T. rex

T. rexes (plural)
T. Rex (alternative)
T-rex (alternative)
T-Rex (alternative)
T.-rex (alternative)
T.-Rex (alternative)

Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. (The physical discrepancies between younger and older T. rexes can be so vast that experts have argued over whether certain specimens are different species altogether, rather than different ages.)

2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times:

Tyrannosaurus rex
Tyrannosaurus rex#English


trike

Ellie: Oh, you know, if it's alright, I'd like to stay with Dr. Harding and finish with the trike. Is that okay?


dinosaur

dinosaurs (plural)
deinosaur (alternative)
Dinosaur (alternative)
dinosaurus (alternative)

→ French: dinosaure

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→ Arabic: ديناصور

→ Arabic: ديناصور

→ Khmer: ឌីណូស័រ (diinousɔə)

→ Romanian: dinozaur

→ Greek: δεινόσαυρος (deinósavros)

→ Hindi: डायनासोर (ḍāynāsor), डाइनोसर (ḍāinosar)

→ Latin: dinosaurus

→ Malay: dinosaur

→ Persian: دایناسور (dâynâsor)

→ Polish: dinozaur

→ Thai: ไดโนเสาร์ (dai-noo-sǎo)

→ Urdu: ڈایناسور (ḍāenāsor)

→ Urdu: ڈایناسور (ḍāenāsor)

/ˈdʌɪnəsɔːɹ/

From Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “terrible, awesome, mighty, fearfully great”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”). Coined as Dinosaur(s) and Dinosauria by paleontologist Richard Owen in 1841/1842.

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"Not a bird, my dear Roxton - not a bird." "A beast?" "No; a reptile - a dinosaur."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

‘Dinosaur!’ Denham exploded. ‘By the Power! A dinosaur!’

1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 80:

(proscribed) Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago, as well as the stem-mammal Dimetrodon.


dinosaurus

en-noun

dinosaurus (plural dinosauri or dinosauruses)

dinosauri (plural)
dinosauruses (plural)


velociraptor

From New Latin Velociraptor genus name, from vēlōx (“swift”) + raptor (“thief”).
The application to Deinonychus came about because Gregory S. Paul proposed that Velociraptor and Deinonychus were the same genus and this idea was taken up in the book leading to the Jurassic Park film series.

This is my favorite velociraptor, and that is saying a lot....That this species is sunk into Velociraptor is rather unfortunate, because the name Deinonychus Ostrom 1969a is a fine one.

1988, Gregory S. Paul, Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 366–7:


Tyrannosaurus rex

Tyrannosaurus rex (plural Tyrannosaurus rex or Tyrannosaurus rexes or Tyrannosauri reges)

Tyrannosaurus rex (plural)
Tyrannosaurus rexes (plural)
Tyrannosauri reges (plural)
Tyrannosaurus Rex (alternative)
tyrannosaurus rex (alternative)

/taɪˌɹænəˈsɔːɹəs ˈɹɛks/

/təˌɹænəˈsɔːɹəs ˈɹɛks/

Some of the most spectacular beasts in East Coast museums happen to be Tyrannosaurus rexes from Montana.

1999, Fred Setterberg, America: True Stories of Life on the Road, →ISBN, page 244:

"Now, Dr. Richgels, you picked a folder from the story box. Could you show us the one that you picked?" Mine shows two Tyrannosaurus rexes fighting […]

2003, Donald J. Richgels, Going to Kindergarten: A Year with an Outstanding Teacher, →ISBN, page 222:

So Lyell's view is not inconsistent with Dollo's Law of Irreversibility in that, under awful (i.e., evolutionary) changes, biological organisms would not follow the same unlikely path regenerating, say, DNA-exact Tyrannosaurus rexes from ancestral chicken stock in some future age.

2009, Allen A. Debus, Prehistoric Monsters: The Real and Imagined Creatures of the Past, →ISBN, page 251:

A giant carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous period.


tyrannosaur

So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.

2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American:

Instead it belongs to a new species of tyrannosaur, which the researchers have dubbed Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis in a paper published on January 11 in Scientific Reports.

2024 November 1, Meghan Bartels, “Enigmatic Dinosaur Skull Sparks Debate over Tyrannosaur Evolution”, in Scientific American:

Any large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the family Tyrannosauridae, that lived in North America during the Cretaceous period.


ankylosaurus

ankylosaurus (plural ankylosauri or ankylosauruses)

ankylosauri (plural)
ankylosauruses (plural)

/ˌæŋkəloʊˈsɔːɹəs/

From the genus translingual Ankylosaurus, from Ancient Greek ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “crooked”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”); by surface analysis, ankylo- + -saurus. The word was coined in 1908 by Brown, who did not give any explanation. It may have been intended to refer to ankylosis, a medical condition in which bones fuse and can cause a deformity. Ankylosaurs have some rear ribs fused to their vertebrae.

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A large herbivorous dinosaur, of genus Ankylosaurus, that lived in the Cretaceous period, noted for its heavy armor and club-like tail.

aнкилозавър

large herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous of genus Ankylosaurus


ankylosaur

/ˈæŋkəloʊˌsɔːɹ/

Any herbivorous dinosaur in the suborder Ankylosauria, having armor in the form of bony osteoderms.


tyrannosaurus

en-noun

tyrannosaurus (plural tyrannosauri or tyrannosauruses)

tyrannosauri (plural)
tyrannosauruses (plural)

/tɪˌɹænəˈsɔːɹəs/

/taɪˌɹænəˈsɔːɹəs/

From New Latin Tyrannosaurus, from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “tyrant”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

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Any large carnivorous dinosaur, of the genus Tyrannosaurus, found in North America during the late Cretaceous period.


sauropod

His most memorable work is an illustrated compendium of dinosaurian copulatory positions - a sort of reptilian Kama Sutra - that includes a “leg over” manoeuvre by the sauropods, the largest dinosaurs of all - that many consider highly dubious.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 21:

A member of the Sauropoda suborder of dinosaurs


duckbill

duckbills (plural)
duck-bill (alternative)

duckbill eel

Nettastoma parviceps, or Nessorhamphus ingolfianus

duckbill ray

Aetobatus narinari or Pteromylaeus bovinus

duck-billed platypus
duck-billed platypus


brontosaur

brontosaurs (plural)
brontosaurus (alternative)


apatosaur

From scientific Latin Apatosaurus (genus name).

A large, herbivorous, gregarious sauropod dinosaur, of the genus Apatosaurus, from Jurassic North America; it had a long neck and tail.

apatosaure

large, herbivorous dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus


brontosaurus

en-noun

brontosaurus (plural brontosauruses or brontosauri)

brontosauruses (plural)
brontosauri (plural)

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”) + -saurus.

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One of the largest land animals to ever walk the earth; a Brontosaurus.


diplodocus

From Ancient Greek διπλόος (diplóos, “double”) and δοκός (dokós, “beam”).

uder

Any of several herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs, of the genus Diplodocus, known as fossils from the late Jurassic in North America.


brachiosaurus

en-noun

brachiosaurus (plural brachiosauruses or brachiosauri)

brachiosauruses (plural)
brachiosauri (plural)

Borrowed from translingual Brachiosaurus, from brachio- + -saurus; literally “arm lizard”, relating to the great length of its forelegs compared to its hindlegs.

A large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, Brachiosaurus altithorax, which lived during the Jurassic period.


stegosaur

Any of several extinct herbivorous dinosaurs, of the suborder Stegosauria, having two rows of bony plates along the back.


ceratopsian

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Ceratops</i>

Triceratops is a ceratopsian dinosaur.

One common ceratopsian feature is a frill extending from the back of the skull.

Of or belonging to the Ceratopsia suborder of dinosaurs.


coelurosaurian

Any dinosaur of the taxonomic group Coelurosauria


theropod

Any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the suborder Theropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.


gigantoraptor

A gigantic birdlike theropod dinosaur, Gigantoraptor erlianensis, from the late Cretaceous period of China


ceratopsid

Any member of the family †Ceratopsidae of dinosaurs.


psittacosaur

Any dinosaur of the family Psittacosauridae; a psittacosaurus.


psittacosaurus

Coined in 1923 by Henry Fairfield Osborn from Ancient Greek ψιττακός (psittakós, “parrot”) + Ancient Greek σαύρα (saúra, “lizard”), due to its parrot-like beak

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Any of several dinosaurs, of the genus Psittacosaurus, that lacked horns


psittacosaurid

en-adj

psittacosaurid (comparative more psittacosaurid, superlative most psittacosaurid)

more psittacosaurid (comparative)
most psittacosaurid (superlative)

From the taxonomic name for the family, itself derived from the name of the type genus Psittacosaurus, coined in 1923 by Henry Fairfield Osborn from Ancient Greek ψιττακός (psittakós, “parrot”) + Ancient Greek σαύρα (saúra, “lizard”), due to its parrot-like beak.


allosaurus

en-noun

allosaurus (plural allosauri or allosauruses)

allosauri (plural)
allosauruses (plural)

From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other, different”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

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A large, carnivorous dinosaur, of genus Allosaurus, that lived in the Jurassic period.


dromaeosaurid

dromaeosaurids (plural)
dromæosaurid (alternative)

(paleontology) A bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.


thagomizer

thagomizers (plural)
thagomiser (alternative)

/ˈθæɡ.ə.maɪ.zəɹ/

Coined by cartoonist Gary Larson in 1982. His comic strip (image on the right) shows a caveman giving a lecture illustrating this part of a dinosaur, with the caption "Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons". See -ize, -er.

coinage

Like the thagomizer of the stegosaur, the ankylosaurid tail club was probably used to smash into attackers.

