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Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky
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.
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"Astrodonius"
Junior synonym.
  • Kuhn

Junior synonym of Astrodon
Astrodon
Astrodon was a genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, related to Brachiosaurus, that lived in what is now the eastern United States during the Early Cretaceous period. Its fossils have been found in the Arundel Formation, which has been dated through palynomorphs to the Aptian-Albian...

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"Avalonianus
Avalonianus
Avalonianus is a name used for fossil teeth from the Late Triassic of England. It was first described in 1898 by Seeley with the name Avalonia, but that name was preoccupied , so Kuhn renamed it in 1961...

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Misidentification.
  • Kuhn

Dubious
Nomen dubium
In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...

 non-dinosaurian archosaur.
Campylodoniscus
Campylodoniscus
Campylodoniscus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Argentina.The type species was first named and described by Friedrich von Huene in 1929 as Campylodon ameghinoi, the genus name meaning 'bent tooth', from Greek καμπυλος, 'bent' or 'curved' and ὀδών...

Nomen dubium
Nomen dubium
In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...

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  • Kuhn
"Dasygnathoides"
Misidentification.
  • Kuhn

Misidentified ornithosuchid archosaur, also a junior synonym of Ornithosuchus
Ornithosuchus
Ornithosuchus is an extinct genus of crurotarsan from the Late Triassic Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland...

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"Pachysaurops"
Junior synonym
  • Friedrich von Huene
    Friedrich von Huene
    Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:...


Junior objective synonym of Pachysauriscus. Sometimes mistakenly said to have been published in 1959
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Rileyasuchus
Rileyasuchus
Rileyasuchus is a genus of phytosaur from the Rhaetian of England. It has a confusing history, being associated with the taxonomy of Palaeosaurus and Thecodontosaurus, and being a replacement name for a preoccupied genus Rileyasuchus (meaning "Riley’s crocodile") is a genus of phytosaur from...

Nomen dubium
Nomen dubium
In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...

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  • Kuhn

Non-mammalian

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