Talk:Sharptooth

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Contents 1 Carnotaurus? 2 Allosaurus in Saurus Rock? 3 Deleted the Predator List 4 Sharptooth as generic term in first movie

[edit] Carnotaurus?

Umm... no? I'm pretty damn sure the villain Sharptooth in the fifth movie was *not* a Carnotaurus- it didn't even remotely resemble one. Too big, arms too long, not enough fingers etc. Looks more like an Allosaurus to me. Allosaurus Maximus was almost as big as a T-Rex, so it's feasable.

I'd list the one in The Secret of Saurus Rock as something else. Giganotosaurus, maybe? It had three fingers, but it looked different from the "Allosaurus" in Saurus Rock.

[edit] Allosaurus in Saurus Rock?

That "Allosaurus" looked more like a tyrannosaurid to me (two-fingered hands). Perhaps it is a Tarbosaurus (er, Tyrannosaurus bataar) instead? The antagonistic dinosaur in Mysterious Island looked much more like an Allosaurus to me.

I think it's likely that *both* were meant to be Allosauruses, and that it was more a mistake on part of the animators. The Land Before Time is a series for children, after all- it's most likely that they picked well known, easily recognisable species- open up any kids dinosaur book and T-Rex and Allosaurus are practically guaranteed to be there. Maybe list one as "Allosaurus Maximus" and another as "Allosaurus Fragilis" if we want to be nitpicky. Same genus, but different species, thus explaining why they look different.

Hrm. Though that might come across as "Original Research". Maybe we should omit the predator list entirely? The animators don't really seem to care or keep track.

Or maybe we could joke around and just call 'em all "Megalosaurus". Paleontologists used to arbitrarily list theropods they were unable to identify as Megalosaurus. XD

[edit] Deleted the Predator List

All it seems to amount to is editing wars and quarreling, and it's dangerously close to being original research anyway since there's no real way to conclusively determine what they actually *are*. I suggested previously that we omit that diagram... and I've chosen to do so and instead focus on theropod characters. I think that's more important overall then making a theropod list.

[edit] Sharptooth as generic term in first movie

From the prologue to the first film: "Sharpteeth stalked the herds, waiting to seize any who strayed." I'm not confident of the exact wording, but I know for sure that "Sharpteeth" was used as a term for predators in general. Well, I suppose it could have specifically meant Tyrannosaurs, but the point is that it didn't exclusively refer to Sharptooth the character as the article implies. --Andrusi 17:29, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

I poked my DVD and that is indeed true, though the characters in the film referred to Sharptooth as an indevidual- otherwise Cera saying she saw Sharptooth wouldn't be as big a deal, it could simply have been a different one. (Though Sharptooth's blind eye helps confirm it's the same one throughout the entire film.)K00bine 21:23, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

It could be that Sharpteeth are rarely seen enough that it's reasonable to assume there's only one nearby enough to be worth mentioning. But that's speculation. --Andrusi 23:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)