillaAndGodzillaRaidsAgain'':
** In ''Godzilla'', renowned palaeontologist Professor Kyōhei Yamane states that the Jurassic Period was a mere 2 million years ago, and that during the transition to the Cretaceous Period some marine reptiles left the ocean and adapted to life on land.
** ''Godzilla Raids Again'' states that ''Ankylosaurus'' -- aka Anguirus -- was a carnivorous dinosaur that was between 45 and 60 meters tall, and lived 150 to 70 million years ago, concurrently with Godzilla. ''Ankylosaurus'' were herbivorous dinosaurs that were between 6 to 8 meters long, and lived between 68 and 66 million years ago.
** In ''Godzilla'', renowned palaeontologist Professor Kyōhei Yamane states that the Jurassic Period was a mere 2 million years ago, and that during the transition to the Cretaceous Period some marine reptiles left the ocean and adapted to life on land.
** ''Godzilla Raids Again'' states that ''Ankylosaurus'' -- aka Anguirus -- was a carnivorous dinosaur that was between 45 and 60 meters tall, and lived 150 to 70 million years ago, concurrently with Godzilla. ''Ankylosaurus'' were herbivorous dinosaurs that were between 6 to 8 meters long, and lived between 68 and 66 million years ago.
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***The idea of a T. Rex chasing a human for food is more along the lines of a house cat chasing a mouse for food. The average T. Rex weighed less than 100 times as much as the average human. Your average house mouse is less than an ounce, your average house cat around 130 ounces. We're actually bigger to the T. Rex than the mouse is to the cat.
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* The ''Literature/JurassicPark'' novel actually doesn't commit this crime ''too'' much, as it tries to generally depict accepted theories on dinosaur behavior, and explains everything in a way that actually makes a lot of sense logically. The mix-and-match assembly of species from different periods is attributed to the fact that the geneticists who ''made'' the dinosaurs didn't care, and John Hammond, the guy in charge, was just relying on the RuleOfCool. The name of the park was chosen to appeal to investors, and to customers (had it opened for business), and not with any regard for accuracy. The whole "can't see you if you don't move" is actually attributed to ''all'' the dinos, not just the ''T. rex'', as they had to fill in genetic gaps with the DNA of similar modern day reptiles and amphibians, many of which actually ''do'' have motion-based vision. The ''Velociraptor''s, though, are a lot closer in dimension, even in the books, to really large ''Deinonychus''es. Partially justified in that Crichton was relying on a classification that called ''Deinonychus'' a kind of ''Velociraptor''; but this classification was the sole opinion of the famous paleoartist Greg Paul, in his widely-read book, not backed up by paleontologists.
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* The ''Literature/JurassicPark'' novel actually doesn't commit this crime ''too'' much, much. Author Creator/MichaelCrichton took then-current ideas about dinosaurs as it tries to generally depict accepted theories on dinosaur behavior, his starting point, and explains everything the novel builds on them in a way ways that actually makes make a lot of sense logically. The mix-and-match assembly of species from different periods is attributed partly to pure luck - after all, they could only revive dinosaurs for which they had found preserved DNA - and partly to the fact that the geneticists who ''made'' the dinosaurs didn't care, and John Hammond, the guy in charge, was just relying on the RuleOfCool. The name of the park was chosen to appeal to investors, and to customers (had it opened for business), and not with any regard for accuracy. The whole "can't see you if you don't move" is actually attributed to ''all'' the dinos, not just the ''T. rex'', as they had to fill in genetic gaps with the DNA of similar modern day reptiles and amphibians, many of which actually ''do'' have motion-based vision. The ''Velociraptor''s, though, It's true that the ''Velociraptor''s are a lot closer in dimension, even in the books, to really large ''Deinonychus''es. Partially ''Deinonychus''es, but even this can be partially justified in that Crichton was relying on a classification that called ''Deinonychus'' a kind of ''Velociraptor''; but ''Velociraptor''. However, this classification was the sole opinion of the famous paleoartist Greg Paul, in his widely-read book, not backed up by paleontologists.
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* While they aren't about dinosaurs, Steve Alten's ''Literature/{{Meg}}'' novels will make paleontology enthusiasts cringe. The opening scene of the first book has a ''T. rex'' chasing some hadrosaurs into the water, [[TheWorfEffect where it is eaten by a]] ''{{Megalodon}}'' [[TheWorfEffect explicitly stated to be twice its size]]. *sigh* ''Carcharodon megalodon'' did '''not''' live during the Cretaceous (the giant shark appeared 47 million years '''after''' the dinosaurs died out).
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* While they aren't about dinosaurs, Steve Alten's ''Literature/{{Meg}}'' novels will make paleontology enthusiasts cringe. The opening scene of the first book has a ''T. rex'' chasing some hadrosaurs into the water, [[TheWorfEffect where it is eaten by a]] ''{{Megalodon}}'' ''Megalodon'' [[TheWorfEffect explicitly stated to be twice its size]]. *sigh* ''Carcharodon megalodon'' did '''not''' live during the Cretaceous (the giant shark appeared 47 million years '''after''' the dinosaurs died out).
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* At the end of ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'', Malcolm talks about the extinction events at the end of the Triassic and Jurassic. While the Triassic did end with an extinction event (one of the big five, in fact), the Jurassic didn't.
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* ''Kronos''. It rapidly becomes apparent that the author did not do any research whatsoever on plesiosaur biology. Among the worst is the eponymous ''Kronosaurus'' swimming in an up-and-down body motion like a whale, complete with flukes. The problem? Plesiosaurs had a stiff spine and were virtually forced to swim sealion or penguin style. Seeing as the author has a severe creationist lean, this [[ArtisticLicenseBiology F in biology]] could be due to not doing any research at all and trying to [[DanBrowned Dan Brown it]]. The author has several other books involving prehistoric life, which likely contain other issues.
