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Data courtesy of George OlshevskyGeorge Olshevsky
George Olshevsky is a freelance editor, writer, publisher, amateur paleontologist, and mathematician living in San Diego, California.Olshevsky maintains the comprehensive online Dinosaur Genera List...
's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.
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Palaeosaurus Palaeosaurus Several very different genera of prehistoric animals have been named Palaeosaurus or Paleosaurus since the 1830s. Further confusing the matter, all of the species are poorly known or poorly preserved and both spellings have been used interchangeably, even by the same authors.The repeated recurrence... |
Preoccupied |
Riley |
Stutchbury |
The name was preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosaur named by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1833 1833 in paleontology -Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:... . |
Thecodontosaurus Thecodontosaurus Thecodontosaurus is a genus of herbivorous basal sauropodomorph dinosaur which lived during the late Triassic period .... |
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Riley |
Stutchbury |
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