Easy(-ish) Paleontology Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Dinosauria's posterboy
  2. 4. Second smallest unit of geologic time
  3. 8. Long-legged sea-dweller that's been crawling since the Cambrian
  4. 12. Four-legged ambler
  5. 15. Largest ever land animal
  6. 17. Time period of an arachnophobe's nightmares
  7. 20. Worst of the worst extinction events
  8. 22. Orange stone that may contain a mosquito
  9. 25. Modern dinosaur with a mesozoic fashion sense
  10. 27. Dinosaur (in)famously ill-depicted in Jurassic Park
  11. 29. Supercontinent of the Triassic period
  12. 30. Snack for a Triceratops, maybe
Down
  1. 1. Home for a baby dinosaur
  2. 2. Non-dinosaur named after a wind god
  3. 5. Aerial cousin of dinosaurs
  4. 6. Killing ____: sickle-shaped weapon of choice for a raptor
  5. 7. Commonly fossilized invertebrate with a spiral shell
  6. 9. Unfortunately extinct dinosaur with a particularly rotund frame
  7. 10. Early flowers
  8. 11. Scuttling arthropod with a 270 million year lease on life
  9. 13. Dinosaur with an in-built trombone
  10. 14. Largest living dinosaur
  11. 16. Flat-leaved tree genus alive since the Jurassic
  12. 18. Period in which Stegosaurus lived
  13. 19. Very, very old group of squishy sea-dwellers
  14. 21. Sharp-thumbed dinosaur with a lizard namesake
  15. 23. "Good mother lizard"
  16. 24. Shape of Spinosaurus' tail
  17. 26. ___ pit: graveyard for a great many mammals
  18. 28. Fuzzy feature of many a theropod