Animals · Curated list
Tyrannosaurus, Archaeopteryx, Triceratops and 27 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the dinosaur's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
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Genus of Late Cretaceous theropod
A genus of large theropod dinosaur. Its type species, Tyrannosaurus rex (often T. rex for short, or T-Rex in casual use), is among the best represented theropods.
Wikidata · Photo: ScottRobertAnselmo, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Extinct genus of bird-like dinosaurs
An extinct genus of dinosaurs like birds, sometimes called by its German name, "Urvogel ". The genus name is made from the Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος, 'ancient', and πτέρυξ, 'feather, wing'.
Wikidata · Photo: Emily Willoughby (emily.a.willoughby@gmail.com), CC BY-SA 4.0
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Genus of Late Cretaceous dinosaur
A ceratopsian dinosaur of the chasmosaurine group that lived about 69 to 66 million years ago, towards the close of the Late Cretaceous, in its late Maastrichtian age, on the island continent of Laramidia, now western North America. Among the last non-avian dinosaurs known, it lasted until the extinction event that ended the Cretaceous and began the Paleogene, 66 million years ago.
Wikidata · Photo: Source: Allie_Caulfield Derivative: User:MathKnight, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Genus of Late Cretaceous dinosaur
A genus of small dromaeosaurid dinosaurs of Asia that lived in the Late Cretaceous, between about 75 million and 71 million years ago (Mya). Today two of its species are recognised, though others have been assigned to it in the past.
Wikidata · Photo: Eduard Solà Vázquez, CC BY 3.0
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Genus of Late Jurassic armored dinosaur
A genus of extinct armoured dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic that walked on four legs and ate plants, known for the upright kite-shaped plates along their backs and the spikes on their tails. Its fossils come from the western United States and from Portugal, in strata of Kimmeridgian to Tithonian age, between 155 and 145 million years old.
Wikidata · Photo: Susannah Maidment et al. & Natural History Museum, London, CC BY 4.0
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Genus of spinosaurid dinosaur
A genus of large spinosaurid theropods that lived about 100 to 94 million years ago, in the Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous, in present-day North Africa. It was first known from Egyptian remains found in 1912, which the German palaeontologist Ernst Stromer described in 1915.
Wikidata · Photo: 3blindMies, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaurs (fossil)
An extinct genus of diplodocid sauropods from the Late Jurassic of Europe and North America. S. W. Williston found the first fossils of it in 1877.
Wikidata · Photo: Gunnar Ries Amphibol, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sauropod dinosaur genus from the late Jurassic Period
A genus of sauropod that lived in North America in the Late Jurassic, some 155.6 to 145.5 million years ago. The American paleontologist Elmer S. Riggs first described it in 1903, from fossils dug up in western Colorado, United States, in the valley of the Colorado River.
Wikidata · Photo: Matt Wedel, CC BY 3.0
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Sauropod dinosaur genus from Late Jurassic period
A genus of sauropod that ate plants and lived in North America in the Late Jurassic. Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the first species known, Apatosaurus ajax, in 1877; William H. Holland found and named a second, Apatosaurus louisae, in 1916.
Wikidata · Photo: Tadek Kurpaski from London, Poland, CC BY 2.0
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Genus of theropod dinosaur
A genus of theropod that lived in the late Jurassic, 155 to 143 million years ago. Othniel C. Marsh described, in 1877, the first fossils that can be firmly assigned to it.
Wikidata · Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Sheep81~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
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Genus of ornithopod dinosaurs
A genus of iguanodontian dinosaur named in 1825. Many species from around the world, from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, have been placed in it, but revisions early in the 21st century rest the genus on at least one well-established species, Iguanodon bernissartensis. That species lived in Spain, England, Germany and Belgium some 126 to 122 million years ago, from the Barremian to the early Aptian.
Wikidata · Photo: Nobu Tamura email:nobu.tamura@yahoo.com http://spinops.blogspot.com/, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Ankylosaurid dinosaur genus from the Late Cretaceous Period
A genus of armoured dinosaur whose fossils come from rock formations of western North America laid down right at the end of the Cretaceous, about 70-66 million years ago, which makes it one of the last non-avian dinosaurs.
Wikidata · Photo: Tim Evanson, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period
A genus of carnivorous theropod that lived in Europe and North America in the Late Jurassic. The American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh first described it in 1884, from a nearly complete skeleton found in Garden Park, Colorado, in rocks of the Morrison Formation.
Wikidata · Photo: NobuTamura email:nobu.tamura@yahoo.com, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaur genus from Late Cretaceous Period
A genus of "duck-billed" hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived about 76.5–73 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, in present-day western North America and perhaps in Asia. A large plant-eater, it could grow beyond 9 metres (30 ft) in length and 5 metric tons in weight, and could walk on two legs or on four.
Wikidata · Photo: Parasaurolophuspic_steveoc.jpg : Steveoc86 derivative work: Crisco 1492 ( talk ), CC BY 2.5
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Extinct genus of giant sauropod dinosaur
A genus of giant sauropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Argentina. Though known only from fragments, it was one of the largest land animals known ever to have lived, some 30–35 m (98–115 ft) long and 65–80 t in weight.
