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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
Chialingosaurus Chialingosaurus Chialingosaurus is a genus of stegosaur similar to Kentrosaurus from the Upper Shaximiao Formation, Late Jurassic beds in Sichuan Province in China. Its age makes it one of the oldest species of stegosaurs, living about 160 million years ago...	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.)
Clarencea	Misidentification.	Brink	Junior synonym of non-dinosaurian Sphenosuchus Sphenosuchus Sphenosuchus is an extinct genus of sphenosuchian from the Elliot Formation of South Africa, discovered and described early in the 20th century. The skull is excellently preserved but other than elements of the forelimb and isolated parts of the hind limb, the Sphenosuchus material is incomplete... .
Pachysauriscus	Junior synonym	Kuhn	Junior synonym of Plateosaurus Plateosaurus Plateosaurus is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 216 to 199 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe. Plateosaurus is a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod"... .
Palaeosauriscus Palaeosauriscus Palaeosauriscus is a name that has been given to several different genera of reptiles between 1843 and 1959.Palaeosauriscus fraserianus, described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1878, is a nomen dubium included with Anchisaurus polyzelus. P. diagnosticus is a juvenile Sellosaurus. "P...	Junior synonym	Kuhn	Actually a juvenile Sellosaurus.

New taxa

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Scanisaurus Scanisaurus Scanisaurus meaning "Scania lizard", is a genus of plesiosaur. Person 1996 has classified Scanisaurus in the Cimoliasauridae, as a mesodiran plesiosaur, with a larger head and relatively shorter neck than in dolichodiran plesiosaurs. Scanisaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous of Sweden. It is...	Valid	Persson
Stretosaurus	Valid	Tarlo

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New taxa

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Titanopteryx	Valid	Arambourg
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