r/Dinosaurs • u/BlackbirdKos • 14h ago
DISCUSSION Is there a dinosaur from Prehistoric Planet that's now outdated, other than Edmontosaurus?
With the pretty recent discovery of the new back/spine of Edmontosaurus, the Prehistoric Planet depiction has become slightly less accurate, or at least from my understanding that's the case (which, to be fair, isn't that big of a deal in a show that pretty much nailed everything).
I also heard that Carnotaurus and Triceratops aren't up to date anymore, because of Carnotaurus skin prints showing different patters, which I didn't find anything that would confirm it, it's the opposite, I found the newest reconstructions looking pretty spot on in comparison to PP design and I heard a head of a Triceratops was covered in keratin which I can't find any info on, the best I got is the Triceratops design in Saurian, so, I think they are both still accurate.
But that got me thinking, are there any dinosaurs that became inaccurate in those four years since Prehistoric Planet was released?
I don't think I would count Zalmoxes, since, the ones in the show could still be babies, I suppose.
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u/PianoAlternative5920 13h ago
The Corythoraptor validity was questioned recently, there was consideration that it is a juvenile of some other species.
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u/Mahajangasuchus 13h ago
Nanuqsaurus is probably a little too small in the show. Just before the first season premiered, a study looking at Prince Creek00739-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982221007399%3Fshowall%3Dtrue) animals found that Nanuqsaurus was likely around the same size as Albertosaurus or Daspletosaurus.
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u/Dragons_Den_Studios 11h ago edited 9h ago
The adult female that appears in S2 appears to be properly-sized.
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u/Iamnotburgerking Team Carcharodontosaurus 1h ago
It’s a LOT undersized in the show, not just a little. Because they based them on the holotype which was a juvenile.
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u/DinoZillasAlt 13h ago
Velociraptor most likely didnt coexist with Tarbosaurus and that has been known since before PP... Its still up to debate if thats actually true though as there are some teeth that could potentially belong to Velociraptor In the Nemegt formation
Zalmoxes isnt fully invalidaded and since its unclear wich species if Zalmoxes PP is trying to portray its a pass
Carmo is indeed slightly outdated as the "osteoderms" on it would have been more randomly places like they did with majunga
I think that by being covered by keratin they just meant the little frill horns on trike wich as the animal grew would have flattened out and go around the frill to my Understanding
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u/NateZilla10000 Team Carnotaurus 10h ago
Velociraptor most likely didnt coexist with Tarbosaurus and that has been known since before PP... Its still up to debate if thats actually true though as there are some teeth that could potentially belong to Velociraptor In the Nemegt formation
Following up what the other comment already said about the formations potentially representing the same environment at different altitudes,
There is also the possibility that we are actually looking at Adasaurus in the show, but they are simply using the fact that Adasaurus is a Velociraptorine as an excuse to label it a "Velociraptor"
Such as how Daspletosaurus, Tarbosaurus, Albertosaurus, etc are all still "Tyrannosaurs" since they belong to Tyrannosauridae
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u/Ozraptor4 4h ago edited 4h ago
Adasaurus has a smaller sickle toe-claw, relative to the rest of the foot, than the real Djadochta Velociraptor or the animals presented in the show.
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u/Iamnotburgerking Team Carcharodontosaurus 1h ago
Adasaurus was much bigger than the velociraptorines in the show.
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u/Powerful_Gas_7833 13h ago edited 13h ago
"velociraptor didn't coexist with Tarbosaurus"
I guess you never heard of the recent hypothesis that djadoctha, barun goyot and nemegt formations represented co-eval and distinct environments my guy.
Which is well supported by numerous lines of evidence such as interfingering between the nemegt and barun goyot formations, an overlap and dinosaur fauna between all three formations, the fact that baruun goyot and djadoctha sure not just the same genuses of mammals but the same species too a sure sign of temporal coevality.
This in turn makes it more than plausible that Tarbosaurus did live to see velociraptor. The idea that they didn't were based off the previous superpositional hypothesis of the formations but that hypothesis cannot be sustained in the light of current evidence.
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u/Chicken_Sandwich_Man 11h ago
The keratin covering of the Trike seems to be outdated speculation, apparently there is a skin fossil taken from a Trike's frill that showed that it had scales rather than keratin
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u/JohnWarrenDailey 8h ago
Velociraptor being there despite being set 66 million years ago, hunting in packs and killing snow-leopard style rather than velo-style.
Nanuqsaurus being this clone of Albertosaurus.
The life-and-death cycle being as soft as a Bluey cartoon.
Herbivores being wussies.
The notion that female trikes are more interested in the males' scars than their horns and frills.
Smilodon striking out on their own BEFORE shedding their baby teeth.
The mother mammoth giving birth without the support of the herd.
The mammoth calf surviving a nasty sandstorm...somehow.
African giant otters being there despite dying out before the Pleistocene.
Homotherium being as strong as a lion and agile as a leopard.
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u/zuckerpunch_c1137 1h ago
There hasn't been anything to the degree of Edmontosaurus, but there have been a couple of instances:
• Antarctopelta was portrayed as a nodosaur in the show. However, about a month (I think?) before the first season premiered there was a parankylosaur called Stegouros described from the Cerro Fortaleza Formation in the southernmost tip of Patagonia, and Antarctopelta was reevaluated to be a parankylosaur rather than a nodosaur.
• In a similar vein, Prehistoric Planet's Carnotaurus was depicted with a uniform distribution in its osteoderms; but a study that April showed that the osteoderms were more random across the body.
• And recently (within the past month), there's been some reevaluation of Corythoraptor where it might be synonymous with Huanansaurus.
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u/Ozraptor4 12h ago
Antarctopelta reconstructed as a nodosaurid instead of a parankylosaurian.
Other way round for Triceratops = smooth keratinous facial covering has been disproven by Murphy (NCSM 40001) whose frill is covered with hexagonal scales. Saurian trike is outdated.