User blog comment:Styracosaurus Rider/A potentially revolutionary reclassification/@comment-11047508-20120920174532/@comment-1791057-20120921014423

I can't find that passage on that page nor any pages surrounding it. However, on p. 119 (1st. Ed. Hard cover), it reads "Grant had a blurred impression of powerful, six-foot-tall bodies, stiff balancing tails, limbs with curving claws, open jaws with rows of jagged teeth" (Crichton 1990). And the previous page: "The head was two feet long" (Crichton 1990). The skull of Deinonychus is half that. In Jurassic Park, Crichton is describing something nearly twice the size of any Deinoychus. Not to mention on page 117 Ellie asks, "But the animal we just saw, the velociraptor - you said it was a mongoliensis?" "From the location of the amber, Wu said. It is from China." (Crichton 1990). It the continues... "Interesting, Grant said. I was just digging up an infant antirrhopus." The two raptors exist within the novel canon, and both Crichton and the characters he wrote understand they are different. The fact that at the time, Achillobator was an undescribed and unnamed claw and tooth that was attributed to a species of Velociraptor that was larger than antirrhopus and from Mongolia. As this was all that was known about it, Crichton could easily have used its mentioning as a way to not only create a "mobster" but still be technically accurate.