DinosaursSurveys the world of prehistoric life before and after the dinosaurs and gives alphabetically arranged descriptions of dinosaur species, from Acanthopholis to Zephyrosaurus. |
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... , slender bones of the limbs can be seen clearly . Skull of Oviraptor , excavated in 1971. The snout , facing right , is short , and the jaws are deep and toothless . Strange Claws and Teeth The he late Cretaceous is known. 47.
... , slender bones of the limbs can be seen clearly . Skull of Oviraptor , excavated in 1971. The snout , facing right , is short , and the jaws are deep and toothless . Strange Claws and Teeth The he late Cretaceous is known. 47.
Page 57
... snout was toothless , but the bony pads there grasped leaves . Parasaurolophus , one of the most striking hadrosaurs , with its tubelike head crest . One can see why many thought the crest was a snorkel . But it has no hole at the end ...
... snout was toothless , but the bony pads there grasped leaves . Parasaurolophus , one of the most striking hadrosaurs , with its tubelike head crest . One can see why many thought the crest was a snorkel . But it has no hole at the end ...
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... snout ; Pachycephalosaurus's dome rose over the back half of the skull , which also had bony spines behind and on the snout . NO BUTTS : More recent finds from Mongolia have shown that the pachycephalosaurs had extra- strong hip bones ...
... snout ; Pachycephalosaurus's dome rose over the back half of the skull , which also had bony spines behind and on the snout . NO BUTTS : More recent finds from Mongolia have shown that the pachycephalosaurs had extra- strong hip bones ...
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13 feet long Africa Alberta Allosaurus animals ankylosaurs armored dinosaurs Avimimus backbone Baryonyx beak bird bird-hipped bony plates Brachiosaurus Camarasaurus Camptosaurus ceratopsian Coelophysis complete skeleton crest Cretaceous World Deinonychus dinosaur bones diplodocid Dryosaurus duckbills early Cretaceous early dinosaurs early Jurassic earth Euoplocephalus Excavation Family fossils found in Mongolia Ghost Ranch giant hadrosaurs head herds Heterodontosaurus hind legs hip bones horns huge Hypsilophodon hypsilophodontids Iguanodon iguanodontids Infraorder jaws large meat eaters late Cretaceous late Cretaceous dinosaurs late Jurassic layer lightly built lightweight limb lived lizard Massospondylus meat-eating dinosaurs middle Jurassic million years ago Mongolia Museum named North America oldest Opisthocoelicaudia ornithischian ornithomimosaurs ornithopods ostrich dinosaur pachycephalosaurs plant eaters plant-eating dinosaurs Plateosaurus prosauropods Protoceratops Psittacosaurus pterosaurs Reconstruction reptile rocks saurischians sauropods scientists sediments showing slashing claw small dinosaur snout Solnhofen southern England species spikes spines stegosaurs Struthiomimus tail club Tarbosaurus teeth theropods thumb claw Torosaurus Triassic Triceratops turtles Tyrannosaurus vertebrae Weald