DinosaurDB
105 dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles with detailed descriptions and facts. From the Triassic to the extinction.
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Tyrannosaurus
The most famous theropod dinosaur and one of the largest land predators ever. Had the stro...
12.3m · 9tTriceratops
The iconic three-horned dinosaur. Its skull could reach 2.5 meters, one of the largest of ...
9m · 9tSpinosaurus
The largest known carnivorous dinosaur, bigger than T. rex. Had a distinctive sail on its ...
14m · 7tVelociraptor
Much smaller than depicted in Jurassic Park — about the size of a turkey. Had a distinctiv...
2.1m · 15kgBrachiosaurus
One of the tallest dinosaurs, with a giraffe-like posture holding its head up to 16 meters...
22m · 56tArchaeopteryx
The famous missing link between dinosaurs and birds. Had feathers clearly visible in fossi...
0.5m · 0.5kgLate Triassic (6)
Coelophysis
One of the earliest known dinosaurs. Hundreds of skeletons found together at Ghost Ranch, ...
3m · 20kgEoraptor
One of the earliest known dinosaurs. Fox sized, with pointed teeth at the front for meat a...
1m · 10kgHerrerasaurus
One of the earliest dinosaurs, a 5 meter predator from the dawn of the group. A sliding lo...
5m · 350kgLiliensternus
The largest predator of Late Triassic Europe. Carried a small crest on the skull and grasp...
5m · 200kgPlateosaurus
The best known Triassic dinosaur, with over 100 skeletons from German and Swiss quarries. ...
8m · 2tShonisaurus
A gigantic ichthyosaur, a marine reptile shaped like a cross between a dolphin and a whale...
15m · 30tEarly Jurassic (5)
Dilophosaurus
Known for its twin head crests. The Jurassic Park version (with a frill and venom) is fict...
7m · 400kgIchthyosaurus
A marine reptile shaped remarkably like a modern dolphin — a classic example of convergent...
3m · 100kgCryolophosaurus
The first meat eating dinosaur ever found in Antarctica. Its crest ran side to side across...
6.5m · 450kgLesothosaurus
One of the earliest bird hipped dinosaurs, a swift plant eater built like a small greyhoun...
2m · 10kgScelidosaurus
One of the first nearly complete dinosaur skeletons ever found, washed into the sea and bu...
4m · 270kgMiddle Jurassic (1)
Late Jurassic (17)
Stegosaurus
Known for the double row of diamond-shaped plates along its back and four tail spikes (tha...
9m · 5tBrachiosaurus
One of the tallest dinosaurs, with a giraffe-like posture holding its head up to 16 meters...
22m · 56tAllosaurus
The apex predator of the Late Jurassic, long before T. rex. May have hunted in packs to ta...
8.5m · 2tDiplodocus
One of the longest dinosaurs at 25 meters, but relatively light for its size due to a dram...
25m · 15tApatosaurus
Formerly confused with Brontosaurus (which is now recognized as a separate genus). One of ...
23m · 22tArchaeopteryx
The famous missing link between dinosaurs and birds. Had feathers clearly visible in fossi...
0.5m · 0.5kgCompsognathus
One of the smallest known dinosaurs at about the size of a chicken. A fast, agile predator...
1m · 3kgBarosaurus
A sauropod with an exceptionally long neck built from 15 huge elongated vertebrae. Its whi...
24m · 20tBrontosaurus
For more than a century scientists treated it as the same animal as Apatosaurus, but a maj...
22m · 15tCamarasaurus
The most common sauropod of the Morrison Formation, known from dozens of skeletons. Its na...
15m · 10tCeratosaurus
A distinctive predator with a blade like nasal horn and a pair above its eyes. Unusually f...
6m · 700kgChilesaurus
A plant eating theropod nicknamed the platypus of dinosaurs. Mixed traits of many groups: ...
3.2m · 300kgGuanlong
The oldest known tyrannosauroid, living 95 million years before T. rex. A delicate hollow ...
3m · 120kgKentrosaurus
An African stegosaur with plates at the front and long spikes at the shoulders and tail. I...
4.5m · 1tMamenchisaurus
Famous for the longest neck of any dinosaur, roughly half the entire body length. Up to 19...
22m · 15tSupersaurus
One of the longest dinosaurs ever found, with estimates from 33 to 39 meters. The neck and...
34m · 35tTuojiangosaurus
A Chinese stegosaur with a spiked tail and a mix of tall plates and side spines. Its head ...
6.5m · 3tEarly Cretaceous (22)
Iguanodon
One of the first dinosaurs ever named (1825). Originally reconstructed as a lumbering quad...
10m · 4tDeinonychus
The dinosaur that revolutionized paleontology. John Ostrom described it in 1969, arguing i...
