Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-4327179-20150811153110/@comment-17754282-20150811195237

Well obviously you have to have the big three dinosaurs that "everybody knows" which are Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus.

Then you have to have the other Dinosaurs and others that have become staple parts of the Jurassic Park franchise - Velociraptor, Parasaurolophus, Gallimimus, Ankylosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Mosasaurus, Compsognathus Brachiosaurus, Apatosaurus, Pteranodon and Spinosaurus. (In the case of at least some of these, the name of the Dinosaur may excape the knowledge of the wider public, but they at least recognise it for what it is)

Those are probably the "must have" Dinosaurs of anything based on Jurassic Park.

Other Dinosaurs seen on screen in the series, such as Corythosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Dilophosaurus, Mamenchisaurus and Dimorphodon could all easily appear, but they're not essential - tbh I'd hardly call any of them a icon of the series (except maybe Dilophosaurus, given how its JP design has filtered into a plethora of other Dinosaur-based media!)

The thing with an anime, or even just a regular animated series, is that any Dinosaur could theoretically appear with relative ease. CGi is time consuming to create and render while animatronics are costly - as much as many of us would have liked to have seen the likes of Baryonyx, Metriacanthosaurus, Suchomimus, Microceratus and Edmontosaurus on screen in Jurassic World, personally I always felt it was unlikely to happen due to cost. (In fact I was surpried at just how many different genera of Dinos we did actually see on screen, though admittedly the Pachycephalosaurus did not move)

A cameo, however brief, is costly if done in CGi or animatronics. Cameos in animation are less so because it is a completely different style - shove a Styracosaurus into a film and viewers expect it to appear to breathe, move, eat and blink, draw three stock images of a Styracosaurus, shove them into the background of a scene in an anime or a cartoon and leave them motionless and no one bats an eye lid