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14. Jun 2014. 2:00 pm (Save to cal) Tunnel Theatre, Perth Museum
Meet the Perth Museum’s Palaeontologist Mikael Siversson as he presents a time in our planet’s history when giant dinosaurs walked the Earth.
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I’ve often thought that the film “Jurassic park” ought to have been “Cretaceous park” as most of the important dinosaurs in the film: Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus, Gallimimus etc. are from the Cretaceous not the Jurassic. Most of these are even from the Maastrichtian period, the very last part of the Cretaceous just before the dinosaurs were all killed off. So even “Maastrichtian park” would have made more sense.
mollwollfumble said:
I’ve often thought that the film “Jurassic park” ought to have been “Cretaceous park” as most of the important dinosaurs in the film: Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus, Gallimimus etc. are from the Cretaceous not the Jurassic. Most of these are even from the Maastrichtian period, the very last part of the Cretaceous just before the dinosaurs were all killed off. So even “Maastrichtian park” would have made more sense.
The film was named after the book. The character played by Richard Attenborough would have been the person who named it. I guess this was one of the many things he didn’t get quite right.
Speedy said:
mollwollfumble said:
I’ve often thought that the film “Jurassic park” ought to have been “Cretaceous park” as most of the important dinosaurs in the film: Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus, Gallimimus etc. are from the Cretaceous not the Jurassic. Most of these are even from the Maastrichtian period, the very last part of the Cretaceous just before the dinosaurs were all killed off. So even “Maastrichtian park” would have made more sense.
The film was named after the book. The character played by Richard Attenborough would have been the person who named it. I guess this was one of the many things he didn’t get quite right.
You know, the thing is for me I’‘d never been that familiar with the term Jurassic before the film. I knew of it vaguely, but nothing as specific as which species of dinosaur was common in that era. Cretaceous Park would have worked just as well for me.