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 List of all dinosaurs In popular culture List of nicknamed dinosaur specimens