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Dinosaurs in Texas

People have discovered the fossils of 21 different dinosaurs in Texas! These dinosaurs fall into three groups or "batches" in terms of the geological time.

Batch 1

1 Coelophysis
2 Technosaurus
3 Shuvosaurus

Age: Upper Triassic, about 225 - 220 million years ago

Location: Texas Panhandle

Batch 2

4 Acrocanthosaurus
5 Pleurocoelus
6 Tenontosaurus
7 Iguanodon
8 Deinonychus
* Proctor Lake hypsilophodont
* Pawpawsaurus
* Protohadros

Age: Early Cretaceous, about 119 - 95 million years ago

Location: Central Texas

Batch 3

  9 Alamosaurus
10 Tyrannosaurus
11 Chasmosaurus
12 Torosaurus
13 Edmontosaurus
14 Kitrosaurus
15 Ornithomimus
16 Stegocerus
17 Panoplosaurus
  * Euoplocephalus

Age: Upper Cretaceous, about 75 - 65 million years ago

Location: Big Bend Region

* These dinosaurs were found after 1995 and are not in this drawing. No one knows what colors dinosaurs were. This picture is just a guess!