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Gallimimus, the Glossary

Gallimimus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous period, about seventy million years ago (mya).^[1]

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Nemegt fauna
Ornithomimids
Taxa named by Halszka Osmólska
Taxa named by Rinchen Barsbold

Air sac

Air sacs are spaces within an organism where there is the constant presence of air.

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Alioramus (meaning 'different branch') is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia. Gallimimus and Alioramus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia, Maastrichtian life and Nemegt fauna.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Angular bone

The angular is a large bone in the lower jaw (mandible) of amphibians and reptiles (birds included), which is connected to all other lower jaw bones: the dentary (which is the entire lower jaw in mammals), the splenial, the suprangular, and the articular.

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Ankylosauridae

Ankylosauridae is a family of armored dinosaurs within Ankylosauria, and is the sister group to Nodosauridae.

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Anseriformes

Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.

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Anserimimus

Anserimimus ("goose mimic") is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. Gallimimus and Anserimimus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia, Maastrichtian life, Nemegt fauna, ornithomimids and taxa named by Rinchen Barsbold.

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Apomorphy and synapomorphy

In phylogenetics, an apomorphy (or derived trait) is a novel character or character state that has evolved from its ancestral form (or plesiomorphy).

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Archaeornithomimus

Archaeornithomimus (meaning "ancient bird mimic") is a genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, around 96 million years ago in the Iren Dabasu Formation. Gallimimus and Archaeornithomimus are fossil taxa described in 1972, late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia and ornithomimids.

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An arctometatarsalian organism is one in which the proximal part of the middle metatarsal is pinched between the surrounding metatarsals.

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Articular process

The articular process or zygapophysis (+ apophysis) of a vertebra is a projection of the vertebra that serves the purpose of fitting with an adjacent vertebra.

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Atlas (anatomy)

In anatomy, the atlas (C1) is the most superior (first) cervical vertebra of the spine and is located in the neck.

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Bagaraatan

Bagaraatan (/'ba-ɣa-raa-tan/ meaning 'small' baɣa + 'carnivorous animal, beast of prey' araatan in Mongolian) is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. Gallimimus and Bagaraatan are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia, Maastrichtian life, Nemegt fauna and taxa named by Halszka Osmólska.

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Barsboldia

Barsboldia (meaning "of Barsbold", a well-known Mongolian paleontologist) is a genus of large hadrosaurid dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian Nemegt Formation of Ömnogöv', Mongolia. Gallimimus and Barsboldia are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia, Maastrichtian life, Nemegt fauna and taxa named by Halszka Osmólska.

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Barun Goyot Formation

The Barun Goyot Formation (also known as Baruungoyot Formation or West Goyot Formation) is a geological formation dating to the Late Cretaceous Period.

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Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.

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Binocular vision

In biology, binocular vision is a type of vision in which an animal has two eyes capable of facing the same direction to perceive a single three-dimensional image of its surroundings.

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Bissekty Formation

The Bissekty Formation (sometimes referred to as Bissekt) is a geologic formation and Lagerstätte which crops out in the Kyzyl Kum desert of Uzbekistan, and dates to the Late Cretaceous Period.

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Bone bed

A bone bed is any geological stratum or deposit that contains bones of whatever kind.

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Bone canaliculus

Bone canaliculi are microscopic canals between the lacunae of ossified bone.

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Borogovia

Borogovia is a troodontid theropod dinosaur genus which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, in what is now Mongolia. Gallimimus and Borogovia are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia, Nemegt fauna and taxa named by Halszka Osmólska.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Browsing (herbivory)

Browsing is a type of herbivory in which a herbivore (or, more narrowly defined, a folivore) feeds on leaves, soft shoots, or fruits of high-growing, generally woody plants such as shrubs.

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Bulla (amulet)

A bulla, an amulet worn like a locket, was given to male children in Ancient Rome nine days after birth.

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Caenagnathidae

Caenagnathidae is a family of derived caenagnathoid dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of North America and Asia.

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Calcium

Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.

