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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".
Gorgosaurus (/ ˌ ɡ ɔːr ɡ ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s / GOR-gə-SOR-əs; lit. ' dreadful lizard ') is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (), between about 76.5 and 75 million years ago. [1]
Adasaurus (/ ˌ ɑː d ə ˈ s ɔː r ə s / AH-də-SOR-əs; meaning "evil lizard" [1]) is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period about 70 million years ago.
Meaning:: Originally the Ancient Greek name for the Ancient Egyptian crocodile-headed god, Sobek. Used to denote crocodilians or crocodile-like animals. Examples: Deinosuchus ("terrible crocodile"); Anatosuchus ("duck crocodile"), Suchomimus ("crocodile mimic")
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 ...
Apatosaurus (/ ə ˌ p æ t ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s /; [3] [4] meaning "deceptive lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the first-known species, A. ajax, in 1877, and a second species, A. louisae, was discovered and named by William ...
"Megacervixosaurus" (meaning "big neck lizard") is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Zonggo Formation of Tibet. It was a titanosaur sauropod which lived in what is now China The type species, "Megacervixosaurus tibetensis", was coined by Chinese paleontologist Zhao Xijin in 1983.
The generic name combines Chinde Point with the Greek word "sauros" (σαυρος) (meaning "lizard"). The specific name, bryansmalli, honors Bryan Small, who discovered the skeleton. [3] Native American staff and consultants of the national park have long voiced disapproval over the name of Chinde Point.