My Five Favorite Dinosaurs


Name When/Where it Lived Size Diet Interesting Facts Picture
ACANTHOPHOLIS
"Spiny scales"

Cretaceous Period

115-91 million years ago
15 ft long
Wt. 380 kg. or 838 Ibs.

plants
big gut, wasn't very smart
APATOSAURUS
"Brontosaurus"
North America
70-90 ft. long
15 ft tall
33-38 tons
plants
largest land animals that ever excisted
his footprints have been found in CO
CAMARASAURUS
"Chambered Lizard"

Jurassic Period

155 to 145 million yrs old

24 to 65 ft. long
15 ft tall at the hips
20 tons
plants
thick big legs
DEINONYCHUS
"Terrible Claw"

Cretaceous Period

110 to 100 million yrs ago

10 ft. long, 5 ft. tall, 4 ft at taller (shoulder) 175 Ibs.
meat
lightly built, fast-moving,
agile, bipedal (walked on two legs),
bird-like dinosaur
EORAPTOR
"Dawn Raptor"

Triassic period

about 228 million yrs ago
3 feet long
meat
hollow bones, a long head

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