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6	[[caption-width-right:350:Left: Percy the pug from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'', set in 1607.[softreturn]Right: Actual pug in the 1600s.]]
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8	In {{Period Piece}}s, animals that didn't exist during that period will often exist anyway. Animals that looked different in the past will also appear in modern form for similar reasons.
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10	This is often done due to ignorance. Animals are mistaken for [[NewerThanTheyThink older than they actually are]] and thus are shown before they existed. This can also be done for [[SmallReferencePools recognizability]]; people will recognize a Bloodhound but not its now extinct ancestor, the Talbot Hound.
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12	In live-action, this trope might be used for pragmatic reasons. It's more expensive and difficult to find period-accurate animals, assuming they aren't outright extinct.
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14	Animals that are treated as anachronistic in-universe (thanks to TimeTravel, LostWorld or NotSoExtinct) are not this trope.
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16	Compare to ArtisticLicenseBiology, ArtisticLicenseHistory, ArtisticLicensePaleontology, MisplacedWildlife, PresentDayPast, SchizoTech, HollywoodPrehistory (for when prehistoric animals and humans are lumped together in a vaguely prehistoric setting), and ScienceMarchesOn (for when at the time it was believed the species did exist during the setting's time period, but later analysis and studies show it to be a different but related animal instead).
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18	!!Examples:
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23	* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Shirogane has the distinct bent ears of a Scottish fold. Scottish folds didn't exist until the 1960s, while Shirogane has been around [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld since the early 1600s]]. He is a shapeshifting spirit, so he technically could have changed his form more recently.
24	* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasNewDinosaur'': The Cretaceous scenes feature prehistoric animals from throughout the Late Cretaceous Period living together 66 million years ago, but ''Tapejara'' and ''Repenomamus'' particularly stand out by being Early Cretaceous animals. Subverted when the movie shows an actual, modern-day monkey in the middle of the age of dinosaurs -- because that was a disguise used by Jill to spy on the main characters.
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28	* ''ComicBook/{{Tyrant}}'': The story is intended to be a close-to-real restoration of the world of the ''Tyrannosaurus'', but, with the exception of ''Quetzalcoatlus'', all of the species depicted (''Maiasaura'', ''Styracosaurus'', ''Chirostenotes'', ''Pteranodon'', and ''Dromiceiomimus'') coexisting alongside it are from the earlier Campanian epoch (while ''T. rex'' is known only from the late Maastrichtian, several million years later). This was pointed out to the author by palaeontologists after the second issue, who responded by cutting out most of the offending anachronisms in future issues (with the exception of ''Chirostenotes'').
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32	* ''Fanfic/DinosaurAPrehistoricParkAdventure'': Beyond the examples present in the [[Series/PrehistoricPark two]] sources [[WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}} materials]] for this series, Chapter 9 of the first story features Nigel going back seventy million years ago to rescue a female ''Triceratops'' and facing both ''Albertosaurus'' and ''Deinosuchus'' as obstacles. Only ''Albertosaurus'' is known form that time period - ''Deinosuchus'' should have already gone extinct while ''Triceratops'' hadn't evolved yet. This gets worse in later portions of the series, which features, for example, the Early Jurassic ''Dilophosaurus'' living alongside ''Stegosaurus'' from the Late Jurassic.
33	* ''Fanfic/MaroonedInMadagascar'': Crowned eagles are the go-to species to play the BrutalBirdOfPrey. The Malagasy crowned eagle did exist and did prey on lemurs, but they died out during the 16th century (alongside giant lemurs and elephant birds), leaving only its mainland cousin in Africa.
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37	* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' shows coelacanths in Whitmore's aquarium. The movie is set in 1914, and at the time, coelacanths were believed to be extinct-- they were not discovered alive until 1938.
38	** Possibly intentional, according to [[https://vavandeveresfan.tumblr.com/post/637227864739250176/i-saw-what-you-did-there-disney this Tumblr thread]].
