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* HerbivoresAreFriendly: Averted thanks to the nature of the [[WretchedHive Amber Clave Market]]. While it's unknown how ''Lystrosaurus'' would have behaved in the wild or even in better care, the ''Lystrosaurus'' in the Amber Clave Market are bred to be animal fighters, with an extended scene showing one individual decaptitating a larger ''Oviraptor'' with a single bite. Naturally, they are aggressive and wouldn't hesitate to bite humans [[spoiler:as Delacourt finds out the hard way]].
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* HerbivoresAreFriendly: Averted thanks to the nature of the [[WretchedHive Amber Clave Market]]. While it's unknown how ''Lystrosaurus'' would have behaved in the wild or even in better care, the ''Lystrosaurus'' in the Amber Clave Market are bred to be animal fighters, with an extended scene showing one individual decaptitating decapitating a larger ''Oviraptor'' with a single bite. Naturally, they are aggressive and wouldn't hesitate to bite humans [[spoiler:as Delacourt finds out the hard way]].
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* HerbivoresAreFriendly: Averted thanks to the nature of the [[WretchedHive Amber Clave Market]]. While it's unknown how ''Lystrosaurus'' would have behaved in the wild or even in better care, the ''Lystrosaurus'' in the Amber Clave Market are bred to be animal fighters. Naturally, they are aggressive and wouldn't hesitate to bite humans [[spoiler:as Delacourt finds out the hard way]].
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* HerbivoresAreFriendly: Averted thanks to the nature of the [[WretchedHive Amber Clave Market]]. While it's unknown how ''Lystrosaurus'' would have behaved in the wild or even in better care, the ''Lystrosaurus'' in the Amber Clave Market are bred to be animal fighters.fighters, with an extended scene showing one individual decaptitating a larger ''Oviraptor'' with a single bite. Naturally, they are aggressive and wouldn't hesitate to bite humans [[spoiler:as Delacourt finds out the hard way]].
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A small dicynodont from the early Triassic period.
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A small dicynodont from the early Triassic period. It was cloned for animal fights in the Amber Clave Market.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:The super-locusts are indicated to be far more resilient and destructive than Wu or Dodgson planned, potentially destroying the entire planet's food supply instead of merely crippling the competition like Dodgson intended. The locusts aren't even Dodgson's master plan, either; they're just a side project he cooked up for some extra revenue while trying to find Maisie so he can corner the healthcare market by extracting the means to cure genetic diseases from her DNA.]]
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* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:The super-locusts [[spoiler:An extended scene reveals that the locusts were originally designed to spread genetic modifications to non-[=BioSyn=] crops that would allow them to become immune to drought, frosts, and diseases. However, since they are engineered to not feed on [=BioSyn=] seeds, they start to eat every other plant in sight. They are also indicated to be far more resilient and destructive than Wu or Dodgson planned, potentially destroying the entire planet's food supply instead of merely crippling the competition like Dodgson intended. The locusts aren't even Dodgson's master plan, either; they're just a side project he cooked up for some extra revenue while trying to find Maisie so he can corner the healthcare market by extracting the means to cure genetic diseases from her DNA.]]
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An unnamed species of prehistoric locust from the Cretaceous period. [[spoiler:They were bred by [=BioSyn=] to cause a famine, destroying all crops not made by Biosyn.]]
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An unnamed species of prehistoric locust from the Cretaceous period. [[spoiler:They were bred by [=BioSyn=] to cause a famine, destroying all crops not made by Biosyn.[=BioSyn=].]]
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* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:Unlike with the other prehistoric creatures in ''Dominion'', no one even remotely entertains the idea of coexisting with these locusts, with everyone who encounters them advocating for their destruction. Considering that they are instinct-driven super-locusts that could threaten ''the entire biosphere''[[note]]while the locusts are only bred to eat non-Biosyn plants, which would cause ecological collapse on its own, locusts will resort to cannibalism to survive and it's not inconceivable they might focus on other sources of protein if avaiable[[/note]], this is a ''completely understandable'' response]].
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* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:Unlike with the other prehistoric creatures in ''Dominion'', no one even remotely entertains the idea of coexisting with these locusts, with everyone who encounters them advocating for their destruction. Considering that they are instinct-driven super-locusts that could threaten ''the entire biosphere''[[note]]while the locusts are only bred to eat non-Biosyn non-[=BioSyn=] plants, which would cause ecological collapse on its own, locusts will resort to cannibalism to survive and it's not inconceivable they might focus on other sources of protein if avaiable[[/note]], this is a ''completely understandable'' response]].
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* GiantFlyer: Naturally given their sheer size. In the prologue they make the ''Pteranodon'' (which had been the largest pterosaur in the films until now) look comparatively puny. TruthInTelevision, as they really ''were'' that big. Taken UpToEleven with the cloned individual, which is as large as the plane it's attacking.
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* GiantFlyer: Naturally given their sheer size. In the prologue they make the ''Pteranodon'' (which had been the largest pterosaur in the films until now) look comparatively puny. TruthInTelevision, as they really ''were'' that big. Taken UpToEleven with the The cloned individual, which individual is as large as the plane it's attacking.
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* KillerRabbit: Small, herbivorous, and a burrower; it literally is a reasonably close Triassic equivalent to a rabbit. [[spoiler:One specimen unwittingly helps Owen by biting Delacourt's arm and thrashing around, keeping him pinned with a similar effort by a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'' before a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' goes for Delacourt's head.]] An extended scene has it kill a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: ''Lystrosaurus'' is about the size of a ferret [[spoiler:and it is able to pin Delacourt down by locking its jaws around his arm with the aid of a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'', allowing a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' to finish the job]]. An extended scene has it kill a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: ''Lystrosaurus'' is about the size of a ferret [[spoiler:and it is able to pin Delacourt down by locking its jaws around his arm with the aid of a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'', allowing a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' to finish the job]]. An extended scene has it kill a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
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* KillerRabbit: Small, herbivorous, and a burrower; it literally is a reasonably close Triassic equivalent to a rabbit. [[spoiler:One specimen unwittingly helps Owen by biting Delacourt's arm and thrashing around, keeping him pinned with a similar effort by a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'' before a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' goes for Delacourt's head.]] An extended scene has it kill decapitating a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
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* PintSizedPowerhouse: ''Lystrosaurus'' is about the size of a ferret [[spoiler:and it is able to pin Delacourt down by locking its jaws around his arm with the aid of a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'', allowing a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' to finish the job]]. An extended scene has itkill decapitating a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.single bite.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: ''Lystrosaurus'' is about the size of a ferret [[spoiler:and it is able to pin Delacourt down by locking its jaws around his arm with the aid of a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'', allowing a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' to finish the job]]. An extended scene has it
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Lystrosaurus'' is depicted with a ridge along the back of its head, making it resemble a primitive ceratopsian. This probably was not present or was at least much less noticeable in the real animal, as this area would've served as attachment point for the neck muscles.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Lystrosaurus'' is depicted with a ridge along the back of its head, making it resemble a primitive ceratopsian. This probably was not present or was at least much less noticeable in the real animal, as this area would've served as an attachment point for the neck muscles.
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* KillerRabbit: Small, herbivorous, and a burrower; it literally is a reasonably close Triassic equivalent to a rabbit. [[spoiler:One specimen unwittingly helps Owen by biting Delacourt's arm and thrashing around, keeping him pinned with a similar effort by a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'' before a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' goes for Delacourt's head.]] A deleted scene has it kill a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: ''Lystrosaurus'' is about the size of a ferret [[spoiler:and it is able to pin Delacourt down by locking its jaws around his arm with the aid of a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'', allowing a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' to finish the job]]. A deleted scene has it kill a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: ''Lystrosaurus'' is about the size of a ferret [[spoiler:and it is able to pin Delacourt down by locking its jaws around his arm with the aid of a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'', allowing a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' to finish the job]]. A deleted scene has it kill a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
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* KillerRabbit: Small, herbivorous, and a burrower; it literally is a reasonably close Triassic equivalent to a rabbit. [[spoiler:One specimen unwittingly helps Owen by biting Delacourt's arm and thrashing around, keeping him pinned with a similar effort by a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'' before a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' goes for Delacourt's head.]] A deleted An extended scene has it kill a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: ''Lystrosaurus'' is about the size of a ferret [[spoiler:and it is able to pin Delacourt down by locking its jaws around his arm with the aid of a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'', allowing a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' to finish the job]].A deleted An extended scene has it kill a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: ''Lystrosaurus'' is about the size of a ferret [[spoiler:and it is able to pin Delacourt down by locking its jaws around his arm with the aid of a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'', allowing a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' to finish the job]].
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Nothosaurus'' in ''Camp Cretaceous'' is depicted running on land like a crocodile and rearing on its hind legs like an otter, while the real animal had completely tranitioned into an aquatic lifestyle with flippered hands. The teeth were also not nearly as long and crazed-looking as the animal in the show.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Nothosaurus'' in ''Camp Cretaceous'' is depicted running on land like a crocodile and rearing on its hind legs like an otter, while the real animal had completely tranitioned transitioned into an aquatic lifestyle with flippered hands.feet. The teeth were also not nearly as long and crazed-looking as the animal in the show.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Nothosaurus'' in ''Camp Cretaceous'' is depicted running on land like a crocodile and rearing on its hind legs like an otter, while the real animal most likely had the physiology and lifestyle similar to that of a seal or a sea lion.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Nothosaurus'' in ''Camp Cretaceous'' is depicted running on land like a crocodile and rearing on its hind legs like an otter, while the real animal most likely had the physiology and completely tranitioned into an aquatic lifestyle similar to that of a seal or a sea lion.with flippered hands. The teeth were also not nearly as long and crazed-looking as the animal in the show.
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* BreakingOldTrends: ''Dimetrodon'' is the first Permian animal and the first Paleozoic animal to appear in the franchise.[[note]]''Lystrosaurus'' is also from the Paleozoic, but it survived until the Triassic period.[[/note]]
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* BreakingOldTrends: ''Dimetrodon'' is the first Permian animal and the first Paleozoic animal to appear in the franchise.[[note]]''Lystrosaurus'' is also from the Paleozoic, but it survived until the Triassic period.Mesozoic.[[/note]]
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A marine reptile from the Triassic period.
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A marine reptile from the Triassic period.period bred by Mantah Corp on their island.
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Gigantic pterosaurs, far larger than the previously introduced ''Pteranodon''.
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Gigantic pterosaurs, far larger than the previously introduced previously-introduced ''Pteranodon''.
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* SewerGator: It spends most of its life in the sewers of Mantah Corp's island [[spoiler:before the campers relocate it to the Swamp Biome]].
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* SewerGator: It spends most of its life in prowling the sewers of Mantah Corp's island [[spoiler:before the campers relocate it to the Swamp Biome]].
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* BizarreSexualDimorphism: The male ''Pteranodon'' possess the large distinctive crest, while the females have much shorter crests. [[ShownTheirWork This is true for pteranodontids and other crested pterosaurs in real life.]]
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* BizarreSexualDimorphism: {{Downplayed}}. The male ''Pteranodon'' possess the large distinctive crest, while the females have much shorter crests. [[ShownTheirWork This is true for pteranodontids and other crested pterosaurs in real life.]]
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A sail-backed synapsid from the early Permian period cloned by Byosin.
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A sail-backed synapsid from the early Permian period cloned by Byosin.[=BioSyn=].
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A sail-backed synapsid from the early Permian period.
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A sail-backed synapsid from the early Permian period.period cloned by Byosin.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: It is depicted with a neck, crocodile-like scutes despite being an early relative of modern mammals, and is given a boxy, tyrannosaur-like skull. The tips of its spines should also not be covered in the sail, being exposed for a few inches at least.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: It is depicted with a neck, crocodile-like scutes despite being an early relative of modern mammals, mammals[[note]]While there aren't any skin impressions of ''Dimetrodon'', its relative ''[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estemmenosuchus Estemmenosuchus]]'' was discovered to have smooth glandular skin similar to that of a hairless mammal[[/note]], and is given a boxy, tyrannosaur-like skull. The tips of its spines should also not be covered in the sail, being exposed for a few inches at least.
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* CanonForeigner: Before ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'', ''Dimetrodon'' has only appeared in some of the franchise's video games and toy lines.
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* CanonForeigner: Before ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'', ''Dimetrodon'' has had only appeared in some of the franchise's video games and toy lines.
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* HellISThatNoise: Their roars are high-pitched, human-like screams that completely overwhelm the scene during their chase.
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* HellISThatNoise: HellIsThatNoise: Their roars are high-pitched, human-like screams that completely overwhelm the scene during their chase.
