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The first dinosaur fossils were recognized in the early 19th century, with the name "dinosaur" (meaning "terrible lizard") being coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1842 to refer to these "great fossil lizards".
The generic name, Therizinosaurus, is derived from the Greek θερίζω (therízo, meaning scythe, reap or cut) and σαῦρος (sauros, meaning lizard) in reference to the enormous manual unguals, and the specific name, cheloniformis, is taken from the Greek χελώνη (chelóni, meaning turtle) and Latin formis as the remains were ...
The film's estimation is off by a couple million years both in its extinction date and its oldest dinosaur fossil date. Dinosaurs the Terrible Lizards says that the oldest dinosaur fossils were about 225 million years old, as of 2024 a 233 million year old [1] dinosaur fossil was found in Brazil. The film says that dinosaurs went extinct 70 ...
The genus name is most likely from conepatl, the Nahuatl name of the animal, ultimately meaning "burrower". The species name is possibly from Mapudungun chingue ("skunk") or Spanish chinga ("pug-nosed") [70] Coontie palm (Zamia integrifolia) cycad: Muscogee / Creek: From conti hateka ("white root"). [71] Cougar (puma concolor) big cat: Quechua ...
Kritosaurus is an incompletely known genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur.It lived about 74.5-66 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous of North America.The name means "separated lizard" (referring to the arrangement of the cheek bones in an incomplete type skull), but is often mistranslated as "noble lizard" in reference to the presumed "Roman nose" [1] (in the original specimen ...
Apatosaurinae (the name deriving from the type genus Apatosaurus, meaning "deceptive lizard") is a subfamily of diplodocid sauropods, an extinct group of large, quadrupedal dinosaurs, the other subfamily in Diplodocidae being Diplodocinae. Apatosaurines are distinguished by their more robust, stocky builds and shorter necks proportionally to ...
Megalosaurus (meaning "great lizard", from Greek μέγας, megas, meaning 'big', 'tall' or 'great' and σαῦρος, sauros, meaning 'lizard') is an extinct genus of large carnivorous theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic Epoch (Bathonian stage, 166 million years ago) of southern England.
Dinodontosaurus (meaning "terrible-toothed lizard") is a genus of dicynodont therapsid. It was medium to large dicynodont of the Triassic (with skull up to 40 centimetres (16 in) long [1]) and had a beak corneum. It lived in the Middle Triassic but disappeared in the Upper Triassic.