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Caliche

Caliche - (unrelated to the street-slang "Caliche" spoken in El Salvador) - is a sedimentary rock, a hardened natural cement of calcium carbonate that binds other materials—such as gravel, sand, clay, and silt.

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Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.

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Cervical vertebrae

In tetrapods, cervical vertebrae (vertebra) are the vertebrae of the neck, immediately below the skull.

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Chicken

The chicken (Gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago. Most chickens are raised for food, providing meat and eggs; others are kept as pets or for cockfighting. Chickens are common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23.7 billion, and an annual production of more than 50 billion birds.

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Choana

The choanae (choana), posterior nasal apertures or internal nostrils are two openings found at the back of the nasal passage between the nasal cavity and the pharynx, in humans and other mammals (as well as crocodilians and most skinks).

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Coelurosauria

Coelurosauria (from Greek, meaning "hollow-tailed lizards") is the clade containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs.

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Collagen

Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix of a body's various connective tissues.

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Color vision

Color vision, a feature of visual perception, is an ability to perceive differences between light composed of different frequencies independently of light intensity.

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Combinatio nova

Combinatio nova, abbreviated comb.

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Common gull

The common gull or sea mew (Larus canus) is a medium-sized gull that breeds in the Palearctic.

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Computer animation

Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating moving images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both still images and moving images, while computer animation refers to moving images.

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Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is a specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in art, printed media, simulators, videos and video games.

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Condyle

A condyle (condylus, from kondylos; κόνδυλος knuckle) is the round prominence at the end of a bone, most often part of a joint – an articulation with another bone.

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Convergent evolution

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.

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Coracoid

A coracoid (from Greek κόραξ, koraks, raven) is a paired bone which is part of the shoulder assembly in all vertebrates except therian mammals (marsupials and placentals).

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Coronoid process of the mandible

In human anatomy, the mandible's coronoid process (from Greek korōnē, denoting something hooked) is a thin, triangular eminence, which is flattened from side to side and varies in shape and size.

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Courtship display

A courtship display is a set of display behaviors in which an animal, usually a male, attempts to attract a mate; the mate exercises choice, so sexual selection acts on the display.

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Cranial kinesis

Cranial kinesis is the term for significant movement of skull bones relative to each other in addition to movement at the joint between the upper and lower jaws.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Crocodile

Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

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Crocodylomorpha

Crocodylomorpha is a group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives.

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Cursorial

A cursorial organism is one that is adapted specifically to run.

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Dale Russell

Dale Alan Russell (27 December 1937 – 21 December 2019) was an American-Canadian geologist and palaeontologist.

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Deinocheirus

Deinocheirus is a genus of large ornithomimosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous around 70 million years ago. Gallimimus and Deinocheirus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia, Maastrichtian life, Nemegt fauna and taxa named by Halszka Osmólska.

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Dinosaur

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

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Diplodocoidea

Diplodocoidea is a superfamily of sauropod dinosaurs, which included some of the longest animals of all time, including slender giants like Supersaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, and Amphicoelias.

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Display (zoology)

Display behaviour is a set of ritualized behaviours that enable an animal to communicate to other animals (typically of the same species) about specific stimuli.

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Djadochta Formation

The Djadochta Formation (sometimes transcribed and also known as Djadokhta, Djadokata, or Dzhadokhtskaya) is a highly fossiliferous geological formation situated in Central Asia, Gobi Desert, dating from the Late Cretaceous period, about 75 million to 71 million years ago.

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Dong Zhiming

Dong Zhiming (Chinese: 董枝明, Pinyin: Dǒng Zhimíng; born January 1937) is a Chinese vertebrate paleontologist formerly employed at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing.

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Ectotherm

An ectotherm (from the Greek ἐκτός "outside" and θερμός "heat"), more commonly referred to as a "cold-blooded animal", is an animal in which internal physiological sources of heat, such as blood, are of relatively small or of quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature.

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Elmisaurus

Elmisaurus (meaning "foot sole lizard") is an extinct genus of caenagnathid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Gallimimus and Elmisaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia, Nemegt fauna and taxa named by Halszka Osmólska.

