Dinos Final

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In the late Jurassic, the area of North America that is now the Rocky Mountain States was:

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Covered with an epicontinental sea

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Ceratopsians and hadrosaurs were common in the Late Cretaceous (T/F)

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True

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Herbivorous dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous could eat:

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Ferns, conifers, ginkgo, and angiosperms

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Skull characteristics of Ornithopoda include:

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Jaw joint below the tooth row, cranial hinge, very large nares

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Edmontosaurus and Maiasaura are:

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Late Cretaceous non-crested hadrosaurs

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The most likely function for the crest of crested hadrosaurs was:

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Vocalization

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Among other characteristics, hadrosaurs are defined by having an elongated snout region. This evolved to:

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Allow space for the dental battery and a beak

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The Bony plates on Stegosaurus are now considered to have been for

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Species recognition

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The armored dinosaurs are characterized by

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Boney plates attached to the skin, quadruped, closed antiorbital fenestrae.

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Triceratops was the largest ceratopsian (T/F)

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True

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One hypothesis on why/how sauropods became gigantic is that it was a by-product of cold-bloodedness (T/F)

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True

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The cranial hinge in dinosaur skulls first evolved in the

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Iguanodonts

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During the late Cretaceous

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Sea levels were very high

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Sauropods have more cervical vertebrae than any other dinosaur group (T/F)

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True

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Recent studies indicate that Pachycephalosaurus used the dome on its skull for

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Species recognition

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An example of Basal Sauropodomorpha is

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Plateosaurus

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The teeth of sauropods are

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Spatulate

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The following dinosaurs have been collected from the Morrison Formation

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Brachiosaurus, Camerasaurus and Diplodocus

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Dinosaurs with the smallest brain to body size (EQ) ratio are

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Sauropodomorpha

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Research indicates that most sauropods could not lift their heads straight up because

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The articulation of cervical vertebrae only allowed side to side and downward movement

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The clade Theropoda is characterized by having

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Hollow bones, pointed serrated teeth, and a furcula

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Fossils found in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, suggest two large tyrannosaurs lived in the same place at the same time. These were

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Gorgonosaurus and Daspletosaurus

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Theropod skull is characterized by

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antorbital and mandibular fenestrae

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The general evolutionary trend from primitive theropods to primitive tetanurans to tyrannosaurids is

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Increase in skull size and decrease in leg length

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Ornithomimids (Gallimimus and Ornithomimus)

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Had reduced to no teeth and a probable omnivores diet

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6. More dinosaur genera are known from the Cretaceous than both the Jurassic and Triassic because

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there are more Cretaceous sedimentary rocks preserved

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Recent studies indicate that T. rex moved at a speed of about

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15 mph

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Herrerasaurus and Coeolphysus are

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Basal theropods

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The Cretaceous Period is named

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After extensive chalk deposits across Europe

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From bone morphology studies paleontologists found that the gigantic sauropods

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grew rapidly to adult size (in ~10 years)

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A fundamental taxonomic grouping comprising organisms which share a basic body-plan or pattern of structural organization is called a phylogeny (T/F)

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True

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The oldest bird, Archaeopteryx, was found in the

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Late Jurassic

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The largest mass extinction on earth occurred at the

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Permian-Triassic boundary

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Confusiusornis had feathers and

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well-developed wings and a pygostyle

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The end of the Cretaceous Period is

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65 million years ago

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What types of evidence have been found by scientists to prove that dinosaurs existed 65 million years ago?

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Fossilized bones, teeth, footprints, and mummified skin

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Flowering plants evolved in

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Early Cretaceous

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Coprolite is a

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Fossil feces

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How does relative dating differ from numerical dating?

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Relative dating gives an age in relation to other events

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The general evolutionary trend from primitive theropods to primitive tetanurans to tyrannosaurids is

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increase in skull size and decrease in leg length

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Hadrosaurs belong in the clade Ornithopoda (T/F)

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True

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Hadrosaurs had the ability to chew their food because of

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Well developed cranial hinge, batteries of thousands of fused teeth, jaw joint far back and below the tooth line

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Dinosaur track ways are fairly common because dinosaurs

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Lived along streams and lakes

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Angiosperms evolved in the

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Early Cretaceous

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Cretaceous global sea levels were the same as they are today (T/F)

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False, much higher

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Pachycephalosaurus was

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The most primitive of the ceratopsians

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Ceratopsians in Asia were small and hornless (T/F)

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True

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Ceratopsians are mostly from the

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Late Cretaceous

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Marginocephalians are characterized by

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Expansion of the occipital region of the skull

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Psittacosaurus is the most primitive of the clade Marginocephalia (T/F)

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False

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The clade most closely related to Marginocephalia is

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Ornithopoda

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How many valid genera of dinosaurs are there?

