PROJECT 1 - Ex1
PROJECT 1 - Ex1
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Introduction
1921. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Division.
Dinosaurs first appeared about 225 million years
ago and continually evolved to inhabit diverse
environments and geographic areas; indeed,
dinosaur fossils have been found on every
continent. For more than 100 million years
dinosaurs were the dominant terrestrial animals.
Then, about 65 million years ago, the majority of non-avian dinosaurs and other
species became extinct within a geologically brief period of time.
The term Dinosauria was coined just over 150 years ago by the British anatomist
and vertebrate paleontologist Richard Owen, referring to the three large fossil
"terrible lizards" that had been discovered in Europe. Later in the 19th century,
many discoveries of dinosaur fossils were made in the western United States, and
that period has been called the Golden Age of Dinosaur Studies.
Allosaurus carnosaurian
Saurischia 1 Triassic
Sauropodomorpha 2 Triassic
Prosauropoda 2 Jurasisic