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Enantiornithes

The Enantiornithes, also known as enantiornithines or enantiornitheans in literature, are a group of extinct avialans ("birds" in the broad sense), the most abundant and diverse group known from the Mesozoic era.

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Endothermic process

An endothermic process is a chemical or physical process that absorbs heat from its surroundings.

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Evolution of birds

The evolution of birds began in the Jurassic Period, with the earliest birds derived from a clade of theropod dinosaurs named Paraves.

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Facies

In geology, a facies (same pronunciation and spelling in the plural) is a body of rock with distinctive characteristics.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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Feathered dinosaur

A feathered dinosaur is any species of dinosaur possessing feathers.

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Femur

The femur (femurs or femora), or thigh bone is the only bone in the thigh.

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Fibula

The fibula (fibulae or fibulas) or calf bone is a leg bone on the lateral side of the tibia, to which it is connected above and below.

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Filter feeder

Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and zooplanktons) suspended in water, typically by having the water pass over or through a specialized filtering organ.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river.

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Foramen

In anatomy and osteology, a foramen (foramina, or foramens) is an opening or enclosed gap within the dense connective tissue (bones and deep fasciae) of extant and extinct amniote animals, typically to allow passage of nerves, arteries, veins or other soft tissue structures (e.g. muscle tendon) from one body compartment to another.

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Foraminifera

Foraminifera (Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of Rhizarian protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell (called a "test") of diverse forms and materials.

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Fossa (anatomy)

In anatomy, a fossa (fossae; from Latin fossa, "ditch" or "trench") is a depression or hollow usually in a bone, such as the hypophyseal fossa (the depression in the sphenoid bone).

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Fossil collecting

Fossil collecting (sometimes, in a non-scientific sense, fossil hunting) is the collection of the fossils for scientific study, hobby, or profit.

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Galliformes

Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkeys, chickens, quail, and other landfowl.

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Gastrolith

A gastrolith, also called a stomach stone or gizzard stone, is a rock held inside a gastrointestinal tract.

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Gazelle

A gazelle is one of many antelope species in the genus Gazella.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Geologic time scale

The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Gizzard

The gizzard, also referred to as the ventriculus, gastric mill, and gigerium, is an organ found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (birds and other dinosaurs, crocodiles, alligators, pterosaurs), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans.

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Many shapes have metaphorical names, i.e., their names are metaphors: these shapes are named after a most common object that has it.

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Gobi Desert

The Gobi Desert (Говь) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in northern China and southern Mongolia and is the sixth largest desert in the world.

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Grazing

In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products, often on land that is unsuitable for arable farming.

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Gregory S. Paul

Gregory Scott Paul (born December 24, 1954) is an American freelance researcher, author and illustrator who works in paleontology.

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Gurilynia

Gurilynia is a genus of enantiornithine birds. Gallimimus and Gurilynia are Nemegt fauna.

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Hadrosauridae

Hadrosaurids, or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae.

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Halszka Osmólska

Halszka Osmólska (September 15, 1930 – March 31, 2008) was a Polish paleontologist who had specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs. Gallimimus and Halszka Osmólska are taxa named by Halszka Osmólska.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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Hesperornithes

Hesperornithes is an extinct and highly specialized group of aquatic avialans closely related to the ancestors of modern birds.

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Histology

Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy or microanatomy, is the branch of biology that studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissues.

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Historical Biology

Historical Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of paleobiology.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Humerus

The humerus (humeri) is a long bone in the arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow.

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Ilium (bone)

The ilium (ilia) is the uppermost and largest region of the coxal bone, and appears in most vertebrates including mammals and birds, but not bony fish.

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Industrial Light & Magic

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded on May 26, 1975 by George Lucas.

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Insectivore

robber fly eating a hoverfly An insectivore is a carnivorous animal or plant that eats insects.

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Jack Horner (paleontologist)

John Robert Horner (born June 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist most famous for describing Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young.

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Jørn Hurum

Jørn Harald Hurum (born November 4, 1967) is a Norwegian paleontologist and popularizer of science.

