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Newly named dinosaurs
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Aepisaurus Aepisaurus Aepisaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Grès vert of Départment du Vaucluse, France, around 100 million years ago. It is an obscure genus from an unknown family, represented by a single humerus, now lost... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
Gervais |
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Oplosaurus Oplosaurus Oplosaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
Gervais |
Possible subjective synonym of Pelorosaurus Pelorosaurus Pelorosaurus was a huge plant-eating dinosaur. Pelorosaurus was one of the first sauropod dinosaurs ever discovered. Pelorosaurus lived during the Early Cretaceous period, about 138-112 million years ago. Fossils referred to Pelorosaurus have been found in England and Portugal... . |
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New taxa
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Brachytrachelus |
Preoccupied. |
Geibel |
preoccupied name; now known as Scaphognathus |
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Ctenochasma Ctenochasma Ctenochasma is a genus of Late Jurassic pterosaur belonging to the suborder pterodactyloidea. Three species are currently recognized: C. roemeri , C. taqueti, and C. elegans... |
Valid |
von Meyer |
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Macrotrachelus |
Jr. synonym. |
Giebel |
Jr. synonym of Pterodactylus. |
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Paleontologists
- Gideon Algernon Mantell, the scientist who described the first known herbivorous dinosaurIguanodonIguanodon 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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