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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
Saurolophus
Saurolophus
Saurolophus is a genus of large hadrosaurine duckbill that lived about 69.5-68.5 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous of North America and Asia; it is one of the few genera of dinosaurs known from multiple continents. It is distinguished by a spike-like crest which projects up and back...

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  • Barnum Brown
    Barnum Brown
    Barnum Brown , a paleontologist born in Carbondale, Kansas, and named after the circus showman P.T. Barnum, discovered the second fossil of Tyrannosaurus rex during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil hunters working from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century.Sponsored...


Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

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


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


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Emydops
Emydops
Emydops is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the Permian of South Africa. Emydops was first named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1912 when he described Emydops minor. In the following years, the genus grew to include thirteen species...


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Galeops
Galeops
Galeops is an extinct genus of therapsid....


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


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


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Tritheledon

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