Once a Terrible Lizard 2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Theropoda

Tyrannosaurus, also known as T-rex, is perhaps the most famous of all dinosaurs. This species lived throughout the Cretaceous Period, in what today is a part of North America, but back then was a gigantic island called Laramidia, stretching from modern Alaska to roughly the center of Mexico. Needless to say, Tyrannosaurus was a carnivorous dinosaur.

Answer: Theropoda

One of the earliest theropods, Coelophysis lived in the Late Triassic. Its habitat was chiefly the modern Southwestern United States, especially New Mexico. Coelophysis was a carnivore, like many of its clade, and, in 1981, it was designated as the state fossil of New Mexico.

Answer: Theropoda

Allosaurus is perhaps the most emblematic species of the Late Jurassic Period and one of the most lethal predators of its age. Its habitat was not limited to one of the modern continents, although most fossils are from North America, but spanned a considerable expanse of Laurasia (a supercontinent covering a substantial part of the globe, alongside Gondwana).

Some Allosaurus fossils have been discovered in Europe, namely Portugal.

Answer: Theropoda

Therizinosaurus is an oddity in the world of theropods since, while most well-known representatives of this clade were carnivores, it appears to have been herbivorous, and with a rather reduced bite force. Its habitat is to be found predominantly in the Gobi Desert, where the first remains were found in 1948 by a Mongolian team.

Answer: Ornithopoda

Immortalized due to a brief appearance in "Jurassic Park", Camptosaurus was first described in 1879. One of the earliest dinosaurs to be described and classified, it initially bore the name Camptonotus, which means "back-bending" in Greek. It was a herbivore and lived in North America, mostly in today's United States.

Answer: Ornithopoda

Corythosaurus, with its Homeric-derived name ("helmeted lizard" in Greek), was a herbivore, with a beak practical for feeding on low vegetation instead of high foliage. Many complete skeletons of Corythosaurus have been found. Its habitat was also Laramidia (western North America, much like the Tyrannosaurus, which also lived in the same age, the Cretaceous).

Answer: Ornithopoda

A Late Jurassic dinosaur found in North America, Dryosaurus was named from the Greek words for "oak" and "lizard". Although early research classified it as related to Hypsilophodon, modern paleontology has instead grouped it close to Iguanodon. While it was also said that its name was derived from the shape of its teeth, resembling oak leaves, this has not been in accordance with the evidence.

Answer: Ornithopoda

In the Early Cretaceous, in North America, lived Tenontosaurus, its name meaning "sinew lizard" and "tendon lizard", once more with a Greek etymology. It subsisted mostly on low ferns and shrubs, being barely able to reach up to three meters, even in a bipedal posture.

Answer: Sauropoda

A rather huge sauropod from what is today China, Euhelopus was a vegetarian. Its close relatives are also a matter of dispute among experts While it was been said that it should be grouped alongside Mamenchisaurus, others suggest that it was more similar to Titanosaurus.

Answer: Sauropoda

The name of this herbivorous dweller of Africa during the Jurassic should leave no doubts over its size, since it means "gigantic giraffe". A skeleton of Giraffatitan, displayed in Berlin, has also been included in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the tallest mounted skeletons.

Answer: Sauropoda

Bearer of a Greek name meaning "double beam", a reference to the chevron bones, which were double-crested, Diplodocus lived during the late Jurassic. It was a herbivore, being a Sauropod. Its habitat spanned modern North America, mostly the midwest.

Answer: Sauropoda

Although its Greek-derived name suggests it was an elusive and tricky animal, Apatosaurus wasn't a predator. Like all sauropods, it was a herbivore. Much like its closest relatives, including Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus, it lived in a part of what today is North America, in the latest parts of the Jurassic.