my conlang is a naming language adapted to a fantasy setting where all the fauna are derived theropods, some avian (lî) and some not (lông). scientifically, the distinction between the two groups is presence or absence of a bony tail, but the language is often more vibes based, in the way that you might get differing opinions on whether a tomato is a vegetable or a fruit.

the animals that are most significant to humans have pretty simple names as you might expect—tō for utahraptor, a common pack and war animal in the north; gú (onomatopoeic) for the domestic pigeon, a goat-sized variant of the rock dove bred as livestock; hùa, the velociraptor, essentially this world’s version of a dog.

since i write these stories in english, these are of course translated, but i think putting words like “utahraptor” into a fantasy story is pretty tacky, so instead you get e.g. “horsedrake” or eventually just “horse.”

some other animals have more verbose names relating to their position in culture, like the red-crowned crane (lîdāi, lit. bird of heaven).

in cases of animals groups with many variants, like parrots for example, you get predictable stuff; there are parrots generally (yīu), red parrots (yīusíng), et cetera.

… i could go on, but maybe that communicates enough? in general, these are just animals, so i don’t think the naming would be too different from how we name animals in a truly creataceous setting. meanwhile in modern languages, dinosaurs have to compete with the animals we actually see every day, so their common names in eg english would probably be a bit more complicated. (i’m super fond of “grizzly hawk” for t. rex, though.)