Hatchling Dakotaraptor witnessing a Tyrannosaurus chasing an adult Dakotaraptor
"Some low areas of the floodplain are home to towering forests dominated by monstrous dawn redwoods (Metasequoia), their great trunks forming a maze for the animals below. In their shadow, early flowering plants grow as shrubby understory trees. This provides shelter and food for the small animals of the local ecosytem, while larger trees provided sustenance to passing migratory megafauna. A groundcover of ferns and herbal angiosperms feed an abundant community of pachycephalosaurs and thescelosaurs, which are in turn haunted by predatory dromaeosaurids."
― Saurian encylopedia
Soil texture for the redwood forest biome.
The Redwood forest is one of the most iconic biomes in the game, mainly due to the fact that it's the most visually emblematic and most common biome in the game. AI Dakotaraptor are actually very easily found here in all life stages. Due to the large redwood sequoia trees, the space is somewhat narrow for large Triceratops, Anatosaurus and Tyrannosaurus to live, but they are not rare there. The forest is home for small carnivores, like Acheroraptor, Didelphodon, Pectinodon and Palaeosaniwa, and small to medium-sized herbivores and omnivores, like Pachycephalosaurus, ornithomimids, Denversaurus, Chamops, Basilemys and Thescelosaurus. Ankylosaurus can be found here with less frequency, but are found in the edges of the map. As for plant life, the biome is filled by redwood trees, like Sequoia and Metasequoia, which form the most formidable and emblematic flora of the area. Occasional cypress trees, like Glyptostrobus and Taxodium may be found, but they are more associated to the swamp areas. Undergrowths composed of ferns are common, from the abundant blechnacean and osmundacean ferns to the more primitive and more swamp associated Equisetum. Angiosperms like the Marmarthia, cannabaceans and Symplocarpus can be found, as well as the Zingiberopsis, though these grow closer to the swamps.
Chris Lomaka's render of the redwood forest biome.