Dinosaurs evolved partway through the Triassic

Triassic

The Triassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about 250 to 200 Mya . As the first period of the Mesozoic Era, the Triassic follows the Permian and is followed by the Jurassic. Both the start and end of the Triassic are marked by major extinction events...

 period of the Mesozoic

Mesozoic

The Mesozoic era is an interval of geological time from about 250 million years ago to about 65 million years ago. It is often referred to as the age of reptiles because reptiles, namely dinosaurs, were the dominant terrestrial and marine vertebrates of the time...

 era, around 230 Ma (million years ago). At that time, the earth had one supercontinent

Supercontinent

In geology, a supercontinent is a landmass comprising more than one continental core, or craton. The assembly of cratons and accreted terranes that form Eurasia qualifies as a supercontinent today.-History:...

al landmass, called Pangaea

Pangaea

Pangaea, Pangæa, or Pangea is hypothesized as a supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras about 250 million years ago, before the component continents were separated into their current configuration....

, of which Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

was a part. So it remained throughout the Triassic. By the start of the Jurassic

Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about Mya to  Mya, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic era, also known as the age of reptiles. The start of the period is marked by...

 period, some 30 million years later, the supercontinent began to split into Laurasia

Laurasia

In paleogeography, Laurasia was the northernmost of two supercontinents that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent from approximately...

 and Gondwana

Gondwana

In paleogeography, Gondwana , originally Gondwanaland, was the southernmost of two supercontinents that later became parts of the Pangaea supercontinent. It existed from approximately 510 to 180 million years ago . Gondwana is believed to have sutured between ca. 570 and 510 Mya,...

. The largest inlet from Panthalassa

Panthalassa

Panthalassa , also known as the Panthalassic Ocean, was the vast global ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea, during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic years. It included the Pacific Ocean to the west and north and the Tethys Ocean to the southeast...

, the superocean

Superocean

A superocean is an ocean which surrounds a supercontinent. It is less commonly defined as any ocean larger than the current Pacific Ocean. Named global superoceans include Mirovia, which surrounded the supercontinent Rodinia, and Panthalassa, which surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea...

 that surrounded Pangaea, was called the Tethys Ocean

Tethys Ocean

The Tethys Ocean was an ocean that existed between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia during the Mesozoic era before the opening of the Indian Ocean.-Modern theory:...

, and as this inlet cut deeper into the supercontinent, much of Europe was flooded.

By the Cretaceous

Cretaceous

The Cretaceous , derived from the Latin "creta" , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide , is a geologic period and system from circa to million years ago. In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period of the...

, from 145 to 65 million years ago, the continents were beginning to approach their present shapes, but not their present positions, and Europe remained tropical. At times, it was a chain of island-microcontinents including Baltica

Baltica

Baltica is a name applied by geologists to a late-Proterozoic, early-Palaeozoic continent that now includes the East European craton of northwestern Eurasia. Baltica was created as an entity not earlier than 1.8 billion years ago. Before this time, the three segments/continents that now comprise...

 and Iberia.

Europe is relatively rich in fossils from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, and much of what is known about European dinosaurs dates from this time. As the timeline below illustrates, there are substantial gaps in our knowledge from the rest of the Mesozoic. The absence of dinosaur genera

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 from this time is because few fossils have been discovered, and almost certainly not because Europe contained few types of dinosaur—except, perhaps, immediately after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event.

List of European dinosaurs

Name	Period	Diet	Notes
Acanthopholis Acanthopholis Acanthopholis is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur in the family Nodosauridae that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period of England....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Aepisaurus Aepisaurus Aepisaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Grès vert of Départment du Vaucluse, France, around 100 million years ago. It is an obscure genus from an unknown family, represented by a single humerus, now lost...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Agnosphitys Agnosphitys Agnosphitys is a disputed genus of dinosaur. It contains only one species, the type species A. cromhallensis. Its remains include an ilium, maxilla, astragalus and humerus, which date variously from the Norian and Rhaetian stages of the Late Triassic...	Triassic	(unknown)	Possibly not a dinosaur, see article
Agrosaurus Agrosaurus Agrosaurus is the name given to the remains of what was originally believed to be a Triassic prosauropod from Australia. Agrosaurus would thus be the oldest dinosaur from that country. However, this appears to have been an error, and the material actually appears to come from Thecodontosaurus or...	Triassic	herbivore/omnivore	—
Ajkaceratops Ajkaceratops Ajkaceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described in 2010. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Europe, in what was then the western Tethyan archipelago. The type species, A. kozmai, is most closely related to forms in east Asia, from where its ancestors may have migrated by...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Allosaurus Allosaurus Allosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period . The name Allosaurus means "different lizard". It is derived from the Greek /allos and /sauros...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Alocodon Alocodon Alocodon is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of what is now Portugal. It was described in 1973 by Richard Anthony Thulborn. It had small ornithopod-like teeth with vertical grooves...	Jurassic	(unknown)	—
Altispinax Altispinax Altispinax is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Obernkirchen Sandstein of Niedersachsen, Germany. Material has also been referred to it from the Hastings Beds , Purbeck Beds , and Lower Greensand of England, and the Weald Clay of England and Belgium, but this material...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Ampelosaurus Ampelosaurus Ampelosaurus is a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur hailing from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Europe. Like most sauropods, it would have had a long neck and tail but it also carried armor in the form of osteoderms on its back. This dinosaur would have stretched about 15 meters from...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Angloposeidon Angloposeidon "Angloposeidon" is the informal name given to a dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of southern England. It was a possible brachiosaurid but has not been formally named. Darren Naish, a notable vertebrate palaeontologist, has worked with the specimen and has recommended that this name only be used...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Anoplosaurus Anoplosaurus Anoplosaurus is an extinct genus of nodosaurid dinosaur, from the late Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand of Cambridgeshire, England...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Aragosaurus Aragosaurus Aragosaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Galve, province of Teruel, in the autonomous territory of Aragón, Spain....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx , sometimes referred to by its German name Urvogel , is a genus of theropod dinosaur that is closely related to birds. The name derives from the Ancient Greek meaning "ancient", and , meaning "feather" or "wing"...	Jurassic	carnivore	Possibly bird
Arenysaurus Arenysaurus Arenysaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It is known from a partial skull and skeleton found in late Maastrichtian-age rocks of the Pyrenees Mountains in Spain. The type species is A. ardevoli, described in 2009 by Pereda-Suberbiola et al., a group of researchers...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Aristosuchus Aristosuchus Aristosuchus was a small coelurosaurian dinosaur, whose name was derived from the Greek ἄριστος and σουχος, the Ancient Greek corruption of the name of the Egyptian crocodile-headed god Sobek. It shared many characteristics with birds.Aristosuchus was a bipedal, meat-eating theropod dinosaur...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Asylosaurus Asylosaurus Asylosaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of England. It is based on partial remains, described in 1836 by Henry Riley and Samuel Stutchbury as pertaining to Thecodontosaurus, that Othniel Charles Marsh brought to Yale University between 1888 and 1890...	Triassic	herbivore/omnivore	—
Atsinganosaurus Atsinganosaurus Atsinganosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur which existed in what is now France during the late Cretaceous period. Well-preserved remains of Atsinganosaurus were collected from the Grès à Reptiles Formation of the Aix-en-Provence Basin...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Aviatyrannis Aviatyrannis Aviatyrannis is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic found in Portugal. It was described by Oliver Rauhut in 2003. The name means "Jurassic grandmother tyrant"...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Avipes Avipes Avipes may have been a theropod dinosaur, which lived during the Middle Triassic. Its fossils were found in Bedheim, Südthüringen, Germany, in Lettenkohlensandstein deposits and it was named in 1932 by von Huene...	Triassic	(unknown)	—
Balaur Balaur (dinosaur) Balaur is a uniquely specialized species of carnivorous dinosaur. It lived in what is now Romania during the latter part of the Late Cretaceous. Balaur was described by scientists in August 2010, and was named after the balaur, a dragon of Romanian folklore. It is known from a single partial...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Barilium Barilium Barilium is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Baryonyx Baryonyx Baryonyx is a genus of carnivorous saurischian dinosaur first discovered in clay pits just south of Dorking, England, and later reported from fossils found in northern Spain and Portugal. It is known to contain only one species, Baryonyx walkeri...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Becklespinax Becklespinax Becklespinax is a genus of large theropod dinosaur based on a type specimen of three tall-spined vertebrae found in 1884 in Sussex, England by the fossil collector Samuel H. Beckles. The fossils are believed to have been from the Early Cretaceous....	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Betasuchus Betasuchus Betasuchus was a theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period.Its fossil, holotype BMNH 42997 , a part of a right femur, 312 mm long, was found in The Netherlands near Maastricht, and originally described as a new species of Megalosaurus in 1883 by Harry Seeley: M...	Cretaceous	carnivore (?)	—
Bihariosaurus Bihariosaurus Bihariosaurus was a genus of camptosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Romania. The type species, Bihariosaurus bauxiticus, was described by Marinescu in 1989. It was similar to Camptosaurus, and was an iguanodont....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Blasisaurus Blasisaurus Blasisaurus is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It is known from a partial skull and skeleton found in late Maastrichtian-age rocks of Spain. The type species is Blasisaurus canudoi, described in 2010 by Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Bothriospondylus Bothriospondylus Bothriospondylus is an dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic.The type species, Bothriospondylus suffossus, was described by Richard Owen in 1875. The specific epithet suffossus means "undermined" in Latin, a reference to the fact that pleurocoels had hollowed out...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Bradycneme Bradycneme Bradycneme is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Sânpetru Formation of the Haţeg Basin, Transylvania, Romania. It is known only from a partial right lower leg , which its describers believed came from a giant owl.-History:Harrison and Walker described...	Cretaceous	(unknown)	—
Calamosaurus Calamosaurus Calamosaurus was a genus of small theropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Calamospondylus Calamospondylus Calamospondylus was a theropod dinosaur genus. It lived during the Early Cretaceous, and its fossils were found in England. The type species, Calamospondylus oweni, was described by amateur paleontologist Reverend William D. Fox in 1866, but is based on fragmentary material...	Cretaceous	(unknown)	—
Callovosaurus Callovosaurus Callovosaurus is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur known from most of a left thigh bone discovered in Middle Jurassic-age rocks of England. At times, it has been considered dubious or a valid genus of basal iguanodontian, perhaps a dryosaurid.-History and description:Callovosaurus is based on...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Camelotia Camelotia Camelotia was a genus of prosauropod or sauropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic of what is now England. Paleontologists are divided on which family it may belong to; in the past, Camelotia has generally been assigned to the prosauropods, but this group of primitive dinosaurs is in constant...	Triassic	herbivore	—
Cardiodon Cardiodon Cardiodon was a genus of sauropod dinosaur, based on a tooth from the late Bathonian-age Middle Jurassic Forest Marble Formation of Wiltshire, England...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Ceratosaurus Ceratosaurus Ceratosaurus meaning "horned lizard", in reference to the horn on its nose , was a large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period , found in the Morrison Formation of North America, in Tanzania and Portugal...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Cetiosauriscus Cetiosauriscus Cetiosauriscus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur. It was perhaps a diplodocid, a close relative of Diplodocus, and lived in the Callovian of England Cetiosauriscus (meaning "whale-lizard-like" i.e. "Cetiosaurus-like") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur. It was perhaps a diplodocid, a close relative of...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Cetiosaurus Cetiosaurus Cetiosaurus meaning 'whale lizard', from the Greek cetus/κητος meaning 'sea monster' and saurus/σαυρος meaning 'lizard', was a sauropod dinosaur from the Mid to Late Jurassic Period in what are now Europe and Africa. It is estimated to have been about long and to have weighed roughly...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Chondrosteosaurus Chondrosteosaurus Chondrosteosaurus was a sauropod from Early Cretaceous England.The type species, Chondrosteosaurus gigas, was described and named by Richard Owen in 1876. The fossils of Chondrosteosaurus were discovered in the Wessex Formation on the Isle of Wight. C...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Compsognathus Compsognathus Compsognathus was a small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. The animal was the size of a turkey and lived around 150 million years ago, the early Tithonian stage of the late Jurassic Period, in what is now Europe. Paleontologists have found two well-preserved fossils, one in Germany...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Concavenator Concavenator Concavenator is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 130 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period . The type species is C. corcovatus; Concavenator corcovatus means "hump backed hunter from Cuenca"...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Craspedodon Craspedodon Craspedodon is an extinct genus of ornithischian dinosaur, possibly a ceratopsian. It lived during the Late Cretaceous , in what is now Belgium. Only a few teeth have ever been found, which were described as similar to those of Iguanodon...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Craterosaurus Craterosaurus Craterosaurus was a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Early Cretaceous around 145-136 million years ago. Its fossils were found in England...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Cruxicheiros Cruxicheiros Cruxicheiros is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur which lived in the Middle Jurassic of England. The type species is C. newmanorum, described by Roger Benson and Jonathan Radley in 2010.-Discovery:...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Cryptosaurus Cryptosaurus Cryptosaurus is a dubious genus of dinosaur known from a partial femur from the Late Jurassic of England.The femur was found by the geologist Lucas Ewbank and donated by him to the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge in 1869. Cryptosaurus was the same year named by British paleontologist Harry Seeley;...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Cumnoria Cumnoria Cumnoria is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It is a basal iguanodontian which lived during the upper Jurassic period in what is now Oxfordshire, United Kingdom....	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Dacentrurus Dacentrurus Dacentrurus , originally known as Omosaurus, was a large stegosaur of the Late Jurassic Period .-Description:...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Delapparentia Delapparentia Delapparentia is a genus of iguanodont dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Galve, Teruel Province, Spain.The type specimen, MPT/I.G, was found in the Spring of 1958 by amateur palaeontologist José María Herrero Marzo...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Demandasaurus Demandasaurus Demandasaurus is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod from early Cretaceous deposits of Spain. Demandasaurus is known from an incomplete but associated skeleton that includes cranial and postcranial remains. It was collected from the Castrillo la Reina Formation in Burgos Province of Spain...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Dinheirosaurus Dinheirosaurus Dinheirosaurus is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur. It has been found in the upper section of the Late Jurassic strata of the Camadas de Alcobaça Formation located in central-western Portugal at Porto Dinheiro, Lourinhã...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Dinodocus Dinodocus Dinodocus is the name of a genus of sauropod dinosaur, named by Richard Owen in 1884. The name is now usually considered a nomen dubium. The only species, D...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Dolichosuchus Dolichosuchus Dolichosuchus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Triassic. It was originally classified in the disused family Hallopodidae, but has been reclassified as a coelophysoid. A single fossil was found in Germany. Since only one bone was discovered, the genus is considered a nomen dubium...	Triassic	(unknown)	—
Dollodon Dollodon Dollodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in the Barremian and possibly the early Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe. Its remains are known from Belgium , England and possibly Germany...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Draconyx Draconyx Draconyx is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was an ornithopod which lived in what is now Portugal. It was found in Lourinhã, in 1991, and described by Octávio Mateus and Miguel Telles Antunes in 2001.-Etymology:...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Dracopelta Dracopelta Dracopelta was an ankylosaurian dinosaur from Portugal, described by Peter Galton in 1980. When Galton described the only known specimen, he referred it to the Kimmeridgian age of the locality of Ribamar...	Jurassic/Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Dromaeosauroides Dromaeosauroides Dromaeosauroides is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Denmark.In the southwest of the island of Bornholm, layers of the Early Cretaceous Jydegaard Formation surface, dating to the late Berriasian age, about 140 million years ago and consisting of marine...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Dubreuillosaurus Dubreuillosaurus Dubreuillosaurus is a genus of carnivorous dinosaur from the middle Jurassic Period. It was a megalosaurid theropod. Its fossils were found in France....	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Duriatitan Duriatitan Duriatitan is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now United Kingdom. The holotype specimen of Duriatitan, BMNH 44635, is a partial left upper arm bone which was found by R.I. Smith near Sandsfoot in the lower Kimmeridge Clay from Dorset,...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Duriavenator Duriavenator Duriavenator is a genus of theropod dinosaur described in 2008 by Roger Benson. The type species is D. hesperis, formerly known as Megalosaurus hesperis. Duriavenator lived during the Bajocian stage, around 170 million years ago, making it one of the oldest-known tetanurans. The genus name combines...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Echinodon Echinodon Echinodon meaning "hedgehog tooth" in reference to the spines on its teeth , occasionally known as Saurechinodon, is a genus of small European dinosaur of the early Cretaceous Period , 140 million years ago.-Discovery and species:The type specimen was discovered by Samuel Beckles in the Purbeck...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Efraasia Efraasia Efraasia is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It was a herbivore which lived during the middle Norian stage of the Late Triassic, around 210 million years ago, in what is now Germany...	Triassic	herbivore	—
Elopteryx Elopteryx Elopteryx is a genus of troodontid maniraptoran theropod dinosaur based on fragmentary fossils found in late Cretaceous Period rocks of Romania. These fossils date from the early-mid Maastrichtian faunal stage, c.71-68 million years ago...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Emausaurus Emausaurus Emausaurus is a genus of thyreophoran or armored dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. Its fossils have been found in Germany. It is known from a skull and partial postcranial remains, although only the skull is known well. Armor includes conical scutes and tall, spiny elements.The type species,...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Eotyrannus Eotyrannus Eotyrannus was a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur hailing from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation beds, included in Wealden Group, located in the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Erectopus Erectopus Erectopus is an allosauroid theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of France.The material comprising the type series was discovered in the late 19th century from the Phosphate-bearing beds of La Penthèive at Louppy-le-Château in eastern France, which have also produced remains of plesiosaurs,...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Eucamerotus Eucamerotus Eucamerotus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England. It is known from vertebral remains, and a partial skeleton has been referred, although this has not been accepted...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Eucercosaurus Eucercosaurus Eucercosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was an ornithopod discovered in England and first described in 1879. The type species, Eucercosaurus tanyspondylus, was described by British paleontologist Harry Seeley in 1879...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Euronychodon Euronychodon Euronychodon is the name given to a genus of coelurosaur dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, described by Miguel Telles Antunes and Denise Sigogneau-Russell in 1991. It is similar to another coelurosaur, Paronychodon....	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Europasaurus Europasaurus Europasaurus is a basal macronarian sauropod, a form of quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic of northern Germany, and has been identified as an example of insular dwarfism resulting from the isolation of a sauropod population on an island within the Lower Saxony...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Eustreptospondylus Eustreptospondylus Eustreptospondylus is a genus of megalosaurid dinosaur, from the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic period in southern England, at a time when Europe was a series of scattered islands Eustreptospondylus ("well-curved vertebra", in reference to the arrangement of the spine in the original...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Galveosaurus Galveosaurus Galveosaurus is an extinct genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous periods. Its fossils were found in Galve, Spain, hence its generic name, "Galve lizard". The specific name honours the discoverer, José María Herrero....	Jurassic/Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Genusaurus Genusaurus Genusaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in France. Scientists have estimated the length of Genusaurus to have been 3 m and its weight 50 kg...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Gigantosaurus Gigantosaurus Gigantosaurus is a poorly known sauropod dinosaur genus from England. The type species, Gigantosaurus megalonyx, was named and described by Harry Govier Seeley in 1869...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Halticosaurus Halticosaurus Halticosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic period . It was a coelophysoid found in the Middle Stubensandstein formation of what is present-day Germany...	Triassic	carnivore	—
Heptasteornis Heptasteornis Heptasteornis is the name given to a dubious genus of small dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. The type species is Heptasteornis andrewsi, described as a presumed gigantic prehistoric owl in 1975...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Histriasaurus Histriasaurus Histriasaurus was a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous . Its fossils, holotype WN V-6, were found in Croatia, and described in 1998 by Dalla Vecchia. It was a diplodocoid sauropod, related to, but more primitive than, Rebbachisaurus...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Hungarosaurus Hungarosaurus Hungarosaurus tormai is a nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Csehbánya Formation of the Bakony Mountains of western Hungary. It is presently the most completely known ankylosaur from the Cretaceous of Europe...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Hylaeosaurus Hylaeosaurus Hylaeosaurus is the most obscure of the three animals used by Sir Richard Owen to first define the new group Dinosauria, in 1842. The original specimen, recovered by Gideon Mantell from the Tilgate Forest in the south of England in 1832, now resides in the Natural History Museum of London, where...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Hypselosaurus Hypselosaurus Hypselosaurus was a long titanosaurid sauropod that lived in Europe during the Late Cretaceous Period .Hypselosaurus was scientifically described by geologist Pierre Émile Philippe Matheron in 1846 and formally named in...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Hypselospinus Hypselospinus Hypselospinus is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon by Richard Lydekker in 1889, the specific name honouring William Henry Fitton....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Hypsilophodon Hypsilophodon Hypsilophodon is an ornithopod dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous period of Europe. It was a small bipedal animal with an herbivorous or possibly omnivorous diet...	Cretaceous	herbivore/omnivore	—
Iberomesornis Iberomesornis Iberomesornis is a monotypic genus of enantiornithine bird of the Cretaceous of Spain.In 1985 the fossil of Iberomesornis was discovered by Armando Díaz Romeral in the Early Cretaceous Calizas de La Huérguina Formation at Las Hoyas, Cuenca Province, east central Spain, which dates to the late...	Cretaceus	carnivore	-
Iguanodon Iguanodon Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Iliosuchus Iliosuchus Iliosuchus is a genus of theropod dinosaur known from Bathonian–age rocks of England. It was perhaps long....	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Ischyrosaurus Ischyrosaurus "Ischyrosaurus" was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset, Cambridgeshire, England...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Iuticosaurus Iuticosaurus Iuticosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight. Iuticosaurus was a sauropod, specifically a titanosaur....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Juravenator Juravenator Juravenator is a genus of small coelurosaurian dinosaur, which lived in the area which would someday become the Jura mountains of Germany, about 151 or 152 million years ago. It is known from a single, juvenile specimen...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Koutalisaurus Koutalisaurus Koutalisaurus was a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur. It is based on a mostly complete dentary from the Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Tremp Formation near the town of Abella de la Conca, Lleida, Spain...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Kukufeldia Kukufeldia Kukufeldia is a genus of iguanodont which existed in what is now England during the Early Cretaceous period. Identified from a nearly complete right dentary found near Cuckfield and originally described in 1848 by Gideon Mantell, it was named by Andrew T. McDonald, Paul M. Barrett, and Sandra D....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Lexovisaurus Lexovisaurus Lexovisaurus was one of the first dinosaurs from mid-to-Late Jurassic Europe, 164.7 mya to be discovered. It was a stegosaur. Its fossils have been found in France and northern England....	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Liassaurus Liassaurus "Liassaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. It was a probable ceratosaur which lived in what is now Europe. The type species, "L. huenei", was coined by Welles, H.P...	Jurassic	(unknown)	—
Liliensternus Liliensternus Liliensternus was a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur from the Late Triassic period, about 205 Ma.Liliensternus was originally named in 1934 by Friedrich von Huene as a second species of Halticosaurus, H. liliensterni, the specific name honouring the German amateur paleontologist, Dr...	Triassic	carnivore	—
Lirainosaurus Lirainosaurus Lirainosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a titanosaurid sauropod which lived in what is now Spain. The type species, Lirainosaurus astibiae, was described by Sanz, Powell, Le Loeuff, Martinez, and Pereda-Suberbiola in 1999.-References:J. L. Sanz, J. E....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Lophostropheus Lophostropheus Lophostropheus was a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur from the Rhaetian-Hettangian stage border Moon-Airel Formation of Normandy, France. It is based on a partial skeleton first described in 1966 as a specimen of Halticosaurus...	Triassic/Jurassic	carnivore	—
Loricatosaurus Loricatosaurus Loricatosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from Callovian-age rocks of England and France...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Losillasaurus Losillasaurus Losillasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary in the southeast of Spain. The type species of the turiasaurian Losillasaurus giganteus was discovered in the Los Serranos basin in Valencia and formally described by Casanovas, Santafé and Sanz in 2001...	Jurassic/Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Lourinhanosaurus Lourinhanosaurus Lourinhanosaurus was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur genus that lived during the Late Jurassic Period . Its first remains were found at Peralta, near Lourinhã, Portugal in 1982, but were not described until 1998, by Portuguese paleontologist Octávio Mateus.Its type species is L...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Lourinhasaurus Lourinhasaurus Lourinhasaurus was a sauropod dinosaur genus hailing from Late Jurassic strata from two localities in Estremadura, Portugal. It was described by Dantas et al. in 1998. Its type species is L...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Lusitanosaurus Lusitanosaurus Lusitanosaurus is a genus of basal thyreophoran dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Portugal.The genus was first described by Albert-Félix de Lapparent and Georges Zbyszewski in 1957. The type species is Lusitanosaurus liasicus. The generic name is derived from Lusitania, the ancient Latin name...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Lusotitan Lusotitan Lusotitan is a genus of herbivorous brachiosaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period of Portugal.In 1947 by Manuel de Matos, collector of the Geological Survey of Portugal, fossils of a large sauropod were found in the Portuguese Lourinhã Formation dating to the Tithonian stage of the...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Macrurosaurus Macrurosaurus Macrurosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was a titanosauriform which lived in what is now Europe....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Magnosaurus Magnosaurus Magnosaurus was a genus of basal tetanuran theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England. It is based on fragmentary remains and has often been confused with or included in Megalosaurus.-History and taxonomy:...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Magyarosaurus Magyarosaurus Magyarosaurus is a genus of dwarf sauropod dinosaur from late Cretaceous Period in what is now Romania. It is one of the smallest-known adult sauropods, measuring only six meters in length. The type species is Magyarosaurus dacus...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Mantellisaurus Mantellisaurus Mantellisaurus is a genus of dinosaur formerly known as Iguanodon atherfieldensis. The new genus was erected by Gregory Paul in 2007. According to Paul, it is more lightly built than Iguanodon and more closely related to Ouranosaurus, making Iguanodon in its traditional sense paraphyletic. It is...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Megalosaurus Megalosaurus Megalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Merosaurus Merosaurus "Merosaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic ....	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Metriacanthosaurus Metriacanthosaurus Metriacanthosaurus is a genus of sinraptorid dinosaur from the upper Oxford Clay of England, dating to the mid-Jurassic Period, about 160 million years ago ....	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Miragaia Miragaia (dinosaur) Miragaia is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur. Its fossils have been found in Upper Jurassic rocks in Portugal...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Mochlodon Mochlodon Mochlodon is a genus of iguanodont dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.In 1859 coal mine administrator Pawlowitsch notified the University of Vienna that some fossils had been found in the Gute Hoffnung mine at Muthmannsdorf in Austria...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Morinosaurus Morinosaurus Morinosaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from an unnamed formation of Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic rocks from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Départment du Pas-de-Calais, France...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Neosodon Neosodon Neosodon was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Sables et Grès à Trigonia gribosa of Départment du Pas-de-Calais, France. It has never been formally given a species name, but is often seen as N. praecursor, which actually comes from a different animal...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Neovenator Neovenator Neovenator is a genus of allosauroid dinosaur. Since its discovery on the Isle of Wight, UK, it has become one of the best-known large carnivorous dinosaurs in Europe. Neovenator was at first considered possibly a new species of Megalosaurus. It measured approximately 7.5 meters in length,...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Newtonsaurus Newtonsaurus "Newtonsaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Late Triassic. It was probably a ceratosaur, which lived in what is now the United Kingdom. The type species is "N...	Triassic	carnivore	—
Nuthetes Nuthetes Nuthetes is the name given to a dubious, possibly dromaeosaurid, genus of theropod dinosaur, known only from fossil teeth and jaw fragments found in rocks of the middle Berriasian age in the Cherty Freshwater Member of the Lulworth Formation in England...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Ohmdenosaurus Ohmdenosaurus Ohmdenosaurus is the name given to a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. It was a very small perhaps vulcanodontid sauropod which lived in Germany...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Oplosaurus Oplosaurus Oplosaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Ornithodesmus Ornithodesmus Ornithodesmus is a genus of small, deinonychosaurian dinosaur from the Isle of Wight in England, dating to about 125 million years ago. The name was originally assigned to a bird-like sacrum , initially believed to come from a pterosaur...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Ornithopsis Ornithopsis Ornithopsis was a medium-sized Early Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur, from England. It has been considered a synonym of the wastebasket taxon Pelorosaurus, but recent research suggests that this is not as clear-cut as supposed...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Orthomerus Orthomerus Orthomerus is a genus of duckbill dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of The Netherlands, Belgium and possibly Ukraine. It is today an obscure genus, but in the past was conflated with the much better known Telmatosaurus....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Owenodon Owenodon Owenodon is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur known from a partial lower jaw discovered in Early Cretaceous-age rocks of Durlston Bay, Dorset, United Kingdom. The specimen, NHM R2998, comes from the Purbeck Limestone, dating to the middle Berriasian stage...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Paludititan Paludititan Paludititan is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur which existed in what is now Haţeg Basin, Romania during the late Cretaceous period. The type species is Paludititan nalatzensis, after its finding place Nǎlaţ-Vad. The type species was determined and described by Zoltán Csiki, Vlad Codrea, Cǎtǎlin...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Pantydraco Pantydraco Pantydraco was a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of United Kingdom...	Triassic	herbivore	—
Pararhabdodon Pararhabdodon Pararhabdodon was a genus of derived hadrosauroid or basal hadrosaurid dinosaur, from the Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Tremp Formation of Spain...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Pelecanimimus Pelecanimimus Pelecanimimus is a genus of basal ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Pelorosaurus Pelorosaurus Pelorosaurus was a huge plant-eating dinosaur. Pelorosaurus was one of the first sauropod dinosaurs ever discovered. Pelorosaurus lived during the Early Cretaceous period, about 138-112 million years ago. Fossils referred to Pelorosaurus have been found in England and Portugal...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Phyllodon Phyllodon Phyllodon was a genus of small ornithopod dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic Guimarota Formation of Leiria, Portugal. It may have been closely related to contemporaneous dinosaurs in North America....	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Piveteausaurus Piveteausaurus Piveteausaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur known from a partial skull discovered in the Middle Jurassic Marnes de Dives formation of Calvados, in northern France.-History and description:...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Proplanicoxa Proplanicoxa Proplanicoxa is a genus of iguanodont which existed in what is now England during the Early Cretaceous period ....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Plateosaurus Plateosaurus Plateosaurus is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 216 to 199 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe. Plateosaurus is a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod"...	Triassic	herbivore	—
Pneumatoraptor Pneumatoraptor Pneumatoraptor is a genus of small, paravian dinosaur that lived in Hungary. It is known from a single complete left shoulder girdle found in the Csehbánya Formation of the Iharkút locality in the Bakony Mountains of western Hungary...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Poekilopleuron Poekilopleuron Poekilopleuron is an extinct genus of large basal tetanuran theropod dinosaur, perhaps belonging to the clade Allosauroidea. It measured 9 metres long and 1 ton in mass...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Polacanthus Polacanthus Polacanthus, deriving its name from the Ancient Greek poly-/πολυ- "many" and acantha/ακανθα "thorn" or "prickle", was an early armored, spiked, plant-eating ankylosaur from the early Cretaceous period. Early depictions often gave it a very vague head as it was only known from the rear half of the...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Ponerosteus Ponerosteus Ponerosteus is a dubious genus of archosaur which was first identified as "Iguanodon exogirarum" by Antonin Fritsch in 1878 for a specimen from the Cenomanian . He later renamed it Procerosaurus, unaware that this name was already in use...	Cretaceous	(unknown)	—
Priodontognathus Priodontognathus Priodontognathus was a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur possibly from the Oxfordian-age Upper Jurassic Lower Calcareous Grit of Yorkshire, England...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Proceratosaurus Proceratosaurus Proceratosaurus is a genus of small-sized carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England. It was originally thought to be an ancestor of Ceratosaurus, due to the similar small crest on its snout...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Procompsognathus Procompsognathus Procompsognathus is a genus of small theropod dinosaur that lived during the late Triassic period , about 210 million years ago. Procompsognathus was named by Eberhard Fraas in 1913. He named the type species, P...	Triassic	carnivore	—
Pterospondylus Pterospondylus Pterospondylus is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic. It was a coelophysoid theropod which lived in what is now Germany . The type species, Pterospondylus trielbae, was described by Jaekel in 1913-14 for a single back vertebra...	Triassic	carnivore	—
Pyroraptor Pyroraptor Pyroraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of France. It is known from a single specimen. It was found in 1992 in the south of France, in Provence, and is known only from a few bones. It was named Pyroraptor olympius by Allain and Taquet in 2000. The name means...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Rachitrema Rachitrema Rachitrema is a poorly-known genus of prehistoric reptile from the Triassic of France. Its remains were found in France by two independent collectors, towards the end of the nineteenth century. They were only isolated bone fragments....	Triassic	(unknown)	May not be a dinosaur, see article
Regnosaurus Regnosaurus Regnosaurus is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period in what is now England.-Discovery and species:...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Rhabdodon Rhabdodon Rhabdodon is a genus of dinosaur that lived in Europe approximately 70 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. It is unclear whether it was an iguanodont or a hypsilophodont, and may be a "missing link" between the two. Current evidence indicates it is an iguanodont similar to Tenontosaurus...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Ruehleia Ruehleia Ruehleia is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic period of Germany. The type species is R. bedheimensis, described by Galton in 2001, and is named for the German paleontologist Hugo Ruehle von Lilienstern...	Triassic	herbivore	—
Rutellum Rutellum Rutellum is the pre-Linnaean name given to a dinosaur specimen from the Middle Jurassic. It was a sauropod, possibly a cetiosaurid, which lived in what is now England. The specimen, called Rutellum implicatum, was described in 1699 by Edward Lhuyd, and is notable as the earliest named entity that...	Jurassic	herbivore	Nomen oblitum Nomen oblitum A nomen oblitum is a technical term, used in zoological nomenclature, for a particular kind of disused scientific name....
Saltriosaurus Saltriosaurus Saltriosaurus is the informal name for a theropod dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic period. It was found in 1996, when Angelo Zanella discovered its remains in a quarry in Saltrio, in northern Italy. Very little is known about the dinosaur...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Sarcolestes Sarcolestes Sarcolestes is a genus of early ankylosaurian dinosaur from Middle Jurassic England, Callovian, around 163 million years ago. The type species, Sarcolestes leedsi, was described by Richard Lydekker in 1893, but is based on very fragmentary material, holotype BMNH R2682, consisting of a single left...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Sarcosaurus Sarcosaurus Sarcosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur, either a coelophysoid or a basal ceratosaur, roughly 3.5 meters long. It lived during the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic, about 194 million years ago....	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Scelidosaurus Scelidosaurus Scelidosaurus is a genus of quadrupedal, lightly plated, herbivorous dinosaur about long. It lived during the Early Jurassic Period, during the Hettangian to Sinemurian stages around 199.6 to 194 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in both England and in Arizona, in the United...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Scipionyx Scipionyx Scipionyx is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Italy, around 113 million years ago. There has been only one skeleton discovered, which is notable for the preservation of soft tissue and internal organs. It is the fossil of a juvenile only half a metre long...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Sellacoxa Sellacoxa Sellacoxa is a genus of iguanodont which existed in what is now England during the Early Cretaceous period ....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Sellosaurus	Triassic	herbivore	—
Stegosaurus Stegosaurus Stegosaurus is a genus of armored stegosaurid dinosaur. They lived during the Late Jurassic period , some 155 to 150 million years ago in what is now western North America. In 2006, a specimen of Stegosaurus was announced from Portugal, showing that they were present in Europe as well...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Stenopelix Stenopelix Stenopelix is a genus of small ornithischian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Germany. It was perhaps a basal ceratopsian from the Barremian Stage of the Cretaceous period, sometime between 130 and 125 million years ago...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Stokesosaurus Stokesosaurus Stokesosaurus is a genus of small , early tyrannosaur from the Late Jurassic period of Utah and England. It was named after Utah geologist William Lee Stokes...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Streptospondylus Streptospondylus Streptospondylus is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur known from the Middle Jurassic period of France, 161 million years ago. It was a medium-sized predator.-Discovery and naming:...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Struthiosaurus Struthiosaurus Struthiosaurus is one of the smallest known and most basal genera of nodosaurid dinosaurs, from the Late Cretaceous period of Austria, Romania and France in Europe. It was protected by body armour...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Suchosaurus Suchosaurus Suchosaurus is as a spinosaurid theropod dinosaur from Cretaceous England, originally believed to be a genus of crocodile. The type material consists of teeth. Two species, S. cultridens and S. girardi have been named, though the S. girardi material was reclassified by Buffetaut as Baryonyx...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Tarascosaurus Tarascosaurus Tarascosaurus is a genus of, perhaps abelisaurid, theropod dinosaur from Late Cretaceous of France.After having in 1988 identified an upper jaw bone found near Pourcieux as belonging to a member of the Abelisauridae, French paleontologist Eric Buffetaut reviewed the known remains of larger...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Tastavinsaurus Tastavinsaurus Tastavinsaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur belonging to the Titanosauriformes. It is based on a partial skeleton from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. The type species is Tastavinsaurus sanzi, named in honor of the Rio Tastavins in Spain and Spanish paleontologist Jose Luis Sanz....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Taveirosaurus Taveirosaurus Taveirosaurus is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur that lived in Europe during the Late Cretaceous. The genus is based solely on teeth....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Teinurosaurus Teinurosaurus Teinurosaurus is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur. Teinurosaurus lived during the Late Jurassic in what is now Portugal. Only a single caudal vertebra has ever been discovered, and the genus is usually considered a nomen dubium...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Telmatosaurus Telmatosaurus Telmatosaurus is a genus of basal hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a relatively small hadrosaur, approximately five meters long, found in what is now Romania....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Tethyshadros Tethyshadros Tethyshadros is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from Italy.The genus was named and described by Italian paleontologist Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia in 2009. Its only and type species is Tethyshadros insularis. The genus name refers to the Tethys Ocean and the Hadrosauroidea...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Thecocoelurus Thecocoelurus Thecocoelurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous period of England.Thecocoelurus is known only from half of a single cervical vertebra, discovered by the Rev. William Darwin Fox on the Isle of Wight during the 19th century. After his death the Fox Collection was acquired by...	Cretaceous	(unknown)	—
Thecodontosaurus Thecodontosaurus Thecodontosaurus is a genus of herbivorous basal sauropodomorph dinosaur which lived during the late Triassic period ....	Triassic	herbivore	—
Thecospondylus Thecospondylus Thecospondylus is a dubious genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of EnglandDr. A.C. Horner, an amateur geologist living at Tonbridge, in the nineteenth century acquired a fossil found in the quarry of Southborough...	Cretaceous	(unknown)	—
Torvosaurus Torvosaurus Torvosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic period...	Jurassic	carnivore	—
Trimucrodon Trimucrodon Trimucrodon is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous of what is now Portugal...	Jurassic	herbivore	—
Turiasaurus Turiasaurus Turiasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary...	Jurassic/Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Valdoraptor Valdoraptor Valdoraptor is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in England. It is known only from bones of the feet....	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Valdosaurus Valdosaurus Valdosaurus is a genus of bipedal herbivorous iguanodont ornithopod dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight and elsewhere in England. It lived during the Early Cretaceous.-Discovery and naming:...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Variraptor Variraptor Variraptor is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of France.Between 1992 and 1995 amateur paleontologists Patrick Méchin and Annie Méchin-Salessy uncovered the remains of a small theropod in the Grès à Reptiles Formation at La Bastide Neuve, near Fox-Amphoux...	Cretaceous	carnivore	—
Velocipes Velocipes Velocipes is a possible theropod dinosaur genus from the Late Triassic. Its fossils were found in Poland. It is not well known: in fact, the fossils are so poorly preserved that identification remains unclear. The type species, V. guerichi, was first described by von Huene in 1932...	Triassic	(unknown)	May not be a dinosaur, see article
Xenoposeidon Xenoposeidon Xenoposeidon is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of England, living about 140 million years ago. It is known from a single partial vertebra with unusual features, unlike those of other sauropods...	Cretaceous	herbivore	—
Yaverlandia Yaverlandia Yaverlandia is a genus of theropod dinosaur. Known from a partial fossil skull found in Lower Cretaceous strata on the Isle of Wight, it was described as the earliest known member of the pachycephalosaurid family, but recent research by Darren Naish shows it to have actually been a theropod,...	Cretaceous	(unknown)	—
Zalmoxes Zalmoxes Zalmoxes is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now Romania. It is classified as a rhabdodontid iguanodont....	Cretaceous	herbivore	—

Key

Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...

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Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...

Timeline

This is a timeline of selected dinosaurs from the list above. Time is measured in Ma, megaannum, along the x-axis.

Criteria for inclusion

• The creature must appear on the List of dinosaurs.
• Fossils of the creature must have been found in Europe
  Europe
  Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
  
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• This list is a complement to :Category:Dinosaurs of Europe.

See also

:Category: Cretaceous paleontological sites of Europe