Dinosaurs

Paleontologists

-Richard owen was born July 20, 1804,

Lancaster, Lancashire, England.died December.

18, 1892, London), British anatomist

and paleontologist who is remembered

for his contributions. He didn't find the

fossils he studies the fossils.

-Mary Anning she

discovered dinosaurs her first

bone she found a tail bone of a

theropod 

-Joan wiffin she found a

hypsilophodon bone, titanosaur

Fossils

• The molde makes dinosaurs
• form their shape.

Age of dinosaurs

• Triassic The Triassic is a was the first period 

• Jurassic after the dinosaurs died
• out 65 million years later humans
• started appearing.

What were dinosaurs like 

• 2 feet (bipedal)
• 4 feet (quadruped)
• 4 types/groups (  Theropod
• Dinosaurs Coelophysoids. 
• Abelisaurs and Ceratosaurus.
• Megalosaurus. Carnosaurs.Coelurosaurs.
• Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs
• .Prosauropods Sauropods. Vulcanodon. Ceratosaurus.
• Mamenchisaurus.
• 3 Ornithischians. Ceratopsia.
• 'Iguanodontids. Ornithopods.)

• avian(birds) /non-avian(Dinosaurs
• that are not birds)
• legs/skulls holes - reptiles (reptiles are
• tetrapod animals in the class reptiles,
• comprising today’s
• turtles, crocodilians, snakes,
• amphisbaenians, lizards,
• tuatara, and their extinct relatives.)
• Modifications ( changes)
• Carnivore,omnivore,herbivore
• (meat eaters,plant eaters,meat
• and plant eaters.)
• Lay eggs lives in families (clade)
• (they lay a lot of eggs)
• Size ( some are big and some are small)
• Slow/Fast ( some dinosaurs are
• fast at running and catching prey
• and some are slow.)
• Warm blooded
• (blood stays the same)

Extinction Event

• Meteorite / ice age? It is
• on the movie it is an asteroid
• When? 

Age of mammals 

• Hominids ( they look like a half
• manky and half human  )

• Humans (dinosaurs were still on this
• planet, there were no humans here when they were here.)

• Other mammals (Dog,Otter,Human,bat.)

Brainstorm and plan. 

Joan Wiffen

Structure	Topic	Words and ideas to use
Introduction
Paragraph 2	Early life	Born in ??  Lived where??Married to…?? KIds??What was her job??  First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	First in NZ. 1975. Mangahouanga Stream in Hawke’s Bay. dinosaur tailbone from a theropod.  From six different species. Joan and family and friends.  Fossils were in rocks, used some special tools to split the rocks open, carried it to her car.
Paragraph 4	Changing ideas about fossils	An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980.  Other people started looking for fossils and found some - page 24.
Paragraph 5	Later life	Honorary doctorate in 1994.  Died in ??  She is remembered - her fossils are kept safe . Some are at the University of Auckland, some are at National Paleontological collections at GNS Science in Lower hutt. The first one she found is on display at Te Papa.
Conclusion	Her work	Joan work was important to her.

30 june 2009 (age 87)                                 she was part of world war two

Fossil hunter                                                 The Havelock North 87-year-old, who was 

NZ/Hawkes Bay

4 February 1922

pont wiffen and they had two kids

Jona wiffen passed away in 2009 (age 87) passed

away in Hawkes

Bay and she was born in 4 February 1922.

She was part of world war two, she had two kids and her husband

is named pont wiffen.

She found in the first fossil in NZ it was a theropod tail

bone 50mm, theropod foot 97mm, pterosaur wing 102mm,

and sauropod tail 130mm.

In 19,Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil in new

zealand (a small piece of a dinosaurs tailbone.)

Joan wiffen wanted to be a paleontologist but she only

discovered them  but when she grew up she was a paleontologist.

In 1980 a Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar

confirmed that it was a dinosaur bone. Other people

started searching for fossil and a man called Dr Greg

Browne and he found a Dinosaur footprint in Nelson

another man named Jeffery Stilwell found  Several dinosaur

bones in the Chatham Islands and another named Brendan Hayes

found a very small finger bone of a theropod dinosaur in the South

of Port Waikato.

Brainstorm and plan. 

