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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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| Acrocanthosaurus Acrocanthosaurus Acrocanthosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that existed in what is now North America during the Aptian and early Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Like most dinosaur genera, Acrocanthosaurus contains only a single species, A. atokensis. Its fossil remains are found mainly in the U.S... |
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| Pachyrhinosaurus Pachyrhinosaurus Pachyrhinosaurus is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period of North America. The first examples were discovered by Charles M. Sternberg in Alberta, Canada, in 1946, and named in 1950. Over a dozen partial skulls and a large assortment of other fossils from various species... |
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Sycosaurus Sycosaurus Sycosaurus is an extinct genus of Gorgonopsia. It was first named by Haughton in 1924, and contains four species, S. brodiei, S. kingoriensis, S. laticeps, S. vanderhorsti... |
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Theropsodon Theropsodon Theropsodon is a genus of traversodontid cynodont from the Middle Triassic of Tanzania. Fossils have been found from the Manda Formation. A single holotype skull of the type species T. njaliliris was named by German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1950.... |
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Tigrisaurus Tigrisaurus Tigrisaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*... |
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