Australia
Honk honk! The state fossil of Queensland, this large Ornithopod is famous for the enlarged nasal bulbs present on its skull.
Muttaburrasaurus
The home of Archaeopteryx and Compsognathus, this German fossil site was once a shallow marine lagoon whose anoxia aided in the preservation of soft tissues.
Solnhofen
Though it was once thought to be a close relative of the Great White Shark, most modern analysis place Megalodon as belonging to this genus.
Otodus
In the "oscar-award winning" film Dino Dana: The Movie, this Canadian paleontologist has a brief silent cameo on the stairs of the Royal Ontario Museum.
David Evans
The fossils of this Mongolian Ceratopsian have allegedly inspired two great myths: that of the griffin, and of the egg-stealing Oviraptor.
Protoceratops
The remnants of the oldest life on our planet can be found in western Australia, where these structures formed by bacterial mats populate the coastline.
Stromatolites
The star of the Walking with Dinosaurs episode "Cruel Seas", this Ichthyosaur genus is famous for its massive eyes from which its name is derived.
Opthalmosaurus
Did scales evolve from teeth, or teeth from scales? That is the question scientists have pondered based on this type of scale present in all sharks.
Placoid scales
If Jurassic Fight Club had a "star" paleontologist it would be this man, the creative consultant of the series and owner of a San Antonio-based museum.
Dinosaur George Blasing
Though the black eyed peas song “my humps” was released five years prior to the description of this dinosaur, its camel-like hip projections make it a fitting theme for the Spanish theropod.
Concovenator
Colloquially known as the "Demon Duck of Doom", the vegan diet of this giant flightless bird betrays its legendary title.
Dromornis
Look out! While fossil hunting in the Morrison Formation may seem fun, the presence of this gas in its rocks should scare even the bravest of paleontologists.
Radon
Though this lineage of primitive fish alive between the Silurian and Permian are no longer considered to be true sharks, their body shape and numerous bony spines have led to them being dubbed the "spiny sharks"
Acanthodii/Acanthodiians
In Prehistoric Planet, how many named Mosasaur genera appear on screen? 3, 4, 5, or 6?
4 (Globidens, Mosasaurus, Kaikaifilu, Phosphorosaurus). Prognathodon appears but is not named.
Named after a nearby South American mountain range, this Titanosaur was the true giant sauropod to live alongside Giganotosaurus.
Andesaurus
Named after the aboriginal serpent of the dreamtime, this Anaconda-sized snake was the last of the Madtsoiids, a lineage of constrictors once present throughout much of Gondwana.
Wonambi
The rocks of the Jurassic are prevalent in this French-Swiss mountain range from which the period's name is derived.
Jura Mountains
Although the extant Frilled Shark genus Chlamydoselachus hardly qualifies as a living fossil, the oldest Frilled Shark remains date to the mid-Devonian (370 million years ago) from this North African country better known for its Mesozoic aquatic wildlife.
Morocco
This genus of large herbivorous theropod - a favourite of Oliver's - was supposed to appear in Primeval, though leaked imagery suggests it would have looked like the Velociraptor featured in Chased by Dinosaurs.
Therizinosaurus
One of the oldest dinosaurs known to have lived in herds, this Brazilian prosauropod was first known from fossils of infants and juveniles, though adult skeletons are now in possession of paleontologists.
Mussaurus
The presence of a proboscis on the skull of Palorchestes has led some to call the giant wombat the "Marsupial ___", named after this lineage of extant perissodactyls.
The oldest known genus of Megaraptoran, this lanky theropod is named after the central Japanese prefecture (or province) that its remains were discovered in.
Fukuiraptor
Living alongside Cretoxyrhina in the Western Interior Seaway was this genus of lamniform shark, a globally distributed species known to have survived for over 30 million years and is known colloquially as the "Crow Shark"
Squalicorax
In the original Walking with Dinosaurs pilot episode, this genus of sauropod - the first to ever be named - made its only big-screen appearance on the shores of Jurassic England.
Cetiosaurus
One of several Thyreophorans known to have lived in Dinosaur Provincial Park, the holotype of this dinosaur was discovered by William Parks in 1924 and is housed at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Dyoplosaurus