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What is a dinosaur?

What is a dinosaur? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, especially those that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct. [from c. 1840]
  2. (proscribed) Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago.
  3. (figuratively, colloquial) A person or organisation that is very old, has very old-fashioned views, or is not willing to change and adapt.
  4. (figuratively, colloquial) Anything no longer in common use or practice.
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There are dinosaur shaped biscuits, and fairy cakes scattered with tiny, dinosaur shaped hundreds and thousands.
Terrestrial deposits contain fossils ranging from Paleocene leaf imprints to Cretaceous dinosaur remains.
He was also able to travel to Bloemfontein to compare the fossils with those of an early dinosaur in the National Museum.
Some oysters and also the bivalve Spondylus were found attached to the dinosaur bones.
I still get invites but I feel like a dinosaur and a bit of a has-been now.
The williams Fork Formation preserves a diverse dinosaur fauna containing at least nine saurischian and five ornithischian species.

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