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Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky
George 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.
Name Status Authors Notes Images
Algoasaurus
Algoasaurus
Algoasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Tithonian-early Valanginian-age Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Upper Kirkwood Formation of Cape Province, South Africa. It was a neosauropod; although it has often been assigned to the Titanosauridae, there is no evidence for this, and recent...


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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Centrosaurus
Centrosaurus
Centrosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous of Canada. Their remains have been found in the Dinosaur Park Formation and uppermost Oldman Formation, dating from 76.5 to 75.5 million years ago....


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  • Lawrence Lambe
    Lawrence Lambe
    Lawrence Morris Lambe was a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist from the Geological Survey of Canada .His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from the fossil beds in Alberta, did much to bring dinosaurs into the public eye and helped usher in the Golden...


Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

Glanosuchus
Glanosuchus
Glanosuchus is an genus of scylacosaurid therocephalian from the Late Permian of South Africa. The type species G. macrops was named by Robert Broom in 1904. Glanosuchus had a middle ear structure that was intermediate between that of early therapsids and mammals...


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Placerias
Placerias
Placerias was a dicynodont that lived during the late Carnian age of the Triassic Period...


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Prodicynodon
Prodicynodon
Prodicynodon is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...


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Scapanodon

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