Hadrosaur sizes and new species

[HailToHolo91]

I noticed something with the size of Orolititan while playing the missions on Muerta East. In the Ingen Database it puts the Orolititan at 2.2 meters tall and 7.9 meters long. Corythosaurus is 2.5 meters tall and 9 meters long, and Edmontosaurus comes in at 3 meters tall and 11 meters long. So Orolititan should be a bit smaller than Corythosaurus and a good bit smaller than Edmontosaurus, actually closer to Muttaburrasaurus in size. Yet as far as I can tell, the Orolititan model is a fair bit larger than Corythosaurus and almost the same size as Edmontosaurus. It would be nice if the size of Orolititan reflected what it says in the database.

(Was hard to get them to line up so as to show what I'm seeing, those I think these screens do a relatively good job of illustrating what I'm talking about.)
Also, on the topic of hadrosaurs, I think a couple of new and unique hadrosaur species would be an awesome addition to the game. Two that I have immediately in mind are Shantungosaurus, unique for its absolutely massive size, and Lambeosaurus, unique for it's hatchet crest. I would be interested to see what other species people may want to see as well. But I think it would be awesome to be able to add these gentle titans into our parks. And who wouldn't want to see their Rexes take down an almost 15 meter long hadrosaur.

 

[HailToHolo91]

Here's a better picture.

 

[LordTrilobite]

I noticed something with the size of Orolititan while playing the missions on Muerta East. In the Ingen Database it puts the Orolititan at 2.2 meters tall and 7.9 meters long. Corythosaurus is 2.5 meters tall and 9 meters long, and Edmontosaurus comes in at 3 meters tall and 11 meters long. So Orolititan should be a bit smaller than Corythosaurus and a good bit smaller than Edmontosaurus, actually closer to Muttaburrasaurus in size. Yet as far as I can tell, the Orolititan model is a fair bit larger than Corythosaurus and almost the same size as Edmontosaurus. It would be nice if the size of Orolititan reflected what it says in the database.View attachment 157881
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(Was hard to get them to line up so as to show what I'm seeing, those I think these screens do a relatively good job of illustrating what I'm talking about.)
Also, on the topic of hadrosaurs, I think a couple of new and unique hadrosaur species would be an awesome addition to the game. Two that I have immediately in mind are Shantungosaurus, unique for its absolutely massive size, and Lambeosaurus, unique for it's hatchet crest. I would be interested to see what other species people may want to see as well. But I think it would be awesome to be able to add these gentle titans into our parks. And who wouldn't want to see their Rexes take down an almost 15 meter long hadrosaur.

Lambeosaurus isn't that big. You're thinking of Magnapaulia. It was labeled as Lambeosaurus at first.

Edmontosaurus is also still very big. The largest partial fossils suggest a size of over 12 meters, making it larger than T. rex.

 

[HailToHolo91]

Lambeosaurus isn't that big. You're thinking of Magnapaulia. It was labeled as Lambeosaurus at first.

Edmontosaurus is also still very big. The largest partial fossils suggest a size of over 12 meters, making it larger than T. rex.

With Lambeosaurus I was referring to it being a unique choice due to its crest. Shantung was the size choice. Though you do bring up a good point that if they wanted to tackle both Magnapaulia would be a very good choice.
I was pretty much just going by the in game size given for Edmontosaurus. Annectens has been proposed to get to 12 meters and that would be awesome to see represented in game. Though I think the species they have in game is technically Regalis, or at least a strange mix of Regalis and Annectens. Either way it would be awesome to see a massive hadrosaur of those larger scales in the game.

 

[HailToHolo91]

I just thought of a way to add the larger Edmontosaurus Annectens to the game without the confusion of having two edmontosaurus species. Include it as Anatosaurus, as it was known before it was included into the Edmontosaurus species. This would well fit the Jurassic Park theme since many of the nomenclatures of the animals in the series are more or less based around the understanding of dinosaurs from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's. I still think that Shantungosaurus would be a better choose for the massive hadrosaur addition (if one were to be included). But Anatosaurus Annectens would be a pretty dope alternative.

 

[HailToHolo91]

Correction: Genus, not species

 

[Chrishhh]

I noticed something with the size of Orolititan while playing the missions on Muerta East. In the Ingen Database it puts the Orolititan at 2.2 meters tall and 7.9 meters long. Corythosaurus is 2.5 meters tall and 9 meters long, and Edmontosaurus comes in at 3 meters tall and 11 meters long. So Orolititan should be a bit smaller than Corythosaurus and a good bit smaller than Edmontosaurus, actually closer to Muttaburrasaurus in size. Yet as far as I can tell, the Orolititan model is a fair bit larger than Corythosaurus and almost the same size as Edmontosaurus. It would be nice if the size of Orolititan reflected what it says in the database.View attachment 157881
View attachment 157882
(Was hard to get them to line up so as to show what I'm seeing, those I think these screens do a relatively good job of illustrating what I'm talking about.)
Also, on the topic of hadrosaurs, I think a couple of new and unique hadrosaur species would be an awesome addition to the game. Two that I have immediately in mind are Shantungosaurus, unique for its absolutely massive size, and Lambeosaurus, unique for it's hatchet crest. I would be interested to see what other species people may want to see as well. But I think it would be awesome to be able to add these gentle titans into our parks. And who wouldn't want to see their Rexes take down an almost 15 meter long hadrosaur.

Yeah that's one thing I've noticed about some of the hadrosaurus, but never really said anything about, but some the sizes do seem a little off putting. I've noticed Iguanodon is supposed to be at around 10 meters in length and Edmontosaurus is at 11 meters in length, while both are supposed to be the same height which is 3 meters and yet Iguanodon seems to Tower over Edmontosaurus even when the Edmonto it's running on just 2 legs it seems it still falls a little short under Iguanodon in the height department. I wish they would just raise the size on the Iguanodon since it looks a little bigger than what it's supposed be or change the height range to 4 or 3.5 meters or just raise the Edmontosaurus to 12 meters in length, 4 meters in height, it being one the biggest Hadrosaurus there ever was. It actually revealed T-rex in size and some specimens were even bigger.

 

[Thylaco]

I'd say it's unlikely we'll get size edits going forward, as it seems to be a bit of hassle regarding animations (the fact the size differences with the carnivores caused a sizeable, constant uproar is what made it worthwhile the first time I think).

I'd say the reason it was chosen to be this way in the first place for the Edmontosaurus is probably because it's basically the first thing you get.

In terms of further Hadrosaurs for the game, expanding the Saurolophines would probably be for the best, with Saurolophus and Gryposaurus probably being the most notable (part of me wants a South American one, Secernosaurus/Willinakaqe or atleast an Argentinian digsite for a Kritosaurus [in reference to Kritosaurus australis]).