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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	Images
Lukousaurus Lukousaurus Lukousaurus is a taxon based on most of a small skull’s snout, displaying distinctive lachrymal horns, found in the Early Jurassic-age Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China and was described by Chung Chien Young in 1948....	Valid taxon	Yang Zhongjian Yang Zhongjian Yang Zhongjian , courtesy name Keqiang , also known as C.C. Young, was one of China's foremost paleontologists. He has been called the 'Father of Chinese vertebrate paleontology'... (as Young C. C.)
Sinosaurus Sinosaurus Sinosaurus was a tetanuran theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Triassic or Early Jurassic Period. Its fossils were found in the Lufeng Formation, in Yunnan Province, China. It was a bipedal carnivore...	Valid taxon	Yang Zhongjian Yang Zhongjian Yang Zhongjian , courtesy name Keqiang , also known as C.C. Young, was one of China's foremost paleontologists. He has been called the 'Father of Chinese vertebrate paleontology'... (as Young C. C.)

New taxa

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Batrachognathus Batrachognathus Batrachognathus is an extinct genus of "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Karabastau Svita of the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan....	Valid	Rjabinin
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Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Clelandina Clelandina Clelandina is an extinct genus of Gorgonopsia. It was first named by Broom in 1948, and contains four species, C. majora, C. maximus, C. rubidgei and C. scheepersi.-Sources:**-Further reading:...	Valid
Digalodon Digalodon Digalodon is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Koupia Koupia Koupia is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Pardocephalus Pardocephalus Pardocephalus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Robertia Robertia Robertia was a small, primitive dicynodont, and among the earlier members of this group. The type species R. broomiana was named in 1981...	Valid
Smilesaurus Smilesaurus Smilesaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Tetracynodon Tetracynodon Tetracynodon is an extinct genus of therocephalian....	Valid

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