2001, Thomas R. Holtz with Terry Riley, The Little Giant Book of Dinosaurs, page 54:

An Allosaurus backbone had a hole in which a Stegosaurus thagomizer fitted perfectly. Over the years, many of the fossil thagomizers that have been dug up have had broken tips.

2008 August 1, Gary Jeffrey, Stegosaurus: The Plated Dinosaur, Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 30:

"Not like that," Snap growled, raising her four fists, swishing her thagomizer around threateningly.

2008 September 17, L. E. Simmons, The Lady of Gold (SnapDragon Adventures 1), 1st edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 135:

An arrangement of spikes found on the tails of various stegosaurs.


apatosaurus

en-noun

apatosaurus (plural apatosauruses or apatosauri)

apatosauruses (plural)
apatosauri (plural)

From Ancient Greek ἀπάτη (apátē, “trick, deception”) + -saurus, due to initial confusion over the analysis of the vertebral elements.

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The American Museum of Natural History’s dinosaur collection is currently under wraps, awaiting the completion of its new display space. The world-renowned collection of saber-toothed tigers, mammoths, apatosauri, and other fossilized vertebrates (does that include Ronald Reagan and Jesse Helms?) will soon be showcased in six new halls on the fourth floor.

1994, Joseph Downton, Eva Leonard, Detour’s New York: The Alternative Guide, Sacramento, Calif.: Detour Publications, →ISBN, page 284, column 2:

In 2342, the fossils were rediscovered during a dig organized by the Atlantic Paleo-Genetic Reclamation Project of the Intersolar Terraforming Commission. They were just the sort of raw material that the Project was looking for. / The Commission had set up a planet that was perfect for millet farming. But the soil there was very rocky. They envisioned the use of customized, vocalizing apatosauri as plow animals.

1997, Stepan Chapman, The Troika, Tallahassee, Fla.: Ministry of Whimsy Press, →ISBN, pages 185–186:

Two ivy-covered dinosaur topiaries, which had formerly decorated the lawn near the Pacific Science Center (see p11) at Seattle Center, now grace Fremont’s narrow Ship Canal Park. To save them from extinction, History House and a group of Fremont artists purchased these in 1999 for $1. The mother, 66-ft (20-m) long, and young apatosauri are now sanctioned by the city and fully integrated into the crazy quilt of what is virtually a neighborhood-wide sculpture garden.

2005, DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Seattle, London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, →ISBN, page 82, column 2:

A large sauropod dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus of the late Jurassic Period, having a long neck and tail and a relatively small head.


thunder lizard

The footprints have already settled one old argument about the Thunder Lizard's habits. Scientists had once argued that the animal's legs could not have supported its tremendous bulk on land and that it was only capable of swimming.

1952, “The Trail of the Thunder Lizard”, in Life, volume 33, number 21, page 67:

(informal) The apatosaurus or brontosaurus.


triceratops

en-noun

triceratops (plural triceratops or triceratopses)

triceratops (plural)
triceratopses (plural)

From translingual Triceratops, from Ancient Greek τρεῖς (treîs, “three”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “face”).

Common name of the extinct genus Triceratops; herbivorous ceratopsids from the late Cretaceous.


brachiosaur

Any of several massive, herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs, of the genus Brachiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.


saurischian

en-adj

saurischian (comparative more saurischian, superlative most saurischian)

more saurischian (comparative)
most saurischian (superlative)

Characteristic of the dinosaurs of the order Saurischia.


parasaurolophus

en-noun

parasaurolophus (plural parasaurolophuses or parasaurolophi)

parasaurolophuses (plural)
parasaurolophi (plural)

From the New Latin genus Parasaurolophus; see there for more.

Forty-eight hours after a single announcement on the 353rd broadcast of the Greater Sinclair Minstrels, one million dinosaur stamp books were distributed through 30,000 Sinclair Dealers. So many additional requests were received that another two million albums were printed and distributed. Only an outstanding program could secure so tremendous a response—even with the aid of brontosauri, parasaurolophi and other long departed dinosaurs.

1936 January 30, “Sinclair Dinosaur Stamp Album: 1 Million from One Broadcast”, in Printers’ Ink: A Journal for Advertisers, volume CLXXIV, number 5, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

Instead of a dramatis personae of species, The Dinosaurs uses its beasts to illustrate climate, daily life, movement, danger, even extinction. So we meet nesting hydrosaurs, a singing pair of parasaurolophi, a herd of treetop-browsing brontosaurs.

1981 December 15, Don Lessem, “Paperbacks ’81: Novelty items with soft covers”, in Richard M. Gaines, editor, The Boston Phoenix, volume X, number 50, Boston, Mass.: Boston Phoenix Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 7 (The Season: Part III), review of “THE DINOSAURS. By William Stout. […]”, page 16, column 5:

The Ride is a swift trip on a water raft through a jungle inhabited by stegosauri, parasaurolophi, dilophosauri, velociraptors and other life-size mechanical dinosaurs.

1996 August 11, Associated Press, “Ride proves fascination with dinosaurs not extinct: Universal Studios Hollywood park is drawing mammoth crowds”, in Springfield News-Leader, volume 106, number 224, Springfield, Mo.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11G, column 1:

Parasaurolophus, a herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of what is now North America that walked both as a biped and a quadruped.

Field Museum of Natural History
parasaurolophus


ornithopod

A type of bipedal, herbivorous, bird-hipped dinosaur from the Cretaceous period, found on all seven continents.


maniraptoran

Unlike lizards and many other dinosaur groups, maniraptorans (including birds) do not shed their skin in large sections, as this would interfere with the feathers.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 125:

(biology) Any of a group of advanced theropods, of the clade Maniraptora, thought to be ancestors of both dinosaurs and birds.


abelisaur

Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. […] Other megatheropods, including abelisaurs and tarbosaurs, also grew from turkey-like hatchlings to bus-sized behemoths over the course of their lives.

2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times:

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the superfamily Abelisauroidea.


dromaeosaur

dromaeosaurs (plural)
dromæosaur (alternative)

In communities with megatheropods, Ms. Schroeder and colleagues found what they call a “carnivore gap”: a large swath of medium-size niches that were empty. For instance, the Hell Creek Formation, a well-studied fossil area that stretches from modern day Utah to Alberta, was once home to 630-pound grown-up dromaeosaurs, 7-ton adult T. rexes — and no mature meat-eaters in between.

Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.


hadrosaur

Back-formation from Hadrosauridae, from the type genus Hadrosaurus, which in turn was derived from Ancient Greek ἁδρός (hadrós, “strong”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

Bipedal hadrosaurs, great hulking lambeosaurs, certain rhino-like ceratopsians and relatives of the velociraptors - all large and probably able swimmers - had the greatest success.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 31:

(paleontology) Any ornithopod dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae.


lambeosaur

From translingual Lambeosaurus, from Lambe + -saurus, named for Lawrence Lambe.

(paleontology) A crested duck-billed dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae.


lambeosaurid

From Lambeosauridae, in turn from the type genus Lambeosaurus, after Lawrence Lambe.

(paleontology, archaic) A member of the putative family of crested hadrosaurs, the Lambeosauridae.


allosauroid

From the clade name Allosauroidea, first proposed by Currie & Zhao in 1993.

(paleontology) Any member of a superfamily clade of dinosaurs including the sinoraptorids, carcharodontosaurids and allosaurids.


oviraptorid

(zoology) A member of the Oviraptoridae, birdlike maniraptoran dinosaurs.


dinosaurian

/ˌdʌɪnə(ʊ)ˈsɔːɹɪən/

From dinosaur + -ian, or Dinosauria + -an.

They were flapping their ears, moving their great stamp-like feet up and down, grinding their teeth, slobbering with their mouths, making borborygmic gurgles and rumbles in their dinosaurian-like bodies, or throwing up their trunks or their tails.

