Late Jurassic, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 73 relations: Ammonoidea, Anurognathus, Apatosaurus, Archaeopteryx, Atlantic Ocean, Barosaurus, Berriasella jacobi, Bird, Brachiosaurus, Brachytrachelopan, Brontosaurus, Calpionellid, Camarasaurus, Camptosaurus, Cardioceras, Ceratosaurus, Chaoyangsaurus, Chronozone, Compsognathus, Crocodylomorpha, Dakosaurus, Dicraeosaurus, Dinosaur, Diplodocus, Dorset, Dryosaurus, Elaphrosaurus, Epanterias, Europasaurus, Eutheria, First appearance datum, France, Gargoyleosaurus, Geologic time scale, Giraffatitan, Gondwana, Ichthyosauria, International Commission on Stratigraphy, Juramaia, Jurassic, Kentrosaurus, Kimmeridgian, Laurasia, Liopleurodon, Lithostratigraphy, Marginocephalia, Million years ago, Ophthalmosaurus, Ornitholestes, Ornithopoda, ... Expand index (23 more) »

2. Geological epochs
3. Jurassic geochronology

Ammonoidea

Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.

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Anurognathus

Anurognathus (from the Greek ανоυρα γναθος "frog jaw") is an extinct genus of small pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Altmühltal Formation of Germany.

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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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Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx, sometimes referred to by its German name, "Urvogel" (Primeval Bird) is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Barosaurus

Barosaurus was a giant, long-tailed, long-necked, plant-eating sauropod dinosaur closely related to the more familiar Diplodocus.

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Berriasella jacobi

Berriasella jacobi is an extinct species of ammonite from the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Brachiosaurus

Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic, about 154to 150million years ago.

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Brachytrachelopan

Brachytrachelopan is a short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian to Tithonian) of Argentina.

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Brontosaurus

Brontosaurus (meaning "thunder lizard" from the Greek words βροντή, "thunder" and σαῦρος, "lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in present-day United States during the Late Jurassic period.

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Calpionellid

Calpionellids are an extinct group of eukaryotic single celled organisms of uncertain affinities.

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Camarasaurus

Camarasaurus was a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs and is the most common North American sauropod fossil.

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Camptosaurus

Camptosaurus is a genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America and possibly also Europe.

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Cardioceras

Cardioceras is an extinct ammonite genus belonging to the family Cardioceratidae.

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Ceratosaurus

Ceratosaurus (from Greek κέρας/κέρατος, keras/keratos meaning "horn" and σαῦρος sauros meaning "lizard") was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian ages).

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Chaoyangsaurus

Chaoyangsaurus ("Chaoyang lizard") is a marginocephalian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China.

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Chronozone

A chronozone or chron is a unit in chronostratigraphy, defined by events such as geomagnetic reversals (magnetozones), or based on the presence of specific fossils (biozone or biochronozone).

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Compsognathus

Compsognathus (Greek kompsos/κομψός; "elegant", "refined" or "dainty", and gnathos/γνάθος; "jaw") is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur.

See Late Jurassic and Compsognathus

Crocodylomorpha

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

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Dakosaurus

Dakosaurus is an extinct genus of crocodylomorph within the family Metriorhynchidae that lived during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.

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Dicraeosaurus

Dicraeosaurus (Gr. δικραιος, dikraios "bifurcated, double-headed" + Gr. σαυρος, sauros "lizard") is a genus of diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania during the late Jurassic period.

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Dinosaur

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

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Diplodocus

Diplodocus was a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaurs, whose fossils were first discovered in 1877 by S. W. Williston.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Dryosaurus

Dryosaurus (meaning 'tree lizard', Greek δρῦς (drys) meaning 'tree, oak' and σαυρος (sauros) meaning 'lizard'; the name reflects the forested habitat, not a vague oak-leaf shape of its cheek teeth as is sometimes assumed) is a genus of an ornithopod dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic period.

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Elaphrosaurus

Elaphrosaurus is a genus of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 154 to 150 million years ago during the Late Jurassic Period in what is now Tanzania in Africa.

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Epanterias

Epanterias is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Tithonian age Upper Jurassic upper Morrison Formation of Garden Park, Colorado.

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Europasaurus

Europasaurus (meaning 'Europe lizard') is a basal macronarian sauropod, a form of quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur.

See Late Jurassic and Europasaurus

Eutheria

Eutheria (from Greek εὐ-, 'good, right' and θηρίον, 'beast'), also called Pan-Placentalia, is the clade consisting of placental mammals and all therian mammals that are more closely related to placentals than to marsupials.

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First appearance datum

First appearance datum (FAD) is a term used by geologists and paleontologists to designate the first appearance of a species in the geologic record.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Gargoyleosaurus

Gargoyleosaurus (meaning "gargoyle lizard") is one of the earliest ankylosaurs known from reasonably complete fossil remains.

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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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Giraffatitan

Giraffatitan (name meaning "titanic giraffe") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian stages) in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.

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Ichthyosauria

Ichthyosauria (Ancient Greek for "fish lizard" – and) is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as "ichthyosaurs", although the term is also used for wider clades in which the order resides.

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International Commission on Stratigraphy

The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), sometimes unofficially referred to as the "International Stratigraphic Commission", is a daughter or major subcommittee grade scientific daughter organization that concerns itself with stratigraphical, geological, and geochronological matters on a global scale.