39	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' came out in 1970 but takes place in 1910. It features a Basset Hound character that has shorter limbs and longer ears than Basset Hounds of that period.
40	* ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' features two "modern"-style Siamese in the 1900s. The modern Siamese style, with its elongated muzzle and triangle-shaped head, didn't begin development until the 1950s. Prior to that, all Siamese were rounder and less exaggerated looking.
41	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'': Percy, the decent pampered pet Pug of the [[AntagonisticGovernor bigoted, gold-obsessed Governor Ratcliffe]], looks like the very exaggeratedly brachy modern day Pug of the 1990s when this film was made. Pugs originated in China and were introduced into Europe (into the Netherlands and into England later) in the 1500s. The movie is set in 17th-century Virginia in the New World. Pugs back in the 1600s had much longer muzzles and limbs than modern-day Pugs, so Percy looks nothing like the real pugs of his time.
42	* The Creator/DingoPictures film ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurAdventure'' features tons of these, since Dingo recycles their animation assets all the time. It's supposed to be the age of the dinosaurs, and yet there are gorillas, crows, monkeys and gazelles running around. There is also a duck narrator.[[note]]While waterfowl first evolved in the late Cretaceous period, she is a ''very'' modern-looking waterfowl[[/note]]
43	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'':
44	** Toby [[AdaptationSpeciesChange the Basset hound]] more closely resembles a Basset hound from the 1980s, since he has more exaggerated and easily tripped on ears, far more excessive eyebrow, eye, and torso skin, somewhat shorter legs and far more exaggerated flaws than a real Basset hound would have in 1897.
45	** Averted with Felicia the Persian. She is a traditional or doll-faced Persian that would likely show up in the movie's time period. Modern Peke-faced Persians [[NewerThanTheyThink developed during the 1960s]] and only became popular in the 1990s (after the film came out).
46	* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'' takes place in the age of dinosaurs, but the protagonist Aladar's mammalian surrogate family look like modern sifaka lemurs. Although the earliest primates did evolve before the K-T extinction, they almost certainly didn't look like their modern descendants. The film also features dinosaurs from both the early and late Cretaceous periods existing in a single time and place, and one of the supporting characters is a ''Brachiosaurus'' (a ''Jurassic'' dinosaur).
47	* The ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' franchise features a number of relatively obscure prehistoric mammals and birds that were long extinct by the ice ages. This includes brontotheres, ''Moeritherium'', ''Platybelodon'', ''Chalicotherium'', ''Gastornis'', and ''Hesperornis''. The movies also feature Mesozoic reptiles, but their presence is acknowledged as anachronistic: there are sea reptiles that were [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] for millions of years, and dinosaurs that live in an underground LostWorld. The SeriesMascot Scrat was a fictional species at the time the movies were released, but an uncannily similar species, ''Cronopio'', [[AccidentallyCorrectZoology was discovered since then]] -- which lived in the Cretaceous period, over 90 million years before the ice ages; interestingly enough, another saber-toothed squirrel appears and becomes Scrat's love interest in the third film -- the same one with the other dinosaurs -- and is "appropriately" placed in the subterranean LostWorld with the dinosaurs.
48	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'''s Rite of Spring sequence features a ''Dimetrodon'', a creature that lived ''before'' dinosaurs evolved. The famous fight between the ''Stegosaurus'' and a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is another example, given that the ''T. rex'' and ''Triceratops'' (which is also present in the sequence) existed in the Cretaceous, millions of years after the ''Stegosaurus''. Other dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (along with a few Triassic critters such as ''Kannemeyeria'') are shown as living side-by-side throughout.
49	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' has a plethora of animals from various time periods in the Mesozoic era living together, as well as a few animals that lived before or after the Mesozoic such as the ''Dimetrodon'' (Permian) from the first film and the horned gophers (Miocene-Pliocene) from one episode of the TV series.
