Dinosaurs Dig Sites That Should Have More Than One/Two Dinosaurs

[RadicalEdward2]

Your Feature Request / Idea
I know there's plenty of dinosaur request threads but, I wanted to request the inclusion of dinosaurs from areas of the world with less than 3 specimens available for unearthing.

When it comes to the ecosystems of some dinosaurs, there's a handful of them locations with such little variety that they have to be paired with other 'non-native' dinosaurs.

These dinosaurs include...

♢ The Spinosaurus from the Mediterranean (Chenini Formation & Bahariya Formation) - Both only offer the Spinosaurus

♢ The Majungasaurus from Madagascar (Maevarano Formation)

♢ The Suchomimus from Central Africa (Tegama Beds)

♢ The Kentrosaurus from South Africa (Tendaguru Formation)

♢ The Giganotosaurus from South America (Candeleros Formation)

♢ The Carnotaurus from South America (La Colonia Formation)

♢ The Muttabarrasaurus from Australia (Mackunda Formation)

♢ The Sinoceratops from China (Xingezhuang Formation)

♢ The Dilophosaurus from China (Lower Lufeng Series)

♢ The Archaeornithomimus from Uzbekistan (Bissekty Formation)

♢ The Metriacanthosaurus from the UK (Oxford Clay)

♢ The Stegosaurus and Ceratosaurs (which are both also found in North America) from Portugal (Lourinhã Formation)

♢ The Sauropelta and Deinonychus (the Deinonychus being available at multiple other dig sites) from the US (Cloverly Formation)

♢ The Maiasaura from the US (Egg Mountain)


By drawing attention to these lone specimen, it could help to paint a better picture of what dinosaurs could be included by narrowing the locations based on which ones need more attention; seeing as how the United States has the majority of the dinosaurs.

Below is a list of dinosaurs that could be added to the games based on the locations listed above to improve their respective paleoecologies...

Spoiler

I omitted avians and aquatics and speculative incomplete specimens to keep the list within the realm of possibility and highlighted the current in-game dinosaurs in bold for emphasis on how isolated they currently are when compared to the more extensive dig sites in North America and Asia.
Additional notes will be provided in spoiler tabs.

♢ Chenini Formation & Bahariya Formation : Carcharodontosaurus, Spinosaurus

♢ Maeverano Formation : Majungasaurus, Masiakasaurus, Rahonavis, tosaurus, Simosuchus

♢ Tegama Beds : Nigersaurus, Ouranosaurus, Sarcosuchus, Suchomimus

♢ Tendaguru Formation : Dicraeosaurus, Giraffatitan, Kentrosaurus

♢ Candeleros Formation : Ekrixinatosaurus, Giganotosaurus

♢ La Colonia Formation : Carnotaurus

Spoiler

La Colonia is one of the few dig sites with no conclusive specimens beyond the Carnotaurus

♢ Mackunda Formation : Muttabarrasaurus

Spoiler

Because of the shear lack of other specimens in the Mackunda Formation, I would suggest adding the Allaru Formation to include the Kunbarrasaurus so there's at least two dinosaurs available from Australia. Plus, it would be interesting to have a small armored dinosaur instead of the usual medium ones.

♢ Xingezhuang Formation : Shantungosaurus, Sinoceratops

Spoiler

I didn't include the Zhuchengtyrannus because its appearance is mostly speculative since only a skull was ever uncovered.

♢ Lower Lufeng Series : Dilophosaurus, Lufengosaurus, Sinosaurus, Yunnanosaurus

Spoiler

The Sinosaurus would probably be the most interesting from this site since they're essentially Dilophosaurs without frills (or movie acid).

♢ Bissekty Formation : Archaeornithomimus, Gigantoraptor, Timurlengia, Turanoceratops

Spoiler

We already have the Gigantospinosaurus, why not the Gigantoraptor?

♢ Oxford Clay : Eustreptospondylus, Metriacanthosaurus

♢ Lourinhã Formation : Ceratosaurs, Miragaia, Stegosaurus, Torvosaurus

♢ Cloverly Formation : Acrocanthosaurus, Deinonychus, Sauropelta, Sauroposeidon, Tenontosaurus

♢ Egg Mountain : Daspletosaurus, Gorgosaurus, Hypacrosaurus, Maiasaura, Orodromeus, Prenoceratops, Troodon

Spoiler

If the Troodon makes it in, it should be the established Jurassic Park: The Game variant.

