Cretaceous

Say.. was there any time in history like.. back then that had a time period where the sea was better suited for living rather than on land?

Like I know that there was some time before the Cretaceous period I believe that had something like that. Though probably short lived.. jus' thought I'd ask.

So, I was scrolling today through Terrifying Tyrannosaur page on TV Tropes today when I came across this weird title that can be translated to Age of the Great Dinosaurs. Having nothing better to do, I watched it.

The film released in 1979 under the direction of Shoutarou Ishinomori, a guy that worked on multiple installments of Cyborg 009 and... SHERLOCK HOLMES 1996 ANIME SERIES. Haven't watched either.

What is supposed to be the plot:

It tells a story about "effeminate guy" known as Jun, who likes flowers and is sad that humans are contaminating the environment (usual stuff). He is bullied at school for reading poetry books (I can relate to his bullies), and his mother complains about his education. That thread is brushed aside immediately, because (WARNING: This is gonna be cringe) UFO CONTRACTS HIM!

It tells him to go on a beach, where he meets his love interest Remi. Unfortunately, this is where my least favourite character in the film joins: Chobi. Chobi is annoying little brat and younger brother of Remi, who stalks her all the way to the beach and mocks for having a boyfriend, as if that was something unnatural.

After pointing out that she just meet Jun, UFO teleports all three away and tells a story how humans lost their empathy, because they terraform the planet. Then it teleports them to cretaceous period for them to learn a lesson they already know. Chobi assaults some dino with stick and cuts his tail off, then discovers a bunch of eggs, from which Triceratops breed hatches. Tyrannosaurus the Immortal arrives and eats all but one trikes, then gets its eye gouged out. TTI then kills a Pachycephalosaurus female that two males have been fighting over and Chobi complains about their cowardice.

As usual, volcano explodes and all the dinos perish. The only ones left alive are Tyrannosaurus and "Toppy" (a hyper-grown Triceratops that survived earlier). Undying Tyranno kills Toppy and we go fast-forward to THE ICE AGE.

"What killed the dinosaurs? THE ICE AGE!"

After some montage of mammoths trampling Smilodons and humans killing mammoths (yeah, empathy never existed to begin with), T-Rex, who is somehow still alive, steals the killed mammoth from humans. Cavemen then make a sacrifice to Tyrannosaurus, offering some girl and singing. The song calms T-Rex down, only for Chobi to butt in and piss off T-Rex. Getting fire in their white eyes, cavemen insert infinite ammo cheat code and throw 1,000,000,000 spears onto T-Rex, killing it. Then UFO arrives and teleports kids back to present, saying that they will welcome mankind with open arms when they learn compassion. Movie ends.

Review:

Truly a terrible movie. Go on MyAnimeList.net and you'll find exactly NO ONE recommending this film.

-Characters are all shallow and have zero character, besides little brat with flaming eyes that I hate. It is insane that Tyrannosaurus, generic super persistent movie predator, makes more expressions than two other main characters in the whole runtime. Remi and Jun have as much personality as Ford Brody from Gareth Edwards' Godzilla (to hell with that movie), always having blank look on their faces and never reacting to A. N. Y. T. H. I. N. G.

-Plot is entirely stupid and makes no sense whatsoever. What exactly is UFO's point? Mankind is shown killing more than just some roadside flowers in prehistory, and "empathy" never existed to begin with. Why are they throwing three insignificant children into past? How did the Tyrannosaurus survive getting stabbed in the scrotum by Triceratops?How did the T-Rex, cold-blooded naked reptile, survive in ice age for millions of years?

-Animation is also bad. Frames are constantly reused and characters go off-model at least once. They switch between animating rain to using some generic filter over and over.

-What I can't put my finger on is how bizarre mood is in this film. Take Pachycephalosaurus scene for example: one moment you have shell falling from Ankylosaurus in goofy fashion and back fins falling off of Stegosaurus, the next moment Tyrannosaurus comes in and kills female Terra Formars-style. The film can't seem to decide whatever deaths are too brutal to show onscreen or just show them to the audience. Bizarre mood whiplash.

Final rating: 2/10.