50	* ''{{WesternAnimation/Brave}}'' takes place in medieval Scotland, and the plot involves a RebelliousPrincess named Merida accidentally turning her mother Queen Elinor into a bear using an enchanted spell cake she received from a witch due to Merida and her mother not seeing each other eye-to-eye. However, in real life, bears were already extinct in Scotland (and Great Britain as a whole) by the time the events of the movie take place. Also worth noting that only brown bears lived there, [[MisplacedWildlife yet all the bears seen in the film appear to be black bears]]. [[spoiler:Justified, since ''none'' of the bears in the movie are "actual" bears.]]
51	* ''WesternAnimation/TheStar'': Inverted with Rufus, who might resemble a modern Staffordshire Bull Terrier but could possibly be an extinct breed of dog known in the ancient world as an Alaunt.
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55	* ''Film/TenThousandBC'':
56	** The characters ride upon modern-day horses. The problem is, horses in prehistoric times looked nothing like their modern day, more domesticated, descendants. The horses should be much stockier, have upright manes, and be plainer looking (overall being closer to a donkey than a modern horse).
57	** On the opposite end of the spectrum, giant terror birds like ''Titanis'' went extinct around two million years ago and were definitely not around in 10,000 B.C.
58	* ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'': The opening prologue is explicitly set at the very end of the Late Cretaceous, but of the numerous animals depicted (''Dreadnoughtus'', ''Giganotosaurus'', ''Oviraptor'', ''Nasutoceratops'', ''Pteranodon'', ''Queztalcoatlus'', ''Moros'', ''Tyrannosaurus'', and ''Ankylosaurus'') only ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''Quetzalcoatlus'', and ''Ankylosaurus'' are from the correct time, with most of the others living many millions of years earlier (never mind that most were also [[MisplacedWildlife separated spatially]] as well). [[spoiler:The movie also features Cretaceous locusts, [[https://academic.oup.com/isd/article/2/4/3/5052737 even though grasshoppers only truly diversified in the Cenozoic]], when grasslands first appeared, meaning none existed in the Cretaceous.]]
59	* ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' cheerfully threw together humans, dinosaurs (of both the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods, naturally), and even a GiantSpider.
60	* Narrowly averted in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose'' movie adaptation. There's a scene including a short shot featuring pigs; the director intended to use modern, pink pigs but the historical consultant pointed that pink pigs were anachronistic and medieval pigs were black or brown. Since they couldn't find black pigs in time, the pigs were dyed for the shooting.
61	* In ''Film/{{The Jungle Book\|2016}}'', the live-action remake of Disney's animated ''Jungle Book'', King Louis is depicted as a ''Gigantopithecus'', an extinct species of ape that predates modern humans (such as Mowgli and whoever could have constructed the ruins) by at least a hundred thousand years. This was ostensibly done to prevent the MisplacedWildlife of [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 the 1967 version]], [[VoodooShark but]] an orangutan somehow finding its way from Indonesia to India is a ''lot'' more plausible than a ''Gigantopithecus'' surviving into the Common Era.
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65	* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'' has a book where the kids are sent back in time to just before the end of the age of dinosaurs. One of the ones they encounter is a Spinosaurus, which was long extinct by then. The afterword of the book has Tobias cheekily say that he knows it doesn't make sense but who are you going to believe, some dusty old books or someone who's been there and seen it?
66	* The first two parts of ''{{Literature/Dinoverse}}'' try to keep to animals and plants native to the times the kids have been flung to. The third disregards this entirely and has kids BodySnatching dinosaurs from many eras in the same time and place together thanks to how badly the time machine has malfunctioned - this is a bit contrived as previously the time machine was only capable of facilitating MentalTimeTravel.
