Guided Tours in Australia to Dig Up Dinosaur Bones There are a number of guided tours available in Australia where you can participate in paleontological field work and search for dinosaur bones. These tours are typically led by experienced palaeontologists who can provide guidance and instruction on how to properly excavate and identify fossil specimens….
Learning about dinosaurs can be a way to teach your kids much than the fact that these prehistoric monsters once existed. It can open up a world of scientific learning and discovery. Young boys and girls don’t always want to have to “learn.” Motivating your kids to be educated in subjects that at first sound…
(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…
(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).
(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…
(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…
Sauropod(s)Grouping of large, four legged herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails, such as Apatosaurus and Diplodocus.
Interested in a career in paleontology? Paleontology is the study of past life on earth, their origin and their extinction, as seen through fossil records. There are many branches in the study of paleontology, such as vertebrate paleontology or the study of fossils of animals with backbones, paleobotany or the study of fossils of plants,…