General Paleontology

3. Man who coined the term “dinosaur”.
7. Common vascular plants that evolved in the Silurian.
13. Shrimp-like apex predator.
16. Primitive plants from the Silurian about a few centimeters in length.
17. The epoch following the Oligocene, when the earth started warming.
18. Widespread Paleozoic arthropods that filled many ecological niches.
20. The time period when dinosaurs evolved.
21. Fossil collector who discovered bones of various Jurassic reptiles.
22. Iconic synapsid with neural spines on its back.
24. Rocks that became a cast of dead animal matter.
26. A period in the 19th century when paleontologists Marsh and Cope tried to discover the most species.
27. A taxon that appears after an absence from the fossil record is referred to as a __ taxon.
28. A species of giant shark that is decidedly extinct.
29. An ancestor of the modern red panda found throughout Eurasia.
30. Ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus whose name means “crown dragon”.
31. Skin impressions revealed that Borealopelta was primarily this color.

1. A fossil formation in the United States containing a diverse array of Jurassic dinosaurs.
2. A fossil formation in Morocco that used to be a wetland.
4. Heaviest theropod to ever live.
5. Dog sized theropod featured in “Jurassic Park”.
6. Fossilized fecal matter.
8. Famous Jurassic herbivore with distinctive plates and thagomizer.
9. A formation in Peru holding an abundance of marine animal fossils, including penguins.
10. Paleontologist famous for discovering T. rex.
11. The last period of the Paleozoic.
12. A fossil site in New Mexico where countless Coelophysis fossils have been found.
13. Possibly the largest dinosaur and longest vertebrate to ever live, named for its country of discovery.
14. Large, hairy relatives of the elephant. The last one died well after the Great Pyramid was built.
15. Ancient cephalopods with a distinctive spiral shell.
19. First dinosaur described and second named.
23. A small, four-winged dromeosaur that partly made up a chimera specimen that shared its name.
25. The genus better known as the “saber tooth” cats.