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Outline of dinosaurs

Index Outline of dinosaurs

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to dinosaurs: Dinosaurs – diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. [1]

90 relations: Age determination in dinosaurs, Album of Dinosaurs, Antorbital fenestra, Arctometatarsal, Armour (anatomy), Barney & Friends, Bird, Ceratopsia, Clade, Claw, Club (anatomy), Coracoid tubercle, Cretaceous, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Crop (anatomy), Cultural depictions of dinosaurs, Dinosaur, Dinosaur behavior, Dinosaur coloration, Dinosaur egg, Dinosaur intelligence, Dinosaur renaissance, Dinosaur reproduction, Dinosaur senses, Dinosaur vision, Evolution, Evolution of dinosaurs, Feathered dinosaur, Fossil, Furcula, Gastralium, Gizzard, History of paleontology, Horn (anatomy), Ichnites, Ichnotaxon, Ichthyosaur, Infratemporal fenestra, Interdental plate, Jurassic, List of African dinosaurs, List of Appalachian dinosaurs, List of Asian dinosaurs, List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs, List of dinosaur ichnogenera, List of dinosaur parks, List of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of New Zealand, List of European dinosaurs, List of fictional dinosaurs, List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs, ..., List of North American dinosaurs, List of paleontologists, List of South American dinosaurs, List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils, List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils, List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur tracks, List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera, List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils, List of U.S. state dinosaurs, Lists of dinosaur specimens, Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units, Living dinosaur, Manus (anatomy), Mesozoic, Mosasaur, Neck frill, Obturator process, Order (biology), Osteoderm, Outline (list), Paleocene dinosaurs, Palpebral (bone), Pes (anatomy), Phylogenetics, Physiology of dinosaurs, Plesiosauria, Predentary, Prehistoric reptile, Proximodorsal process, Sclerotic ring, Scute, Sites of fossilized dinosaurs across the southern South Korean coast, South Polar region of the Cretaceous, Synsacrum, Thagomizer, Theropoda, Triassic, Vertebrate, Vertebrate paleontology, Walking with Dinosaurs. Expand index (40 more) »

Age determination in dinosaurs

Age determination in dinosaurs is mainly used to determine the approximate age of a dinosaur when the animal died.

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Album of Dinosaurs

Album of Dinosaurs is a 1972 dinosaur book written by Tom McGowen and illustrated by Rod Ruth.

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Antorbital fenestra

An antorbital fenestra (plural: fenestrae) is an opening in the skull that is in front of the eye sockets.

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Arctometatarsal

An arctometatarsalian organism is one in which the proximal part of the middle metatarsal is pinched between the surrounding metatarsals.

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Armour (anatomy)

Armour or armor in animals is external or superficial protection against attack by predators, formed as part of the body (rather than the behavioural use of protective external objects), usually through the hardening of body tissues, outgrowths or secretions.

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Barney & Friends

Barney & Friends is an American children's television series aimed at children from ages 1 to 8, created by Sheryl Leach and produced by HIT Entertainment.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Ceratopsia

Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces", Κερατόψια) is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Claw

A claw is a curved, pointed appendage, found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds).

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Club (anatomy)

In zoology, a club is a bony mass at the end of the tail of some dinosaurs and of some mammals, most notably the ankylosaurids and the glyptodonts, as well as meiolaniid turtles.

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Coracoid tubercle

The coracoid tubercle is an anatomical feature of the pectoral skeleton in archosaurs, including maniraptoran dinosaurs.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago.

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Crop (anatomy)

A crop (sometimes also called a croup or a craw, or ingluvies) is a thin-walled expanded portion of the alimentary tract used for the storage of food prior to digestion.

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Cultural depictions of dinosaurs

Cultural depictions of dinosaurs have been numerous since the word dinosaur was coined in 1842.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dinosaur behavior

Dinosaur behavior is difficult for paleontologists to study since much of paleontology is dependent solely on the physical remains of ancient life.

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Dinosaur coloration

Dinosaur color is one of the unknowns in the field of paleontology as skin pigmentation is nearly always lost during the fossilization process.

