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Lurdusaurus, the Glossary

Lurdusaurus ("heavy lizard") is a genus of massive and unusually shaped iguanodont dinosaur from the Elrhaz Formation in Niger.^[1]

98 relations: Abelisauridae, Albian, Altirhinus, Anatosuchus, Ancient Greek, Ankylopollexia, Ankylosauria, Aptian, Araripesuchus, Bactrosaurus, Bipedalism, Brachylophosaurus, Camptosaurus, Carcharodontosauridae, Ceratopsia, Cervical vertebrae, Clade, Coracoid, Corythosaurus, Crocodylomorpha, Cross-bedding, Dale Russell, David B. Norman, Dinosaur, Dryosauridae, Dryosaurus, Dune, Early Cretaceous, Edmontosaurus, Elrhaz Formation, Elrhazosaurus, Eocarcharia, Eolambia, Equijubus, Equisetum, Facultative bipedalism, Family (biology), Femur, Fern, Flail (weapon), Fluvial sediment processes, Fourth trochanter, Genus, Gregory S. Paul, Ground sloth, Hadrosauridae, Hippopotamus, Holotype, Humerus, Iguanodon, ... Expand index (48 more) »
Cretaceous Niger
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa
Fossils of Niger
Taxa named by Dale Russell
Taxa named by Philippe Taquet

Abelisauridae

Abelisauridae (meaning "Abel's lizards") is a family (or clade) of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs.

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Albian

The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Altirhinus

Altirhinus ("high snout") is a genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Mongolia. Lurdusaurus and Altirhinus are iguanodonts and ornithischian genera.

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Anatosuchus ("duck crocodile", the name from the Latin anas ("duck") and the Greek souchos ("crocodile"), for the broad, duck-like snout) is an extinct genus of notosuchian crocodyliforms discovered in Gadoufaoua, Niger, and described by a team of palaeontologists led by the American Paul Sereno in 2003, in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Ankylopollexia

Ankylopollexia is an extinct clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that lived from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous. Lurdusaurus and Ankylopollexia are iguanodonts.

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Ankylosauria

Ankylosauria is a group of herbivorous dinosaurs of the clade Ornithischia.

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Aptian

The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Araripesuchus

Araripesuchus is a genus of extinct crocodyliform that existed during the Cretaceous period of the late Mesozoic era some 125 to 66 million years ago. Lurdusaurus and Araripesuchus are Cretaceous Niger and Fossils of Niger.

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Bactrosaurus

Bactrosaurus (meaning "Club lizard," "baktron". Lurdusaurus and Bactrosaurus are ornithischian genera.

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Bipedalism

Bipedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where an animal moves by means of its two rear (or lower) limbs or legs.

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Brachylophosaurus

Brachylophosaurus (or; meaning "short-crested lizard", Greek brachys. Lurdusaurus and Brachylophosaurus are ornithischian genera.

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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. Lurdusaurus and Camptosaurus are iguanodonts and ornithischian genera.

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Carcharodontosauridae

Carcharodontosauridae (carcharodontosaurids; from the Greek καρχαροδοντόσαυρος, carcharodontósauros: "shark-toothed lizards") is a group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs.

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Ceratopsia

Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

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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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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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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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Corythosaurus

Corythosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid "duck-billed" dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period, about 77–75.7 million years ago, in what is now western North America. Lurdusaurus and Corythosaurus are ornithischian genera.

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Crocodylomorpha

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

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Cross-bedding

In geology, cross-bedding, also known as cross-stratification, is layering within a stratum and at an angle to the main bedding plane.

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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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David B. Norman

David Bruce Norman (born 20 June 1952 in the United Kingdom) is a British paleontologist, currently the main curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University.

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Dinosaur

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

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Dryosauridae

Dryosauridae was a family of primitive iguanodonts, first proposed by Milner & Norman in 1984. Lurdusaurus and Dryosauridae are iguanodonts.

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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. Lurdusaurus and Dryosaurus are iguanodonts and ornithischian genera.

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Dune

A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Edmontosaurus

Edmontosaurus (meaning "lizard from Edmonton"), with the second species often colloquially and historically known as Anatosaurus or Anatotitan (meaning "duck lizard" and "giant duck"), is a genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur. Lurdusaurus and Edmontosaurus are ornithischian genera.