67	* ''Literature/JurassicPark'': During the aviary scene, Alan Grant, Lex and Tim encounter two giant red dragonflies with six-foot wingspans, presumably ''Meganeura'' cloned by the park. When Lex asks what they were, Grant answers that "the Jurassic was a time of huge insects". While giant insects did exist in the past, none of them lived in the Jurassic period nor coexisted with the dinosaurs, with ''Meganeura'' going extinct over 100 million years beforehand, in the Late Carboniferous[[note]]Techically, it'd be as easy to find a ''Stegosaurus'' living today as a ''Meganeura'' living in the Jurassic[[/note]]. Also, no dragonfly-- even in the Carboniferous-- had a wingspan of six feet. The largest ones known to science topped out at about two and a half feet.
68	* ''Literature/RaptorRed'': Although the book is fairly accurate for its time, it makes one major use of ArtisticLicense and it's this. ''Utahraptor'' is depicted coexisting with numerous animals that are only known to have lived several million years after it died out, such as the ''Deinonychus'', ''Acrocanthosaurus'', ''Astrodon'', and ''Kronosaurus''. This is especially egregious with the ending, which shows ''Acrocanthosaurus'' being decimated by a plague, allowing ''Utahraptor'' to dominate, when, if anything, the opposite should be true. [[note]]This error is now even more extreme with [[ScienceMarchesOn further studies]] showing ''Utahraptor'' lived about ten million years earlier than originally thought.[[/note]]
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72	* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': The Sharmas (who are from India) have a beloved Pembroke corgi named Newton. Corgis were not lapdogs in the show's setting of 1810s England, let alone India (they were bred as working dogs in Wales and were not recognized as a breed until around a century later).
73	* ''Series/DinosaurPlanet'':
74	** "White Tip's Journey" is set 80 MYA, but most of the animals would be more accurately from 75 MYA. That said, they did all at least live together at the same time in the Djadochta Formation, with the exception of ''Prenocephale'', which is known only from the Nemegt Formation, which is 5 million years younger.
75	** "Pod's Travels" is set 80 MYA, but most of the animals, with the exception of maybe ''Tarascosaurus'', would be more accurately from about 70 MYA.
76	** "Alpha's Egg" is set 80 MYA, but only ''Aucasaurus'' is from close to this time. This example is largely due to ScienceMarchesOn, as the contemporary ''Neuquensaurus'' was once considered a ''Saltasaurus'' species, the contemporary megaraptoran ''Aerosteon'' was once considered a carcharodontosaur, and both ''Alvarezsaurus'' and ''Notosuchus'' were once thought to be from the same fossil formation.
77	** "Little Das' Hunt" is set 75 MYA, but only ''Daspletosaurus'' is known from this time. ''Maiasaura'', ''Troodon'', and ''Orodromeus'' lived almost 2 million years earlier, ''Einiosaurus'' lived about 1 million years later, and ''Quetzalcoatlus'' lived about 7 million years later and should've been shown being contemporary with ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ''Edmontosaurus'' in the epilogue.
78	* ''Series/PrehistoricPark'':
79	** The first episode, set a few days before the K-Pg extinction event, includes the ceratopsian ''Triceratops'', specifically identified as ''T. horridus''. However, it is now know that ''T. horridus'' did not make it to the very end of the Mesozoic, because it had evolved into ''T. prorsus''.
80	** In the second episode, Nigel travels back 10,000 years to the last ice age to rescue a woolly mammoth. At one point, he is briefly chased by an angry cave bear when he wanders into its cave, which should've been extinct for well over 10,000 years at that point. He lampshades it when he apologizes to the camera crew because he thought they were extinct by now. Another threat they face are cave hyenas, but they also would have been extinct for over a thousand years by then.
81	** The third episode has Nigel travelling to the Yixian Formation, approximately 125 MYA. However, his target is ''Microraptor'', which did ''not'' live in the Yixian. It's only known from the underlying Jiufotang Formation, which is five million years younger (although very close relatives, like ''Sinornithosaurus'', are known from the Yixian).
82	** The fourth episode, set in South America a million years ago, makes the same mistake as ''Walking with Beasts'', showing giant terror birds living almost a million years after they are thought to have died out (and identifying the genus as ''Phorusrhacos'', which only lived in the Miocene, at least 12 million years earlier).
