Outline of dinosaurs
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to dinosaurs:
Dinosaurs – diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period (about 230 million years ago) until the end of the Cretaceous (66 million years ago), when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs at the close of the Mesozoic era. The fossil record indicates that birds evolved within theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period. Some of them survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, including the ancestors of all modern birds. Consequently, in modern classification systems, birds are considered a type of dinosaur—the only group which survived to the present day.[1][2]
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Nature of dinosaurs
- Main article: Dinosaurs
Types of dinosaurs
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By period
By region
- List of African dinosaurs
- List of Asian dinosaurs
- Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs
- List of European dinosaurs
- List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs
- List of North American dinosaurs
- List of South American dinosaurs
Dinosaur fossils
- Fossil
- Ichnotaxon
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
- List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils
- List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils
- List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera
- List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils
Fields that study dinosaurs
History of dinosaurs
- Evolution of dinosaurs –
- History of paleontology – history of the study of dinosaurs.
- Prehistoric reptiles – broad category that is intended to help distinguish the dinosaurs from other prehistoric reptiles. Dinosaurs, because of their long and successful reign for many millions of years, are almost exclusively dealt with in their own category of prehistoric life. Therefore, this category covers all the non-dinosaurian reptiles which are often erroneously considered to be dinosaurs, such as the seafaring varieties of plesiosaurs and the flying pterosaurs.
Biology of dinosaurs
- Age determination in dinosaurs
- Dinosaur coloration
- Dinosaur intelligence
- Physiology of dinosaurs
- Dinosaur reproduction
Dinosaur anatomy
- Antorbital fenestra
- Arctometatarsal
- Armour (anatomy)
- Claw
- Club (anatomy)
- Coracoid tubercle
- Crop (anatomy)
- Epoccipital
- Furcula
- Gastralium
- Gizzard
- Horn (anatomy)
- Infratemporal fenestra
- Interdental plate
- Manus (anatomy)
- Neck frill
- Obturator process
- Osteoderm
- Palpebral (bone)
- Pes (anatomy)
- Predentary
- Proximodorsal process
- Rostral bone
- Sclerotic ring
- Scute
- Synsacrum
- Thagomizer
Dinosaur psychology
Dinosaur resources
- Album of Dinosaurs (book)
- Walking with Dinosaurs (documentary)
Dinosaurs in culture
- Cultural depictions of dinosaurs
- Dragons versus dinosaurs
- Dinosaurs in popular media
- Living dinosaur
- List of dinosaur parks
- List of U.S. state dinosaurs
- Sites of fossilized dinosaurs across the southern South Korean coast
Animals commonly mistaken as dinosaurs
- Pterosaurs (also known as pterodactyls))
- Extinct marine reptiles, such as:
