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Indigenous to China, Keichousaurus hui is commonly discovered within the Triassic deposits of Guizhou Province, China. ... more

Trilobites ("three-lobes") are extinct arthropods that form the class Trilobita. They appeared in the Middle Cambrian epoch and flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before beginning a drawn-out decline to extinction ... more

Hadrosaur fossils

The Hadrosauridae, also known as the duck-billed dinosaurs, were members of the ornithischian ("bird-hipped") dinosaurs. They were herbivorous (plant eating), and could probably switch easily from walking bipedally (on two legs), to walking quadrupedally (on all four legs) depending on whether they were feeding or running from predators. ... more

Thescelosaurus fossils

Thescelosaurus from the Greek thescelo- meaning "godlike", "marvelous", or "wondrous" and saurus "lizard") was a genus of small ornithopod dinosaur that appeared at the very end of the Late Cretaceous period in North America. It was a member of the last dinosaurian fauna before the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. ... more

Triceratop fossils

Triceratops is an extinct genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. ... more

Spinosaurus

THE biggest, and possibly the baddest predatory dinosaur of them all was not the fabled Tyrannosaurus rex, or even its slightly larger rival Giganotosaurus, but a long-jawed, sail-backed creature called Spinosaurus. ... more

Psittacosaurus

Psittacosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia. It is notable for being the most species-rich dinosaur genus. At least ten extinct species are recognized from dinosaur fossils found in different regions of modern-day China, Mongolia and Russia.
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