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- Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine FormationTwo Medicine FormationThe Two Medicine Formation is a geologic formation, or rock body, that was deposited between 83.5 ± 0.7 Ma to 70.6 ± 0.6 Ma , during Campanian time, and is located in northwestern Montana...
. He would return yet again in 19351935 in paleontology-Dinosaurs:* Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:* Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University...
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Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George OlshevskyGeorge 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.
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| Edmontonia Edmontonia Edmontonia was an armoured dinosaur, a part of the nodosaur family from the Late Cretaceous Period. It is named after the Edmonton Formation , the unit of rock it was found in.-Description:... |
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"Polacanthoides" |
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May be a subjective synonym of Hylaeosaurus Hylaeosaurus Hylaeosaurus is the most obscure of the three animals used by Sir Richard Owen to first define the new group Dinosauria, in 1842. The original specimen, recovered by Gideon Mantell from the Tilgate Forest in the south of England in 1832, now resides in the Natural History Museum of London, where... . |
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Eurysaurus Eurysaurus Eurysaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Early Jurassic of France, named in 1878. The type material, consisting of a cranium, teeth and five vertebrae, is now lost.... |
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Campylognathoides Campylognathoides Campylognathoides was a genus of "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaur, discovered in the Württemberg Lias deposits, the first specimen consisting of wing fragments... |
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Chalepotherium |
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Gomphodontosuchus Gomphodontosuchus Gomphodontosuchus is a genus created to have described the species Gomphodontosuchus arasiliensis.-Species:Gomphodontosuchus brasiliensis, is a species first collected in 1928 by Friedrich von Huene in Santa Maria Formation, the Geopark of Paleorrota, Brazil.-References:* * *... |
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Mnemeiosaurus Mnemeiosaurus Mnemeiosaurus is an extinct genus of Dinocephalian synapsid.-References:*... |
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Taurocephalus Taurocephalus Taurocephalus is an extinct genus of Tapinocephalidae.... |
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Uraniscosaurus |
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