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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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Hylosaurus |
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Fitzinger |
Junior objective synonym of Hylaeosaurus Hylaeosaurus Hylaeosaurus is the most obscure of the three animals used by Sir Richard Owen to first define the new group Dinosauria, in 1842. The original specimen, recovered by Gideon Mantell from the Tilgate Forest in the south of England in 1832, now resides in the Natural History Museum of London, where... . |
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Palaeosaurus Palaeosaurus Several very different genera of prehistoric animals have been named Palaeosaurus or Paleosaurus since the 1830s. Further confusing the matter, all of the species are poorly known or poorly preserved and both spellings have been used interchangeably, even by the same authors.The repeated recurrence... |
Preoccupied |
Fitzinger |
Preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosaur named by Geoffroy Saint-Hilare in 1833 1833 in paleontology -Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:... . Renamed Sphenosaurus Sphenosaurus Sphenosaurus is a poorly known genus of procolophonid, a type of prehistoric reptile from the Permian. Originally assigned the name Palaeosaurus sternbergii, by... . Also turned out to be a misidentified procolophonid Procolophonid The Procolophonids - family Procolophonidae - are a group of small reptiles. Skulls have been discovered, roughly 5 cm in diameter.... . |
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Paleosaurus |
Misidentification. |
Riley |
Stutchbury |
Misidentified non-dinosaurian archosaur. The name is also dubious Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... . |
Squalodon Squalodon Squalodon is an extinct genus of whales, belonging to the family Squalodontidae. Named by Grateloup in 1840, it was originally believed to be an iguanodontid dinosaur but has since been reclassified. The name Squalodon comes from Squalus, a genus of shark... |
Misidentification. |
Grateloup |
Misidentified cetacean. |
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Therosaurus |
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Fitzinger |
Junior objective synonym of Iguanodon Iguanodon Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs... . |
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Newly named plesiosaurs
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Hexatarsostinus Hexatarsostinus Hexatarsostinus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur.... |
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Hawkins |
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Pentatarsostinius |
Jr. synonym |
Hawkins |
Junior synonym of Plesiosaurus Plesiosaurus Plesiosaurus was a genus of large marine sauropterygian reptile that lived during the early part of the Jurassic Period, and is known by nearly complete skeletons from the Lias of England... |
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