Stupendemys

To catch up on the story here is the link to the previous episode

Dinopedia Prehistoric Park Episode 6: The Jurassic Giants and The Park Opens for Tours part 2 of 2 | FandomThe link above is for the previous part of the…dinopedia.fandom.com

The park now opened to the public for tours to help raise funds for animal care and other expenses it has been slowly accumulated. The visitors are in awe of these animals and surprisingly the plateosaurus has become a park favorite among the visitors due to its size and surprisingly peaceful personality. The least liked animals are surprisingly the spinosaurus. Many of the staff wondered why such a popular species is so disliked by visitors but the main reason turned out to be the limited amount of times it is seen. Due to its amphibious nature and people look for the animal on land due to most media depictions and then the people get disappointed by what they see when they do see the spinosaurus. The staff have been planning on what should be brought back from the past next some suggestions were made from nasutoceratops to concavenator to tsintaosaurus to prognathodon to even one new staff member suggesting the impossible to contain and maintain argentinosaurus. The discussion was going no where until 6 animals were brought up those animals being Gryposuchus, Purrussaurus, Barinasuchus, Stupendemys, Eionaletherium, Granastrapotherium. The team realized that they could get all 6 of these animals in the same formation and time frame allowing them to get all the animals at once. So it was decided that those would be the targets for the expedition.

But all of a sudden a call from the argentavis aviary went off throughout the park. The keeper who was last in the aviary left the door that leads to the outside unlocked and the argentavis using its beak opened the door and is now flying through the park. To make sure animals brought back from the past don't leave the park if they break out they have an invisible fence like system to deter the animals from leaving. The capture staff saw the argentavis flying overhead over 150 feet in the air before they saw it start to circle over the allosaurus jimmadseni enclosure. By the time the team got there the allosaurus and argentavis were starting to try to intimidate the other from the recent food given by the staff during feeding time. The allosaurus confused on why the much smaller argentavis was still trying to scare the allosaurus away from the meat item lunged at the argentavis the argentavis got its wing bitten and damaged. Surprisingly this still didn't deter the argentavis. In the argentavis' mind it thought that this animal will just give up its carcass that it was eating by a show of intimidation like it did in South America on Smilodon and phorusrhacos. But the argentavis had no idea that this animal it was bullying was used to being bullied for carcasses and that it was not going to give it up to the bird. By the time they sedated the allosaurus and argentavis were able to get the argentavis out of the enclosure the wounds on the argentavis were extensive from the allosaurus biting the argentavis. The medical staff was called to the argentavis aviary to help with taking care of the wounds caused by the allosaurus.

But the park's problems were not over yet the saurophaganax had also broken out and had gotten into the Polacanthus paddock. The Saurophaganax tried bite onto the neck of the Polacanthus. But the Saurophaganax was only met by the thorny body armor of the Polacanthus and the saurophaganax gave up after getting a few broken teeth and slashes on the jaw before retreating further into the park to look for food. The park staff found the saurophaganax resting and sedated it before bringing it to a holding pen.

Finally the park calmed down and was able to open for the day. The group decided to postpone the expedition until the next day to rest or in case they were needed while things get repaired.

The next day

The next day the park expedition team was ready to get started heading to miocene Peru. The group arrived in the miocene and was immediately met a forest. They looked around for any signs of life and found a strange set of tracks that led to a deep river with a body of a mangled corpse of a ground sloth ripped apart. After examining the dead sloth it was determined that the sloth was attacked by a huge crocodilian of what kind they were not certain. But in the forest there were a bunch of breaking branches being heard. The capture group decided to get out of there in case it was a predator coming to scavenge off the dead sloth. But to their surprise it was a herbivore instead of a predator and a unusual one at that with an appearance similar to a mixture of elephant, tapir and boar it was something that was not hard to recognize as granastrapotherium a very odd animal. But the peace was interrupted when one of the Granastrapotherium near the forest let off a warning squeal as a predator was in the forest. The expedition team saw it as a opportunity but while the team got the time portal a large thin snout emerged from the river and grabbed onto the backpack that powerlord was wearing and tried dragging him under as the group saw this they tried helping powerlord as he had the food supplies in his backpack but the animal was just to strong and dragged him into the river he used his multi tool to cut his backpack off before seeing the cause of the incident a fully grown female gryposuchus croatzi at 9 meters long it is the largest gharial to ever live and terrified powerlord who rushed out of the water. The expedition team surprised powerlord was able to make it out of the attack with nothing more than a few bruises and loss of supplies. But to their surprise they were able to get a few of the fleeing Granastrapotherium and the predator a Barinasuchus into the park. Using gates and bait they were able to separate the two species.

