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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
Chuandongocoelurus Chuandongocoelurus Chuandongocoelurus named after the Chuandong in Sichuan Province, China, was a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur first described by Chinese paleontologist He in 1984...	Valid taxon	He
Datousaurus Datousaurus Datousaurus, meaning either "Chieftain lizard" or "Big-head Lizard" was a dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a sauropod collected from the Lower Shaximiao Formation in Dashanpu, Zigong Sichuan province, China...	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming , from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time...	Tang Z.
Harpymimus Harpymimus Harpymimus is a basal ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. Unlike later, more derived ornithomimosaurs, Harpymimus still possessed teeth, although they appear to have been restricted to the dentary of the lower jaw.-Discovery and naming:In...	Valid taxon	Rinchen Barsbold	Altangerel Perle Altangerel Perle Altangerel Perle is a Mongolian palaeontologist.He is employed at the National University of Mongolia. He has described species such as Goyocephale lattimorei, Achillobator giganticus and Erlikosaurus andrewsi. He has been honored by Polish palaeontologist Halszka Osmólska, who named the species...
Kaijiangosaurus Kaijiangosaurus Kaijiangosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. It was a theropod like Megalosaurus. Its fossils, fragmentary remains of the skull, cervical vertebrae and elements of the pectoral girdle and both limbs, were found in China...	Valid taxon	He
Liliensternus Liliensternus Liliensternus was a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur from the Late Triassic period, about 205 Ma.Liliensternus was originally named in 1934 by Friedrich von Huene as a second species of Halticosaurus, H. liliensterni, the specific name honouring the German amateur paleontologist, Dr...	Valid taxon	Welles
Technosaurus Technosaurus Technosaurus is an extinct genus of Late Triassic archosauriform, perhaps a dinosauriform similar to Silesaurus, from the Norian age Upper Triassic Bull Canyon Formation of Texas...	Valid taxon	Sankar Chatterjee Sankar Chatterjee Sankar Chatterjee is a paleontologist, and is the Paul W. Horn Professor of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University. He earned his Ph. D. from the University of Calcutta in 1970 and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian...
Xuanhanosaurus Xuanhanosaurus Xuanhanosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Jurassic of China.The type species Xuanhanosaurus qilixiaensis was named by Dong Zhiming in 1984. The generic name refers to Xuanhan County in Sichuan. The specific name is derived from the town of Qilixia...	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming , from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time...

New taxa

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Azhdarcho Azhdarcho Azhdarcho is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of the Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. It is known from fragmentary remains including the distinctive, elongated neck vertebrae that characterizes members of the family Azhdarchidae, which also includes such giant...	Valid	Nesov
Brasileodactylus Brasileodactylus Brasileodactylus is the name assigned to the remains of a pterosaur from the Lower Santana formation of the Aptian of Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil....	Valid	Kellner
Rhamphinion Rhamphinion Rhamphinion Rhamphinion Rhamphinion (meaning "beak nape"; Greek rhamphos, "beak" is a common part of "rhamphorhynchoid" names, and the remains of this animal came from the rear of the skull, i.e...	Valid	Padian

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Non-mammalian

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