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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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| Gwyneddosaurus Gwyneddosaurus Gwyneddosaurus is an extinct genus of aquatic tanystropheid reptile. The type species, G. erici was described in 1945 by Wilhelm Bock, who identified it as a coelurosaurian dinosaur related to Podokesaurus... |
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Misidentified non-dinosaurian reptile. |
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| Neosaurus Neosaurus Neosaurus is a little-known pelycosaur of the family Sphenacodontidae. It was related to the well known Dimetrodon, although much smaller and lived during the Early Permian. Its fossils were found in the Jura region of France.... |
Valid taxon | Gilmore vide:
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Preoccupied by Nopsca, 1923. Renamed Parrosaurus. |
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| Parrosaurus | 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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Possible subjective synonym of Hypsibema |
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