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Dinosaurs Alive! (attraction), the Glossary

Dinosaurs Alive! was an animatronic dinosaur themed area which formerly operated at several amusement parks, but has since been closed.^[1]

Action Theater

The Action Theater is a motion simulator ride that debuted in 1993. Dinosaurs Alive! (attraction) and Action Theater are amusement rides that closed in 2018, amusement rides that closed in 2019, Canada's Wonderland, Carowinds, Cedar Fair attractions, Kings Dominion and Kings Island.

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Albertosaurus

Albertosaurus (meaning "Alberta lizard") is a genus of large tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in northwestern North America during the early to middle Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 71 million years ago.

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Alxasaurus

Alxasaurus (meaning "Alxa lizard") is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous (Albian age) Bayin-Gobi Formation of Inner Mongolia.

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Amargasaurus

Amargasaurus ("La Amarga lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous epoch (129.4–122.46 mya) of what is now Argentina.

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Angustinaripterus

Angustinaripterus was a basal pterosaur, belonging to the breviquartossan family Rhamphorhynchidae (more specifically within the subfamily Rhamphorhynchinae) and discovered at Dashanpu near Zigong in the Sichuan province of China.

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Anhanguera (pterosaur)

Anhanguera is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Albian age, 125 to 112 million years ago) Romualdo Formation of Brazil and the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian age, 98 to 93 million years ago) Kem Kem Group of Morocco.

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Animatronics

An animatronic is a mechatronic puppet controlled by a machine to move in a fluent way.

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Apatosaurus

Apatosaurus (meaning "deceptive lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period.

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Baryonyx

Baryonyx is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous period, about 130–125 million years ago.

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Carnotaurus

Carnotaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period, probably sometime between 72 and 69 million years ago.

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Chasmosaurus

Chasmosaurus is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period in North America.

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Dacentrurus

Dacentrurus (meaning "tail full of points"), originally known as Omosaurus, is a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic and perhaps Early Cretaceous (154 - 140 mya) of Europe.

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Deinonychus

Deinonychus is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur with one described species, Deinonychus antirrhopus.

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Dilophosaurus

Dilophosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaurs that lived in what is now North America during the Early Jurassic, about 186 million years ago.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dinosaur Island (Sea World)

Dinosaur Island was an animatronic dinosaur themed attraction at Sea World on the Gold Coast, Australia. Dinosaurs Alive! (attraction) and dinosaur Island (Sea World) are amusement rides introduced in 2012, amusement rides manufactured by Dinosaurs Unearthed, animatronic attractions and dinosaurs in amusement parks.

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Dinosaurs Alive!

Dinosaurs Alive! is a 2007 IMAX documentary produced by Giant Screen Films about various dinosaurs that inhabited the Earth between 251 and 65 Ma.

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Dyoplosaurus

Dyoplosaurus (meaning “double-armoured lizard”) is a monospecific genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from Alberta that lived during the Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian, ~76.5–75 Ma) in what is now the Dinosaur Park Formation.

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Eotyrannus

Eotyrannus (meaning "dawn tyrant") is a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur hailing from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation beds, included in Wealden Group, located in the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.

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Gigantoraptor

Gigantoraptor is a genus of large oviraptorosaur dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period.

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Herrerasaurus

Herrerasaurus is likely a genus of saurischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic period.

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Huayangosaurus

Huayangosaurus is a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China.

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Hypacrosaurus

Hypacrosaurus (meaning "near the highest lizard", because it was almost but not quite as large as Tyrannosaurus) was a genus of duckbill dinosaur similar in appearance to Corythosaurus.

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Irritator

Irritator is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous Period, about 113 to 110 million years ago.

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Kosmoceratops

Kosmoceratops is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur that lived in North America about 76–75.9 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period.

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Maiasaura

Maiasaura (from the Greek μαῖα, meaning "good mother" and σαύρα, the feminine form of saurus, meaning "reptile") is a large herbivorous saurolophine hadrosaurid ("duck-billed") dinosaur genus that lived in the area currently covered by the state of Montana and the province of Alberta, Canada, in the Upper Cretaceous Period (mid to late Campanian), from 86.3 to 70.6 million years ago.

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Mamenchisaurus

Mamenchisaurus (or spelling pronunciation) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known for their remarkably long necks which made up nearly half the total body length.

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Metriacanthosaurus

Metriacanthosaurus (meaning "moderately-spined lizard") is a genus of metriacanthosaurid dinosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation and Oxford Clay Formation of England, dating to the Late Jurassic period, about 160 million years ago (lower Oxfordian).

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Microraptor

Microraptor (Greek, μικρός, mīkros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs.

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Monoclonius

Monoclonius (meaning "single sprout") is an extinct genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur found in the Late Cretaceous layers of the Judith River Formation in Montana, United States, and the uppermost rock layers of the Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta, Canada dated to between 75 and 74.6 million years ago.

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Monolophosaurus

Monolophosaurus (meaning "single-crested lizard") is an extinct genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Shishugou Formation in what is now Xinjiang, China.

