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Ankylosaurs are defined by what major characteristic?
Armor / Spikes on the back.
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Nodosaur is different than the Ankylosaur in what major way?
Nodosaur has no tail club, yet it has much larger spikes.
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Ankylosaurs mouth is what type of mouth?
Beak
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What is the aproxamite size of the ankylosaur
5m
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Who discovered the Ankylosoaur?
Richard Owen.
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Where was the Ankylosaur discovered?
Asia
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Are there many full specimens of the ankylosoar?
No. 3-4
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For what reason are many fossils found in Mongolia , upright?
Because they were burried so suddenly in what probably was sandstorms.
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What causes the terminal club at the end of the ankylosaur's tail?
fused vertibrate.
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How come the fossils found in the coast line / coastal regions of North America were found upside down?
Because of the weight of the armor on the ankylosoaur when in water would flip the body/skeleton over so the heavy armor is on the bottom.
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does the ankylosoaur live in a herd or not?
It does not live in a herd
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What is a secondary palat, and which dinosaur has this?
Ankylosaur has this, and it's a second palat in the mouth so it can chew / breath simultaneosly
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How fast could an ankylosaur walk/move?
3km/h around
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Patchy was mainly in what time era?
Late Cretaceos
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What dinosaur was like patchysaurus but had a flattened skull roof instead of rounded?
Homalocephalidae
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Patchy's teeth were like?
Just peg-like gripping teeth,
No dental batteries
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Patchy's rib cage was what?
Broad, room for a fat gut
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Which dinosaur was like patchy, but the head was just for show and not for butting / fighting?
Stygimoloch
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Ceretopsia evolved from what to what?
1-2m bipeds to 5-10 m quadropeds
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Ceretopsia's origin is when and where?
Late jurrasic, Asia.
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Stegoceras was defined by what?
roof horn
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Neocerotopsia are what type of cerotopsia ?
quadropedal
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psittocerotopsia are what type of cerotopsia ?
bipedal
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Ceratopsia had what type of teeth?
dental battery
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What's unique about the ceratopsia's jaw muscle's?
they attach through the lower temporal opening to the base of their frill
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Toroceratops is what type of unique ceratopsia?
The largest ceratopsia
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Ceratopsia lived in herds or not?
Herds ya boii
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Ornithapoda dinosaurs are in which time zones?
early jurrasic -> late cretaceos
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Iguanadons (Ornithapod's) had what size brains?
Large
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Ornithapod's had what type of teeth?
Dental Batterys
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The gut of orthopoda suggests?
fermentation of food
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Lambeosaurines had what distinct?
- a hollow resonating crest on the top of it's head..
- (hadrosaur)
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plateosaurus was known for it's what?
it's a saurapodamorpha with a claw on it's hand
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saurapodamorpha were herdo or not?
saurapodamorpha lived in herds.
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saurapodamorpha discovered in africa in ?
1907, tanzania , largest excivation
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diplodocus is known for it's
long skinnnny tale
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the camerasauras's skull is
short/stubby
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Arguments against saurapodamorpha having to live in the water to support it's massive body?
water pressure, collapsing lungs.
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Saurapodamorpha's forlimbs were larger than backlimbs, true or false?
true
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basal saurapoda were this type of walker
bipedal
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Which time zones were therapoda in?
all..
triassic -> cretaceos
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What's the Coelophysis known for?
The best known predatory dinosaur. Thereapoda
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Deinonychus is known for doing what?
jumping on it's prey and slashing with toenails and fingernails.. which happen to be massive deadly claws
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Coelophysis is known to live where?
Ghost ranch with the Velocoraptor
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Carnotaurus is the lineage where of what ?
It's a special therapoda lineage similar to the T-Rex on Gondwana land , it has two distinctive ridges/horns on it's head.
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Tetanurae means
Stiff Tail
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T-Rex's front teeth are:
D shaped in cross section
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How did therapoda reach such large sizes?
Plentiful food in Cretaceos,
Tons of ceratopsians + hadrosaurs etc
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Allosaurus is a ?
therapod
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What would happen when T-Rex's teeth were lost?
They re-grew as needed
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Troodontids had the biggest _____?
brain
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