Cretaceous Dinosaurs

Name the creature that best fits the description- all answers are a genus of dinosaur or another prehistoric animal that lived during the Cretaceous period, 145 to 66.5 million years ago.

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Description	Animal
The "tyrant king" of the dinosaurs, most famous of them all.	Tyrannosaurus
The largest of the armored dinosaurs, wielding a bone-shattering club on its tail	Ankylosaurus
Largest and most famous of the "boneheads"	Pachycephalosaurus
The "Sheep of the Cretaceous"; a common primitive horned dinosaur from Central Asia	Protoceratops
A pterosaur named after an Aztec flying serpent god	Quetzalcoatlus
Tiny Chinese raptor with four wings and iridescent blue-black feathers	Microraptor
Aquatic lizard whose fossils found in The Netherlands were the first of any giant marine reptile to be described by scientists	Mosasaurus
Enigmatic sail-backed dinosaur from North Africa, the largest carnivorous one yet discovered	Spinosaurus
Marine reptile whose head was accidentally placed on the tail by its discoverer	Elasmosaurus
The second dinosaur to be discovered and named; an English/Belgian herbivore with a thumb spike	Iguanodon
Any proud Texan would want you to remember this sauropod's name	Alamosaurus
The "speedy thief", made famous for its role in Jurassic Park	Velociraptor
Toothless, crest-bearing pterosaur which ate fish from a sea that once covered Kansas	Pteranodon
Giant marine reptile from Australia named after the king of the Titans of Greek mythology	Kronosaurus
One of the largest dinosaurs known, bearing the name of the South American country where it was found	Argentinosaurus
A large ostrich-like dinosaur from Mongolia nicknamed the "chicken mimic", who were "flocking this way" in Jurassic Park	Gallimimus
Hollow-crested "duckbill" whose calls have been re-created with acoustic computer models	Parasaurolophus
Quill-tailed herbivore with a parrot beak; a diverse and well-studied genus with as many as 12 species ranging across Asia	Psittacosaurus
Duckbill formerly known as Trachodon, Anatosaurus, and many other names, now named after a city in Alberta	Edmontosaurus
A three-horned iconic herbivore from the USA	Triceratops
A "motherly" dinosaur whose entire nesting site with hundreds of eggs, juveniles, and adults were found at a Montana site aptly named Egg Mountain	Maiasaura
An alleged egg thief from Mongolia, who was actually buried alive protecting her own nest	Oviraptor
Bizarre herbivore whose giant claws were at first mistaken for the ribs of a massive turtle	Therizinosaurus
The "Terrible claw", whose discovery initiated a paradigm shift in how scientists understood dinosaur biology	Deinonychus
Massive amphibian who lived in Victoria, Australia	Koolasuchus
Herbivorous dinosaur from New Jersey, one of the first American dinosaurs to be found	Hadrosaurus
The infamous "Supercroc" of the Sahara	Sarcosuchus
The "Bird of Confucius" who flew over China	Confuciusornis
Giant raptor named after the Beehive State, of which it is the official state dinosaur	Utahraptor

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