Archaeopteryx
Learn why Archaeopteryx is so famous, where its fossils were found, its bird and dinosaur traits, and what it reveals about early flight.
Lambeosaurus
Learn about Lambeosaurus, a large crested duck-billed dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, including its size, skull crest, diet, and fossils.
Eucoelophysis
Eucoelophysis was a small Late Triassic dinosauriform from New Mexico. Learn its size, fossils, appearance, and classification.
Coelurus (Hollow Tail)
Coelurus was a small theropod dinosaur in the family Coeluridae. The name “Coelurus” means “hollow tail,” referring to the hollow vertebrae found in the animal’s fossil remains. The Coelurid lived during the Late Jurassic period, approximately 154 to 150 million years ago, in what is now North America. Discovery and Fossils The species Coelurus fragilis…
Brachylophosaurus
Meet Leonardo, a 77-million-year-old sub-adult Brachylophosaurus canadensis. His fossilized skeleton is covered in soft tissue–skin, scales, muscle, foot pads–and even his last meal is in his stomach. The actual tissue has fossilized, but Leonardo presents the world with its first look at a dinosaur in the flesh. “This unique discovery will completely change what we…
Dinosaur Images and Names Collection
This collection is always under construction so the listing is incomplete. It contains some of the better dinosaur images, along with names.
Notoceratops
(southern horned face)Notoceratops bonarelli (Tapia, 1918) is anomen dubium. It is known from a toothless dentary (now lost) and was classified as a late Cretaceous ( Maastrichtian ) Argentinian ceratopian or hadrosaurid. REFERENCES for NOTOCERATOPS I dinosauri dell’ Argentina. [The dinosaurs of Argentina.] [in Italian]. p.Bonaparte, J.in José F. Bonaparte, et al. (eds.), “Sulle orme dei dinosauri”. Erizzo Editrice, Venice, Italy 127-143 (1984). Una mandibula de…
Heishansaurus
(Heishan reptile; after Black Mountain, Ganshu, CHINA)Heishansaurus pachycephalus (Bohlin, 1953) is anomen dubium . It is known from badly preserved cranial and postcranial fragments found in late Cretaceous deposits in China. It was originally classified as a pachycephalosaurid, but may be an ankylosaurid. REFERENCES for HEISHANOSAURUS Fossil reptiles from Mongolia and Kansu.Bohlin, B.REPT. SCI. EXPED. NW. PROV. CHINA, Publ. 37(6);1-105 (1953).
Gojirasaurus
(Gojira or Godzilla reptile) Coelophysoidea .ERA: Late Triassic ( Norian 220.7 – 209.6 Ma ).SIZE: Length 5.5m (17 ft). Weight ? 150 – 200 Kg (330 – 440 lb), both for semi-adult.LOCATION: North America.FOSSILS: Tooth, cervical and dorsal ( anterior and posterior ) ribs, mid- dorsal centra and neural arch , chevron , gastralia , scapula , pubis , tibia , metatarsal .COMMENTS: Named after the Japanese movie monster, the type specimen is probably a semi-adult.SPECIES LIST:G. quayi Carpenter, 1997 (type). REFERENCES for GOJIRASAURUS A giant coelophysoid (Ceratosauria) theropod from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico, USA.Carpenter, K.NEUES JAHRBUCH…
Echinodon
(prickly tooth) FAMILY: Heterodontosauridae.ERA: Late Jurassic ( Tithonian 150.7 – 144.2 Ma ).SIZE: Length 0.6 m (2 ft).LOCATION: Europe.FOSSILS: Isolated skull elements of 3 individuals, scute s.COMMENTS: Echinodon was smaller than Fabrosaurus with a shorter head and fewer front teeth. The teeth were relatively large, with 2 of them long and sharp. It had dermal scales. For a long time this was considered a basal thyreophoran , and not everyone agrees with its placement in Heterodontosauridae by…
