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I'm really into timespan-accurate remakes of dinosaur media for whatever reason. I don't own the skeletal reconstructions, they belong to Scott Hartman (Troodon, Almosaurus, Leptoceratops), GAT (Torosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Struthiomimus, Eotriceratops, Euoplocephalus), GSP (Kritosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus), Jaime Headden (Ojoraptorsaurus) and Mark Witton (Quetzalcoatlus). The setting is ~68 mya, in the southwestern US, a few million years before the actual K-Pg extinction event, when a minor asteroid impact devastates the general area.

Left to right:
Torosaurus utahensis: Replaces the Pachyrhinosaurus as background herd animal and superpredator fodder, since that genus was too far North and a bit temporally misplaced as well.
Alphadon marshi: A mamel that replaces the random Cretaceous lemurs, so small that I forgot I had put in the chart in the first place.
Troodon sp.: Although this is an odd location for troodontids, they ended up being a better fit for scavenger and minor threat in groups than the nearest dromaeosaurs - Acheroraptor is just too small to threaten anything, and Dakotaraptor is utter overkill.
Kritosaurus navajovius: Replacing the I.bernissartensis of the original, the local hadrosaur of the Ojo Alamo also gives an easier time explaining Kron and Bruton's random nasal crests, though in this case, all members of the species would have such noses.
''Alamotyrannus'' brinkmani: Everything in the villains of the original points to Tyrannosaurus, then the producers decided to swap it with Carnotaurus at the last moment, leaving a weird chimeric monstrosity. The Ojo Alamo's tyrannosaur fills pretty much the same role, following the herds for food after the meteor impact leads herbivores to migrate.
Ojoraptorsaurus boerei: A medium-sized oviraptorosaur, it's similar to the original rendition, stealing other dinosaurs' eggs and hatchlings to feed its own babies during the nesting season.
Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis: Since the pachycephalosaur in the original was Stygimoloch (inb4 ''Horner die''), background animal.
Alamosaurus sanjuanensis: Little did the producers know there*was*an immense sauropod at the end of the Cretaceous. I don't think this version's sauropod would really be concerned with the tyrannosaurs at all (look at the bloody sizes!), but perhaps it just wants to avoid conflict, like when an elephant moves out of a single lion's way without being in any danger whatsoever.
Lambeosaurinae sp: Another background dinosaur, replaces Parasaurolophus.
Struthiomimus sedens: Nothing really changed for this guy, aside from FEDDURZ. Background animal.
Eotriceratops xerinsularis: Replaces the Styracosaurus in the original, as a robust and heavy-bodied ceratopsian.
Leptoceratops gracilis: smol ceratopsian thing, replaces the Microceratus of the original. Background animal.
Ankylosauridae sp.: A yet-unnamed ankyosaur from the Ojo Alamo, background animal.
Quetzalcoatlus nothropi: The formation's best-known pterosaur and one of the largest flying vertebrates ever, joins the Troodon as a scavenger and otherwise fills the role of the Pteranodon from the original (the video game had Flia fight some Quetzalcoatlus, so...)
Glyptodontopelta mimus: A nodosaur of unknown size, replaces the Ankylosaurus? of the original.

I'm sure I left out a couple animals that appeared in the film, but they weren't exactly memorable. :P
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Baryonyx6's avatar

I would keep the Carnotaurus... i can't handle Tyrannosaurs anymore, and Disney's Dinosaur was a breath of fresh air. Not only that, but Carnotaurus DOES come from the same geological time as the rest of the cast...