Curator’s Notes · The familiar roster

Explorer’s field list

Dinosaurs from major films, documentaries and games, alongside familiar names from books and museums. Explorer uses the same reviewed profiles and family tree as Expert.

The list follows familiarity rather than a fixed quota. It contains 232 possible discoveries, with 4 familiar names retained as legal guesses under their existing answer restrictions.

A more familiar field list

We reviewed the first selection’s weaker media and book connections. 35 names from that list are now retained in Expert. All included Jurassic film and Evolution names and the major documentary selections are retained in Explorer.

These are familiarity judgments. Each genus keeps its reviewed scientific profile in Expert and the full journal.

Retained after familiarity review: Coelurus, Fukuisaurus, Mussaurus, Pelecanimimus, Unenlagia. Existing scientific profiles and answer restrictions apply.

See the 35 names retained in Expert

Limited children’s-series exposure

Achelousaurus, Afrovenator, Altirhinus, Anchiceratops, Dracoraptor, Gojirasaurus, Jaxartosaurus, Lanzhousaurus, Pawpawsaurus, Piatnitzkysaurus, Qantassaurus, Raptorex, Sinovenator, Wannanosaurus, Xenotarsosaurus.

A single children’s-series appearance is not sufficient evidence of broad enthusiast familiarity. This is a selection judgment; the genus remains available in Expert and the full journal.

Limited secondary-game exposure

Albertaceratops, Anodontosaurus, Bagaceratops, Barsboldia, Pycnonemosaurus, Silesaurus.

A single secondary-game connection is not sufficient evidence of broad enthusiast familiarity for the smaller selection. This is a selection judgment; the genus remains available in Expert and the full journal.

Specialist editorial addition

Alxasaurus, Archaeoceratops, Buitreraptor, Epidendrosaurus, Erlikosaurus, Falcarius, Megapnosaurus, Nyasasaurus, Rhoetosaurus, Riojasaurus, Scansoriopteryx, Struthiosaurus, Tanycolagreus, Zigongosaurus.

The earlier book/reference or legal-guess addition was too specialist for the familiarity brief. This is a selection judgment; the genus remains available in Expert and the full journal.

Familiar names, scientific exceptions

A film or game appearance does not override the roster’s scientific rules. These 6 Jurassic names are excluded by the captured PBDB name treatment and are not legal guesses in either roster. Synonyms are not separate mysteries; doubtful names are not silently replaced with a different genus. Minmi remains excluded under this rule despite the documented literature disagreement.

Crichtonsaurus

PBDB treats the genus as doubtful. Crichtonpelta is a separate included identity; the names are not interchangeable guesses.

Captured PBDB status: nomen dubium.

PBDB · Crichtonsaurus ↗

Dracorex

PBDB treats this name as a subjective synonym of Pachycephalosaurus. The screen name is not a separate mystery answer.

Captured PBDB status: subjective synonym of.

PBDB · Dracorex ↗

Microceratus

PBDB treats the genus as doubtful and resolves it only to Ceratopsia. It is not replaced with Graciliceratops.

Captured PBDB status: nomen dubium.

PBDB · Microceratus ↗

Minmi

PBDB flags the genus as doubtful. Later Australian literature often retains it as valid, so this is a database/literature disagreement rather than a settled invalidity. The current PBDB-led inclusion rule is preserved.

Captured PBDB status: nomen dubium.

PBDB · Minmi ↗Leahey et al. 2015 · Minmi and Kunbarrasaurus ↗Poropat et al. 2023 · Australian tetrapod checklist ↗

Stygimoloch

PBDB treats this name as a subjective synonym of Pachycephalosaurus. The screen name is not a separate mystery answer.

Captured PBDB status: subjective synonym of.

PBDB · Stygimoloch ↗

Titanosaurus

The Jurassic-media name is Titanosaurus Lydekker, whose PBDB record is doubtful. A different historical Titanosaurus name is attached to Apatosaurus; that homonym is not an alias for the media animal.

Captured PBDB status: nomen dubium.

PBDB · Titanosaurus ↗

How we chose the list

We checked the Jurassic film and Evolution inventories, then the major documentary and game selections in the original draft. The selection includes the current Prehistoric East additions. Dakotaraptor was added for its released Saurian role; Anzu and Acheroraptor are explicit familiarity additions with separately described planning/art evidence.

