Bulbasaur isn't a dinosaur, it's a dicynodont which is more close to mammals than archosaurs. Not every animal with "saur" or "saurus" in its name is a dinosaur. For example, peteinosaurus is a long tailed pterosaur and mastodonsaurus which is an amphibian akin to koolasuchus. 12.17.177.164 (talk) 18:24, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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The obvious cases where you have a character that's declared a Stegosaurus and looks like a Stegosaurus and any deviations from a real Stegosaurus are negligible.
fictional stylised dinosaurs
Best fed with an example: Yoshi. Definitely a 'saurian, but anatomically incorrect.
fictional dinosaur species
Species that can be identified as 'saurian by anatomy, but were never scientifically discovered. ("That looks a lot like...") E.g. Venatosaurus. Also any creatures mutated (either by time or influence) from a 'saurian, e.g. the original Godzilla.
fictional characters with a dinosaur form
Covers transformers, power rangers, whichever. I think this may warrant its own category, but I'm going to see just how much would remain of this category if it was split up, before I even begin to do anything of the sort.
Hopefully I'll have the time to count the weight of each 'sub-category' in this category soon. -pinkgothic 13:21, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Dooly is categorised under 'Baby-Saurus Dooly', putting it - quite inexplicably - into the 'B' section of Fictional dinosaurs. As it's a global flag being set in the article, I'm hesitant to change it. I'm going to bring it up on the article's talk page later.
Barugon is a monster with no reference to dinosaurs, but, unlike Baragon, no reference to something else, either. As such, I'm going to see if I can find sources claiming either (later).
Jiger - there are pages comparing Jiger to a horned dinosaur, and indeed, the similarity is there, but it does seem to be something else entirely. Still, I can see edit wars arise over this.
Baragon had the category re-added. It's been re-removed and a notice has been put onto the article's talk page.
King Bowser seems to be in dispute. While he is definitely a Koopa, which are called turtles, there's a paragraph in the article referring to his role in a movie, where "Dinohattan" is mentioned, along with him being some kind of mutated Tyrannosaur. So this is now being discussed there. (Talk page)
Kangaskhan had the category re-added without comment. I've removed it again and requested the placement to be discussed on the talk page.
Lizalfos look a lot like dinosaurians even under scrutiny, though the articles refer to them as man-like lizards, and even go so far as to mention Dinolfos as "dinosaur variants of Lizalfos". So, the article's wording is in favour of getting it removed, but I'm not. Hm.
Prickle (Gumby character) - the article seems unclear whether Prickle is a dragon or a dinosaur, itself. It provides references for both. Kept for now.
