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by throwup238 750 days ago
> Why were these ones so “famous”? Were they the earliest ones discovered? most common? Just fine examples of their type?

I think it can be mostly explained by the first Jurassic Park movie.

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Seconding other poster that all those were already famous. Like if you bought a small set of plastic dinosaurs before that movie, those would pretty much be guaranteed to be in the set, plus some sort of hadrosaur/duckbill and maybe an ankylosaurus.

Land Before Time included most of those in the “main cast” but I think it was following the trend, not setting it.

Velociraptor (well, the fake Deinonychus-like “velociraptor antirrhopus” or whatever from the book/movie) and definitely Dilophosaurus got a huge popularity boost from Jurassic Park.

Their “fame” certainly well pre-dated that movie. These were the ones I knew as a kid in the 60s and 70s, and would be featured in old stop animation movies even before my time.