Forum:Baryonyx

I wish that Universal would, in some media like the InGen Field Journal, announce that the Baryonyx in the Jurassic Park brochure was actually a misclassified Spinosaurus.

Science issues

We would like to keep the number of dinosaur species low. To use an understatement, cloning dinosaurs isn't easy; even in the Jurassic Park universe. It would be unlikely that InGen cloned 50 species in only 10 years. Furthermore, it would have been unlikely that Hammond would spend millions to clone 10 large carnivores if he could already make a fortune with only 2.

We never see it

Both Baryonyx or Suchomimus appear in InGen's List. However, the fact that we haven't seen them in any movie or Jurassic Park: The Game media makes me doubt it actually is there. We actually have seen the Spinosaurus. However, it isn't on InGen's List. For me, this proves that InGen's List isn't infallible.

Solution

We could solve these issues by assuming that when the Spinosaurus was still an foetus or hatchling, it didn't have sail on its back yet; which multiple paleontologists believe is the case. InGen's scientists classified the creature as a Baryonyx and/or Suchmimus. The creators of the Park's promotional material put Baryonyx on the Park map.

Not long after "Baryonyx" hatched, Site B was abandoned and InGen's research on the new animal stopped. Between 1993 and 2001 the animal grew into the large Spinosaurus we see in. The InGen List that Alan Grant and Billy quote was written down in 1993 before the animal was classified properly.

I hope a similar thing is done with Segisaurus and Proceratosaurus. BastionMonk (talk) 08:37, June 19, 2014 (UTC)