83	** In the fourth episode, Nigel travels to the Late Carboniferous, 300 MYA, but two of the animals depicted, the giant scorpion ''Pulmonoscorpius'', and the giant amphibian ''Crassigyrinus'', are only known from the Early Carboniferous, more than 25 million years earlier.
84	** The fifth episode is set in the Middle Campanian, 75 MYA, but the tyrannosaur ''Albertosaurus'' is only known from the Early Maastrichtian, about four million years later (although the closely related ''Gorgosaurus'' did exist at the time and is sometimes considered a second ''Albertosaurus'' species). The pterosaur ''Nyctosaurus'' is also only known from the earlier Santonian, and would've been extinct for nearly 10 million years by then.
85	* ''Franchise/WalkingWith'': This occurs in nearly every episode with at least one animal, in the most drastic cases nearly the entire cast is not known to have existed at the time the episode is supposed to be set.
86	** ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'':
87	*** "New Blood" is set during in Arizona during the Mid-Norian, 220 MYA, but it ends with the arrival of a herd of ''Plateosaurus'', which lived during the Late Norian ([[MisplacedWildlife of Europe, not Arizona]]). ''Coelophysis'' also isn't known from the location until about 208 MYA, although similar animals would have existed at the time. The unnamed cynodonts in the episode are identified in supplementary material as ''Thrinaxodon'', which is only known from the Early Triassic ([[MisplacedWildlife of South Africa and Antarctica]]).[[note]]The story behind the cynodonts is complicated; they were based on fossil teeth from the location initially identified as belonging to cynodonts, although [[ScienceMarchesOn they were later reevaluated]] (and named ''Kraterokheirodon'') and found it could not be identified with any specific tetrapod group. However, even when the teeth were considered to belong to a cynodont, they were thought to be traversodont in origin, which were a group of herbivorous cynodonts very unlike ''Thrinaxodon''.[[/note]]
88	*** "Time of Titans" is set in Colorado during the Kimmeridgian, 154 MYA, but it includes ''Anurognathus'', which is known from the Tithonian, about four million years later, [[MisplacedWildlife and in Germany, not Colorado]]. It also shows dung beetles feeding on sauropod dung, but later studies have confirmed that dung beetles did not appear until the Early Cretaceous.
89	*** "Cruel Seas" is set in England during the Tithonian, 149 MYA, but nearly every animal featured lived during the Early Oxfordian, about fifteen million years prior. Only the horseshoe crabs and the ''Rhamphorhynchus'' are known from the time period. The hybodont in the episode should also be ''Asteracanthus'' now instead of ''Hybodus'', which is [[ScienceMarchesOn now thought]] to only have lived in the Early Jurassic.
90	*** "Giant of the Skies" is set during the Early Barremian, 127 MYA, but due to ScienceMarchesOn, we now know that ''Tropeognathus'' and ''Tupandactylus'' (identified in the show as ''Ornithocheirus'' and ''Tapejara'', respectively) lived during the Albian, about fifteen million years later, while ''Utahraptor'' lived about seven million years earlier. The pliosaur in the episode is also identified in supplementary material as ''Plesiopleurodon'', but this genus lived during the early Late Cretaceous, about ''thirty'' million years later (it's also considered a polycotylid now instead of a pliosaur).
91	*** "Spirits of the Ice Forest" is set in Antarctica during the Late Albian, 106 MYA, but ''Leaellynasaura'' and ''Koolasuchus'' both lived significantly earlier (about ten million years and fifteen million years, respectively). At the time, the climate of the region had warmed enough for large crocodilians to survive in the region, so ''Koolasuchus''' anachronism is a more major error, as the episode notes its kind were driven to extinction by competition with crocodiles elsewhere. The "dwarf polar allosaur" is also based on fragmentary remains, at the time tentatively assigned to ''Allosaurus'' (now considered probably megaraptoran), in deposits ten million years older, although similar animals are known from the time.
