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Dinosaur Glossary

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Learn more about the dinosaur species displayed at Ogden's Dinosaur Park.

Browse the glossary and click on a dinosaur learn more about each one's discovery, time period, and more.

Achillobator

Achillobator is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 90 million years ago, in what is now Mongolia. The name “Achillobator” translates...
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Acrocanthosaurus

Menacing as this sculpture seems, the claws on its hands are implausibly tiny. Studies of Acrocanthosaurus arms show that though they had a limited range of motion and limited reach...
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Alamosaurus

Like many dinosaurs, most of the fossils known for this animal come from juveniles. What you see here is based on that material, and that makes it smaller than Alamosaurus probably grew as...
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Albertosaurus

Perhaps the most prominent feature of this sculpture, its ribs, tells more of a story about art history than about Albertosaurus. The 70s, 80s, and 90s experienced a paradigm shift in dinosaur science...
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Allosaurus

One of the earliest statues here at the park, this concrete sculpture adopts the same three-point stance as the other concrete bipedal dinosaurs from that era. A real Allosaurus would have to...
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Ankylosaurus

Ankylosaurus naturally inhibit study. They’re rare, they’re weird, they have these preservation quirks that make them a mess to sort out, and their armor often obscures skeletal elements that many...
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