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  2. Deinosuchus - Wikipedia

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    Deinosuchus (/ ˌ d aɪ n ə ˈ sj uː k ə s /) is an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian, related to modern alligators and caimans, that lived 82 to 73 million years ago (Ma), during the late Cretaceous period. The name translates as "terrible crocodile" and is derived from the Greek deinos (δεινός), "terrible", and soukhos ...

  3. Deinonychus - Wikipedia

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    As a result, they portrayed the film's dinosaurs with the size, proportions, and snout shape of Deinonychus. [2] The 20-foot-long (6.1 m) Utahraptor is commonly considered to be a close match to the film's dinosaurs, which are much larger than either Deinonychus or Velociraptor were in life. [82] [83]

  4. Deinonychosauria - Wikipedia

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    Deinonychosauria is a clade of paravian dinosaurs which lived from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous periods. Fossils have been found across the globe in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, and Antarctica, [2] with fossilized teeth giving credence to the possibility that they inhabited Australia as well. [3]

  5. List of Appalachian dinosaurs - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Appalachia. During the Late Cretaceous period, the Western Interior Seaway divided the continent of North America into two landmasses; one in the west named Laramidia and Appalachia in the east. Since they were separated from each other, the dinosaur faunas on each of them were ...

  6. Gorgosaurus - Wikipedia

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    Gorgosaurus (/ ˌ ɡ ɔːr ɡ ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s / GOR-gə-SOR-əs; lit. ' dreadful lizard ') is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (), between about 76.5 and 75 million years ago. [1]

  7. Baryonyx - Wikipedia

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    Baryonyx (/ ˌ b ær i ˈ ɒ n ɪ k s /) is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous period, about 130–125 million years ago.The first skeleton was discovered in 1983 in the Smokejack Clay Pit, of Surrey, England, in sediments of the Weald Clay Formation, and became the holotype specimen of Baryonyx walkeri, named by palaeontologists Alan J ...

  8. Mysterious symbols found near footprints shed light on ...

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    It’s harder to imagine what the prehistoric people could have thought of the sauropod prints, left by some of the largest herbivore dinosaurs that ever lived, and therefore unlike any animal ...

  9. Megalosaurus - Wikipedia

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    Megalosaurus (meaning "great lizard", from Greek μέγας, megas, meaning 'big', 'tall' or 'great' and σαῦρος, sauros, meaning 'lizard') is an extinct genus of large carnivorous theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic Epoch (Bathonian stage, 166 million years ago) of southern England.