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Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (/ ˌsɛrəˈtɒpsiə / or / ˌsɛrəˈtoʊpiə /; Greek: "horned faces") 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.
This list of pterosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Pterosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms.The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomen dubium), or were not formally published (nomen nudum), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are ...
This list of nicknamed dinosaur fossils is a list of fossil non-avian dinosaur specimens given informal names or nicknames, in addition to their institutional catalogue numbers. It excludes informal appellations that are purely descriptive (e.g., "the Fighting Dinosaurs", "the Trachodon Mummy").
Aerosteon. Aetonyx – junior synonym of Massospondylus. Afromimus. Afrovenator. Agathaumas – possible synonym of Triceratops. Aggiosaurus – subsequently found to be a metriorhynchid crocodilian. Agilisaurus. Agnosphitys – possibly non-dinosaurian. Agrosaurus – probably a junior synonym of Thecodontosaurus.
This list of informally named dinosaurs is a listing of dinosaurs (excluding Aves; birds and their extinct relatives) that have never been given formally published scientific names. This list only includes names that were not properly published ("unavailable names") and have not since been published under a valid name (see list of dinosaur ...
Kuk – Kuk's male form has a frog head while his female form has a snake head. Meretseger – The cobra -headed Egyptian Goddess. Sirin – Half-bird, half-human creature with the head and chest of a woman from Russian folklore; its bird half is generally that of an owl's body. Sobek – The crocodile -headed Egyptian God.
Parasaurolophus (/ ˌ p ær ə s ɔː ˈ r ɒ l ə f ə s,-ˌ s ɔːr ə ˈ l oʊ f ə s /; meaning "beside crested lizard" in reference to Saurolophus) [2] is a genus of hadrosaurid "duck-billed" dinosaur that lived in what is now western North America and possibly Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 76.9–73.5 million years ago. [3]
List of prehistoric foraminifera genera. List of ichthyosaur genera. List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record. List of plesiosaur genera. List of prehistoric malacostracans. List of prehistoric medusozoan genera. List of prehistoric nautiloid genera. List of prehistoric ostracod genera. List of prehistoric sea cucumbers.