Aftermath:

-Was Godzilla's roar protected by copyright at the time? Because T-Rex uses it ALL THE TIME in this movie. Either that or Gamera's roar. I guess filmmakers must have been lucky and Toho just didn't realize this movie's existence.

This documentary is split into 6 segments, each focusing on a different Geological Formation:

Wessex Formation, United Kingdom, 130 MYA

Iguanodon

Mantellisaurus

Hypsilophodon

Polacanthus

Vectipelta

Unknown Titanosaur

Neovenator

Ornithodesmus

Ceratosuchops

Baryonyx

Eotyrannus

Caulkicephalus (not a dinosaur)

Istiodactylus (not a dinosaur)

Unnamed Elasmosaurid (not a dinosaur)

Anteophthalmosuchus (not a dinosaur)

Yaverlestes (not a dinosaur)

Hybodont Shark (not a dinosaur)

Yixian Formation, China, 124 MYA

• Liaoningotitan

• Bolong

• Jeholosaurus

• Liaoningosaurus

• Psittacosaurus

• Confuciusornis

• Mei Long

• Sinusonasus

• Zhenyuanlong

• Sinornithosaurus

• Microraptor

• Beipiaosaurus

• Caudipteryx

• Sinosauropteryx

• Yutyrannus

• Moganopterus (not a dinosaur

• Haopterus (not a dinosaur)

• Monjurosuchus (not a dinosaur)

• Dalinghosaurus (not a dinosaur

• Xianglong (not a dinosaur

• Repanomamus (not a dinosaur

Cloverly Formation, Montana, 115 MYA

• Aquilops

• Sauropelta

• Tenontosaurus

• Zephyrosaurus

• Deinonychus

• Acrocanthosaurus

• Falcarius-like Therizinosaur

• Unnamed Goniopholidid (not a dinosaur)

• Unnamed Mammal (not a dinosaur)

Kem Kem Group, Morocco, 98 MYA

• Rugops-like Abelisaurid

• Carcharodontosaurus

• Deltadromeus

• Spinosaurus

• Ouranosaurus

• Aegyptosaurus

• Rebbachisaurus

• Anhanguera (not a dinosaur)

• Afrotapejara (not a dinosaur)

• Aegisuchus (not a dinosaur)

• Ariapesuchus (not a dinosaur)

• Leptocleidid Plesiosaur (not a dinosaur)

• Mawsonia fish (not a dinosaur)

• Onchopristis fish (not a dinosaur)

• Neoceratodus fish (not a dinosaur)

Djadochta Formation, Mongolia, 72 MYA

• Shuvuuia

• Pinacosaurus

• Gobipteryx

• Bagaceratops

• Protoceratops

• Udanoceratops

• Velociraptor

• Hadrosauroidea/Plesiohadros

• Halszkaraptor

• Aepyornithomimus

• Oviraptor

• Citipati

• Goyocephalae

• Saurornithoides

• Tarbosaurus/Zhuchengtyrannus

• Nemegtosaurus

• Gobiosuchus (not a dinosaur)

• Nemegtbaatar (not a dinosaur)

• Unnamed Azhdarchid (not a dinosaur)

Hell Creek Formation, Montana, 66 MYA

• Ankylosaurus

• Denversaurus

• Pachycephalosaurus

• Platytholus

• Leptoceratops

• Torosaurus

• Triceratops

• Edmontosaurus

• Thescelosaurus

• "Hell Creek Lambeosaurine"

• Tyrannosaurus

• Ornithomimus

• Anzu Wyliei

• Acheroraptor

• Avisaurus

• Pectinodon

• Quetzalcoatlus (not a dinosaur)

• "Hell Creek Pteranodontid" (not a dinosaur)

• Borealosuchus (not a dinosaur)

• Paleosanwia (not a dinosaur)

• Boa-like snake (not a dinosaur)

• Champsosaurus (not a dinosaur)

• Alphadon (not a dinosaur)

• Gar fish (not a dinosaur)

Near the Western Interior Sea, Wyoming, 66 MYA

• Tyrannosaurus

• Triceratops

• Saltasaurid Titanosaur

• Nyctosaurid (not a dinosaur)

• Quetzalcoatlus (not a dinosaur)

• Mosasaurus (not a dinosaur)

• Archelon (not a dinosaur)

• "Hell Creek Pteranodontid" (not a dinosaur)

• Elasmosauridae (not a dinosaur)

This one has 110 species! This would definitely be a long movie, even if some of the species I listed only appear briefly.

