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Europe liliensternus

The dinosaurs of europe are currently known from about
375 different locations across the continent. They range in
date from the Late Triassic of 225 million years ago to the 1
Late Cretaceous, 65 million years ago. It was in Europe that
the curiosity in ancient animal bones first began, and the
earliest scientific studies and naming of dinosaurs were carried Length: 20 ft (6 m)
Pronunciation: lil-ee-an-stern-us
out here. About 80 dinosaur species have so far been identified in Meaning: named after a paleontologist,
the countries of Europe, from small carnivores to the giant plant-eaters of Ruhle von Lilienstern
the Jurassic. In addition to dinosaurs, Europe’s rocks contain other fossils, Plateosaurus
including a primitive bird and many kinds of pterosaur. All together they
reveal just how varied the ancient animal kingdom was.

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Length: 26 ft (8 m)
greenland
Pronunciation: plat-ee-oh-sore-us
Meaning: “flat lizard”
sellosaurus
wealden group The map
In southeast England Some of Europe’s
there is a formation of major fossil locations
rock known as the Wealden iceland are shown on this
Group. It began to form map, together with
some 140 million years the prehistoric 3
ago, when the area was a animals found there.
floodplain inhabited by
many dinosaur species. Length: 21 ft (6.5 m)
Pronunciation: sell-oh-sore-us
norway sweden Meaning: “saddle lizard”
united thecodontosaurus
kingdom

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14 16
bristol
18 11
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3 4
belgium germany
2 halle 10
france 9 poland Length: 7 ft (2.1 m)
solnhofen Pronunciation: thee-co-don-toh-sore-us
strasbourg czech Meaning: “socket-toothed lizard”
2 stuttgart
2 5 republic
beira litoral soria switzerland zurich austria slovakia
province province
6 22 lleida (lerida)
spain
7 province hungary
estremadura
8 province las zabacheras beds 20 romania ukraine
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portugal hateg
12 las hoyas 21 19
13 italy

archaeoPteryx

triassic Period site
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Key Jurassic Period Formation
cretaceous greece Length: 3 ft (1 m)
Pronunciation: ark-ee-op-ter-iks
Period Province Meaning: “ancient wing”