>>26663532>Cranidos>Who knows, maybe Rock, maybe Normal, for the time. Like Tauros today. Dinosaurs dominated where Mammals do today. Normal.This is a really great fucking point and another reason why I think fossil pokemon are only stone for thematic purposes.
Look at Cranidos' move set: it's almost exclusively dominated by normal type movies, a couple dark types and only has 2 rock type moves with 1 being ancient power and the other being head smash.
I'm completely and totally stealing this. It's a good thought- it's a good idea, I love it.
Cranidos was/is normal, but their typing is superseded by rock=fossil.
In their own time they were "normal-type" because they're a normal dinosaur.