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donthelegofan · 4 years

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Top 10 Dinosaur Names That Are HARD And Even IMPOSSILBLE(!!!) To Pronounce!

10. Adratiklit

This Middle Jurassic dinosaur was a member of the Stegosaurus family and it was found in Marocco. Weird name btw...

9. Teratophoneus

This underrated predatory Late Cretaceous dinosaur was a member of the Tyrannosaurus family. There are 2 skeletons found in Utah But its name, yeah. I can’t almost pronounce, to be honest.

8. Ekrixinatosaurus

This beast was a member of the Abelisaurus family, also family of the Carnotaurus, the big horned meat-eating dinosaur you also saw in Fallen Kingdom. Its fossils were found in Patagonia, somewhere in South America. Its not very famous, and the name, seriously. It's already hard to write, so never mind pronouncing!

7. Xinjiangtitan

This was from a family of the more peaceful herbivorous dinosaurs: the sauropods (huge long-necked leaf-eating dinosaurs). It lived in the Late Jurassic in, the name already says it, Xinjiang, somewhere in China. Because of its hard-to-pronounce name it deserves a place on my list.

6. Archaeopteryx

Yes, one of the more famous guys on the list. This was actually not a dinosaur and more like an early bird, but come on, this one needs to be ranked on the list. It lived in Germany, where they found the famous fossil too. It also had the actual length of an average bird. Its name is harder than the other names to pronounce, that’s why it’s ranked some higher on my list.

5. Vallibonavenatrix

This dude was a Spinosaurus family member, although it didn’t have a back sail, like the Spino did. It lived in the Early Cretaceous in Spain. He ate fish mostly, but if he was hungry for meat, he just ate a slow herbivore like the Iguanodon. His name is really hard to pronounce, but it still doesn’t get the first place. Fun fact: his fossil was found very recently (in 2019), so it’s a new species.

4. Luanchuanraptor

If you think you know every single raptor, here’s a new species. This raptor lived in China, to be specific, in Luanchuan, of course. That why they gave it this name. Maybe you guys think: oh wow @donthelegofan, this is not hard to pronounce, well, if it isn’t, try it once! I tried too. This deserves number 4 guys, come on.

3. Huehuecanauhtlus

Okay, so now we came in the Top 3 of this list with number 3: the Huehuecanauhtlus. This dinosaur was a hadrosaurus, just like the Edmontosaurus and the Parasaurolophus. He lived, just like all the other hadrosauruses in the Late Cretaceous, and was a herbivore, of course. This name is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hard, I swear. But nope, still not the hardest out of the bunch. Lets go, to place two!

2. Bistahieversor

Okay, this guy was also a Tyrannosaurus relative, in the Late Cretaceous too. The name, oh my gosh, that’s way too much for me.

1. Archaeornithomimus

Yes, we did it, we came to it: number one. This name. OH. MY. FRICKING. GOSH. This is a real mouthful!! Man, I guess there are just a few people who can REALLY pronounce this. My gosh. This dinosaur lived in the Late Cretaceous and was also a raptor. But seriously, the name. Gosh, I think we have an absolute winner here.

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 9 years

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Luanchuanraptor henanensis

Source: http://teratophoneus.deviantart.com/art/Luanchuanraptor-henanensis-374862216

Name: Luanchuanraptor henanensis

Name Meaning: Luanchuan thief

First Described: 2007

Described By: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Dromaeosauridae

Our first (in cladistic order; not counting those dinosaurs I did out of order,) eumaniraptoran, and our first basal dromaeosaurid! This dinosaur is famous because it was the first Asian dromaeosaurid found outside of the Gobi Desert or northeastern China. It is known from some scattered remains that determined it was a medium sized dromaeosaurid. It was found in the Qiupa Formation in Luanchuan, Henan, China. It lived in the Late Cretaceous, potentially the Campanian age, though the exact age was unknown. If it was in the Campanian age, it lived between 83 and 72 million years ago.

Sources:

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/l/luanchuanraptor.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luanchuanraptor

Shout out goes to natureandwonder!

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