Europasaurus and Magyarosaurus
Dwarf sauropods from ancient Jurassic and Cretaceous islands respectively. I see either of these possible dinosaurs giving a challenge improvement for the paleobotany system in-game
First things first, is the classification for these two dinosaurs. Currently, all sauropods in-game are classified as “Giant Herbivores”. But, because both europasaurus and magyarosaurus are small, they would have to fit in a different class. My best suggestion for them is to be classified as “Small Herbivores” just like the ornithomimids and pachycehalosaurs.
Technical problem may cause this to be a problem for a “Sauropoda” type dinosaur to be in different category that isn’t “Giant Herbivore”. But, if ways are found eventually, this can make these dinosaur inclusion more probable.
Now for the biggest aspect for these dinosaurs: the paleobotany system.
Sauropoda dinosaurs will benefit from these three plants: Tree ferns, Ginkgo, and Conifers.
However, tree ferns are only good for sauropods, nothing else. Since all current in-game sauropods can only feed from tall feeders, and nothing else can, this makes the tree ferns pointless to add to ground herbivore feeders, as well as making what’s bad or neutral to add to tall paleo feeders pointless to.
But, with the inclusion of smaller sauropods like the europasaurus and/or magyasaurus, they would be the only sauropods in-game to feed from ground feeders instead of tall feeders because of their model sizes and different size category they would be placed in.
This will provide a new challenge for your paleo feeder plannings if you want to include either of these two dinosaurs along with other non-sauropod herbivores.
If you plan to have either of these two small sauropods along with some iguanodonts and hadrosaurs in the same enclosure with one ground paleo feeder with tree ferns, ginkgo and conifers, this can work well because:
Conifers are good for all three types, ginkgo are good for hadros and sauros while neutral to iguanos, and tree ferns are good for sauropods while neutral to both medium herbivore types. All those three foods, for example, are negative to both ankylosaurs and pachycephalosaurs. So if you want to have either of those other two dino types in an enclosure along with small sauropods and you want to place paleo feeders with them together, you may want to plan your paleobotany usage a bit more carefully.
I don’t know if either of these two sauropods are in the making since there are three DLCs coming down the line right now, and they all could have anything in regards to dino species, but I’m putting this out for anyone in or out of the dev team to check it out anyway.
