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Craspedodon Craspedodon Craspedodon is an extinct genus of ornithischian dinosaur, possibly a ceratopsian. It lived during the Late Cretaceous , in what is now Belgium. Only a few teeth have ever been found, which were described as similar to those of Iguanodon... |
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Dollo |
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Orthomerus Orthomerus Orthomerus is a genus of duckbill dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of The Netherlands, Belgium and possibly Ukraine. It is today an obscure genus, but in the past was conflated with the much better known Telmatosaurus.... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
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Possible subjective synonym of Telmatosaurus Telmatosaurus Telmatosaurus is a genus of basal hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a relatively small hadrosaur, approximately five meters long, found in what is now Romania.... . |
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Luetkesaurus Luetkesaurus Luetkesaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now the Kursk area of western Russia. Luetkesaurus was first named by V. Kiprijanoff in 1883, in honor of paleontologist and zoologist Christian Frederich Luetken; no type species has ever been designated... |
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Kiprijanoff |
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