3/18/2002

Dinosaurs

First Grade

Dimetrodon

Lived before the dinosaurs

Had a sail on its back

Was a meat eater

Meat eater

May have had feathers

Walked on two legs

4 feet tall

Syntarsus

Apatosaurus

Plant eater

Long neck and tail

Longer back legs than front legs

Was called brontosaurus

Stegosaurus

Plant eater

Had plates on its back and 4 spikes on its tail

Walked on four legs, low to the ground

Nut sized brain

Brachiosaurus

Plant eater

Longer front legs than back legs.

Long neck and tail

Nostrils on top of its head

Diplodocus

Plant eater

Very long neck and tail

Pads on its feet like an elephant

Allosaurus

Meat eater

Walked on two legs

Short front legs with three claws

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Meat eater

Walked on two legs

Big head with long, sharp teeth

Very small front legs with 2 claws

Triceratops

Plant eater

Three horns on its head

Frill of bone on its neck

Plant eater

Walked on four feet

Bony ball on its tail

Bumps of bone on its body

Ankylosaurus

Pteranodon

Flying reptile

Fish eater

Wings made of skin stretched over bones

25 foot wing span

Pachycephalosaurus

Plant eater

Thick skull with bumps of bone

Walked on two feet

Trachodon

Plant eater

Duck billed mouth

Over 1000 teeth

Walked on two or four feet

Fossils

Fossils tell scientists about animals and plants that lived long ago.

• This fossil would tell what this dinosaur ate. What did this dinosaur eat?

•Meat!

•He walked on two feet and was fast!

•This fossil tells how this dinosaur moved. How did it move?

This fossil would tell you what this dinosaur looked like. What dinosaur is it?

It’s a stegosaurus!

This is a fossil of an ocean animal .

What kind of fossils are these? Animal or plant?

Plant!

The end!