Mesozoic Madness Info Carrd!

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Hey! I'm Meso from Mesozoic Madness! Thanks for taking some time to get to know me!I'm a dinosaur lover from Texas! Which you may know is pretty big on dinosaurs (everything's bigger in texas and dinosaurs are some of the biggest)I started collecting dinosaur figures and merchandise when i was still in the single digits and still have almost every dinosaur related good i have ever gotten. I have over 30 figures and around 15 stuffed dinosaurs. Not to mention all the books, blankets, shirts and room decorations i have collected.My favourite dinosaurs are the Compsognathus and the Stegosaurus. My favourite critters from the cambrian are the Anamolocaris and the silly little Halucinogenia.For my privacy i will be keeping my age and gender generally ambiguous so feel free to call me by any pronouns you see fit! Until next time! See ya, - Meso

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Dinosaurs:Dinosaurs are a diverse group of ancient reptiles belonging to the clade dinosauria. There are many different groups of dinosaurs including the;Therapoda:
Whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Like the tyrannosaurus rex and the carnotaurus.
The Sauropodomorpha:
A clade of long-necked, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaurs that includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives. Sauropods generally grew to very large sizes, had long necks and tails, were quadrupedal, and became the largest animals to ever walk the Earth. examples include the diplodocus and brachiosaurus.
the Ornithischia:
An order of mainly herbivorous dinosaurs characterized by a pelvic structure superficially similar to that of birds, like the stegosaurus or ankylosaur.Time PeriodsDinosaurs existed across the span of 3 major time periods. The Triassic, the Jurassic and the Cretaceous. All 3 of these time periods were encapsulated in the Mesozoic period, this was the time in which dinosaurs dominated the globe. The Jurassic and Cretaceous are some of the most well researched periods and have a lot of the most popular dinosaurs from modern media, such as the T-rex, stegosaurus, triceratops, diplodocus and carnotaurus!Where Did They Go?Though this is heavily debated even now, millions of years later, but the general consensus is that an asteroid 6 miles across (roughly 10 kilometers) crashed into the earth about 65 million years ago creating a crater about 110 miles (180 kilometers) across! This crater is called the Chicxulub crater. After the impact of the asteroid landed there were likely months long earthquakes across the globe and dust was thrown so high up into the air that the sun was nowhere to be seen. For almost 2 years the earth was dark. Shrouded in dust, dirt and ash from the raging fires. Earth reached an extinction level of up to 81%. Though it took all of 9 months to kill off the wingless dinosaurs, It took an extra 33,000 years for all of what we currently consider avian-dinosaurs to die out. Though the cause of pteranodon extinction is still up for constant debate.

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Fake-osaurs??This section will deal with ancient reptiles commonly thought to be dinosaurs, nothosaurus, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and all the other not-quite-dinosaurs!nothosaurs and other aquatics:
Many of you may already know that the Plesiosaurus and all other fully-aquatic dinosaurs were not actually dinosaurs at all, just ancient aquatic lizards. This includes Plesiosaurs, Mosasaurs, and the Nothosaurus. The nothosaurus is the most blatant of them all, its name literally means "false lizard" stemming from Nothos (false/lie) and Sauros (lizard). The only known aquatic/semi-aquatic dinosaur known as of 2019 is the Spinosaurus!Pterosaurs:
Pterosaurs are a clade of flying ancient reptiles belonging to pterosauria, they are not dinosaurs. There are many types of them, like the Pteranodon, Quetzalcoatl, and the Gnathosaurus.Land Dinosaur Dupes:
There are even some reptiles that walked on land who have been mistaken for dinosaurs, like the effigia for example. The effigia was long thought to be a dinosaur before a grad student discovered that it had the ankle bones of an early crocodile, making it a different genus than dinosaurs! Another example is the dimetrodon, a large ancient lizard with a sail similar to that of a spinosaurus. The dimetrodon is often labeled a dinosaur but it actually didn't even live during the mesozoic period!

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