Dinosaurs are not a central topic in Jain teaching. Jain scriptures aren’t focused on modern paleontology or prehistoric animal classification the way contemporary science is; they describe wide ranges of living beings across vast cosmic cycles, but without naming dinosaurs as such.

A few simple points from a Jain perspective:

• Jain cosmology talks about vast cycles of time (Desasaaru and Avsaar) with countless beings inhabiting different realms, but it doesn’t map these to modern dinosaur species.
• The emphasis in Jainism is on spiritual progress, nonviolence (ahimsa), and ethical living, not on cataloging extinct animals.
• There are differences between Digambara and Śvetāmbara texts on various details of cosmology, but neither tradition centers on dinosaurs.

If you’d like, I can summarize how Jain time cycles (the general idea of rising and falling worlds) relate to life forms in Jain cosmology, in simple terms.