Now let's get some things straight about dinosaurs.
The popular image of dinosaurs goes something like this
But of course, these are all wrong, wrong, WRONG.
First off, no dinosaur that we know of dragged its tail on the
ground like a lizard. Rather, dinosaurs would have held their tails
up most of the time with a posture like a bird
Another problem often seen in dinosaur media is that all the dead
critters we know and love lived at the same time.
As you can see from this timeline, various dinosaurs lived and died
through various parts of the Mesozoic