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* BreakingOldTrends: ''Lystrosaurus'' is the first animal from the Triassic period to appear canonically in the franchise. However, ''Herrerasaurus'' was in ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'', and the novels featured ''Procompsognathus'' in place of the films' ''Compsognathus''.
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* BreakingOldTrends: ''Lystrosaurus'' is the first animal from the Triassic period to appear canonically in the films of the franchise. However, ''Herrerasaurus'' was in ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'', and the novels featured ''Procompsognathus'' in place of the films' ''Compsognathus''.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Never seen or mentioned in any of the films prior to ''Dominion'', but it's treated as though they had always been present, with one of the opening scenes and promotional material establishing them as having made their way to cities across North America.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Never ''Quetzalcoatlus'' was never seen or mentioned in any of the films prior to ''Dominion'', but it's treated as though they had always been present, with one of the opening scenes and promotional material establishing them as having made their way to cities across North America.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Never seen or mentioned in any media in the franchise prior to ''Dominion'', but the story treats it as though they had always been present, with multiple individuals already being sold in the dinosaur black market.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Never ''Lystrosaurus'' was never seen or mentioned in any media in the franchise prior to ''Dominion'', but the story treats it as though they had always been present, with multiple individuals already being sold in the dinosaur black market.
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* KillerRabbit: Small, herbivorous, and a burrower; it literally is a reasonably close Triassic equivalent to a rabbit. [[spoiler:One specimen unwittingly helps Owen by biting Delacourt's arm and thrashing around, keeping him pinned with a similar effort by a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'' before a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' goes for Delacourt's head.]] A DeletedScene has it kill a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
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* KillerRabbit: Small, herbivorous, and a burrower; it literally is a reasonably close Triassic equivalent to a rabbit. [[spoiler:One specimen unwittingly helps Owen by biting Delacourt's arm and thrashing around, keeping him pinned with a similar effort by a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'' before a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' goes for Delacourt's head.]] A DeletedScene deleted scene has it kill a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
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* KillerRabbit: Small, herbivorous, and a burrower; it literally is a reasonably close Triassic equivalent to a rabbit. [[spoiler:One specimen unwittingly helps Owen by biting Delacourt's arm and thrashing around, keeping him pinned with a similar effort by a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'' before a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' goes for Delacourt's head.]]
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* KillerRabbit: Small, herbivorous, and a burrower; it literally is a reasonably close Triassic equivalent to a rabbit. [[spoiler:One specimen unwittingly helps Owen by biting Delacourt's arm and thrashing around, keeping him pinned with a similar effort by a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'' before a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' goes for Delacourt's head.]]]] A DeletedScene has it kill a larger ''Oviraptor'' in a fight with a bite to the neck.
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* CanonForeigner: ''Nothosaurus'' has only appeared in one [[VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaMasterSystem ''Jurassic Park'' game]] before making its official debut in ''Camp Cretaceous''.
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* CanonForeigner: ''Nothosaurus'' has only appeared in one ''Jurassic Park'' [[VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaMasterSystem ''Jurassic Park'' game]] before making its official debut in ''Camp Cretaceous''.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Nothosaurus'' in ''Camp Cretaceous'' is depicted running on land like a crocodile and rearing on its hind legs like an otter, while the real animal most likely had a physiology and a lifestyle similar to that of a seal or a sea lion.
* CanonForeigner: ''Nothosaurus'' has only appeared in one [[VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaMasterSystem Jurassic Park game]] before making its official debut in ''Camp Cretaceous''.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Nothosaurus'' in ''Camp Cretaceous'' is depicted running on land like a crocodile and rearing on its hind legs like an otter, while the real animal most likely had a the physiology and a lifestyle similar to that of a seal or a sea lion.
* CanonForeigner: ''Nothosaurus'' has only appeared in one [[VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaMasterSystemJurassic Park ''Jurassic Park'' game]] before making its official debut in ''Camp Cretaceous''.
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* AnimalsNotToScale: To varying degrees, all of them are portrayed as larger than they should be in size and wingspan.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology:
** Many of them lack pycnofibers or possess far too little.
** Are depicted with hands separate from the wing and grasping feet[[note]]minus the azhdarchid[[/note]].
** Their wings end in [[https://twitter.com/Dave_Hone/status/1518678185151541248 sharp pointed tips]] rather than having a tiny blunting at the end of the membrane to [[https://twitter.com/thejohnconway/status/1518679569368240128 avoid stress in the phalanx]].
** Possess wings that fold in from the sides when they should fold in from the back due to their hands rotating backward, as well as wing membranes that connect at the end of the hip rather than to the ankle.
** They take off by jumping instead of vaulting with their wings, although the latter behavior is shown in ''Dominion''.
* DeathFromAbove: Being capable of flight, would you expect anything else?
* InterspeciesFriendship: [[spoiler:The ending of ''Dominion'' shows them migrating alongside a flock of modern birds.]]
* PteroSoarer: Minus the ''Quetzalcoatlus'', they are all depicted as such.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Dimorphodon'']]
!!''Dimorphodon''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dimorphodonjw.png]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorld'' | ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
->''"The ''Dimorphodon'' is a snap-feeder, with quick jaws suited to snatching fish and insects."''
-->-- '''Jurassic World website'''
A species of pterosaur bred for Jurassic World that lives in the Aviary alongside the larger ''Pteranodon''.
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* AlasPoorVillain: "Villain" is probably [[CarnivoreConfusion too strong a word]], but it's hard not to feel sorry for one of them when it's [[KickTheDog callously shot out of the air]] by one of Hoskins' mercenaries.
* AnimalsNotToScale: Downplayed; their wingspans are twice as big as the real animal, according to supplementary material[[note]]the ones in the film have an eight-foot wingspan, the real deal only had a four-foot wingspan[[/note]].
** ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' changes them to be closer to the size of the real animal, to the point one can easily sit on one's hand [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology on its hind legs]].
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology:
** They should have two different types of teeth in their mouths instead of one type of tooth as depicted in ''Jurassic World''. Their skulls are are depicted with a boxy tyrannosaur-like shape instead of rounded as on the [[http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2015/06/why-dimorphodon-macronyx-is-one-of.html real animal]]. They are also shown to be quite powerful flyers when the real animal was a poor flyer.
** While they are portrayed with pycnofibres, they should be covered completely in them rather than only having them on the back.
** The ones in ''Camp Cretaceous'' not only lack pycnofibres but also possess a claw at the end of their wing finger, something that wasn't present even in the films.
* CanonImmigrant: Made its first appearance in the ''Lost World'' video game.
* {{Expy}}: Their role seems to amount to being flying versions of the ''Compsognathus''.
* FlyingFlightlessBird: Downplayed, as real-life ''Dimorphodons'' still ''could'' fly, but they were likely not very good at it, due to their short wings and heavy bodies, and thus they probably couldn't cover as much ground as the ''Dimorphodons'' in the film do.
* FragileSpeedster: Like their ''Pteranodon'' compatriots, the ''Dimorphodons'' are built for flying and quite agile, but they lack proper defenses beyond that, making it easy to simply tranq them out of the sky.
* GlassCannon: They can attack in superior numbers and are stronger than they look, but their only real defenses are flying and biting.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: The real-life ''Dimorphodon'' was a poor flyer that spent much of its time on the ground and only took to the air in emergencies. Here, they are DeathFromAbove.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The real-life ''Dimorphodon'' was also a harmless creature that was content to grub around in the dirt for bugs or hunt small animals in the trees or on the ground. Here, it's depicted as a tiny little flying demon.
* KillerRabbit: Smaller than ''Pteranodon'', but still deadly.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Even an aggressive parent ''Dimorphodon'' knows it’s wiser to back off when Bumpy gets in between it and Darius and Ben.
* MamaBear: If you walk into their nesting ground, the '' entire flock'' will come straight for you.
* MassOhCrap: The flock flees from the Aviary after the ''I. rex'' shows up.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Along with the ''Pteranodon'', they descend upon Main Street after being frightened by the ''I. rex'' from the Aviary.
* PapaWolf: If you walk into their nesting ground, the '' entire flock'' will come straight for you.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: One of them can briefly be seen lifting a grown man off the ground (though it drops him shortly afterward) and another manages to knock Owen down with surprising ease.
* PteroSoarer: Doubly so in that not only is it ever an ugly dragon-like monstrosity (as opposed to the more elegant real pterosaurs) with a tyrannosaur-like skull, but also in that the real animal was a poor flyer. It's like trying to depict a ''chicken'' as a winged menace.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When they see the ''[[TheDreaded Indominus rex]]'' crashing into their Aviary, their first response is to get out of there as fast as they can.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: In educational material, ''Dimorphodon'' is a borderline [[StockDinosaurs Stock Pterosaur]], but in film media, it's pretty rare.
* ShownTheirWork: In contrast to ''Pteranodon'', they are correctly portrayed with pycnofibres.
* TheSwarm: They descend on terrified tourists in one of these.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Inexplicably missing in ''Fallen Kingdom'', meaning it's unknown if any of them survived its events. However, ''Dominion'' confirms they survived and spread throughout the world.
* ZergRush: After the ''I. rex'' scares them and their ''Pteranodon'' neighbors out of the Aviary, they vent their frustrations out on terrified tourists on Main Street en masse. Unlike the ''Pteranodons'', there isn't real-life evidence to suggest that ''Dimorphodons'' hunted in groups.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Jurassic Park III Pteranodon'' flock]]
!!''Jurassic Park III Pteranodon Flock''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c1f966e820b9b9279b17afb7b1b6de6d.jpg]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicParkIII''
-->'''Grant:''' [[OhCrap It's a bird cage.]]
-->'''Amanda:''' For ''what?''
A roost of pterosaurs bred for Jurassic Park that live within a gigantic birdcage on Isla Sorna. The flock would accidentally be released when the Kirby rescue party stumbled into their aviary, allowing them to migrate to Canada where they would be shot down by a team of mercenaries led by Vic Hoskins.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the aviary scene in the original book, the pterosaurs of Jurassic Park still had grasping talons but were too weak to lift Lex (a small child). Here, they're capable of carrying ''full-grown adults'' to their doom.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: According to the ''Literature/JurassicPark'' books, Jurassic Park had no ''Pteranodons''. The park's token pterosaurs were ''[[SeldomSeenSpecies Cearadactylus]]'' (erroneously referred to as "Cearadactyls").
* AdvertisedExtra: Despite being highly advertised, to the point of being on the logo and poster, they appear only for the aviary scene and at the very end.
* AllFlyersAreBirds: They're depicted nesting and caring for flightless chicks like birds (most pterosaurs are believed to have given minimal parental care and were likely capable of flying soon after hatching), grasping objects with their feet (pterosaurs had flat feet like humans and were poorly suited to grasping), and even live in a gigantic aviary.
* AnimalGenderBender: All of them have huge crests on their heads, even though [[RealityIsUnrealistic in real life]] only ''male'' ''Pteranodons'' had large crests. Yet again, it could just be a manipulation of their DNA on [=InGen=]'s part to make the female ''Pteranodons'' appear more formidable and eye-catching to potential park-goers.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: While [[https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-giant-pterosaur-Pteranodon-a-Marshs-1884-reconstruction-of-the-Pteranodon_fig1_258391482 reasonably accurate]] for the time they lacked the [[https://twitter.com/GrecoWestermann/status/1376545617539907585 upturned beak]] the species are known for and possessed teeth in their beaks despite their name "toothless wing" referencing their lack of teeth. They are also [[https://www.deviantart.com/taliesaurus/art/ASSETS-MEET-ANCESTORS-PTERANODON-886720357 far larger]] than any known specimen.
* BeakAttack: Their toothed beaks are their deadliest weapons.
* BreakoutVillain: Moreso than the ''Spinosaurus'' even, but much less polarizing to the audience. One appears as a shadow on the main poster, and they also appear over the palm trees at the bottom of ''III's'' logo, marking a lot of ''JP'' logos first.[[note]]To wit: the first non-theropod animal, the only one not depicted as a skeleton, and the first to have more than one instance on the logo itself.[[/note]]
* ContinuitySnarl: ''The Lost World'' depicted ''Pteranodon'' living freely on Isla Sorna, but it's never mentioned what differentiates them from the caged population in the sequel.
* DeathGlare: One of them gives this to Grant.
* GiantFlyer: About the only accurate thing about them is their massive wingspans.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Much stronger and scarier than the real animal.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The real-life ''Pteranodon'' was about as dangerous as a super-sized pelican ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4TU_R7J3c though then again...]]), but these individuals are depicted as vicious human-killing predators.
* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: Poor Eric.