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* ''Kronos''. It rapidly becomes apparent that the author did not do any research whatsoever on plesiosaur biology. Among the worst is the eponymous ''Kronosaurus'' swimming in an up-and-down body motion like a whale, complete with flukes. The problem? Plesiosaurs had a stiff spine and were virtually forced to swim sealion or penguin style. Seeing as the author has a severe creationist lean, this [[ArtisticLicenseBiology F in biology]] could be due to not doing any research at all and trying to [[DanBrowned Dan Brown it]].all. The author has several other books involving prehistoric life, which likely contain other issues.
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* ''Kronos''. It rapidly becomes apparent that the author did not do any research whatsoever [[CriticalResearchFailure on plesiosaur biology]]. Among the worst is the eponymous ''Kronosaurus'' swimming in an up-and-down body motion like a whale, complete with flukes. The problem? Plesiosaurs had a stiff spine and were virtually forced to swim sealion or penguin style. Seeing as the author has a severe creationist lean, this [[ArtisticLicenseBiology F in biology]] could be due to not doing any research at all and trying to [[DanBrowned Dan Brown it]]. The author has several other books involving prehistoric life, which likely contain other issues.
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* ''Kronos''. It rapidly becomes apparent that the author did not do any research whatsoever [[CriticalResearchFailure on plesiosaur biology]].biology. Among the worst is the eponymous ''Kronosaurus'' swimming in an up-and-down body motion like a whale, complete with flukes. The problem? Plesiosaurs had a stiff spine and were virtually forced to swim sealion or penguin style. Seeing as the author has a severe creationist lean, this [[ArtisticLicenseBiology F in biology]] could be due to not doing any research at all and trying to [[DanBrowned Dan Brown it]]. The author has several other books involving prehistoric life, which likely contain other issues.
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* There is a children's book called ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Day-Dinosaur-First-Time-Books/dp/0394891309 Day of the Dinosaur]]'' which commits this sin in spades. None of the dinos are illustrated correctly and [[AnachronismStew they all are depicted as living around the same time]] (assuming it isn’t meant to just be showcasing them from various points in history). Also, ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Dimetrodon]]'', ''Mesosaurus'' and ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures Eryops]]'' are called dinosaurs. (For those who don't know, ''Eryops'' was a newt-like amphibian that was roughly contemporary of ''Dimetrodon''. It's portrayed as a land animal in the book. Also, the three foot-long ''Mesosaurus'' resembled a crocodile and lived at the same time as ''Dimetrodon'' and ''Eryops'', but farther south. A filter-feeder, it was one of the first reptiles to return to an aquatic existence. A related coloring book [[CriticalResearchFailure makes it out to be a predator about thirty feet long]], probably getting it mixed up with ''Mosasaurus''. The book also mentions ''Archaeopteryx'' and moas, but this is AccidentallyCorrectWriting.) To be fair, the book was from the eighties, so some of this is ScienceMarchesOn, but the rest is simply inexplicable, as [[http://www.amazon.com/review/RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW this review]] points out. Granted, it’s a prose poem, but a lot of lines could have been altered to include correct information without messing up the meter.
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* There is a children's book called ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Day-Dinosaur-First-Time-Books/dp/0394891309 Day of the Dinosaur]]'' which commits this sin in spades. None of the dinos are illustrated correctly and [[AnachronismStew they all are depicted as living around the same time]] (assuming it isn’t meant to just be showcasing them from various points in history). Also, ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Dimetrodon]]'', ''Mesosaurus'' and ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures Eryops]]'' are called dinosaurs. (For those who don't know, ''Eryops'' was a newt-like amphibian that was roughly contemporary of ''Dimetrodon''. It's portrayed as a land animal in the book. Also, the three foot-long ''Mesosaurus'' resembled a crocodile and lived at the same time as ''Dimetrodon'' and ''Eryops'', but farther south. A filter-feeder, it was one of the first reptiles to return to an aquatic existence. A related coloring book [[CriticalResearchFailure makes it out to be a predator about thirty feet long]], long, probably getting it mixed up with ''Mosasaurus''. The book also mentions ''Archaeopteryx'' and moas, but this is AccidentallyCorrectWriting.) To be fair, the book was from the eighties, so some of this is ScienceMarchesOn, but the rest is simply inexplicable, as [[http://www.amazon.com/review/RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW this review]] points out. Granted, it’s a prose poem, but a lot of lines could have been altered to include correct information without messing up the meter.
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* [[http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Mission-Xtreme-Chris-Madsen/dp/1902626842/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305751385&sr=1-3 this one]], which is just one big CriticalResearchFailure from beginning to end. For starters, it has ''herbivorous plesiosaurs'', states that ''Ceratosaurus'' was a tyrannosaur (right, and you're a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier tarsier]]), claims that ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' grew to 65 feet long (try 42 feet), has naked raptors, claims that ''Oviraptor'' lived on eggs (discarded in the nineties), has ''aquatic sauropods'' (disproven in the sixties, while the book was written in 2003), says that ''Archaeopteryx'' evolved after the raptors and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has really lame 3D]].
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* [[http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Mission-Xtreme-Chris-Madsen/dp/1902626842/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305751385&sr=1-3 this one]], which is just one big CriticalResearchFailure from beginning to end.one]]. For starters, it has ''herbivorous plesiosaurs'', states that ''Ceratosaurus'' was a tyrannosaur (right, and you're a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier tarsier]]), claims that ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' grew to 65 feet long (try 42 feet), has naked raptors, claims that ''Oviraptor'' lived on eggs (discarded in the nineties), has ''aquatic sauropods'' (disproven in the sixties, while the book was written in 2003), says that ''Archaeopteryx'' evolved after the raptors and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has really lame 3D]].
