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Othnielosaurus  |
Othnielosaurus is a genus of ornithischian
dinosaur that lived about 155 to 148 million years ago, during
the Late Jurassic-age Morrison Formation of the western United
States. Othnielosaurus is known from material from all
parts of the body, including two good skeletons, although the
skull is still poorly known. Othnielosaurus was a small
animal, 2 meters (6.6 ft) or less in length and 10 kilograms (22
lb) or less in weight. It was a bipedal dinosaur with short forelimbs
and long hindlimbs with large processes for muscle attachments.
The hands were short and broad with short fingers.
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Ouranosaurus |
Ouranosaurus ("Brave (monitor)
lizard") was an unusual iguanodont that lived during the
early Cretaceous (late Aptian stage) about 110 million years ago
in what is now Africa. Ouranosaurus measured about 7
meters long (24 ft) and weighed about 4 tons. Two complete fossils
were found in the Echkar (or El Rhaz) Formation, Gadoufaouna deposits,
Agadez, Niger, in 1966 and the animal was named in 1976 by French
paleontologist Philippe Taquet.
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Parasaurolophus  |
Parasaurolophus ("Near crested
lizard") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late
Cretaceous Period of what is now North America, about 76-73 million
years ago. It was a herbivore that walked both as a biped and
a quadruped. As is the case with most dinosaurs, the skeleton
of Parasaurolophus is incompletely known. The length
of the type specimen of P. walkeri is estimated at 9.5
meters (31 ft). Its skull is about 1.6 meters (5.2 ft) long and
its weight is estimated at 2.5 tonnes (2.7 tons). Its single known
forelimb was relatively short for a hadrosaurid, with a short
but wide shoulder blade. The thighbone measures 103 centimeters
(3.38 ft) long in P. walkeri and is robust for its length
when compared to other hadrosaurids. The upper arm and pelvic
bones were also heavily built.
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Saurolophus |
Saurolophus ("Lizard crest")
is a genus of large hadrosaurine duckbill that lived about 70
million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous of North America (Canada)
and Asia (Mongolia); it is one of the few genera of dinosaurs
known from multiple continents. It is distinguished by a spike-like
crest which projects up and back from the skull. Saurolophus
was a herbivorous dinosaur which could move about either bipedally
or quadrupedally.
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Tenontosaurus |
Tenontosaurus is a genus of medium-
to large-sized ornithopod dinosaur. It was formerly thought to
be a 'hypsilophodont', but since Hypsilophodontia is no longer
considered a clade, it is now considered to be a very primitive
iguanodont. The genus is known from the Early to Middle Cretaceous
sediments of western North America, dating to around 125 to 105
million years ago. It was about 6.5 to 8 metres (21 to 26 ft)
long and 2.2 metres (7.2 ft) high, with a mass of somewhere between
1 to 2 tonnes (1 to 2 short tons). Its tail was longer than other
members of the family, and it walked on four feet most of the
time.
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Tsintaosaurus |
Tsintaosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid
dinosaur from China. It was about 10 metres (33 ft) long, 3.6
metres (12 ft) tall and weighed 3 tons. As a hadrosaur, Tsintaosaurus
had a characteristic 'duck bill' snout and a battery of powerful
teeth which it used to chew vegetation. It usually walked on all
fours, but could rear up on its hind legs to scout for predators
and flee when it spotted one. Like other hadrosaurs, Tsintaosaurus
probably lived in herds. Tsintaosaurus was initially
reconstructed with a unicorn-like crest on its snout. Although
the 'crest' was later identified as a broken skull bone, indicating
the specimen was actually Tanius, a second specimen with
the horn has since been discovered.
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