Shame thee aren't a lot of people who might meet the definition of paleontology nerd who are active on the site. Honestly, the esotericness makes them better but… yeah most of this stuff is unfortunately going to go over the average person's head. Still, I'll contribute. Black cards all seem fine and pretty devoid of the esotericty though, and I think that is probably for the best.
Some I've not heard of personally, but I think that is sort of part of the fun, is that a lot of them have a story behind them.
- Flippered Compsognathus
- Swan necked Plesiosaurs
- A twenty five meter long Liopleurodon
- An Ornithocheirus with a twelve meter wingspan
- Big Al
- Sue the T. rex
- Mammals eating all of the dinosaur eggs
- BANDits
- Freaky Giraffoid Barosaurus
- Snorkeling Parasaurolophus
- Tyrannosaurs in F-14s!!
- Frog DNA
- A trunked sauropod
- Another Tyrannosaurs vs Spinosaurus question
- Piltdown Man
- Diplocaulus' skull hydrofoils
- Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian
- A frilled Dilophosaurus outside of the Jurassic Park franchise
- A snake threaded through the shell of a turtle
- Hoatzin claws
- A Protoceratops skull misidentified as that of a griffin
- Stegosaurus' second brain
- Ornithoscelida
- Angry pineapple Ankylosaurus
- One sick Triceratops
- Predator X
- Nigel Marvin's latest adventure with CGI prehistoric life
- Dougal Dixon
- Luis V. Rey's color choices
- Robert Bakker
- Mary Anning's contributions to paleontology
- The La Brea Tar Pits
- An ammonite with soft body preservation
- Quill knobs
- Deinocheirus hands
- A cannibalistic Coelophysis
- An army of Lystrosaurus
- Chinasaurs
- A bat winged Pterodactyl
- Eyewitness Dinosaur VHS
- Ultimasaurus
- A Pteranodon with teeth
- The Oceans of Kansas
- A Hallucigenia walking with it's spines
- A Plesiosaur with it's head mounted on the tail
- An Apatosaurus with a Camarasaurus skull
- A Brontosaurus burger
- Walk the Dinosaur
- Dracorex hogwartsia
- Generic dinosaur documentaries
- Dippy the Diplodocus
- A six foot Turkey
- An adult Mussaurus
- Oil from dead dinosaurs
- A silhouetted person for scale
- Extreme shrinkwrapping
- Ornitholestes grabbing an Archaeopteryx
- Irritator's Skull
- An undisclosed fossil bed in Morocco
- An Iguanodon giving a thumbs up
- Disney's Dinosaur
- A puffin colored Dimorphodon
- Quadrupedal Spinosaurs
- Woolly Mammoth steaks
- Pterosaurs that are too big to fly
- ReptileEvolution.net
- The postcranial skeleton of Andrewsarchus
- Taxonomic waste bin
- Cavemen and Dinosaurs living side by side
- A layer of Iridium around the Earth
- Misleading news headlines about scientific discoveries
- The US Broadcast version of Walking with Dinosaurs narrated by Avery Brooks
Some ideas for black cards (much shorter sorry):
- __is now believed to be the ultimate cause of the Permian extinction
- A new fossil shows __ and __ in a fight over __
- Paleoart by __ depicts __ covered in __
- __ is still more scientifically accurate than __
- __ was once classified as a type of __ by __
- __ preserved in Lagerstätte revealed the presence of __
- Did you know,__ was named for it's distinctive __
- Without __ , __ might never have existed
- __ proposed that __ was the primary prey of ___
- Every bad dinosaur book has __ and __
- The Chicago Field Museum is famous for displaying __
- __ was tragically destroyed during Second World War.
- __ was discovered China, being sold alongside __ as dragon bones
- __ was just sitting on a museum shelf, mixed in with __ collection
- To think, without __ we might never know about __!
- Before heavy scrutinization __ and __ were both listed as a species of Iguanodon
- Some scientists considered __ to have been partially bipedal.
- The first time__ was put on display, it had parts of __ mixed in.