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Forgive me but what are their species?


Cera is a triceratops, Petrie a pterodactyl, Sharptooth's a T Rex, & Littlefoot is a brontosaurus. What are Ducky & Spike?

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Actually, Littlefoot is an apatosaurus and Petrie is a pteranodon. As for Ducky and Spike, they're a stegosaurus and a parasaurolophus, respectively.

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actually, spike is the stegosaurus, ducky is the parasaurolophus.

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XD I can't believe that I messed that up and didn't notice. Thank you for pointing that out.

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Well, Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus can both be used interchangeably, as two different people discovered two different remains of the same species and gave them different names. I forgot the specifics, but I remember my professor going over it and me thinking "It all makes sense now."

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Hang on, Littlefoot had his nostrils on the top of his head, I thought that signified a brachiosaurus??

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I dont know if they updated the dinosaur names or what, when I was a little girl watching this movie back in the 90s, I always thought "duckie" was a "duckbill" dinosaur?
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Well, yes, but we're arguing over species names.

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Cera's a Triceratops, Sharptooth's a T-rex, Littlefoot's an Apatosaurus (which is the same thing as a Brontosaurus,
Brontosaurus is more of an antiquated term), Petrie's a Pteranodon, Ducky's a Parasaurolophus, and Spike's a Stegosaurus.

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