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Olorotitan

Olorotitan was a monotypic genus of lambeosaurine duck-billed dinosaur, containing a single species, Olorotitan arharensis. It was among the last surviving non-avian dinosaurs to go extinct during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, having lived from the middle to late Maastrichtian-age of the Late Cretaceous era.

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Omeisaurus

Omeisaurus (meaning "Omei lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period (Bathonian-Callovian stage) of what is now China.

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Orion (roller coaster)

Orion is a steel roller coaster located at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. Dinosaurs Alive! (attraction) and Orion (roller coaster) are Kings Island.

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Ouranosaurus

Ouranosaurus is a genus of herbivorous basal hadrosauriform dinosaur that lived during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous of modern-day Niger and Cameroon.

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Pachycephalosaurus

Pachycephalosaurus (meaning "thick-headed lizard", from Greek pachys-/παχύς- "thickness", kephalon/κεφαλή "head" and sauros/σαῦρος "lizard") is a genus of pachycephalosaurid ornithischian dinosaur.

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Pachyrhinosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus (meaning in Greek "thick-nosed lizard", from Παχυ(pachy), thick; ρινό (rinó), nose; and σαυρος (sauros), lizard) is an extinct genus of centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of North America.

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Parasaurolophus

Parasaurolophus (meaning "beside crested lizard" in reference to Saurolophus) is a genus of hadrosaurid "duck-billed" dinosaur that lived in what is now western North America and possibly Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 76.5–66 million years ago.

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Pinacosaurus

Pinacosaurus (meaning "Plank lizard") is a genus of ankylosaurid thyreophoran dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous (Campanian, roughly 75 to 71 million years ago), mainly in Mongolia and China.

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Protoceratops

Protoceratops is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 75 to 71 million years ago.

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Psittacosaurus

Psittacosaurus ("parrot lizard") is a genus of extinct ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Asia, existing between 125 and 105 million years ago.

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Ruyangosaurus

Ruyangosaurus (Ruyang County lizard) is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur recovered from the Early Cretaceous Haoling Formation of China.

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Saichania

Saichania (Mongolian meaning "beautiful one") is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Mongolia and China.

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Saltasaurus

Saltasaurus (which means "lizard from Salta") is a genus of saltasaurid dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous period of Argentina.

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Sauroposeidon

Sauroposeidon (meaning "lizard earthquake god", after the Greek god Poseidon) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from several incomplete specimens including a bone bed and fossilized trackways that have been found in the U.S. states of Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Texas.

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Shantungosaurus

Shantungosaurus (meaning "Shandong Lizard") is a genus of very large saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur found in the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group of the Shandong Peninsula in China, containing a single species, Shantungosaurus giganteus.

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Sinosauropteryx

Sinosauropteryx (meaning "Chinese reptilian wing") is a compsognathid dinosaur.

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Spinosaurus

Spinosaurus is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, about 100 to 94 million years ago.

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Stegosaurus

Stegosaurus is a genus of herbivorous, four-legged, armored dinosaur from the Late Jurassic, characterized by the distinctive kite-shaped upright plates along their backs and spikes on their tails.

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Styracosaurus

Styracosaurus (meaning "spiked lizard" from the Ancient Greek styrax/στύραξ "spike at the butt-end of a spear-shaft" and sauros/σαῦρος "lizard") is an extinct genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian stage) of North America.

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Tenontosaurus

Tenontosaurus is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur.

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Torosaurus

Torosaurus (meaning "perforated lizard", in reference to the large openings in its frill) is a genus of herbivorous chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, between 68 and 66 million years ago, though it is possible that the species range might extend to as far back as 69 million years ago.

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Triceratops

Triceratops is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America.

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Tsintaosaurus

Tsintaosaurus (sic for the old transliteration "Tsingtao", meaning "Qingdao lizard") is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from China.

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Tuojiangosaurus

Tuojiangosaurus (meaning "Tuo River lizard") is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, recovered from the Upper Shaximiao Formation of what is now Sichuan Province in China.

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Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur.

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Velociraptor

Velociraptor is a genus of small dromaeosaurid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 75 million to 71 million years ago.

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Yangchuanosaurus

Yangchuanosaurus is an extinct genus of metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in China from the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous periods (Bathonian to Berriasian stages), and was similar in size and appearance to its North American and European relative, Allosaurus.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_Alive!_(attraction)

Also known as Dinosaurs Alive (attraction), Dinosaurs Alive! (theme parks).

, Tenontosaurus, Torosaurus, Triceratops, Tsintaosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Yangchuanosaurus, 2011 in amusement parks, 2012 in amusement parks, 2013 in amusement parks.

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See also

Amusement rides introduced in 2011

Amusement rides introduced in 2012

Amusement rides introduced in 2013

Amusement rides manufactured by Dinosaurs Unearthed

Amusement rides that closed in 2017

Amusement rides that closed in 2018

Amusement rides that closed in 2019

Canada's Wonderland

Carowinds

Cedar Fair attractions

Cedar Point

Dinosaurs in amusement parks

Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom

Kings Dominion

Kings Island

Valleyfair

Worlds of Fun

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