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

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 Mesozoic theropod type specimens
• List of thyreophoran type specimens

In popular culture

• List of nicknamed dinosaur specimens