The Dinosaurs of Wyoming - Wyoming State Geological Survey ...

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QLOSSARY
Amphibious Dinosaurs=A group of swamp dwelling, herbivorous reptiles
representing the Saropoda of America, Africa and Europe.
The sauropod or sauropodous dinosaurs of the genera Brontosaurus,
Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, Brachiosaurus, etc.
Arthritides=Diseases of the Joints.
Atlantosaurus Beds=Como Beds where sauropod dinosaurs occur.
Badlands=Bare, rocky hills where fossils are readily found.
Barosaurus=A genus of sauropod dinosaurs with long neck bones.
Brachiosaurus=A genus of sauropod dinosaurs with the front leg as
long or longer than the hind leg-America and Africa.
Brachyceratops=A genus of horned dinos'aurs of small size.
Brontosaurus=The "thunder lizard." A large sauropod found in Wyoming.
Camarasaurus=A genus of sauropods collected at Garden Park, Colorado,
and so named by E. D. Cope on account of the large spaces
in the backbones.
Cenozoic=The Age of Mammals.
Ceratopsia=The horned dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous.
Comanchean=A geological period between the Jurassic and the Cretaceous.
Equivalent to the l\forrison Formation.
Cerno, Wyorning=A railroad station now abandoned.
Concretion=A rounded rock formation, harder than the rest of the
rock. In Converse County the three-horned dinosaurs are found
in the Lance Beds in sandstone concretions.
Cretaceous=The "chalk age." A geological period of great interest.
The closing period of the Mesozoic.
Dipnoans=Lung fishes, found in fresh water deposits.
Dinosauria=:;"Terrible lizards." The name was proposed by Sir Richard
Owen for a group of fossil reptiles.
Diplodocus=A genus of sauropod, "whip-vail" dinosaurs found in Colorado
and V\Tyoming.
Exostosis=A pathological growth on bone due to injury.
Extinction=A phase of animal life involving the disappearance of groups
of creatures in geological time.
Haemangioma=A V'ascular tumor.
Igualtodon=A genus of predentate "beaked" dinosaurs found in Belgium.
Lacuna=A space in bone where a bone-cell existed during life.
Lance Beds=A formation in the Upper Cretaceous cont'aining horned
dinosaurs.
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