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Newly named dinosaurs
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Cionodon Cionodon Cionodon was a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. The type species, Cionodon arctatus lived in what is now present-day Colorado. It is classified as a hadrosaur, and was formally described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1874. It is a nomen dubium because it is based on very fragmentary... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen... |
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Craterosaurus Craterosaurus Craterosaurus was a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Early Cretaceous around 145-136 million years ago. Its fossils were found in England... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
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Possible subjective synonym of Regnosaurus Regnosaurus Regnosaurus is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period in what is now England.-Discovery and species:... . |
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Ischyrosaurus Ischyrosaurus "Ischyrosaurus" was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset, Cambridgeshire, England... |
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Hulke, 1874 vide Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:... , 1888 |
Preoccupied by Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen... , 1869. |
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Morinosaurus Morinosaurus Morinosaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from an unnamed formation of Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic rocks from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Départment du Pas-de-Calais, France... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
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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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Polyonax Polyonax Polyonax was a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Denver Formation of Colorado, USA... |
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Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen... |
Junior subjective synonym of Triceratops Triceratops Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur which lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago in what is now North America. It was one of the last dinosaur genera to appear before the great Cretaceous–Paleogene... . |
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New taxa
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Colymbosaurus Colymbosaurus Colymbosaurus is a genus of English plesiosaur described in 1874 by Seeley. The only bones found include 74 vertebrae, ribs, coracoids, a scapula and fore and hind limbs . This specimen may be the missing body of Kimmerosaurus, which would make this a cryptoclid instead of an elasmosaurid... |
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Eretmosaurus Eretmosaurus Eretmosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur.... |
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Mauisaurus Mauisaurus Mauisaurus is a genus of plesiosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period around 80 to 69 million years ago in what is now New Zealand. It was the largest plesiosaur, and perhaps the largest marine reptile in New Zealand waters at the time. Mauisaurus haasti is the only known species of the... |
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Muraenosaurus Muraenosaurus Muraenosaurus is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile, from the Middle Jurassic of Europe. Fossils have been found in England and France.... |
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Newly named pterosaurs
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Coloborhynchus Coloborhynchus Coloborhynchus is a genus in the pterosaur family Ornithocheiridae, and is known from the Lower Cretaceous of England , and possibly the Aptian age of Brazil and Texas, depending on which species are included.-Description:The type specimen of Coloborhynchus is known only from a partial upper jaw... |
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Jr. synonym of Ornithocheirus. |
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new taxa
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| Taniwhasaurus Taniwhasaurus Taniwhasaurus is an extinct genus of mosasaur, a carnivorous, marine reptile which inhabited New Zealand, Japan and Antarctica. The genus was a close relative of the genera Tylosaurus and Hainosaurus.-Species:-T... |
Valid | Hector | Late Campanian Campanian The Campanian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch . The Campanian spans the time from 83.5 ± 0.7 Ma to 70.6 ± 0.6 Ma ... |
Conway Formation Conway Formation The Conway Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Plesiosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from its strata.... |
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