1922 April, Cuthbert Christy, “The African Elephant, Part II”, in Journal of the African Society, volume XXI, number LXXXIII, Macmillan and co., page 194:


oviraptoran

Any of several birdlike dinosaurs of the family †Oviraptoridae.


maiasaur

Any of the species of herbivorous duck-billed dinosaurs in the genus Maiasaura.


stegosaurus

stegosaurus (plural stegosauruses or stegosauri)

stegosauruses (plural)
stegosauri (plural)

From the genus name Stegosaurus. From Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

"You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

So you tell your friends about it, including the people who have no interest in birding and wouldn't know a Le Conte's sparrow from a stegosaurus.

1988 April 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:

A stegosaur, a member of the suborder Stegosauria, of the order Ornithischia of the middle Jurassic to early Cretaceous period.

A member of the genus Stegosaurus within this suborder.


mamenchisaur

Any of the species of long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs in the genus Mamenchisaurus.


plateosaurus

plateosaurus (plural plateosauruses or plateosauri)

plateosauruses (plural)
plateosauri (plural)

Triassic Period: cynognathus (foreground; South Africa), podekosaurus (left; Northern America) and plateosauri (background; Western Europe)

1958, Gustav Fochler-Hauke, translated by W. H. Johnston, Our World and Its Beginnings, London: Odhams Press Limited, facing page 113:

What we know of the history of the dinosaurs begins in the Triassic. The first skeletal remains were found in deposits of the uppermost Middle Triassic but trackways of dinosaurs have been discovered in strata five to six million years older. The largest dinosaurs of that time were the plateosauri which attained more than six metres in length.

1985, Rudolf Daber, Jochen Helms, translated by C.S.V. Salt, Fossils: The Oldest Treasures That Ever Lived, Neptune City, N.J.: T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Ltd., →ISBN, page 161, column 3:

A month before, a mass grave of dinosaur bones was unearthed in Frick. An amateur paleontologist found them. He discovered over one hundred entirely intact skeletons. Fossils of plateosauri two hundred million years old.

2015, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 87:

Any herbivorous dinosaur of the family Plateosauridae.


torosaurus

Any member of the genus †Torosaurus of herbivorous dinosaurs.


troodontid

From translingual Troodontidae, equivalent to translingual Troodon + -id.

So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.

2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American:

Any member of the family †Troodontidae of small, bird-like theropod dinosaurs with large brains, large eyes, and a retractable claw on the second toe of each hind foot, similar to a farmer's sickle, used for slashing at prey.


avialan

Any animal belonging to the clade Avialae, including all birds and a family of dinosaurian relatives


coelurosaur

Any of several small theropod dinosaurs of the clade Coelurosauria


heterodontosaurid

Any of a group of small dinosaurs, of the family Heterodontosauridae, that had characteristic teeth


ornithischian

Any of a group of dinosaurs, of the order Ornithischia, that have hips characteristic of birds.


therizinosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Therizinosauroidea


tyrannosauroid

Two skeletons of the oldest known tyrannosauroid have been discovered in what used to be wetland in the Gobi desert of western China.

2006 Feb, NewScientist, page 19, column 1:

The discovery of simple, shaftless feathers on Dilong paradoxus, a 2-metre-long basal tyrannosauroid from the early Cretaceous of China, led to the suggestion that the tyrannosauroids as a group were feathered.

2017 June 7, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea.


megalosaur

megalosaurs (plural)
megalosaurus (alternative)

As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

A carnivorous dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.


ceratosaur

(zoology) Any of many dinosaurs of the infraorder Ceratosauria.


dinomania

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At this point, we may attempt to define dinomania as the impulse to surround oneself with all forms of dinosaur iconology and to hoard information about their appearance, size, and way of life.

2002, José Luis Sanz, Starring T. rex!: dinosaur mythology and popular culture:

Dinomania didn't start with Jurassic Park - it has been with us since dinosaurs were discovered.

2003, Henry Gee, Luis V Rey, A field guide to dinosaurs:

In 1898, the yellow press snatched up the potential sensation, and invented dinomania. "MOST COLOSSAL ANIMAL EVER ON EARTH JUST FOUND OUT WEST," William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal blared...

2005, David Rains Wallace, Beasts of Eden:


tetanuran

The oldest tetanuran, the crested allosauroid Cryolophosaurus, was discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks on Antarctica and is quite similar to allosauroids from Upper Jurassic rocks on several continents.

1999 June 25, Paul C. Sereno, “The Evolution of Dinosaurs”, in Science, volume 284, number 5423, →DOI, pages 2137–2147:

Any theropod of the clade Tetanurae, all theropods, including birds, that are more closely related to modern birds than to the genus †Ceratosaurus.


bagaceratopsid

Any dinosaur of the genus †Bagaceratops.


leptoceratopsid

Any dinosaur of the family Leptoceratopsidae


titanosaur

But 70 million years ago, near modern-day Asturias in northern Spain, there existed a lagoon, and as the land sank, the sea flooded it at high tide, and the bones of alligators, pterosaurs and dwarf titanosaurs (long-necked sauropod dinosaurs) were buried in the sediment.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 30:

Any member of the taxonomic groups Titanosauria or Titanosauroidea of diverse sauropod dinosaurs including some of the heaviest creatures ever to walk the earth.


seismosaurus

A dinosaur, of genus Seismosaurus, from the Jurassic period


allosaur

Any of several huge carnivorous dinosaurs, of the superfamily Allosauroidea, from the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods

alossauro

any dinosaur of the superfamily Allosauroidea


pachycephalosaur

From the New Latin genus name Pachycephalosaurus, equivalent to pachy- (“thick”) + cephalo- (“head”) + -saur (“lizard”).

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One could almost call Triopticus a mimic were it not for the fact that it dates to 228-220 million years ago, meaning that it predates the pachycephalosaurs by over 100 million years.

2016 September 28, David Hone, “‘Three-eyed’ extinct reptile was a bone-headed dinosaur mimic 100 million years early”, in The Guardian:

Any of a group of herbivorous dinosaurs, of the genus Pachycephalosaurus from the late Cretaceous period.

paksupää

dinosaur of the genus Pachycephalosaurus


iguanodon

From Spanish iguana (from Taíno iwana) + -odon.

August the twenty-eighth - the day we saw five live iguanodons in a glade of Maple White Land.

Any of several large dinosaurs, of the genus Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.


neosauropod

Any sauropod, of the rank Neosauropoda, from the late Jurassic period


ornithomimosaur

Any of several theropod dinosaurs, of the clade Ornithomimosauria, that bore a superficial resemblance to modern ostriches


giganotosaurus

Borrowed from translingual Giganotosaurus, from giga- (“large”) + noto- (“southern”) + -saurus (“lizard”).

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Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.


nodosaurid

(zoology) Any of the ankylosaurian dinosaurs of the family Nodosauridae.


hypsilophodont

Any of the genus †Hypsilophodon of small ornithopod herbivorous dinosaurs.


ankylosaurid

(zoology) Any of the dinosaurs of the family Ankylosauridae.


prosauropod

/pɹoʊˈsɔɹɵpɑd/

The longest trackway (23m) consists of 60cm long, four-toed footprints with one meter long strides in between and can probably be assigned to a prosauropod.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 87:

Any member of the Prosauropoda, a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs with a long neck and small head, forelimbs shorter than the hindlimbs, and a very large thumb claw for defense.


oviraptor

From scientific Latin Oviraptor (genus name), from Latin ōvi- (“ovi-”) + raptor (because it is believed to have fed on the eggs of other dinosaurs).

In all three fossil samples, the concentration of biliverdin is higher than that of protoporphyrin, suggesting that these oviraptor eggs originally were blue-green.

2017 October 11, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

Any of several bipedal dinosaurs, of the genus Oviraptor, from the late Cretaceous period.


compy

I have NT 4.0 setup^([sic]) on my compy and would also like to have win95.

1998, Eric Packwood, “Installing Win95 when having NT 4.0”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc (Usenet):


compy

As used in the novel (and subsequent motion picture) Jurassic Park; shortened from Compsognathus, with -y.

We picked up another compy.

(informal) A member of the genus Compsognathus or Procompsognathus.


spinosaurus

en-noun

spinosaurus (plural spinosauruses or spinosauri)

spinosauruses (plural)
spinosauri (plural)

From the taxonomic name Spinosaurus. By surface analysis, spino- (“spine”) + -saurus (suffix forming names for dinosaurs).

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The first spinosaurus remains were discovered in Egypt in 1911, but they were destroyed in 1944 during World War II. A lot of what is known about spinosauruses comes from skull material found in Morocco and Algeria in later years.

