Dinosaur Dictionary

Dear Dinosaur Enthusiasts,

Welcome to the PrehistoricSaurus Dinosaur Dictionary! Below you will find a collection of terms and words related to the fascinating world of dinosaurs, organized in alphabetical order.

Happy Dinosaur Discoveries!
The PrehistoricSaurus Staff
C

Caldera, Cambrian Period, Cannibalism, Carnivore, Cenozoic Era, Ceratopsia, Chronostratigraphy, Clade, Cladistics, Climate, Cold-blooded, Conifer, Convergent evolution, Coprolite, Coral, Cretaceous Period, Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, Crinoid, Cursorial

D

Decay, Diagenesis, Diapsid, Dinosaur State Park, Dinosaur National Monument, Dinoturbation, Dinoworld, Diorama, Disaster species, Diversity

E

Echinoderms, Ecology, Ecosystem, Ectothermic, Egg, Embryo, Endemic, Endothermic, Environment, Eon, Epoch, Era, Evolution, Excavation, Exoskeleton, Extinction, Extirpation

F

Fern, Flightless, Floodplain, Food chain, Food web, Foraminifera, Fossil, Fossilization, Fossil record, Footprint, Forelimb, Formation, Fossil Butte National Monument, Frugivore

G

Gastrolith, Geochronology, Geologic time scale, Ginkgo, Glaciation, Gondwana, Grallator, Gymnosperm

H

Habitat, Hadrosaurid, Herbivore, Herd, Hindlimb, Holotype, Homeothermy, Horsetail

I

Ichnofossil, Ichnogenus, Ichnology, Ichthyosaur, Insect, Invertebrate, Isotope

J

Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Juramaia, Jurassic Park (novel), Jurassic Park (film), Jurassic Period, Jurassic World

K

K-Pg boundary, K-T boundary, Keystone species

L

Lacustrine, Lagerstätte, Laurasia, Lava, Limestone, Liopleurodon, Lithification, Locomotion

M

Macroevolution, Magma, Magnoliophyta, Mammal, Mangrove, Maniraptora, Marine reptile, Mass extinction, Megafauna, Megalosaur, Megatracksite, Mesozoic Era, Metabolism, Meteorite, Microfossil, Mollusca, Morrison Formation, Mosasaur, Museum of the Rockies

N

Nest, Niche, Nodosaur

O

Omnivore, Ontogeny, Oogenesis, Ornithischia, Ornithomimosauria, Ornithopoda, Osteichthyes, Osteology, Ostracoderm, Oviparity, Ovoviviparity

P

Paleoart, Paleobiogeography, Paleobiology, Paleobotany, Paleoecology, Paleogeography, Paleomagnetism, Paleontologist, Paleontology, Paleozoic Era, Palynology, Pangaea, Papo, Pectinodon, Permian Period, Phanerozoic, Phylogeny, Phytosaur, Pliosaur, Polar dinosaurs, Pollen, Prehistoric, Pterosaur

Q

Quadrupedal, Quarry

R

Radiocarbon dating, Radiometric dating, Raft model, Relative dating, Reptile, Royal Tyrrell Museum

S

Saurischian, Sauropod, Sauropodomorph, Scavenger, Sediment, Sedimentary rock, Seismosaurus, Sexual dimorphism, Skeleton, Speciation, Stegosauria, Stratigraphy, Supercontinent, Symbiosis, Synapsid, Systematics

T

Taphonomy, Taxidermy, Taxonomy, Tectonic plates, Teleost, Tetanurae, Tetrapod, Thecodont, Therapsid, Theropoda, Thyreophorans, Trace fossil, Trackway, Triassic Period, Triconodont, Tsunamiite, Tuff

U

Unconformity, Ungual

V

Vertebrate, Viviparity, Volcanic eruption

W

Warm-blooded, Watershed

X

Xenarthran

Y

Yixian Formation

Z

Zooplankton, Zooarchaeology, Zoological park