There's bound to be a couple of dinosaurs in these lists that were probably requested already but, I just wanted to compile lists of dinosaurs for the underdeveloped dig sites.
I spent a total of six hours putting this list together [blah]
Hopefully, one day we can have enclosures that accommodate entire ecosystems that aren't exclusive to the western United States or China.

 

[RadicalEdward2]

Any thoughts on the list I provided?

 

[tigris115]

I say lump Shantungosaurus, Sinoceratops, and Tsintaosaurus into the Wangshi group

 

[RadicalEdward2]

I say lump Shantungosaurus, Sinoceratops, and Tsintaosaurus into the Wangshi group

While I do see where you're coming from, I was addressing the addition of dinosaurs to the current existing dig sites in the game based on which ones have too few dinosaurs to unearth.
However, I would say that its a bit weird that the Sinoceratops and Tsintaosaurus are only found at one location (each) when they definitely were found at more locations.
Sure, they're DLC dinosaurs but, that shouldn't mean only one dig site should be dedicated to each individual new dinosaur when they were confirmed to have been found in other locations though I would suspect the logic behind adding more than one dig site for lone specimens would have seemed like a bit of a sinking fallacy. At the same time, the Spinosaurus and Stegosaurus are found almost by themselves at multiple places that only offer the aforementioned dinos.

A bit of a tangent I know.
tldr: I agree lol

 

[Jvm5]

Thank you for the thread. This was actually one of my first thoughts for adding non-JP canon dinosaurs -- it would nice to flesh out some of the weaker formations. It could be a little disheartening to lottery certain locations with ten dinosaurs for a specific species in campaign, but there's also not a lot of excitement sending a team to a formation with only one species. It also reduces the viability of semi-realistic mixed exhibits, given many one-digsite species are carnivores.

I would highly suggest Frontier move Dilophosaurus to its proper digsite if they add Sinosaurus.

 

[jsi7iv]

I really like the idea. I've always wanted to plan my parks around either continents or time periods; however, the diversity is lacking.

 

[tinywolf]

In addition to the Australian dinosaurs you said I would love to see the Australian T-rex Australovenator make it in the game! Even one of the sauropods like Diamantinasaurus matildae I would love to see.

 

[merry]

I see a need if and add new species that is definitely necessary, such as:
Plateosaurus, Iguanodon and Concavenator from Western and southwestern Europe;
Dryosaurus, Ouranosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus from Eastern and Northern Africa,
Therizinosaurus and Oviraptoriz from Mongolia and Russia,
Pachyrhinosaurus, Albertosaurus and Acrocanthosaurus from the United States and Canada,
Cryolophosaurus from Antarctica
I believe that these species should be added first, because they are found in all the topics about dinosaurs, and then less common and hybrids.
PS, I liked Nigersaurus, Timurlengia and Tenontosaurus

 

[Jurassic_DX]

Always bothered me that I see Dilophosaurus & Parasaurolophus in Asia, we really need more dinosaurs with representation outside North America and try and put these two back where they belong. And it certainly is a tad depressing seeing only 1 dino per dig site, I just don't want them to try too hard and force dinosaurs in for the sake of it, but we definitely need more variety outside North America.

 

[DinoMaster9000]

I think it probably stems from the JP Dilo as being in actuality a Sinosaurus based on our digsites, and the Parasaurolophus DNA being sourced from Saurolophus which is one of few dinosaurs known from both N. America and Asia. I would like a Dilophosaurus more closely resembling the true look though, perhaps we could get Liliensternus? It was similar enough and would expand our Triassic roster which currently sits at zero.
As for the OP I do think we should have at least 2-3 dinosaurs per formation aside from those like La Colonia that truly don’t have any other specimens. I definitely agree with this. Also why not add Andesaurus or Limaysaurus in with Giganotosaurus in Candeleros?

 

[Player 99234567]

Both a Tendaguru and Lourinha formation packs are my top most wanted DLCs. I would also add dysalotosaurus to tendaguru and MAYBE elpahorosaurus. But damn I really want Giraffatitan.

 

[DragonNTiger]

Hmm... while I do agree that some dig sites need more love, I don't think padding the dig rosters for the sake of padding should be a priority. Some sites just don't have any significant dinosaurs beyond the one they currently have and they shouldn't prioritize some minor genus simply because "this dig site only has one dinosaur" when the major in-demand genre are dug up elsewhere...