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* The cancelled ''Powers Of Grayskull!'' prequel toyline to ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' would have had dinosaurs with guns attached to them in a SwordAndSorcery setting with wizards and kings.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': The Empire of Blood makes extensive use of domesticated dinosaurs as [[HorseOfADifferentColor mounts]], beasts of burden, and [[BeastOfBattle war animals]]. Specifically, ''Allosaurus'', ''Pteranodon'' and ''Brontosaurus''[[note]] when Elan remarks that ''Brontosaurus'' is technically the body of one dinosaur with the head of another, Tarquin says that hippogriffs are hardly less chimerical, but he still has several armed divisions mounted on them[[/note]] are all seen at various points.

Depending on the setting, this can potentially be anything from a fantasy world explicitly set in the Earth's real or fictional prehistory, with the prehistoric elements taking front and center, to a more conventional fantasy world with a few species of dinosaur and Ice Age megafauna added in among the usual fantasy creatures.

Medieval prehistory involves vaguely prehistoric plant and animal life, or climate and environmental conditions, with [[KnightInShiningArmour knights]], [[BigFancyCastle castles]], and [[PrincessClassic princesses]] coexisting. Doesn't ''necessarily'' have to be set in Medieval Europe or a FantasyCounterpartCulture to it, but it does have to involve a pre-industrial society, so AncientGrome and ancient UsefulNotes/{{Africa}} or even {{Mayincatec}} etc. are permitted. StonePunk, which usually involves a more modern-type society, is an entirely different trope.

Prehistory is full of creatures that could pass for fantastic; [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]], [[SnowySabertooths sabre-toothed cats]], UsefulNotes/{{Dinosaurs}}, and millions of others are strange and unusual enough to be very serviceable fantastic beasts alongside [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent griffins]], dragons, and the like, while still similar enough to modern fauna not to feel too out of place in Earth-like worlds. The problem is, you might think of prehistoric human society as boring. The solution? Medieval Prehistory.

Prehistory is full of creatures that could pass for fantastic; [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]], [[SnowySabertooths sabre-toothed cats]], UsefulNotes/{{Dinosaurs}}, and millions of others are strange and unusual enough to be very serviceable fantastic beasts alongside griffins, dragons, and the like, while still similar enough to modern fauna not to feel too out of place in Earth-like worlds. The problem is, you might think of prehistoric human society as boring. The solution? Medieval Prehistory.

Prehistory is full of creatures that could pass for fantastic; [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]], [[SnowySabertooths sabre-toothed cats]], {{Dinosaurs}}, and millions of others are strange and unusual enough to be very serviceable fantastic beasts alongside griffins, dragons, and the like, while still similar enough to modern fauna not to feel too out of place in Earth-like worlds. The problem is, you might think of prehistoric human society as boring. The solution? Medieval Prehistory.

Prehistory is full of creatures that could pass for fantastic; [[MammothsMeanIceAge mammoths]], [[SnowySabertooths sabre-toothed cats]], dinosaurs, and millions of others are strange and unusual enough to be very serviceable fantastic beasts alongside griffins, dragons, and the like, while still similar enough to modern fauna not to feel too out of place in Earth-like worlds. The problem is, you might think of prehistoric human society as boring. The solution? Medieval Prehistory.