title: Lists of dinosaur specimens
text: # Lists of dinosaur specimens
  
  Notable dinosaur specimens can individually increase science's knowledge about the life and world of the dinosaurs.
  
  ## By history
  
  * List of lost, damaged, or destroyed dinosaur specimens
  * List of dinosaur specimens sold at auction
  
  ## By preservation
  
  * List of dinosaur specimens with documented taphonomic histories
  * List of pathological dinosaur specimens
  * List of dinosaur specimens preserved with agonistic and feeding traces
  * List of dinosaur specimens with preserved soft tissue
  
  ## By taxonomic significance
  
  ### By taxon
  
  * Specimens of Archaeopteryx
  * Specimens of Tyrannosaurus
  
  ### Type specimens
  
  * List of marginocephalian type specimens
  * List of ornithopod type specimens
  * List of sauropodomorph type specimens
  * List of non-avian theropod type specimens
  * List of thyreophoran type specimens
  * List of other ornithischian type specimens
  
  ## In popular culture
  
  * List of nicknamed dinosaur specimens
  * Dinosaurs portal
  * Paleontology portal
  