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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2115263" data-attributes="member: 2205">That sounds about right from the timing.  I don't think that Utahraptor had been named at that point.  In fact, someone, at least, tried to name give a species name of Utahraptor spielbergi to a skeleton in honor of the movie, but consensus has generally decided that it didn't merit being a new species, so it's become a nomen nudum, or incorrect name, and the specimen was prioritized back into U. ostrommaysorum.Megaraptor is a real critter, but nobody is very clear on exactly what it is because the fossils are very incomplete.  It's a large raptor-like animal, certainly, and it probably would have been larger than Utahraptor, assuming it had the same proportions, but many specialists have tentatively assigned it to a completely different therapod group, meaning that it's similarities to the actual dromeosaur "raptors" would have been a case of evolutionary convergence only, not an indication of an actual close relationship.The dilophosaurs didn't bother me.  The idea of a Jesus-lizard-like frill was pretty silly, as was the spitting poison routine.  In actuality, Dilophosaurus was also one of the largest carnivores of it's time during the earliest Jurassic, so I'm not sure why they made this one so small.  But, hey, the inaccuracies and baseless speculation of poison and frills aside, it was still a cool idea for a movie, anyway.And the only Surrey claw I'm aware of belongs to Baryonix, a very strange fish-eating dinosaur that was the first of it's kind discovered.</blockquote>

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