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* Both used and lovingly averted in James Gurney's ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}''. Okay, yes, every prehistoric creature from ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia Opabinia]]'' to woolly mammoths is coexisting in a continent the size of Australia, and the reason for this is {{hand wave}}d, roughly anything that walks on land is smart enough to have a language and participate in a [[MarySuetopia peaceful utopia]] alongside humans, large not-quite-lingual pterosaurs can take off and fly while carrying humans, and small ceratopsians can speak any language. But Gurney is also up-to-date on the world of paleontology, and although his raptors were naked in early books, he painted them with feathers in later ones. And everything has the right physiology. Dinotopia is a children's story with enormous detail in the dinosaurs.
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* Both used and lovingly averted in James Gurney's ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}''. Okay, yes, every prehistoric creature from ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia Opabinia]]'' to woolly mammoths is coexisting in a continent the size of Australia, and the reason for this is {{hand wave}}d, roughly anything that walks on land is smart enough to have a language and participate in a [[MarySuetopia peaceful utopia]] {{Utopia}} alongside humans, large not-quite-lingual pterosaurs can take off and fly while carrying humans, and small ceratopsians can speak any language. But Gurney is also up-to-date on the world of paleontology, and although his raptors were naked in early books, he painted them with feathers in later ones. And everything has the right physiology. Dinotopia is a children's story with enormous detail in the dinosaurs.
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** ''The Dinosaur Alphabet Book'' zigzags this trope, as on the one hand, none of the dinosaurs are feathered (then again, it was published in 1991), ''[[SeldomSeenSpecies Xiaosaurus]]'' is seen dragging its tail, and the Q page features a sauropod called a “''Questrosaurus''” (properly ''Quaesitosaurus'') that appears to be comically tall compared to the trees (or are those some other kind of plant? The illustration makes it hard to tell) in the background. On the other hand, not only does he use “''Questrosaurus''” to illustrate how dinosaurs may have been brightly colored in real life, by having one picture of it be in grayscale and another show it with psychedelically vibrant magenta, yellow, and blue skin, but he also has several other brightly colored dinosaurs throughout the book, includes a few entries on some non-dinosaurs such as the pterosaur ''Rhamphorynchus'' and marine reptile ''Kronosaurus'' before lampshading it and including an actual dinosaur entry, acknowledges the fact that ''Oviraptor'' was brooding its eggs rather than eating them, and includes several [[SeldomSeenSpecies Seldom Seen Genera]] such as ''Yangchuanosaurus,'' the aforementioned ''Xiaosaurus,'' Korean ''Ultrasaurus,'' and ''Riojasaurus.''
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** ''The Dinosaur Alphabet Book'' zigzags this trope, as on the one hand, none of the dinosaurs are feathered (then again, it was published in 1991), ''[[SeldomSeenSpecies Xiaosaurus]]'' ''Xiaosaurus'' is seen dragging its tail, and the Q page features a sauropod called a “''Questrosaurus''” (properly ''Quaesitosaurus'') that appears to be comically tall compared to the trees (or are those some other kind of plant? The illustration makes it hard to tell) in the background. On the other hand, not only does he use “''Questrosaurus''” to illustrate how dinosaurs may have been brightly colored in real life, by having one picture of it be in grayscale and another show it with psychedelically vibrant magenta, yellow, and blue skin, but he also has several other brightly colored dinosaurs throughout the book, includes a few entries on some non-dinosaurs such as the pterosaur ''Rhamphorynchus'' and marine reptile ''Kronosaurus'' before lampshading it and including an actual dinosaur entry, acknowledges the fact that ''Oviraptor'' was brooding its eggs rather than eating them, and includes several [[SeldomSeenSpecies Seldom Seen Genera]] obscure genera such as ''Yangchuanosaurus,'' the aforementioned ''Xiaosaurus,'' Korean ''Ultrasaurus,'' and ''Riojasaurus.''
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* A ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' picture book was actually about Thomas and Stepney finding a ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' skeleton on Sodor, despite that dinosaur being native to North America (they really should've uncovered a ''Proceratosaurus'', ''Eotyrannus'', ''Yaverlandia'', ''Becklespinax'', ''Valdoraptor'', ''Megalosaurus'', ''Sarcosaurus'', ''Aristosuchus'', ''Calamospondylus'', ''Iliosuchus'', ''Metriacanthosaurus'', ''Eustreptospondylus'', ''Duriavenator'', ''Neovenator'' or ''Baryonyx'', all of which are actually theropod dinosaurs that are native to England). Well, at least the dinosaur skeleton the Narrow Gauge locomotives found in the show is actually that of a ''Dacentrurus'' (a large stegosaurid native to England).
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* A ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' picture book was actually about Thomas and Stepney finding a ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' skeleton on Sodor, despite that dinosaur being native to North America (they really should've uncovered a ''Proceratosaurus'', ''Eotyrannus'', ''Yaverlandia'', ''Becklespinax'', ''Valdoraptor'', ''Megalosaurus'', ''Sarcosaurus'', ''Aristosuchus'', ''Calamospondylus'', ''Iliosuchus'', ''Metriacanthosaurus'', ''Eustreptospondylus'', ''Duriavenator'', ''Neovenator'' or ''Baryonyx'', all America. The corresponding episode of which are actually theropod dinosaurs that are native to England). Well, at least the TV show didn't have this problem, since the dinosaur skeleton the Narrow Gauge locomotives found in the show it is actually that of a ''Dacentrurus'' (a large stegosaurid native to England).stegosaur instead, and Britain did have stegosaurs.
