Jurassic World: The Dinosaurs We’ve Seen So Far

Jurassic World

But…what other creatures have we seen so far?

Quite a few, as it turns out.

First of all, in both ads we’ve got what seems to be a Hainosaurus — the largest variety of a water-based family of lizards called Mosasaurs who were dominant during the Late Cretaceous period.

They’re also not dinosaurs, but who are we to be picky? The thing looks cool and it ate a shark.

Now…back to the first trailer. And let’s get this out of the way: I’m not at all an expert with this, so take this for my uninformed opinion, mixed with commentary I can find online. Also, because I don’t know a ton about dinosaurs, I’m going with descriptions from the Parkpedia and Walking With Wikis.

Here, we see a few stegasauruses and apatosauruses. I’m also thinking that the injured animal toward the end of the second trailer is just an up-close shot of an apatosaurus head, so I’m including here.

Easily one of the best known of all the dinosaurs ever, Stegosaurus is recognized all the world over. It is the biggest and most famous member of the stegosaur family. It roamed the open plains of the Late Jurassic Period in what is now North America. The plates along its back, its small head and spiked tail make it a peculiar and unique dinosaur. This plant-eater evolved to find its food in the low-growing plants of the late Jurassic. The long fearsome spikes on its tail would have made a powerful weapon against any hungry predators.

Apatosaurus (name meaning “deceptive lizard,” previously known as Brontosaurus, which means “thunder lizard”) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the late Jurassic period in the United States of America.

Velociraptor is the 3 to 4 meter (10–13 foot) long, 2 meter (6 foot) high dromaeosaurid theropod carnivore that appears in all Jurassic Park films and film-based media. The Raptors are the main antagonists of the first film and are the secondary antagonists of the second and third films. It appears as though at least some of them have been domesticated in Jurassic World, although whether as performers or an insurance policy against other rogue dinosaurs isn’t clear.

…And, yes. The I-Rex.

You can check the former out above, and the latter below. (And, yeah, minor spoiler warnings for the red shirt who dies.)

There’s a flock of Pterodactylus in the park, some carrying away tourists.