2011, Jay Dale, “Spinosaurus”, in Top Ten Dinosaurs (Deadly and Incredible Animals), Mankato, Minn.: Smart Apple Media, published 2012, →ISBN, page 14:

A large, extinct, carnivorous dinosaur of genus Spinosaurus, with a long snout like that of a crocodile and with a sail on its back. It is considered to be the largest theropod dinosaur.


albertosaurus

A large carnivorous tyrannosaur dinosaur, of genus Albertosaurus, discovered in Alberta, Canada.


tenontosaur

Any of the genus †Tenontosaurus of ornithopod dinosaurs.


hypsilophodontid

Named after the Hypsilophus genus of iguana lizard

An informal grouping of small ornithopod dinosaurs, regarded as fast, herbivorous bipeds on the order of 1–2 meters long (3.3-6.6 feet).


duck-billed dinosaur

en-noun

duck-billed dinosaur (plural duck-billed dinosaurs)

Derived from the similarity of the heads of certain members of the family to those of modern ducks.

The scientists' report, published in Biological Reviews, found that while, largely, the dinosaurs were faring well at the time of the asteroid impact, the big plant-eating types, including the horned triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs, had suffered a loss of biodiversity.

(informal) Any ornithopod dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae.


alvarezsaurid

Any small, long-legged running dinosaur of the family †Alvarezsauridae.


alvarezsauroid

Any small, long-legged running dinosaur of the superfamily Alvarezsauroidea


brachiosaurid

Any herbivorous dinosaur of the family Brachiosauridae.


calamosaur

Any small theropod dinosaur of the genus †Calamosaurus


ornithoscelidan

/ˌɔː(ɹ)nɪθəˈsɛlɪdən/

comparing the pelvis and hind limb of the ornithoscelidan with that of the crocodile[…]

1893, Thomas Henry Huxley, Science and Hebrew tradition:

(zoology, now historical) Any of the Dinosauria, formerly known as Ornithoscelida.


abelisaurid

(paleontology) Any of the Abelisauridae, a family of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs.


ceratosaurian

(zoology) Of or relating to the dinosaur infraorder Ceratosauria.


ceratosaurian

(zoology) Any of the dinosaur infraorder Ceratosauria.


dinomaniac

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dinomaniac.wav

(informal) One who has dinomania; a dinosaur enthusiast.


hadrosaurid

(zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.


deinonychosaur

Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria


supersaurus

Any of the large herbivorous diplodocid dinosaurs of the genus †Supersaurus.


sauropodomorph

Any of the long-necked dinosaurs in the Sauropodomorpha clade.


allosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Allosauridae.


yunnanosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the Yunnanosauridae.


anchisaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Anchisauridae.


atlantosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Atlantosauridae, which is probably a synonym of the Diplodocidae.


avimimid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Avimimidae.


baryonychid

(zoology) Any of the dinosaurs in the family Baryonychidae, a synonym for the Spinosauridae.


blikanasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the sauropodomorph family Blikanasauridae.


caenagnathid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Caenagnathidae.


camarasaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family Camarasauridae of dinosaurs of the late Jurassic.


camptosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the family Camptosauridae.


carcharodontosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Carcharodontosauridae of dinosaurs.


ceratosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Ceratosauridae.


cetiosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Cetiosauridae.


coelophysid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Coelophysidae.


coelurid

(zoology) Any member of the often revised family Coeluridae of dinosaurs.


compsognathid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Compsognathidae of dinosaurs.


deinocheirid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Deinocheiridae.


dicraeosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Dicraeosauridae.


dilophosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Dilophosauridae of dinosaurs.


diplodocid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Diplodocidae of large dinosaurs.


dryosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Dryosauridae.


dryptosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Dryptosauridae.


elmisaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Elmisauridae, now considered to be the caenagnathid subfamily Elmisaurinae.


euhelopid

(zoology) Any member of the Euhelopidae, a synonym of the Euhelopodidae.


euhelopodid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Euhelopodidae.


fabrosaurid

(zoology) Any ornithischian dinosaur in the family Fabrosauridae.


guaibasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Guaibasauridae.


herrerasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaure in the family Herrerasauridae.


hesperornithid

From translingual Hesperornithidae, from Hesperornis (“genus name”).

Finally, the Volgorod locality, Maastrichtian in age, has yielded two dinosaurs (an indeterminate hesperornithid and a basal theropod) and a few turtles.

2011, David B. Weishampel, Coralia-Maria Jianu, Transylvanian Dinosaurs, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 109:

The arrival of these hesperornithids in more southern waters during the early Campanian may indicate a cooler climate, closer shores, adaptations to changes in prey, or other factors.

2017, Michael J. Everhart, Oceans of Kansas, Indiana University Press, page 365:

2020, Alan Feduccia, Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs, Universal Publishers (BrownWalker Press), page 83,
9. Cretaceous foot-propelled divers, the hesperornithids, were grouped cladistically with loons (Eocene) and grebes (Miocene) as a clade, which would require re-evolution of teeth from an edentulous ancestor.

(paleontology) Any extinct avialan in the family Hesperornithidae.


homalocephalid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Homalocephalidae, probably a synonym of the Pachycephalosauridae.


huayangosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Huayangosauridae,


ichthyornithid

(zoology) Any avialan in the family Ichthyornithidae.


iguanodontid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Iguanodontidae of iguana-like dinosaurs.


mamenchisaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Mamenchisauridae.


massospondylid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Massospondylidae.


megalosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.


melanorosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the Melanorosauridae.


nemegtosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Nemegtosauridae.


neovenatorid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Neovenatoridae.


noasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Noasauridae.


ornitholestid

E. H. Colbert (pers. commun. to Harshbarger, 1957) suggested that Segisaurus looks very much like an ornitholestid; Ornitholestes is found in the Morrison Formation (Jurassic).

1975, Dudley W. Bolyard, Deep drilling frontiers of the central Rocky Mountains, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, →OCLC, page 114:

In proportions, and especially in their uncompressed central metatarsal, Avisaurus retains the conservative condition seen in such basal theopods as Coelophysis and Ceratosaurus (Fig. 2), and thus retains a basal condition compared to derived theropods and Archaeopteryx, which have proximally pinched central metatarsi (eg, compsognathids, ornitholestids, allosaurids, tyrannosaurids, elmisaurids, ornithomimids, dromaeosaurs and saurornithoidids; Paul, 1984).

1985, MK Brett-Surman, “A new family of bird-like dinosaurs linking Laurasia and Gondwanaland”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 5, number 2, page 133:

Aublysodonts and tyrannosaurs appear to have been the culmination of the ornitholestid-allosaur-tyrannosaur group.

1988, Gregory S. Paul, Predatory Dinosaurs of the World: A Complete Illustrated Guide, Simon & Schuster, →OCLC:

(zoology, very rare) Any member of the family †Ornitholestidae, now superseded by family †Compsognathidae.


ornithomimid

(zoology) Any of the family Ornithomimidae of dinosaurs.


pachycephalosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Pachycephalosauridae.


plateosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Plateosauridae.


podokesaurid

(zoology) Any theropod dinosaur of the family Podokesauridae, now considered to be a synonym of the superfamily Coelophysoidea.


polacanthid

Derived from the informally named Polacanthidae family.

1993, J. I. Kirkland, “Polacanthid nodosaurs from the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of the east-central Colorado Plateau”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 13, title, page 44A:

There were no large lateral spikes that are present in nodosaurids and polacanthids hut it did share fused half-rings of neck armour with polacanthids.

2008, Adam Yates, Guide to Wild Dinosaurs, page 121:

For example, premaxillary teeth are present in the primitive polacanthid Gargoyleosaurus, the primitive nodosaurid Silvisaurus, and the primitive ankylosaurid Cedarpelta.

2012, Michael K. Brett-Surman, The Complete Dinosaur, page 510:

(zoology) Any ankylosaurian of the nodosaurid or ankylosaurid subfamily Polacanthinae.


proceratosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Proceratosauridae.


protoceratopsid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Protoceratopsidae.


rebbachisaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Rebbachisauridae.


rhabdodontid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Rhabdodontidae.


saltasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Saltasauridae.


saurornithoidid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Saurornithoididae, a synonym of the Troodontidae.


scelidosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the family Scelidosauridae.


vulcanodontid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Vulcanodontidae.


segnosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Segnosauridae, a synonym for the Therizinosauridae.


sinraptorid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Sinraptoridae.


spinosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Spinosauridae.


staurikosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Staurikosauridae, a synonym of the Herrerasauridae.


stegosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family Stegosauridae of dinosaurs.


thecodontosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family Thecodontosauridae, but specifically of the genus Thecodontosaurus


therizinosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Therizinosauridae.


thescelosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Thescelosauridae, believed to be a synonym of the Parksosauridae or the Hypsilophodontidae .


titanosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Titanosauridae.


torvosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Torvosauridae (syn. of Megalosauridae).


trachodontid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Trachodontidae, a synonym of the Hadrosauridae.


tyrannosaurid

Similarly, the North American tyrannosaurid, Aublysodon, is reported from east Asia.