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Elrhaz Formation

The Elrhaz Formation is a geological formation in Niger, West Africa. Lurdusaurus and Elrhaz Formation are Cretaceous Niger.

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Elrhazosaurus

Elrhazosaurus (meaning "Elrhaz lizard") is a genus of basal iguanodontian dinosaur, known from isolated bones found in Early Cretaceous rocks of Niger. Lurdusaurus and Elrhazosaurus are Aptian life, Cretaceous Niger, early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa, Fossils of Niger, iguanodonts and ornithischian genera.

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Eocarcharia

Eocarcharia (meaning "dawn shark") is a genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation that lived in the Sahara 112 million years ago, in what today is the country of Niger. Lurdusaurus and Eocarcharia are Aptian life, Cretaceous Niger, early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa and Fossils of Niger.

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Eolambia

Eolambia (meaning "dawn lambeosaurine") is a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of the United States. Lurdusaurus and Eolambia are iguanodonts and ornithischian genera.

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Equijubus

Equijubus (Mǎzōng meaning "horse mane" after the area Mǎzōng Mountain 马鬃山 in which it was found), is a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian stage) of northwestern China. Lurdusaurus and Equijubus are iguanodonts and ornithischian genera.

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Equisetum

Equisetum (horsetail, marestail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.

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Facultative bipedalism

A facultative biped is an animal that is capable of walking or running on two legs (bipedal), as a response to exceptional circumstances (facultative), while normally walking or running on four limbs or more.

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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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Femur

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

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Fern

The ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Flail (weapon)

A flail is a weapon consisting of a striking head attached to a handle by a flexible rope, strap, or chain.

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Fluvial sediment processes

In geography and geology, fluvial sediment processes or fluvial sediment transport are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by sediments.

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Fourth trochanter

The fourth trochanter is a shared characteristic common to archosaurs.

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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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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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Ground sloth

Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra.

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Hadrosauridae

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

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Hippopotamus

The hippopotamus (hippopotamuses or hippopotami; Hippopotamus amphibius), also shortened to hippo (hippos), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus, or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa.

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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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Iguanodon

Iguanodon (meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. Lurdusaurus and iguanodon are iguanodonts and ornithischian genera.

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Iguanodontidae

Iguanodontidae is a family of iguanodontians belonging to Styracosterna, a derived clade within Ankylopollexia. Lurdusaurus and Iguanodontidae are iguanodonts.

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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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Koreaceratops

Koreaceratops is a genus of basal ceratopsian dinosaur discovered in Albian-age Lower Cretaceous rocks of South Korea. Lurdusaurus and Koreaceratops are ornithischian genera.

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Kryptops

Kryptops is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Niger. Lurdusaurus and Kryptops are Aptian life, Cretaceous Niger, early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa and Fossils of Niger.

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Lanzhousaurus

Lanzhousaurus (meaning "Lanzhou lizard") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur. Lurdusaurus and Lanzhousaurus are iguanodonts and ornithischian genera.

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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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Liaoningosaurus

Liaoningosaurus (meaning "Liaoning lizard") is an unusual genus of basal ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Liaoning Province, China that lived during the Early Cretaceous (late Barremian to early Aptian stages, ~125.4 to 118.9 Ma) in what is now the Yixian and Jiufotang Formation. Lurdusaurus and Liaoningosaurus are Aptian life and ornithischian genera.

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Lithostrotia

Lithostrotia is a clade of derived titanosaur sauropods that lived during the Early Cretaceous and Late Cretaceous.

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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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Mantellisaurus

Mantellisaurus is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in the Barremian and early Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe. Lurdusaurus and Mantellisaurus are iguanodonts and ornithischian genera.

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In human anatomy, the metacarpal bones or metacarpus, also known as the "palm bones", are the appendicular bones that form the intermediate part of the hand between the phalanges (fingers) and the carpal bones (wrist bones), which articulate with the forearm.

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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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Museum of Natural Sciences

The Museum of Natural Sciences of Belgium (Muséum des Sciences naturelles de Belgique; Museum voor Natuurwetenschappen van België) is a Brussels museum dedicated to natural history.

