Top 7 Most Elegant Dinosaurs
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#1 Arcovenator
Arcovenator is voted the first most elegant dinosaurs with 104 votes.
Arcovenator
Arcovenator ("Arc hunter") is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur hailing from the Late Cretaceous of France. The type and only described species is Arcovenator escotae.Though shallower, the nearly complete braincase of Arcovenator is otherwise similar in size to those of Majungasaurus and Carnotaurus; it was thus initially estimated as being about 5–6 metres (16–20 ft) long, but it was estimated more recently in 2016 as being 4.8 metres (16 ft) in length. The skull roof exhibits as a unique diagnostic character a midline foramen, possibly housing the pineal gland, situated on the posterior surface of a slight dome formed by frontal bones as moderately thick as in Aucasaurus, thus less so than for Rajasaurus, though more than those of Rugops.
#2 Iguanodon
Iguanodon is voted the second most elegant dinosaurs with 104 votes.
Iguanodon
†I. bernissartensis Boulenger, 1881 †I. galvensis Verdú et al., 2015Iguanodon (/ɪˈɡwɑːnədɒn/ i-GWAH-nə-don; meaning "iguana-tooth") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that existed roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids of the mid-Jurassic and the duck-billed dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous.
#3 Hastanectes
Hastanectes is voted the third most elegant dinosaurs with 103 votes.
Hastanectes
Hastanectes is an extinct genus of a plesiosaurian with possible pliosaurid affinities known from the Early Cretaceous Wadhurst Clay Formation (Valanginian stage) of the United Kingdom. It contains a single species, Hastanectes valdensis, which was originally thought to be a species of Cimoliasaurus..
#4 Abydosaurus
Abydosaurus is voted the fourth most elegant dinosaurs with 102 votes.
Abydosaurus
Abydosaurus (meaning "Abydos lizard") is a genus of brachiosaurid sauropod dinosaur known from skull and postcranial material found in upper Lower Cretaceous rocks of northeastern Utah, United States. Abydosaurus is one of the few sauropods known from skull material, with the first described complete skull for a Cretaceous sauropod from the Americas. It is also notable for its narrow teeth, as earlier brachiosaurids had broader teeth.Abydosaurus is based on DINO 16488, a nearly complete skull and lower jaws with the first four neck vertebrae.
#5 Anatotitan
Anatotitan is voted the fifth most elegant dinosaurs with 102 votes.
Anatotitan
Edmontosaurus annectens (meaning "connected lizard from Edmonton) is a species of flat-headed or saurolophine hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaur (a "duck-billed dinosaur") from the very end of the Cretaceous Period, in what is now North America. Remains of E. annectens have been preserved in the Frenchman, Hell Creek, and Lance Formations.
#6 Anserimimus
Anserimimus is voted the sixth most elegant dinosaurs with 102 votes.
Anserimimus
Anserimimus(/ˌænsərɪˈmaɪməs/ AN-sər-i-MY-məs; "goose mimic") is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It was a lanky, fast-running animal, possibly an omnivore. From what fossils are known, it probably closely resembled other ornithomimids, except for its more powerful forelimbs.
#7 Archaeornithoides
Archaeornithoides is voted the seventh most elegant dinosaurs with 102 votes.
Archaeornithoides
Archaeornithoides is a genus of maniraptoriform theropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. In 1965, a Polish-Mongolian paleontological expedition found a fossil of a small dinosaur at Bayn Dzak, Mongolia. In 1983, the find was reported by Andrzej Elzanowski.