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Comment by gwbas1c | Hacker News Reader

It it doesn't answer the question, "Which dinosaurs lived in my hometown?"

Seriously, I clicked on the link thinking I'd be able to get a list of the dinosaurs that are believed to have lived in my hometown. As cool as this link is, it doesn't answer "Which dinosaurs lived in my hometown?"

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If you enter a place it will provide a list of fossils potentially nearby.

It seems limited and not quite as cool as as say, showing a field guide of dinos in your area during a time period.

Thats what it does, you can adjust the year at the top

Good to know it wasn't just me who couldn't find an option to answer the actual thing it purports to tell you

Apparently 0 dinosaurs roamed the area around Toronto, Ontario. We weren't even underwater at the time.

Others are commenting like it does though, I couldn't get a dinosaur list either fwiw.

Depends on the place. Enter a town/city where dinosaurs fossils were found and it will show a couple. But even the few fossil hotbeds I checked will only show 2 or 3.

This link was extraordinarily fascinating, and I learned a lot but it didn’t deliver on that promise for me, either.

That's because the poster made up a clickbait title, which they shouldn't have done.

No, it does list the dinosaurs, it is just a very limited database. Most cities I tried had none but Dallas, TX for example listed a few.

The title of the site is not the submitted title.

It shows the dinosaurs in a very light grey over the white background. You can find it just below the city search box.

I was expecting to be able to click the globe where I live and see Dinosaur info.

seems you have to use the search for place.

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