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Deinocheirus.

Apparently, Spinosaurus cannot swim because "it consumes too much energy", but Tyrannosaurus and other theropods could swim just fine.

It was biped after all?

Just a walking contradiction of a dinosaur.

-Somehow is marginally lighter than other big dinos even though it is ridiculously anorectic compared to them and had comically short limbs.

-Apparently, it walked on all fours even though his hands were not able to support knuckle-walking.

-Its feet were too soft to run or even walk, so it had to spend all its time in water.

-Its tail was also too stiff to move around like a crocodile, so it just walked like a hippo. Even though it was hunting in aquatic environment large enough to support multi-ton fish.

-It had bone-crushing jaws even though its head is always depicted as with no muscles and nanometer-thick skin.

-It had ridiculously oversized sail even though it couldn't swim and all the other dinosaurs would be hot-blooded anyway due to energy they burn while walking or their feathers.

-It could somehow kill Carcharodontosaurus even though the latter was an experienced lethal hunter who brutally massacred sauropods while Spinosaurus was a barely-functioning wimp with nothing but ridiculously weak bite and claws that couldn't even reach its enemy.

Ironically, I found its 2000s to early 2010s depictions make most sense. It's a big dinosaur, so it obviously would evolve big legs to support itself on land and not chicken stubs with gorilla walking on sickle-shaped claws. It had to get close to its prey, so it didn't swim as much as it stood in the middle of the river, waiting for fish to get near it. Its sail was small and practically shaped, since it had to move a lot.

1. Keraterpeton

2. Acerosodontosaurus

3. Lungmenshanapis

4. Belantsea

5. Infernodrakon

6. Desmostylus

7. Deinotherium

8. Amebelodon

9. Macroeuphractus

That thing can pin down multi-ton herbivores to the ground after all.

Yeah, but birdie hit them in the nape with his beak until they died, which it obviously won't be able to do once Smilodon pins him to the ground and bites his throat out.

Marginal weight advantage means nothing for Titanis when cats are adapted to taking down prey several times their size.

Monsters Resurrected.

Smilodon would just lunge at that oversized chicken and tear its head off.

Boring answer: 10/10 for all of them. I'm not a neanderthal hunter with a lifetime of hunting, making spears, skinning living things, preserving meat in snow, capable of making boats and all that. Any of prehistoric fauna would give me a heart attack, but I'd die of intolerable oxygen concentration before I could see any of them. Food poisoning is guaranteed, and during the first two, there is NO food.

Cambrian: 10000000/10

No oxygen first and foremost, no food since everything is made of cytoplasm, the land is completely barren and has no wood to make boats out (not that I know how to make one). Death here is just as certain as death on Mars.

Ordovician: 1000/10

The carbon dioxide concentration is too high for a human to be able to live here, land is barren and without wood, sea level is too vast for anyone to swim here, animals are likely indigestible and too small to sustain humans, and there were likely some natural disasters too.

Silurian: 6/10

Apparently, Silurian had 14-28% oxygen atmosphere, which 21 percent of human-breathable oxygen concentration is within, leaving some narrow chance of not choking to death. Wikipedia says its climate was stable and warm, and the fauna here is not full of giant predators.

Devonian: 9.5/10

Again with the deadly atmosphere, marine fauna starts being actually dangerous, although the appearance of trees is nice and there is no actual land predators to worry about.

Carboniferous: 10/10 (5/10 without toxic atmosphere)

Ignoring 30% oxygen concentration, big anthropoids and frogs seem like a pure nightmare fuel but beyond that, human is at massive advantage since he is a warm-blooded creature that can attack cold-blooded animals early in the morning, not to mention that viruses would not be adapted to warm-blooded creatures.

Permian: 12/10

The atmosphere stays toxic, and the entire world is a blistering-hot desert (which get super cold at night) full of big carnivorous crocodile/komodo dragon-like reptiles. Ironically more likely to survive than in Cambrian, but still.

Perhaps. But the lightning in this film is so bad that it makes him look like a generic gray dino.

Dominion Giganotosaurus just looks so wrong in every way. He is grey because god forbid dinos have just a bit of color, he looks like Indominus rex in terms of face, he has Acrocanthosaurus' spine, and the fact that his final battle is just some silhouettes doesn't help him at all.

Those with beaks certainly didn't.

Bright, akin to tree frogs. Most of modern herbivores don't see colors anyway, and the pattern would help them blend into the environment. Even color-seeing species like humans don't see tiger sneaking up on them most of the time.

Hadrosaurids must have had other defences besides nigerundayo.

The only documentary that had balls to turn Spinosaurus into Godzilla 1998.