List of European dinosaurs

splitting Laurasia from Gondwana.]]
**Dinosaurs** evolved partway through the Triassic period of the Mesozoic era, around 230 Ma (million years ago).  At that time, the earth had one supercontinental landmass, called Pangaea, of which **Europe** was a part.  So it remained throughout the Triassic.  By the start of the Jurassic period, some 30 million years later, the supercontinent began to split into Laurasia and Gondwana.  The largest inlet from Panthalassa, the superocean that surrounded Pangaea, was called the Tethys Ocean, and as this inlet cut deeper into the supercontinent, much of Europe was flooded.

By the Cretaceous, from 145 to 65 million years ago, the continents were beginning to approach their present shapes, but not their present positions, and Europe remained tropical.  At times, it was a chain of island-microcontinents including Baltica and Iberia.

Europe is relatively rich in fossils from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, and much of what is known about European dinosaurs dates from this time.  As the timeline below illustrates, there are substantial gaps in our knowledge from the rest of the Mesozoic.  The absence of dinosaur genera from this time is because few fossils have been discovered, and almost certainly not because Europe contained few types of dinosaur—except, perhaps, immediately after the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event.

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## Key
## Timeline
This is a timeline of selected dinosaurs from the list above.  Time is measured in Ma, megaannum, along the x-axis.

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 from: -145    till:  -65    color:cretaceous  text:Cretaceous             
 from: -200    till: -145    color:jurassic    text:Jurassic
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 color:HER bar:NAM3  from:-74   till:-70  text:Ampelosaurus
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 color:HER bar:NAM5  from:-130  till:-120 text:Aragosaurus
 color:CAR bar:NAM6  from:-150  till:-145 text:Archaeopteryx
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 color:CAR bar:NAM11 from:-66   till:-65  text:Betasuchus
 color:HER bar:NAM12 from:-170  till:-150 text:Bothriospondylus
 color:HER bar:NAM13 from:-165  till:-160 text:Callovosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM14 from:-215  till:-200 text:Camelotia
 color:HER bar:NAM15 from:-155  till:-150 text:Camptosaurus
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 color:HER bar:NAM17 from:-181  till:-169 text:Cetiosaurus
 color:CAR bar:NAM18 from:-150  till:-145 text:Compsognathus
 color:HER bar:NAM19 from:-154  till:-150 text:Dacentrurus
 color:HER bar:NAM20 from:-155  till:-150 text:Dinheirosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM21 from:-130  till:-123 text:Dollodon
 color:HER bar:NAM22 from:-155  till:-150 text:Dracopelta
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 color:CAR bar:NAM24 from:-171  till:-167 text:Duriavenator
 color:HER bar:NAM25 from:-145  till:-140 text:Echinodon
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 color:CAR bar:NAM29 from:-112  till:-106 text:Erectopus
 color:HER bar:NAM30 from:-130  till:-125 text:Eucamerotus
 color:HER bar:NAM31 from:-155  till:-150 text:Europasaurus
 color:CAR bar:NAM32 from:-164  till:-161 text:Eustreptospondylus
 color:CAR bar:NAM33 from:-210  till:-205 text:Halticosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM34 from:-136  till:-125 text:Histriasaurus
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 color:HER bar:NAM36 from:-140  till:-136 text:Hylaeosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM37 from:-70   till:-65  text:Hypselosaurus
 color:OMN bar:NAM38 from:-140  till:-130 text:Hypsilophodon
 color:HER bar:NAM39 from:-130  till:-120 text:Iguanodon
 color:CAR bar:NAM40 from:-155  till:-145 text:Juravenator
 color:CAR bar:NAM41 from:-215  till:-200 text:Liliensternus
 color:CAR bar:NAM42 from:-203  till:-196 text:Lopostropheus
 color:HER bar:NAM43 from:-164  till:-161 text:Loricatosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM44 from:-155  till:-145 text:Lourinhanosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM45 from:-150  till:-145 text:Lusotitan
 color:HER bar:NAM46 from:-133  till:-127 text:Macrurosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM47 from:-70   till:-65  text:Magyarosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM48 from:-140  till:-125 text:Mantellisaurus
 color:CAR bar:NAM49 from:-181  till:-169 text:Megalosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM50 from:-155  till:-145 text:Miragaia
 color:HER bar:NAM51 from:-150  till:-145 text:Neosodon
 color:CAR bar:NAM52 from:-130  till:-125 text:Neovenator
 color:HER bar:NAM53 from:-138  till:-112 text:Pelorosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM54 from:-216  till:-199 text:Plateosaurus
 color:CAR bar:NAM55 from:-168  till:-165 text:Poekilopleuron
 color:HER bar:NAM56 from:-132  till:-112 text:Polacanthus
 color:CAR bar:NAM57 from:-167  till:-164 text:Proceratosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM58 from:-216  till:-203 text:Ruehleia
 color:HER bar:NAM59 from:-164  till:-159 text:Sarcolestes
 color:CAR bar:NAM60 from:-201  till:-195 text:Sarcosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM61 from:-208  till:-194 text:Scelidosaurus
 color:CAR bar:NAM62 from:-115  till:-111 text:Scipionyx
 color:HER bar:NAM63 from:-220  till:-210 text:Sellosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM64 from:-150  till:-145 text:Stegosaurus
 color:CAR bar:NAM65 from:-150  till:-145 text:Stokeosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM66 from:-83   till:-65  text:Struthiosaurus
 color:CAR bar:NAM67 from:-150  till:-145 text:Torvosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM68 from:-150  till:-140 text:Turiasaurus
 color:CAR bar:NAM69 from:-127  till:-121 text:Valdoraptor
 color:HER bar:NAM70 from:-144  till:-122 text:Valdosaurus
 color:HER bar:NAM71 from:-145  till:-140 text:Xenoposeidon
 color:HER bar:NAM72 from:-70   till:-67  text:Zalmoxes

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 from:  -250   till:  -65    color:mesozoic    text:Mesozoic 

## Criteria for inclusion
*The creature must appear on the List of dinosaurs.
*Fossils of the creature must have been found in Europe.
*This list is a complement to :Category:Dinosaurs of Europe.

## Related pages
* :Category: Cretaceous paleontological sites of Europe

## Notes