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Dinosaurs

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Anoplosaurus Anoplosaurus Anoplosaurus is an extinct genus of nodosaurid dinosaur, from the late Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand of Cambridgeshire, England...	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...	Harry Govier Seeley
Brontosaurus	Valid	Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh was an American paleontologist. Marsh was one of the preeminent scientists in the field; the discovery or description of dozens of news species and theories on the origins of birds are among his legacies.Born into a modest family, Marsh was able to afford higher education...		Junior subjective synonym of Apatosaurus Apatosaurus Apatosaurus , also known by the popular but scientifically deprecated synonym Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived from about 154 to 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period . It was one of the largest land animals that ever existed, with an average length of and a... .
Camptonotus Camptonotus Camptonotus is a genus of leaf-rolling crickets. It includes the following species:Camptonotus affinis Rehn, 1903Camptonotus americanus Camptonotus australis Rehn, 1907Camptonotus carolinensis...	Preoccupied.	Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh was an American paleontologist. Marsh was one of the preeminent scientists in the field; the discovery or description of dozens of news species and theories on the origins of birds are among his legacies.Born into a modest family, Marsh was able to afford higher education...		Preoccupied by Uhler, 1864. Later renamed Camptosaurus Camptosaurus Camptosaurus is a genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America. The name means 'flexible lizard', .... .
Coelurus Coelurus Coelurus is a genus of coelurosaur dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period . The name means "hollow tail", referring to its hollow tail vertebrae...	Valid	Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh was an American paleontologist. Marsh was one of the preeminent scientists in the field; the discovery or description of dozens of news species and theories on the origins of birds are among his legacies.Born into a modest family, Marsh was able to afford higher education...
Eucercosaurus Eucercosaurus Eucercosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was an ornithopod discovered in England and first described in 1879. The type species, Eucercosaurus tanyspondylus, was described by British paleontologist Harry Seeley in 1879...	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...	Harry Govier Seeley		Possible subjective synonym of Acanthopholis Acanthopholis Acanthopholis is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur in the family Nodosauridae that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period of England.... .
Labrosaurus	Valid	Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh was an American paleontologist. Marsh was one of the preeminent scientists in the field; the discovery or description of dozens of news species and theories on the origins of birds are among his legacies.Born into a modest family, Marsh was able to afford higher education...		Junior subjective synonym of Allosaurus Allosaurus Allosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period . The name Allosaurus means "different lizard". It is derived from the Greek /allos and /sauros... .
Syngonosaurus	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...	Harry Govier Seeley
Vectisaurus	Jr. synonym	Hulke		Junior subjective synonym of Iguanodon Iguanodon Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs... .

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Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Macromerion Macromerion Macromerion is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid from the Late Carboniferous of Germany.-References:* Paton, R. L. 1974. Lower Permian pelycosaurs from the English midlands. Paleontology 17 : 541-552....	Valid

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