Yes it’s a fantasy game, but even in fantasy just how likely do you think allosauri are? Could some relic population of Dino’s exist even in our world? Possibly in the depths of the Congo but the odds are slim to zip. In any world with metal working humans Dino populations should be fringe not mainstream. That is in a world like the FRs Dino’s in Chult make a sense, Dino’s in the High Forest or Cormanthor do not. For the vast majority of humans Dino’s wouldn’t even be something they heard of or they would be so misunderstood they would generate legends like the real world legends of giant snakes, lizards and crocs that created our myths of dragons. A tabaxi Druid/ranger from Chult summoning an allosaurus instead of a giant elk I can accept, a high forest elf Druid doing the same I can not. It may be a completely different world but pretty much the same concerns - the majority of the game world is probably reasonably close to what our modern world would have been like any when from 13k CBE to 1600ce with islands of strange simply so we can work with it with our western historical/environmental social knowledge as players.
How likely allosauri are is entirely setting-dependent, which is essentially the point I was making in my previous comment. One can't just make a blanket statement that dinosaurs are rare. Forgotten Realms doesn't have dinosaurs everywhere but does have places where dinosaurs are prevalent (namely Chult, as you mentioned), and the same goes for Eberron (namely the Talenta Plains). Some settings have no dinosaurs whatsoever. Some settings have dinosaurs all over the place. It just depends on the world.
It would be completely fair to say that dinosaurs are rare in the Forgotten Realms or in some other setting, or that giant elks (or their equivalent) went extinct in our world, but to generalize like that without specifying a setting simply doesn't work.
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How likely allosauri are is entirely setting-dependent, which is essentially the point I was making in my previous comment. One can't just make a blanket statement that dinosaurs are rare. Forgotten Realms doesn't have dinosaurs everywhere but does have places where dinosaurs are prevalent (namely Chult, as you mentioned), and the same goes for Eberron (namely the Talenta Plains). Some settings have no dinosaurs whatsoever. Some settings have dinosaurs all over the place. It just depends on the world.
It would be completely fair to say that dinosaurs are rare in the Forgotten Realms or in some other setting, or that giant elks (or their equivalent) went extinct in our world, but to generalize like that without specifying a setting simply doesn't work.