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*** Then again the sequel also has its own share of bizarre mistakes and speculation, most memorably a scene featuring a pair of ''Carnotaurus'' who can change the color of their skin to such a detailed degree that they turn virtually invisible when standing still. While there are real creatures that can change colors, something that large being able to stand out in the open and just vanish to the naked eye is absurd. The notion that a large theropod evolved a natural camouflage system on par with the Franchise/{{Predator}}'s cloaking device is even more outlandish than ''Dilophosaurus'' having a frill and spitting venom, since at least the latter is based on traits of real animals. Not to mention that ''Carnotaurus'' was an incredibly fast pursuit predator, making camouflage unnecessary.
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*** Then again the sequel also has its own share of bizarre mistakes and speculation, most memorably a scene featuring a pair of ''Carnotaurus'' who can change the color of their skin to such a detailed degree that they turn virtually invisible when standing still. While there are real creatures that can change colors, something that large being able to stand out in the open and just vanish to the naked eye is absurd. The notion that a large theropod evolved a natural camouflage system on par with the Franchise/{{Predator}}'s cloaking device is even more outlandish than ''Dilophosaurus'' having a frill and spitting venom, since at least the latter is based on traits of real animals. Not to mention that ''Carnotaurus'' was also an incredibly fast pursuit predator, making camouflage unnecessary.
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** Not to mention that many of the species of dinosaur lived millions of years apart even from each other, never even having the chance to interact in the past -- which just messes things up more in the park since they'd lack millenia-old instincts on how to interact with them.
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* There is a children's book called ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Day-Dinosaur-First-Time-Books/dp/0394891309 Day of the Dinosaur]]'' which commits this sin in spades. None of the dinos are illustrated correctly and [[AnachronismStew they all are depicted as living around the same time]] (assuming it isn’t meant to just be showcasing them from various points in history). Also, ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Dimetrodon]]'', ''Mesosaurus'' and even ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures Eryops]]'' are called dinosaurs. (For those who don't know, ''Eryops'' was a newt-like amphibian that was roughly contemporary of ''Dimetrodon''. It's portrayed as a land animal in the book. Also, the three foot-long ''Mesosaurus'' resembled a crocodile and lived at the same time as ''Dimetrodon'' and ''Eryops'', but farther south. A filter-feeder, it was one of the first reptiles to return to an aquatic existence. A related coloring book [[CriticalResearchFailure makes it out to be a predator about thirty feet long]], probably getting it mixed up with ''Mosasaurus''. The book also mentions ''Archaeopteryx'' and moas, but this is AccidentallyCorrectWriting.) To be fair, the book was from the eighties, so some of this is ScienceMarchesOn, but the rest is simply inexplicable, as [[http://www.amazon.com/review/RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW this review]] points out. Granted, it’s a prose poem, but a lot of lines could have been altered to include correct information without messing up the meter.
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* There is a children's book called ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Day-Dinosaur-First-Time-Books/dp/0394891309 Day of the Dinosaur]]'' which commits this sin in spades. None of the dinos are illustrated correctly and [[AnachronismStew they all are depicted as living around the same time]] (assuming it isn’t meant to just be showcasing them from various points in history). Also, ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Dimetrodon]]'', ''Mesosaurus'' and even ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures Eryops]]'' are called dinosaurs. (For those who don't know, ''Eryops'' was a newt-like amphibian that was roughly contemporary of ''Dimetrodon''. It's portrayed as a land animal in the book. Also, the three foot-long ''Mesosaurus'' resembled a crocodile and lived at the same time as ''Dimetrodon'' and ''Eryops'', but farther south. A filter-feeder, it was one of the first reptiles to return to an aquatic existence. A related coloring book [[CriticalResearchFailure makes it out to be a predator about thirty feet long]], probably getting it mixed up with ''Mosasaurus''. The book also mentions ''Archaeopteryx'' and moas, but this is AccidentallyCorrectWriting.) To be fair, the book was from the eighties, so some of this is ScienceMarchesOn, but the rest is simply inexplicable, as [[http://www.amazon.com/review/RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW this review]] points out. Granted, it’s a prose poem, but a lot of lines could have been altered to include correct information without messing up the meter.
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** Played painfully straight, however, in the spin-off series ''Cavemice'', which is basically just another version of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' with mice.
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** Played painfully straight, however, in the spin-off series ''Cavemice'', which is basically just another version of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' with mice.
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** Classification brainfarts abound (ceratosaurs are often confused with ceratopsians, while dromaeosaurids are said to include many non-dromaeosaurids and even some non-theropods).
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** Classification brainfarts abound (ceratosaurs are often confused with ceratopsians, while dromaeosaurids are said to include many non-dromaeosaurids and even some non-theropods).
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It's not a dinosaur except when the artists doing adaptations after Howard's death draw it as such.
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* Partially {{justified|Trope}} in the Franchise/{{Conan|TheBarbarian}} story ''Literature/RedNails''. Conan encounters a "dragon" (which is obviously a dinosaur) - but despite the fact that the story is set "only" ten or twenty thousand years ago, the dinosaur is not a natural survival, but an extinct creature reanimated from fossils by powerful wizards.
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* A ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' picture book was actually about Thomas and Stepney finding a ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' skeleton on Sodor, despite that dinosaur being native to North America (they really should've uncovered a ''Proceratosaurus'', ''Eotyrannus'', ''Yaverlandia'', ''Becklespinax'', ''Valdoraptor'', ''Megalosaurus'', ''Sarcosaurus'', ''Aristosuchus'', ''Calamospondylus'', ''Iliosuchus'', ''Metriacanthosaurus'', ''Eustreptospondylus'', ''Duriavenator'', ''Neovenator'' or ''Baryonyx'', all of which are actually theropod dinosaurs that are native to England). Well, at least the dinosaur skeleton the Narrow Gauge locomotives found in the show is actually that of a ''Dacentrurus'' (a large stegosaurid native to England).
