The first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton was discovered in England by my heroine Mary Anning in the early 1800s, of course she got no credit at the time, being poor, single, and female.

Spinosaurus lived in what is now North Africa in the Late Cretaceous 99-93.5MYA. It was about 46 feet long (14 metres) and was a fish-eater but would also eat terrestrial prey.

Leaellynasaura was a small (only about 3 feet long) Australian polar dinosaur with large eyes, which lived within the Antarctic Circle in the Early Cretaceous - about 118 - 110mya. It was discovered in Dinosaur Bay in Australia and named after the palaeontologist’s daughter – lucky girl!

Archaeopteryx was a small (pigeon sized) birdlike therapod dating from the late Jurassic c.147 mya.

By special request from muumi, a Pachycephalosaur blanket square:-)

You can use as many colours as you like, but you’ll need at least two yarns with good colour contrast so that the pattern will show nicely.

You’ll need two colours of yarn with good contrast.

You can use as many colours as you like, but you’ll need at least two yarns with good colour contrast so that the pattern will show nicely.

You’ll need minimum 2 colours of DK yarn. Make sure they have good contrast so you can see the pattern.

Tyrannosaurus Rex, probably the most famous therapod and an apex predator. May have lived and hunted in family groups. Late Cretaceous c. 68-66mya.

Ankylosaurus, Late Cretaceous 68-66mya. A herbivorous dinosaur covered in armoured plates and with a club at the end of its tail. It was about 25 feet in length and weighed about 6 tons.

Dunkleosteus a very large (up to 33 feet and 4 tons) armoured fish from the Late Devonian 382–358mya.

Anomalocaris & Trilobite , in the Cambrian seas, 520-499mya

Utahraptors, the largest known raptor, approx 1 tonne in weight. Early Cretaceous 112-100mya. It probably had feathers.

Brachiosaurus, Late Jurassic, 154-150mya

Marine reptiles of the Late Jurassic oceans - Liopleurodon (166-155mya) and Plesiosaurs (215-66mya).

Triceratops was a large herbivorous dinosaur living 68mya to the K-T extinction.

Stegosaurus, Late Jurassic, 159-144mya

Pterosaurs, successful flying reptiles, not strictly dinosaurs, Mesozoic, 228 - 66mya

Parasaurolophus, a hadrosaur or duckbilled dinosaur from the Cretaceous, about 76mya.

Carboniferous giant crawlies 305-299mya - Meganeura a dragonfly relative with a 28 inch wingspan, and Pulmonoscorpius, a giant scorpion growing up to 28 inches long. Neither of which you’d want stomping round your bedroom!

Carnotaurus, a South American therapod with horns - name means “Meat-eating bull”. Late Cretaceous , 71-69mya. Gasparinisaurus, a small herbivorous ornithopod from Argentina

Dimetrodon - Not a dinosaur but a non-mammalian synapsid from the Early Permian, 295–272 mya.

A small, likely downy, therapod from the Late Jurassic, 85-75mya. Oviraptors were accused of being egg-eaters (hence the name) until one was found fossilised sitting on its nest protecting its eggs.