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Chindesaurus (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ n d ɪ ˈ s ɔːr ə s / CHIN-diss-OR-əs) is an extinct genus of basal saurischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic (213-210 million years ago) of the southwestern United States. It is known from a single species, C. bryansmalli, based on a partial skeleton recovered from Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. The ...
Anserimimus (/ ˌ æ n s ər ɪ ˈ m aɪ m ə s / AN-sər-im-EYE-məs; "goose mimic") is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It was a lanky, fast-running animal, possibly an omnivore. From what fossils are known, it probably closely resembled other ornithomimids, except for its ...
Dreadnoughtus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur containing a single species, Dreadnoughtus schrani. D. schrani is known from two partial skeletons discovered in Upper Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian; approximately 76–70 Ma) rocks of the Cerro Fortaleza Formation in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It is one of the largest ...
Maiasaura (from the Greek μαῖα, meaning "midwife" and σαύρα, the feminine form of saurus, meaning "reptile") is a large herbivorous saurolophine hadrosaurid ("duck-billed") dinosaur genus that lived in the area currently covered by the state of Montana and the Canadian province of Alberta.
Size of a few specimens compared to a human. Mapusaurus was a large theropod, but slightly smaller in size than its close relative Giganotosaurus, with the largest specimen measuring around 10.2–12.2 metres (33–40 ft) long and weighing up to 3–6 metric tons (3.3–6.6 short tons).
Ceratosaurus / ˌ s ɛr ə t oʊ ˈ s ɔːr ə s / (from Greek κέρας/κέρατος keras/keratos 'horn' and σαῦρος sauros 'lizard') was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian ages).
Dryptosaurus (/ ˌ d r ɪ p t oʊ ˈ s ɔːr ə s / DRIP-toh-SOR-əs) is a genus of eutyrannosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived on the island continent of Appalachia approximately 67-66 million years ago during the end of the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period.
Proceratosaurus was a small dinosaur, estimated to measure around 3 m (9.8 ft) in length. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its name refers to how it was originally thought to be an ancestor of Ceratosaurus , due to the partially preserved portion of the crest of Proceratosaurus superficially resembling the small crest of Ceratosaurus . [ 4 ]