What is List of European dinosaurs?
[[File:Laurasia-Gondwana.svg|thumb|right|250px|The [[Tethys Ocean]] splitting [[Laurasia]] from [[Gondwana]].]] '''[[Dinosaurs]]''' evolved partway through the [[Triassic]] period of the [[Mesozoic]] era, around 230 [[annum|Ma]] (million years ago). At that time, the earth had one [[supercontinent]]al landmass, called [[Pangaea]], of which '''[[Europe]]''' was a part.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/gcc/5-2-2-2.html |title=Manchester Metropolitan University |access-date=2010-11-05 |archive-date=2009-05-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525085032/http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/gcc/5-2-2-2.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> So it remained throughout the Triassic. By the start of the [[Jurassic]] period, some 30 million years later, the supercontinent began to split into [[Laurasia]] and [[Gondwana]]. The largest inlet from [[Panthalassa]], the [[superocean]] that surrounded Pangaea, was called the [[Tethys Ocean]], and as this inlet cut deeper into the supercontinent, much of Europe was flooded. By the [[Cretaceous]], from 145 to 65 million years ago, the continents were beginning to approach their present shapes, but not their present positions, and Europe remained tropical. At times, it was a chain of island-microcontinents including [[Baltica]] and [[Iberia (microcontinent)|Iberia]]. Europe is relatively rich in fossils from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, and much of what is known about European dinosaurs dates from this time. As the timeline below illustrates, there are substantial gaps in our knowledge from the rest of the Mesozoic. The absence of dinosaur [[genus|genera]] from this time is because few fossils have been discovered, and almost certainly not because Europe contained few types of dinosaur—except, perhaps, immediately after the [[Triassic–Jurassic extinction event]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/impact/news_detail.cfm?ID=23&keyword=250 |title=Nasa |access-date=2010-11-05 |archive-date=2009-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/w