Element stones

The "**Element Stones**" (unofficial, descriptive name; in dialogue, they are variably called the **Stone Tablets** or just **Stones**) are a set of seven stones that when placed together form a circle (six on the border, one in the center). The six border stones represent the six main Dinosaur Elements, with the Center Stone not representing an obvious Element (instead featuring the Signs of the arcade game). They contain the minds and emotions of all the dinosaurs that collected in them after the meteor impact 65 million years ago, as well as enormous amounts of energy, and can be used to activate Dinosaur Cards of their corresponding Element (all 6 border stones can be used to summon Secret Dinosaurs)

## main attributes

### Fire

Fire Dinosaurs are strongest against Wind Dinosaurs (Wind spreads Fire), but weakest against Water Dinosaurs (Water puts out Fire). Their Move Cards involve attacks with fire. This element focuses more on power as they have more high-powered dinosaurs, and consists of tyrannosaurids, carcharodontosaurids, and the "biggest and meanest" of most other theropod groups (abelisaurids, metriacanthosaurids, allosaurids, megalosaurids).
A website Dino Holder game featured Therizinosaurus as a Fire Dinosaur, implying that this is the original Element of Therizinosauridae (possibly because their bulky build prevents them from executing many Wind Moves convincingly)

### Water

Water Dinosaurs are strongest against Fire Dinosaurs (Water puts out Fire), but weakest against Lightning Dinosaurs (Water conducts electricity, like Lightning). Their Move Cards involve attacks with water. This element consists of all types of sauropods (cetiosaurids, diplodocoids, and titanosaurians) (once thought to be aquatic) and the spinosaurid theropods (scientifically proven to be partially aquatic), but two of their Moves summon ichthyosaurs and a plesiosaur (both marine reptiles).

### Lightning

Lightning Dinosaurs are strongest against Water Dinosaurs (Water conducts electricity, like Lightning), but weakest against Earth Dinosaurs (Earth blocks Lightning). Their Move Cards involve attacks with electricity. This element consists of the ceratopsians (horned dinosaurs), mostly the ceratopsids. Their electrical weapons usually resemble human tools, such as anchors and spears.
A website Dino Holder game featured Pachycephalosaurus as a Lightning Dinosaur, implying all of Marginocephalia (ceratopsians and Pachycephalosauria) have the Element.

### Earth

Earth Dinosaurs are strongest against Lightning Dinosaurs (Earth blocks Lightning), but are weakest against Grass Dinosaurs (Grass grows on Earth). Their Move Cards often involve attacking with rocks or glowing purple crystals. This element consists of the thyreophorans (armored dinosaurs) like the stegosaurians and ankylosaurians (nodosaurids, polacanths, and ankylosaurids).
As a nodosaurid, the Pawpawsaurus would have been an Earth Dinosaur before being turned into a Secret Dinosaur.

### Grass

Grass Dinosaurs are strongest against Earth Dinosaurs (Grass grows on Earth), but weakest against Wind Dinosaurs (Wind blows Grass off the ground). Their Move Cards involve either attacks with plant life or using other dinosaurs to boost their own power or attack for them. This element consists of hadrosaurids (duck-billed dinosaurs), earlier iguanodontids, and their other ornithopod relatives, but many of their Move Cards summon a diverse variety of dinosaurs, like giant sauropods, even including pterosaurs and a plesiosaur (which aren't dinosaurs).

### Wind

Wind Dinosaurs are strongest against Grass Dinosaurs (Wind blows Grass off the ground), but weakest against Fire Dinosaurs (Wind spreads Fire). Their Move Cards involve attacks with wind and/or emphasize attacking quickly and repeatedly without letting the opponent recuperate from the previous attack before the next one hits. This element consists of small- to medium-sized theropods of almost all families, including many that also have Fire Dinosaur members (ceratosaurids, megalosaurids, coelophysoids, dilophosaurids, abelisaurids, allosaurids, metriacanthosaurids, neovenatorids, ornithomimids, troodontids, and dromaeosaurids).
Several Secret Dinosaurs were or likely were originally Wind Dinosaurs based on their size and arcade introduction animation (Deinonychus, Eoraptor, and Cryolophosaurus).
## special attributes

### Secret

Secret Dinosaurs are very powerful and have no elemental weaknesses. In the anime, they glow with a blinding rainbow aura and are all artificially strengthened or specially trained individuals. All Secret Dinosaurs (except Eoraptor) each have 3 of their own unique Secret Moves, and all of these attacks (except Pawpawsaurus') involve a glowing rainbow aura in some way (though not all feature in the anime). There are very few Secret Dinosaurs, and members can come from any dinosaur family, though most are theropods. Some Secret Dinosaurs wouldn't fit comfortably in any of the six main elements using their present definitions, though for others, their otherwise "native element" is more obvious.

### Normal

Normal Move Cards can be used by any dinosaur, and usually feature simple physical combat or other non-elemental powers. Unlike other Attributes, Normal is the lack of an Attribute rather than being a distinct type of power, the anime showing an empty Element space on the cards
There are no playable dinosaurs from this Attribute. "Normal Dinosaurs" only appear in certain Normal Move Cards and either assist your dinosaur in battle or battle for them for the turn the Move activates. They can be from any dinosaur or pterosaur family. A yellow exclamation mark on a purple square is used as their element symbol, although the same symbol is used to identify most Normal Moves, even those that don't involve these dinosaurs. Velociraptor initially lacked an element, so it may have been the only known Normal Element non-Move Card Dinosaur.