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Birds were therefore the only dinosaur lineage to survive the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event approximately 66 million years ago. Dinosaurs can be divided into avian dinosaurs (birds) and non-avian dinosaurs, which are all dinosaurs other than birds. Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs and constitute the only known living dinosaurs.
The generic name, Ahvaytum (Shoshoni pronunciation: [ɑβɑjttum]), means "long ago", referring to the specimen's old age. The specific name, bahndooiveche (Shoshoni pronunciation: [pɑnduiβitʃi̥]), literally translates to "water's young man", and is the term used to refer to both dinosaurs and the colorful native salamanders.
Yi is a genus of scansoriopterygid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China.Its only species, Yi qi (Mandarin pronunciation: [î tɕʰǐ]; from Chinese: 翼; pinyin: yì; lit. 'wing' and 奇; qí; 'strange'), is known from a single fossil specimen of an adult individual found in Middle or Late Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of Hebei, China, approximately 159 million years ago.
According to Lu et al. (2007), Y. youngi can be distinguished from Y. huangi based on the following characteristics: [1] the sixth cervical vertebra is the longest among the vertebral column; the neural spines of the posterior cervical vertebrae are short with an expanded distal end, which is wider than its anteroposterior length
This list of informally named dinosaurs is a listing of dinosaurs (excluding Aves; birds and their extinct relatives) that have never been given formally published scientific names. This list only includes names that were not properly published (" unavailable names ") and have not since been published under a valid name (see list of dinosaur ...
The generic name is derived from Yandu, the ancient name for Zigong. This name is a contraction of yan, "salt", and du, "capital", occasioned by the fact that Zigong was historically the centre of Chinese salt mining. In this way Yandusaurus indirectly also refers to the Salt Museum. The specific name refers to the Honghe river. [1]
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This list of nicknamed dinosaur fossils is a list of fossil non-avian dinosaur specimens given informal names or nicknames, in addition to their institutional catalogue numbers. It excludes informal appellations that are purely descriptive (e.g., "the Fighting Dinosaurs", "the Trachodon Mummy").