GLY 1102 Topic 14
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Who coined the name Dinosauria?
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Richard Owen
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Edward Hitchcock, a president and professor at Amherst College, described, illustrated, and collected dinosaurs footprints form:
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The Connecticut Valley
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In 1858 the first relatively complete dinosaur to be found in the US was found in this eastern state
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New Jersey
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The first relatively complete dino skeleton was completed in 1883
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True
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The prominent place of dino in our museums today is the legacy of Cope and Marsh
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True
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The Cope and Marsh dino discoveries in Colorado and Wyoming were from the Triassic
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False
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The most prolific finds of dino remains in the US, during the late 1800s to early 1900s, came from this region.
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the West
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The first great international expedition to hunt dino remains was by the Germans (1907-1912) to
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East Africa
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The journal of this famous expedition suggests it may have discovered dino bones through none were collected or sketched
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Louis and Clark
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Fossil dino found in the Canadian province of Alberta are what age
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Cretaceous
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Mosasaurus
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Meuse Lizard
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Othniel Charles Mash (1831-1899) was a professor of paleontology at the Peabody Museum of this University
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Yale
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In the years ____ large-scale discoveries of dino in Europe and the US offered the first large-scale glimpse of whole dino
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1877 and 1878
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This individual described the first relatively complete North American dino and later became the president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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Joseph Leidy
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The first credited publication of dino remains was by ___, in 1824
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William Buckland
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Between 1910 and 1917, a great Canadian dino rush began where
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the Red Deer River Valley
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The American museum of natural history expeditions to Asia, led by Roy Chapman Andrews, collected in
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the Gobi Dessert of China and Mongolia
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Numerous dino were found in1877 in a Bernissart, Belgium
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Coal mine
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Thousands of dino bones were sent back to eastern museums from Como Bluffs by way of
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Train
