- "The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria."
- —-Richard Owen([[|src]])
An example of a dinosaur, an Albertosaurus
The Dinosaurs, or Dinosauria, is the name of a group of archosaurian reptiles that lived from the Mid Triassic Period (230 mya) to today. Dinosaurs are arguably the most famous creatures ever to live on earth, first described as a group by anatomist Sir Richard Owen during a lecture in 1841, based on three genera, Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and Hylaeosaurus. Dinosaurs now includes nearly a thousand species, hundreds of taxon, and around thirty families. Dinosaurs gained a huge popularity boost in 1993, with the release of the original Jurassic Park, and subsequent sequels every four years, with the exception of the fourth movie. The only dinosaurs left alive today are the sole Theropod family to survive the Cretaceous extinction, the birds. Crocodilians are the only sister group alive of the dinosaurs. The closest extinct group were the Pterosaurs. The word dinosaur itself derives from the Greek and means "terrible lizard". Despite this name, dinosaurs are not nor are closely related to lizards; and in fact many of them had some degree of Feathers.
In the 1980s of the Film and Novel canons, InGen Company found some bones of dinosaurs and took DNA sample from them and recreated dinosaurs.
It is unknown if dinosaurs were cold or warm blooded, but according to the Jurassic World website InGen's dinosaur clones are both hot and cold blooded, with carnivores being warm blooded and the herbivores being cold blooded.
The term "dinosaur" is also popularly applied to many prehistoric animals that are not taxonomically classified as such, including mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and pliosaurs, pterosaurs and synapsids such as Dimetrodon. This is frowned upon in scientific writing, but persists in the media and in everyday speech.
List of Dinosaurs
Jurassic Park
- Brachiosaurus (mural; embryo also seen)
- Dilophosaurus (embryo also seen)
- Gallimimus (mural; embryo also seen)
- Parasaurolophus (mural also seen)
- Triceratops (mural; embryo also seen)
- Tyrannosaurus rex (skeleton and embryo also are seen)
- Velociraptor (skeleton and embryo also seen)
- Alamosaurus (skeleton)
- Brontosaurus (mentioned)
- Diplodocus (model only)
- Iguanodon (mural only)
- Metriacanthosaurus (embryo)
- Plateosaurus (toy only)
- Proceratosaurus (embryo)
- Protoceratops (mural only)
- Pteranodon (stamp set)
- Stegosaurus (embryo)
Jurassic Park: The Game
- Compsognathus
- Dilophosaurus
- Herrerasaurus
- Ophthalmosaurus (skeleton picture only)
- Parasaurolophus
- Pteranodon
- Triceratops
- Troodon
- Tylosaurus
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- Velociraptor
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
- Compsognathus
- Gallimimus
- Mamenchisaurus
- Pachycephalosaurus
- Parasaurolophus
- Pteranodon
- Stegosaurus
- Triceratops
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- Velociraptor
- Apatosaurus (skeleton)
- Corythosaurus (paper)
- Dilophosaurus (computer screen and painted wall)
- Edmontosaurus (skull)
- Geosternbergia (paper and computer screen) (cut)
Jurassic Park III
- Ankylosaurus
- Brachiosaurus
- Ceratosaurus
- Corythosaurus
- Parasaurolophus
- Pteranodon
- Spinosaurus
- Stegosaurus
- Triceratops
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- Velociraptor
- Baryonyx (mentioned) (cut)
- Carnotaurus (cut)
- Mosasaurus (cut)
- Ouranosaurus (cut)
- Suchomimus (mentioned)
- Unidentified dinosaur fetuses
Jurassic World
- Ankylosaurus
- Apatosaurus
- Dimorphodon
- Gallimimus
- Indominus rex
- Mosasaurus
- Parasaurolophus
- Pteranodon
- Stegosaurus
- Triceratops
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- Velociraptor
- Archaeornithomimus (Mentioned)
- Dilophosaurus (Hologram)
- Diplodocus (cut)
- Edmontosaurus (cut)
- Gigantoraptor (cut)
- Pachycephalosaurus (Security camera)
- Spinosaurus (Skeleton)
- Stegoceratops (Computer screen)
- Unidentified Pachycephalosaur Hybrid (Computer screen)
- Unidentified Therizinosaur Hybrid (Computer screen)
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Allosaurus (embryo also seen)
- Ankylosaurus
- Apatosaurus
- Baryonyx
- Brachiosaurus (listed on auction report; embryo also seen)
- Carnotaurus (embryo also seen)
- Compsognathus
- Gallimimus
- Indoraptor
- Mosasaurus
- Parasaurolophus
- Pteranodon
- Sinoceratops (embryo also seen)
- Stegosaurus
- Stygimoloch (embryo also seen)
- Triceratops
- Tyrannosaurus rex (skulll also seen; embryo also seen)
- Velociraptor (also as a skeleton of V. mongoliensis; statue also featured in diorama; embryo also seen)
- Agujaceratops (skull)
- Camarasaurus (cut)
- Concavenator (statue featured in diorama)
- Dilophosaurus (heard; statue also featured in diorama; toy; embryo also seen; cut)
- Dimetrodon (statue featured in diorama)
- Dimorphodon (seen in news cam)
- Diplodocus (as a painting; statue featured in diorama)
- Dracorex (statue featured in diorama)
- Dreadnoughtus (embryo)
- Edmontosaurus (skeleton)
- Einiosaurus (cut)
- Giganotosaurus (cut)
- Hadrosaurus (cut)
- Herrerasaurus (skull)
- Indominus rex (carcass)
- Kosmoceratops (skeleton)
- Metriacanthosaurus (cut)
- Mononykus (statue featured in diorama)
- Pachyrhinosaurus (listed on auction report; cut)
- Peloroplites (carcass; skeleton also seen)
- Protoceratops (skeleton)
- Pycnonemosaurus (name seen in Indominus rex genetic composition hologram)
- Quilmesaurus (name seen in Indominus rex genetic composition hologram)
- Spinosaurus (destroyed skeleton; cut)
- Teratophoneus (carcass; skeleton also seen)
- Viavenator (name seen in Indominus rex genetic composition hologram)
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