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* A ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' picture book was actually about Thomas and Stepney finding a ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' skeleton on Sodor, despite that dinosaur being native to North America (they really should've uncovered a ''Proceratosaurus'', ''Eotyrannus'', ''Yaverlandia'', ''Becklespinax'', ''Valdoraptor'', ''Megalosaurus'', ''Sarcosaurus'', ''Aristosuchus'', ''Calamospondylus'', ''Iliosuchus'', ''Metriacanthosaurus'', ''Eustreptospondylus'', ''Duriavenator'', ''Neovenator'' or ''Baryonyx'', all of which are actually theropod dinosaurs that are native to England). Well, at least the dinosaur skeleton the Narrow Gauge locomotives found in the show is actually that of a ''Dacentrurus'' (a large stegosaurid native to England).
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* A ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' picture book was actually about Thomas and Stepney finding a ''TyrannosaurusRex'' skeleton on Sodor, despite that dinosaur being native to North America (they really should've uncovered a ''Proceratosaurus'', ''Eotyrannus'', ''Yaverlandia'', ''Becklespinax'', ''Valdoraptor'', ''Megalosaurus'', ''Sarcosaurus'', ''Aristosuchus'', ''Calamospondylus'', ''Iliosuchus'', ''Metriacanthosaurus'', ''Eustreptospondylus'', ''Duriavenator'', ''Neovenator'' or ''Baryonyx'', all of which are actually theropod dinosaurs that are native to England). Well, at least the dinosaur skeleton the Narrow Gauge locomotives found in the show is actually that of a ''Dacentrurus'' (a large stegosaurid native to England).
* [[http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Mission-Xtreme-Chris-Madsen/dp/1902626842/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305751385&sr=1-3 this one]], which is just one big CriticalResearchFailure from beginning to end. For starters, it has ''herbivorous plesiosaurs'', states that ''Ceratosaurus'' was a tyrannosaur (right, and you're a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier tarsier]]), claims that TyrannosaurusRex grew to 65 feet long (try 42 feet), has naked raptors, claims that ''Oviraptor'' lived on eggs (discarded in the nineties), has ''aquatic sauropods'' (disproven in the sixties, while the book was written in 2003), says that ''Archaeopteryx'' evolved after the raptors and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has really lame 3D]].
* [[http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Mission-Xtreme-Chris-Madsen/dp/1902626842/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305751385&sr=1-3 this one]], which is just one big CriticalResearchFailure from beginning to end. For starters, it has ''herbivorous plesiosaurs'', states that ''Ceratosaurus'' was a tyrannosaur (right, and you're a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier tarsier]]), claims that TyrannosaurusRex grew to 65 feet long (try 42 feet), has naked raptors, claims that ''Oviraptor'' lived on eggs (discarded in the nineties), has ''aquatic sauropods'' (disproven in the sixties, while the book was written in 2003), says that ''Archaeopteryx'' evolved after the raptors and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has really lame 3D]].
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* A ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' picture book was actually about Thomas and Stepney finding a ''TyrannosaurusRex'' ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' skeleton on Sodor, despite that dinosaur being native to North America (they really should've uncovered a ''Proceratosaurus'', ''Eotyrannus'', ''Yaverlandia'', ''Becklespinax'', ''Valdoraptor'', ''Megalosaurus'', ''Sarcosaurus'', ''Aristosuchus'', ''Calamospondylus'', ''Iliosuchus'', ''Metriacanthosaurus'', ''Eustreptospondylus'', ''Duriavenator'', ''Neovenator'' or ''Baryonyx'', all of which are actually theropod dinosaurs that are native to England). Well, at least the dinosaur skeleton the Narrow Gauge locomotives found in the show is actually that of a ''Dacentrurus'' (a large stegosaurid native to England).
* [[http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Mission-Xtreme-Chris-Madsen/dp/1902626842/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305751385&sr=1-3 this one]], which is just one big CriticalResearchFailure from beginning to end. For starters, it has ''herbivorous plesiosaurs'', states that ''Ceratosaurus'' was a tyrannosaur (right, and you're a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier tarsier]]), claims thatTyrannosaurusRex ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' grew to 65 feet long (try 42 feet), has naked raptors, claims that ''Oviraptor'' lived on eggs (discarded in the nineties), has ''aquatic sauropods'' (disproven in the sixties, while the book was written in 2003), says that ''Archaeopteryx'' evolved after the raptors and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has really lame 3D]].
* [[http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Mission-Xtreme-Chris-Madsen/dp/1902626842/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1305751385&sr=1-3 this one]], which is just one big CriticalResearchFailure from beginning to end. For starters, it has ''herbivorous plesiosaurs'', states that ''Ceratosaurus'' was a tyrannosaur (right, and you're a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsier tarsier]]), claims that
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** The chief of mammoths is apparently male. [[AnimalGenderConfusion Mammoths likely lived in matriarchal societies like modern elephants do]].
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** The chief of mammoths is apparently male. [[AnimalGenderConfusion [[AnimalGenderBender Mammoths likely lived in matriarchal societies like modern elephants do]].
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* Given the patchy record of prehistory available in 1911, ''Literature/QuestForFire'' naturally takes many liberties for the sake of a compelling story. [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting Some have aged surprisingly well]]. [[ScienceMarchesOn Others not so much]]:
** The [[PantheraAwesome cave lion]] is portrayed as [[EndangeredSpecies a species on the brink of extinction]]. 100,000 years ago which [[AnachronisticAnimal predates the earliest known cave lion remains]]. It's "colossal" size also appears to be based on the then better known American lion (cave lions were a newly discovered species at the time).
** The chief of mammoths is apparently male. [[AnimalGenderConfusion Mammoths likely lived in matriarchal societies like modern elephants do]].