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Dinosaur egg

Dinosaur eggs are the organic vessels in which a dinosaur embryo develops.

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Dinosaur intelligence

Dinosaur intelligence has been a point of contention for paleontologists.

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Dinosaur renaissance

The dinosaur renaissance was a small-scale scientific revolution that started in the late 1960s, and led to renewed academic and popular interest in dinosaurs.

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Dinosaur reproduction

Dinosaur reproduction was relevant to archosaur physiology, with newborns hatching from eggs.

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Dinosaur senses

Dinosaur senses are difficult subjects of study for paleontologists since soft tissue anatomy rarely fossilizes.

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Dinosaur vision

Dinosaur vision was, in general, better than the vision of most other reptiles, although vision varied between dinosaur species.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Evolution of dinosaurs

Dinosaurs evolved within a single lineage of archosaurs 232-234 Ma (million years ago) in the Ladinian age, the latter part of the middle Triassic.

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Feathered dinosaur

For over 150 years, since scientific research began on dinosaurs in the early 1800s, dinosaurs were generally believed to be most closely related to squamata ("scaled reptiles"); the word "dinosaur", coined in 1842 by paleontologist Richard Owen, comes from the Greek for "fearsome lizard".

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Furcula

The furcula ("little fork" in Latin) or wishbone is a forked bone found in birds and some dinosaurs, and is formed by the fusion of the two clavicles.

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Gastralium

Gastralia (singular gastralium) are dermal bones found in the ventral body wall of modern crocodilian and Sphenodon species.

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Gizzard

The gizzard, also referred to as the ventriculus, gastric mill, and gigerium, is an organ found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (pterosaurs, crocodiles, alligators, and dinosaurs, including birds), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans.

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History of paleontology

The history of paleontology traces the history of the effort to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the fossil record left behind by living organisms.

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Horn (anatomy)

A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals consisting of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone.

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Ichnites

Ichnites is an ichnogenus of dinosaur footprint.

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Ichnotaxon

An ichnotaxon (plural ichnotaxa) is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact.

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Ichthyosaur

Ichthyosaurs (Greek for "fish lizard" – ιχθυς or ichthys meaning "fish" and σαυρος or sauros meaning "lizard") are large marine reptiles.

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Infratemporal fenestra

An infratemporal fenestra, also called the lateral temporal fenestra is an opening in the skull behind the orbit in some animals.

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Interdental plate

The interdental plate refers to the bone-filled mesial-distal region between the teeth.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

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List of African dinosaurs

This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Africa.

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List of Appalachian dinosaurs

This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Appalachia.

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List of Asian dinosaurs

This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Asia excluding the Indian Subcontinent, which was part of a separate landmass for much of the Mesozoic.

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List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs

This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Australia or Antarctica.

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List of dinosaur ichnogenera

This list of dinosaur ichnogenera is a comprehensive listing of all ichnogenera that have been attributed to dinosaurs, excluding class Aves (birds, both living and those known only from fossils) and purely vernacular terms.

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List of dinosaur parks

A dinosaur park usually refers to a theme park in which several life-size sculptures or models of prehistoric animals, especially dinosaurs are displayed.

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List of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of New Zealand

Although the evidence is rare, fossils reveal that there were dinosaurs in New Zealand.

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List of European dinosaurs

Dinosaurs evolved partway through the Triassic period of the Mesozoic era, around 230 Ma (million years ago).

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List of fictional dinosaurs

This list of fictional dinosaurs is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and is a collection of various notable dinosaur characters that appear in various works of fiction.

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List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs

This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from India or Madagascar.

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List of North American dinosaurs

This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from North America.

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List of paleontologists

This is a list of notable paleontologists who have made significant contributions to the field of paleontology.

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List of South American dinosaurs

This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from South America.

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List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils

This is a list of stratigraphic units from which dinosaur body fossils have been recovered.

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List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils

This is a list of stratigraphic units dinosaur trace fossils have been recovered from.

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List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur tracks

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List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

This list of stratigraphic units with few non-avian dinosaur genera includes Mesozoic stratigraphic units of formation rank or higher that have produced dinosaur body fossils which have been referred to at most five genera.

