When Did I Live? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Late Cretaceous

Discovered in Mongolia and named by Rinchen Barsbold in 1981, Garudimimus ("Garuda mimic") was an Ornithomimid dinosaur. It lived from the Coniacian stage to the Santonian stage of the late Cretaceous period.

Answer: Late Triassic

Discovered in Argentina and named by Paul Callistus Sereno in 1993, Eoraptor ("Dawn Thief") was one of the earliest dinosaurs. It lived during the Carnian stage of the late Triassic period.

Answer: Quaternary

Discovered in Australia and named by Smith in 1975, Wonambi was a giant five-metre long python. It was named after a mythological snake featured in Aboriginal dreamtime stories and it lived during the Pleistocene stage of the Quaternary period.

Answer: Early Tertiary

Discovered in the USA and named by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1907, Eotitanops ("Like a dawn titan") was a tiny mammal, a distant relative of the modern Rhinoceros, though probably more closely related to horses. It lived during the early and middle Eocene stage of the early Tertiary period.

Answer: Late Cretaceous

Discovered in France, Spain and Romania and named by B. F. Nopsca in 1899, Telmatosaurus ("Marsh lizard") was a flat-headed Hadrosaur. It lived during the Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous period.

Answer: Early Cretaceous

Discovered in China and named by Dong Zhiming in 1973, Wuerhosaurus ("Lizard from Wuerho") was the last-known Stegosaur. It lived from the Valangian stage to the Albian stage of the early Cretaceous period.

Answer: Late Cretaceous

Discovered in Canada and the USA and named by Charles M. Sternberg in 1928, Edmontonia ("Of Edmonton")was a seven-metre long Nodosaur. Dinosaurs like this eventually evolved into the heavily-armoured Ankylosaurs. It lived from the Campanian stage to the Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous period.

Answer: Late Tertiary

Discovered in the USA and named by William Diller Matthew in 1907, Megalictis ("Great weasel") was an early Mustellid, a relative of modern weasels, stoats and badgers. It lived during the early Miocene stage of the late Tertiary period.

Answer: Middle Triassic

Discovered in Italy and Germany and named by Louis Agassiz in 1833, Placodus ("Flat-toothed") was an aquatic reptile which lived from the Anisian stage to the Ladinian stage of the middle Triassic period. Specimens have also been found in China, France and Poland.

Answer: Quaternary

Discovered in Australia and named by Sir Richard Owen (the man who invented the word 'dinosaur') in 1859, Thylacoleo ("Pouch lion") was a large predatory marsupial. It lived from the Pliocene stage to the Pleistocene stage of the Quaternary period (the period we're in right now).

Answer: Early Cretaceous

Discovered in Brazil and named by Alexander Kellner in 1989, Tapejara ("Old one") was a large Pterosaur with a wingspan of up to five metres. It also had a big, odd-shaped crest on its head which was probably used for display. It lived during the Aptian stage of the early Cretaceous period.

Answer: Early Carboniferous

Discovered in Scotland and named by David Watson in 1929, Crassigyrinus ("Thick frog") was a predatory amphibian which looked something like an overgrown tadpole. It lived during the Visean stage of the early Carboniferous period.

Answer: Early Jurassic

Discovered in China and named by Ziqi Bai, Jie Yang and Guohui Wang in 1990, Yimenosaurus ("Lizard from Yimen") was a Prosauropod dinosaur known from at least ten partial skeletons. It lived during the Hettangian stage of the early Jurassic period.

Answer: Quaternary

Discovered in Siberia and named by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim in 1808, Elasmotherium ("Plate mammal") was the largest of the woolly rhinoceroses, almost as big as a modern elephant. It lived during the Pleistocene stage of the Quaternary period.

Answer: Late Jurassic

Discovered in Germany and named by Hermann von Meyer in 1833, Gnathosaurus ("Jaw lizard") was a Pterosaur with a wingspan of close to two metres. It lived during the Tithonian stage of the late Jurassic period.