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• Accidentally-Correct Writing: The small bipedal ankylosaur with the theropod head seen in the film is a little bit similar to a species of bipedal armoured dinosaur from the Cretaceous discovered in 2022 called Jakapil that may have been related to ankylosaurs, although it lived about 30 million years before the mass extinction.
• Common Knowledge: The big four-legged predator has often been identified as a Fasolasuchus, but there is no official material to support this claim. While it does resemble that animal, it's almost certainly a coincidence.
• Release Date Change: Was originally set to be released on May 13, 2022, before being pushed up to April 29 to avoid Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (whose director was one of this film's producers). It was then pushed back almost a year to April 14, 2023, then back two weeks to April 28, before being pushed up to March 17 and its final release date of March 10, 2023.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Concept art shows unused designs for Pegomastax and Lystrosaurus, neither of which appear in the final film (although the latter seems to have been the predecessor to the ankylosaur-like animal caught in tar). Also notably, neither animal is from anywhere near the Late Cretaceous.
  • According to leaked early test screenings, there were more herbivore animals in the original cut such as mixed herds of Ankylosaurus and Stegosaurus and most notably, the four-legged predator was instead a vengeful Triceratops.

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