If you could make a new Walking with Dinosaurs...

Nope, I´m not talking about that kids movie.

I think we all have had that idea once (or twice, or thrice) after we had seen the documentary "Walking with Dinosaurs" in 1999. A dinosaur documentary of the same format, but with different settings and other prehistoric animals we thought deserve some CGI screentime. Now I have been thinking about this scenario so many times and in so many different forms during the last, dunno, 15 years of my lifetime (with any new discovery changing the cast and sometimes even the setting), so I was wondering what animals would you, other dinosaur enthusiasts of DeviantArt, feature if you could make an updated "Walking with Dinosaurs"? First some basics:

The original WWD had one Triassic episode, two Jurassic episodes and three Cretaceous episodes, which seems like the best principle for such a show, since the Triassic has little to offer apart from "first dinosaurs" and "reptiles that suppressed the first dinosaurs" when you compare it to the diversity of animals in the Jurassic, which still pales in comparison to the many interesting evolutionary paths in the Cretaceous. Of course you don´t have to follow that guideline (you could have two episodes for each period, too). Regarding the number of featured species, the original WWD featured about 6 species per segment (with various "background species" that often just were recycled models or props), though considering the countless discoveries of the last 15 years, I think we can raise that number to a maximum of 10 species per segment, because there are some prehistoric ecosystems whose diversity you just cannot grasp when selecting just 6 species. I´ve had many ideas for WWD-like documentaries focusing on the evolution of a specific branch of animals, but consider this a documentary that is supposed to give people a good overview of the Mesozoic fauna as a whole and maybe the most important evolutionary changes during these ages instead of being biased towards a specific group of animals.

When I´m writing a journal like this, you´ll probably expect me to list my personal line-up for such a documentary, too. Of course I already had the cast in mind for a year or so, with the occasional adaptations here and there, but only now do I consider the 60 chosen species to be the final cast which I won´t alter in any further way (though of course new discoveries still have the last word). Now for the bummer: I have not drawn this line-up yet, so don´t expect to see my list too soon. I created this journal mostly to bury that old review of that WWD movie, and also because I was curious to ask you, the surprising amount of people who follow me:

If you could make an up-to-date WWD-style documentary, which six settings (age and location) would you choose and which species (up to 10 per segment) would you feature?

Feel free to come up with as far as 60 animals which represent the diversity of the Mesozoic and elaborate how the animals would be portrayed (e.g. ecological niche, interactions with other species, appearance; whatever you want). I think it could be interesting to see what are the most popular settings and how different people come up with the same ideas/ how they would portray common ideas in different ways.

Have fun.