Joan Wiffen

Structure	Topic	Words and ideas to use
Introduction
Paragraph 2	Early life	Born in ??  Lived where??Married to…?? KIds??What was her job??  First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	First in NZ. 1975. Mangahouanga Stream in Hawke’s Bay. dinosaur tailbone from a theropod.  From six different species. Joan and family and friends.  Fossils were in rocks, used some special tools to split the rocks open, carried it to her car.
Paragraph 4	Changing ideas about fossils	An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980.  Other people started looking for fossils and found some - page 24.
Paragraph 5	Later life	Honorary doctorate in 1994.  Died in ??  She is remembered - her fossils are kept safe. Some are at the University of Auckland, some are at National Paleontological collections at GNS Science in Lower hutt. The first one she found is on display at Te Papa.
Conclusion	Her work	Joan work was important to her.

30 june 2009 (age 87)                                 she was part of world war two

Fossil hunter                                                 The Havelock North 87-year-old, who was 

NZ/Hawkes Bay

4 February 1922

pont wiffen and they had two kids

Jona wiffen passed away in 2009 (age 87) passed away in Hawkes

Bay and she was born in 4 February 1922.

She was part of world war two, she had two kids and her husband

is named pont wiffen.

She found in the first fossil in NZ it was a theropod tail

bone 50mm, theropod foot 97mm, pterosaur wing 102mm,

and sauropod tail 130mm.

In 19,Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil in new

zealand (a small piece of a dinosaurs tailbone.)

Joan wiffen wanted to be a paleontologist but she only

discovered them  but when she grew up she was a paleontologist.

In 1980 a Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar

confirmed that it was a dinosaur bone. Other people

started searching for fossil and a man called Dr Greg

Browne and he found a Dinosaur footprint in Nelson

another man named Jeffery Stilwell found  Several dinosaur

bones in the Chatham Islands and another named Brendan Hayes

found a very small finger bone of a theropod dinosaur in the South

of Port Waikato.

dinosaurs

Room 7

Dinosaur knowledge

Prior Knowledge	In 2 weeks, we learnt that...
Animal Predator Dino is the root word ‘Saurs’ means something Species  Extinct  Huge Large bones Long necks Eggs  Sharp teeth Long tails Eat people Different kinds Spikes Horns Mammals 4 legs	Bipedal means 2 feet and quadruped means 4 feet. Some dinosaurs are bipedal and some are quadrupeds. Some can change between the two stances. They are sturdy. Theropod is a 3 clawed dinosaurs Dinosaurs are warm-blooded, which means their blood temperature is always the same Carnivore means a meat eater Herbivore means a plant eater Omnivore means it can eat plants and meat Some dinosaurs are huge and some are small. Typically, huge dinosaurs were sluggish (slow).  Dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. They started existed 230 million years.  They died because of an extinction event, most people think this was because a meteor hit the Earth.  Dinosaurs legs go out the bottom of their hip bones, whereas reptiles bones go to the side of their hips. Reptiles do not have an extra hole in their skull, but dinosaurs do.  Mary Anning found lots of fossils on a cliffside in England in the 19th century. She was born in 1799 and died in 1847. She survived a lightning strike as a baby. In 1824 she found the first fossil.	Non-avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs that are not birds. Avian means birds. Metabolism means how fast or slow your body converts food into energy Diverse means a big range Modifications means changes. Dinosaurs have modifications such as spikes, armour, horns or crests.  Clade means family. Lineage means ancestors/descendants  Paleontologists are scientists that study ancient things including dinosaurs There are 4 main groups of dinosaurs; theropods, sauropods, ankylosaurus and pterosaurs. Titanoboa was top of the food chain after the dinosaurs died. It killed people by constricting people. It spent most of its time in the water because it was super heavy. It was 13m long, as big as a bus.  Hominins existed when 7-6 million years ago, the first humans to walk on 2 feet.  People did not exist when dinosaurs existed.	Adaptation is something that changes over time.  Ecology - how animals relate to each other Fossils are made when dinosaurs die and their bones get trapped in rock or mud. The bones break down over time but leave a mould, which is filled with rock. This becomes the fossil.  Dinosaurs sometimes eat each other.  There were 3 periods of time that have dinosaurs. This is called the ‘age of dinosaurs’ also known as the ‘Mesozoic Era’; Triassic period, Jurassic period, and Cretasous period.  Then there were 3 more periods in time, “Age of mammals”, also known as ‘Cenozoic Era’; Paleogene Period, Neogene period and  Quaternary period. Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil (a theropods tailbone) in NZ in 1975, in Hawkes Bay. She died in 2009.  Dinosaurs laid eggs and they lived in family groups.