* KillerRabbit: The babies. They're so cute! And oh so deadly...
* MamaBear: These ''Pteranodons'' are fiercely protective of their nests and babies.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Much like Rexy in the first film, the ''Pteranodons'' were only attacking the group because they were hungry and/or wanted to protect their turf.
* OminousWalk: The first one we see does this after landing on the bridge Eric was standing on. Amusingly, an animal known for its ''flying'' prowess is introduced by ''walking'' menacingly.
* PteroSoarer: Probably justified because of the cloning process messing with their DNA. At least they're quadrupedal (unlike the ''Pteranodon'' from the previous film). Curiously, [[https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/930/18669/6321822_1_l.jpg?version=0 the babies possess very sparse pycnofibres]].
* RidingIntoTheSunset: They fly away over the ocean away from the island at the end of the third film. [[spoiler:Promotional material for the next film reveals that [[BusCrash Hoskins shot them down]]]].
* ShownTheirWork: Unlike the ''Pteranodon'' from ''The Lost World'' that [[https://www.jurassicworlduniverse.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pteranodon01.jpg perched on a tree like a bird]], this one is correctly depicted as quadrupedal.
* StockDinosaurs: Not a true dinosaur, but the most iconic of the pterosaurs.
* ToothyBird: While many pterosaurs had teeth, ''Pteranodon'' (whose name means "toothless wing") was not one of them.
* ZergRush: The babies attack in this way.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Jurassic World Pteranodons'']]
!!''Jurassic World Pteranodon''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jw_pteranodon.png]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorld'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldBattleAtBigRock'' | ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
->''"''Pteranodon'' have three clawed fingers on each hand, and four clawed toes on each foot."''
-->-- '''Jurassic World website'''
Another variant of the famous pterosaur ''Pteranodon'' bred for Jurassic World and housed in an enormous aviary in Jurassic World, at the end of the Cretaceous River Cruise. After the fall of the park and the island's volcano began to erupt, many were captured and released into the wilds of California.
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* AnachronisticAnimal: The prologue of ''Dominion'' shows ''Pteranodon'' living 65 million years ago, even though the genus became extinct 85 million years ago.
* AnimalGenderBender: An aversion; it has been confirmed that all the Jurassic World ''Pteranodon'' that had been seen on-screen prior to ''Dominion'' are female, and they do have the short crests that only the females possess. They are still too big for female ''Pteranodon'' though (they are as big as the males when they should be smaller).
* AnimalJingoism: One of them carries on the grand tradition of pterosaurs being eaten by giant sea reptiles.
* AnimalsNotToScale: It's the right size for a ''Pteranodon''... if they were ''males''. In reality, female ''Pteranodon'' were only about half the size of the males. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the prehistoric specimens in the ''Dominion'' prologue, which are accurately sized for female ''Pteranodons'' judging by their scale compared to ''Quetzalcoatlus''.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Possess significantly smaller heads in proportion to their bodies than the ''Pteranodons'' in ''[[Film/JurassicParkIII Jurassic Park III]]'', when ''Pteranodon'' is known for having heads larger than their bodies.
* BeakAttack: They can use their beaks to stab their victims.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: The male ''Pteranodon'' possess the large distinctive crest, while the females have much shorter crests. [[ShownTheirWork This is true for pteranodontids and other crested pterosaurs in real life.]]
* FragileSpeedster: Despite their large size, a single tranquilizer dart can knock them out of the sky. The reason they're difficult to take out is partly that they're capable of flight and thus very mobile and maneuverable, and partly because they attack in massive numbers.
* GiantFlyer: ''Pteranodon'' have a big wingspan and they are slightly larger than a full-grown human.
* GlassCannon: They're powerful flyers and strong enough to hoist a human into the air, but they can be taken down by a single tranquilizer dart.
* HairTriggerTemper: Stated to have a high Aggression Index. The ''I. rex'' uses this to her advantage by scaring them into a frenzy and more or less ''sending them to attack Masrani's helicopter''. Once they arrive at the park center, they start indiscriminately divebombing the crowds unprovoked.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Just like the previous film, they're stronger and scarier than real ''Pteranodons''.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While real-life ''Pteranodons'' were pelican-like fish eaters, these are eagle-like predators.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: A sort of meta case. The film seems to take a brief [[HopeSpot sigh of relief]] after [[spoiler:Zara]] escapes one of the ''Pteranodons'' in the lagoon. Then she learns that they can swim...
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Their ''modus operandi'', as two unfortunate ACU troopers learn the hard way. Throughout their attack on Main Street, they can be seen pinning hapless people down and pecking at them with their long, spear-like beaks. One shot also focuses on a tranquilized ''Pteranodon'' coming dangerously close to stabbing Zach and Gray during the Main Street attack.
* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: One almost grants [[spoiler:Zara]] the dubious honor of being the first human female to die in a ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' film, only to have its thunder stolen by the ''Mosasaurus''. Another one tries to do this to a baby ''Triceratops'' and [[WouldHurtAChild presumably some of the kids in the petting zoo]].
* MassOhCrap: The flock flees from the Aviary after the ''I. rex'' shows up. Given ''what'' the ''I. rex'' actually ''is'', can you really blame them?
* MisplacedWildlife: They're shown inhabiting a jungle-themed aviary with dense tree cover despite fossil evidence indicating ''Pteranodon'' (adults at least) were seagoing animals similar to albatrosses. The Cretaceous prologue to ''Dominion'' similarly shows them inhabiting a floodplain alongside ''Dreadnoughtus'' and ''Quetzalcoatlus'', despite pteranodontids in RealLife having preferred vastly different habitats to both azhdarchids and titanosaurian sauropods.
* MonsterMunch: The one that was [[spoiler:killing Zara]] becomes this for the ''Mosasaurus''.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Though they collectively kill more people than any other creature in ''Jurassic World'', they only act out of maddened instinct after the ''I. rex'' frightens them out of the Aviary.
* PteroSoarer: ZigZagged. On the one wing, they're naked, their beaks are straight rather than curved, they have grasping talons, they're oversized, launch by jumping instead of vaulting with their wings, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking are ugly]]. On the other wing, they're toothless, quadrupedal, the females have short crests, and they are probably the only ''Pteranodons'' in the films shown to [[ShownTheirWork dive into the water for food]] (something even documentary media is known to forget). Additionally, the website states that they're fish-eaters. Or at least, ''primarily'' fish-eaters. This combination makes them likely the ''most'' accurate ''Pteranodons'' in the whole franchise.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: They have a red, grey, and tan color scheme and act as minor antagonists.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When they see the ''[[TheDreaded Indominus rex]]'' crashing into their Aviary, their first response is to get out of there as fast as they can.
* ShownTheirWork: They are correctly depicted as quadrupedal and possess [[https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9LanN upturned beaks]], unlike the ones in the ''Jurassic Park'' films. They are also significantly smaller than the ones in ''Jurassic Park III'', making them [[https://www.deviantart.com/taliesaurus/art/ASSETS-MEET-ANCESTORS-PTERANODON-886720357 more size accurate]]. They are also capable of diving and swimming, and the females lack large crests.
* StockDinosaurs: Like the ''Mosasaurus'', they're not true dinosaurs. However, ''Pteranodon'' is the most iconic pterosaur in the public imagination.
* SwallowedWhole: [[spoiler:The one that was eaten by the ''Mosasaurus'' can be seen feebly trying to flap its wings afterward, implying that it was still alive after being chomped]].
* ToothyBird: Averted this time, as they're correctly portrayed without any teeth[[note]]although upon closer inspection they seem to possess small teeth-like bumps lining their bill (reminiscent of certain diving birds and waterfowl)[[/note]]. Oddly enough, the toys play this straight.
* WouldHurtAChild: A swarm of them attacks the Gentle Giants Petting Zoo and one attempts to carry off a baby ''Triceratops''. Fortunately for the little dino, it proves to be too heavy for the ''Pteranodon'' to carry.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: For the third time in the on-screen franchise, they are given a drastic redesign. Justified in that these ''Pteranodons'' are most likely a new batch of clones.
* ZergRush: After the ''I. rex'' scares them and their ''Dimorphodon'' neighbors out of the Aviary, they vent their frustrations out on terrified tourists on Main Street en masse. Somewhat TruthInTelevision, as there is good evidence to suggest that ''Pteranodons'' were fairly gregarious creatures (though they'd probably not attack people in such large numbers).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Quetzalcoatlus'']]
!! ''Quetzalcoatlus''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jwd_quetzalcoatlus_render.png]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
Gigantic pterosaurs, far larger than the previously introduced ''Pteranodon''.
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* AnimalsNotToScale: While the ones in the prologue are to scale, the cloned individual is absolutely humongous, with its head alone being as long if not longer than the entire cockpit of a sizable plane. That said, an official scale chart for the film shows it closer in size to the real animal, so it's possible the plane attack shot is a particularly egregious case of YourSizeMayVary. [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/743081138402361424/970557815645155348/unknown.png Promotional material]] states ''Quetzalcoatlus'' had a wingspan of up to 20 metres, but most modern size estimates consider 11 metres to be the maximum from known fossils.[[note]]There was one early size estimate in the 1970s which suggested a wingspan of up to 21 metres, but this was never considered likely (especially since the estimate was made back when proportions of the animal were more poorly known).[[/note]]
* BeakAttack: The prologue has one of them nipping at a ''Pteranodon'' to claim a carcass for itself. The film shows another one using its beak to wreck the plane that Owen, Claire, and Kayla are in.
* GiantFlyer: Naturally given their sheer size. In the prologue they make the ''Pteranodon'' (which had been the largest pterosaur in the films until now) look comparatively puny. TruthInTelevision, as they really ''were'' that big. Taken UpToEleven with the cloned individual, which is as large as the plane it's attacking.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: While mostly accurate, it is still unreasonably stronger and far more aggressive than its real-life counterpart, which was essentially a giraffe-sized stork hunting proportionally small prey. It arguably behaves more like its more massively built relative ''Hatzegopteryx'', and even the latter probably wouldn't be able to destroy a fair-sized airplane in mid-flight.
* LightIsNotGood: The cloned one has white fur, a bright yellow beak, and a blue head crest. It is also first seen attacking a plane that Owen, Claire, and Kayla are in.
* LongNeck: ''Quetzalcoatlus'' has one of the longest necks of any known pterosaur, only contested by ''Arambourgiana''.
* PteroSoarer: Averted actually! All the tropes such as grasping feet, bipedal stances, or teeth are absent. The stance, pycnofibre-covered body, long toothless beak with a head crest, and habit of hunting on the ground are all extremely accurate. The cloned ones in the film itself, however, are too big, since in comparison to Kayla's plane its wingspan seems to be over 70 feet. Real ''Quetzalcoatlus'' were about half that size.
** In a behavioural rather than anatomical example, one preview shot [[AllFlyersAreBirds shows them roosting in a massive bird-like nest atop a skyscraper]]. Real azhdarchid pterosaurs probably would have nested on the ground given their overall terrestrial habits, and the manner in which they did so was likely very different from that of birds.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Never seen or mentioned in any of the films prior to ''Dominion'', but it's treated as though they had always been present, with one of the opening scenes and promotional material establishing them as having made their way to cities across North America.
* ShownTheirWork: It is depicted as a terrestrial, quadrupedal hunter with pycnofibres, the correct head design, proportionally small and non-grasping plantigrade feet, and small fingers pointing the right way. It may be the most accurate animal of the franchise so far, aside from the size of the cloned specimens.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: The cloned individual has only a few seconds of screentime, but [[spoiler:by damaging Kayla's plane, it traps Owen, Claire, and Kayla in the sanctuary and forces Claire to be separated from the group.]]
* StockDinosaurs: Even though it is not a dinosaur, ''Quetzalcoatlus'' is famous for being the largest animal to have ever soared in the air and is arguably the second most famous pterosaur genus after ''Pteranodon''.
* YourSizeMayVary: One scene depicts a pair of them nesting atop the World Trade Center, and together they seem to be as large as the entire top of the building. Given the 200-foot diameter of the skyscraper, this would put their wingspan at over ''100 feet'', 35 feet longer than the official size estimate.
[[/folder]]
!!!Marine Reptiles
[[folder:Marine reptiles in general]]
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: They tend to lunge out of the water in a manner similar to that of crocodilians.
* SeaMonster: These aquatic reptiles have a tendency of being hostile towards anything that approaches them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Mosasaurus'']]
!!''Mosasaurus''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jurassic_world_fallen_kingdom_mosasaurus_v2_by_sonichedgehog2.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"She's a little shy, so be nice and give her a hand when she comes out."'']]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorld'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldBattleAtBigRock'' | ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
->''"The ''Mosasaurus'' was thought to have hunted near the surface of the water... where it preyed on anything it could sink its teeth into. Including turtles, large fish, even smaller ''Mosasaurus''."''
