Dinosaurs and Fossils

What this quiz asks

• What is the scientific study of fossils and ancient life called?
• In which geological period did Tyrannosaurus rex live?
• In which geological period did the very first dinosaurs appear?
• Long-necked giant plant-eaters such as Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus belong to which group of dinosaurs?
• More time separates Stegosaurus from Tyrannosaurus rex than separates T. rex from us.
• The Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods together make up which geological era?
• Select ALL of these that count as trace fossils rather than body fossils.
• Which feathered animal, found in Germany's Solnhofen limestone in the 1860s, became famous as a link between dinosaurs and birds?
• Did flowering plants already exist when Tyrannosaurus rex was alive?
• Velociraptor was covered in feathers.
• Which British anatomist coined the word 'dinosaur' in 1842?
• What is the process in which minerals carried by groundwater seep into buried bone and slowly turn it to stone?
• In 1980 the Alvarez team linked the dinosaurs' extinction to an impact after finding a clay layer rich in which element?
• Select ALL of these dinosaurs that were meat-eaters.
• Order these dinosaurs by when they lived, earliest first.
• In 1990 fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson found the famous T. rex later nicknamed Sue. In which US state was it dug up?
• About how many million years ago did the Chicxulub impact wipe out the non-bird dinosaurs?
• Gideon Mantell named which dinosaur in 1825, after noticing its teeth looked like giant versions of a lizard's?
• What rare find was made in 1993 at Paimogo, near Lourinhã in Portugal?
• In 1828 Mary Anning found the first pterosaur skeleton discovered outside Germany. Which pterosaur was it?