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Juramaia

Juramaia is an extinct genus of a therian mammal, possibly a very basal eutherian mammal, known from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian stage) or Early Cretaceous deposits of western Liaoning, China.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.

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Kentrosaurus

Kentrosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic in Lindi Region of Tanzania.

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Kimmeridgian

In the geologic timescale, the Kimmeridgian is an age in the Late Jurassic Epoch and a stage in the Upper Jurassic Series.

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Laurasia

Laurasia was the more northern of two large landmasses that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent from around (Mya), the other being Gondwana.

See Late Jurassic and Laurasia

Liopleurodon

Liopleurodon (meaning 'smooth-sided teeth') is an extinct genus of large, carnivorous marine reptile belonging to the Thalassophonea, a clade of short-necked pliosaurid plesiosaurs.

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Lithostratigraphy

Lithostratigraphy is a sub-discipline of stratigraphy, the geological science associated with the study of strata or rock layers.

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Marginocephalia

Marginocephalia (/mär′jə-nō-sə-făl′ē-ən/ Latin: margin-head) is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that is characterized by a bony shelf or margin at the back of the skull.

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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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Ophthalmosaurus

Ophthalmosaurus (Greek ὀφθάλμος ophthalmos 'eye' and σαῦρος sauros 'lizard') is a genus of ichthyosaur known from the Middle-Late Jurassic.

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Ornitholestes

Ornitholestes (meaning "bird robber") is a small theropod dinosaur of the late Jurassic (Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation, middle Kimmeridgian age, about 154 million years agoTurner, C.E. and Peterson, F., (1999). "Biostratigraphy of dinosaurs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the Western Interior, U.S.A." Pp.

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Ornithopoda

Ornithopoda is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods.

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Oxfordian (stage)

The Oxfordian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the earliest age of the Late Jurassic Epoch, or the lowest stage of the Upper Jurassic Series.

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Pangaea

Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

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Perisphinctes

Perisphinctes is an extinct genus of ammonite cephalopod.

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Pliosauroidea

Pliosauroidea is an extinct clade of plesiosaurs, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.

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Provence

Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.

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Pterodactylus

Pterodactylus is a genus of extinct pterosaurs.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.

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Redcliff Point

Redcliff Point is on the south coast of England, to the east of Weymouth in Dorset.

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Rhamphorhynchus

Rhamphorhynchus (from Ancient Greek rhamphos meaning "beak" and rhynchus meaning "snout") is a genus of long-tailed pterosaurs in the Jurassic period.

See Late Jurassic and Rhamphorhynchus

Saurophaganax

Saurophaganax ("lord of lizard-eaters") is a genus of large allosaurid dinosaur from the Morrison Formation of Late Jurassic (latest Kimmeridgian age, about 151 million years ago) Oklahoma, United States.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, whose members are known as sauropods (from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.

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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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Stratum

In geology and related fields, a stratum (strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that distinguish it from adjacent layers from which it is separated by visible surfaces known as either bedding surfaces or bedding planes.

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Supercontinent

In geology, a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth's continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass.

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Supersaurus

Supersaurus (meaning "super lizard") is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period.

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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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Thyreophora

Thyreophora ("shield bearers", often known simply as "armored dinosaurs") is a group of armored ornithischian dinosaurs that lived from the Early Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous.

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Tithonian

In the geological timescale, the Tithonian is the latest age of the Late Jurassic Epoch and the uppermost stage of the Upper Jurassic Series.

See Late Jurassic and Tithonian

Torvosaurus

Torvosaurus is a genus of large megalosaurine theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 165 to 148 million years ago during the Callovian to Tithonian ages of the late Middle and Late Jurassic period in what is now Colorado, Portugal, Germany, and possibly England, Spain, Tanzania, and Uruguay.

See Late Jurassic and Torvosaurus

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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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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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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Yinlong

Yinlong (meaning "hidden dragon") is a genus of basal ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period of central Asia.

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See also

Geological epochs

• Cambrian Series 2
• Capitalocene
• Cisuralian
• Early Cretaceous
• Early Devonian
• Early Jurassic
• Early Ordovician
• Early Triassic
• Eocene
• Furongian
• Greenlandian
• Guadalupian
• Holocene
• Late Cretaceous
• Late Devonian
• Late Jurassic
• Late Ordovician
• Late Triassic
• Llandovery Epoch
• Lopingian
• Ludlow Epoch
• Ludlow epoch
• Meghalayan
• Miaolingian
• Middle Devonian
• Middle Jurassic
• Middle Triassic
• Miocene
• Mississippian (geology)
• Northgrippian
• Oligocene
• Paleocene
• Pennsylvanian (geology)
• Pleistocene
• Pliocene
• Pridoli Epoch
• Pridoli epoch
• Series (stratigraphy)
• Terreneuvian
• Wenlock Epoch
• Wenlock epoch

Jurassic geochronology

• Early Jurassic
• Late Jurassic
• Middle Jurassic

References

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

Also known as Late Jurassic epoch, Malm (geology), Upper Jurassic, Upper Jurassic Epoch.

, Oxfordian (stage), Pangaea, Perisphinctes, Pliosauroidea, Provence, Pterodactylus, Pterosaur, Redcliff Point, Rhamphorhynchus, Saurophaganax, Sauropoda, Stegosaurus, Stratum, Supercontinent, Supersaurus, Theropoda, Thyreophora, Tithonian, Torvosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus, United Kingdom, Yangchuanosaurus, Yinlong.