Mesozoic Mind

Hello, to start off July at Mesozoic Mind, here's an idea I had in my head for a bit but never got around to writing - until now. Troodont Imagine this game... but with a different kind of parave. The game would be set in the Late Cretaceous and you play as a troodont* living in Campanian North America**. You use the maniraptor's famously big brain and wits to live - but also cause trouble for the heck of it. Just a few of what you can do in the game include: Cause stampedes of hadrosaurs or ceratopsids. Trap predators after you ( Daspletosaurus and Gorgosaurus , raptors, azhdarchids, and crocodilians) in humiliating spots and escape. Catching prey. And of course, just loudly pestering other dinosaurs and smaller creatures for fun. The tone would be inspired by Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote and other "Chase" cartoons, as well as  Dinosaur Planet and Dinosaur Revolution and their comical quasi-anthropomorphic presentation. The artstyle would be cartoony and cel-shade...

While humans have been digging up fossils of prehistoric life (not just dinosaurs alone) and interpreting them for literally thousands of years and interpreting them, it's only been relatively recently in the 1800's onwards that human societies have understood them for what they are, and have created works centred on them, known as Palaeo-Media, from art of them, to literature, to film and television, to video games. In the last 20 years it could be argued there have been more of them made then in the last 100 years combined. It is here I propose a list of the periods of palaeo-media has seen so far and how each of them relates to the social values and events of their era. Worth noting is that the stratigraphy presented here isn't understood in the way clearly (more or less) defined layers of rocks or periods of time are, but rather as boxes within one another a la cladistic charts (hence the lack of specific dates), and previous periods can still last decades if not centur...