DinoGuide

Imagine you were a time traveler about to travel 66 million years back in time, back to when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Which dinosaurs would you actually meet at your location? What if you traveled 160 million years back in time instead? Or 215 million? What about other regions of the world? And which of the dinosaurs you might meet had meat, and therefore you, on the menu?

This educational website attempts to answer all of these questions.

(DinoGuide is currently in its alpha phase and therefore only lists european dinosaurs comprehensively.)
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DinoGuide does not share any of your data with third parties without asking for and receiving consent beforehand. The only third parties to which DinoGuide transmits data (with consent) are OpenStreetMap and overpass-api.de. You can use the following checkbox to opt out of your consent, or opt in if you haven't given consent already:

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Dinosaur Data Sources:

The data on which Dinosaur was found where and lived from when to when comes from the English Wikipedia (See also) and is therefore licensed under the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License . The link to the corresponding article is included in the data. Information like the feeding habits of dinosaurs and the range that dinosaurs inhabited around their fossil locations come from wikipedia, if they were present in the article, and have otherwise been added to the data based on this pages author's judgement. For example, the article for Alocodon kuehnei doesn't specify what the animal ate, but I deduced that it was probably herbivoric from the shape of the teeth teeth and categorized it as "herbivoric or omnivoric" (the omnivoric being due to the fact that the dinosaur's position on the evolutionary tree is debated, which means that it might have been one of the rare omnivoric ornithopods).

It is therefore adviced that you do not use the information provided by DinoGuide as a wikipedia-replacement-source without double-checking what wikipedia actually says and what was added by the authors to fill holes. It is, of course, also adviced that you double-check everything that wikipedia says, due to the collaborative nature of its writing.

Location Data Sources:

The data about locations, that DinoGuide uses behind the scenes for runtime optimizations, is taken from OpenStreetMap and therefore licensed under the ODbL 1.0 license. The process of searching for locations in the location search box uses Nominatem, which is a wrapper around OpenStreetMap. The process of checking which dinosaur's habitats include the user's location uses Overpass API, which is another wrapper around OpenStreetMap.
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