Short answer: Move along to fish, birds and mammals
Already, the series has done the inexplicable-- they have run out of dinosaurs. With dozens of famous species to use, they already had to start making up "new" ones. They have already moved on to insects.
After six movies, the dinosaur idea may have run its course anyway. They might do an at-sea movie with water-dwelling dinos. But what are those next to ocean liners, ocean-going barges, or modern battleships and subs? We used to kill whales from mere sailing ships.
The next steps in evolution are still available, though.
There are several species of giant, flightless birds that are taller than people. What if someone got the idea to clone them, for their meat, eggs, feathers, and even bones. "If a chicken can feed 3-4 people and one ostrich egg can feed 8 people, why not raise giant birds and feed whole communities? And if they are flightless, they will not be able to spread and take over, the way the flying locusts did."
Unfortunately, many such birds are predatory, and none are domesticated. So we have at least one movie in which the world is threatened by giant, flightless, formerly extinct birds.
And then a zoo gets the idea of resurrecting extinct mammals. If they can "zoo" an elephant and a tiger, why not a mammoth and a saber-tooth cat? How much harder can it be? Care would have to be taken, however, to not confuse the film with the Ice Age movies, so as not to have children prepare for watching one of those, but seeing a very realistic saber-tooth cat.
And in the last one, early forms of human are being resurrected through cloning as a medical measure by a doctor fearing the endless cycle of pandemics, and wanting to make the human immune system more "more robust."
In short, the series that made us believe that dinos could be real now must make them extinct again.
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