1965, David Jay Simmons, The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China, page 84:

Once again, Phil Currie says it definitely was a tyrannosaurid, most closely related, by braincase comparison, to Tarbosaurus. Chingkankousaurus fragilis was named by C. C. Yang in China in 1958.

1993, John R. Horner, The Complete T. Rex, page 134:

Most famous for the last and largest member of the clade, Tyrannosaurus rex, tyrannosaurids at first glance seem very far removed from the ostrichlike ornithomimosaurs.

2003, Gregory Paul, The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs, page 155:

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Tyrannosauridae.


marginocephalian

(zoology) Of or relating to the Marginocephalia, a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs.


marginocephalian

Thus, they were able to corroborate previous hypotheses of overrepresentation of nodosaurid ankylosaurs and hadrosaurid ornithopods in marine sediments, whilst they also found that marginocephalians, ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, sauropods, and supposedly herbivorous theropods were positively associated with terrestrial paleoenvironments.

2016 February 2, “The “χ” of the Matter: Testing the Relationship between Paleoenvironments and Three Theropod Clades”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the Marginocephalia.


alvarezsaurian

Any extinct maniraptoran dinosaur of the superfamily Alvarezsauroidea


avialian

Any extinct dinosaur of the clade Avialae, together with any living descendant of class Aves (the birds).


carnosaur

Any large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the infraorder Carnosauria


centrosaurine

Any ceratopsid dinosaur of the subfamily Centrosaurinae


hadrosaurian

Any bipedal dinosaur of the genus Hadrosaurus


iguanodontian

(zoology) Any herbivorous dinosaur of the clade Iguanodontia.


lambeosaurine

Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.


maniraptoriform

(zoology) Any dinosaur, of the clade Maniraptoriformes, thought to be the common ancestors of all birds.


therizinosaur

/ˌθɛɹɪˈzɪnəsɔː(r)/

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Therizinosauria


micropachycephalosaurus

From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + παχύς (pakhús, “thick”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”).

a very small pachycephalosaurid, ornithischian dinosaur of the genus Micropachycephalosaurus.


deinonychus

deinonychus (plural deinonychuses or deinonychi)

deinonychuses (plural)
deinonychi (plural)

From translingual Deinonychus (1969), from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “fearful, terrible”) (see dinosaur) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail, claw, talon”).

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The first attempts were made on the remains of duckbill dinosaurs found in the Coleville River dig, but the real success was made when the University located the remains of three deinonychi at an Amoco drill site on the Alaskan North Slope.

1990 November, Allen Steele, “Trembling Earth”, in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, numbers 11–12 (whole 162–163), New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, Inc., section 1 (The Mesozoic Express), page 64:

Bella kept half an eye out for the deinonychi. The deinonychus dinosaurs with the teeth and raking claws were big solid humans in the real.

1994, Gwyneth Jones, North Wind, New York, N.Y.: Tor, published 1996, →ISBN, page 224:

In that chamber, lying curled, or sitting hunched, were five saurians: two deinonychi and three smaller ones that looked like some kind of miniature tyrannosaur.

1997, Diane Duane, The Book of Night with Moon, New York, N.Y.: Aspect, Warner Books, →ISBN, page 248:

A medium agile dinosaur, of the genus Deinonychus, of the Cretaceous period, characterized by having a large, curved claw on each hind foot.


abelisaurus

An abelisaurid theropod dinosaur, of genus Abelisaurus, from the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian) of what is now South America.

abelissauro

theropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous


nodosaur

From scientific Latin Nodosauridae (genus name).

Nodosaurs are ankylosaurid dinosaurs: armoured herbivorous reptiles that look like the love-child of a rhino and an army tank.

2017 September 27, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

A dinosaur of the family Nodosauridae, especially a nodosaurus.


ankylosaurian

Any dinosaur of the suborder Ankylosauria


neoceratopsian

Any dinosaur of the clade Neoceratopsia.


stegosaurian

Any dinosaur of the suborder Stegosauria


diplodocine

Any dinosaur of the family Diplodocidae, and especially of the genus Diplodocus


diplodocoid

Any dinosaurs of the family Diplodocidae, and especially of the genus Diplodocus


macronarian

Any sauropod dinosaur of the clade Macronaria


megaloolithid

Any fossilised dinosaur egg of the oogenus Megaloolithus


megalosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Megalosauroidea.


somphospondylian

Any of a group of dinosaurs, of the clade Macronaria, that are not also members of the family Brachiosauridae; they include the members of Euhelopodidae, Chubutisaurus and Titanosauria


titanosauriform

Any dinosaur of the clade Titanosauriformes


titanosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Titanosauroidea


albertosaurine

Any dinosaur of the tyrannosaurid subfamily Albertosaurinae


hadrosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Hadrosauroidea


tyrannosaurine

Clipping of translingual Tyrannosaurinae

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Tyrannosaurinae</i>

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Tyrannosaurinae


dinophile

For what self-respecting dinophile would want to think of his favorite stock—the carnivorous lineage known as theropods—in undignified fashion, all covered with feathers?

2002, Allen A. Debus, Diane E. Debus, Paleoimagery: The Evolution of Dinosaurs in Art, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 126:

Stephen Jay Gould, an admitted dinophile since childhood, examines Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park and our fascination with dinosaurs from a variety of perspectives, both scientific and cultural.

2002, Charles L. P. Silet, “Introduction”, in Charles L. P. Silet, editor, The Films of Steven Spielberg, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page xviii:

For the true dinophile, drive about 35 miles out of town to the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, where you'll find relics of more than 70 dinosaurs.

2012, Eric Peterson, Frommer's Utah, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 32:

(informal) One who is keenly interested in dinosaurs.


ostrich dinosaur

en-noun

ostrich dinosaur (plural ostrich dinosaurs)


ornithomimosaurian

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Ornithomimosauria


oviraptorosaurian

Any maniraptoran dinosaur of the clade Oviraptorosauria


oviraptosaurian

Any maniraptoran dinosaur of the clade Oviraptorosauria.


chasmosaurine

Any ceratopsid dinosaur of the subfamily Chasmosaurinae


ceratopsoid

Any marginocephalian dinosaur of the superfamily Ceratopsoidea


coronosaur

Any centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur of the genus Coronosaurus.


abelisauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Abelisauroidea


avetheropod

Any birdlike theropod of the clade Avetheropoda


coelophysoid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Coelophysoidea


dinosaurology

(informal) The branch of paleontology that focuses on studying dinosaurs.

dinosaurologia

(informal) branch of paleontology that focuses on studying dinosaurs


dinosaurologist

(informal) A paleontologist who focuses on studying dinosaurs.


Rexy

(informal) An endearing diminutive name given to an individual Tyrannosaurus rex.


Steggy

(informal) An endearing diminutive name given to an individual Stegosaurus.


Trike

(informal) An endearing diminutive name given to an individual Triceratops.


agathaumid

(obsolete, paleontology) Any of the Agathaumidae, an obsolete family of ceratopsian dinosaurs.


carcharodontosaurian

Any dinosaur of the genus Carcharodontosaurus.


eumaniraptoran

Any bird-like dinosaur of the taxon Eumaniraptora


saurolophine

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Saurolophinae


eusauropod

Any true sauropod dinosaur of the clade Eusauropoda


flagellicaudatan

Any of the dinosaurs of the clade Flagellicaudata.


lithostrotian

Any titanosaur of the taxon Lithostrotia


ornithothoracine

From translingual Ornithothoraces + -ine.

Any avialan of the clade Ornithothoraces


ornithuromorph

The lineage that led to all living birds is known as the ornithuromorphs. […] Roughly three-quarters of all species on the planet were wiped out, including all feathered dinosaurs except the ornithuromorphs.

2023 June 3, Carl Zimmer, “How Did Birds First Take Off?”, in The New York Times:

Any avialan of the group Ornithuromorpha.


pengornithid

Any avialan of the family Pengornithidae.


saltasaurine

Any titanosaurian sauropod of the subfamily Saltasaurinae.


somphospondylan

Any titanosauriform sauropod of the clade Somphospondyli


turiasaurian

Any sauropod dinosaur of the clade Turiasauria.


pachyrhinosaurin

In addition, we modified Characters 59 and 61, which describe the epiparietal (ep) morphology at loci ep 2 and ep 3, to include a state that differentiates between rugose, tongue-shaped horncores and greatly elongate, spike-like horncores that, for example, characterize the ep 3 locus in pachyrhinosaurins and some other taxa (e.g., Styracosaurus).

