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51 Cards in this Set
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Dinosaur
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Sir Richard Owen; dino=terrible; saur=reptile aka dinosauria
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Iguanodon
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Mantel; don=tooth aka Iguana-tooth; put 'horn' on top of head- actually a claw
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Megalasaurus
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Buckland; mega= big aka big reptile
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Hylaeosaurus
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Mantel; aka woodland reptile
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Trachadon
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Leidy; duck billed since he has enough bones to reconstruct- proved that all dinosaurs were not quadra-pedal.
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Cope
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Willed brain to be weighed;
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Marsh
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found more dinosaur specimens. Together they collected over 100.
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Mesozoic
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Age of dinosaurs
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Triassic
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oldest; 210-245 millions years; dinosaurs first appear.
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Jurassic
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middle era; 135-210 million years
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Cretaceaous
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65-135 million years; when became extinct
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radio-metric dating
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half lifes; used to date dinosaurs
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igneous rock
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fire formed; usually comes from lava; Ex. granite; only time dinosaurs would be found here is in ashes
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sedimentary rock
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layered rock; most fossils are found here; can NOT date the rock.
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stratigraphy
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study of sedimentary sequencing.
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index fossils
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short lived; dates rocks based of what is found in the sediment.
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relative dating
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when a fossil is dateable and then applied elsewhere.
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permineralization
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when organic materials are replaced by inorganic materials; why bones turn black and get heavy
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petrified
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when all organic materials are gone
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trace fossil
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evidence of existance but not actual part of the creature. Ex. tracks, coprolite, gastroliths.
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Gastrolith
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stomach stones; found in weaker stomached creatures.
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paleogeography
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study of plate techtonics
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Gondwana
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southern part
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Larasia
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northern part; along with gondwana made Pangea
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endemic
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when a species is geographically restricted.
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pterapsids
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more primative plants; seedless; had to live in extremely wet areas; present day ferns
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gymnosperms
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present day confirs; have weak seeds; triassic and jurassic
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angiosperms
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flowering plants; most durable seeds; first appear early cretaceous; cross pollination.
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Kings Put Crowns On Famous Girl Scouts
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kingdon; phylym, class, order, family, genus, species
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anapsid
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no openings; ex. turtles
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synapsid
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mammal like reptile; walked on land; 1 lower opening
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euryapsida
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large marine reptiles; 1 upper opening
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diapsid
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2 openings; dinosaurs, crocodiles; snakes
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thecodonts
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rooted teeth; primative archeosaurs;
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pterosauria
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petri; flying reptiles
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crocodilia
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crodiles; alligators
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saurischia
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dinosaurs; lizard hipped
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ornithisechia
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dinosaurs; ortho= birds; bird hipped
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eoraptor
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order theropoda; dawn raptor; late triassic; argentina
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herrasaurus
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herra's reptile; late triassic; argentina; order theropoda
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staurikosaurus
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Brazil; cross reptile; late triassic
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ceratosaurus
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horned reptile; suborder ceratosauria; late triassic
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coelophysis
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unequal growth; 6 ft long
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dilophoaurus
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double crested dinosaur; one who spit poison in Jurassic Park;
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Family Ornithomosauridae
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bird mimic; have no teeth; fast runners; long arms; late creataceous; has gastralia( stomach ribs) small carnivors; sudorder tenanurae
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Family oviraptoridae
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late cretaceous; toothless; no gastralia; have a clavical; egg thief; small carnivors?
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Family Troodonidae
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gnaw tooth; have a lot of teeth; long legs; fast; used their hands; late cretaceous; huge brain and eyes; SMARTEST?; suborder tetanurae
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Family Dromaeosauridae
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running reptile; Ex. velociraptor= fast thief; late cretaceous; tetanurae.
Ex. deinonychus= terrible claw |
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Family Allosauridae
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BIG; late Jurassic; Ex. allosaurus= strange reptile; 30 ft long; larger head and body-shorter arms; 3 claws; monolophosaurus= early cretacous; Asia; has one crest on head-mohawk; Ex. acrocanthosaurus: high spined reptile
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Other Carnosaurs
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Ex. crylophosaurus= Hammer's dino; frozen crested dinosaur; first dino found in antartica; early jurassic; Ex. carnotaurus= carviorous bull; 2 horns that look like functional weapons; South America; shorter skull and bite; Ex. spinosaurus: spine; huge sail like crest on the spin; thermo regulating device.
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Family Tyrannosauridae
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Ex. tyrannosaurus: tyrant; 45 feet long; huge head; extremely short arms with 2 claws. albertasaurus=found mainly in Alberta Canada.
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