Dinosaur Facts

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Dinosaur Facts

• Researched and Created by
• Metro Norths Second Graders
• 2006
• Some Graphics found at Zoom Dinosaures

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The name of my reptile is Pteranodon. It is not
a dinosaur but a very close relative to one. A
Pteranodon can fly. It weighed 55 pounds. It was
named by Othiel C. Marsh. Pteranodon had hollow
bones. It was a meat eater. By Alexis
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Ultrasaurus is named by Jensen/ Olshevsky. It
weighed 55 to 130 tons. Its height was 50 feet)
tall at the hips. It was a herbivore (plant
eater.) It swallowed its food whole without
chewing it. Its fossils are probably the remains
of two different types of huge plant eating
dinosaurs. By Alyssa
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The Gallimius was named in 1972. Its length was
13-20 feet. It weighed 970 pounds. It was a fast
moving bird like dinosaur. It had a toothless
beak, long legs, hollow bones, and a beak
shaped like a shovel. By Brett
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The name, Corythosaurus means helmet lizard."
It lived in the late Cretaceous period. It
weighed 5 tons. It was 6.6 feet tall. It was
30-33 feet long. On its head was a hollow bony
crest. The crest was a helmet shape and flat on
both sides. It was duckbilled. It was a
herbivore. It lived 65-80 million years ago. By
Cale
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My dinosaurs name is called Tyrannosaurs Rex
(T-Rex). It got named in 1905. The length was
up to 40 feet. The height was 15 to 20 feet.
The first T. Rex was found in Hell Creek,
Montana, U.S.A. The first T. Rex was found by
Barnum Brown in 1920. About 30 incomplete T.Rex
fossils have been found. The T. Rex lived during
the late Cretaceous Period. That was about
65-85 million years ago. T. Rex was a fierce
predator that walked on 2 powerful legs. By
Eryn
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The Saltopus is a carnivore. That means it is
a meateater. It may have eaten mostly insects.
Its height was 8 inches tall at the hips. It was
2 foot tall and weighed 2 pounds. Saltopus
belongs to the order of lizard-hipped dinosausurs
. It was a bipedal carnivore. It also had five
fingers on its hands. It lived during the
Triassic Period.

By Gabby
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Brachiosaurus means Arm lizard. It lived in
the late Jurassic Period. It was named by Elmer
S. Riggs. The Brachiosaurs was 80 feet long.
Long-necks had powerful hearts. The Brachiosaurs
had huge front legs and small back legs. It was
found in the U.S.A. It was a herbivore. It was
named in 1903. It weighed 90 tons. The
Brachiosaurs has nostrils at the top of the head.
By Jake
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Baryonyx had huge foot-long claws on its hands.
It had long, narrow, crocodile-like jaws with 96
small serrated teeth. It had a small crest
snout. Baryonyx had a long straight neck and a
long tail. Its low slung body was supported by 2
large rear legs and 2 slightly smaller arms. Its
length was 32 feet. The height was 8 feet. The
weight was 1.5-2 tons. The Baryonyx was a
carnivore. In fact, a fossilized meal was
found in the stomach of one. This meal contained
fish scales, fish bones, and some partly digested
bones of a young Iguanodon. So far Baryonyx is
the only known dinosaur to eat fish. It may have
waded rivers and shallow seas to catch fish. By
Jakob
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My dinosaur is Iguanodon. It was named by
Gideon Mantell. The length is 20 to 33 ft and 9
feet long. It weighed 4 to 6 tons. It lived
during the Cretaceous Period. The name Iguanodon
means Iguana tooth. It had a large
thumb-spike used for scraping up plants or for
defense. BY Jessika
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My dinosaurs name is Parkasaurus. It was named
by Charles M. Sternberg. It weighed 150 pounds.
The length is 7 feet tall. By Julian
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An Allosaurus was the top first predator. It had
a huge head, sharp, serrated, teeth, short arms,
and three fingered hands. Its length was about 40
feet. It was 10 feet tall and weighed 4.5 tons.
An Allosaurus was a meat-eater. It ate plant
eating dinosaurs.
By Mason Cruz
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A Megaraptor is a meat eater. Megaraptor means
huge robber. The Megaraptor remains were found
in 1996 in Northwest Patagonia, Argentina, by
paleontologist Fernando E. Novas. It was 20 to
26 feet long and 6 feet tall. By Matthew
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The Zuniceratops was 10-11 feet long. It
weighed 100-115 pounds. Ziniceratops means
Zuni-horned head. The Zuin are North American
Indians. The Zuniceratops lived during the
Cretaceous Period. It was a herbivore. That
means it ate plants. It also had eybrow horns.
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Diplodocus was a plant eater. He lived in the
Jurassic Period. He weighed about 10-20 tons.
It lived in the U.S.A. in the states of Wyoming,
Utah, Montana, and Colorado. It lived about
145-155 million years ago. By Xian