Top 7 Most Glamorous Dinosaurs
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#1 Huehuecanauhtlus
Huehuecanauhtlus is voted the first most glamorous dinosaurs with 204 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 Hatzegopteryx
Hatzegopteryx is voted the second most glamorous dinosaurs with 186 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.
#3 Achelousaurus
Achelousaurus is voted the third most glamorous dinosaurs with 176 votes.
Achelousaurus
Achelousaurus ( /əˌkiːloʊˈsɔːrəs/ or: /ˌækɪˌloʊəˈsɔːrəs/) is a genus of centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America, about 74.2 million years ago. The first fossils of Achelousaurus were collected in Montana in 1987, by a team led by Jack Horner, with more finds made in 1989. In 1994, Achelousaurus horneri was described and named by Scott D.
#4 Meyerasaurus
Meyerasaurus is voted the fourth most glamorous dinosaurs with 175 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.
#5 Antetonitrus
Antetonitrus is voted the fifth most glamorous dinosaurs with 175 votes.
Antetonitrus
Antetonitrus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur found in Early Jurassic rocks in South Africa. The only species is Antetonitrus ingenipes. As one of the oldest known sauropods, it is crucial for the understanding of the origin and early evolution of this group.
#6 Anatotitan
Anatotitan is voted the sixth most glamorous dinosaurs with 174 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.
#7 Atlantosaurus
Atlantosaurus is voted the seventh most glamorous dinosaurs with 174 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.