Clades
what is a clade?
a group of organisms believed to have evolved from a common ancestor, according to the principles of cladistics./ the branches that make up the tree of life.
what are modern day dinosaurus?
Birds
what fossil skull (and their modern day counterpart) compared to the cyclops from greek mythology
Mammoths/Elaphants
what museum hold the biggest T-rex fossil
The Chicago Feild museum
at what moment in time did animals (and plants) diverify into more complicated things. including the first major hunters
Cambrian Explotion/ Cambrian period
What clade are homosapians (Modern day humans) and older and extinct 'humans' in?
Hominini (Try to pronounce that)
The Velocoraptors in JP/JW are acually more acurrate to:
Deinochus
Why are Avocodo Seeds so big?
To pass down the system of Giant sloths and be plopped out. would of died out if not for the early humans.
what is the nickname of the biggest T-rex fossil?
Sue
what was the name of the first named dinosaur species
what dinosaur clade has the most Chaos.
Spinosaurid clade
What of the Dinosaurs listed below is NOT a dinosaur
Dimetrodon
Troodon
Brontosaurus
NONE of these animals are dinosaurs
-Dimetrodon is more clostly related to mammals
-Troodon was only identified from a few teeth, not enought to name a whole species
-Brontosaurus real name is Apatosaurus
Name a Archosaur that is NOT a dinosaur
Pteranodon, Crocdiliforms, pleseosaurs
what bone on most dinosaurs is used to prove that birds are dinosaurs
Wishbone
when was t rex first discovered?
1892
Can a animal evolve so much to the point it is no longer in a clade?
No, no matter the change in a animal--- a animal will always stay in a clade
What dinosaur has the longest name?
micropachycephalosaurus
name two large cats that lived in amarica
amarican lion, amarican cheetah, smilodon/sabertooth cat or tiger
A fossil of a Thrinaxodon and Broomistega from the Triassic period caught the hearts of many paleotologist would be named:
The Triassic Cuddle
In WW2 during a bombing trip 1_____ Holotype fossil was distroyed by 2______ and their Allies in 3_______
2. British
3. Munich Germany (1972)
What clade includes the Raptor family (Utah,Bambi, Veloc, ect.) AND the modern day dinosaurs (Birds)
Dromeosauridae
Name the dinosaur that was first thought to be a older triceratops
Torosaurus
what dinosaur/bird gateway speices made paleotologist go into a spiral
Name the mummifed dinosaurs
A Hardrosaur that has its last meal in its gut, its fossilized body proved hadrosaurs walked on 4 legs
OR
A Ankylosauria that was so well preserved that we know that the dinosaur was brown and so well preserved it looks like it is sleeping
Hadrosaur: Leonardo
Ankylosauria: Borealopelta
Edward Drinker Cope, when to 'war' with Othniel Charles Marsh to find who could find the most new dinosaurs. although it led to fraud, bribery, theift, and discruction of many fossils, this event in history is called
The Bone Wars / The Great Dinosaur Rush