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Newly named dinosaurs
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Dryosaurus Dryosaurus Dryosaurus is a genus of an ornithopod dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic period. It was an iguanodont . Fossils have been found in the western United States, and were first discovered in the late 19th century... |
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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... |
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Hortalotarsus |
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Harry Govier Seeley |
Junior subjective synonym of Massospondylus Massospondylus Massospondylus and ) is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the early Jurassic Period . It was described by Sir Richard Owen in 1854 from remains found in South Africa, and is thus one of the first dinosaurs to have been named... . |
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Ornithosuchus Ornithosuchus Ornithosuchus is an extinct genus of crurotarsan from the Late Triassic Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland... |
Misidentification. |
Newton |
Misidentified ornithosuchid archosaur. |
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New taxa
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Cymatosaurus Cymatosaurus Cymatosaurus is an extinct genus of pistosauroid sauropterygian. It is known from Early Triassic to the Middle Triassic period of Germany.... |
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Fritsch |
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New taxa
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"Campylognathus" |
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Plieninger |
preoccupied name; now known as Campylognathoides |
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Non-mammalian
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Thrinaxodon Thrinaxodon Thrinaxodon was a cynodont, an ermine-sized therapsid. Pits on the skull suggest that Thrinaxodon may have had whiskers, and by extension a protective covering of fur. There are suggestions that it was warm-blooded... |
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Seeley |
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