-->-- '''Staff Member'''
A sea lizard (a true lizard since she's related to Komodo dragons, but she's '''not''' a dinosaur) bred for Jurassic World and kept within the park's lagoon where she was fed sharks. During the fall of the park, she would kill and eat the rampaging ''Indominus rex'' responsible for the incident, leaving her trapped in her lagoon until a group of mercenaries came to retrieve the hybrid's remains and accidentally left a gate to the habitat open, allowing the ''Mosasaurus'' to escape into the world's oceans.
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* AccidentalHero: When you get right down to it, [[spoiler:she doesn't know the ''I. rex'' is the villain, she was just hungry after not being fed since lunchtime]].
* AccidentalMurder: "Murder" might be too strong a word (she is an animal without a concept of good or evil, after all), but [[spoiler:her devouring Zara could be seen as this, as she was clearly aiming for the ''Pteranodon'']].
* AllPowerfulBystander: It is the biggest and strongest creature in the park, even more so than the ''Indominus''. However, given her CripplingOverspecialization and NonMaliciousMonster statuses (see below), she mostly just keeps to herself [[spoiler:until the ''Indominus'' eventually gets too close to her lagoon during the FinalBattle]].
* AlwaysABiggerFish: As part of the feeding show: In an aquatic exhibit surrounding a lagoon, a deceased great white shark hangs from a revolving rail towards the lagoon. She's an impressive size, which all but extenuates the enormity of the ''Mosasaurus'', who promptly lunges out of the water and eats the whole shark in two bites (whatever was left fell from the rail into the water). Later becomes this to a ''Pteranodon''. [[spoiler:Then she receives one ''very'' large midnight snack when the ''I. rex'', who is pushed close to the lagoon's edge by Blue and the ''T. rex'' during the climactic battle, comes within munching reach.]]
* AnimalJingoism: Surprise surprise, she likes the taste of pterosaur meat.
* AnimalsNotToScale: Mixed with YourSizeMayVary, as the ''Mosasaurus'' seemed to change size from scene to scene.
** In ''Jurassic World'', it's portrayed as being over 60 feet long, but most modern scientific estimates suggest the largest ''Mosasaurus'' were no more than 50 feet long (there are a few estimates suggesting lengths closer to 60 feet, but they're considered highly contentious due to the lack of clear methodology). She's introduced engulfing a whole great white shark (which averages around 12 to 20 feet long) in her jaws, but no known ''Mosasaurus'' fossil has jaws even six feet long. [[https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/06/interview-glen-mcintosh-animation-director-for-jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom/ According to an interview with the SFX director]], they intentionally ballooned the ''Mosasaurus'' more than the twice the length of the real animal (therefore larger even than a blue whale) to make her look more intimidating.
** Played straight at the beginning of the sequel, where she seems to have ballooned up to around eight times her original size. For reference, a roughly 40 to 60-foot long helicopter is the same size as her head, meaning her whole body must be ''over 120 to 200 feet long!'' Then she seemingly shrinks to her original size in the end.[[note]]This is based on how big the great white she was fed is. It looked like a female, and the average size of a great white female is 15 to 21 feet.[[/note]]
** ''[[WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous Camp Cretaceous]]'', though, shows the scene in a different perspective, with the helicopter appearing to be around Rexy's size and the ''Mosasaurus'' appearing much smaller, so it's possible that forced perspective was at play in the sequel.
** Promotional and supplementary materials for ''Fallen Kingdom'' state that ''Mosasaurus'' is between 70 and 90 feet long, but there has never been any size estimate for any mosasaur species that is over 60 feet.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: She's depicted with rows of spiky, crocodile-like scutes running down her back and lipless crocodilian-like jaws that there is no evidence for, lacks the forked tongue real mosasaurs are thought to have had, has a much less pronounced tail fluke, and is much, much larger than any actual known species.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Lands the finishing blow on the ''Indominus rex'' at the end of the final battle]].
* TheBigGuy: She is the biggest animal to appear in the franchise.
* TheCameo: During the end credits for ''Film/JurassicWorldBattleAtBigRock'', she's seen snatching a breaching great white shark out of the air, presumably off of the coast of South Africa.
* CanonImmigrant: ''Mosasaurus'' has been featured in numerous video games based on the franchise. Though [[VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame the last time]] Isla Nublar had a mosasaur it was a ''Tylosaurus''.
* ChekhovsGunman: She ends up delivering the fatal blow to [[spoiler:the ''I. rex'']].
* CripplingOverspecialization: She's a powerful creature, the largest carnivore in the park, but she's also confined to her lagoon, [[spoiler:and as far as she can jump out of the water]].
* TheDreaded: It goes with being the apex predator of the ocean.
* DynamicEntry: The only kind of entry she can make.
* HairTriggerTemper: Has a high Aggression Index. Unlike the other animals with such indexes, however, [[InformedAttribute the film does little to demonstrate this]].
* InterspeciesFriendship: [[spoiler:The ending of ''Dominion'' shows the ''Mosasaurus'' swimming peacefully alongside a pod of humpback whales. Additionally, the tie-in Dino-Tracker website notes that she cooperates with orca pods to hunt great white sharks.]]
* {{Kaiju}}: Had a growth spurt between ''World'' and ''Fallen Kingdom'', placing her squarely in this category.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: She even has teeth on her palate!
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Although a giant sea lizard, she has crocodile-like jaws and several rows of spines on her back that her real-life equivalent [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology probably didn't have]].
* NonMaliciousMonster: She more or less acted the way any large aquatic predator in a tank would if something foreign fell in or was hanging over her tank. Though her aggression is labeled as being "high", she is not considered to be a threat to the tourists. [[spoiler:While she is seen attacking humans and boats in the sequels, she is gentle towards whales.]]
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Real mosasaurs are believed to probably have had forked tongues (by comparison with its closest living relatives, snakes, monitor lizards, and Gila monsters, and examining the structure of the jaws), but here is given an unforked one because, in the words of one of the effects supervisors, it made her "more believable".[[note]]Kinda ironic when you consider the franchise's ''Velociraptor'' were originally going to have forked tongues, but were removed for being "inaccurate".[[/note]]
* SeaMonster:
** She's a 60-foot-long monster that eats great white sharks for lunch. Subverted, though, as she seems relatively tame (or at least enough to be trusted with ''a stadium full of people'') and her handler is perfectly capable of standing on a platform above her tank without worrying about being eaten. [[spoiler:Indeed, she only causes one known human casualty, and only by accident.]] As well as this, [[spoiler:it is shown that she ''can'' reach the humans on the bank, as she does it for the ''I. rex''. It seems that, as long as she's regularly fed, she has no interest in munching the humans, who are ''much'' smaller than a shark and probably wouldn't fill her up.]]
** Played straight in [[spoiler:''[[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom Fallen Kingdom]]'', with the now escaped ''Mosasaurus'' actively hunting surfers off the coastline]].
* ShownTheirWork: She has the beginnings of a fluke on her tail and an extra set of teeth on her palate.
* SingleSpecimenSpecies: The entire species is made up of a single individual who was cloned by [=InGen=], housed in the Jurassic World's lagoon for several years, and subsequently managed to survive for six months after the island was abandoned and escape into the open ocean.
* StealthyColossus: In the opening scene of ''Fallen Kingdom'', she manages to creep up on the small submarine and close her jaws on it without the men inside noticing her.
* StockDinosaurs: Though not a true dinosaur, ''Mosasaurus'' is a fairly well-known animal. The thing is, they're rarely depicted in non-documentary material, and ''Jurassic World'' has changed that.
* StockSoundEffect: Her vocalizations have noticeable whale songs in them, to emphasize the fact that she's a marine animal and thus distinguishes her from the land-dwelling animals.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: She doesn't get much screentime, despite being such an awesome and huge predator, because she's a fully-aquatic creature and the majority of the action in the three ''Jurassic World'' movies takes place on dry land.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: ''Camp Cretaceous'' reveals that the ''Indominus rex'' carcass is ''in pieces'', while ''Fallen Kingdom'' reveals that the ''Indominus rex's'' rib cage is upside down, but the head is not (which it would be if it fell while attached to the body). Presumably, this means that the ''Mosasaurus'' ''tore off the head by snapping the Indominus's neck'' while drowning it, possibly by performing a death roll as a crocodile would.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Great white sharks seem to be her favorite snack.
* YourSizeMayVary: While slightly oversized in ''Jurassic World'', in ''Fallen Kingdom'' she's suddenly gargantuan for no discernible reason. Though ''Camp Cretaceous'' shows that it was likely just a matter of cheated perspective, given that she is more appropriately sized in the series' version of ''Fallen Kingdom'''s events.
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[[folder:''Nothosaurus'']]
!!''Nothosaurus''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1ade089c_83ce_457a_91af_79f81a8f0f75.jpeg]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous''
A marine reptile from the Triassic period.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Nothosaurus'' in ''Camp Cretaceous'' is depicted running on land like a crocodile and rearing on its hind legs like an otter, while the real animal most likely had a physiology and a lifestyle similar to that of a seal or a sea lion.
* CanonForeigner: ''Nothosaurus'' has only appeared in one [[VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaMasterSystem Jurassic Park game]] before making its official debut in ''Camp Cretaceous''.
* LongNeck: As the Triassic cousin of ''Plesiosaurus'' and ''Elasmosaurus'', the ''Nothosaurus'' has a relatively long neck compared to the rest of its body.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: It swims and stalks its prey like a crocodile.
* ScaryTeeth: Its teeth are long like needles and sharp as knives.
* SeaMonster: Although it is much smaller than the ''Mosasaurus'', the ''Nothosaurus'' is highly aggressive towards the campers on land and in water.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Although ''Nothosaurus'' is a relatively well-known species, its only notable appearances in popular media are ''Film/TheSonOfKong'', "The Rite of Spring" sequence of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Flesh}}'', an episode of ''Series/SeaMonsters'', and ''Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World''.
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!!!Synapsids
[[folder:''Dimetrodon'']]
!!''Dimetrodon''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a040fe3b_576e_4c44_989d_d7c4b9185b79.png]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
A sail-backed synapsid from the early Permian period.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: It is depicted with a neck, crocodile-like scutes despite being an early relative of modern mammals, and is given a boxy, tyrannosaur-like skull. The tips of its spines should also not be covered in the sail, being exposed for a few inches at least.
* BreakingOldTrends: ''Dimetrodon'' is the first Permian animal and the first Paleozoic animal to appear in the franchise.[[note]]''Lystrosaurus'' is also from the Paleozoic, but it survived until the Triassic period.[[/note]]
* CanonForeigner: Before ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'', ''Dimetrodon'' has only appeared in some of the franchise's video games and toy lines.
* CreepyCave: Inhabit one of these and eat anyone who enters it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: ''Dimetrodon'' first appeared in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' as a statue displayed in Lockwood Estate.
* HellISThatNoise: Their roars are high-pitched, human-like screams that completely overwhelm the scene during their chase.
* RedIsViolent: The color of their sails is primarily red and they are especially hostile towards other species.
* SharkFinOfDoom: The sail of the ''Dimetrodon'' juts out of the water surface like a shark's fin when it is submerged.
* ShownTheirWork: It is correctly depicted with semi-erect legs, rather than dragging its belly. Its cave-dwelling nature may be based on new studies that it may have been nocturnal (thus, it probably wouldn't use its sail as thermoregulation as traditionally believed). Additionally, its swimming habits are at least reasonable, since it lived in wetland areas and is known from fossils to have eaten the bizarre amphibian ''Diplocaulus''.
* StockDinosaurs: Not a dinosaur, but it is the most iconic species of the Paleozoic era. Its most notable appearances in media before ''Dominion'' are in "The Rite of Spring" sequence of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', the 1974 ''[[Series/LandOfTheLost1974 Land of the Lost]]'' series, the first ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime Land Before Time]]'' film, and ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters''.
* TokenMinority: It is currently the only Permian animal to appear canonically in the franchise. [[note]]''Lystrosaurus'' is also from the Permian period, but it survived until the Triassic period.[[/note]]
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[[folder:''Lystrosaurus'']]
!!''Lystrosaurus''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jw__dominion_dicynodont_animatronic__1_5.jpg]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
A small dicynodont from the early Triassic period.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Lystrosaurus'' is depicted with a ridge along the back of its head, making it resemble a primitive ceratopsian. This probably was not present or was at least much less noticeable in the real animal, as this area would've served as attachment point for the neck muscles.
