FSU BSC 1005 Living with Dinosaurs
Exam Guide questions and answers
Paleontologist - correct answer ✔✔someone who studies "ancient organisms"
Paleobiology - correct answer ✔✔the study of "ancient life" (of dinosaurs)
The first written accounts of dinosaurs were where? - correct answer ✔✔China
Srcrotum humanum - correct answer ✔✔The first proper scientific name given to a dinosaur
remains.
- Megalosaur thigh bone;
Reverend William Buckland - correct answer ✔✔credited with scientifically naming: the first
scientifically valid Dino.
- Named is "Megalosaurus"
Cuvier - correct answer ✔✔Discovered things can and do go extinct and did this by using the
*Mosasaurus*
Richard Owen - correct answer ✔✔Created the name "Dinosauria" or "fearfully great reptiles"
in 1842
Thomas Jefferson - correct answer ✔✔considered one of the founding fathers of paleontology
Thomas Jefferson - correct answer ✔✔Which president was a Fossil Fanatic
, - he was nicknamed "Mr. Mammoth"
Louis Dollo - correct answer ✔✔First dinosaur *paleobiologist*
Deinonychus - correct answer ✔✔Discovery by John Ostrum in 1964, shifted away from dino's
being slow and lumber
Megalosaurus - correct answer ✔✔- *First valid dinosaur*,
- people weren't excited b/c they were more fascinated w/possibility of 30 ft. crocodiles
Deinonychus - correct answer ✔✔called "Terrible claw," a velociraptor.
-First Dino that interested people - start Dino renaissance
*Bakker* took the idea of the Deinonychus and ran with it (Claimed all Dinosaurs were
physically like birds);
- interest in dinosaur research soared - correct answer ✔✔What started the dinosaur
renaissance?
Iguanodon - correct answer ✔✔What was the first described herbivores dinosaur?
- (one of first dinosaurs ever found)
Iguana Tooth - correct answer ✔✔What Does IGUANADON stand for?
Giddeon Mantell - correct answer ✔✔Who discovered the IGUANADON?
Archosaurian reptiles - correct answer ✔✔What includes crocodilians, pterosaurs and
"dinosauromorphs?"
Exam Guide questions and answers
Paleontologist - correct answer ✔✔someone who studies "ancient organisms"
Paleobiology - correct answer ✔✔the study of "ancient life" (of dinosaurs)
The first written accounts of dinosaurs were where? - correct answer ✔✔China
Srcrotum humanum - correct answer ✔✔The first proper scientific name given to a dinosaur
remains.
- Megalosaur thigh bone;
Reverend William Buckland - correct answer ✔✔credited with scientifically naming: the first
scientifically valid Dino.
- Named is "Megalosaurus"
Cuvier - correct answer ✔✔Discovered things can and do go extinct and did this by using the
*Mosasaurus*
Richard Owen - correct answer ✔✔Created the name "Dinosauria" or "fearfully great reptiles"
in 1842
Thomas Jefferson - correct answer ✔✔considered one of the founding fathers of paleontology
Thomas Jefferson - correct answer ✔✔Which president was a Fossil Fanatic
, - he was nicknamed "Mr. Mammoth"
Louis Dollo - correct answer ✔✔First dinosaur *paleobiologist*
Deinonychus - correct answer ✔✔Discovery by John Ostrum in 1964, shifted away from dino's
being slow and lumber
Megalosaurus - correct answer ✔✔- *First valid dinosaur*,
- people weren't excited b/c they were more fascinated w/possibility of 30 ft. crocodiles
Deinonychus - correct answer ✔✔called "Terrible claw," a velociraptor.
-First Dino that interested people - start Dino renaissance
*Bakker* took the idea of the Deinonychus and ran with it (Claimed all Dinosaurs were
physically like birds);
- interest in dinosaur research soared - correct answer ✔✔What started the dinosaur
renaissance?
Iguanodon - correct answer ✔✔What was the first described herbivores dinosaur?
- (one of first dinosaurs ever found)
Iguana Tooth - correct answer ✔✔What Does IGUANADON stand for?
Giddeon Mantell - correct answer ✔✔Who discovered the IGUANADON?
Archosaurian reptiles - correct answer ✔✔What includes crocodilians, pterosaurs and
"dinosauromorphs?"
