where was the abrictosaurus found
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- 1 The fossils of the Abrictosaurus were excavated in the Upper Elliot Formation of southern Africa. 2  Two sets of remains were discovered; one from Cape Province in South Africa and the other from Qacha's Nek in present day Lesotho. 3  The remains found in Lesotho were discovered by scientist Richard Thulborn in 1974.
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Fossils of giant 'Titanosaur' found in Argentina Fossils of giant 'Titanosaur' found in Argentina. May 16, 2014: Residents and technicians look at the bones of a dinosaur at a farm in La Flecha, west of Argentina's Patagonian city of Trelew. Paleontologists in Argentina's Patagonia region have discovered fossilized remains of a so-called Titanosaur, which may have been the largest dinosaur ever to walk the earth.
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Dilophosaurus Dilophosaurus (Double Crested Lizard) was the very first large carnivorous dinosaur. It is distinctly known from its two famous crests rounding above its skull. Its fossils were uncovered in Southwestern US and possibly China.
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Abelisaurus The holotype, MC 11078, was in 1983 uncovered at the Cantera de la Pala Mécanica-site in the Lago Pellegrini quarries exploited by Abel since 1975. This single known fossil of Abelisaurus consists of a skull, lacking the lower jaws, that is incomplete, especially on the right side.
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5 Places In Colorado Where You Might Stumble Upon Dinosaur Fossils Dry Mesa Quarry – near Delta, Colorado Dry Mesa is where the giant ultrasaurus, the sauropod killer torvosaurus, delicate pterosaurs, and other fossils of the Morrison Formation have been found in the Uncompahgre National Forest near the east fork of Escalante Creek.
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Spinosaurus Markgraf discovered a partial skeleton of a dinosaur in the Bahariya Formation of western Egypt. In 1915, German paleontologist Ernst Stromer published an article assigning the specimen to a new genus and species Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.
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Dinosaur fossil unearthed in Portugal was Europe's largest land predator Two scientists in Portugal announced on Wednesday that they have identified the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever found in Europe, a 33-foot-long brute called Torvosaurus gurneyi that was the scourge of its domain in the Jurassic Period, some 150 million years ago. Giant Dinosaur found in Utah ruled before T-rex.
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Albertadromeus â Smallest Plant-Eating Dinosaur Known from Canada Paleontologists from the United States and Canada have described a new species of dinosaur named Albertadromeus syntarsus, the smallest herbivorous dinosaur known from Canada. Albertadromeus syntarsus lived in what is now southern Alberta in the Late Cretaceous about 77 million years ago.
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"Giant ""supershark"" that lived before the dinosaurs found in Texas" Giant supershark that lived before the dinosaurs found in Texas The well-preserved fossil of a 300-million-year-old shark from New Mexico. The Texas supershark fossils (not pictured) are less complete, but suggest the supershark was even larger than the New Mexican shark.
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- The fossils of the Abrictosaurus were discovered in southern Africa. It could have existed on South America as well since Africa and South America was a single continent in the Jurassic period. The Abrictosaurus belonged to order Orinithischia, which includes 'bird hipped' dinosaurs.
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Alioramus Alioramus is a tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Asia. It was a swift, more slender relative of the bigger Tyrannosaurus Rex and had a long skull. It was a carnivore that preyed upon herbivore dinosaurs and other smaller creatures than itself. There are two species in the genus, Alioramus remotus and Alioramus altai.
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- The Machairodontinae are true cats and their fossils have been found in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Although we tend to think of the sabre-toothed tiger, there were two varieties of sabre-toothed cats: dirk-toothed cats and scimitar-toothed cats.
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Skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex discovered On this day in 1990, fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson discovers three huge bones jutting out of a cliff near Faith, South Dakota. They turn out to be part of the largest-ever Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered, a 65 million-year-old specimen dubbed Sue, after its discoverer. Amazingly, Sue’s skeleton was over 90 percent complete, and the bones were extremely well-preserved.
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Fossils of 'largest' dinosaur found in Argentina (Update) Fossils of 'largest' dinosaur found in Argentina (Update) May 17, 2014 by Sonia Avalos. Picture taken on May 16, 2014 showing a technician next to the femur of a dinosaur—likely to be the largest ever to roam the earth—in Rawson, Chubut, some 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) south of Buenos Aires.
