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Newly named dinosaurs
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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| Abrosaurus Abrosaurus Abrosaurus is a genus of macronarian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of what is now Asia, one of many dinosaurs found at the Dashanpu Quarry in the Sichuan Province of China. Like most sauropods, Abrosaurus was a quadrupedal herbivore but it was rather small for a sauropod, not... |
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| Asiaceratops Asiaceratops Asiaceratops was a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in China, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan. The type species, A. salsopaludalis, was formally described by Nesov and Kaznyshkina in 1989. A second species, A... |
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| Atlascopcosaurus Atlascopcosaurus Atlascopcosaurus is a genus of herbivorous basal euornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the present Australia.... |
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| Bihariosaurus Bihariosaurus Bihariosaurus was a genus of camptosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Romania. The type species, Bihariosaurus bauxiticus, was described by Marinescu in 1989. It was similar to Camptosaurus, and was an iguanodont.... |
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| "Daptosaurus" | Junior synonym of Deinonychus Deinonychus Deinonychus was a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid dinosaur. There is one described species, Deinonychus antirrhopus. This 3.4 meter long dinosaur lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 115–108 million years ago . Fossils have been recovered from the U.S... |
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| "Eucentrosaurus" | Junior synonym of Centrosaurus Centrosaurus Centrosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous of Canada. Their remains have been found in the Dinosaur Park Formation and uppermost Oldman Formation, dating from 76.5 to 75.5 million years ago.... |
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| "Gravisaurus" | Junior synonym of Lurdusaurus Lurdusaurus Lurdusaurus is a genus of large ornithopod dinosaur which lived in the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous, sometime between 121 to 112 million years ago.-Discovery and naming:... |
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| Leaellynasaura Leaellynasaura Leaellynasaura is a genus of small herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous, first discovered in Dinosaur Cove, Australia. The type species is Leaellynasaura amicagraphica... |
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| "Peltosaurus Peltosaurus Peltosaurus is an extinct genus of anguid lizard from North America that lived from the Middle Eocene to the Early Miocene. It was named in 1873 by Edward Drinker Cope... " |
Valid non-dinosaurian Anguidae The Anguidae is a large and diverse family of lizards native to the northern hemisphere. The group includes the slowworms, glass lizards, and alligator lizards, among others. Anguidae is divided into three subfamilies and contains 94 species in eight genera. Their closest living relatives are the... taxon |
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| Revueltosaurus Revueltosaurus Revueltosaurus is a genus of prehistoric crurotarsan from Late Triassic New Mexico and Arizona.According to William Parker, who discovered the partial skeleton, "we have pretty much erased the record of Triassic ornithischian dinosaurs from North America, Europe and worldwide, except for South... |
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| "Tenantosaurus" | Misspelling of Tenontosaurus Tenontosaurus Tenontosaurus is a genus of medium- to large-sized ornithopod dinosaur. The genus is known from the late Aptian to Albian ages of the middle Cretaceous period sediments of western North America, dating between 115 to 108 million years ago... |
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| Turanoceratops Turanoceratops Turanoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur, possibly a ceratopsid. Its fossil remains were recovered from the Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan, dating to the late Cretaceous Period about 90 million years ago... |
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Turneria Turneria Turneria is a genus of ants that belongs to the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae. They form small colonies of fewer than 500 workers, and nest in trees and twigs.... |
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Bogolubovia Bogolubovia Bogolubovia is a genus of pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Rybushka Formation of Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is named for Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolubov, the palaeontologist who discovered the remains in 1914. It has in 1991 been assigned to the Azhdarchidae. Wellnhofer however,... |
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Mesadactylus Mesadactylus Mesadactylus is an extinct genus of pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, USA.... |
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Jensen Padian |
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Tapejara Tapejara Tapejara is a genus of Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous Period... |
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