** There are a couple instances of mammoths impaling people and other animals with their tusks. This would have been difficult if not impossible for a woolly mammoth given the curvature of said tusks.
** The [[PantheraAwesome cave lion]] is portrayed as [[EndangeredSpecies a species on the brink of extinction]]. 100,000 years ago which [[AnachronisticAnimal predates the earliest known cave lion remains]]. It's "colossal" size also appears to be based on the then better known American lion (cave lions were a newly discovered species at the time).
** The chief of mammoths is apparently male. [[AnimalGenderConfusion Mammoths likely lived in matriarchal societies like modern elephants do]].
** There are a couple instances of mammoths impaling people and other animals with their tusks. This would have been difficult if not impossible for a woolly mammoth given the curvature of said tusks.
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* The ''Literature/DinosaurVs'' books feature a dinosaur living with humans.
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* The ''Literature/DinosaurVs'' books feature a dinosaur living with humans.humans.
* In the novelization for ''[[Film/KingKong1933 King Kong]]'', Denham refers to the ''Triceratops'' as "something like a dinosaur, but with their forelegs more fully developed." Meaning that according to author Delos W. Lovelace, ''Triceratopes'' aren't actually dinosaurs. And neither are any of the other animals that appear, save for the ''Brontosaurus'', which is the only one Lovelace explicitly identifies as a dinosaur.
* In the novelization for ''[[Film/KingKong1933 King Kong]]'', Denham refers to the ''Triceratops'' as "something like a dinosaur, but with their forelegs more fully developed." Meaning that according to author Delos W. Lovelace, ''Triceratopes'' aren't actually dinosaurs. And neither are any of the other animals that appear, save for the ''Brontosaurus'', which is the only one Lovelace explicitly identifies as a dinosaur.
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* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book ''In the Time of Dinosaurs'' tried pretty hard to avoid this, with the only real anachronism given a HandWave--in an epilogue, Tobias notes that one of the dinosaurs they saw should have actually been extinct at that point, but hey, they saw it, so clearly the paleontologists are wrong, making this more a cross between ShownTheirWork and RuleOfCool. Then again, the book starts out with a nuclear explosion causing TimeTravel and also had crab-aliens and ant-aliens in a minor war over the Earth at the same time, so...
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* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book ''In the Time of Dinosaurs'' tried pretty hard to avoid this, with the only real anachronism given a HandWave--in an epilogue, Tobias notes that one of the dinosaurs they saw should have actually been extinct at that point, but hey, they saw it, so clearly the paleontologists are wrong, making this more a cross between ShownTheirWork and RuleOfCool. Then again, the book starts out with a nuclear explosion causing TimeTravel and also had crab-aliens and ant-aliens in a minor war over the Earth However, even if you accept that, it still commits some major flubs-- namely, ''Deinonychus'' is depicted without feathers, which was already considered doubtful at the same time, so...and ''Spinosaurus'' is shown as a sail-backed "carnosaur" rather than the crocodile-like aquatic dinosaur it is now known to have been.
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* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' book "At the Dinosaur Dig" averts this for the most part (humorously it’s written by the same people as the above work. Presumably they learned from their mistakes) save for three major mistakes: ''Dimetrodon'' was referred to as a reptile, ''Apatosaurus'' is confused with ''Diplodocus'', and ''Mosasaurus'' was described as being bigger than any shark (''C. megalodon'' was larger).
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* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' book "At the Dinosaur Dig" averts this for the most part (humorously it’s written by the same people as the above work. Presumably they learned from their mistakes) save for three four major mistakes: the bears discover a ''Spinosaurus'' skeleton [[MisplacedWildlife despite in North America]], ''Dimetrodon'' was referred to as a reptile, ''Apatosaurus'' is confused with ''Diplodocus'', and ''Mosasaurus'' was described as being bigger than any shark (''C. megalodon'' was larger).
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*** Then again the sequel also has its own share of bizarre mistakes and speculation, most memorably a scene featuring a pair of ''Carnotaurus'' who can change the color of their skin to such a detailed degree that they turn virtually invisible when standing still. While there are real creatures that can change colors, something that large being able to stand out in the open and just vanish to the naked eye is absurd. The notion that a large theropod evolved a natural camouflage system on par with the Franchise/{{Predator}}'s cloaking device is even more outlandish than ''Dilophosaurus'' having a frill and spitting venom, since at least the latter is based on traits of real animals.
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*** Then again the sequel also has its own share of bizarre mistakes and speculation, most memorably a scene featuring a pair of ''Carnotaurus'' who can change the color of their skin to such a detailed degree that they turn virtually invisible when standing still. While there are real creatures that can change colors, something that large being able to stand out in the open and just vanish to the naked eye is absurd. The notion that a large theropod evolved a natural camouflage system on par with the Franchise/{{Predator}}'s cloaking device is even more outlandish than ''Dilophosaurus'' having a frill and spitting venom, since at least the latter is based on traits of real animals. Not to mention that ''Carnotaurus'' was an incredibly fast pursuit predator, making camouflage unnecessary.
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** ''The Dinosaur Alphabet Book'' zigzags this trope, as on the one hand, none of the dinosaurs are feathered (then again, it was published in 1991), ''[[SeldomSeenSpecies Xiaosaurus]]'' is seen dragging its tail, and the Q page features a sauropod called a “''Questrosaurus''” (properly''Quaesitosaurus'') that appears to be comically tall compared to the trees (or are those some other kind of plant? The illustration makes it hard to tell) in the background. On the other hand, not only does he use “''Questrosaurus''” to illustrate how dinosaurs may have been brightly colored in real life, by having one picture of it be in grayscale and another show it with psychedelically vibrant magenta, yellow, and blue skin, but he also has several other brightly colored dinosaurs throughout the book, includes a few entries on some non-dinosaurs such as the pterosaur ''Rhamphorynchus'' and marine reptile ''Kronosaurus'' before lampshading it and including an actual dinosaur entry, acknowledges the fact that ''Oviraptor'' was brooding its eggs rather than eating them, and includes several [[SeldomSeenSpecies Seldom Seen Genera]] such as ''Yangchuanosaurus,'' the aforementioned ''Xiaosaurus,'' Korean ''Ultrasaurus,'' and ''Riojasaurus.''
