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List of dinosaur specimens

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Notable dinosaur specimens can individually increase science's knowledge about the life and world of the dinosaurs.

Ornithopods

Hadrosaurs

Nickname Catalogue Number Institution Taxon Age Unit Country Notes Images

Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur[1]

2000 P-02[2]

University of Alaska Museum[2]

Hadrosauridae, indeterminate.[3]

Middle Turonian[4]

Matanuska Formation[5]

 USA[1]

This specimen was the first occurrence of a hadrosaur in south-central Alaska, one out of only four vertebrate fossils from the entire Wrangellia Composite Terrane, and the first associated skeleton of an individual dinosaur in Alaska.[1]

File:Edmontosaurusmummy.jpg
The "Trachodon mummy".

Trachodon mummy

American Museum of Natural History

Edmontosaurus annectens

 USA

Theropods

Dromaeosaurs

Nickname Catalogue Number Institution Taxon Age Unit Country Notes Images

Fighting Dinosaurs

Velociraptor mongoliensis

 Mongolia

Preserves a Velociraptor mongoliensis locked in combat with a Protoceratops andrewsi.

File:Fightingdinosamnh2.jpg
The "Fighting Dinosaurs" specimen of V. mongoliensis and Protoceratops andrewsi

N/A

TMP88.121.39[6]

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology[7]

Saurornitholestes[6]

Campanian[6]

Dinosaur Park Formation[6]

 Canada[8]

Partial skeleton of Saurornitholestes including a dentary with toothmarks left by a juvenile tyrannosaur.[9]

Tyrannosaurs

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Abstract," Pasch and May (2001); page 219.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Introduction," Pasch and May (2001); page 220.
  3. "Hadrosaur Skeletal Material from the Talkeetna Mountains," Pasch and May (2001); page 224.
  4. "Age of the Bone-Bearing Unit," Pasch and May (2001); page 220.
  5. "Location and Geologic Setting," Pasch and May (2001); page 220.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Description," Jacobsen (2001); page 59.
  7. "Introduction," Jacobsen (2001); page 59.
  8. "Abstract," Jacobsen (2001); page 58.
  9. "Description," Jacobsen (2001); page 59. "Conclusions," Jacobsen (2001); page 61.

References

  • Pasch, A. D., K. C. May. 2001. Taphonomy and paleoenvironment of hadrosaur (Dinosauria) from the Matanuska Formation (Turonian) in South-Central Alaska. In: Mesozioc Vertebrate Life. Ed.s Tanke, D. H., Carpenter, K., Skrepnick, M. W. Indiana University Press. Pages 219-236.


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