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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
Chingkankousaurus Chingkankousaurus Chingkankousaurus is the name given to a fossilized bone fragment that probably belonged to a theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period Wangshi Series of Shandong province in eastern China. It was identified by Yang Zhongjian Chingkankousaurus (named for the Ch'ing-kang-kou village) is...	Jr. synonym	Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)	Junior subjective synonym of Tarbosaurus Tarbosaurus Tarbosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that flourished in Asia about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous Period. Fossils have been recovered in Mongolia, with more fragmentary remains found further afield in parts of China. Although many species have been... .
Tsintaosaurus Tsintaosaurus Tsintaosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from China. It was about long, tall and weighed 3 tons. The type species is T. spinorhinus, first described by C. C...	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.)

Non-mammalian

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