A single children’s-series or secondary-game appearance is not an automatic inclusion. We reviewed those selections alongside specialist book additions and kept the stronger familiarity cases. Some documentary identifications come from episode and appearance indexes rather than spoken names. Media evidence establishes exposure, not measured audience recognition. Our editorial additions remain labelled as judgments.

Genus identities, diets, ages, localities, classifications and existing answer holds are copied from Expert. 4 names remain legal guesses without becoming independent hidden answers. The approved equivalent guesses for Troodon are preserved.

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Genus name

236 named records.

Possible mystery answer

Abelisaurus

Classic namesake of Abelisauridae; familiar from general dinosaur books.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Acheroraptor

Editorial familiarity addition: Hell Creek raptor featured in official Saurian art; the art alone is not evidence of a released playable version.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →Saurian · developer storefront and original artwork ↗Saurian · Acheroraptor ↗

Possible mystery answer

Achillobator

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →POT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Acrocanthosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Alamosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗JWE2 ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Albertosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗WWD25 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Alectrosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Alioramus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →POT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Allosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DR ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PD ↗PINES ↗PK ↗POT ↗WDRA ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Alvarezsaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DP ↗

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Amargasaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DT ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗POT ↗

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Ampelosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Anchiornis

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →NETFLIX26 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Anchisaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →WDRA ↗

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Ankylosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗DR ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PINES ↗PK ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Antarctopelta

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Anzu

Editorial familiarity addition: well-known Hell Creek caenagnathid, also named in Saurian’s developer FAQ. The FAQ is not evidence that its planned playable version has shipped.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →Saurian · developer storefront and original artwork ↗Saurian · Anzu ↗

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Apatosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DT ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PK ↗

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Aquilops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE3 ↗JWF ↗

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Archaeornithomimus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Argentinosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →CBD ↗DT ↗PD ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Arrhinoceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →WWD25 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Atrociraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Aucasaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DP ↗

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Australovenator

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE2 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Austroposeidon

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

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Austroraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗JWE3 ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Avaceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗

Possible mystery answer

Bajadasaurus

Distinctive forward-facing neck spines; prominent discovery coverage.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Bambiraptor

Memorable small feathered-raptor name in enthusiast books and models.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Barosaurus

Major museum-display sauropod, including the American Museum of Natural History.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Baryonyx

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PINES ↗

Possible mystery answer

Becklespinax

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →CHAOS ↗

Possible mystery answer

Beipiaosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗

Possible mystery answer

Borealopelta

The exceptionally preserved armoured dinosaur frequently featured in museum and popular-science coverage.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Brachiosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PK ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Brontosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗PK ↗WDRA ↗

Possible mystery answer

Camarasaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗PK ↗WDRA ↗

Possible mystery answer

Camptosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗POT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Carcharodontosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PD ↗PK ↗WWD25 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Carnotaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PINES ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Caudipteryx

A standard example in popular explanations of feathered dinosaurs.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Cedarosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗

Possible mystery answer

Centrosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗PINES ↗

Possible mystery answer

Ceratosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗POT ↗WDRA ↗

Possible mystery answer

Charonosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Chasmosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Chirostenotes

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗WWDF ↗

Possible mystery answer

Chungkingosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Citipati

Well-known brooding dinosaur; useful to distinguish the actual genus from generic “oviraptor” illustrations.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

Possible mystery answer

Coelophysis

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PINES ↗PK ↗WDRA ↗WWD99 ↗

Legal guess · existing answer restriction

Coelurus

Familiar legal guess retained from the reviewed shortlist; existing Expert answer restriction is preserved.

No defensible diet clue is currently supported.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

Possible mystery answer

Compsognathus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PINES ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Concavenator

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗POT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Corythoraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

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Corythosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PINES ↗

Possible mystery answer

Cryolophosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DR ↗DT ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Dacentrurus

A classic European stegosaur in illustrated dinosaur books.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Dakotaraptor

Released playable dinosaur in Saurian.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →Saurian · Dakotaraptor ↗

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Daspletosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DP ↗DT ↗PD ↗POT ↗

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Deinocheirus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PINES ↗PK ↗POT ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Deinonychus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗DT ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PINES ↗POT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Deltadromeus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗

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Diabloceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗

Possible mystery answer

Dilong

A familiar feathered tyrannosauroid in popular evolutionary accounts.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Dilophosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PINES ↗PK ↗WDRA ↗