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Judinornis

Judinornis is a genus of prehistoric flightless birds from the late Cretaceous period. Gallimimus and Judinornis are Nemegt fauna.

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Jurassic Park (film)

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald R. Molen, and starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough.

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Jurassic Park (novel)

Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton.

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Keratin

Keratin is one of a family of structural fibrous proteins also known as scleroproteins.

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Lamella (surface anatomy)

Lamellae on a gecko's foot. In surface anatomy, a lamella is a thin plate-like structure, often one amongst many lamellae very close to one another, with open space between.

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Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways

Dinosaur Stampede National Monument at Lark Quarry Conservation Park (also known just as Lark Quarry or Dinosaur Stampede) in Queensland, Australia is considered to be the site of the world's only known record of a dinosaur stampede, with fossilised footprints are interpreted as a predator stalking and causing a stampede of around 150 two-legged dinosaurs.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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List of Jurassic Park characters

The following is a list of fictional characters from Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, its 1995 sequel The Lost World, and their film adaptations, Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997).

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Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem. Gallimimus and Maastrichtian are Maastrichtian life.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Mandible

In jawed vertebrates, the mandible (from the Latin mandibula, 'for chewing'), lower jaw, or jawbone is a bone that makes up the lowerand typically more mobilecomponent of the mouth (the upper jaw being known as the maxilla).

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Manus (anatomy)

The manus (Latin for hand, plural manus) is the zoological term for the distal portion of the forelimb of an animal.

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Mark Norell

Mark Allen Norell (born July 26, 1957) is an American vertebrate paleontologist.

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Mesic habitat

In ecology, a mesic habitat is a type of habitat with a well-balanced or moderate supply of moisture throughout the growing season (e.g., a mesic forest, temperate hardwood forest, or dry-mesic prairie).

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Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.

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The metatarsal bones or metatarsus (metatarsi) are a group of five long bones in the midfoot, located between the tarsal bones (which form the heel and the ankle) and the phalanges (toes).

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Million years ago

Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Moa

Moa (order Dinornithiformes) are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.

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Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south.

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Mongolian Academy of Sciences

The Mongolian Academy of Sciences (Mongol ulsyn Shinjlekh ukhaany Akademi) is Mongolia's first centre of modern sciences.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Mudstone

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.

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Muttaburrasaurus

Muttaburrasaurus was a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur, which lived in what is now northeastern Australia sometime between 112 and 103 million years agoHoltz, Thomas R. Jr.

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Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.

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Nemegt Basin

The Nemegt Basin is a geographical area in the northwestern Gobi Desert, in Ömnögovi Province, southern Mongolia.

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Nemegt Formation

The Nemegt Formation (also known as Nemegtskaya Svita) is a geological formation in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, dating to the Late Cretaceous.

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Nemegtomaia

Nemegtomaia is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from what is now Mongolia that lived in the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70million years ago. Gallimimus and Nemegtomaia are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia and Nemegt fauna.

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Nemegtosaurus

Nemegtosaurus (meaning 'Reptile from the Nemegt') was a sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. Gallimimus and Nemegtosaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia and Nemegt fauna.

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Nomen nudum

In taxonomy, a nomen nudum ('naked name'; plural nomina nuda) is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published with an adequate description.

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Northern shoveler

The northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata), known simply in Britain as the shoveler, is a common and widespread duck.

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Occipital condyles

The occipital condyles are undersurface protuberances of the occipital bone in vertebrates, which function in articulation with the superior facets of the atlas vertebra.

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Okavango Delta

The Okavango Delta (or Okavango Grassland; formerly spelled "Okovango" or "Okovanggo") in Botswana is a vast inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an altitude of 930–1,000 m in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari.

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Olecranon

The olecranon, is a large, thick, curved bony process on the proximal, posterior end of the ulna.

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Omnivore

An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.

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Opisthocoelicaudia

Opisthocoelicaudia is a genus of sauropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous Period discovered in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. Gallimimus and Opisthocoelicaudia are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia, Maastrichtian life and Nemegt fauna.