3.4m · 73kgAmargasaurus
A small sauropod with a dramatic double row of tall spines on its neck and back. The spine...
10m · 3tMicroraptor
A tiny four-winged dinosaur. Had long flight feathers on both its arms and legs, making it...
0.8m · 1kgBaryonyx
Discovered in 1983 in a Surrey clay pit. Had a crocodile-like snout and 96 cone-shaped tee...
10m · 2tUtahraptor
The largest known dromaeosaurid — essentially a giant Velociraptor the size of a grizzly b...
5.5m · 500kgKronosaurus
One of the largest pliosaurs, with a skull 2.5 meters long. Had massive, conical teeth des...
10m · 11tSuchomimus
A spinosaurid with a crocodile-like snout and over 100 conical teeth for catching fish. Ha...
11m · 3tAcrocanthosaurus
A giant predator with a ridge of tall spines running along its back and tail, tallest over...
11.5m · 5tConcavenator
A predator with a striking hump above its hips raised by two tower like vertebrae. Possibl...
6m · 600kgDilong
An early tyrannosauroid preserved with simple protofeathers. Proves tyrannosaurs descended...
2m · 25kgHypsilophodon
A small sprinter once thought to climb trees like a kangaroo. Anatomy proves it was a grou...
2m · 50kgIrritator
A spinosaurid named out of pure frustration after dealers glued fake bones onto its snout ...
8m · 2tLeaellynasaura
A small dinosaur that lived within the Antarctic Circle when Australia sat far to the sout...
1m · 10kgNigersaurus
A sauropod with a wide vacuum shaped muzzle packed with over 500 tiny teeth in some 50 col...
9m · 3tPatagotitan
Discovered when a rancher spotted a giant thigh bone jutting from a hill in 2014. Estimate...
37m · 57tPolacanthus
An armored English dinosaur protected by a solid shield of fused bone over the hips. Rows ...
4.5m · 1tPsittacosaurus
A parrot beaked early ceratopsian and one of the most completely known dinosaurs, with hun...
2m · 20kgSinornithosaurus
A feathered dromaeosaur preserving true branching feathers in tufts of varied shape. Sits ...
1.2m · 2kgSinosauropteryx
The first non bird dinosaur ever found with feathers, announced in 1996, launching a scien...
1m · 1kgTenontosaurus
A long tailed plant eater whose tail, stiffened by bony tendons, made up half its body len...
7m · 1tYutyrannus
The largest feathered animal known to science, with filaments up to 20 cm preserved across...
9m · 1tLate Cretaceous (54)
Tyrannosaurus
The most famous theropod dinosaur and one of the largest land predators ever. Had the stro...
12.3m · 9tTriceratops
The iconic three-horned dinosaur. Its skull could reach 2.5 meters, one of the largest of ...
9m · 9tVelociraptor
Much smaller than depicted in Jurassic Park — about the size of a turkey. Had a distinctiv...
2.1m · 15kgSpinosaurus
The largest known carnivorous dinosaur, bigger than T. rex. Had a distinctive sail on its ...
14m · 7tAnkylosaurus
A living tank covered in bony armor plates and sporting a massive club tail. The tail club...
6.5m · 4tParasaurolophus
Famous for the long, curved crest on its head. The crest contained nasal passages that may...
10m · 3tCarnotaurus
Instantly recognizable by its two bull-like horns above the eyes. Had the shortest arms of...
7.5m · 2tPteranodon
Not technically a dinosaur, but a pterosaur — one of the largest flying reptiles. Wingspan...
7m · 25kgMosasaurus
A giant marine lizard, not a dinosaur. The apex predator of the Late Cretaceous seas. Coul...
17m · 15tTherizinosaurus
One of the strangest dinosaurs. A giant theropod that evolved to eat plants instead of mea...
10m · 5tOviraptor
Named egg thief because it was found on a nest of eggs assumed to be Protoceratops. Later ...
1.5m · 20kgPachycephalosaurus
The dome-headed dinosaur with a skull roof up to 25 cm thick of solid bone. Long thought t...
4.5m · 450kgArgentinosaurus
Possibly the largest land animal to ever walk the Earth, estimated at 35 meters long and 6...
35m · 65tGiganotosaurus
Slightly larger than T. rex and lived 30 million years earlier. Brain was smaller relative...
12.5m · 7tMaiasaura
The good mother lizard — named after fossil evidence of parental care. Nests found in colo...
9m · 3tStyracosaurus
A ceratopsian with a spectacular crown of 4-6 long spikes radiating from its frill, plus a...
5.5m · 3tTroodon
Often called the smartest dinosaur based on having the largest brain relative to body size...