Possible mystery answer

Dinheirosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗

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Diplodocus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DT ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗NETFLIX26 ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Dongbeititan

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →NETFLIX26 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Draconyx

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗

Possible mystery answer

Dreadnoughtus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Dromaeosaurus

The namesake dromaeosaur, common in enthusiast reference books.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Dryosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PK ↗WDRA ↗

Possible mystery answer

Edmontonia

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗WWDF ↗

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Edmontosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DP ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PD ↗PK ↗PP ↗WWD25 ↗WWDF ↗

Possible mystery answer

Einiosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Eoraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗DT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Eotriceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →POT ↗

Legal guess · existing answer restriction

Epidexipteryx

Familiar legal guess retained from the reviewed shortlist; existing Expert answer restriction is preserved.

Cau 2024 tentatively combines Epidexipteryx and Epidendrosaurus in one OTU, interpreting differences through growth and incomplete preservation. This is a live proposal rather than settled consensus; a roster cut or wholesale specimen merger is not justified by this source alone.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

Possible mystery answer

Euoplocephalus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DT ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Europasaurus

A widely discussed dwarf sauropod.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Eustreptospondylus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Fukuisaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Gallimimus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PINES ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Gasparinisaura

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Gastonia

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →WWD25 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Giganotosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗CBD ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗

Possible mystery answer

Gigantoraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DR ↗JWE2 ↗PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Gigantspinosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Giraffatitan

Major Berlin museum sauropod; a familiar name to enthusiasts beyond older Brachiosaurus usage.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Glacialisaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗

Possible mystery answer

Gobisaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Gorgosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →WWD25 ↗WWDF ↗

Possible mystery answer

Guanlong

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Hadrosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Herrerasaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Hesperonychus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →WWDF ↗

Possible mystery answer

Heterodontosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →NETFLIX26 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Homalocephale

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Huayangosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Hypsilophodon

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Iguanodon

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗DT ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PK ↗POT ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Imperobator

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Incisivosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PARK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Irritator

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Isisaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Jeholosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Jobaria

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Kentrosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DT ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PINES ↗POT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Kosmoceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Kuru

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Lambeosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗PK ↗POT ↗

Legal guess · existing answer restriction

Latenivenatrix

Familiar legal guess retained from the reviewed shortlist; existing Expert answer restriction is preserved.

2021 synonymy with Stenonychosaurus is followed by the 2025 revision; 2026 papers still acknowledge uncertainty. Merely scoring it as a separate matrix OTU is not revalidation.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

Possible mystery answer

Leaellynasaura

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PK ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Lesothosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Liliensternus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →NETFLIX26 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Lokiceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Lufengosaurus

A classic Chinese early sauropodomorph in books and museum displays.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Lusotitan

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗WWD25 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Magyarosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DP ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Maiasaura

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DP ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

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Majungasaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DR ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PD ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Mamenchisaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗NETFLIX26 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Mapusaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Masiakasaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Massospondylus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →NETFLIX26 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Megalosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗DT ↗JWE2 ↗PINES ↗

Possible mystery answer

Megaraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Mei

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PARK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Metriacanthosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗POT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Microraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DT ↗PARK ↗PD ↗PINES ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Monolophosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE2 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Mononykus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →CBD ↗PK ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Moros

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗

Possible mystery answer

Morrosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Mussaurus

A long-established name in popular accounts of dinosaur hatchlings and early sauropodomorphs.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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Muttaburrasaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PK ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Nanshiungosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Nanuqsaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Nasutoceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Nemegtosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Nigersaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Nodosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Nothronychus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗WDRA ↗

Possible mystery answer

Olorotitan

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Ornitholestes

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Ornithomimus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗JWE3 ↗PARK ↗PP ↗WDRA ↗

Possible mystery answer

Orodromeus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DP ↗ISLE ↗

Possible mystery answer

Oryctodromeus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Ouranosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗PD ↗PINES ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Oviraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DP ↗DT ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PD ↗PINES ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Pachycephalosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PINES ↗PK ↗POT ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Pachyrhinosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗JWE2 ↗PK ↗PP ↗WWD25 ↗WWDF ↗

Possible mystery answer

Paralititan

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Parasaurolophus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Parksosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →WWDF ↗

Possible mystery answer

Patagotitan

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Pectinodon

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Pegomastax

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Pelecanimimus

The conspicuously toothed early ornithomimosaur in illustrated dinosaur books.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

