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Lokiceratops (meaning " Loki horned face") is an extinct genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous ( Campanian) Judith River Formation of Montana, United States. The genus contains a single species, L. rangiformis, known from most of the skull and a partial skeleton. Four other ceratopsians are known from the same ...
Dinosaurs Alive! is a 2007 IMAX documentary produced by Giant Screen Films about various dinosaurs that inhabited the Earth between 251 and 65 Ma. The documentary features animals from the Triassic period of New Mexico to the Cretaceous period of Mongolia , as well as the American Museum of Natural History's research on both periods.
The Cretaceous–Paleogene ( K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, [b] was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, [2] [3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
The Early Cretaceous was an important time for the dinosaurs of Africa because it was when Africa finally separated from South America, forming the South Atlantic Ocean. This was an important event because now the dinosaurs of Africa started developing endemism because of isolation. The Late Cretaceous of Africa is known mainly from North Africa.
Shaximiao Formation ( Middle Jurassic, Bathonian to Callovian ) China. The holotype specimen was discovered during the construction of the museum where it is now housed. Albalophosaurus. 2009. Kuwajima Formation ( Early Cretaceous, Valanginian to Hauterivian ) Japan. Only known from fragments of a skull. Albinykus.
Velociraptor ( / vəˌlɒsɪˈræptər, vəˈlɒsɪræptər /; [1] lit. 'swift thief') is a genus of small dromaeosaurid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 75 million to 71 million years ago. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past.
Tarbosaurus. Raptorex kriegsteini. Tarbosaurus ( / ˌtɑːrbəˈsɔːrəs / TAR-bə-SOR-əs; meaning "alarming lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurine theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia about 70 million years ago, during the Maastrichtian age at the end of the Late Cretaceous period, considered to contain a single known species: Tarbosaurus ...
Birds are avian dinosaurs, and in phylogenetic taxonomy their over 11,000 extant species are included in the group Dinosauria. Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles [note 1] of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the ...