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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	Images
Saurolophus Saurolophus Saurolophus is a genus of large hadrosaurine duckbill that lived about 69.5-68.5 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous of North America and Asia; it is one of the few genera of dinosaurs known from multiple continents. It is distinguished by a spike-like crest which projects up and back...	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...

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alopecorhinus Alopecorhinus Alopecorhinus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Emydochampsa Emydochampsa Emydochampsa is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Emydops Emydops Emydops is an extinct genus of dicynodont therapsid from the Permian of South Africa. Emydops was first named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1912 when he described Emydops minor. In the following years, the genus grew to include thirteen species...	Valid
Galeops Galeops Galeops is an extinct genus of therapsid....	Valid
Ictidopsis Ictidopsis Ictidopsis is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Taurops Taurops Taurops is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Tritheledon	Valid

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