Top 7 Most Gorgeous Dinosaurs
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#1 Megalneusaurus
Megalneusaurus is voted the first most gorgeous dinosaurs with 129 votes.
Megalneusaurus
Megalneusaurus is an extinct genus of large pliosaur that lived in the Sundance Sea during the Kimmeridgian, ~156-152 million years ago, in the Late Jurassic. The genus and type species was based upon ribs, vertebrae, a fore-paddle and fragments of the pectoral girdle discovered in Wyoming, USA in 1895. The species named as Megalneusaurus rex (meaning "great swimming lizard King") in 1898.
#2 Nqwebasaurus
Nqwebasaurus is voted the second most gorgeous dinosaurs with 127 votes.
Nqwebasaurus
Nqwebasaurus (IPA: [ᵑǃʷɛbaˈsɔɹəs]; anglicized as /ɪŋˌkwɛbəˈsɔːrəs/) is a basal coelurosaur and is the basal-most member of the coelurosaurian clade Ornithomimosauria from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa. The name Nqwebasaurus is derived from the Xhosa word "Nqweba" which is the local name for the Kirkwood district, and "thwazi" is ancient Xhosa for lightning. It bears the distinction of being the only non-avian dinosaur named thus far with a click consonant in its name.
#3 Xenoceratops
Xenoceratops is voted the third most gorgeous dinosaurs with 120 votes.
Xenoceratops
Xenoceratops (meaning "alien horned face") is a genus of centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian stage) of Alberta, Canada. The genus has one known species, Xenoceratops foremostensis. Its remains were discovered in the Foremost Formation.Xenoceratops is based on CMN (Canadian Museum of Nature) 53282, a parietal.
#4 Ozraptor
Ozraptor is voted the fourth most gorgeous dinosaurs with 120 votes.
Ozraptor
Ozraptor ("Australian thief") is an valid abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) Colalura Sandstone of Australia. In 1967 a group of four twelve-year-old Scotch College schoolboys found a fossil at the Bringo Railway Cutting site near Geraldton, which they showed to Professor Rex Prider of the University of Western Australia. He had a cast made that he sent to experts of the British Museum of Natural History in London who thought it likely belonged to an extinct turtle.
#5 Pyroraptor
Pyroraptor is voted the fifth most gorgeous dinosaurs with 120 votes.
Pyroraptor
Pyroraptor (meaning "fire thief") is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now southern France, it lived during the late Campanian and early Maastrichtian stages, approximately 70.6 million years ago. It is known from a single partial specimen that was found in Provence in 1992. The animal was named Pyroraptor olympius by Allain and Taquet in 2000.
#6 Enigmosaurus
Enigmosaurus is voted the sixth most gorgeous dinosaurs with 119 votes.
Enigmosaurus
Enigmosaurus (meaning "Riddle Lizard") is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, central Asia. It is a herbivorous bipedal dinosaur. The holotype, IGM 100/84, was collected in the Bayan Shireh Formation (=Baynshirenskaya) in Khara Khutul, southeastern Mongolia, dating from the Cenomanian and the Turonian stages, around 98-89.8 million years ago.
#7 Leptocleidus
Leptocleidus is voted the seventh most gorgeous dinosaurs with 116 votes.
Leptocleidus
Leptocleidus is an extinct genus of pliosaurid plesiosaur, belonging to the family Leptocleididae.In short, the term Leptocleidus means "slender clavicle". It comes from a merge of the Greek words λεπτοσ, meaning "slender" and κλειδ (also spelled κλεισ) meaning clavicle. With large clavicles and interclavicle and small scapulae, Leptocleidus resembled the Early Jurassic Rhomaleosaurus and members of the Cretaceous family, Polycotylidae.