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Orbit (anatomy)

In anatomy, the orbit is the cavity or socket/hole of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

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Ornithischia

Ornithischia is an extinct clade of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure superficially similar to that of birds.

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Ornithomimidae

Ornithomimidae (meaning "bird-mimics") is an extinct family of theropod dinosaurs which bore a superficial resemblance to modern ostriches. Gallimimus and Ornithomimidae are ornithomimids.

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Ornithomimosauria

Ornithomimosauria ("bird-mimic lizards") are theropod dinosaurs which bore a superficial resemblance to the modern-day ostrich.

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Ornithomimus

Ornithomimus ("bird mimic") is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaurs from the Campanian and Maastrichtian ages of Late Cretaceous Western North America. Gallimimus and Ornithomimus are Maastrichtian life and ornithomimids.

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Ostracod

Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp.

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Ostrich

Ostriches are large flightless birds.

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Oviraptorosauria

Oviraptorosaurs ("egg thief lizards") are a group of feathered maniraptoran dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period of what are now Asia and North America.

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Pachycephalosauria

Pachycephalosauria (from Greek παχυκεφαλόσαυρος for 'thick headed lizards') is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs. Gallimimus and Pachycephalosauria are taxa named by Halszka Osmólska.

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Palate

The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals.

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Parasphenoid

The parasphenoid is a bone which can be found in the cranium of many vertebrates.

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Parietal bone

The parietal bones are two bones in the skull which, when joined at a fibrous joint known as a cranial suture, form the sides and roof of the neurocranium.

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Pelecanimimus

Pelecanimimus (meaning "pelican mimic") is an extinct genus of basal ("primitive") ornithomimosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain.

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Philip J. Currie

Philip John Currie (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

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Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.

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Polish Academy of Sciences

The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning.

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Prehensility

Prehensility is the quality of an appendage or organ that has adapted for grasping or holding.

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Premaxilla

The premaxilla (or praemaxilla) is one of a pair of small cranial bones at the very tip of the upper jaw of many animals, usually, but not always, bearing teeth.

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Prenocephale

Prenocephale (meaning "sloping head") is a genus of small pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Gallimimus and Prenocephale are Nemegt fauna and taxa named by Halszka Osmólska.

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Process (anatomy)

In anatomy, a process (processus) is a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body.

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Pubis (bone)

In vertebrates, the pubis or pubic bone (os pubis) forms the lower and anterior part of each side of the hip bone.

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Qiupalong

Qiupalong is an extinct genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod that was discovered in the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Henan, China. Gallimimus and Qiupalong are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia and ornithomimids.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Radioactive decay

Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation.

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Radiometric dating

Radiometric dating, radioactive dating or radioisotope dating is a technique which is used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectively incorporated when they were formed.

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Radius (bone)

The radius or radial bone (radii or radiuses) is one of the two large bones of the forearm, the other being the ulna.

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Ratite

A ratite is any of a group of mostly flightless birds within the infraclass Palaeognathae.

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Rativates

Rativates is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta. Gallimimus and Rativates are ornithomimids.

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Rib

In vertebrate anatomy, ribs (costae) are the long curved bones which form the rib cage, part of the axial skeleton.

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Richard A. Thulborn

Richard Anthony (Tony) Thulborn is a British paleontologist.

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Rinchen Barsbold

Rinchen Barsbold (Ринченгийн Барсболд, Rinchyengiin Barsbold, born December 21, 1935, in Ulaanbaatar) is a Mongolian paleontologist and geologist.

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Rinchenia

Rinchenia (named after Byambyn Rinchen) is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch in what is now Mongolia, Nemegt Formation, around 70 million years ago. Gallimimus and Rinchenia are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia, Nemegt fauna and taxa named by Rinchen Barsbold.

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Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.