2m · 50kgQuetzalcoatlus
The largest flying animal ever known with a 10-meter wingspan. A pterosaur, not a dinosaur...
10m · 200kgElasmosaurus
A plesiosaur with an impossibly long neck — 72 vertebrae, the most of any known animal. Th...
14m · 2tProtoceratops
A small early ceratopsian, about the size of a sheep. Famous for the Fighting Dinosaurs fo...
2.5m · 180kgKosmoceratops
Known for having the most ornate skull of any dinosaur. Had 15 horns and horn-like structu...
5m · 2tNodosaurus
A heavily armored nodosaurid. An incredibly well-preserved specimen found in Alberta in 20...
5.5m · 2tStygimoloch
A pachycephalosaur with a spiky dome. Some scientists argue it is actually a juvenile Pach...
3m · 40kgGallimimus
The largest known ornithomimid (ostrich dinosaur). Could run at speeds up to 50 km/h. Had ...
6m · 440kgAlbertosaurus
A close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that lived in Canada several million years earlier. ...
9m · 2tAbelisaurus
Known mainly from a single well preserved skull found in 1985. Ornamental ridges above the...
8m · 2tCarcharodontosaurus
Named for teeth like those of a great shark, up to 20 cm long. Among the largest carnivoro...
12.5m · 7tCentrosaurus
A horned dinosaur known from bonebeds where thousands of individuals perished together, li...
5.5m · 2tChasmosaurus
A ceratopsian with a huge rectangular frill pierced by two large openings that lightened t...
4.5m · 2tCorythosaurus
A duck billed dinosaur with a helmet shaped crest holding looping nasal passages. Crest si...
9m · 3tDaspletosaurus
A heavily built tyrannosaurid that preceded T. rex and may lie near its ancestry. Skulls c...
9m · 3tDeinocheirus
For 50 years known only from a pair of 2.4 meter arms with huge claws that fueled monster ...
11m · 7tEdmontonia
A nodosaur with enormous backward sweeping shoulder spikes. The rest of the body wore a pa...
6.5m · 3tEdmontosaurus
One of the largest duck billed dinosaurs. A mummified specimen nicknamed Dakota preserved ...
12m · 4tEiniosaurus
A ceratopsian with a single forward curving nose horn often compared to a bottle opener. T...
4.5m · 1tEuoplocephalus
One of the best known armored dinosaurs with over 40 specimens including complete skeleton...
5.5m · 3tGigantoraptor
A colossal oviraptorosaur, dozens of times heavier than its closest known relatives. It st...
8m · 2tGorgosaurus
A lightly built tyrannosaurid, faster than its neighbor Daspletosaurus. Hundreds of specim...
8.5m · 3tHadrosaurus
The first dinosaur skeleton ever mounted for public display, unveiled in Philadelphia in 1...
8m · 3tLambeosaurus
A crested hadrosaur whose hatchet shaped crest projected forward from the skull. Looping n...
7.5m · 3tMapusaurus
A giant carcharodontosaurid found in a bonebed with at least seven individuals of differen...
11m · 6tOrnithomimus
An ostrich mimic with a toothless beak. Adults show quill knobs on the arms, and juveniles...
3.8m · 170kgPachyrhinosaurus
A horned dinosaur whose nose horn became a thick flattened bony boss. Herds of thousands m...
6m · 2tPanoplosaurus
A tank like nodosaur wrapped in bands of interlocking armor from neck to tail. Large spike...
5.5m · 2tPentaceratops
Holds one of the longest dinosaur skulls ever measured, nearly 3 meters including the fril...
6.5m · 3tSaichania
A Mongolian ankylosaur built for a harsh semi arid habitat. Elaborate nasal passages may h...
5.5m · 2tSaltasaurus
The first sauropod ever found with body armor, stunning scientists who thought only ankylo...
8.5m · 3tShantungosaurus
The largest duck billed dinosaur ever found, stretching past 15 meters, longer than a scho...
15m · 8tSinoceratops
The first big horned dinosaur discovered in China. Skin impressions on its frill are the f...
5.5m · 2tStegoceras
A small dome headed dinosaur with a skull roof of thick solid bone. Whether it butted head...
2.5m · 20kgStruthiomimus
An ostrich mimic immortalized in a famous early painting standing alert like a bird, radic...
4m · 170kgTarbosaurus
The Asian cousin of T. rex and the second largest tyrannosaurid. Its jaw locked more rigid...
11m · 5tTorosaurus
Bore one of the longest skulls of any land animal, nearly 3 meters with its immense frill....
8m · 5tZuniceratops
The oldest horned dinosaur in North America with true brow horns. Discovered by the young ...
3m · 200kg