
Dinosaur.Fanatic
MemberCompsognathusMarch 29, 2013"Either way, you probably won't get off this island alive."
--Alan Grant
Life cannot be contained, it breaks walls, crashes through barriers sometimes painfully, but uh... Life uh, finds a way
"Either way, you probably won't get off this island alive."
--Alan Grant
Before I give my hopes for a new superpredator, I would like to point out that Allosaurus wasn't as small of a carnivore as people seem to think. Two dinosaurs, both Saurophaganax and Epanterias, were the biggest carnivorous dinosaurs of the Jurassic (alongside Torvosaurus). They were easily the same size as predators like Tyrannosaurs. And both Saurophaganax and Epanterias are likely actually new species Allosaurus, as recent studies have shown. This would mean if Allosaurus was featured in a Jurassic Park film, the producers would be more than capable of masking it size up against a T-rex, and maybe even a Spino.
However, the superpredator I would love to see in the new JP is Mapusaurus, or a similar Giganotosaurid (like Giganotosaurus or Carcharodontosaurus). Mapusaur's were killing machines, and would of preyed on massive sauropods, such as Saltasaurus and Argentinosaurus if they hunted in packs (which they likely did). I would also like to see some dinosaurs from the original JP novels, like Carnotaurus with it's made up chameleon ability, and Apatosaurus as the new giant. And why not include the Nodosaurid, Crichtonsaurus. I mean, it was named after Michael Crichton (the author of the Jurassic Park and Lost World novels) after all!