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530

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Scientists now have evidence the sauropods grew very fast (T/F)

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True

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Sauropods have a

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Saurischian pelvic girdle

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Hadrosaurs & ceratopsians replace sauropods as the dominant herbivores because

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They had more advanced food collection and digestion methods

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Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and brachiosaurs are from what period?

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Late Jurassic

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Hadrosaurs & ceratopsians replaced sauropods as the dominant herbivores in the Cretaceous

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Because they had more advanced food collection and digestion methods

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Homeothermy is

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The ability for the body to maintain a constant temperature

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Coelophysus is from the

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Late Triassic

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In dinosaurs, being a carnivore is a _________ characteristic

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Primitive

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Allosaurus is

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A saurischian, Tetnuran, and Large carnivore.

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Tetanurans have stiff tails for counterbalance (T/F)

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True

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The dinosaur clade most closely related to birds is

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Dromeosaurids

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Archaeopteryx lived at the same time as Apatosaurus (T/F)

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True. (Late Jurassic)

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25. Archaeopteryx lived in the same place as Apatosaurus (T/F)

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False

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Feathers most likely evolved for

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Body insulation (to keep warm)

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The oldest bird, Archaeopteryx is Late Jurassic in age (T/F)

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True

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The first line of evidence of an end Cretaceous extra-terrestrial impact was

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A hugely augmented proportion of iridium in the sediment

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The Cretaceous period is named for

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The French word for chalk

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The last dinosaurs in North America were

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T. rex, Troodon, and triceratops

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The end Cretaceous extinctions include

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Non avian dinosaurs

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Iguanadontid clade is characterized by

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spike on digit one and beak on tip of jaws

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Camptosaurus is from the

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Late Jurassic, Morrison formation

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Hadrosaurs had

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Well developed ossified tendions along their vertebral column

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Maisaura is the "_____ ______" dinosaur

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Good Mother

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Crested hadrosaurs were from

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The Late Cretaceous, North America

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Parasaurolophus was from

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Alberta to New mexico, Latest Cretaceous

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Evidence exists that Parasaurolophus lived in

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Large herds

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Hadrosaurids stands for

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Duck billed dinosaurs

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Hadrosaurids are from the clade

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advanced Ornithopoda

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Hadrosaurids were

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crested and non-crested, large herbivores with advanced jaw structures, facultative quadrupeds with hooves on their toes

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Pachycephalosaurus stands for

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Thick headed reptile

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Pachycephalosaurus was from

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End of the late cretaceous in North America

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Pachycephalosaurus characteristics included

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Bipedal, thickened boney dome, knobs and spikes head

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Triceratops lived

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67-65 MA

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The most common ceratopsians from the late cretaceous (From China and Mongolia) is

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Protoceratops

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Protoceratops was

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Quadrupedal, had a beak and frill but no horns.

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Apatosaurus was from the

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Late Jurassic, Morrison Formation

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Diplodocus was from the

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Morrison Formation

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Diplodocus had a

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small head and whip like tail

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Brachiosaurus did not have the skeletal structure to

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hold its head up

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Brachiosaurs is the only dinosaur with

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Longer front limbs than hind limbs.

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Eraptor, Herrerasaurus and Coelophysus are all considered

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Basal theropods

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Coelophysus is from the ______ Period

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Triassic

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Coelophysus is considered a _______ theropod

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primitive

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Allosaurus is from the ________ Period

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late Jurassic in North America, Europe and Central Africa

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Coelophysus's skull is

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Bony with otic ring, large antiorbital, postorbital and mandibular fenestrae, elongate jaw, wide gape

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Tyrannosaurus is from the ________ Period

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Latest Cretaceous, 70-65 MA

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Ornithomimus is from the _______ Period

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Latest Cretaceous

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Almost all Ornithomimus have

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Elongated snouts, beak, no teeth.

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Ornithomimus is considered to be an

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Omnivore

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Oviraptor is from

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Late Cretaceous, Mongolia

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Oviraptors had

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long necks and short skulls with a bony crest

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Velociraptors were from

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Late Cretaceous, China, Mongolia

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Deinonychus was from

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Middle cretaceous, North America, Montana and Wyoming

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Deinonychus has

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Light weight, relatively large head, raptor with 3-fingered hand, one enlarged, sickle-shaped claw on 2nd digit of hind foot, backwardly directing pubis, ossified tendons to stiffen tail

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The oldest bird skeleton is

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Archaeopteryx

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Archaeopteryx was from

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Late Jurassic, Germany

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__________ is a Theropod with feathers

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Archaeopteryx

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___________ could not fly, but could possibly glide.

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Confusiusornis