Ancestors

Written by llewelly on 2025-01-19 at 19:08

which dinosaurs are genuine dinosaur genera?

[#]dinosaurs

[#]fossils

[#]sauropodSaturday

[#]quiz

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Toot

Written by llewelly on 2025-01-19 at 19:23

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Zuul crurivastator is a real ankylosaurine dinosaur, an armored dinosaur with a tail club, named after the monster Zuul in the movie Ghostbusters, because its face looks a little like the movie monster. Among the best-preserved dinosaurs ever found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuul

But it's not the only one in the list.

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Descendants

Written by llewelly on 2025-01-19 at 19:26

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Supersaurus vivianae is a real diplodicid sauropod dinosaur, with a long neck and a long tail, much like Diplodocus, which is in the same family, but much larger. Found at Dry Mesa in eastern Colorado, with a (likely) second specimen found in Wyoming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersaurus

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Written by llewelly on 2025-01-19 at 19:31

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Tyrannus is a genus of Tyrant flycatchers, containing over 100 living species spread across North and South America. Most are tiny songbirds which live by catching flying insects. If you're old, you may not know that all birds are a group of theropod dinosaurs, so this one is still a dinosaur!

(not to be confused with a much larger, non-avian theropod dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant_flycatcher

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Written by llewelly on 2025-01-19 at 19:34

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Yi qi (meaning strange wing) is a tiny, "bat-winged" gliding dinosaur, with membranous wings, probably not capable of powered flight, but probably living in trees. Found in China. The dinosaur genus with the shortest name, and tied with the bat genus Ea for shortest vertebrate genus name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_(dinosaur)

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