What if...? Rococo Dinosaurs

The first dinosaur fossil formally identified and named was Megalosaurus, described by English naturalist William Buckland in 1824. While a bone fragment was illustrated earlier in 1677 by Robert Plot, it was not recognized as belonging to a dinosaur at the time. Megalosaurus's discovery sparked further interest in prehistoric reptiles and led to the recognition of other similar fossils, like Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus. Eventually, Richard Owen coined the term "Dinosauria" in 1842 to group these reptiles together. Thought Experiment Let us suppose for a moment that Robert Plot did figure out, back in 1677 already, that he was in fact examining a dinosaur bone. What would have been the implications from an art history point of view? By 1824 Rococo had long come and gone, but in 1677 we're looking at another 30 years of Baroque before entering the Rococo period after the death of Louis XIV in 1715. I have modeled a handful of appliqués that may have made it into Rococo sa