Flashcards Dinosaur Factsheets v2
Flashcards Dinosaur Factsheets v2
Diet: meat-eater (probably mostly ate fish) Found in: North America and Tanzania
Size: 8-10 metres long and 5 metres tall Diet: plant-eater (probably ate the tops of trees)
Features: 30cm long claws on its hands and jaws like a Size: 13 metres tall and 25 metres long
crocodile Features: nostrils on the top of its head
Diplodocus Giganotosaurus
Name means: double-beamed Name means: giant southern reptile
Lived: 155-145 million years ago (mid-late Jurassic Lived: 100-90 million years ago (mid Cretaceous period)
period) Found in: Argentina
Found in: the USA Diet: meat-eater
Diet: plant-eater (probably used its long neck to reach Size: 14 metres long
plants in the middle of forests)
Features: the largest meat-eating dinosaur
Size: 27 metres long, with an 8 metre long neck and a 14
metre long tail
Features: extra bones below its backbone
Iguanodon Stegosaurus
Name means: iguana tooth Name means: plated lizard or roof lizard
Lived: 135-125 million years ago (early Cretaceous Lived: 156-140 million years ago (mid-late Jurassic
period) period)
Found in: Europe, North Africa, the USA and Mongolia Found in: the USA, western Europe, India, Mongolia and
Diet: plant-eater southern Africa
Size: 9 metres long and 5 metres tall Diet: plant-eater (probably ate low-growing plants)
Features: a beak with no teeth; teeth in its cheeks; a claw Size: 9 metres long and 3 metres tall
for a thumb Features: two rows of bony plates in its back; four long
spikes at the end of its tail
Triceratops Troodon
Name means: three-horned face Name means: wounding tooth
Lived: 72-65 million years ago (late Cretaceous period) Lived: 76-70 million years ago (late Cretaceous period)
Found in: the USA and Canada Found in: the USA and Canada
Diet: plant-eater (probably ate low-growing plants) Diet: meat-eater
Size: 9 metres long and 3 metres tall Size: 3 metres long and 2 metres tall
Features: three horns on its face; its head was nearly one Features: probably the most intelligent dinosaur; moved
third as long as its body fast on two legs
Tyrannosaurus Rex Velociraptor
Name means: tyrant lizard king Name means: speedy thief
Lived: 85-65 million years ago (late Cretaceous period) Lived: 85-80 million years ago (late Cretaceous period)
Found in: the USA, Canada and Mongolia Found in: Mongolia, Russia and China
Diet: meat-eater (hunted alone) Diet: meat-eater (hunted in groups)
Size: 12 metres long and 6 metres tall Size: 2 metres long and 1 metre tall
Features: could eat 230kg of meat and bones in one bite Features: could run up to 60km an hour; had a 9cm long
claw on the middle toe of each foot