2015 July 9, “Cranial Anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a Centrosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the Evolution of Ceratopsid Nasal Ornamentation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any of the dinosaurs of the tribe †Pachyrhinosaurini, a clade of centrosaurine ceratopsids.


pachyrostran

Any ceratopsid dinosaur of the clade Pachyrostra


dromaeosaurine

Liaoning dromaeosaurids may simply be a grade on the line to velociraptorines and dromaeosaurines, and short arms may have evolved multiple times in this grade.

2015 July 16, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brusatte, “A large, short-armed, winged dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its implications for feather evolution”, in Scientific Reports, volume 5, →DOI:

(paleontology) A bird-like theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae.


paravian

We note that the difference forelimb:hindlimb ratio is within the range of intraspecific variation in two paravian taxa known from multiple specimens, Microraptor 17 and Archaeopteryx 19 20, and is therefore not likely to be a clearly distinguishing feature between Tianyuraptor and Zhanyuanlong .

Any birdlike dinosaur of the clade Paraves, dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to oviraptorosaurs.


unenlagiine

Similarly, the humerus of Zhenyuanlong is the shortest relative to the femur of not only any Liaoning dromaeosaurid, but any dromaeosaurid in general except for the very basal taxon Mahakala and the aberrant unenlagiine Austroraptor.

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Unenlagiinae.


velociraptorine

In some most parsimonious trees the Liaoning dromaeosaurids form a clade, but in others various species are more closely related to the dromaeosaurine and velociraptorine clade.

Any theropod of the subfamily Velociraptorinae


camarasaurus

While it looks like a friendly little camarasaurus on the outside, Pleo has plenty of power on the inside.

2007 September 13, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Dinosaurs Return, in a 2.0 Version (but Were They Ever Really Gone?)”, in New York Times:


megaraptorid

The skeleton of Australovenator wintonensis from the Cenomanian of Australia is among the most complete of any megaraptorid.

2015 September 15, “Forearm Range of Motion in Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda, Megaraptoridae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any theropod dinosaur of the family †Megaraptoridae.


elongatoolithid

Unlike other elongatoolithid and prismatoolithid eggs, Elongatoolithus elongatus and Protoceratopsidovum minimum were classified into the covered nest type.

2015 November 26, “Eggshell Porosity Provides Insight on Evolution of Nesting in Dinosaurs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(paleontology) Any member of the oofamily Elongatoolithidae.


hylaeosaurus

A herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived about 165 million years ago during the Cretaceous period


caudipterid

It is also consistent with the exhibition of less resting forelimb flexion in Caudipteridae than in other feathered theropods, because caudipterid forelimbs are shorter than those of most other feathered dinosaurs, eliminating the possibility of contact between feathers and the ground, hence also eliminating the need for tight forelimb folding.

2015 December 17, “Resting Orientations of Dinosaur Scapulae and Forelimbs: A Numerical Analysis, with Implications for Reconstructions and Museum Mounts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any of the †Caudipteridae, a family of oviraptorosaurian dinosaurs.


cerapodan

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the clade Cerapoda.


hadrosauriform

Clipping of translingual Hadrosauriformes

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(zoology) Any ornithopod dinosaur in the Hadrosauriformes.


baryonychine

This contrasts with the more lateromedially angular quadrate ridge and the large quadrate foramen located at mid-height of the quadrates of baryonychines.

2016 January 7, “Morphofunctional Analysis of the Quadrate of Spinosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and the Presence of Spinosaurus and a Second Spinosaurine Taxon in the Cenomanian of North Africa.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Baryonychinae.


microraptor

A small, four-winged paravian dinosaur of the genus Microraptor.


brachylophosaurin

The left dentary of MOR 2919 is larger than any other brachylophosaurin dentary (Table 1 ), and preserves the complete series of 43 tooth rows.

2015 November 12, “A New Brachylophosaurin Hadrosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) with an Intermediate Nasal Crest from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Northcentral Montana”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any hadrosaur of the tribe Brachylophosaurini.


plateosaur

A plateosaurid dinosaur of the genus Plateosaurus that lived during the Late Triassic period.


chaoyangsaurid

Any dinosaur of the family Chaoyangsauridae


pachycephalosaurian

Any dinosaur of the suborder Pachycephalosauria.


ankylopollexian

The general aspect of this tooth is similar to that seen in ankylopollexian ornithopods.

2015 December 17, “A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any dinosaur of the clade Ankylopollexia


styracosternan

The recognition of Morelladon beltrani gen. et sp. nov. indicates that the Iberian Peninsula was home to a highly diverse medium to large bodied styracosternan assemblage during the Early Cretaceous.

Any dinosaur of the taxon †Styracosterna.


unenlagiid

Although megaraptoran and unenlagiid theropods are also thought to have played an important role as medium to large-size predators, we were not able to include them in our analysis due to the small number of occurrences.

2016 February 2, “The “χ” of the Matter: Testing the Relationship between Paleoenvironments and Three Theropod Clades”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any theropod dinosaur of the genus Unenlagia


Dinosaurian

Dinosaurians (plural)
dinosaurian (alternative)

/ˌdʌɪnə(ʊ)ˈsɔːɹɪən/

One belonging to the taxonomic superorder or clade Dinosauria; a dinosaur.


parvicursorine

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Parvicursorinae


cryolophosaur

Any theropod of the genus Cryolophosaurus


heterodontosaur

Any dinosaur of the genus Heterodontosaurus.


carcharodontosaurine

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Carcharodontosaurinae


plateosaurian

Any sauropodomorph dinosaur of the clade Plateosauria


thescelosaur

So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.

2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American:

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Thescelosaurinae.


deinonychosaurian

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria


scansoriopterigid

Any dinosaur of the family Scansoriopterygidae


spinosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Spinosauroidea


carnotaurine

Any dinosaur of the family Carnotaurinae


edmontosaur

Any hadrosaurid dinosaur of the genus Edmontosaurus.


megaraptoran

A carnivorous theropod dinosaur of the clade Megaraptora


massopodan

Any sauropodomorph dinosaur of the clade Massopoda


avetheropodan

Any avian theropod of the clade Avetheropoda


eudromaeosaur

Any dinosaur of the clade Eudromaeosauria


neornithischian

Any dinosaur of the clade Neornithischia


saurolophid

Any dinosaur of the family Saurolophidae


dinosauroid

Blend of dinosaur + humanoid, coined by American-Canadian paleontologist Dale Russell in 1982.

coin

(science fiction) A hypothetical descendant of troodontid dinosaurs with human-like intelligence and physiology.


saurornitholestine

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Saurornitholestinae


ankylosaurine

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Ankylosaurinae


spinosaur

From the taxonomic name Spinosaurus. By surface analysis, spino- + -saur.

Since then, all that has been discovered are some specimens of related smaller spinosaurs, as well as some isolated bones of Spinosaurus itself.

Any theropod dinosaur of the genus Spinosaurus.


parasaurolophin

Any hadrosaurid of the tribe Parasaurolophini


caseasaur

Any theropod dinosaur of the genus †Caseosaurus


albertosaur

Any dinosaur of the genus †Albertosaurus


cetiosaur

Any sauropod dinosaur of the genus †Cetiosaurus


neotheropodan

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Neotheropoda


spinosaurine

Any theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Spinosaurinae


pennaraptoran

Any member of the clade Pennaraptora, which includes birds and some of their extinct maniraptoran relatives.


rhabdodontomorphan

Any dinosaur of the clade †Rhabdodontomorpha


scansoriopterygid

Any maniraptoran dinosaur of the family †Scansoriopterygidae


apatosaurine

Any sauropod of the subfamily †Apatosaurinae


megatheropod

Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. […] Other megatheropods, including abelisaurs and tarbosaurs, also grew from turkey-like hatchlings to bus-sized behemoths over the course of their lives.

2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times:

(zoology) Any theropod dinosaur that exceeds 3000 kilograms in weight, and 9 meters in length.


aeolosaurian

Any extinct titanosaur of the clade †Aeolosaurini


aeolosaurid

Any extinct titanosaur of the genus †Aeolosaurus


anchisaur

Any member of the Anchisauria, a clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs that lived from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous in North America, Africa, and South America.


tarbosaur

From the genus name Tarbosaurus, formed with -saur.

(zoology) A tyrannosaurid dinosaur of the genus Tarbosaurus from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and China.


gongxianosaur

Clipping of translingual Gongxianosaurus, from Chinese 珙县 (Gǒng Xiàn), the village where its fossils were found.

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Any dinosaur of the Jurassic sauropod genus Gongxianosaurus, one of the earlier genera of sauropods.


megaraptor

(paleontology) A member of the genus Megaraptor of large theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Turonian to Coniacian ages of the Late Cretaceous.


suchomimus

en-noun

suchomimus (plural suchomimus or suchomimuses)

suchomimus (plural)
suchomimuses (plural)

Borrowed from translingual Suchomimus, from sucho- + Latin mīmus (“mimic”).

