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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 107. Chapters: Extinct cave organisms, Paleoanthropology, Paleobiology, Paleobotany, Paleogeography, Paleozoology, Dinosaur, Stage, Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point, Lake Agassiz, Physiology of dinosaurs, Messinian salinity crisis, Trace fossil, Cave bear, Lucy, Taphonomy, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Ground sloth, Plate reconstruction, Palynology, Paleotempestology, History of invertebrate paleozoology, Prototaxites, Bouri Formation, Myotragus, Cenomanian, American Lion, Micropaleontology, Proglacial lakes of Minnesota, Anatomically modern humans, Cave Hyena, George Gaylord Simpson, Megabias, Ardi, Erathem, Paleolimnology, Mylodontidae, Archaic Homo sapiens, Burnet Cave, Biostratigraphy, Eonothem, Paleopedology, Origin of modern humans, Conkling Cavern, System, Chronozone, Roundness, Mississippi embayment, Scelidotheriidae, Orophodontidae, Global Standard Stratigraphic Age, Lake Souris, Pinnacle Point, Messinian erosional crisis, Dakota, Cyprus Dwarf Elephant, Sclerochronology, Betic corridor, Java Man, Paleoecology, Panthera leo vereshchagini, Pachycrocuta, Daniel A. Livingstone, Odontornithes, DigiMorph, Fern spike, Palaeogeography, Middle Miocene disruption, Turnover-pulse hypothesis, Scolecodont, Prioniodontida, Danube fan, Ichnology, Levantine corridor, Paleostatistics, Kadanuumuu, Paleogenetics, Macroflora, Gordia, Paleoceanography, Steganotheca, Urstrom, Helminthopsis, Haplotichnus, Palaeoxylology. Excerpt: Dinosaurs (from Greek: terrible and lizard) are a diverse group of animals that were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period (about 230 million years ago) until the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 million years ago), when the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of most dinosaur species at the close of the M...