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www.DinoChecker.com
Welcome to Dinochecker.com
The worlds of science and palaeontology have changed a lot since Megalosaurus—the first named dinosaur, circa 1824—but two things remain the same; general interest in creatures of pre-history and mind-bending paleo-speak that will make a mere mortal's nose bleed. Seriously.
This is a "relative ventral offset of premaxillary occlusal margin" freezone - we'll leave that to the science "boys club" and their techy blogs, and have opted instead for a guide to dinosaurs and other extinct creatures from all countries and times in somethng resembling Queens English... apart from the bad punctuation and sepelling miskates.
Each entry includes pronunciation guide, previous names, and essentials including place of discovery, dimensions and family tree, all free of charge. Want to know which dinosaurs lived near you? No problem. Dyno-saur technology allows viewage of entries by country too, and alphabetically, by type, diet, period in time, most popular, nastiest, biggest and smallest.
Paleontologists knack of unearthing a new dinosaur every month has ensured this site is a never ending project so if you want to chip-in, feel free. Reportage of glaring errors, broken links, unacceptable ommisions, and bad grammer are encouraged and more than welcome, and if you have an idea you feel will improve the site, please, drop us a line. We're only an email away.
Note: This site doesn't contain pop-ups, pop-unders, pop overs or pop tarts. Nor does it contain annoying flashing banners (we can't all be visitor 9,999,999, right?). However, each page does contain one single, unobtrusive ad box which may genuinely be of interest. Please consider disabling your ad-blocker whilst you peruse.
All Dino's are GM free and no herbivores were eaten during site construction!
21st October 2009.
The story so far...
We intend to have a 'page' with details of every currently valid dinosaur (plus the non-valid ones if they have a story to tell) and so far i have hit the 200 mark. True to the 'dinochecker' tag, you can check vital stats of all of these dinos (dimensions, place of discovery etc...) in bullet-point, but will be building pages in layers like a delicious Neapolitan parfait... or stinking Spanish onion!
A full text entry will be added to each entry shortly, plus images whenever i can get my grubby mitts on them.
About images...
If you are a paleo-artist and would be interested in donating your images (for use in thumbnails) in a 'you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours' kind of way, drop me a line, and i will happily link all images back to your website.
The Faq
... is just bare bones at the moment (with the odd sinew and tendon!) and plans are afoot for a 'Good Paleontologist Guide'. Stay tuned...
26th April 2011.
Added an option to search for dinosaurs by year of description, plus a dyno-base driven A-Z list so every dinosaur can be accessed from every page. Quick and clean.
Hit the 250 mark for entries, unfortunately the job that pays the bills is taking up most of my time at the moment, but hang in there. Soon this site will be, like, totally mind-blowing. Hey! Stop laughing! :-)
“The most inclusive site containing Triceratops horridus and Saltasaurus loricatus but not Passer domesticus”.
Most Viewed Dinosaurs
A guide to the critters from pre-historic times.
1 OVIRAPTOR (1909)
2 ABELISAURUS (1830)
3 SALTOPUS (1673)
4 ACHILLOBATOR (1579)
5 BARYONYX (1476)
6 ACHELOUSAURUS (1407)
7 CETIOSAURUS (1344)
8 ARCHAEOPTERYX (1336)
9 SAUROPHAGANAX (1323)
10 MINMI (1295)
Powered by Dyno-Saur Technology2 ABELISAURUS (1830)
3 SALTOPUS (1673)
4 ACHILLOBATOR (1579)
5 BARYONYX (1476)
6 ACHELOUSAURUS (1407)
7 CETIOSAURUS (1344)
8 ARCHAEOPTERYX (1336)
9 SAUROPHAGANAX (1323)
10 MINMI (1295)
The worlds of science and palaeontology have changed a lot since Megalosaurus—the first named dinosaur, circa 1824—but two things remain the same; general interest in creatures of pre-history and mind-bending paleo-speak that will make a mere mortal's nose bleed. Seriously.
This is a "relative ventral offset of premaxillary occlusal margin" freezone - we'll leave that to the science "boys club" and their techy blogs, and have opted instead for a guide to dinosaurs and other extinct creatures from all countries and times in somethng resembling Queens English... apart from the bad punctuation and sepelling miskates.
Each entry includes pronunciation guide, previous names, and essentials including place of discovery, dimensions and family tree, all free of charge. Want to know which dinosaurs lived near you? No problem. Dyno-saur technology allows viewage of entries by country too, and alphabetically, by type, diet, period in time, most popular, nastiest, biggest and smallest.
Paleontologists knack of unearthing a new dinosaur every month has ensured this site is a never ending project so if you want to chip-in, feel free. Reportage of glaring errors, broken links, unacceptable ommisions, and bad grammer are encouraged and more than welcome, and if you have an idea you feel will improve the site, please, drop us a line. We're only an email away.
Note: This site doesn't contain pop-ups, pop-unders, pop overs or pop tarts. Nor does it contain annoying flashing banners (we can't all be visitor 9,999,999, right?). However, each page does contain one single, unobtrusive ad box which may genuinely be of interest. Please consider disabling your ad-blocker whilst you peruse.
All Dino's are GM free and no herbivores were eaten during site construction!
21st October 2009.
The story so far...
We intend to have a 'page' with details of every currently valid dinosaur (plus the non-valid ones if they have a story to tell) and so far i have hit the 200 mark. True to the 'dinochecker' tag, you can check vital stats of all of these dinos (dimensions, place of discovery etc...) in bullet-point, but will be building pages in layers like a delicious Neapolitan parfait... or stinking Spanish onion!
A full text entry will be added to each entry shortly, plus images whenever i can get my grubby mitts on them.
About images...
If you are a paleo-artist and would be interested in donating your images (for use in thumbnails) in a 'you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours' kind of way, drop me a line, and i will happily link all images back to your website.
The Faq
... is just bare bones at the moment (with the odd sinew and tendon!) and plans are afoot for a 'Good Paleontologist Guide'. Stay tuned...
26th April 2011.
Added an option to search for dinosaurs by year of description, plus a dyno-base driven A-Z list so every dinosaur can be accessed from every page. Quick and clean.
Hit the 250 mark for entries, unfortunately the job that pays the bills is taking up most of my time at the moment, but hang in there. Soon this site will be, like, totally mind-blowing. Hey! Stop laughing! :-)