List of creatures mentioned in Jurassic Park media

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This article lists all dinosaurs, and other extinct animals, that are mentioned in Jurassic media but are never cloned.

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Alamosaurus

Jurassic Park Institute artwork.

Alamosaurus was a North American sauropod from the Late Cretaceous Period. It was 15-21 meters (50-70 feet) long and weighed about 30 tons (60,000 pounds).

A skeleton of Alamosaurus can be seen in the rotunda of the Visitor Center.

On the Jurassic Park Institute website contained a Dinopedia section with information and artwork about Alamosaurus.

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Dire Wolf

The dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) is a canine related to the modern wolf (Canis lupus), and was even placed in the same genus prior to 2021 (Canis dirus). It is 1 of the most famous prehistoric carnivores in North America, along with its competitor Smilodon. The dire wolf lived in the Americas and eastern Asia during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs (125,000–9,500 years ago). The species was named in 1858, 4 years after the 1st specimen had been found. 2 subspecies are recognized: Aenocyon dirus guildayi and Aenocyon dirus dirus. The largest collection of its fossils has been obtained from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.

The dire wolf (mentioned by its original scientific name Canis dirus) was used along with the Deinonychus to create the (canceled) hybrid Deinonycanis for the Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect toy line.

Dromaeosaurus

Dromaeosaurus was a dromeosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of North America.

In the Jurassic Park novel, Alan Grant mentions Dromaeosaurus as one of the predators he expected to find at his dig-site in Snakewater, Montana. He later mentions it again when he formulates a plan to kill the Velociraptors of Jurassic Park.

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Gravitholus

Gravitholus was a pachycephalosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Alberta, Canada

In The Lost World, Gravitholus is mentioned by Richard Levine when he is trying to identify what genus of dinosaur the Pachycephalosaurus on Isla Sorna are.

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Ptilodus

Jurassic Park Institute artwork.

Ptilodus is a genus of multituberculate mammal from the Paleocene period of North America.

Ptilodus is one of many prehistoric creatures seen on the Jurassic Park Institute website.

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Quagga

The quagga (Equus quagga quagga) was a subspecies of the plains zebra (Equus quagga) that lived in South Africa. It became extinct in the 19th century due to increased hunting of the animal by Dutch settlers. Its name originates from the sound it made, which sounded like "kwa-ha-ha". It is one of the animals that scientists are trying to "breed back" into existence. The Quagga Project, an organization attempting to bring back the animal, are still working on a plan to do so.

In Jurassic Park, Lewis Dodgson references the quagga when he is trying to convince the board members of BioSyn to steal InGen's dinosaur DNA. In The Lost World, Ian Malcolm mentions the quagga again in an attempt to explain to the other members of his group why InGen needed a second island. Both mentions refer to the animal as an example of how extinct animals could be cloned.