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What is this?. Dinosaur-like. Has teeth Has a tail Lived in the Jurassic Period. Bird-like. Feathers (and flight?) Hollowed bones Large brain . What makes and animal a dinosaur?. underslung legs that gave dinosaurs an erect posture
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Dinosaur-like • Has teeth • Has a tail • Lived in the Jurassic Period
Bird-like • Feathers (and flight?) • Hollowed bones • Large brain
What makes and animal a dinosaur? • underslung legs that gave dinosaurs an erect posture • a large hole in the bottom of their basin-shaped hip-socket • a secondary palate (uncharacteristic of reptiles) that permits dinosaurs to eat and breathe at the same time • a fairly straight thigh bone with an in-turned head • two pairs of holes in the temporal region of the skull (diapsid skull)
Continued… • backward-pointing knees (or elbows) of the front legs • forward-pointing knees of the rear legs (rather than pointing sideways) • front legs shorter and lighter than the rear legs (in almost every case) • a special bone (predentary) at the chin that capped the front of the bottom jaw in some dinosaurs (the ornithischians) • land-dwelling creature, rather than marine or airborne
Ancient Reptiles • Pterosaurs (Flying reptiles) • Mosasaurs (Marine reptiles)