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** ''The Dinosaur Alphabet Book'' zigzags this trope, as on the one hand, none of the dinosaurs are feathered (then again, it was published in 1991), ''[[SeldomSeenSpecies Xiaosaurus]]'' is seen dragging its tail, and the Q page features a sauropod called a “''Questrosaurus''” (properly''Quaesitosaurus'') (properly ''Quaesitosaurus'') that appears to be comically tall compared to the trees (or are those some other kind of plant? The illustration makes it hard to tell) in the background. On the other hand, not only does he use “''Questrosaurus''” to illustrate how dinosaurs may have been brightly colored in real life, by having one picture of it be in grayscale and another show it with psychedelically vibrant magenta, yellow, and blue skin, but he also has several other brightly colored dinosaurs throughout the book, includes a few entries on some non-dinosaurs such as the pterosaur ''Rhamphorynchus'' and marine reptile ''Kronosaurus'' before lampshading it and including an actual dinosaur entry, acknowledges the fact that ''Oviraptor'' was brooding its eggs rather than eating them, and includes several [[SeldomSeenSpecies Seldom Seen Genera]] such as ''Yangchuanosaurus,'' the aforementioned ''Xiaosaurus,'' Korean ''Ultrasaurus,'' and ''Riojasaurus.''
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* There is a children's book called ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Day-Dinosaur-First-Time-Books/dp/0394891309 Day of the Dinosaur]]'' which commits this sin in spades. None of the dinos are illustrated correctly and [[AnachronismStew they all are depicted as living around the same time]] (assuming it isn’t meant to just be showcasing them from various points in history). Also, ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Dimetrodon]]'', ''Mesosaurus'' and '''''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures Eryops]]''''' are called dinosaurs. (For those who don't know, ''Eryops'' was a newt-like amphibian that was roughly contemporary of ''Dimetrodon''. It's portrayed as a land animal in the book. Also, the three foot-long ''Mesosaurus'' resembled a crocodile and lived at the same time as ''Dimetrodon'' and ''Eryops'', but farther south. A filter-feeder, it was one of the first reptiles to return to an aquatic existence. A related coloring book [[CriticalResearchFailure makes it out to be a predator about thirty feet long]], probably getting it mixed up with ''Mosasaurus''. The book also mentions ''Archaeopteryx'' and moas, but this is AccidentallyCorrectWriting.) To be fair, the book was from the eighties, so some of this is ScienceMarchesOn, (such as ''Tyrannosaurus'' being the largest of all predators) but the rest is simply inexplicable, as [[http://www.amazon.com/review/RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW this review]] points out. Granted, it’s a prose poem, but a lot of lines could have been altered to include correct information without messing up the meter.
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* There is a children's book called ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Day-Dinosaur-First-Time-Books/dp/0394891309 Day of the Dinosaur]]'' which commits this sin in spades. None of the dinos are illustrated correctly and [[AnachronismStew they all are depicted as living around the same time]] (assuming it isn’t meant to just be showcasing them from various points in history). Also, ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Dimetrodon]]'', ''Mesosaurus'' and '''''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures Eryops]]''''' even ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures Eryops]]'' are called dinosaurs. (For those who don't know, ''Eryops'' was a newt-like amphibian that was roughly contemporary of ''Dimetrodon''. It's portrayed as a land animal in the book. Also, the three foot-long ''Mesosaurus'' resembled a crocodile and lived at the same time as ''Dimetrodon'' and ''Eryops'', but farther south. A filter-feeder, it was one of the first reptiles to return to an aquatic existence. A related coloring book [[CriticalResearchFailure makes it out to be a predator about thirty feet long]], probably getting it mixed up with ''Mosasaurus''. The book also mentions ''Archaeopteryx'' and moas, but this is AccidentallyCorrectWriting.) To be fair, the book was from the eighties, so some of this is ScienceMarchesOn, (such as ''Tyrannosaurus'' being the largest of all predators) but the rest is simply inexplicable, as [[http://www.amazon.com/review/RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW this review]] points out. Granted, it’s a prose poem, but a lot of lines could have been altered to include correct information without messing up the meter.
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* There is a children's book called ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Day-Dinosaur-First-Time-Books/dp/0394891309 Day of the Dinosaur]]'' which commits this sin in spades. None of the dinos are illustrated correctly and [[AnachronismStew they all are depicted as living around the same time]] (assuming it isn’t meant to just be showcasing them from various points in history). Also, ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Dimetrodon]]'', ''Mesosaurus'' and '''''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures Eryops]]''''' are called dinosaurs. (For those who don't know, ''Eryops'' was a newt-like amphibian that was roughly contemporary of ''Dimetrodon''. It's portrayed as a land animal in the book. Also, the three foot-long ''Mesosaurus'' resembled a crocodile and lived at the same time as ''Dimetrodon'' and ''Eryops'', but farther south. A filter-feeder, it was one of the first reptiles to return to an aquatic existence. A related coloring book [[CriticalResearchFailure makes it out to be a predator about thirty feet long]], probably getting it mixed up with ''Mosasaurus''. The book also mentions ''Archaeopteryx'' and moas, but this is AccidentallyCorrectWriting.) To be fair, the book was from the eighties, so some of this is ScienceMarchesOn, (such as ''Tyrannosaurus'' being the largest of all predators) but the rest is simply inexplicable, as [[http://www.amazon.com/review/RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW this review]] points out.
