Chapter 1 Dinos

Question 1

Paleontologist

Answer 1

Someone who studies ancient organisms

Question 2

Paleontology is important with regard to ? Why?

Answer 2

Scientific literacy since for many children Dino’s are their first exposure to scientific concepts

Question 3

Paleobiology

Answer 3

The study of ancient life

Question 4

Early records from china and medieval Europe thought Dino bones were? Name an example of a person and his theory

Answer 4

Dragons

Cheng Qu: described dragon bones from Sichuan , long dead dragon climbed up mountain to find gates of heaven shut

Question 5

What bone was found in 1676, and what did it end up becoming deemed as/ first scientific name given to dinosaur remains

Answer 5

First giant thigh bone, scrotum humanum

Question 6

Before 1800’s dinosaur tracks in England called

Answer 6

Bird tracks

Question 7

Jean baptiste reported pigean people referring to bones as

Answer 7

Father of the buffalo

Question 8

Meriwether lewis found dinosaur rib and wrote off as

Answer 8

Giant fish

Question 9

Thomas Jefferson is considered ? What did he urge Lewis and Clark to do? His nickname and what he did

Answer 9

Be on look out for mastodons furry elephants 
Fossil fanatic (father of paleontology) Mr. Mammoth 
Wrote scientific papers on fossils and had fossil mammal bones strewn about east room of White House

Question 10

Mosasaurus (when found) what is it ?

Answer 10

1770
40 ft. Long seagoing relative of monitor lizards such as Komodo dragon)
NOT A DINO

Question 11

Barron George Cuvier , what did he theorize and what and why did people start to believe

Answer 11

Animals died out long ago
Extinction
Influential and considered a genius

Question 12

Who is credited with describing the first scientifically valid Dino? How did he characterize it? What was it named

Answer 12

Reverend William buckland
Reptile based on teeth close to monitor lizard, quadrupedal
Megalosaurus(bug reptile)

Question 13

Did bucklands giant meat eater draw excitement from public ?

Answer 13

No because people believed tales of 30 ft crocodiles in Africa and Australia

Question 14

What did Gideon mantel find, this was the first described

Answer 14

Iguanadon (iguana tooth)
Herbivorous Dino
Giant reptile so cussed excitement

Question 15

1842 who did what

Answer 15

Sir Richard Owen tried to categorize giant fossil animals

As reptiles

Question 16

Reptiles are characterized as

Answer 16

Scaly skinned , terrestrialized, hard shelled eggs

Question 17

What name did Richard Owen give to giant fossils and when

Answer 17

Dinosauria: fearfully great reptiles

1842

Question 18

What were dinosauria characterized as

Answer 18

Giant
Possessing upright stances
Nonaquatic
Three or more sacral vertebrae (back bones fused to hip region)

Question 19

Among reptiles Dino’s and birds are ? Which include what two groups

Answer 19

Archosaurian reptiles
Crocodilians and pterosaurs(extinct flying reptiles)
Dinosauromorphs (extinct Dino like reptiles)

Question 20

Archosaurians are distinguished by? Pterosaurs are closest relative of dinosauromorphs because they have ?Dinosauromorphs are closest relative to Dino’s because

Answer 20

Teeth in sockets replaced throughout life (see in crocodilians like alligators)
Hinge like ankles pivot in middle of cluster of bones
Erect posture due to unturned ball on femur

Question 21

Dinosaurs have three key features

Answer 21

Three or more sacral vertebrae (fused backbones )
Hands with three main fingers (two in tyrannosaurs and one in alvarezarids)
Perforate acetabulae ( hole where thigh bone attatchef goes all the way through hip)

Question 22

What was an anatomical mistake in Owens models of iguanadon

Answer 22

Horn on nose

Question 23

When was new species found that sparked interest again and why

Answer 23

1980

Euro pales in comparison to North America Africa and Asia in potential for revealing fossils

Question 24

First scientifically reported remains of dinosaurs form America ? First described as

Answer 24

1800 by schoolboy Pliny moody in Massachusetts

Described as 12-15 ft tall ostrich like birds

Question 25

First remains correctly recognized

Answer 25

Teeth from Montana brought to Joseph leisure at university of Philadelphia

Question 26

What was leisure given in 1858, first time science had look at

Answer 26

Nearly complete duck billed dinosaur named hadrosaurus

Front and back end

Question 27

Leisure recognized what mistake in Owens

Answer 27

Bipedal

Question 28

Hawkins to build renditions but what happened

Answer 28

Destroyed in political territory fight

Question 29

Two major groupings of dinosaurs

Answer 29

Ornithischians (bird hips) with pelvic bones shaped like those of birds (iguanadon)
Saurischians with plebes like lizards (lizard hips megalosaurus)

Question 30

Most colorful incidences in Dino paleontology between who?

Answer 30

Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward drinker cope
Cope showed marsh fossil digging
Marsh paid more
Marsh said head was on tail of pleisiosaur
Hired fossil finding teams to search American west and founded some most famous dinosaurs allo, apato,camaro, campto, cerato, diplodocus, stego, triceratops
Many considered invalid

Question 31

Who was hired to study fossils in coal mine in Belgium ? He was first person? What did he find?

Answer 31

Louis dollo
We can call a dinosaur paleontologist - a person interested in lives of Dino’s and ecosystems
Found nose horn was thumb spike

Question 32

What happened after world war in late 1800s to studying Dino’s

Answer 32

Put enough fossils to keep people happy
Dead end lineage
Gained more by studying evolution of mammals

Question 33

When did Dino reinassance start ? And by who

Found what ?

Answer 33

1964 John ostrom
Deinonychus (terrible claw) velociraptor like in Jurassic park
Long hand claws sharp teeth flip knife killing claws on each foot
Showed it wasn’t sluggish animal

Question 34

Robert Bakker

Answer 34

Noted they were like mammals not Like birds

Dinosaur research soared

Question 35

What happened in 1980 (who pronounced what)

Answer 35

Nobel Walter Alvarez meteorite killed off Dino’s and cause scientists from many disciplines to look at dinosaurs seriously to see extinction patterns

Question 36

The us government has looked at ways to ?

Answer 36

Avert disaster should a large asteroid endanger earths ecosystems again

Question 37

Cladistics ? Trees called

Answer 37

Computers to organize enormous lists of physical characteristics about animals and establish shared attributes from which genealogical relationships can be determined
Cladograms
Organize study patterns of 173 million year tenure of Dino’s