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Newly named dinosaurs

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
"Doryphorosaurus"	Junior synonym.	Franz Nopcsa	Junior synonym of Kentrosaurus Kentrosaurus Kentrosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Tanzania. Its fossils have been found only in the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, dated to the Kimmeridgian stage, between about 155.7 ± 4 Ma and 150.8 ± 4 Ma . Apparently, all finds belong to one species, K... .
"Gigantoscelus"	Junior synonym.	van Hoepen	Junior synonym of Euskelosaurus Euskelosaurus Euskelosaurus was a semi-bipedal dinosaur from the Late Triassic. It was a prosauropod that lived in the Late Triassic Period, in present-day South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe. It was first described by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1866 as Euskelesaurus brownii based on holotype BMNH R1625, limb and... .
"Kentrurosaurus"		Hennig	Junior objective synonym of Kentrosaurus Kentrosaurus Kentrosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Tanzania. Its fossils have been found only in the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, dated to the Kimmeridgian stage, between about 155.7 ± 4 Ma and 150.8 ± 4 Ma . Apparently, all finds belong to one species, K... .
Prosaurolophus Prosaurolophus Prosaurolophus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America. It is known from the remains of at least 25 individuals belonging to two species, including skulls and skeletons, but it remains obscure...	Valid taxon	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...
Struthiomimus Struthiomimus Struthiomimus is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. It was a long-legged, ostrich-like dinosaur.The bipedal Struthiomimus stood about long and tall at the hips and weighed around...	Valid taxon	Henry Fairfield Osborn Henry Fairfield Osborn Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. ForMemRS was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist.-Early life and career:...

New taxa

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"Apractocleidus"	Valid	Smellie	possible synonym of Cryptocleidus
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Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Jonkeria Jonkeria Jonkeria was a very large herbivorous dinocephalian, from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Lower Beaufort Group, of the South African Karroo...	Valid
Platycraniellus Platycraniellus Platycraniellus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid

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