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Genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period
A genus of theropod that lived in South America in the Late Cretaceous, 69 to 66 million years ago. Its one species is Carnotaurus sastrei.
Wikidata · Photo: Carnotaurus, Chlupáč Museum, Prague-2.jpg : Czech Wikipedia user Packa derivative work: Hic et nunc, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Genus of bipedal predatory dinosaur
A genus of large tyrannosaurid that lived in northwestern North America about 71 million years ago, in the Latest Campanian to middle Maastrichtian of the Late Cretaceous. The type species, A. sarcophagus, seems to have lived only in what is now Alberta, the Canadian province that gives the genus its name, though a species not yet identified has been found in Mexico, in the Packard and Corral de Enmedio Formations.
Wikidata · Photo: Sebastian Bergmann from Siegburg, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Genus of dinosaurs
A genus of small theropod that walked on two legs and ate meat. Its only species, Compsognathus longipes, grew to about the size of a chicken.
Wikidata · Photo: Jaime A. Headden ( User:Qilong ), CC BY 3.0
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Genus of theropod dinosaur
A genus of dromaeosaurid theropod with one described species, Deinonychus antirrhopus, which could reach 3.4 meters (11 ft) in length and lived about 115–98 million years ago, in the Early and Late Cretaceous.
Wikidata · Photo: Laika ac from USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Extinct genus of dinosaurs
A genus of small, lightly built dinosaur, a basal sauropodomorph. One of the earliest dinosaurs and earliest sauropodomorphs known, it lived about 231 to 228 million years ago, in the Late Triassic, in Western Gondwana, in what is now northwestern Argentina.
Wikidata · Photo: Kentaro Ohno, CC BY 2.0
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Genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic
A genus of theropods that lived about 186 million years ago, in the Early Jurassic, in what is now North America. Three skeletons were found in 1940 in northern Arizona; the two in the best condition were collected in 1942.
Wikidata · Photo: Sebastian Bergmann from Siegburg, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Hadrosaurid dinosaur genus from Late Cretaceous US and Canada
A genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur, known informally and in the past as Anatotitan or Anatosaurus. It has two known species, Edmontosaurus annectens and Edmontosaurus regalis.
Wikidata · Photo: Charles H. Sternberg, Public domain
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Genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs
A genus of ornithischian dinosaur in the family Pachycephalosauridae. P. wyomingensis, its type species, is the one species known for certain.
Wikidata · Photo: Credit to - user Ballista from the English wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0
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Carcharodontosaurid dinosaur genus from the Cretaceous period
A genus of large theropod that lived about 111 to 106 million years ago, in the Albian age of the Early Cretaceous, in what is now Argentina. Its holotype, nearly 70% complete, was found in 1993 in the Candeleros Formation of Patagonia.
Wikidata · Photo: Dmitry Bogdanov, Public domain
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Genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur from the Cretaceous period
A genus of large theropod that lived in Northwest Africa some 100 to 94 million years ago, in the Cenomanian age of the late Cretaceous. The French paleontologists Charles Depéret and Justin Savornin first described it in 1925, as Megalosaurus saharicus, from two fossil teeth found in Algeria that have since been lost.
Wikidata · Photo: Franko Fonseca from Redondo Beach, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous
A genus of carcharodontosaurid that lived in what is now North America from 125 to 99.6 million years ago, spanning the Early and Late Cretaceous from the Barremian stage to the early Cenomanian. As with most dinosaur genera, it has just one species, A. atokensis.
Wikidata · Photo: Petr Menshikov ( https://twitter.com/Petr75113553 ; https://vk.com/prehistoricproduction ), CC BY-SA 4.0
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Genus of theropod dinosaurs
A genus of theropod that lived about 130–125 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous, during its Barremian stage. The first skeleton, found in 1983 in the Weald Clay Formation at the Smokejack Clay Pit in Surrey, England, became the holotype of Baryonyx walkeri, which the palaeontologists Angela C. Milner and Alan J. Charig named in 1986.
Wikidata · Photo: Andrey Atuchin, CC BY 4.0
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Sauropodomorph dinosaur from southern Africa
A genus of sauropodomorph from the Early Jurassic of southern Africa. Richard Owen described it in 1854 from remains found in South Africa, making it one of the first dinosaurs ever named.
Wikidata · Photo: Photograph by User:Ballista Image edited in Adobe PhotoShop by User:Firsfron, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Genus of theropod dinosaurs from the late Triassic
An extinct genus of coelophysid theropods that lived roughly 215 to 201.4 million years ago, in the late Triassic, from the middle Norian to the Rhaetian age, in the present-day southwestern United States. Megapnosaurus was at one time regarded as a species of this genus, but that view has been disputed, and Megapnosaurus is now accepted as a genus of its own.
Wikidata · Photo: Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0
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Extinct genus of dinosaurs
A genus of oviraptorid that lived in Asia in the Late Cretaceous. Its first remains were collected in 1923 from Mongolia's Djadokhta Formation, on an expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews; a year later Henry Fairfield Osborn named the genus and its type species, Oviraptor philoceratops.
Wikidata · Photo: Internet Archive Book Images, Public domain
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