Possible mystery answer

Peloroplites

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →NETFLIX26 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Pentaceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Pinacosaurus

A classic Mongolian ankylosaur in enthusiast books.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

Possible mystery answer

Planicoxa

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →WWD25 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Plateosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →NETFLIX26 ↗PK ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Polacanthus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Prenocephale

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DP ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Proceratosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Procompsognathus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →NETFLIX26 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Protoceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →CBD ↗DP ↗DR ↗JWE3 ↗PINES ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Psittacosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗JWE3 ↗PINES ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Puertasaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗

Possible mystery answer

Pyroraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DP ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Qianzhousaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Rahonavis

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Rajasaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Rapetosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗PD ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Regaliceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Rhabdodon

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DP ↗DT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Rugops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Saichania

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Saltasaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Saurolophus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →CBD ↗DK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Sauropelta

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Sauroposeidon

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Saurornithoides

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Saurornitholestes

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Scelidosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PINES ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Scutellosaurus

A standard early armoured-dinosaur example in illustrated books.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

Possible mystery answer

Secernosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Segisaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE2 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Shantungosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗ISLE ↗

Possible mystery answer

Shunosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DR ↗

Possible mystery answer

Shuvuuia

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Sinoceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗

Possible mystery answer

Sinornithosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Sinosauropteryx

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Sinosaurus

A familiar double-crested theropod in modern enthusiast references.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

Possible mystery answer

Sinraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DR ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Skorpiovenator

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗

Possible mystery answer

Spinosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PD ↗PK ↗POT ↗WWD25 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Stegosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PD ↗PINES ↗PK ↗POT ↗WDRA ↗WWD99 ↗

Legal guess · existing answer restriction

Stenonychosaurus

Familiar legal guess retained from the reviewed shortlist; existing Expert answer restriction is preserved.

2017 resurrected the genus; 2025 regards it as a junior synonym of Troodon. Do not make Troodon and Stenonychosaurus separate daily answers for the same adopted species concept.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

Possible mystery answer

Struthiomimus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗POT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Styracosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DT ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PINES ↗PK ↗POT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Suchomimus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗POT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Supersaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Suskityrannus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PD ↗WDRA ↗

Possible mystery answer

Tarascosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Tarbosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →CBD ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PK ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Tarchia

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Tenontosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ISLE ↗

Possible mystery answer

Tethyshadros

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Therizinosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗CBD ↗DK ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PINES ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Thescelosaurus

A familiar Hell Creek dinosaur in reference books and popular fossil accounts.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

Possible mystery answer

Torosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Torvosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DR ↗PK ↗WWD25 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Triceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗DR ↗DT ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PARK ↗PINES ↗PK ↗PP ↗WDRA ↗WWD25 ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Troodon

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DP ↗DR ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PD ↗PINES ↗WWDF ↗

Possible mystery answer

Tsintaosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Tuojiangosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Tyrannosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗DK ↗DP ↗DR ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗NETFLIX26 ↗PARK ↗PINES ↗PK ↗POT ↗PP ↗WDRA ↗WWD25 ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Tyrannotitan

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →POT ↗

Possible mystery answer

Ugrunaaluk

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Unenlagia

A familiar name in South American feathered-dinosaur discussions.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

Possible mystery answer

Utahraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DR ↗ISLE ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗PINES ↗WWD25 ↗WWD99 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Velociraptor

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →CBD ↗DK ↗DP ↗DR ↗DT ↗ISLE ↗JWE1 ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗JWF ↗PINES ↗PK ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Vulcanodon

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →NETFLIX26 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Wuerhosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →JWE2 ↗PINES ↗

Possible mystery answer

Yanbeilong

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →NETFLIX26 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Yangchuanosaurus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DK ↗DT ↗JWE3 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Yi

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DT ↗PK ↗

Possible mystery answer

Yutyrannus

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →ARK ↗JWE2 ↗JWE3 ↗NETFLIX26 ↗

Possible mystery answer

Zalmoxes

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →DP ↗PP ↗

Possible mystery answer

Zuniceratops

Featured in the cited media.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →WDRA ↗

Possible mystery answer

Zuul

Memorable Ghostbusters-inspired name and widely publicised armoured-dinosaur fossils.

Open journal entry →Reviewed profile & evidence →

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