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Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs and constitute the only known living dinosaurs. This list of dinosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been considered to be non-avialan dinosaurs, but also includes some dinosaurs of disputed status as non-avian, as well as purely vernacular terms.
Known from over a thousand specimens, making it one of the most well-known early dinosaurs. Some referred species may belong to their own genera Coelurus: 1879 Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian) United States ( Wyoming) Potentially an early member of the tyrannosauroid lineage [24] Colepiocephale: 2003
An adult bee hummingbird, the smallest known dinosaur. The smallest dinosaur known is the bee hummingbird, [158] with a length of only 5 centimeters (2.0 in) and mass of around 1.8 g (0.063 oz). [159] The smallest known non-avialan dinosaurs were about the size of pigeons and were those theropods most closely related to birds. [160]
The earliest-known dinosaur fossils date to roughly 230 million years ago, including Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus from Argentina, Saturnalia from southern Brazil and Mbiresaurus from Zimbabwe. While ...
Four of these paths contained tracks from colossal, long-necked, four-legged herbivorous dinosaurs of the subgroup known as sauropods — most likely Cetiosaurus, which reached up to 18 meters (59 ...
Call it shovel and pail-eontology. Three North Dakota boys made the extraordinary discovery of a highly rare Tyrannosaurus rex fossil that could change what we know about dinosaurs.
List of Asian dinosaurs; List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs; List of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of New Zealand; List of European dinosaurs; List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs; List of North American dinosaurs. List of Appalachian dinosaurs; List of archosaurs of the Chinle Formation; List of dinosaurs of the Morrison ...
Dinosaur classification began in 1842 when Sir Richard Owen placed Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, and Hylaeosaurus in "a distinct tribe or suborder of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria." [1] In 1887 and 1888 Harry Seeley divided dinosaurs into the two orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, based on their hip structure. [2]