Top 7 Most Glamorous Dinosaurs
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#1 Huehuecanauhtlus
Huehuecanauhtlus is voted the first most glamorous dinosaurs with 177 votes.
Huehuecanauhtlus
Huehuecanauhtlus is an extinct genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian stage) of Michoacán, western Mexico. It contains a single species, Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis.Huehuecanauhtlus was first described and named by Angel Alejandro Ramírez-Velasco, Mouloud Benammi, Albert Prieto-Márquez, Jesús Alvarado Ortega and René Hernández-Rivera in 2012 and the type species is Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis. The generic name is derived from Náhuatl (group of dialects related to the Aztecan languages) huehuetl, meaning "ancient" and canauhtli, meaning "duck" in reference to its hadrosauroid affinities.
#2 Meyerasaurus
Meyerasaurus is voted the second most glamorous dinosaurs with 154 votes.
Meyerasaurus
Plesiosaurus victor Fraas, 1910Thaumatosaurus victor Fraas, 1910Eurycleidus victor Zittel, 1932Rhomaleosaurus victor Tarlo, 1960 Meyerasaurus is an extinct genus of rhomaleosaurid known from Holzmaden, Baden-Württemberg of southeastern Germany.Meyerasaurus is known from the holotype SMNS 12478, articulated and complete skeleton which preserved the skull, exposed in ventral view. The skull has a length of 37 cm (15 in), and the animal is about 3.35 m (11.0 ft) in length. It was collected from the Harpoceras elegantulum-falciferum ammonoid subzones, Harpoceras falcifer zone, of the famous Posidonien-Schiefer lagerstätte (Posidonia Shale), dating to the early Toarcian stage of the Early Jurassic, about 183-180 million years ago.Meyerasaurus was first named by Adam S.
#3 Amphicoelias
Amphicoelias is voted the third most glamorous dinosaurs with 153 votes.
Amphicoelias
Amphicoelias (/ˌæmfɪˈsiːliəs/, meaning "biconcave", from the Greek ἀμφί, amphi: "on both sides", and κοῖλος, koilos: "hollow, concave") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, with one known species, A. altus. The scant but exceptionally large remains that were originally believed to represent a second species, A.
#4 Hatzegopteryx
Hatzegopteryx is voted the fourth most glamorous dinosaurs with 153 votes.
Hatzegopteryx
Hatzegopteryx ("Hațeg basin wing") is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur found in the late Maastrichtian deposits of the Densuș Ciula Formation, an outcropping in Transylvania, Romania. It is known only from the type species, Hatzegopteryx thambema, named by Buffetaut et al. in 2002 based on parts of the skull and humerus.
#5 Shunosaurus
Shunosaurus is voted the fifth most glamorous dinosaurs with 147 votes.
Shunosaurus
Shunosaurus, meaning "Shu Lizard", is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from Middle Jurassic (Bathonian–Callovian) beds in Sichuan Province in China, approximately 170 million years ago. The name derives from "Shu", an ancient name for the Sichuan province. Shunosaurus was first estimated to be 11 metres (36 ft) long; later and more complete finds indicated a somewhat smaller size.
#6 Futalognkosaurus
Futalognkosaurus is voted the sixth most glamorous dinosaurs with 142 votes.
Futalognkosaurus
Futalognkosaurus (/ˌfuːtəˌlɒŋkoʊˈsɔːrəs/ FOO-tə-long-ko-SAW-rəs; meaning "giant chief lizard") is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur. The herbivorousFutalognkosaurus lived approximately 87 million years ago in the Portezuelo Formation, in what is now Argentina, of the Coniacian stage of the late Cretaceous Period. The fish and fossilized leaf debris on the site, together with other dinosaur remains, suggest a warm tropical climate in Patagonia during this period.
#7 Atlantosaurus
Atlantosaurus is voted the seventh most glamorous dinosaurs with 140 votes.
Atlantosaurus
Atlantosaurus (meaning "Atlas lizard") is a dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur. It contains a single species, Atlantosaurus montanus, from the upper Morrison Formation of Colorado, United States. Atlantosaurus was the first sauropod to be described during the infamous 19th century Bone Wars, during which scientific methodology suffered in favor of pursuit of academic acclaim.The type specimen, found by Arthur Lakes in the Morrison Formation of Colorado, United States, was described by Othniel Charles Marsh, a Professor of Paleontology at Yale University (then called Yale College), in 1877 as Titanosaurus montanus.