dinosaurs
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 named the first(meat-eater) dinosaur megalosaurus 1832 | reverend william buckland of oxford |
| 2nd dinosaur found in 1825 by gideon mantell | iguanodon |
| dinosaur means | fearfully great reptile |
| saurischia | lizardhipped |
| ornithischia (plant eaters) | bird hipped |
| hadrosaurus | duck billed |
| apatosaurus | deceptive reptile |
| brontosaurs | thunder lizard |
| sauropods | smallest brain to body ratio |
| found 1st dinosaur to be added to dinosaurian | william buckland |
| megalosaurus | great lizard |
| hylaeosaurus | woodland lizard |
| gps | gobal positioning system |
| gis | geoptaphic information systems |
| collected three-toed | edward hitchcock |
| crystal place | london |
| was a vertebrate paleontoligist at brussels museum of natural history | louis dollo |
| nicholas steno | father of stratigraphy |
| steno's principles | 1. principle of superposition . cross-cutting realtionship .inclusion 2.original horizontally 3.original lateral continuity |
| james hutton | father of geology |
| lateral | layers originally extended in all directions until they thin to zero |
| william smith | principle of faunal sucession |
| correlation | the methods used to determine age-equivalance in different localities |
| taphonomy | the study of the processes between death and burial as well as ( low temp/pressure changes after burial) of an organism |
| taphonomic process in action | changes in the carcass with time |
| body fossils | unaltered remains |
| trace fossils | a preserved mark such as footprint burrow or trail |
| mummified duck billed dinosaur discovered in montana 2001 | leonardo |
| permineralization | turn to rock become denise and heavy |
| carbonization | to carbonize something |
| cast | replica of something before |
| dinosaur eggs | sign of reproductivity |
| tooth marks | what happen to it to cause death |
| lagerstatten | sites of extrodinary fossil presevation they are almost "snapshot" in time |
| taxonomy | classification |
| taxon | any group at any level in classification |
| binomial noclature | two name naming system |
| splitters | when you have a little bit of individual and big taxonomy |
| lumpers | alot of individuals and little taxonomy |
| classifiacation | arragement of objects ideas or information into groups |
| dinosaurs are all placed together in the _________ group which essentially comprises all of the animals with bony skeleton | vertebrata |
| vertebrates are subdivided into 5 large groups called | classes |
| phylogenies | traditional taxomic relationship are commonly protrayed family trees |
| ornithischina | bird hipped plant eating |
| saurischia | reptile hipped meat eating and planting |
| ornithischina | have thinner hips |
| cladogram | is a simpler way of presenting this information about shared features |
| outgroup | help you decide which features or characters are primitive for group taxa |
| infer order | sequence |
| mammal like reptiles | snyapids |
| amniotes | amniotic egg |
| synapids | one opening |
| anapids | have no opening |
| dyapids | have two opening |
| archosauria | ruling reptile |
| thecodants | socket tooth |
| grab-bag | the un-offical name of anestory of dinosaurs |
| dinosaurs have what type of posture | erect and gait |
| evolution | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)....... only take place in population not individuals |
| ischigualasto | basal dinosaurs communities |
| trace fossils also called | ichnofossils |
| gastroloths | are stones found in the abdominal cavity |
| coprolites | ancient feces that tell about the diet |
| teeth | sum of all the teeth in the jawbone |
| occlusal surface | where the upper and lower teeth come together |
| ornithomimosaur | bird imitating lizard have no teeth |
| trodon | wooding teeth |
| oviraptor | bird of prey and egg thief |
| camarasuarids | thick board spoon shaped teeth pitted with coarse scratch marks |
| diplodocids | slender peg like teeth not pitted finner scratches |
| which is more diffucult to eat plants or meat | plants |
| hadrosaur teeth | had the most effient food grinding mechanism ever divised |
| track | impression made by a locomotory appendage |
| trackways | series of tracks/prints made by the same invividual |
| tw | trackways width |
| sL | stride length |
| pL | place length |
| fL | footprint length |
| fw | footprint width |
| a | pace angualtion |
| L | left print |
| r | right print |
| monis | front foot |
| palis | back foot |
| relative stride | stride length/ leg length for each animal |
| endothermic | generates its own heat |
| extothermic | relys on enviroment because he cant make their own heat |
| homothermic | same temp |
| ambient | around you |
| bone | mineral (calcium phosphate) deposited on a protein ( collagen) |
| haversian canals | channels running through a bone in which blood vessels and nerves are located |
| archaeopttyrx | one of the earliest birds |
| warm-blooded animals | care for their young |
| cold-blooded animals | dont care for their young |
| insulation | something to keep them warm on their own |
| hibernating | strategy employed by many living endotherms in cold climates |
| gigantothermy | heat production is related to body mass heat loss is related to body area |
| conifers | are distinctive plants with a tendency towards great heights |
| angiosprems | have monocot and dicot seeds, have flowers, seeds are protected in fruits |
| ichthyosaur | fish reptile superficially resemeled toothed wales |
| pleasisaur | long necked or short necked |
| pterosaur | enomously elongated fourth finger that supported membranous wing |
| gizzard | a muscular part if the stomach that contains stones |
| where is chicxulub structure located | yacatan |
| a few small theropods from _______ appear to have feathers | china |
| victims of the K/T extinction event | mosasaurs& pleasiosaurs |
| the deccan traps can be found in | india |
| the iridium spike | occurs in a clay layer |
| have live birth | some icthyosaurs |
| first flying verebrates | pterosaurs |
| a reptile with no holes behind the eye socket would be classified | anaspid |
| chicken are most closely related to | raptor-type dinosaurs |
| did not live together at the same time | icthyosaurs and t.rex |
| gertie | starred in first animated film |
| mesozoic seas swarmed with | ammonites |
| the biggest problem when interpreting coprolites | indetifying the animal that made them |
| jack horner is perhaps most well-known for his work on | maisaura |
| t influence the shape of the track you find | condition of the substrate....... size of sediment particles...... erosion |
| you would expect the original composition of most dinosaur eggs found so far to have been | calcium carbonate |
| late cretaceous dinosaurs faunas were dominated by | hadrosaurs and ceratopsians |
| the oldest dinosaur | are found in rocks about 235-240 million years old |
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