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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. Lurdusaurus and Muttaburrasaurus are iguanodonts and ornithischian genera.

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Nigersaurus

Nigersaurus is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived during the middle Cretaceous period, about 115 to 105 million years ago. Lurdusaurus and Nigersaurus are Aptian life, Cretaceous Niger, early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa, fossil taxa described in 1999 and Fossils of Niger.

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Noasauridae

Noasauridae is an extinct family of theropod dinosaurs belonging to the group Ceratosauria.

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Ornithocheiridae

Ornithocheiridae (or ornithocheirids, meaning "bird hands") is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.

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Ornithopoda

Ornithopoda is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods.

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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. Lurdusaurus and Ouranosaurus are Aptian life, Cretaceous Niger, early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa, Fossils of Niger, iguanodonts, ornithischian genera and taxa named by Philippe Taquet.

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Owenodon

Owenodon is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur known from a partial lower jaw discovered in Early Cretaceous-age rocks of Durlston Bay, Dorset, United Kingdom, and possibly also Romania and Spain. Lurdusaurus and Owenodon are iguanodonts and ornithischian genera.

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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. Lurdusaurus and Parasaurolophus are ornithischian genera.

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Pelvis

The pelvis (pelves or pelvises) is the lower part of the trunk, between the abdomen and the thighs (sometimes also called pelvic region), together with its embedded skeleton (sometimes also called bony pelvis or pelvic skeleton).

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Peter Galton

Peter Malcolm Galton (born 14 March 1942 in London) is a British vertebrate paleontologist who has to date written or co-written about 190 papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.

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Philippe Taquet

Philippe Taquet (born 25 April 1940 Saint-Quentin, Aisne) is a French paleontologist who specializes in dinosaur systematics of finds primarily in northern Africa. Lurdusaurus and Philippe Taquet are taxa named by Philippe Taquet.

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Probactrosaurus

Probactrosaurus (meaning "before Bactrosaurus") is an early herbivorous hadrosauroid iguanodont dinosaur. Lurdusaurus and Probactrosaurus are ornithischian genera.

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Protohadros

Protohadros (meaning "first hadrosaur") is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian stage). Lurdusaurus and Protohadros are iguanodonts.

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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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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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Quadrate bone

The quadrate bone is a skull bone in most tetrapods, including amphibians, sauropsids (reptiles, birds), and early synapsids.

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Quadrupedalism

Quadrupedalism is a form of locomotion where animals have four legs are used to bear weight and move around.

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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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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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Sarcosuchus

Sarcosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living crocodilians that lived during the Early Cretaceous, from the late Hauterivian to the early Albian, 133 to 112 million years ago of what is now Africa and South America. Lurdusaurus and Sarcosuchus are Fossils of Niger and taxa named by Philippe Taquet.

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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. Lurdusaurus and Saurolophus are ornithischian genera.

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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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Spinosauridae

Spinosauridae (or spinosaurids) is a clade or family of tetanuran theropod dinosaurs comprising ten to seventeen known genera.

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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. Lurdusaurus and Spinosaurus are early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa.

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Sternum

The sternum (sternums or sterna) or breastbone is a long flat bone located in the central part of the chest.

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Stolokrosuchus

Stolokrosuchus is an extinct genus of crocodyliforms that lived during the Early Cretaceous.

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Suchomimus

Suchomimus (meaning "crocodile mimic") is a genus of spinosaur dinosaur that lived between 125 and 112 million years ago in what is now Niger, north Africa, during the Aptian to early Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous period. Lurdusaurus and Suchomimus are Aptian life, Cretaceous Niger, early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Africa and Fossils of Niger.

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Ténéré

The Ténéré (Tuareg: Tenere, literally: "desert") is a desert region in south central Sahara.

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Telmatosaurus

Telmatosaurus (meaning "marsh lizard") is a genus of basal hadrosauromorph dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. Lurdusaurus and Telmatosaurus are ornithischian genera.

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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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Understory

In forestry and ecology, understory (American English), or understorey (Commonwealth English), also known as underbrush or undergrowth, includes plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any great extent, but above the forest floor.

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