There were many species of dinosaur long ago, but sadly they have all died out. Sometimes, we wonder how people find the same creatures on different continents, but the answer to this has been found. In truth, all the continents of Earth were once one supercontinent, known as Pangea.
The species Tyrannosaurus rex (rex meaning “king” in Latin), often called T. rex. Tyrannosaurus lived throughout what is now western North America, on what was then an island continent known as Laramidia. Tyrannosaurus had a much wider range than other tyrannosaurids. Fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, 68 to 66 million years ago. It was the last known member of the tyrannosaurids, and among the last non-avian dinosaurs to exist before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
The species Tyrannosaurus rex (rex meaning “king” in Latin), often called T. rex. Tyrannosaurus lived throughout what is now western North America, on what was then an island continent known as Laramidia. Tyrannosaurus had a much wider range than other tyrannosaurids. Fossils are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period, 68 to 66 million years ago. It was the last known member of the tyrannosaurids, and among the last non-avian dinosaurs to exist before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
Stegosaurus, from Greek stegos which means roof and sauros, which means lizard, is a genus of herbivorous thyreophoran dinosaur. Fossils of this date to the Late Jurassic period, where they are found in the western United States and Portugal, between 155 and 150 million years ago. The remains of over 80 individual animals of this have been found. Stegosaurus would have lived alongside dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Allosaurus, and Ceratosaurus.
The T-Rex and Stegosaurus were just two of the dinosaurs out there, so don’t just think they were the only ones.
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