* BreakingOldTrends: ''Lystrosaurus'' is the first animal from the Triassic period to appear canonically in the franchise. However, ''Herrerasaurus'' was in ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'', and the novels featured ''Procompsognathus'' in place of the films' ''Compsognathus''.
* HerbivoresAreFriendly: Averted thanks to the nature of the [[WretchedHive Amber Clave Market]]. While it's unknown how ''Lystrosaurus'' would have behaved in the wild or even in better care, the ''Lystrosaurus'' in the Amber Clave Market are bred to be animal fighters. Naturally, they are aggressive and wouldn't hesitate to bite humans [[spoiler:as Delacourt finds out the hard way]].
* KillerRabbit: Small, herbivorous, and a burrower; it literally is a reasonably close Triassic equivalent to a rabbit. [[spoiler:One specimen unwittingly helps Owen by biting Delacourt's arm and thrashing around, keeping him pinned with a similar effort by a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'' before a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' goes for Delacourt's head.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: Never seen or mentioned in any media in the franchise prior to ''Dominion'', but the story treats it as though they had always been present, with multiple individuals already being sold in the dinosaur black market.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Dicynodonts are rarely shown in fiction. That said, prior to ''Dominion'', ''Lystrosaurus'' has appeared in ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}'', ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'', and ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved''.
* ShownTheirWork: It has hair and naked skin, as part of its close relationship with mammals.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Several ''Lystrosaurus'' were kept within the Amber Clave Market, but it's unknown what happened to them and the other prehistoric wildlife after the market fell into chaos.]]
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[[folder:''Smilodon'']]
!!''Smilodon''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/99e27f6b_10a2_4490_b028_c493b59716ba.jpeg]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous''
A Pleistocene feline with saber-like teeth bred by Mantah Corp on their island. The only known individual would menace a group of ''Film/JurassicWorld'' survivors [[spoiler:until it was killed by a ''Spinosaurus'', presumably leaving the species extinct again]].
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: [[spoiler:It gets eaten by the ''Spinosaurus'' while hunting the campers.]]
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Its head has a closer resemblance to a Pantherine (or big cat) rather than a Machariodont, the saber-toothed cat's extinct subfamily--potentially justified, as per ''Jurassic Park'' tradition this specimen probably had an incomplete genetic sequence, and the gaps were filled in using DNA from its closest living relatives, modern-day cats. They are incorrectly called saber-toothed tigers despite the fact that big cats (lions, tigers, and leopards) are not more closely related to the saber-toothed cats than domestic house cats, extant felines are all more closely related to each other than to the saber-toothed cats.
* BreakingOldTrends: ''Smilodon'' is the first prehistoric non-Mesozoic animal and the first prehistoric mammal to appear in the franchise.
* CanonForeigner: A new prehistoric species that has never appeared in any of the films. That being said, it's been popping up in newer video games for the series, such as ''VideoGame/JurassicParkBuilder'', ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldTheGame'', and ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldAlive''.
* CatsAreMean: It is a menace to the campers [[spoiler:until it meets its end in the jaws of the ''Spinosaurus'']].
* EarlyBirdCameo: ''Smilodon'' first appeared in ''Film/JurassicPark'' as a toy in the ''Gallimimus Gift Shop'' and then in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' as a skull displayed in Lockwood Estate.
* PantheraAwesome: It greatly resembles a tiger with huge fangs, a short tail, and an even more powerful build.
* StockDinosaurs: Not a dinosaur, but it is the most famous extinct carnivore of the Cenozoic.
* TokenMinority: It is currently the only Pleistocene animal to appear canonically in the franchise.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Has two scenes and was only given the spotlight for a single episode [[spoiler:before being killed by the ''Spinosaurus'']].
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!!!Insects
[[folder:Locusts]]
!!Locusts
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
An unnamed species of prehistoric locust from the Cretaceous period. [[spoiler:They were bred by [=BioSyn=] to cause a famine, destroying all crops not made by Biosyn.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: Caused a Class 0 since they were only able to affect a few regions before they were ultimately stopped, but it's made very clear that if they weren't they could have very easily caused a Class 4.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: A big one; the locusts are completely made-up. No such thing as foot-long, prehistoric locusts have ever been documented to have existed in any time period, never mind the Cretaceous [[https://academic.oup.com/isd/article/2/4/3/5052737 from which]] [[AnachronisticAnimal locusts are absent]].[[note]]The closest thing that existed in reality are probably the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanoptera titanopterans]], which were giant insects related to modern grasshoppers and probably had a similar appearance, but they became extinct in the Triassic and were ''carnivorous''.[[/note]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Modern locusts are a little over 2 inches long in size; these are about a foot in length.
* FieryCoverup: [[spoiler:Once it's clear to Dodgson his scheme with the locusts will be revealed, Dodgson orders the incineration of the ones in the lab to destroy the evidence. The still-burning bugs break out and end up lighting the forest outside on fire, forcing the dinosaurs to be brought inside the [=BioSyn=] facility.]]
* {{Flight}}: Unsurprisingly, they can fly.
* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:Unlike with the other prehistoric creatures in ''Dominion'', no one even remotely entertains the idea of coexisting with these locusts, with everyone who encounters them advocating for their destruction. Considering that they are instinct-driven super-locusts that could threaten ''the entire biosphere''[[note]]while the locusts are only bred to eat non-Biosyn plants, which would cause ecological collapse on its own, locusts will resort to cannibalism to survive and it's not inconceivable they might focus on other sources of protein if avaiable[[/note]], this is a ''completely understandable'' response]].
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:The super-locusts are indicated to be far more resilient and destructive than Wu or Dodgson planned, potentially destroying the entire planet's food supply instead of merely crippling the competition like Dodgson intended. The locusts aren't even Dodgson's master plan, either; they're just a side project he cooked up for some extra revenue while trying to find Maisie so he can corner the healthcare market by extracting the means to cure genetic diseases from her DNA.]]
* GoodColorsEvilColors: [[spoiler:The locust Wu releases to destroy the swarm at the end is white, whereas the rest are black. {{Justified|Trope}} in that locusts actually start out with light color patterns and only develop their black markings when swarming]].
* HungryMenace: What makes them so dangerous -- [[spoiler:while the other resurrected species are a threat to humans, they're intelligent enough to adapt their behaviors, which means they can eventually learn to coexist with us (and us them). The locusts, however, are driven entirely by instinct and hunger, meaning they're impossible to reason with or adapt to -- they'll just eat everyone and everything until they starve, regardless of how many others go down with them]].
* {{Irony}}: In a franchise where the sequels keep bringing [[SerialEscalation bigger and badder carnivores]], the biggest prehistoric threat to the world is ironically the smallest prehistoric herbivore introduced, simply because they eat the crops that humans and livestock depend on to survive.
* LivingWeapon: [[spoiler:They are engineered to eliminate every crop that is not grown from [=BioSyn=] seed.]]
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:They've been genetically altered to be stronger and later on in ''[[Film/JurassicWorldDominion Dominion]]'' a swarm of them were [[FieryCoverup set on fire]] and were able to survive long enough to break out of containment and cause a forest fire in the [=BioSyn=] Sanctuary.]]
* NonMaliciousMonster: PlayedForDrama -- [[spoiler:the locusts lack the intelligence to comprehend morality, but it also makes coexisting with them impossible, as they are instinctually driven to eat regardless of other factors and incapable of adapting their behavior to coexist with other life forms]].
* PrehistoricMonster: They have DNA strains from the Cretaceous period, making them huge and ugly, and are ironically far more destructive than any carnivorous dinosaur could ever be. If there's any prehistoric creature that could cause a mass extinction event, it's these locusts.
* TheSwarm: Genetically modified giant locusts [[spoiler:from [=BioSyn=] that eat every plant except [=BioSyn=]'s patented crops, unleashed across the globe to hold the world at ransom. This swarm causes more destruction than the dinosaurs could ever hope to achieve, simply because they could indirectly kill billions of people through starvation (and that's not considering the biodiversity collapse in the wild).]]
* ZergRush: When one of the locusts feels threatened, it lets out a distress call that signals the rest of the swarm to come to its aid.
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!Non-Dinosaurs
!!!Pterosaurs
[[folder:Pterosaurs in general]]
* AnimalsNotToScale: To varying degrees, all of them are portrayed as larger than they should be in size and wingspan.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology:
** Many of them lack pycnofibers or possess far too little.
** Are depicted with hands separate from the wing and grasping feet[[note]]minus the azhdarchid[[/note]].
** Their wings end in [[https://twitter.com/Dave_Hone/status/1518678185151541248 sharp pointed tips]] rather than having a tiny blunting at the end of the membrane to [[https://twitter.com/thejohnconway/status/1518679569368240128 avoid stress in the phalanx]].
** Possess wings that fold in from the sides when they should fold in from the back due to their hands rotating backward, as well as wing membranes that connect at the end of the hip rather than to the ankle.
** They take off by jumping instead of vaulting with their wings, although the latter behavior is shown in ''Dominion''.
* DeathFromAbove: Being capable of flight, would you expect anything else?
* InterspeciesFriendship: [[spoiler:The ending of ''Dominion'' shows them migrating alongside a flock of modern birds.]]
* PteroSoarer: Minus the ''Quetzalcoatlus'', they are all depicted as such.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Dimorphodon'']]
!!''Dimorphodon''
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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorld'' | ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
->''"The ''Dimorphodon'' is a snap-feeder, with quick jaws suited to snatching fish and insects."''
-->-- '''Jurassic World website'''
A species of pterosaur bred for Jurassic World that lives in the Aviary alongside the larger ''Pteranodon''.
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* AlasPoorVillain: "Villain" is probably [[CarnivoreConfusion too strong a word]], but it's hard not to feel sorry for one of them when it's [[KickTheDog callously shot out of the air]] by one of Hoskins' mercenaries.
* AnimalsNotToScale: Downplayed; their wingspans are twice as big as the real animal, according to supplementary material[[note]]the ones in the film have an eight-foot wingspan, the real deal only had a four-foot wingspan[[/note]].
** ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' changes them to be closer to the size of the real animal, to the point one can easily sit on one's hand [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology on its hind legs]].
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology:
** They should have two different types of teeth in their mouths instead of one type of tooth as depicted in ''Jurassic World''. Their skulls are are depicted with a boxy tyrannosaur-like shape instead of rounded as on the [[http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2015/06/why-dimorphodon-macronyx-is-one-of.html real animal]]. They are also shown to be quite powerful flyers when the real animal was a poor flyer.
** While they are portrayed with pycnofibres, they should be covered completely in them rather than only having them on the back.
** The ones in ''Camp Cretaceous'' not only lack pycnofibres but also possess a claw at the end of their wing finger, something that wasn't present even in the films.
* CanonImmigrant: Made its first appearance in the ''Lost World'' video game.
* {{Expy}}: Their role seems to amount to being flying versions of the ''Compsognathus''.
* FlyingFlightlessBird: Downplayed, as real-life ''Dimorphodons'' still ''could'' fly, but they were likely not very good at it, due to their short wings and heavy bodies, and thus they probably couldn't cover as much ground as the ''Dimorphodons'' in the film do.
* FragileSpeedster: Like their ''Pteranodon'' compatriots, the ''Dimorphodons'' are built for flying and quite agile, but they lack proper defenses beyond that, making it easy to simply tranq them out of the sky.
* GlassCannon: They can attack in superior numbers and are stronger than they look, but their only real defenses are flying and biting.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: The real-life ''Dimorphodon'' was a poor flyer that spent much of its time on the ground and only took to the air in emergencies. Here, they are DeathFromAbove.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The real-life ''Dimorphodon'' was also a harmless creature that was content to grub around in the dirt for bugs or hunt small animals in the trees or on the ground. Here, it's depicted as a tiny little flying demon.
* KillerRabbit: Smaller than ''Pteranodon'', but still deadly.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Even an aggressive parent ''Dimorphodon'' knows it’s wiser to back off when Bumpy gets in between it and Darius and Ben.
* MamaBear: If you walk into their nesting ground, the '' entire flock'' will come straight for you.
* MassOhCrap: The flock flees from the Aviary after the ''I. rex'' shows up.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Along with the ''Pteranodon'', they descend upon Main Street after being frightened by the ''I. rex'' from the Aviary.
* PapaWolf: If you walk into their nesting ground, the '' entire flock'' will come straight for you.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: One of them can briefly be seen lifting a grown man off the ground (though it drops him shortly afterward) and another manages to knock Owen down with surprising ease.
