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Data coutersy 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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| "Proiguanodon" | Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy... |
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Informal name that was found to be synonymous with 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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New taxa
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"Tatenectes Tatenectes Tatenectes is an extinct genus of cryptoclidid plesiosaur known from the Upper Member of the Sundance Formation of Wyoming. It was named by O'Keefe and Wahl in 2003 and the type species is Tatenectes laramiensis.... " |
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