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p.10 Sauropodomorpha
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Line 1: 120kg of cycads (an ancient group of seed plants), conifer and
gingko
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p.16 Sauropoda
Line 4: 100 tonnes ten times the weight of a modern elephant. They
went on to evolve extremely large body sizes multiple times in
different species.
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p.18 Titanosauria
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Line 3, column 2: Theres also evidence that later on, the titanosaurs remains
were pulled apart by marauding theropod dinosaurs.
Line 8 onwards: Tyrannotitan chubutensis were also discovered at the site,
suggesting that some lucky scavengers had the heast of a lifetime 95-100
millionyears ago. The creatures neck would probably have been held roughly
horizontal for most of the time, but they could have fed from the ground or
reached up to 14m for food. Its heart would have been the weight of three people
and pushed up to 90 litres of blood round with one beat. To survive, this species
would have needed the equivalent of a skip-full of food a day, using its huge gut
to slowly digest its plant-based diet.
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p22. Theropoda
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p.24 Ceratosauria
Line 13: Majungasaurus was the apex predator of its time in Madagascar,
when it was already an island.
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Line 13: Majungasaurus was the apex predator of its time in Madagascar,
which was already an island.
p26. Allosauria
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1. Allosaurus fragilis
Allosaurus was known to be an active predator. There is evidence of
allosaur attacks on Stegosaurus, including an Allosaurus tail vertebra with
puncture marks that fit a Stegasaurus tail spike, and a Stegasaurus neck
plate with a wound that matches the shape of an Allosaurus bite. Unlike
Tyrannosaurus, its bite wasnt capable of crushing bone.
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p.28 Spinosauridae
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p.32 Tyrannosauridae
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Line 3: Tarbosaurus from Asia, must have ruled the land, the apex
predators during the final 20 million years of the Cretaceous.
Line 8: shape massive head on the end of a s-shaped
Line 10: hadrosaurs of the day
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Line 3: Tarbosaurus from Asia, ruled the land during the final 20 million
years of the Cretaceous.
Line 8: shape a massive head on the end of an S-shaped
Line 10: hadrosaurs
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p.34 Ornithomimosauria
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Line 4, column 2: Ornithomimus may have used the long feathers on its arms for
mating
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Line 4, column 2: Ornithomimus may have used the long feathers for mating
Line 5, column 3: belonged to a strange, hump-backed
p.40 Troodontidae
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Line 15, column 2: A duck-sized troodontid preserved in the act of sleeping, with
its beak tucked under its wing representing another behavioural link between
birds and dinosaurs.
Line 10, column 3: very simple filament-like protofeathers which were reddish in
colour, with a light banded tail.
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Line 15, column 2: The duck-sized troodontid is known for its sleeping posture
after a fossil was found with its beak tucked under its wing just like a roosting
bird. Its name means sleeping dragon.
p48 Ornithopoda
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Line 7, column 3: Some scientists take this as evidence that packs of Deinonychus
preyed on juvenile Tenotosaurus, although it could mean that Deinonychus
scavenged its bones.
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Line 1, column 3: The species, foxii, was named after Reverand William Fox,
an enthusiastic Vitorian fossil collector, who found many of the specimens. His
wife said of him that it was always bones first and the parish next.
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Chapter title: Primitive ornithopoda
Line 1 onwards: These dinosaurs were fast, light herbivores that ran around on
two legs. Primitive ornithopods were also characterised by their small size,
sharp beaks, cheek pouches and long tails, stiffened by bony rods.
Line 7: Some primitive ornithopods are also
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2. Hypsilophodon skull
The skull had large eye sockets and a sclerotic ring a collection of small bones
around the eye, which is thought to have strengthened the eyeball and helped
with focusing, particularly in dim light.
p.54 Iguanodon
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p55 Line 2: Recent discoveries, and re-examination of old bones once thought
to belong to Iguanodon,
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Line 4, column 3: Its teeth were leaf-shaped with serrated edges, and would have
been used to snip off leaves. The lack of wear on the teeth, however, suggests
that Scutellosaurus didnt chew its food before swallowing it.
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p.64 Stegosauria
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Line 6, column 2: ..had a broader skull, and, unlike later stegosaurs, it had teeth
at the front of its mouth, and relatively long forelimbs.
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Line 6, column 2: ..had a broader skull than later stegosaurs and teeth at the
front of its mouth, as well as relatively long forelimbs.