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Mamenchisaurus (/ m ə ˌ m ʌ n tʃ i ˈ s ɔː r ə s / mə-MUN-chee-SOR-əs, Dinosauria Translation and Pronunciation Guide M or spelling pronunciation / m ə ˌ m ɛ n tʃ ɪ ˈ s ɔː r ə s /) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known for their remarkably long necks [2] which made up nearly half the total body length. [3]
Yi is a genus of scansoriopterygid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China.Its only species, Yi qi (Mandarin pronunciation: [î tɕʰǐ]; from Chinese: 翼; pinyin: yì; lit. 'wing' and 奇; qí; 'strange'), is known from a single fossil specimen of an adult individual found in Middle or Late Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of Hebei, China, approximately 159 million years ago.
Saurolophus (/ s ɔː ˈ r ɒ l ə f ə s /; meaning "lizard crest") is a genus of large hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia and North America, that lived in what is now the Horseshoe Canyon and Nemegt formations about 70 million to 66 million years ago. It is one of the few genera of dinosaurs known from multiple ...
Stony Brook Paleontologists Discover New Dinosaur and Name It in Honor of One of Their Own from Stony Brook University. New Dinosaur Species Found from Time for Kids Online. Skeleton of New Dinosaur "Titan" Found in Madagascar from National Geographic. Dino skull fills knowledge gap from the BBC. New Madagascar Dinosaur Discoveries from the T ...
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").
Tsintaosaurus (/ s ɪ n t aʊ ˈ s ɔː r ə s /; sic for the old transliteration "Tsingtao", [2] meaning "Qingdao lizard") is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from China. It was about 8.3 metres (27 ft) long and weighed 2.5 tonnes (2.8 short tons). [3] The type species is Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, first described by Chinese paleontologist C. C ...
A specimen from the lowermost Dinosaur Park, or possibly from the underlying Oldman Formation, was reassigned back to Scolosaurus. [18] Although the stratigraphic range of the holotype of Euoplocephalus is uncertain, all specimens that can be reliably referred to E. tutus came from the lower 40 m and the upper >10 m of the Dinosaur Park ...
Masiakasaurus is a genus of small predatory noasaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. In Malagasy , masiaka means "vicious"; thus, the genus name means "vicious lizard". The type species , Masiakasaurus knopfleri , was named after the musician Mark Knopfler , whose music inspired the expedition crew.