* PteroSoarer: Doubly so in that not only is it ever an ugly dragon-like monstrosity (as opposed to the more elegant real pterosaurs) with a tyrannosaur-like skull, but also in that the real animal was a poor flyer. It's like trying to depict a ''chicken'' as a winged menace.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When they see the ''[[TheDreaded Indominus rex]]'' crashing into their Aviary, their first response is to get out of there as fast as they can.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: In educational material, ''Dimorphodon'' is a borderline [[StockDinosaurs Stock Pterosaur]], but in film media, it's pretty rare.
* ShownTheirWork: In contrast to ''Pteranodon'', they are correctly portrayed with pycnofibres.
* TheSwarm: They descend on terrified tourists in one of these.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Inexplicably missing in ''Fallen Kingdom'', meaning it's unknown if any of them survived its events. However, ''Dominion'' confirms they survived and spread throughout the world.
* ZergRush: After the ''I. rex'' scares them and their ''Pteranodon'' neighbors out of the Aviary, they vent their frustrations out on terrified tourists on Main Street en masse. Unlike the ''Pteranodons'', there isn't real-life evidence to suggest that ''Dimorphodons'' hunted in groups.
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[[folder:''Jurassic Park III Pteranodon'' flock]]
!!''Jurassic Park III Pteranodon Flock''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c1f966e820b9b9279b17afb7b1b6de6d.jpg]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicParkIII''
-->'''Grant:''' [[OhCrap It's a bird cage.]]
-->'''Amanda:''' For ''what?''
A roost of pterosaurs bred for Jurassic Park that live within a gigantic birdcage on Isla Sorna. The flock would accidentally be released when the Kirby rescue party stumbled into their aviary, allowing them to migrate to Canada where they would be shot down by a team of mercenaries led by Vic Hoskins.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the aviary scene in the original book, the pterosaurs of Jurassic Park still had grasping talons but were too weak to lift Lex (a small child). Here, they're capable of carrying ''full-grown adults'' to their doom.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: According to the ''Literature/JurassicPark'' books, Jurassic Park had no ''Pteranodons''. The park's token pterosaurs were ''[[SeldomSeenSpecies Cearadactylus]]'' (erroneously referred to as "Cearadactyls").
* AdvertisedExtra: Despite being highly advertised, to the point of being on the logo and poster, they appear only for the aviary scene and at the very end.
* AllFlyersAreBirds: They're depicted nesting and caring for flightless chicks like birds (most pterosaurs are believed to have given minimal parental care and were likely capable of flying soon after hatching), grasping objects with their feet (pterosaurs had flat feet like humans and were poorly suited to grasping), and even live in a gigantic aviary.
* AnimalGenderBender: All of them have huge crests on their heads, even though [[RealityIsUnrealistic in real life]] only ''male'' ''Pteranodons'' had large crests. Yet again, it could just be a manipulation of their DNA on [=InGen=]'s part to make the female ''Pteranodons'' appear more formidable and eye-catching to potential park-goers.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: While [[https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-giant-pterosaur-Pteranodon-a-Marshs-1884-reconstruction-of-the-Pteranodon_fig1_258391482 reasonably accurate]] for the time they lacked the [[https://twitter.com/GrecoWestermann/status/1376545617539907585 upturned beak]] the species are known for and possessed teeth in their beaks despite their name "toothless wing" referencing their lack of teeth. They are also [[https://www.deviantart.com/taliesaurus/art/ASSETS-MEET-ANCESTORS-PTERANODON-886720357 far larger]] than any known specimen.
* BeakAttack: Their toothed beaks are their deadliest weapons.
* BreakoutVillain: Moreso than the ''Spinosaurus'' even, but much less polarizing to the audience. One appears as a shadow on the main poster, and they also appear over the palm trees at the bottom of ''III's'' logo, marking a lot of ''JP'' logos first.[[note]]To wit: the first non-theropod animal, the only one not depicted as a skeleton, and the first to have more than one instance on the logo itself.[[/note]]
* ContinuitySnarl: ''The Lost World'' depicted ''Pteranodon'' living freely on Isla Sorna, but it's never mentioned what differentiates them from the caged population in the sequel.
* DeathGlare: One of them gives this to Grant.
* GiantFlyer: About the only accurate thing about them is their massive wingspans.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Much stronger and scarier than the real animal.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The real-life ''Pteranodon'' was about as dangerous as a super-sized pelican ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4TU_R7J3c though then again...]]), but these individuals are depicted as vicious human-killing predators.
* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: Poor Eric.
* KillerRabbit: The babies. They're so cute! And oh so deadly...
* MamaBear: These ''Pteranodons'' are fiercely protective of their nests and babies.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Much like Rexy in the first film, the ''Pteranodons'' were only attacking the group because they were hungry and/or wanted to protect their turf.
* OminousWalk: The first one we see does this after landing on the bridge Eric was standing on. Amusingly, an animal known for its ''flying'' prowess is introduced by ''walking'' menacingly.
* PteroSoarer: Probably justified because of the cloning process messing with their DNA. At least they're quadrupedal (unlike the ''Pteranodon'' from the previous film). Curiously, [[https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/930/18669/6321822_1_l.jpg?version=0 the babies possess very sparse pycnofibres]].
* RidingIntoTheSunset: They fly away over the ocean away from the island at the end of the third film. [[spoiler:Promotional material for the next film reveals that [[BusCrash Hoskins shot them down]]]].
* ShownTheirWork: Unlike the ''Pteranodon'' from ''The Lost World'' that [[https://www.jurassicworlduniverse.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pteranodon01.jpg perched on a tree like a bird]], this one is correctly depicted as quadrupedal.
* StockDinosaurs: Not a true dinosaur, but the most iconic of the pterosaurs.
* ToothyBird: While many pterosaurs had teeth, ''Pteranodon'' (whose name means "toothless wing") was not one of them.
* ZergRush: The babies attack in this way.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Jurassic World Pteranodons'']]
!!''Jurassic World Pteranodon''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jw_pteranodon.png]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorld'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldBattleAtBigRock'' | ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
->''"''Pteranodon'' have three clawed fingers on each hand, and four clawed toes on each foot."''
-->-- '''Jurassic World website'''
Another variant of the famous pterosaur ''Pteranodon'' bred for Jurassic World and housed in an enormous aviary in Jurassic World, at the end of the Cretaceous River Cruise. After the fall of the park and the island's volcano began to erupt, many were captured and released into the wilds of California.
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* AnachronisticAnimal: The prologue of ''Dominion'' shows ''Pteranodon'' living 65 million years ago, even though the genus became extinct 85 million years ago.
* AnimalGenderBender: An aversion; it has been confirmed that all the Jurassic World ''Pteranodon'' that had been seen on-screen prior to ''Dominion'' are female, and they do have the short crests that only the females possess. They are still too big for female ''Pteranodon'' though (they are as big as the males when they should be smaller).
* AnimalJingoism: One of them carries on the grand tradition of pterosaurs being eaten by giant sea reptiles.
* AnimalsNotToScale: It's the right size for a ''Pteranodon''... if they were ''males''. In reality, female ''Pteranodon'' were only about half the size of the males. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the prehistoric specimens in the ''Dominion'' prologue, which are accurately sized for female ''Pteranodons'' judging by their scale compared to ''Quetzalcoatlus''.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Possess significantly smaller heads in proportion to their bodies than the ''Pteranodons'' in ''[[Film/JurassicParkIII Jurassic Park III]]'', when ''Pteranodon'' is known for having heads larger than their bodies.
* BeakAttack: They can use their beaks to stab their victims.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: The male ''Pteranodon'' possess the large distinctive crest, while the females have much shorter crests. [[ShownTheirWork This is true for pteranodontids and other crested pterosaurs in real life.]]
* FragileSpeedster: Despite their large size, a single tranquilizer dart can knock them out of the sky. The reason they're difficult to take out is partly that they're capable of flight and thus very mobile and maneuverable, and partly because they attack in massive numbers.
* GiantFlyer: ''Pteranodon'' have a big wingspan and they are slightly larger than a full-grown human.
* GlassCannon: They're powerful flyers and strong enough to hoist a human into the air, but they can be taken down by a single tranquilizer dart.
* HairTriggerTemper: Stated to have a high Aggression Index. The ''I. rex'' uses this to her advantage by scaring them into a frenzy and more or less ''sending them to attack Masrani's helicopter''. Once they arrive at the park center, they start indiscriminately divebombing the crowds unprovoked.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: Just like the previous film, they're stronger and scarier than real ''Pteranodons''.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While real-life ''Pteranodons'' were pelican-like fish eaters, these are eagle-like predators.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: A sort of meta case. The film seems to take a brief [[HopeSpot sigh of relief]] after [[spoiler:Zara]] escapes one of the ''Pteranodons'' in the lagoon. Then she learns that they can swim...
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Their ''modus operandi'', as two unfortunate ACU troopers learn the hard way. Throughout their attack on Main Street, they can be seen pinning hapless people down and pecking at them with their long, spear-like beaks. One shot also focuses on a tranquilized ''Pteranodon'' coming dangerously close to stabbing Zach and Gray during the Main Street attack.
* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: One almost grants [[spoiler:Zara]] the dubious honor of being the first human female to die in a ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' film, only to have its thunder stolen by the ''Mosasaurus''. Another one tries to do this to a baby ''Triceratops'' and [[WouldHurtAChild presumably some of the kids in the petting zoo]].
* MassOhCrap: The flock flees from the Aviary after the ''I. rex'' shows up. Given ''what'' the ''I. rex'' actually ''is'', can you really blame them?
* MisplacedWildlife: They're shown inhabiting a jungle-themed aviary with dense tree cover despite fossil evidence indicating ''Pteranodon'' (adults at least) were seagoing animals similar to albatrosses. The Cretaceous prologue to ''Dominion'' similarly shows them inhabiting a floodplain alongside ''Dreadnoughtus'' and ''Quetzalcoatlus'', despite pteranodontids in RealLife having preferred vastly different habitats to both azhdarchids and titanosaurian sauropods.
* MonsterMunch: The one that was [[spoiler:killing Zara]] becomes this for the ''Mosasaurus''.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Though they collectively kill more people than any other creature in ''Jurassic World'', they only act out of maddened instinct after the ''I. rex'' frightens them out of the Aviary.
* PteroSoarer: ZigZagged. On the one wing, they're naked, their beaks are straight rather than curved, they have grasping talons, they're oversized, launch by jumping instead of vaulting with their wings, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking are ugly]]. On the other wing, they're toothless, quadrupedal, the females have short crests, and they are probably the only ''Pteranodons'' in the films shown to [[ShownTheirWork dive into the water for food]] (something even documentary media is known to forget). Additionally, the website states that they're fish-eaters. Or at least, ''primarily'' fish-eaters. This combination makes them likely the ''most'' accurate ''Pteranodons'' in the whole franchise.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: They have a red, grey, and tan color scheme and act as minor antagonists.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When they see the ''[[TheDreaded Indominus rex]]'' crashing into their Aviary, their first response is to get out of there as fast as they can.
* ShownTheirWork: They are correctly depicted as quadrupedal and possess [[https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9LanN upturned beaks]], unlike the ones in the ''Jurassic Park'' films. They are also significantly smaller than the ones in ''Jurassic Park III'', making them [[https://www.deviantart.com/taliesaurus/art/ASSETS-MEET-ANCESTORS-PTERANODON-886720357 more size accurate]]. They are also capable of diving and swimming, and the females lack large crests.
* StockDinosaurs: Like the ''Mosasaurus'', they're not true dinosaurs. However, ''Pteranodon'' is the most iconic pterosaur in the public imagination.
* SwallowedWhole: [[spoiler:The one that was eaten by the ''Mosasaurus'' can be seen feebly trying to flap its wings afterward, implying that it was still alive after being chomped]].
* ToothyBird: Averted this time, as they're correctly portrayed without any teeth[[note]]although upon closer inspection they seem to possess small teeth-like bumps lining their bill (reminiscent of certain diving birds and waterfowl)[[/note]]. Oddly enough, the toys play this straight.
* WouldHurtAChild: A swarm of them attacks the Gentle Giants Petting Zoo and one attempts to carry off a baby ''Triceratops''. Fortunately for the little dino, it proves to be too heavy for the ''Pteranodon'' to carry.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: For the third time in the on-screen franchise, they are given a drastic redesign. Justified in that these ''Pteranodons'' are most likely a new batch of clones.