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List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils

This list of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils includes stratigraphic units of formation rank or higher that have produced dinosaur body fossils, although none of these remains have been referred to a specific genus in the scientific literature.

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List of U.S. state dinosaurs

This is a list of U.S. state dinosaurs in the United States, including the District of Columbia.

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Lists of dinosaur specimens

Notable dinosaur specimens can individually increase science's knowledge about the life and world of the dinosaurs.

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Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units

This list of dinosaur-bearing rock formations is a list of geologic formations in which dinosaur fossils have been documented.

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Living dinosaur

Living dinosaurs refers to different concepts employed in biology and in the pseudosciences of young Earth creationism and cryptozoology.

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Manus (anatomy)

The manus (Latin for hand) is the zoological term for the distal portion of the fore limb of an animal.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.

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Mosasaur

Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse river', and Greek σαύρος sauros meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large marine reptiles containing 38 genera in total.

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Neck frill

A neck frill is the relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles with either a bony support such as those present on the skulls of dinosaurs of the suborder Marginocephalia or a cartilaginous one as in the frill-necked lizard.

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Obturator process

The obturator process is an anatomical feature on the pelvis of archosaurs.

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Order (biology)

In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.

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Osteoderm

Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates or other structures based in the dermis.

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Outline (list)

An outline, also called a hierarchical outline, is a list arranged to show hierarchical relationships and is a type of tree structure.

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Paleocene dinosaurs

The term Paleocene dinosaurs describes families or genera of non-avian dinosaurs that may have survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which occurred 66 million years ago.

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Palpebral (bone)

The palpebral bone is a small dermal bone found in the region of the eye socket in a variety of animals, including crocodilians and ornithischian dinosaurs.

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Pes (anatomy)

The pes (Latin for foot) is the zoological term for the distal portion of the hind limb of tetrapod animals.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.

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Physiology of dinosaurs

The physiology of dinosaurs has historically been a controversial subject, particularly their thermoregulation.

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Plesiosauria

Plesiosauria (Greek: πλησίος, plesios, meaning "near to" and Sauria) or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles (marine Sauropsida), belonging to the Sauropterygia.

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Predentary

The predentary is an ossification situated on the front of the lower jaw, which extended the dentary (the main lower jaw bone).

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Prehistoric reptile

The term prehistoric reptile covers a broad category that is intended to help distinguish the dinosaurs from other prehistoric reptiles.

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Proximodorsal process

The proximodorsal process is a feature of the skeleton of archosaurs.

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Sclerotic ring

Sclerotic rings are rings of bone found in the eyes of several groups of vertebrate animals, except for mammals and crocodilians.

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Scute

A scute or scutum (Latin scutum, plural: scuta "shield") is a bony external plate or scale overlaid with horn, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of crocodilians, and the feet of birds.

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Sites of fossilized dinosaurs across the southern South Korean coast

The sites of fossilized dinosaurs across the southern South Korean coast is a tentative UNESCO World Heritage site registered by the South Korean government since 2002.

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South Polar region of the Cretaceous

The South Polar region of the Cretaceous featured the polar forests of the Cretaceous, 145–66 mya, while the continent of Australia was still linked to Antarctica to form East Gondwana, a product of the break-up of Gondwana and its splitting from Africa, drifting southward.

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Synsacrum

The synsacrum is a skeletal structure of birds and other dinosaurs, in which the sacrum is extended by incorporation of additional fused or partially fused caudal or lumbar vertebrae.

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Thagomizer

A thagomizer is the distinctive arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tails of stegosaurid dinosaurs.

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Theropoda

Theropoda (or, from Greek θηρίον "wild beast" and πούς, ποδός "foot") or theropods are a dinosaur suborder characterized by hollow bones and three-toed limbs.

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Triassic

The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.

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Vertebrate

Vertebrates comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata (chordates with backbones).

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Vertebrate paleontology

Vertebrate paleontology is the subfield of paleontology that seeks to discover, through the study of fossilized remains, the behavior, reproduction and appearance of extinct animals with vertebrae or a notochord.

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Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs is a six-part documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by BBC Natural History Unit.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_dinosaurs

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