1957 in paleontology - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Lexovisaurus Lexovisaurus Lexovisaurus was one of the first dinosaurs from mid-to-Late Jurassic Europe, 164.7 mya to be discovered. It was a stegosaur. Its fossils have been found in France and northern England....	Valid taxon	Robert Hoffstetter Robert Hoffstetter Robert Hoffstetter was a 20th century taxonomist who was influential in categorizing reptiles. He labeled the Bolyeriidae family of snakes.-References:...
Lusitanosaurus Lusitanosaurus Lusitanosaurus is a genus of basal thyreophoran dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Portugal.The genus was first described by Albert-Félix de Lapparent and Georges Zbyszewski in 1957. The type species is Lusitanosaurus liasicus. The generic name is derived from Lusitania, the ancient Latin name...	Valid taxon	Albert-Félix de Lapparent Albert-Félix de Lapparent Albert-Félix de Lapparent was a French palaeontologist. He was also a Sulpician priest. He undertook a number of fossil-hunting explorations in the Sahara desert. He contributed greatly to our knowledge of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures...	Zbyszewski

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