* ZergRush: After the ''I. rex'' scares them and their ''Dimorphodon'' neighbors out of the Aviary, they vent their frustrations out on terrified tourists on Main Street en masse. Somewhat TruthInTelevision, as there is good evidence to suggest that ''Pteranodons'' were fairly gregarious creatures (though they'd probably not attack people in such large numbers).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Quetzalcoatlus'']]
!! ''Quetzalcoatlus''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jwd_quetzalcoatlus_render.png]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
Gigantic pterosaurs, far larger than the previously introduced ''Pteranodon''.
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* AnimalsNotToScale: While the ones in the prologue are to scale, the cloned individual is absolutely humongous, with its head alone being as long if not longer than the entire cockpit of a sizable plane. That said, an official scale chart for the film shows it closer in size to the real animal, so it's possible the plane attack shot is a particularly egregious case of YourSizeMayVary. [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/743081138402361424/970557815645155348/unknown.png Promotional material]] states ''Quetzalcoatlus'' had a wingspan of up to 20 metres, but most modern size estimates consider 11 metres to be the maximum from known fossils.[[note]]There was one early size estimate in the 1970s which suggested a wingspan of up to 21 metres, but this was never considered likely (especially since the estimate was made back when proportions of the animal were more poorly known).[[/note]]
* BeakAttack: The prologue has one of them nipping at a ''Pteranodon'' to claim a carcass for itself. The film shows another one using its beak to wreck the plane that Owen, Claire, and Kayla are in.
* GiantFlyer: Naturally given their sheer size. In the prologue they make the ''Pteranodon'' (which had been the largest pterosaur in the films until now) look comparatively puny. TruthInTelevision, as they really ''were'' that big. Taken UpToEleven with the cloned individual, which is as large as the plane it's attacking.
* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: While mostly accurate, it is still unreasonably stronger and far more aggressive than its real-life counterpart, which was essentially a giraffe-sized stork hunting proportionally small prey. It arguably behaves more like its more massively built relative ''Hatzegopteryx'', and even the latter probably wouldn't be able to destroy a fair-sized airplane in mid-flight.
* LightIsNotGood: The cloned one has white fur, a bright yellow beak, and a blue head crest. It is also first seen attacking a plane that Owen, Claire, and Kayla are in.
* LongNeck: ''Quetzalcoatlus'' has one of the longest necks of any known pterosaur, only contested by ''Arambourgiana''.
* PteroSoarer: Averted actually! All the tropes such as grasping feet, bipedal stances, or teeth are absent. The stance, pycnofibre-covered body, long toothless beak with a head crest, and habit of hunting on the ground are all extremely accurate. The cloned ones in the film itself, however, are too big, since in comparison to Kayla's plane its wingspan seems to be over 70 feet. Real ''Quetzalcoatlus'' were about half that size.
** In a behavioural rather than anatomical example, one preview shot [[AllFlyersAreBirds shows them roosting in a massive bird-like nest atop a skyscraper]]. Real azhdarchid pterosaurs probably would have nested on the ground given their overall terrestrial habits, and the manner in which they did so was likely very different from that of birds.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Never seen or mentioned in any of the films prior to ''Dominion'', but it's treated as though they had always been present, with one of the opening scenes and promotional material establishing them as having made their way to cities across North America.
* ShownTheirWork: It is depicted as a terrestrial, quadrupedal hunter with pycnofibres, the correct head design, proportionally small and non-grasping plantigrade feet, and small fingers pointing the right way. It may be the most accurate animal of the franchise so far, aside from the size of the cloned specimens.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: The cloned individual has only a few seconds of screentime, but [[spoiler:by damaging Kayla's plane, it traps Owen, Claire, and Kayla in the sanctuary and forces Claire to be separated from the group.]]
* StockDinosaurs: Even though it is not a dinosaur, ''Quetzalcoatlus'' is famous for being the largest animal to have ever soared in the air and is arguably the second most famous pterosaur genus after ''Pteranodon''.
* YourSizeMayVary: One scene depicts a pair of them nesting atop the World Trade Center, and together they seem to be as large as the entire top of the building. Given the 200-foot diameter of the skyscraper, this would put their wingspan at over ''100 feet'', 35 feet longer than the official size estimate.
[[/folder]]
!!!Marine Reptiles
[[folder:Marine reptiles in general]]
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: They tend to lunge out of the water in a manner similar to that of crocodilians.
* SeaMonster: These aquatic reptiles have a tendency of being hostile towards anything that approaches them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Mosasaurus'']]
!!''Mosasaurus''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jurassic_world_fallen_kingdom_mosasaurus_v2_by_sonichedgehog2.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"She's a little shy, so be nice and give her a hand when she comes out."'']]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorld'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldBattleAtBigRock'' | ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' | ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
->''"The ''Mosasaurus'' was thought to have hunted near the surface of the water... where it preyed on anything it could sink its teeth into. Including turtles, large fish, even smaller ''Mosasaurus''."''
-->-- '''Staff Member'''
A sea lizard (a true lizard since she's related to Komodo dragons, but she's '''not''' a dinosaur) bred for Jurassic World and kept within the park's lagoon where she was fed sharks. During the fall of the park, she would kill and eat the rampaging ''Indominus rex'' responsible for the incident, leaving her trapped in her lagoon until a group of mercenaries came to retrieve the hybrid's remains and accidentally left a gate to the habitat open, allowing the ''Mosasaurus'' to escape into the world's oceans.
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* AccidentalHero: When you get right down to it, [[spoiler:she doesn't know the ''I. rex'' is the villain, she was just hungry after not being fed since lunchtime]].
* AccidentalMurder: "Murder" might be too strong a word (she is an animal without a concept of good or evil, after all), but [[spoiler:her devouring Zara could be seen as this, as she was clearly aiming for the ''Pteranodon'']].
* AllPowerfulBystander: It is the biggest and strongest creature in the park, even more so than the ''Indominus''. However, given her CripplingOverspecialization and NonMaliciousMonster statuses (see below), she mostly just keeps to herself [[spoiler:until the ''Indominus'' eventually gets too close to her lagoon during the FinalBattle]].
* AlwaysABiggerFish: As part of the feeding show: In an aquatic exhibit surrounding a lagoon, a deceased great white shark hangs from a revolving rail towards the lagoon. She's an impressive size, which all but extenuates the enormity of the ''Mosasaurus'', who promptly lunges out of the water and eats the whole shark in two bites (whatever was left fell from the rail into the water). Later becomes this to a ''Pteranodon''. [[spoiler:Then she receives one ''very'' large midnight snack when the ''I. rex'', who is pushed close to the lagoon's edge by Blue and the ''T. rex'' during the climactic battle, comes within munching reach.]]
* AnimalJingoism: Surprise surprise, she likes the taste of pterosaur meat.
* AnimalsNotToScale: Mixed with YourSizeMayVary, as the ''Mosasaurus'' seemed to change size from scene to scene.
** In ''Jurassic World'', it's portrayed as being over 60 feet long, but most modern scientific estimates suggest the largest ''Mosasaurus'' were no more than 50 feet long (there are a few estimates suggesting lengths closer to 60 feet, but they're considered highly contentious due to the lack of clear methodology). She's introduced engulfing a whole great white shark (which averages around 12 to 20 feet long) in her jaws, but no known ''Mosasaurus'' fossil has jaws even six feet long. [[https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2018/06/interview-glen-mcintosh-animation-director-for-jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom/ According to an interview with the SFX director]], they intentionally ballooned the ''Mosasaurus'' more than the twice the length of the real animal (therefore larger even than a blue whale) to make her look more intimidating.
** Played straight at the beginning of the sequel, where she seems to have ballooned up to around eight times her original size. For reference, a roughly 40 to 60-foot long helicopter is the same size as her head, meaning her whole body must be ''over 120 to 200 feet long!'' Then she seemingly shrinks to her original size in the end.[[note]]This is based on how big the great white she was fed is. It looked like a female, and the average size of a great white female is 15 to 21 feet.[[/note]]
** ''[[WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous Camp Cretaceous]]'', though, shows the scene in a different perspective, with the helicopter appearing to be around Rexy's size and the ''Mosasaurus'' appearing much smaller, so it's possible that forced perspective was at play in the sequel.
** Promotional and supplementary materials for ''Fallen Kingdom'' state that ''Mosasaurus'' is between 70 and 90 feet long, but there has never been any size estimate for any mosasaur species that is over 60 feet.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: She's depicted with rows of spiky, crocodile-like scutes running down her back and lipless crocodilian-like jaws that there is no evidence for, lacks the forked tongue real mosasaurs are thought to have had, has a much less pronounced tail fluke, and is much, much larger than any actual known species.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Lands the finishing blow on the ''Indominus rex'' at the end of the final battle]].
* TheBigGuy: She is the biggest animal to appear in the franchise.
* TheCameo: During the end credits for ''Film/JurassicWorldBattleAtBigRock'', she's seen snatching a breaching great white shark out of the air, presumably off of the coast of South Africa.
* CanonImmigrant: ''Mosasaurus'' has been featured in numerous video games based on the franchise. Though [[VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame the last time]] Isla Nublar had a mosasaur it was a ''Tylosaurus''.
* ChekhovsGunman: She ends up delivering the fatal blow to [[spoiler:the ''I. rex'']].
* CripplingOverspecialization: She's a powerful creature, the largest carnivore in the park, but she's also confined to her lagoon, [[spoiler:and as far as she can jump out of the water]].
* TheDreaded: It goes with being the apex predator of the ocean.
* DynamicEntry: The only kind of entry she can make.
* HairTriggerTemper: Has a high Aggression Index. Unlike the other animals with such indexes, however, [[InformedAttribute the film does little to demonstrate this]].
* InterspeciesFriendship: [[spoiler:The ending of ''Dominion'' shows the ''Mosasaurus'' swimming peacefully alongside a pod of humpback whales. Additionally, the tie-in Dino-Tracker website notes that she cooperates with orca pods to hunt great white sharks.]]
* {{Kaiju}}: Had a growth spurt between ''World'' and ''Fallen Kingdom'', placing her squarely in this category.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: She even has teeth on her palate!
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Although a giant sea lizard, she has crocodile-like jaws and several rows of spines on her back that her real-life equivalent [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology probably didn't have]].
* NonMaliciousMonster: She more or less acted the way any large aquatic predator in a tank would if something foreign fell in or was hanging over her tank. Though her aggression is labeled as being "high", she is not considered to be a threat to the tourists. [[spoiler:While she is seen attacking humans and boats in the sequels, she is gentle towards whales.]]
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Real mosasaurs are believed to probably have had forked tongues (by comparison with its closest living relatives, snakes, monitor lizards, and Gila monsters, and examining the structure of the jaws), but here is given an unforked one because, in the words of one of the effects supervisors, it made her "more believable".[[note]]Kinda ironic when you consider the franchise's ''Velociraptor'' were originally going to have forked tongues, but were removed for being "inaccurate".[[/note]]
* SeaMonster:
** She's a 60-foot-long monster that eats great white sharks for lunch. Subverted, though, as she seems relatively tame (or at least enough to be trusted with ''a stadium full of people'') and her handler is perfectly capable of standing on a platform above her tank without worrying about being eaten. [[spoiler:Indeed, she only causes one known human casualty, and only by accident.]] As well as this, [[spoiler:it is shown that she ''can'' reach the humans on the bank, as she does it for the ''I. rex''. It seems that, as long as she's regularly fed, she has no interest in munching the humans, who are ''much'' smaller than a shark and probably wouldn't fill her up.]]
** Played straight in [[spoiler:''[[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom Fallen Kingdom]]'', with the now escaped ''Mosasaurus'' actively hunting surfers off the coastline]].
* ShownTheirWork: She has the beginnings of a fluke on her tail and an extra set of teeth on her palate.
* SingleSpecimenSpecies: The entire species is made up of a single individual who was cloned by [=InGen=], housed in the Jurassic World's lagoon for several years, and subsequently managed to survive for six months after the island was abandoned and escape into the open ocean.
* StealthyColossus: In the opening scene of ''Fallen Kingdom'', she manages to creep up on the small submarine and close her jaws on it without the men inside noticing her.
* StockDinosaurs: Though not a true dinosaur, ''Mosasaurus'' is a fairly well-known animal. The thing is, they're rarely depicted in non-documentary material, and ''Jurassic World'' has changed that.
* StockSoundEffect: Her vocalizations have noticeable whale songs in them, to emphasize the fact that she's a marine animal and thus distinguishes her from the land-dwelling animals.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: She doesn't get much screentime, despite being such an awesome and huge predator, because she's a fully-aquatic creature and the majority of the action in the three ''Jurassic World'' movies takes place on dry land.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: ''Camp Cretaceous'' reveals that the ''Indominus rex'' carcass is ''in pieces'', while ''Fallen Kingdom'' reveals that the ''Indominus rex's'' rib cage is upside down, but the head is not (which it would be if it fell while attached to the body). Presumably, this means that the ''Mosasaurus'' ''tore off the head by snapping the Indominus's neck'' while drowning it, possibly by performing a death roll as a crocodile would.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Great white sharks seem to be her favorite snack.
