Help please.

Teclisrex

Teclisrex
sorry for my English. I would like to create biomes based on the animals that actually lived in each of them, but I'm not an expert on dinosaurs. Could someone tell me which dinosaurs of the game lived in each of the different biomes in the game?
 

Thylaco

Thylaco
Using Scotese climate maps, and correlating coordinates with the Paleobiology database gives the following (quite a few are multi-biome, species close to the border of two biomes are given to both, like Amargasaurus and Monolophosaurus).

Land species
Tropical
  • Coelophysis
  • Huayangosaurus
  • Monolophosaurus
Desert
  • Acrocanthosaurus
  • Allosaurus
  • Amargasaurus
  • Apatosaurus
  • Brachiosaurus
  • Camarasaurus
  • Carcharodontosaurus
  • Carnotaurus
  • Ceratosaurus
  • Chungkingosaurus
  • Compsognathus
  • Deinonychus
  • Dilophosaurus
  • Diplodocus
  • Dryosaurus
  • Giganotosaurus
  • Gigantspinosaurus
  • Kentrosaurus
  • Mamenchisaurus
  • Majungasaurus
  • Nigersaurus
  • Ouranosaurus
  • Qianzhousaurus
  • Sinoceratops
  • Spinosaurus
  • Suchomimus
  • Velociraptor
Temperate
  • Acrocanthosaurus
  • Albertosaurus
  • Amargasaurus
  • Archaeornithomimus
  • Baryonyx
  • Deinonychus
  • Dracorex
  • Dreadnoughtus
  • Chasmosaurus
  • Coelophysis
  • Corythosaurus
  • Crichtonsaurus
  • Cryolophosaurus
  • Edmontosaurus
  • Euoplocephalus
  • Gallimimus
  • Herrerasaurus
  • Homalocephale
  • Iguanodon
  • Maiasaura
  • Megalosaurus
  • Metriacanthosaurus
  • Minmi (Cool temperate)
  • Monolophosaurus
  • Muttaburrasaurus (Cool temperate)
  • Nasutoceratops
  • Nodosaurus
  • Olorotitan
  • Pachycephalosaurus
  • Pachyrhinosaurus
  • Parasaurolophus
  • Pentaceratops
  • Polacanthus
  • Proceratosaurus
  • Qianzhousaurus
  • Sauropelta
  • Struthiomimus
  • Stygimoloch
  • Styracosaurus
  • Torosaurus
  • Triceratops
  • Troodon
  • Tsintaosaurus
  • Tyrannosaurus
  • Wuerhosaurus
  • Velociraptor
Aviary species
Desert
  • Cearadactylus
  • Maaradactylus
  • Tapejara
  • Tropeognathus
Temperate
  • Dimorphodon
  • Dsungaripterus
  • Geosternbergia
  • Pteranodon
Lagoon species
Tropical
  • Ichthyosaurus
  • Liopleurodon
  • Mosasaurus
Desert
  • Mosasaurus
Temperate
  • Attenborosaurus
  • Elasmosaurus
  • Ichthyosaurus
  • Kronosaurus (Cool temperate)
  • Liopleurodon
  • Mosasaurus
  • Plesiosaurus
  • Tylosaurus
 
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Mister Random

Mister Random
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Thylaco

Thylaco
Mister Random said:
Wait, who came with the spinosaurus in the desert? Citing wiki: "It lived in a humid environment of tidal flats and mangrove forests alongside many other dinosaurs, as well as fish, crocodylomorphs, lizards, turtles, pterosaurs, and plesiosaurs."

Edit: According to the legend (first link) it should be "warm temperate", but still - constant temperatures above 20°C to 25°C is not "modern" temperate

Lithologic Indicators of Climate

www.scotese.com
Click to expand...
It's using the Late Cretaceous map provided on the site. It doesn't state what point in the Late Cretaceous, so the Early Cretaceous map is probably more applicable to Spinosaurus (Tropical North Africa, rather than Arid).

The point of this is just to universally give an answer for everything, even if it's not necessarily correct.

Mangrove forest can seemingly exist in an arid region given the right conditions, Arabia seems to be completely surrounded by it for example.
 
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