Spinosaurus is a type of carnivorous dinosaur depicted in The Land Before Time series. Like other predatory theropods in the franchise, the term "Sharptooth" is used as a vernacular term to refer to this dinosaur.
Description[]
Like other giant sharpteeth, Spinosaurus are large, bipedal creatures with powerful hind limbs and relatively small, two-clawed forelimbs. They have fairly distinctive skulls, which are long and fairly thin, with visible teeth protruding from their jaws when their mouths are closed. They have bright olive green eyes. Running along the lengths of their backs, Spinosaurus have tall, jagged dorsal sails with low, blocky bumps at their bases, while their necks and tails are instead adorned with spiky osteoderms.
In the two appearances Spinosaurus has made in The Land Before Time series, it has been depicted with two different color schemes, the first being a dark blue or purple color and the the second being dull brown. Though it is not certain, this disparity is more likely than not the result of differing lighting conditions than color variation; the first instance takes place at nighttime and the other takes place in broad daylight. Regardless of what time of day it is shown in, Spinosaurus share a fairly simple color scheme, with their bodies being countershaded and their sails and osteoderms being darker than the rest of their bodies. The row of rounded bumps at the base of their sails is inconsistently colored in the two appearances, however, being black on the individual depicted in The Great Day of the Flyers and the same color as the individuals' sails in the two shown in The Hermit of Black Rock.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Established in The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers