Dinosauria
unranked clade · (Owen 1842) · accepted · extant
11,131 descendant taxa · 37,818 fossil sites · 1,810 formations · 169 countries
Lived when
Not recorded
251.902–0 million years ago
Found where
169 countries
1,810 rock formations
Fossil record
37,818 sites
2,664 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 252 million years, from 251.902 to 0 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 0 million years old — that is roughly 0 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Dinosauria was named in 1842 ((Owen 1842)) — 184 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 169 countries and 1,810 named rock formations.
- 2,664 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 11,131 named taxa, including 6,024 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).