Random Palaeo-Media Work idea of the Day #4

Hello everyone. Just gonna drop this idea I've had for days, if not months.

Land of the Raptor

A three-part documentary following the life of the iconic giant dromaeosaur Utahraptor of Early Cretaceous North America 135 million years ago. We would follow the lives of two of them from the same clutch, one female and one male, respectively named Streak and Whitesnout. The story’s told from their birth to adulthood, trying to survive predators, weather, each other, and of course hunt the massive prey they live with.

• Each episode would be around 48 minutes long.
• While I haven't really fleshed the story out, and I don't have any plans on doing so, the story would end with Whitesnout, now a leader of a pack, leading it after a herd of Hippodraco into a mud pit where they will become trapped and become the infamous Utahraptor Megablock, while Streak has also formed her own pack and has hatched her own chicks as they walk away into a sunset. The final scene is in our time with an actual fossil find of Utahraptor being highlighted, perhaps the Megablock itself, or a museum mount, or even the actual newly-established Utahraptor State Park where it was originally found.
• The primary theme of the series would be the rise of the dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous, with the seeds planted in the early part, whether sauropods of the Jurassic being replaced (at least in NA) by large ornithopods and coelurosaurs like raptors and the omnivorous ornithomimids and therizinosaurs.
• This would be in 2D animation in the vein of Disney, Don Bluth, or early Dreamworks. The Dinosaurs would be fairly expressive in the vein of Spirit while still being realistic and non-cartoony, though they don't talk at all. Well, on that note…
• The series would be narrated by one of the utahraptors, specifically Streak who would be voiced by Grey Griffin [1]. This would be reflected in the narration; for instance, instead of X mya Streak says "X million years before your time", and for another note that while say while we may consider one species of dinosaur impressive… “what do we call them? Annoying pests.”
• There would be a fourth episode separate from the show's story, called Into the Land of the Raptor, which acts as a kind of Making Of explaining the science of the show and explains the history of the dinosaurs featured in the documentary. Talking heads within it would include Jim Kirkland, Lindsey Zanno, and the legendary Robert Bakker.
• And yes, this would be very much like Raptor Red, Robert Bakker's novel with a similar premise of a narrative about Utahraptor. This one would be much more accurate to the fossil evidence, however.

Fauna are all from the Yellow Cat Member of the Formation, and would include (but would not be limited to)

• Utahraptor ostrommaysi
• The nodosaur Gastonia burgei
• Hippodraco scutodens, a horse-sized ornithopod
• Giant ornithopods Iguanacolossus fortis and Cedrorestes crichtoni
• A [currently unnamed] Sailbacked iguanodont based off one 2010 study (Scheetz et al. 2010)
• Falcarius utahensis, an early therizinosaur that has taken to eating just about anything it can get its claws on and fit in its mouth, plant or animal
• Mierasaurus bobyoungi/Moabsaurus utahensis (can't decide which[2]), a giant sauropod, and the biggest creature in the Cedar Mountain
• An Allosauroidean theropod dinosaur acting as the most antagonistic to the Utahraptors. Now I admit this is the most fanciful dinosaur on the list because no creature like it has been found yet, and it's only because dinosaurs like it have been found to live before and after the 135 mya date in North America, so logically they must have been there, and hunting the big and tough herbivores like sauropods not even Utahraptor can normally take on.
• Nedcolberteria justinhofmanni, an early ornithimimosaur
• Geminiraptor suarezarum and Yurgovuchia doellingi, early raptors
• The turtle Glyptops
• Unnamed crocodilian

Do note that the Cedar Mountain Formation has different subsections, and that not every creature listed here lived along one another. Artistic License is at play, and besides, I intend all fauna seen to be as accurate as possible. I can afford a few minor anachronisms in this.

Also, credit goes to Nathannael Leong and some other Discord friends of mine for some feedback on this idea.

[1] If Whitesnout got voiced, I imagine him as being voiced by Steve Blum.

[2] Sorry, but I'm not doing Cedrosaurus. Dinosaur Revolution did them first.

Sources

• Scheetz, R. A.; Britt, B. B.; Higgerson, J. (2010). "A large, tall-spined iguanodontid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Early Albian) basal Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (Supplement 2): 158A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.10411819. S2CID 220429286.