92	*** "Death of a Dynasty" is set in Montana during the Latest Maastrichtian, 65.5 MYA[[note]]Now considered to be about 66.1 MYA.[[/note]], but it features a giant crocodilian identified in supplementary material as ''Deinosuchus'', which is only known from the Campanian, at least seven million years earlier. The unnamed boid in the episode is also identified as ''Dinilysia'', which lived twenty million years earlier, and [[MisplacedWildlife in South America]].
93	** ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'':
94	*** "New Dawn" is set in Germany during the Late Ypresian, 49 MYA, but features an unidentified carnivoran as the prey of ''Ambulocetus'' which is identified in supplementary material as a miacid. While the time period is correct, the so-called "miacid" is a PaletteSwap of the bear-dog from a later episode, and looks far too advanced for the time period.
95	*** "Whale Killer" is set during the Late Priabonian, 36 MYA, but it features ''Andrewsarchus'', which lived during the Late Lutetian, about five million years prior (and in Inner Mongolia, [[MisplacedWildlife nowhere near the episode's coastal setting]]). ''Apidium'' was also [[ScienceMarchesOn later found]] to have lived during the Early Oligocene, about five million years later.
96	*** "Land of Giants" is set in Mongolia during the Mid Chattian, 25 MYA[[note]]The end of the Oligocene is now considered to be 23 MYA.[[/note]], but the species of ''Paraceratherium'' (called ''Indricotherium'' in the episode) featured lived about seven million years earlier; ''Paraceratherium'' species from the time were actually much smaller. A similar error is with the unnamed bear-dogs, which are based on ''Cynodictis'', and also lived slightly earlier. The chalicothere in the episode is based on ''Chalicotherium'', which lived about ten million years later (chalicotheres ''are'' known from the region during this time, but they were schizotheriines, which would not have knuckle-walked), although it's HandWaved by being an undiscovered species.
97	*** "Next of Kin" is set in Ethiopia during the Early Piacenzian, 3.2 MYA, but the ''Australopithecus'' are shown feeding on a zebra carcass. Zebras did not evolve until the Pleistocene, more than a million years later; horses in Africa at the time would have been more primitive three-toed animals.
98	*** "Sabre Tooth" is set in Paraguay during the Late Calabrian, 1 MYA, but the ''Smilodon'' species featured evolved about two-hundred thousand years after the episode is set, while the terror bird species featured became extinct nearly a million years prior (the episode identifies it as ''Phorusrhacos'', which lived about twelve million years earlier, but this was based on a study at the time which lumped the much later ''Titanis'' into the former genus (although ''Titanis'' [[MisplacedWildlife is only known from North America]]).
99	*** "Mammoth Journey" is set in Belgium, 30 KA, but due to ScienceMarchesOn, the inclusion of Neanderthals is now considered inaccurate, as they are currently thought to have died out about ten-thousand years prior.
100	** ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters''
101	*** The Cambrian segment is set 530 MYA, but the animals depicted actually lived about 518 MYA.
102	*** Both the ''Brontoscorpio'' and ''Cephalaspis'' from the Silurian segment, set 418 MYA, is actually from the Early Devonian, at least five million years later. The giant ''Pterygotus'' in the episode is also probably now known as ''Jaekelopterus'', which also lived in the Early Devonian, [[MisplacedWildlife and in freshwater, not the ocean]]. The giant orthocones that appear in the background would have also been extinct for about ten million years.
103	*** The giant amphibian in the Carboniferous segment, set 300 MYA, is identified in supplementary material as ''Proterogyrinus'', which lived more than twenty-three million years prior.
104	*** Most the animals depicted in the Late Permian sequence, set 250 MYA[[note]]Now considered to be about 252 MYA[[/note]] are from the slightly earlier Wuchiapingian epoch and are not known to have survived to the Great Dying. The gorgonopsids and pareiasaurs of the region would have been replaced by therocephalians and dicynodonts by then.
105	*** The species of ''Lystrosaurus'' shown in the Early Triassic sequence, set 248 MYA, is based on the much larger Permian forms. The species found in the time and place (Antarctica) was only about groundhog-sized. ''Euparkeria'' is also only known from slightly younger deposits where no ''Lystrosaurus'' are found, and the unnamed venomous therocephalian is clearly based on ''Euchambersia'', which is only known from the Permian.
106	** ''Series/ChasedByDinosaurs'':
107	*** "The Giant Claw" is set in Mongolia during the Late Campanian, 75 MYA, but it includes numerous species known only from the later Nemegt Formation, which is dated to the Early Maastrichtian, about five million years later (and also would have been swampy and forested, not desert-like). The pterosaurs in the episode are also identified in supplementary material as ''Azhdarcho'', which existed fifteen million years earlier.
108	*** "Land of Giants" is set in Argentina during the Early Cenomanian, 100 MYA, but ''Argentinosaurus'' lived slightly later, ''Pteranodon'' lived about fifteen million years later ([[MisplacedWildlife and in North America]]), and the South American ''Sarcosuchus'' lived about thirty million years earlier. The iguanodont in the episode may also be the later-named ''Macrogryphosaurus'', which lived about seven million years later and [[AnimalsNotToScale was much smaller than depicted]] (still unnamed iguanodonts are known from the time period, however).
109	** ''Series/SeaMonsters'':
110	*** The Mid Triassic segment, set 230 MYA, includes the giant ichthyosaur ''Cymbospondylus'', but it is last known to have lived seven million years prior. Small theropods and small pterosaurs also appears in briefly on the coast, but no theropods or pterosaurs are known from the specific time and place (not stated, but considering the fauna, probably Central Europe) until about ten million years later.
111	*** The Pliocene segment, set 4 MYA, includes the toothed whale ''Odobenocetops'', but this animal is only known from the earlier Late Miocene, more than a million years earlier.
112	*** The Late Cretaceous segment, set 75 MYA, but it includes ''Pteranodon'', which lived about ten million years earlier, and has a cameo from ''Tyrannosaurus'', which only evolved about seven million years later (the closely related ''Daspletosaurus'' is known from the time and place, however).
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116	* ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'': In-universe, Mawmense's Tempedia mentions that it was featured prominently in a historical movie even though Digital Temtem were only invented recently.
117	* ''VideoGame/ZniwAdventure'': The game is supposedly set in the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, but ''Triceratops'', ''Albertonykus'', ''Pachycephalosaurus'', and ''Thescelosaurus'' are from the later Maastrichtian and ''Nothronychus'' is from the earlier Turonian. This is pointed out in the in-game encyclopedia.
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121	* ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' makes Sir Gilbert the Bastard's dog a rough collie for the sake of a TimmyInAWell gag. Modern collie sub-breeds only became a thing in the 19th century. (In TheRant, Gadzikowski notes that he didn't know if collies existed in the 5th century, but says it's wrong either way since Gilbert's dog is supposed to be a hunting hound.)
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125	* ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain'':
126	** A recurring character is a ''Palaeobatrachus''[[note]]a kind of frog[[/note]] who lives in the Late Cretaceous, even though the genus didn't appear until the Eocene, approximately 10 million years after the impact.
127	** During the "What's at the Center of the Earth?" special, the ''Pteranodon'' family meet a ''Necrolestes'' in the late Cretaceous. In reality, it lived 20 million years ago.
128	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' is cheerfully and unashamedly anachronistic, featuring dinosaurs ([[{{Whateversaurus}} most of which aren't identifiable to any real species]]) living alongside humans with no explanation.
129	* [[PunnyName Terry Dactyl]], mascot of WesternAnimation/TheFunnyCompany, is exactly what his name implies--an anthrpomorphic and diminutive pterodactyl who doubles as a DeadpanSnarker.
130	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The "Time and Punishment" segment from "Treehouse of Horror V" has a mish-mash of dinosaurs from different time periods living together, not to mention a ground sloth.
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