But without food they would have to delay the rest of the expedition until they can resupply on food so everyone returned to the present. But something followed them into the present due to the proximity to the water when the clean up crew was cleaning up the area where the animals arrive from the past they immediately called for help dealing with it as the female gryposuchus ended up following them trying to get out of the water to sunbathe to warm up. But now away from its home water source that it lived in it was very agitated. But the other staff took it as a joke as the staff member that called in the gryposuchus report was known to make fake calls about what the animals were doing. The gryposuchus hungry still and agitated about being away from a water source went looking for a decent food source. The gryposuchus ended coming across one of the rivers and brooks in the park and decided to go swimming in it. It followed the river upstream into the allosaurus jimmadseni enclosure which used the river as its source of water for the animal to drink from. The allosaurus went to get a drink from the river not noticing the gryposuchus in the water and realized too late that the gryposuchus was in the water as the gryposuchus grabbed onto the chest of the allosaurus its jaws at this point the park staff saw the gryposuchus and realized that it was really in the park and was not a prank message over the radio system. The allosaurus was able to get free from the jaws of the gryposuchus and tried fleeing only to get its tail grabbed by the gryposuchus. The staff tried using poles to make the gryposuchus to force open its jaws like they do with the phytosaur when it tries eating things it shouldn't. But the gryposuchus was biting down too hard to break its grip on the allosaurus' tail. Then Rexyisdebest and harpy eagle enthusiast had a idea if it had a bad taste in its mouth it might let go from the bad taste. Meanwhile while they were trying to get something to get the gryposuchus to let go of the allosaurus the gryposuchus kept trying to drag the allosaurus into the river to drown the dinosaur. But the allosaurus was able to resist the force until the staff were able to get the gryposuchus to let go and get it to retreat back into the river but before it was able to fully submerge it was able to get a tranquilizer dart into its tail and get a tracking tag on it attached to an empty tranquilizer dart so once it was asleep they could get it. They were able to get it as it drifted right next to the tyrannosaurus rex enclosure. They put the gryposuchus in a holding pen but scarylookinghobo noticed while it was on its back there was a lump in the area where eggs would be before being layed. He suggested that the medical team do a scan for eggs in the gryposuchus.

A week later

The saurophaganax was able to be returned to its holding pen after having some of its broken teeth pulled to prevent infection and stapled up the deep wounds on its face to heal. The expedition team finally got enough supplies to return back to miocene Peru. They packed up the remaining supplies and provisions for the trip. The team returned to miocene Peru and was met with a giant mound with a giant caiman looking animal guarding it. The team tried distracting the giant caiman and figured out what was near the mound as a chirping noise was heard from the mound and around it. The mound was a nest but something was not right with the adult. When the humans tried getting close to the giant caiman it was not moving. They then poked the giant caiman with a long pole on the snout and it did nothing. Sadly the group determined that the adult was dead. Acryallo was able to get the babies to come out of hiding by using the team's jerky supply to lure them out. The group brought the babies back to the present to be raised in the present. Surprising the staff in the park they thought that the group would bring back from the past an adult purrussaurus but they understood why they didn't especially with their other new crocodilian that seems to not be a fan of being in the park after denying her a big meal in the form of the park's allosaurus jimmadseni.

The expedition team returned to the miocene and was able to use what delayed the return to the miocene a river boat. But while they were getting it into the river the group noticed another one of those sloths which after some looking into was figured out to be Eionaletherium. It is a species of ground sloth that spends some of its time in the water. The group was able to get its attention the same way they do with the Megatherium and they were able to get it into the park.

The team set out on the river on the search for a Stupendemys but found nothing but they looked behind them and saw a sight they were not expecting river dolphins. They spent the rest of the day looking for the Stupendemys and thought that they saw one but turned out to be a tree stump. The team spent the next night sleeping in shifts in case predators tried anything learning after the close call from the Morrison Formation involving a ceratosaurus. In the morning they headed back on the water and actually found a Stupendemys but it is huge weighing at least 1000 pounds they used a net to pull it next to the boat. They were successful in bringing it back. But in the process one of the limbs of the Stupendemys hit the one of the time portal rods on the park's end.

The rod got damaged and glitched out. The portal was closed but opened up to a unknown destination and time but soon a predator walked through it and eyed the group it snarled and charged at the group very quickly. The group was able to get the turtle to safety and get a dart in the predator. But then the time portal glitched again and a set of spikes attached to a sail on neck of a small sauropod instantly recognized as amargasaurus came through before battery died.

The therapod predator was identified as australovenator.

The next episode is the season finale and it involves going back to tendaguru formation