(paleontology) Any spinosaurid dinosaur in the genus Suchomimus from the Early Cretaceous Period.


daspletosaur

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Daspletosaurus</i>

(paleontology) Any dinosaur in the genus Daspletosaurus.


tyrannoraptoran

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Tyrannoraptora</i>

(paleontology) Any dinosaur of the clade Tyrannoraptora.


alamosaur

Clipping of translingual Alamosaurus, often misattributed to the Alamo.

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(paleontology) Any dinosaur in the genus Alamosaurus.


argentinosaur

Clipping of translingual Argentinosaurus

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Argentinosaurus</i>

(paleontology) Any sauropod of the genus Argentinosaurus.


tsintaosaurin

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Tsintaosaurini</i>

(paleontology) Any ornithopod of the tribe Tsintaosaurini.


aralosaurin

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Aralosaurini</i>

(paleontology) Any dinosaur of the tribe Aralosaurini.


hadrosauromorph

Clipping of translingual Hadrosauromorpha

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Hadrosauromorpha</i>

Phylogenetic analysis positions Gobihadros mongoliensis as a Bactrosaurus-grade hadrosauromorph hadrosauroid.

2019 April 17, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, David B. Weishampel, David C. Evans, Mahito Watabe, A new hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous Baynshire Formation of the Gobi Desert (Mongolia):

In the background are a small horned dinosaur known as Zuniceratops and the hadrosauromorph Jeyawati

2019 May 6, Photos: Tiny Tyrannosaur Dinosaur Was About As Big As T. Rex's Skull:

Smaller specimens are identifiable as juvenile hadrosauromorphs.

2020 August 15, Chase Doran Brownstein, Osteology and phylogeny of small-bodied hadrosauromorphs from an end-Cretaceous marine assemblage:

(paleontology) Any ornithopod of the clade Hadrosauromorpha.


dilophosaur

dilophosaurs (plural)
dilophosaurus (alternative)

Clipping of the taxonomic name Dilophosaurus.

The Dilophosaurus (dye-LA-fuh-SAWR-us), also shortened to Dilophosaur or even more so Dilo, is one of the dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved.

(Can we date this quote?), Dilophosaur - Ark: Survival Evolved Wiki:

See the Dilophosaur up close and explore more of Utah's dinosaurs and prehistoric past at Moab Giants Dinosaur Park.

(Can we date this quote?), DILOPHOSAUR: TRACKMAKER OF THE KAYENTAPUS FOOTPRINT:

(paleontology) Any theropod of the genus Dilophosaurus from the Jurassic, distinguished by having two plates on its head.


Tyrannosaurus regina

By replacing rex (Latin rēx (“king”)) of Tyrannosaurus rex with Latin rēgīna (“queen”).

In olden days man fought Tyrannosaurus rex; nowadays he battles Tyrannosaurus regina—his wife.

1965 January 22, “Time Listings”, in Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, volume 85, number 4, page 2:

You have scaly tail which helps you to stand up—like a tripod, like Tyrannosaura regina, but you are much smaller than she is.

1971, Bruce McAllister, Humanity Prime, Borgo Press / Wildside Press, page 54:

It’s Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest flesh-eating animal that ever thunked across the earth.[…]It’s made of chicken wire, plastic and rags dipped in gooey glue.[…]Meanwhile, he is in the school, probably looking for a Tyrannosaurus regina.

1971 April 29, Kathleen Bowman, “Thunk! A monster is born: Little fingers fashion a Tyrannosaurus rex”, in Enquirer and News, Battle Creek, Mich., page A-12:

[…]in adolescence the developing dinosaur is entrusted to Miss Tyrannosaurus Regina whose long life and virginity ensure her authority:[…]

1978, Evan Zimroth, Giselle Considers Her Future, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

A survey published last week found that only five per cent of the men in the entire labour force have wives who don’t work. After I’d read that, I stood in front of the mirror. And there she was, outlined in the twilight, a rare glimpse of a large mammalian female on the verge of extinction. Too big in the body, too little in the head, Tyrannosaurus Regina. We shall not see her ilk again.

1981 December 23, [Jill Tweedie], “All I ask, Mary, is when you visit, throw me a cream bun, OK: Letters from a fainthearted feminist”, in The Guardian, London, Manchester, page 8:

For 99.9% of the Cretaceous week, tyrannosaurus rex would kill anything that moved, eat anything that didn’t, break up the landscape, laugh at its own lousy jokes, belch, scratch, snore, pull the hairs out of its nostrils, and go to lodge meetings. In the five hebdomadal minutes remaining (usually on Saturday night), it would suddenly leap on tyrannosaurus regina with terrible ineptitude.

1982 July 21, Alan Coren, “A Short History”, in Punch, volume 283, number 7392, page 77:

Her [Sandra Weintraub’s] next project is a remake of “The Lost World,” the classic about a hidden valley where dinosaurs still exist. Maybe she’ll make the Tyrannosaurus Rex into a Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1983 April 3, Eleanor Ringel, “Papa makes write choice”, in The Atlanta Journal □ The Atlanta Constitution, page 1-H:

[…]was restored Tyrannosaurus regina.

“As for the relationship between my mother-in-law and us. The gentlemen of the press have speculated that the Queen — or Tyrannosaurus Regina, as we affectionately call her sometimes . . .”

1985 November 7, Pete McMartin, “It’s tough being top people”, in The Sun, volume 99, number 306, Vancouver, B.C., page five:

All that image-building and reputation-slaying in the name of democracy, and at the end of it another four years in opposition to the Tory Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1987, Maureen Lipman, Something To Fall Back On, Robson Books, →ISBN, page 185:

When I bat my eyelashes, monks spew away their last chances at Heaven! Nuns and junkies give up their habits for me! I drove the Whore of Babylon out of business! Astarte invented aphrodisiacs just to keep up with me! I am a mink in heat, I am a Tyrannosaurus Regina on the make, I make Jaws look like a Small-Mouthed Bass!

1989, Magistra Batrix/Magus Coyote, “Brag of the Female SubGenius”, in The Stark Fist of Removal, volume 17, No. 41 & 42, The SubGenius Foundation, Inc., pages 44–45:

Yet there we were, helplessly and snugly surrounded by Soup’s hoop, with an old rope snaking upward, ending in the clenched fists of the meanest kid in our solar system . . . Janice Riker, the inhuman replica of Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1990, Robert Newton Peck, Soup’s Hoop, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 6:

Does the disgruntled majordomo have nothing nice to say about this tyrannosaurus regina?

1991 March 23, Fern Brooks, “Marlo Thomas ‘Princess of Pain’: Former servant takes his revenge on glamor family”, in Calgary Herald, page E10:

Did you notice how when Tyrannosaurus Regina Thatcher, armed with her memoirs, began to stalk Calamity John Major through the political jungle, not only did they wheel out ‘Tarzan’ Heseltine to come to his aid but also the Conservative answer to Mills and Boon — Lord Jeffrey Archer?

1993 October 14, Olivia W Lockerbie, “Finlay isn’t a mole, he’s an albatross!”, in The Galloway News, page 9:

When we went to the movies, we saw one of two things: dinosaurs, or a film in which women dressed as men or men dressed as women. In short, it was the year of Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1993 December 26, Jay Stone, “1993: Everything that could go wrong …”, in The Ottawa Citizen, page F1:

A snaky neck coiled, and it was coming down at us, and it was all teeth. “Tyrannosaurus Regina,” Aaron whispered. “Cretaceous period. Meat-eater.”

1995, Richard Peck, Lost in Cyberspace, Puffin Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 15:

Unfortunately, we used to have several candidates for that crown in the early days, and a few such dinosaurs survive. Romance Queens of the genus Tyrannosaurus Regina. But most romance writers are as everyday as Hamburger Helper: hard-working women—and a few brave men—who labor in obscurity to earn five figures, all of them with no more personal pizzazz or prima donna temperament than a sponge mop.

1996, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Diamond Dazzle: A Midnight Louie Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Forge, →ISBN, page 76:

Sue the Tyrannosaurus Rex (Regina?) is coming soon to a museum near you.

1997 October 17, “Sue T-Rex: Not just another pretty face”, in South Bend Tribune, 125th year, number 223, page A10:

‘Of course,’ Rupert told the Sunday dragon lady on the World at One, Thelma the Tyrannosaurus Regina as they called her in the English Broadcasting Corporation.

1998, Peter Preston, 51st State, Viking, →ISBN, page 209:

AS QUEENSLAND voters approach the ballot boxes like so many stegosaurus heading for the watering hole, the tyrannosaurus regina of Australian politics, Ms Pauline Hanson, has revealed her arts policy to the nation.

