The word dinosaur was coined by Richard Owen in 1841,deinos (terrible) + sauros (lizard) which describe various extinct reptiles of the orders Saurischia and Ornithischia that flourished during the Mesozoic Era. Dinosaurs were carnivorous or herbivorous,dwelled mostly on land,and varied from the size of a small dog to the largest land animals that ever lived. Dimorphodon means two-form tooth ,referring to the fact that it had two distinct types of teeth in its jaws,which is comparatively rare among reptiles. The first fossil remains now attributed to Dimorphodon were found in England by fossil collector Mary Anning,at Lyme Regis in Dorset,UK in December 1828. Our knowledge of how Dimorphodon lived is limited. It perhaps mainly inhabited coastal regions and might have had a very varied diet. Buckland suggested it ate insects. Later it became common to depict it as a piscivore (fish eater),though Buckland's original idea is more well | |
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