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Dinheirosaurus Dinheirosaurus is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur that is known from fossils uncovered in modern-day Portugal. It may represent a species of Supersaurus. The only species is Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis, first described by José Bonaparte and Octávio Mateus in 1999 for vertebrae and some other material from the Lourinhã Formation.
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- Size: Estimated at‭ ‬12.2‭ ‬meters long. Known locations: Argentina,‭ ‬Chubut Province‭ ‬-‭ ‬Cerro Barcino Formation. Time period: Aptian of the Cretaceous. Fossil representation: Fragmentary skull and mandible‭ (‬lower jaw‭)‬,‭ ‬teeth and partial post cranial skeleton.
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Heterodontosaurus Dinosaurs Ate Plants Despite Having Tall Sharp Teeth List of Top 10 New Species for 2012 Released. Heterodontosaurus are a genus of dinosaurs that lived in the early Jurassic period in South Africa. They are characterized by prominent canine teeth and reach a maximum size of about 3 feet in height (about the size of a big turkey).
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A Complete A to Z List of Dinosaurs Albertosaurus This carnivorous dinosaur was a close relative of T. Rex. Alectrosaurus Few specimens of this unmarried lizard have been found. Aletopelta The first ankylosaur known to have lived in Mexico. Alioramus All we know about this tyrannosaur is based on a single skull.
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Wikijunior:Dinosaurs/Plesiosaur The first Plesiosaur was discovered in 1821 by Mary Anning, in England. Mostly found in the Benthic zone, they can also be found in the intertidal zones as well. Modern mysteries around the Plesiosaurs . The most famous mysteries around these creatures is the Loch Ness Monster. There are a lot of stories of some large creature in the lake called Loch Ness in Scotland. Most descriptions of the monster are close to what the Plesiosaurs must have looked like. Some of the sightings have been proven to be a hoax and at present there is no scientific proof of the existence of the animal but many people believe in it.
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Scipionyx Scipionyx samniticus is one of the most important recent dinosaur finds. It is a tiny theropod (meat-eater) fossil found in Cretaceous limestone in southern Italy near Naples. Although it was unearthed thirty years ago in 1981, its true importance was not realized until 1994. It is a very important specimen in that it has fossilized remains of many of its internal organs and muscles.
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Fossils of giant 'Titanosaur' found in Argentina The Titanosaur bones are among 200 fossils at the site in Patagonia's Chubut province, approximately 800 miles south of Buenos Aires. The site was accidentally discovered in 2011 by a farm worker.
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Abrictosaurus Abrictosaurus (wakeful lizard) is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period of what is now southern Africa.
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- Henry F. Osborn. Named T. rex. Only about 30 Tyrannosaurus fossils have been found, mostly in the western part of the United States. Fossils of different Tyrannosaurus species have been found in the USA (in Montana, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming), Canada (Alberta and Saskatchewan), and east Asia (Mongolia). One T. rex footprint has been found, in an undisclosed location in New Mexico, USA.
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Ordovician fossils from southeast Indiana Ordovician fossils from southeast Indiana. All fossils were obtained (unless otherwise stated) from a roadcut approximately two miles north of I-74 in Indiana on State Highway 1, just south of Brookville.CLICK HERE (298 KB) to see a birdseye view of the exposed area. The exposed rocks are from the Arnheim, Waynesville, Liberty, and Lower Whitewater formations.incinnatian Fossils. All fossils were obtained (unless otherwise stated) from a roadcut approximately two miles north of I-74 in Indiana on State Highway 1, just south of Brookville.
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The fossil find of the century: World's 'biggest and most diverse' collection of Jurassic remains is uncovered in Argentina A huge new site (pictured) containing fossils from the Jurassic era has been discovered in Argentina. It hosts the 'biggest and most diverse' collection of fossils from the period ever discovered and was spotted when earth above the fossils eroded away. The site in Patagonia spans 23,000 square miles (60,000 square kilometres).
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Fossils of giant 'Titanosaur' found in Argentina REUTERS/Daniel Feldman. Paleontologists in Argentina's Patagonia region have discovered fossilized remains of a so-called Titanosaur, which may have been the largest dinosaur ever to walk the earth.