1998 June 13, Simon Hughes, “Week’s End”, in The Age, page 28:

When one of the popular, rich girls got called out during lunch, it signaled we were all in trouble — rich and popular, average and smart, geeky and just plain invisible — all of us were suitable prey for the roving band of Tyrannosaurus Reginas.

2004 March 14, Karla DeLuca, “The ‘Terminator’ wore a dress in 7th grade”, in The Marshall News Messenger, volume 127, number 288, page 2A:

The biogenetically engineered Tyrannosaurus regina of Jurassic Park (1993) was only the most eagerly awaited and attended of a slew of monstrous women who ruled the nation’s movie screens in the 1980s and 1990s. The two decades brought forth dozens like her: the rapacious queen of Aliens (1986), the scheming sea-witch Ursula of The Little Mermaid (1989),[…]

2005, Joshua David Bellin, Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation, Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 107:

WAS it Tyrannosaurus rex or Tyrannosaurus regina? Until now, telling the tyrant-lizard kings from their queens has been pure guesswork. But the discovery of an unusual type of bone in a T. rex femur[…]

“Meaning what?” sniffled the dinosaur snottily into the fluffy white mantle of her nice, big, thick fur coat with purple bits all over it. “Well, meaning you’re one better than just a silly old t rex; you’re a tyrannosaurus regina!”

2005 July, Jonathan Reed-Stuart, Cybersaur! The Adventures of Chloe & George, the Internet Dinosaur, volume I, →ISBN, page 105:

Just short of the overturned vehicle, Tyrannosaurus rex stopped and sniffed the air, suspecting a trap—food was not supposed to give up quite so easily as this. Tyrannosaurus regina, however, was less fearful. She charged as the driver clambered up out of the capsized yellow hulk, slid to the ground, and fled across the field toward the crest of the knoll.

2006, Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop, “Crab”, in Deborah Layne, Jay Lake, editors, Polyphony, volume 6, Wheatland Press, →ISBN, page 134:

The film’s [Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs] plot, if one can call it that, involves the return of the Tyrannosaurus Regina to reclaim her hatchlings and take Sid to a lush, tropical underworld so different from Sid’s familiar icy territory.

2009 July 1, Carrie Rickey, “‘Ice Age’ franchise: Melting, melting …”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 181st year, number 31, page E4:

He described Lynda as a spoiled and lethal “Tyrannosaurus Regina” with a red rictus smile and a “death-lizard voice,” alternately screaming at him and utterly dependent on the veneer of class she thought he gave them despite his towering ineptitude as a butler.

2011, Michael Gross, Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 481:

Wake up from your history dream of echoing terror screams and share your song name with these lost children so I open my eyes to see Her glowing face and her sweet song rings my heart so alive I leap and twirl and somersault clapping my hands in drumming rhythm on tingling spine handsprings of hope to catch up with angels running swift in fluttering robes through tangled forests of grumbling oaks as we dodge dinosaur legs through endless halls of Jewel Cathedral where Tyrannosaurus Regina Demon Queen sits on Lotus Disk that twirls petal propellers to soar among stars over our small world.

2017, Simon Albert Craig Seamount, Gothiniad, →ISBN, page 267:

In her mind, she’s Tyrannosaurus regina crossed with a medieval witch.

2018, Ruth Hamilton, For the Love of Liverpool, Pan Books, published 2019, →ISBN:

(often humorous and figurative) A female Tyrannosaurus rex.


chicken from hell

en-noun

chicken from hell (plural chickens from hell)

(slang) An extinct theropod dinosaur of species Anzu wyliei.


hell chicken

(slang) An extinct theropod dinosaur of the species Anzu wyliei.


baryonyx

From Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús, “heavy or strong”) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “claw or talon”).

der

Baryonyx walkeri, a theropod from the Cretaceous period discovered in 1983 in Surrey, England by William Walker, believed to be an ancestor of Spinosaurus.


gorgosaurus

en-noun

gorgosaurus (plural gorgosauruses or gorgosauri)

gorgosauruses (plural)
gorgosauri (plural)

From the genus name, Gorgosaurus, from Ancient Greek γοργός (gorgós, “grim, fierce, terrible”) + -saurus (suffix forming genus names of dinosaurs).

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No. 1 is in the Stone age, the time when man went around dressed in a bearskin and threw rocks at prehistoric monsters called Ankylosauri, Gorgosauri or Triceratops.

1930 April 22, Murray, “Ruth Throughout the Ages”, in The Evening Star, number 31,402, Washington, D.C., page C—1, columns 3–4:

The Gorgosaurus is notable for its ability to maintain a high speed chase for some distance, unlike the Tyrannosaurus or Allosaurus. Also, it can bound for its full length in an attack leap! Like Allosaurus, Gorgosaurus is terribly jealous of its territory, but it will permit a female to range in its territory and often forms a mated pair hunting team for the spring and summer. Typical ranges are the same as that of the Allosaurus, but Gorgosauri will also enter swamps, sticking to the shallows and to the dry land of the mounds dotting swamps.

1979, Wes Ives, Edward E. Simbalist, Saurians (Chivalry & Sorcery), Jericho, N.Y.: Fantasy Games Unlimited; republished in Red Book, 5th edition, 2013, page 59, column 1:

Having seen how quickly and savagely the gorgosauri and the allosaurus had devastated the exploration team, Ian and Rebecca had a fearful respect for the meat-eating species.

1981, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, page 127, column 1:

Gorgosauri are carnivores, usually hungry, and may attack anything encountered unless they have just eaten a very large meal.

1987, Rudy Kraft, Paul Jaquays, Greg Stafford, Sandy Petersen, Griffin Island (RuneQuest), 3rd edition, 5th volume, Eastwood, Notts.: Games Workshop Ltd, →ISBN, page 15, column 1:

Henry Beissel asks in “First Canto: Landscape,” “What artist dare raise his vision from the dead/centre of creation against this dinosaur indifference?” (CN, 7). Mention of dinosaurs, pterodactyls and gorgosauruses in particular, recurs in the Tenth and Eleventh Cantos as part of his geological imagery (CN, 45-55).

1987, Valerie Broege, “Puer Country: Imaging Canada and Its American Shadow”, in Spring: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought, Dallas, Tex.: Spring Publications, Inc., →ISBN, →ISSN, page 22:

Hadrosaurs — duck-billed, plant-eating creatures weighing up to 3,600 kilograms — were the most common dinosaurs in what is now the park. The shallow water at the sea’s edge suited their partially webbed feet and provided vegetation for their diet. The water also served as a refuge from the giant meat-eating gorgosauruses that preyed on them.

1995, The Beauty and Splendor of North America: Scenic Treasures of Canada and the USA, Montreal, Que.: The Reader’s Digest Association Canada Ltd., →ISBN, page 18:

In this context, the figments of Lesje’s imagination — the visions of gorgosauruses, pterodactyls, and iguanodons — function at the point of suture as the seamlike line of junction between her Imaginary existence and a symbolic one.

1996, Sonia Mycak, In Search of the Split Subject: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, →ISBN, page 128:

I think you have just killed three Gorgosauri or Gorgasaurus,^([sic]) whichever is grammatically correct. They are like us, misplaced in time. We saw one on the disk Fanny made with the first exploration ship. We were afraid they would come over the wall one day. They should have been extinct sixty-five million years ago.

2005, Belle Smith, chapter 25, in Lucian’s Place, Baltimore, Md.: PublishAmerica, LLLP, →ISBN, pages 311–312:

In 1997, the amateur fossil hunters Cliff and Sandy Linster, digging near Chorteau, Montana, unearthed the skeleton of a dinosaur – a 72-million-year-old female gorgosaurus. Gorgosauruses are not particularly rare, but this one had an interesting quirk. Rattling around inside its skull was a bone ball. It was an extraskeletal osteosarcoma – a bone tumour – which would have encroached on its cerebellum and its brainstem.

2009, Charles Foster, “Who’s Right? Evidence and the Lack of It”, in The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 79:

A tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur of the genus Gorgosaurus that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.6 and 75.1 million years ago.


dinobird

dinobirds (plural)
dino-bird (alternative)

From dinosaur and bird. Equivalent to dino- + bird.

A dinosaur with feathers and other bird-like characteristics.


pachycephalosaurus

en-noun

pachycephalosaurus (plural pachycephalosauruses or pachycephalosauri)

pachycephalosauruses (plural)
pachycephalosauri (plural)

Borrowed from translingual Pachycephalosaurus, from pachy- (“thick”) + cephalo- (“head”) + -saurus (“lizard”).

af

Any of a group of herbivorous dinosaurs, of the genus Pachycephalosaurus from the late Cretaceous period.