I know we already have a lot of the species from the movies, but I also when frontier does updates people usually want new species to be added. So I'm going to recommend some species that I think should be added, even though to my knowledge they were not in any of the movies. The ones I would recommend considering adding include:
Camptosaurus, A genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America and possibly also Europe. The name means 'flexible lizard'. It has been featured in the Planet Dinosaur documentary series.
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Magnapaulia, A genus of herbivorous lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaurs known from the Latest Cretaceous Baja California, of northwestern Mexico. Some researchers believed this species was water-bound, due to features like its size, its tall and narrow tail (interpreted as a swimming adaptation), and weak hip articulations, as well as a healed broken thigh bone that they thought would have been too much of a handicap for a terrestrial animal to have survived long enough to heal.
Kamuysaurus, A genus of herbivorous edmontosaurin saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian marine deposits of the Yezo Group (Hakobuchi Formation) in the Hobetsu area near the town of Mukawa, Hokkaido in Japan. The find from 2013 was nicknamed Mukawaryu, the "Dragon of Mukawa".
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Lurdusaurus, a genus of massive and unusually shaped iguanodont dinosaur found in the Elrhaz Formation in Niger from the early Cretaceous period. Lurdusaurus has a highly atypical body plan for an iguanodont, with a small skull, long neck, rotund torso, and powerful forelimbs and claws, somewhat reminiscent of a ground sloth. Its metacarpals (wrist bones) are fused and reinforced into a large block, and the thumb spike is remarkably enormous. These would have allowed the hand to have functioned almost like a ball-and-chain flail. Lurdusaurus is estimated to have been 7–9 m (23–30 ft) long and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) high when on all-fours, but its stomach would have been only 70 cm (2 ft 4 in) off the ground. It may have weighed 2.5–5.5 t (2.8–6.1 short tons), conspicuously heavy for an iguanodontid this size. Some think it lived a lifestyle similar to what Hippos do today.
Dysalotosaurus, A genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It was a dryosaurid iguanodontian, and its fossils have been found in late Kimmeridgian-age rocks (Late Jurassic) of the Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region in Tanzania. Its name means uncatchable lizard.
Nqwebasaurus, a basal coelurosaur and is the basal-most member of the coelurosaurian clade Ornithomimosauria from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa. The name Nqwebasaurus is derived from the Xhosa word "Nqweba" which is the local name for the Kirkwood district, and "thwazi" is ancient Xhosa for "fast runner". Currently it is the oldest coelurosaur in Africa and shows that basal coelurosaurian dinosaurs inhabited Gondwana 50 million years earlier than previously thought. Nqwebasaurus has the unofficial nickname "Kirky", due to being found in the Kirkwood.
Kulindadromeus, a basal neornithischian from Russia that lived during the middle Jurassic period. Its remains had fossilized protofeathers, which is evidence for protofeathers being basal to Ornithischia and possibly Dinosauria as a whole, rather than just to Coelurosauria.
Leaellynasaura, A genus of small herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs from the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous (dated to between 118 and 110 million years ago), first discovered in Dinosaur Cove, Australia. It was featured in the walking with dinosaurs documentary series.
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Lamplughsaura, It was a sauropodomorph dinosaur from the early Jurassic period found in the Dharmaram Formation of India, dating from between 196 and 190 million years ago. It could grow up to 10 meters (33 ft) long, and was either a basal sauropod or, less likely, a more basal sauropodomorph. It was named after Pamela Lamplugh, founder of the Indian Statistical Institute.
Xingxiulong, A bipedal sauropodiform from the Early Jurassic of China. The generic name (literally meaning "constellation") refers to the Xingxiu Bridge (星宿), which was constructed during the Ming Dynasty of China.
Antetonitrus, a genus of sauropod dinosaur found in the Early Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. The only species is Antetonitrus ingenipes. As one of the oldest known sauropods, it is crucial for the understanding of the origin and early evolution of this group. It was a quadrupedal herbivore, like all of its later relatives, but shows primitive adaptations to use the forelimbs for grasping, instead of purely for weight support. The name is derived from the Latin ante- ("before") and tonitrus ("thunder"), which refers to its existence, before other known sauropods, specifically Brontosaurus ("thunder lizard").
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Falcarius, a genus of primitive Therizinosaur dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous period in what is now North America in the Cedar Mountain Formation. Falcarius is the most basal known definitive therizinosaurian genus. Its name means sickle cutter.
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Avaceratops, a genus of small herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs which lived during the late Campanian during the Late Cretaceous Period in what are now the Northwest United States. Most fossils come from the Judith River Formation. It is estimated to grow to be between 2.3 metres (7.5 ft) and 4.2 metres (14 ft).
Bagaceratops, A genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 72 to 71 million years ago. Bagaceratops remains have been reported from the Barun Goyot Formation, Bayan Mandahu Formation, and possibly in the Djadochta Formation. Bagaceratops was among the smallest ceratopsians, growing up to 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) in length, with a weight about 22.7–45 kg (50–99 lb). It name means short horned face.