* YourSizeMayVary: While slightly oversized in ''Jurassic World'', in ''Fallen Kingdom'' she's suddenly gargantuan for no discernible reason. Though ''Camp Cretaceous'' shows that it was likely just a matter of cheated perspective, given that she is more appropriately sized in the series' version of ''Fallen Kingdom'''s events.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Nothosaurus'']]
!!''Nothosaurus''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1ade089c_83ce_457a_91af_79f81a8f0f75.jpeg]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous''
A marine reptile from the Triassic period.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Nothosaurus'' in ''Camp Cretaceous'' is depicted running on land like a crocodile and rearing on its hind legs like an otter, while the real animal most likely had a physiology and a lifestyle similar to that of a seal or a sea lion.
* CanonForeigner: ''Nothosaurus'' has only appeared in one [[VideoGame/JurassicParkSegaMasterSystem Jurassic Park game]] before making its official debut in ''Camp Cretaceous''.
* LongNeck: As the Triassic cousin of ''Plesiosaurus'' and ''Elasmosaurus'', the ''Nothosaurus'' has a relatively long neck compared to the rest of its body.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: It swims and stalks its prey like a crocodile.
* ScaryTeeth: Its teeth are long like needles and sharp as knives.
* SeaMonster: Although it is much smaller than the ''Mosasaurus'', the ''Nothosaurus'' is highly aggressive towards the campers on land and in water.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Although ''Nothosaurus'' is a relatively well-known species, its only notable appearances in popular media are ''Film/TheSonOfKong'', "The Rite of Spring" sequence of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Flesh}}'', an episode of ''Series/SeaMonsters'', and ''Sea Rex 3D: Journey to a Prehistoric World''.
[[/folder]]
!!!Synapsids
[[folder:''Dimetrodon'']]
!!''Dimetrodon''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/a040fe3b_576e_4c44_989d_d7c4b9185b79.png]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
A sail-backed synapsid from the early Permian period.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: It is depicted with a neck, crocodile-like scutes despite being an early relative of modern mammals, and is given a boxy, tyrannosaur-like skull. The tips of its spines should also not be covered in the sail, being exposed for a few inches at least.
* BreakingOldTrends: ''Dimetrodon'' is the first Permian animal and the first Paleozoic animal to appear in the franchise.[[note]]''Lystrosaurus'' is also from the Paleozoic, but it survived until the Triassic period.[[/note]]
* CanonForeigner: Before ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'', ''Dimetrodon'' has only appeared in some of the franchise's video games and toy lines.
* CreepyCave: Inhabit one of these and eat anyone who enters it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: ''Dimetrodon'' first appeared in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' as a statue displayed in Lockwood Estate.
* HellISThatNoise: Their roars are high-pitched, human-like screams that completely overwhelm the scene during their chase.
* RedIsViolent: The color of their sails is primarily red and they are especially hostile towards other species.
* SharkFinOfDoom: The sail of the ''Dimetrodon'' juts out of the water surface like a shark's fin when it is submerged.
* ShownTheirWork: It is correctly depicted with semi-erect legs, rather than dragging its belly. Its cave-dwelling nature may be based on new studies that it may have been nocturnal (thus, it probably wouldn't use its sail as thermoregulation as traditionally believed). Additionally, its swimming habits are at least reasonable, since it lived in wetland areas and is known from fossils to have eaten the bizarre amphibian ''Diplocaulus''.
* StockDinosaurs: Not a dinosaur, but it is the most iconic species of the Paleozoic era. Its most notable appearances in media before ''Dominion'' are in "The Rite of Spring" sequence of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', the 1974 ''[[Series/LandOfTheLost1974 Land of the Lost]]'' series, the first ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime Land Before Time]]'' film, and ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters''.
* TokenMinority: It is currently the only Permian animal to appear canonically in the franchise. [[note]]''Lystrosaurus'' is also from the Permian period, but it survived until the Triassic period.[[/note]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:''Lystrosaurus'']]
!!''Lystrosaurus''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jw__dominion_dicynodont_animatronic__1_5.jpg]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
A small dicynodont from the early Triassic period.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''Lystrosaurus'' is depicted with a ridge along the back of its head, making it resemble a primitive ceratopsian. This probably was not present or was at least much less noticeable in the real animal, as this area would've served as attachment point for the neck muscles.
* BreakingOldTrends: ''Lystrosaurus'' is the first animal from the Triassic period to appear canonically in the franchise. However, ''Herrerasaurus'' was in ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'', and the novels featured ''Procompsognathus'' in place of the films' ''Compsognathus''.
* HerbivoresAreFriendly: Averted thanks to the nature of the [[WretchedHive Amber Clave Market]]. While it's unknown how ''Lystrosaurus'' would have behaved in the wild or even in better care, the ''Lystrosaurus'' in the Amber Clave Market are bred to be animal fighters. Naturally, they are aggressive and wouldn't hesitate to bite humans [[spoiler:as Delacourt finds out the hard way]].
* KillerRabbit: Small, herbivorous, and a burrower; it literally is a reasonably close Triassic equivalent to a rabbit. [[spoiler:One specimen unwittingly helps Owen by biting Delacourt's arm and thrashing around, keeping him pinned with a similar effort by a juvenile ''Carnotaurus'' before a juvenile ''Baryonyx'' goes for Delacourt's head.]]
* RememberTheNewGuy: Never seen or mentioned in any media in the franchise prior to ''Dominion'', but the story treats it as though they had always been present, with multiple individuals already being sold in the dinosaur black market.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Dicynodonts are rarely shown in fiction. That said, prior to ''Dominion'', ''Lystrosaurus'' has appeared in ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}'', ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'', and ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved''.
* ShownTheirWork: It has hair and naked skin, as part of its close relationship with mammals.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Several ''Lystrosaurus'' were kept within the Amber Clave Market, but it's unknown what happened to them and the other prehistoric wildlife after the market fell into chaos.]]
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!!''Smilodon''
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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous''
A Pleistocene feline with saber-like teeth bred by Mantah Corp on their island. The only known individual would menace a group of ''Film/JurassicWorld'' survivors [[spoiler:until it was killed by a ''Spinosaurus'', presumably leaving the species extinct again]].
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: [[spoiler:It gets eaten by the ''Spinosaurus'' while hunting the campers.]]
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Its head has a closer resemblance to a Pantherine (or big cat) rather than a Machariodont, the saber-toothed cat's extinct subfamily--potentially justified, as per ''Jurassic Park'' tradition this specimen probably had an incomplete genetic sequence, and the gaps were filled in using DNA from its closest living relatives, modern-day cats. They are incorrectly called saber-toothed tigers despite the fact that big cats (lions, tigers, and leopards) are not more closely related to the saber-toothed cats than domestic house cats, extant felines are all more closely related to each other than to the saber-toothed cats.
* BreakingOldTrends: ''Smilodon'' is the first prehistoric non-Mesozoic animal and the first prehistoric mammal to appear in the franchise.
* CanonForeigner: A new prehistoric species that has never appeared in any of the films. That being said, it's been popping up in newer video games for the series, such as ''VideoGame/JurassicParkBuilder'', ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldTheGame'', and ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldAlive''.
* CatsAreMean: It is a menace to the campers [[spoiler:until it meets its end in the jaws of the ''Spinosaurus'']].
* EarlyBirdCameo: ''Smilodon'' first appeared in ''Film/JurassicPark'' as a toy in the ''Gallimimus Gift Shop'' and then in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' as a skull displayed in Lockwood Estate.
* PantheraAwesome: It greatly resembles a tiger with huge fangs, a short tail, and an even more powerful build.
* StockDinosaurs: Not a dinosaur, but it is the most famous extinct carnivore of the Cenozoic.
* TokenMinority: It is currently the only Pleistocene animal to appear canonically in the franchise.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Has two scenes and was only given the spotlight for a single episode [[spoiler:before being killed by the ''Spinosaurus'']].
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!!!Insects
[[folder:Locusts]]
!!Locusts
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion''
An unnamed species of prehistoric locust from the Cretaceous period. [[spoiler:They were bred by [=BioSyn=] to cause a famine, destroying all crops not made by Biosyn.]]
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* ApocalypseHow: Caused a Class 0 since they were only able to affect a few regions before they were ultimately stopped, but it's made very clear that if they weren't they could have very easily caused a Class 4.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: A big one; the locusts are completely made-up. No such thing as foot-long, prehistoric locusts have ever been documented to have existed in any time period, never mind the Cretaceous [[https://academic.oup.com/isd/article/2/4/3/5052737 from which]] [[AnachronisticAnimal locusts are absent]].[[note]]The closest thing that existed in reality are probably the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanoptera titanopterans]], which were giant insects related to modern grasshoppers and probably had a similar appearance, but they became extinct in the Triassic and were ''carnivorous''.[[/note]]
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Modern locusts are a little over 2 inches long in size; these are about a foot in length.
* FieryCoverup: [[spoiler:Once it's clear to Dodgson his scheme with the locusts will be revealed, Dodgson orders the incineration of the ones in the lab to destroy the evidence. The still-burning bugs break out and end up lighting the forest outside on fire, forcing the dinosaurs to be brought inside the [=BioSyn=] facility.]]
* {{Flight}}: Unsurprisingly, they can fly.
* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:Unlike with the other prehistoric creatures in ''Dominion'', no one even remotely entertains the idea of coexisting with these locusts, with everyone who encounters them advocating for their destruction. Considering that they are instinct-driven super-locusts that could threaten ''the entire biosphere''[[note]]while the locusts are only bred to eat non-Biosyn plants, which would cause ecological collapse on its own, locusts will resort to cannibalism to survive and it's not inconceivable they might focus on other sources of protein if avaiable[[/note]], this is a ''completely understandable'' response]].
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:The super-locusts are indicated to be far more resilient and destructive than Wu or Dodgson planned, potentially destroying the entire planet's food supply instead of merely crippling the competition like Dodgson intended. The locusts aren't even Dodgson's master plan, either; they're just a side project he cooked up for some extra revenue while trying to find Maisie so he can corner the healthcare market by extracting the means to cure genetic diseases from her DNA.]]
* GoodColorsEvilColors: [[spoiler:The locust Wu releases to destroy the swarm at the end is white, whereas the rest are black. {{Justified|Trope}} in that locusts actually start out with light color patterns and only develop their black markings when swarming]].
* HungryMenace: What makes them so dangerous -- [[spoiler:while the other resurrected species are a threat to humans, they're intelligent enough to adapt their behaviors, which means they can eventually learn to coexist with us (and us them). The locusts, however, are driven entirely by instinct and hunger, meaning they're impossible to reason with or adapt to -- they'll just eat everyone and everything until they starve, regardless of how many others go down with them]].
* {{Irony}}: In a franchise where the sequels keep bringing [[SerialEscalation bigger and badder carnivores]], the biggest prehistoric threat to the world is ironically the smallest prehistoric herbivore introduced, simply because they eat the crops that humans and livestock depend on to survive.
* LivingWeapon: [[spoiler:They are engineered to eliminate every crop that is not grown from [=BioSyn=] seed.]]
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:They've been genetically altered to be stronger and later on in ''[[Film/JurassicWorldDominion Dominion]]'' a swarm of them were [[FieryCoverup set on fire]] and were able to survive long enough to break out of containment and cause a forest fire in the [=BioSyn=] Sanctuary.]]
* NonMaliciousMonster: PlayedForDrama -- [[spoiler:the locusts lack the intelligence to comprehend morality, but it also makes coexisting with them impossible, as they are instinctually driven to eat regardless of other factors and incapable of adapting their behavior to coexist with other life forms]].
* PrehistoricMonster: They have DNA strains from the Cretaceous period, making them huge and ugly, and are ironically far more destructive than any carnivorous dinosaur could ever be. If there's any prehistoric creature that could cause a mass extinction event, it's these locusts.
* TheSwarm: Genetically modified giant locusts [[spoiler:from [=BioSyn=] that eat every plant except [=BioSyn=]'s patented crops, unleashed across the globe to hold the world at ransom. This swarm causes more destruction than the dinosaurs could ever hope to achieve, simply because they could indirectly kill billions of people through starvation (and that's not considering the biodiversity collapse in the wild).]]
* ZergRush: When one of the locusts feels threatened, it lets out a distress call that signals the rest of the swarm to come to its aid.
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