Cretaceous Dinosaurs - Statistics

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Description	Animal	% Correct
The "tyrant king" of the dinosaurs, most famous of them all.	Tyrannosaurus	95%
The largest of the armored dinosaurs, wielding a bone-shattering club on its tail	Ankylosaurus	92%
The "speedy thief", made famous for its role in Jurassic Park	Velociraptor	84%
Enigmatic sail-backed dinosaur from North Africa, the largest carnivorous one yet discovered	Spinosaurus	83%
One of the largest dinosaurs known, bearing the name of the South American country where it was found	Argentinosaurus	82%
A three-horned iconic herbivore from the USA	Triceratops	82%
Largest and most famous of the "boneheads"	Pachycephalosaurus	76%
The second dinosaur to be discovered and named; an English/Belgian herbivore with a thumb spike	Iguanodon	74%
Hollow-crested "duckbill" whose calls have been re-created with acoustic computer models	Parasaurolophus	74%
Aquatic lizard whose fossils found in The Netherlands were the first of any giant marine reptile to be described by scientists	Mosasaurus	72%
A pterosaur named after an Aztec flying serpent god	Quetzalcoatlus	72%
Bizarre herbivore whose giant claws were at first mistaken for the ribs of a massive turtle	Therizinosaurus	71%
A large ostrich-like dinosaur from Mongolia nicknamed the "chicken mimic", who were "flocking this way" in Jurassic Park	Gallimimus	70%
An alleged egg thief from Mongolia, who was actually buried alive protecting her own nest	Oviraptor	70%
Toothless, crest-bearing pterosaur which ate fish from a sea that once covered Kansas	Pteranodon	70%
Duckbill formerly known as Trachodon, Anatosaurus, and many other names, now named after a city in Alberta	Edmontosaurus	69%
Tiny Chinese raptor with four wings and iridescent blue-black feathers	Microraptor	67%
Giant raptor named after the Beehive State, of which it is the official state dinosaur	Utahraptor	66%
A "motherly" dinosaur whose entire nesting site with hundreds of eggs, juveniles, and adults were found at a Montana site aptly named Egg Mountain	Maiasaura	64%
The "Terrible claw", whose discovery initiated a paradigm shift in how scientists understood dinosaur biology	Deinonychus	57%
Marine reptile whose head was accidentally placed on the tail by its discoverer	Elasmosaurus	57%
The "Sheep of the Cretaceous"; a common primitive horned dinosaur from Central Asia	Protoceratops	57%
The infamous "Supercroc" of the Sahara	Sarcosuchus	56%
Giant marine reptile from Australia named after the king of the Titans of Greek mythology	Kronosaurus	55%
Quill-tailed herbivore with a parrot beak; a diverse and well-studied genus with as many as 12 species ranging across Asia	Psittacosaurus	49%
The "Bird of Confucius" who flew over China	Confuciusornis	40%
Any proud Texan would want you to remember this sauropod's name	Alamosaurus	38%
Massive amphibian who lived in Victoria, Australia	Koolasuchus	38%
Herbivorous dinosaur from New Jersey, one of the first American dinosaurs to be found	Hadrosaurus	28%

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