Protoceratops, When people think of Asian dinosaur species or Mongolia in general, two of the first species to come to mind are Velociraptor and Protoceratops from the famous Fighting Dinosaurs specimen where the two were found buried together while in combat. Obviously if added to the game in would not get along with any of raptors as a result.
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Caelestiventus, A pterosaur species found Utah during the late Triassic period. Its genus name means heavenly wind. According to Wikipedia, it is the sole example of a desert-dwelling non-pterodactyloid pterosaur and is 65 million years older than other known desert-dwelling pterosaurs.
Rahonavis, A genus of bird-like theropods from the ate Cretaceous period of what is now northwestern Madagascar. It has been suspected of being capable of gliding or powered flight similar to modern birds. The name Rahonavis means, approximately, "cloud menace bird", from Malagasy rahona (RA-hoo-na, "cloud" or "menace") + Latin avis "bird". The specific name, R. ostromi, was coined in honor of John Ostrom. It was originally the first African coelurosaur until the Nqwebasaurus was discovered in 2000.
Masiakasaurus, a genus of small predatory noasaurid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. In Malagasy, masiaka means "vicious"; thus, the genus name means "vicious lizard". Masiakasaurus is thought have consumed small vertebrates, fish, invertebrates, and possibly even fruits based on the unique structure of its teeth.
Afrovenator, a genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Middle to Late Jurassic Period of northern Africa. The remains of Afrovenator were discovered in 1993 in the Tiourarén Formation of the department of Agadez in Niger.
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Eustreptospondylus, a genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur, from the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic period (some time between 163 and 154 million years ago) in southern England, at a time when Europe was a series of scattered islands. It is believed to have fed on smaller dinosaurs and pterosaurs, or scavenged the carcasses of fishes, marine reptiles, and other dinosaurs. It is believed to have been capable of swimming from island to island similar to what Komodo Dragons today.
Eoabelisaurus, A genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of the Cañadón Asfalto Basin in Argentina, South America. The generic name combines a Greek ἠώς, (eos), "dawn", with the name Abelisaurus, in reference to the fact it represents an early relative of the latter. This abelisaurid species lived more than 40 million years prior to any of its other relatives in the early Jurassic period.
Lusovenator, A genus of carcharodontosaurian theropod dinosaur, from the Late Jurassic Praia de Amoreira Porto-Novo Member and the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Assenta Member of the Lourinhã Formation in present-day Portugal. The generic name Lusovenator is derived from Lusitania, the province of the Roman Empire that roughly matches present-day Portugal, affixed with the Latin venator, meaning "hunter".
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Haplocheirus, A genus of theropod dinosaur found in the Shishugou Formation in the Junggar Basin of northwestern China that lived during the late Jurassic period. Upon its description, it was considered the oldest alvarezsauroid, predating all other members by about 63 million years. Its name means simple-handed skillful one", referencing its hypothesized behavior of using its three-fingered hands for activities that other alvarezsauroids could not perform, such as catching prey.
Ornitholestes: This is one of the small dinosaur species often associated with the Jurassic Period. Often times, Ornitholestes has been portrayed as having scaly skin with no feathers; although there have been some rare exceptions. While it is believed they mostly hunted small animals for food, they might have hunted larger prey, like a half-grown Camptosaurus, by hunting in packs. It would be nice to see this iconic species added to the game as a feathered species.
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Pliosaurus funkei: The sheer size of this animal attracted a large amount of media attention and earned it the nickname: Predator X, making it a major symbol of Pliosaurs. Given this species reputation and sheer size it would be nice to see it added to the game. If it is added it should be able to hunt Kronosaurus.
Excalibosaurus, A genus of ichthyosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic period in what is now England. It is characterized by the extreme elongation of the rostrum, with the lower jaw about three-fourths of the length of the upper jaw, giving the animal a swordfish-like look. The holotype specimen has a skull length of 78.5 cm (2 ft 6.9 in), while the largest specimen has a skull length of 1.54 m (5 ft 1 in). The larger specimen has a total length of 6.528 metres (21.42 ft). Its name means Excalibur's lizard.
Wantzosaurus, A genus of temnospondyl amphibian of the Trematosauridae family. (Trematosaurids were a family of of large marine temnospondyl amphibians.) Fossils have been found in the Early Triassic Middle Sakamena Formation (Sakamena Group) of what is now Madagascar. It showed adaptations for an almost completely aquatic lifestyle, having the ability to swim by lateral undulation.
Microposaurus, an extinct genus of trematosaurid temnospondyl. Fossils are known from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group (part of the Karoo Supergroup) in South Africa and the Rouse Hill Siltstone of Australia that date back to the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic.
Aphaneramma, An extinct genus of marine temnospondyl amphibian. It lived during the early Triassic period approximately 240 million years ago. Fossils have been found in the Mianwali Formation of Pakistan, Madagascar, the Zhitkov Formation of Russia, and the Kongressfjellet Formation of Svalbard (Norway). It is believed to have primarily hunted fish.
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