Triassic
This period is known for having one large continent.
What is Pangea?
This herbivorous dinosaur is well known for the plates on its back and the spines on its tail.
What is a Stegosaurus?
This final period of the dinosaurs was ended by an extinction event that has been theorized about many times. Due to minerals discovered in the geological layer around that time, we are more certain about the cause.
What is a meteor?
The Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods are all categorized under this era of time.
What is the Mesozoic Era?
Using different methods, dating how old different fossil beds are has been made easier by testing this specific type of fossil.
What are dinosaur eggs?
Small Triassic therapods, such as Pro-Compsognathus and Liliensternus are thought to have had this type of creature as a main part of their diet.
What are insects?
This bipedal, carnivorous dinosaur, featured in the 1993 movie 'Jurassic Park', is known for having two crests upon its head and is theorized to have had venomous spit.
What is a Dilophosaurus?
This animal is known for being Utah's State dinosaur.
What is a Utahraptor?
This term was coined by Sir Richard Owen using latin words meaning "fearfully great" and "lizard".
What is Dinosauria or Dinosaur?
Color and patterns of a Diplodocus were revealed by this type of fossil.
What are skin impressions?
The Mesozoic Era and, by extension, the Triassic Period begin directly after the world's worst extinction event.
What was 'The Great Dying'?
This carnivorous therapod is classified as the Utah State fossil.
What is an Allosaurus?
One theory about this bipedal herbivore is that its hard head crests were used to impress mates by defeating other competition.
What is a pachycephalosaurus?
Barnum Brown is known as a dinosaur hunter, famous in particular for discovering many specimens of this large carnivore.
What is a Tyrannosaurus rex?
This fossilized portion of a Diamantinasaurus recently revealed diet and eating habits for the species.
What is a stomach?
This omnivorous dinosaur is also known as "Colorado's Lizard".
What is Coloradisaurus?
In this period of life, what kind of animal made its first appearance?
What are birds?
This massive, fish eating dinosaur has a sail along its back. In recent years, it has gained almost as much notoriety as the T-rex.
What is a Spinosaurus?
Oftentimes, the original material of the dinosaur is not left behind. Overtime, it has been replaced by other materials.
What are minerals?
The recent discovery of Spinosaurus Egypticus is recognizeable using this fossilized feature.
What is a crest/ horn on its head
This period introduced the earliest versions of this herbivorous, quadrapedal, long-necked dinosaur family.
What are Sauropods?
This carnivorous dinosaur was the first ever to be scientifically documented, named by William Buchard in 1824.
What is a Megalosaurus?
This quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur is known for the many variations of bony armor amongst the species. Some types even evolved clubs and spikes on the ends of their tails.
What is an Ankylosaur?
What is the K-pg boundary or Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary?
This recent T-rex discovery revealed that many of our specimens were instead a smaller version of the species- now separated and given a different species name.
What is a Nanotyrannus?