Saurischians & Ornithischians
Modern birds are descendants of this group of dinosaurs.
What are Saurischians?
This sauropod lived concurrently in the same area as Giganotosaurus.
What is Argentinosaurus?
This body part was abnormally small on many carnivorous therapods, including Tyrannosaurus rex.
What are arms?
This famous ceratopsid's name means "three-horned face".
What is Triceratops?
This trait is common in various forms in Thyreophora, reflected in the name of the group.
What is armor?
This term means "bird hipped".
What is ornithischian?
This recently discovered sauropod was found on the banks of a lake in Thailand.
What is Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis?
This large fish-eating therapod's name means "spine lizard".
What is Spinosaurus?
These large ornithopods are commonly referred to as duckbilled dinosaurs.
What are Hadrosaurs?
Edmontonia belongs to this family of Thyreophora.
What is Nodosaurids?
Apatosaurus, Coelophysis, Brachiosaurus and Velociraptor all belonged to this group of dinosaurs.
What is saurischia?
Sauropod vertebrae had this feature to reduce weight.
What are air sacs?
A place that hundreds of Ceratosaur specimens were found at.
Where is Ghost Ranch, New Mxico?
This small genus of ceratopsian has been found with large accumulations of gastroliths.
What is Psittacosaurus?
Although stegosaur specimens are very rare, the most diversity has been found in this country.
Where is China?
The position of this bone that is a part of the pelvic girdle can help differentiate saurischians and ornithischians.
What is the pubis bone?
A 2.28 meter long femur is a fossil of this sauropod.
What is Patagotitan?
This group is believed to be smarter than other dinosaurs.
What are Dromaeosaurids(raptors)?
These are adaptations that Clash of the Dinosaurs presented to be for defense against predators. (List two)
What are: forward centre of gravity, ball & socket jointed neck, frill and horns?
This sense was particularly well developed in ankylosaurs.
What is smell?
Ornithischians' beaks and more spacious ribcages were examples of adaptations to this characteristic that they all shared.
What is herbivorous?
A diplodocus would need to eat approximately this many kilograms of ferns per day to sustain itself.
What is 33.2 kg/day? (Range of 31-35 accepted)
Although they couldn't fly, feathers helped oviraptors in these ways. (2)
What are heat regulation and brooding over eggs?
Research has suggested that pachycephalosaurus had a thick skull for this reason.
What is intraspecies competition for dominance?
The shape of this body part can help differentiate ankylosaurids and nodosaurids.
What is the skull?