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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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| Chilantaisaurus Chilantaisaurus Chilantaisaurus is a genus of neovenatorid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Ulansuhai Formation of China . The type species, C. tashuikouensis, was described by Hu in 1964. Chilantaisaurus was a large theropod, estimated as weighing between and... |
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| Eustreptospondylus Eustreptospondylus Eustreptospondylus is a genus of megalosaurid dinosaur, from the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic period in southern England, at a time when Europe was a series of scattered islands Eustreptospondylus ("well-curved vertebra", in reference to the arrangement of the spine in the original... |
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Alick Walker Alick Donald Walker was a British palaeontologist, after whom the Alwalkeria genus of dinosaur is named.... |
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| Fabrosaurus Fabrosaurus Fabrosaurus ) was a genus of herbivorous dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic . As the only fossil known of it is a partial jawbone with three teeth, Fabrosaurus is a nomen dubium and may in fact be the same as Lesothosaurus.Fabrosaurus was around 1 meter long... |
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| Metriacanthosaurus Metriacanthosaurus Metriacanthosaurus is a genus of sinraptorid dinosaur from the upper Oxford Clay of England, dating to the mid-Jurassic Period, about 160 million years ago .... |
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Alick Walker Alick Donald Walker was a British palaeontologist, after whom the Alwalkeria genus of dinosaur is named.... |
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Dsungaripterus Dsungaripterus Dsungaripterus was a genus of pterosaur, with an average wingspan of . It lived during the Early Cretaceous, in China, where the first fossil was found in the Junggar Basin.-Discovery and species:... |
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Germanodactylus Germanodactylus Germanodactylus is a genus of dsungaripteroid pterodactyloid pterosaur from Late Jurassic-age rocks of Germany, including the Solnhofen limestone. Its specimens were long thought to pertain to Pterodactylus. Its head crest is a distinctive feature.-Description:Germanodactylus is described as... |
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Non-mammalian
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