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Gallimimus  |
Gallimimus ("Fowl mimic"),
is a genus of ornithomimosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous
period (Maastrichtian stage) Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. With
a maximum length of around 4 metres (13 ft) and weighing as much
as 440 kilograms (970 lb), it was one of the largest ornithomimosaurs.
Gallimimus is known from multiple individuals, ranging
from juvenile (about 0.5 metres tall at the hip) to adult (about
2 metres tall at the hip).
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Gasosaurus |
Gasosaurus was a tetanuran dinosaur discovered
in Dashanpu, China. The scientific name, meaning "Gas Lizard",
honours the gasoline company that found the Dashanpu fossil quarry
in Sichuan Province, now named as the Lower Shaximiao Formation.
It had strong legs but short arms, and based on its relationship
to other dinosaurs, it was probably a carnivore. It measured between
3.5 and 4 metres in length and 1.3 m in height, with a weight
of around 150kg, placing it in the midrange of carnivores by size.
However, some estimates put its weight as high as 400kg, as very
little is known about this dinosaur. It lived during the mid-Jurassic
period (Bathonian and Callovian stages), around 164 million years
ago.
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Giganotosaurus  |
Giganotosaurus ("Giant southern
lizard") is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that
lived 93 to 89 million years ago during the Turonian stage of
the Late Cretaceous Period. It is one of the largest known terrestrial
carnivores, slightly larger than Tyrannosaurus, but smaller
than Spinosaurus. Its fossils have been found in Argentina.
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Gojirasaurus |
Gojirasaurus is a genus of dinosaur
named after Gojira (the Japanese name for Godzilla). It was discovered
in Revuelto Creek, Quay County, New Mexico. The type specimen
is a partial skeleton of a subadult, about 5.5 m (18 ft) long,
which can be extrapolated to a weight of approximately 150–200
kg (330–440 lb). An adult would have been around 6.5 m (21
ft) long. It lived during the Norian age of the Late Triassic
Period, between 220 and 209 million years ago.
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Guanlong
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Guanlong ("Crown dragon")
was a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur, one of the earliest known
examples of the lineage. About 3.0 metres (9.8 ft) long, it lived
160 million years ago in the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic
period, 92 million years before its well-known relative Tyrannosaurus.
This bipedal saurischian theropod shared many traits with its
descendants, and also had some unusual ones, like a large crest
on its head. Unlike later tyrannosaurs, Guanlong had
three long fingers on its hands. Aside from its distinctive crest,
it would have resembled its close relative Dilong, and
like Dilong may have had a coat of primitive feathers.
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Herrerasaurus |
Herrerasaurus ("Herrera's lizard,"
after the name of the rancher who discovered the first fossil
of the animal) was one of the earliest dinosaurs. All known specimens
of this carnivore have been discovered in northwest of Argentina,
in late Triassic Period rocks (early Carnian stage, around 228
million years ago). Herrerasaurus was a lightly-built
bipedal carnivore with a long tail and a relatively small head.
Its length is estimated at 3 to 6 meters (10 to 20 ft), and its
hip height at more than 1.1 meters (3.3 ft). It may have weighed
around 210–350 kilograms (463–772 lb). In a large
specimen at first thought to belong to a separate genus, Frenguellisaurus,
the skull measured 56 centimeters (1.8 ft) in length.
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Indosuchus |
Indosuchus raptorius is a genus of
abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period (70 to 65
million years ago - the Maastrichtian era), a primitive theropod
related to Abelisaurus. Like most theropods, Indosuchus
was a bipedal carnivore. It was possibly 6 meters (20 ft) long,
and had a crested skull, flattened on the top.
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| Ingenia |
Ingenia ("One from Ingen Khoboor"),
comes from several formations in the Upper Cretaceous of the Mesozoic,
approximately 70 million years ago, and derives most prominently
from the Bugin Tsav beds of the Nemegt Formation, which has also
yielded the holotype of Mononykus olecranus. It is known
from only a few specimens, which includes only the arms, legs,
pelvis, shoulder girdle, and partial skull, and a few vertebrae.
Material referred to "Ingenia" comes from older formations,
but these are not well described.
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Irritator |
Irritator is
a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in the early Cretaceous
Period (Albian stage), around 110 million years ago. Current estimations
indicate a length of 8 meters (26 feet) and a height of 3 meters
(9 feet). It was found in Brazil. Irritator was a theropod
with an unusually shaped crest at the rear of its head, and probably
ate fish.
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Liliensternus |
Liliensternus was a genus of coelophysoid
dinosaur from the Late Triassic period, between about 215-200
mya. Liliensternus was originally found in 1934 in Germany
and was named after the German scientist, Dr. Hugo Rühle
von Lilienstern. Liliensternus was approximately 5.15
m (17 ft) long, and may have weighed about 127 kg (280 lb). It
might have preyed on herbivores like Plateosaurus.
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