User blog comment:Freighttrain, The/Zoid Counterparts to the Prehistoric Species Featured in the Jurassic Park Franchise/@comment-33613830-20190102060302/@comment-35876453-20190103042837

I've read on wikipedia that the velociraptors depicted in the Jurassic Park movies are actually based entirely on deinonychus and are velociraptor in name only because Michael Crichton thought that 'velociraptor' sounded "more dramatic".

Obviously one can tell from size comparison alone that the creatures shown in the movies are deinonychus and not the smaller velociraptor which would not have been able to be portrayed as anywhere near as deadly, haha so technically that tubby kid at the beginning of the first movie was correct when he mouthed off about the danger posed by velociraptors being similar to that of a turkey.

And whilst it is possible that deinonychus antirrhopus may have been classified as velociraptor antirrhopus at a similar time to when the first movie was being filmed, the most up-do-date classification of that species is of course deinonychus antirrhopus and so that is reflected in my list here.