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Ankylosaurus magniventris is an armoured dinosaur, armed with a massive tail club, probably used for defense.

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DInosaur Expedition Born Free (1976-1977)[]

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Dinosaur Movies (1980-2006)[]

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64,000,000 Years Ago (1981)[]

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Dinosaurs: Fun, Fact and Fantasy (1982)[]

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Dinosaur (special) (1985)[]

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Dinosaurcers (1987)[]

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Dino Riders (TV Series and Toys 1988-2020)[]

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The Land Before Time Franchise (1988-2016)[]

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The Land Before Time Ankylosaurus have incorrect armor designs, with spikes on the sides, which ankylosaurids are now known to have lacked due to spikes on the sides being a nodosaurid trait. Their armor osteoderms should be smoother and more variable in size. In The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire, an Ankylosaurus whacks a Deinonychus in the face with its tail club during Pterano the Pteranodon’s haunting flashback, and it is claimed in The Land Before Time series as a whole that the Ankylosaurus only use their tail clubs to fight off predatory theropods. However, a study in 2022 involving the skeleton of an injured Zuul crurivastator, a relative of the Ankylosaurus, suggests that ankylosaurid dinosaurs primarily used their tail clubs to fight each other for resources such as food, water, light and mates, and territory or to establish dominance. The Land Before Time series was, however, made many years before the theory that ankylosaurs used their tail clubs to battle each other was made, and so there is no way that the animators could make the Ankylosaurus in The Land Before Time series whack each other with their tail clubs. But despite that, the idea that ankylosaurid dinosaurs battled each other with their tail clubs would have been more important than the defense against predators, as sexual selection for mates drove the evolution of the tail club, with high variation in tail club size through time and delayed ontogenetic growth in the tail club supporting the sexual selection hypothesis.

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Ankylosaurus play very large roles throughout The Land Before Time franchise.

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NOVA: God, Darwin, and Dinosaurs (1989)[]

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Dink The little Dinosaur (1989-1990)[]

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Inaccuracies Tail was used in a way that was much more dexterous than likely possible. Role

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Dinosaur! Walter Cronkite (1991)[]

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Paleoworld (TV series 1991-1997)[]

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Dinosaurs TV Series (1991-1994)[]

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Power Rangers (franchise) (1993-2022)[]

Species Many zords that have appeared in this franchise, belong to the species of the A.magniventris.

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Kyoryu Wakusei (Dinosaur Planet) (1993-1994)[]

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Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (1993-1994)[]

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Planet of Dinosaurs (1993)[]

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Gene Diver (1994-1995)[]

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Boneheads: Detectives of the Paleoworld (1995)[]

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Planet of Life (1995)[]

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Dinosaurs: Myths and Reality (1995)[]

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Extreme Dinosaurs (1997)[]

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Trilogy of Life (1999-2003)[]


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Disney's Dinosaur (2000)[]

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Dinozaurs (2000)[]

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Dinosaur Adventure (Cartoon movie 2000)[]

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Kong: The Animated Series (2000-2001)[]

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Jurassic Franchise (2001-2022)[]

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Ankylosaurus is an old classic of this series that appeared first in Jurassic Park III. In Jurassic Park III, it had black armor with a brown/peach sort of body and red/maroon markings. In Jurassic World, it looked exactly the same as in Jurassic Park III but this time, the armor was slightly a saturated emerald with a grey body.

Inaccuracies The armor looks like a turtle shell more than fused body plates with spikes present on them when in life they were blunt. The tail also needs to be slightly stiff.

Role They appear as fillers in Jurassic Park III when a herd of them passes through the forest and in Jurassic World, they were pretty much fodder for the I. rex that ate them. In Fallen Kingdom, one was captured and auctioned off.

Dinotopia (franchise) (2002-2005)[]

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Dinosaur King (2007-2009)[]

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Dinosaur Train (2009-2020)[]

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Last Day of the Dinosaurs (2010)[]

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Dino Dan/Dana (2010-2020)[]

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You are Umasou (Films 2010-2012)[]

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Dinosaur Revolution (2011)[]

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Terra Nova (2011)[]

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Speckles the Tarbosaurus (2012)[]

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Dino Time AKA Back to the Jurassic (2012)[]

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Dino Hunt Canada (2015)[]

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Dinotrux (2015-2018)[]

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T.rex: An Evolutionary Journey (2016)[]

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Deadly Dinosaurs (2018)[]

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Dino Hunters (2020)[]

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Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (2020-2022)[]

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Gigantosaurus TV Series (Season 2 2021)[]

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Amazing Dinoworld/Dinosaur Superworld (2019-2023)[]

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (2024)[]

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