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Newly named dinosaurs

George 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.

Name	Status	Authors	Notes
Ankylosaurus Ankylosaurus Ankylosaurus is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur, containing one species, A. magniventris...	Valid taxon	Barnum Brown Barnum Brown Barnum Brown , a paleontologist born in Carbondale, Kansas, and named after the circus showman P.T. Barnum, discovered the second fossil of Tyrannosaurus rex during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil hunters working from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century.Sponsored...
"Gigantosaurus Gigantosaurus Gigantosaurus is a poorly known sauropod dinosaur genus from England. The type species, Gigantosaurus megalonyx, was named and described by Harry Govier Seeley in 1869... "	Preoccupied.	Eberhard Fraas Eberhard Fraas Eberhard Fraas was a German geologist and paleontologist. He worked as a curator at the Stuttgarter Naturaliensammlung and discovered the dinosaurs of the Tendaguru formation in then German East Africa ....	Preoccupied by Harry Govier Seeley, 1869 renamed Tornieria Tornieria Tornieria is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur from Late Jurassic of Tanzania. It has a convoluted taxonomic history.-Discovery and naming:... .
Halticosaurus Halticosaurus Halticosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic period . It was a coelophysoid found in the Middle Stubensandstein formation of what is present-day Germany...	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... .	Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:...
"Pachysaurus"	Preoccupied.	Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:...	Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843 renamed Pachysauriscus.
"Scaphonyx"	Misidentification.	Woodward	A misidentified rhynchosaur Rhynchosaur Rhynchosaurs were a group of Triassic diapsid reptiles related to the archosaurs.-Description:Rhynchosaurs were herbivores, and at times abundant , with stocky bodies and a powerful beak... .
Sellosaurus	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:...

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors
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Procotylus Procotylus Procotylus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur....	Valid	Korotneff
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Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alopecodon	Valid
Kannemeyeria Kannemeyeria Kannemeyeria was a large dicynodont of the family Kannemeyeriidae, one of the first representatives of the family, and hence one of the first large herbivores of the Triassic...	Valid
Tetraceratops Tetraceratops Tetraceratops insignis was a lizard-like synapsid. It lived during the Early Permian period. According to a recent, controversial report, T. insignis is the first known therapsid. Other scientists, on the other hand, say that it is a more primitive species of synapsid, possibly an unusual,...	Valid
Trochosuchus Trochosuchus Trochosuchus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid

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