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Sacrum

The sacrum (sacra or sacrums), in human anatomy, is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine that forms by the fusing of the sacral vertebrae (S1S5) between ages 18 and 30.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Saurolophus

Saurolophus (meaning "lizard crest") is a genus of large hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia and North America, that lived in what is now the Horseshoe Canyon and Nemegt formations about 70 million to 66 million years ago. Gallimimus and Saurolophus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Scapula

The scapula (scapulae or scapulas), also known as the shoulder blade, is the bone that connects the humerus (upper arm bone) with the clavicle (collar bone).

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Secondary palate

The secondary palate is an anatomical structure that divides the nasal cavity from the oral cavity in many vertebrates.

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Secondary sex characteristic

A secondary sex characteristic is a physical characteristic of an organism that is related to or derived from its sex, but not directly part of its reproductive system.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Segnosaurus

Segnosaurus is a genus of therizinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now southeastern Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous, about 102–86 million years ago. Gallimimus and Segnosaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Shamosuchus

Shamosuchus is an extinct genus of neosuchian crocodyliform that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) period in what is now the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia, approximately 75 million to 71 million years ago.

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Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.

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Siltstone

Siltstone, also known as aleurolite, is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of silt.

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Sinornithomimus

Sinornithomimus is a genus of ornithomimid that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period. Gallimimus and Sinornithomimus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia and ornithomimids.

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Sister group

In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

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Skeletal pneumaticity

Skeletal pneumaticity is the presence of air spaces within bones.

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Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies.

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Special effect

Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world.

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Specific name (zoology)

In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet, species epithet, or epitheton) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).

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Stampede

A stampede is a situation in which a group of large animals suddenly start running in the same direction, especially because they are excited or frightened.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Stop motion

Stop motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back.

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Struthiomimus

Struthiomimus, meaning "ostrich-mimic" (from the Greek στρούθειος/stroutheios, or "of the ostrich", and μῖμος/mimos, meaning "mimic" or "imitator"), is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous of North America. Gallimimus and Struthiomimus are Maastrichtian life and ornithomimids.

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Surangular

The surangular or suprangular is a jaw bone found in most land vertebrates, except mammals.

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Synonym (taxonomy)

The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.

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Taphonomy

Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized or preserved in the paleontological record.

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Tarbosaurus

Tarbosaurus (meaning "alarming lizard") is a genus of large tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 70 million years ago (Maastrichtian age). Gallimimus and Tarbosaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia, Maastrichtian life and Nemegt fauna.

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Tarchia

Tarchia (meaning "brainy one") is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Gallimimus and Tarchia are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia and Maastrichtian life.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Temple (anatomy)

The temple, also known as the pterion, is a latch where four skull bones intersect: the frontal, parietal, temporal, and sphenoid.

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Temporal fenestra

Temporal fenestrae are openings in the temporal region of the skull of some amniotes, behind the orbit (eye socket).

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Tendon

A tendon or sinew is a tough band of dense fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone.

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Teviornis

Teviornis is an extinct genus of presbyornithid which lived during the Maastrichtian stage, around 70 million years ago. Gallimimus and Teviornis are Nemegt fauna.

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Therizinosauria

Therizinosaurs (once called segnosaurs) are an extinct group of large herbivorous theropod dinosaurs whose fossils have been found across the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous deposits in Europe, Asia and North America.

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Therizinosaurus

Therizinosaurus (meaning 'scythe lizard') is a genus of very large therizinosaurid that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the Nemegt Formation around 72.1 million years ago to 66 million years ago. Gallimimus and Therizinosaurus are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia and Nemegt fauna.

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Thermoregulation

Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different.

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Theropoda

Theropoda (from ancient Greek whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved to become herbivores and omnivores.

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Thomas R. Holtz Jr.

Thomas Richard Holtz Jr. (born September 13, 1965) is an American vertebrate palaeontologist, author, and principal lecturer at the University of Maryland's Department of Geology.

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Thoracic vertebrae

In vertebrates, thoracic vertebrae compose the middle segment of the vertebral column, between the cervical vertebrae and the lumbar vertebrae.

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Tibia

The tibia (tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects the knee with the ankle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallimimus

Also known as Galimimus, Gallimimus bullatus, Ornithomimus bullatus, Struthiomimus bullatus.

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