…of the Kp-G mass extinction event, and why is that portrayal your favourite?

A nocturnal, beachcombing enantiornithine of an unknown genus has noticed a new “star” in the night sky, but it doesn’t know what that “star” will soon do…

(Edited Roblox scene of the game Feather Family by ShinyGriffin)

"we entered onto our universe, in the devonian period about 375 million years ago where we saw a tiktaalik reaching to land then go 365 mya where we saw a hynerpeton, we then skipped to the carboniferous period, 312 where we saw the first reptile which is hylonomus and the first ever synapsid called archaeothyris, then to the cisuralian part of the permian about 280 million years ago where a dimetrodon is basking in the sun, skipped to the lopingian epoch of the permian period, 251.9 mya into the great dying where the last individual of the inostrancevia alexabdri species literally died (yep, thats ino's real counterpart, don't get confused.) fast forward into the jurassic period, the golden age of the dinosaurs and also the time period where the first mammals ever appeared, a young morganucodon was chased by a large predator, fast forward to 66 million years to the end of the cretaceous. the K-T extinction happend, hitting mexico causing sudden shaking and smoke comming out blocking sunlight so plants can't even perform photosynthesis. a few months later, a few mammals, birds and other animals survived and thrived again which is the same for few surviving plants, fast forward to the miocene (ok yes, this is an epoch but i always see cenozoic epochs as....time periods yeah yeah, time periods, moving on) and ok theres a quinkana encountered a obdurodon(yeah, heard of durodon? but obdurodon is not a cetacean, it's literally a monotreme! a giant platypus to be exact) and we finally entered onto the holocene, the eopch that still continuing today, a group of crocodile are attacking a migrating herd of zebras and yeah... idk anymore and we finally entered onto the paleo isles universe, let's see what's ino doing now"

Inostrancevia:i'm getting tired of swimming i need to rest- wait.... this must be the place...*reaches ashore*

"inostrancevia then wondered again if this is really the most "peaceful" place on this planet. it's full of ice & snow with a bunch of dead trees and a few discovered footsteps that could be from a large theropod, a few bone fragments and the feeling of deep loneliness giving extreme anxiety..."

Inostrancevia:this place is freezing cold, how will creatures survive here......???

"suddenly, a tarbosaurus came"

Tarbosaurus: *growls* i just wanna sleep and h- what the heck.....???? is that a synapsid? who are you anyways?

Inostrancevia:i'm ino and i would like to use this a refuge from the "stuff" yeah, the "stuff"

Tarbosaurus:what stuff are you talking about?

Inostrancevia:you'll will not expect this "stuff" going on, you'll be suprised...

"and yep, there are some creatures who don't even know about the archosaur vs synapsid chaos, tarbosaurus is one example and that js good! because if they know, more chaos will happen..."

To Be Continued...

@Cooner21

@SpinozillaAegypticussucks

@Ankysareawesome

@Mediterranean Mapper

@DinoDude112

(before we begin please look into Lophorex tyrannops before going onto this one)

Oxyrhamphus tyrannus "Sharp Beaked Tyrant"

Length: 45 feet long

Height: 12.67 feet tall

Weight: 9.5 tons

Description: Although Laurasia has it's Lophorex tyrannops but on Gondwana they have Oxyrhamphus tyrannus and it is also known as the "Gondwanan Lophorex" due to it being an apex predator in Gondwana just like how Lophorex is in Laurasia. Other than that nothing too different other than it looks like a vintage depiction of dinosaur and they live in Tanzania, and Brazil from 68-66 MYA.

(can you guess what this creature is reference to hint: It's a kids film from 1988 and the winner gets to create their own creature for the project but be sure to mention me which is @Rudi10002 and I will give you a shoutout)