** Granted, it’s a prose poem, but a lot of lines could have been altered to include correct information without messing up the meter.
** Granted, it’s a prose poem, but a lot of lines could have been altered to include correct information without messing up the meter.
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* There is a children's book called ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Day-Dinosaur-First-Time-Books/dp/0394891309 Day of the Dinosaur]]'' which commits this sin in spades. None of the dinos are illustrated correctly and [[AnachronismStew they all are depicted as living around the same time]] (assuming it isn’t meant to just be showcasing them from various points in history). Also, ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Dimetrodon]]'', ''Mesosaurus'' and '''''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures Eryops]]''''' are called dinosaurs. (For those who don't know, ''Eryops'' was a newt-like amphibian that was roughly contemporary of ''Dimetrodon''. It's portrayed as a land animal in the book. Also, the three foot-long ''Mesosaurus'' resembled a crocodile and lived at the same time as ''Dimetrodon'' and ''Eryops'', but farther south. A filter-feeder, it was one of the first reptiles to return to an aquatic existence. A related coloring book [[CriticalResearchFailure makes it out to be a predator about thirty feet long]], probably getting it mixed up with ''Mosasaurus''. The book also mentions ''Archaeopteryx'' and moas, but this is AccidentallyCorrectWriting.) To be fair, the book was from the eighties, so some of this is ScienceMarchesOn, (such as ''Tyrannosaurus'' being the largest of all predators) but the rest is simply inexplicable, as [[http://www.amazon.com/review/RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RSJQ7KJ0HH8RW this review]] points out.
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** The sequel book ''After the Dinosaurs'' fares a lot better, aside from some AnachronismStew and ScienceMarchesOn. It does, however, make the glaring mistake of claiming tigers are descended from ''Smilodon''.
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** The sequel book ''After the Dinosaurs'' fares a lot better, aside from some AnachronismStew and ScienceMarchesOn. It does, however, make the glaring mistake of claiming tigers are descended from ''Smilodon''.
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* Creator/StephenBaxter's book ''Literature/{{Evolution}}''. While most of the time he gets the science right, and the speculative leaps he takes are somewhat within the bounds of plausibility, a few examples must be mentioned. The story about primates coming to North America has some anachronism and MisplacedWildlife in it. Not only does it have indricotherid rhinos (native only to Asia), camels (who were only found in North America at this time), and such, it has gastornithid birds inhabiting Oligocene-Miocene Africa... yes, even after these animals were supposed to have died out in the middle Eocene. The story involving ''Purgatorius'' has some flaws too. While Baxter does get it right by cloaking his troodonts in feathers, he leaves them off his dromaeosaurs. To add insult to injury, he makes the raptors cold-blooded, despite the fact that raptors are the very dinosaurs which ignited the cold blood, warm blood debate. In fact, even paleontologists who doubt endothermy in ornithischians and sauropods don't deny that raptors were most likely endothermic. And then there are the ''Giganotosaurus'' and ''Suchomimus'' in North America, many millions of years late and/or on the wrong continent; though this could be handwaved as them being different, not-yet-discovered species from those genera. In the story about the sapient Ornitholestes, he mentions that the only evidence humans had of these species is the disappearance of "the giant sauropods" in the Late Jurassic, since the sapient species bones and technology are too fragile to preserve. Now it's true that ''Diplodocus'', the only species depicted in the story, did become extinct at the end of the Jurassic; but there were other giants, such as ''Sauroposeidon'' and ''Argentinosaurus'', right through the Cretaceous.
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* Creator/StephenBaxter's book ''Literature/{{Evolution}}''. While most of the time he gets the science right, and the speculative leaps he takes are somewhat within the bounds of plausibility, a few examples must be mentioned. The story about primates coming to North America has some anachronism and MisplacedWildlife in it. Not only does it have indricotherid indricothere rhinos (native only to Asia), camels (who were only found in North America at this time), and such, it has gastornithid birds inhabiting Oligocene-Miocene Africa... yes, even after these animals were supposed to have died out in the middle Eocene. The story involving ''Purgatorius'' has some flaws too. While Baxter does get it right by cloaking his troodonts in feathers, he leaves them off his dromaeosaurs. To add insult to injury, he makes the raptors cold-blooded, despite the fact that raptors are the very dinosaurs which ignited the cold blood, warm blood ectothermy/endothermy debate. In fact, even paleontologists who doubt endothermy in ornithischians ornithischians, sauropodomorphs and sauropods carnosaurs don't deny that raptors were most likely endothermic. And then there are the ''Giganotosaurus'' and ''Suchomimus'' in North America, many millions of years late and/or on the wrong continent; though this could be handwaved as them being different, not-yet-discovered species from those genera. In the story about the sapient Ornitholestes, he mentions that the only evidence humans had of these species is the disappearance of "the giant sauropods" in the Late Jurassic, since the sapient species bones and technology are too fragile to preserve. Now it's true that ''Diplodocus'', the only species depicted in the story, did become extinct at the end of the Jurassic; but there were other giants, such as ''Sauroposeidon'' and ''Argentinosaurus'', right through the Cretaceous.
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** ''The Great Prehistoric Search'' illustrates the dog-sized armadillo ''Peltephilus'' as an elephant-sized giant and places the Asian ape ''Sivapithecus'' in Africa.
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** ''The Great Prehistoric Search'' illustrates the dog-sized armadillo ''Peltephilus'' as an elephant-sized giant and places the Asian ape ''Sivapithecus'' in Africa.Africa.
* The ''Literature/DinosaurVs'' books feature a dinosaur living with humans.
* The ''Literature/DinosaurVs'' books feature a dinosaur living with humans.
