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Paleontology General Trivia #2 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 74 times
- The average score is 15 of 30
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| Is Megarachne a giant spider? | No | 87%
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| Is Megalodon extinct? | Yes | 87%
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| Name the dinosaur whose name means “different lizard”. | Allosaurus | 82%
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| This herbivorous dinosaur is among the most common finds of the Hell Creek Formation, alongside Ankylosaurus and Tyrannosaurus. | Triceratops | 79%
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| Which country holds the most dinosaur fossils? | United States | 79%
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| Majungasaurus lived on what is now which island? | Madagascar | 74%
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| What formation in North America holds many jurassic fossils, including the above? | Morrison Formation | 74%
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| What color was the Borealopelta discovered to be? | Red | 69%
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| Which amphibian was known for its boomerang-shaped head? | Diplocaulus | 64%
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| What does Carnotaurus translate to? | Meat eating bull | 64%
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| This marine reptile was named after the Meuse River, where it was first discovered in 1798. | Mosasaurus | 62%
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| This woman helped discover many prehistoric reptiles along the Jurassic Coast through collecting fossils, | Mary Anning | 56%
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| Where is the Jurassic Coast located? | United Kingdom | 56%
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| What were the two supercontinents formed after Pangaea broke apart? (Hint: L and G) | Laurasia and Gondwana | 54%
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| This was the last stage of the Cretaceous. | Maastrichtian | 54%
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| This basal ceratopsian holds the richest fossil record of any non-avian dinosaur? | Psittacosaurus | 54%
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| This pterosaur was among the largest until the discovery of Quetzalcoatlus. | Pteranodon | 51%
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| What is fossilized dung called? | Coprolites | 49%
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| Name the 3 species of the genus Smilodon, in alphabetical order | fatalis, gracilis, populator | 41%
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| What group of dinosaurs did Deinocheirus belong to? | Ornithomimids | 38%
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| The Djadochta Formation is located in which country? | Mongolia | 36%
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| Who named Iguanodon? | Gideon Mantell | 33%
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| Give the species name of Argentinosaurus | huinculensis | 31%
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| During what period did Parailurus live? | Miocene | 31%
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| This formation in Tanzania holds Jurassic fauna such as Kentrosaurus. | Tendaguru | 26%
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| This hadrosaur’s first remains were destroyed in World War I. | Corythosaurus | 21%
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| Odobenocetops and Pelagornis are among the fossils discovered in this Peruvian formation. | Pisco Formation | 15%
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| This was the earliest known cat in the fossil record. | Proailurus | 13%
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| This was an ancestor of the modern Great White Shark, and belongs to the same genus. | Hubbell’s White Shark | 10%
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| This small Jurassic carnivore was compared to a resting hen by the Navajo man who discovered it. | Segisaurus | 10%
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