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  • Eugene Stebinger became the first to identify the Two Medicine Formation
    Two Medicine Formation
    The Two Medicine Formation is a geologic formation, or rock body, that was deposited between 83.5 ± 0.7 Ma to 70.6 ± 0.6 Ma , during Campanian time, and is located in northwestern Montana...

     and to formally described its first fossil finds, which were excavated the previous year.

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky
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.
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Anchiceratops
Anchiceratops
Anchiceratops is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of western North America. Like other ceratopsids, it was a quadrupedal herbivore with three horns on its face, a parrot-like beak, and a long frill extending from the back of its head. The two horns above...


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  • 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...

Brachyceratops
Brachyceratops
Brachyceratops is a dubious genus of ceratopsian dinosaur known only from partial juvenile specimens dating to the late Cretaceous Period of Montana, United States....


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  • Charles W. Gilmore
    Charles W. Gilmore
    Charles Whitney Gilmore was an American paleontologist, who named dinosaurs in North America and Mongolia, including the Cretaceous sauropod Alamosaurus, Alectrosaurus, Archaeornithomimus, Bactrosaurus, Brachyceratops, Chirostenotes, Mongolosaurus, Parrosaurus, Pinacosaurus, Styracosaurus and...

Chasmosaurus
Chasmosaurus
Chasmosaurus is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period of North America. Its name means 'opening lizard', referring to the large openings in its frill . With a length of and a weight of , Chasmosaurus was a ceratopsian of average size...


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  • Lawrence Lambe
    Lawrence Lambe
    Lawrence Morris Lambe was a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist from the Geological Survey of Canada .His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from the fossil beds in Alberta, did much to bring dinosaurs into the public eye and helped usher in the Golden...

Corythosaurus
Corythosaurus
Corythosaurus is a genus of duck-billed dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period, about 77-76.5 million years ago. It lived in what is now North America...

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  • 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...

  • Dicraeosaurus
    Dicraeosaurus
    Dicraeosaurus is a genus of small diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur. It was named for the spines on the back of the neck. The first fossil was described by paleontologist Werner Janensch in 1914.Unlike most diplodocoids, Dicraeosaurus had a large head with a relatively short and wide neck...

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  • Werner Janensch
    Werner Janensch
    Werner Ernst Martin Janensch was a German paleontologist and geologist.Janensch's most famous contributions stemmed from the expedition he led with Edwin Hennig to the Tendaguru Beds in what is now Tanzania...


  • Gorgosaurus
    Gorgosaurus
    Gorgosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, between about 76.5 and 75 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in the Canadian province of Alberta and possibly the U.S. state of Montana....


    Disputed.
    • Lawrence Lambe
      Lawrence Lambe
      Lawrence Morris Lambe was a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist from the Geological Survey of Canada .His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from the fossil beds in Alberta, did much to bring dinosaurs into the public eye and helped usher in the Golden...


    Possible junior synonym of Albertosaurus
    Albertosaurus
    Albertosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, more than 70 million years ago. The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which...

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    Gryposaurus
    Gryposaurus
    Gryposaurus was a genus of duckbilled dinosaur that lived about 83 to 75.5 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous of North America...

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    • Lawrence Lambe
      Lawrence Lambe
      Lawrence Morris Lambe was a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist from the Geological Survey of Canada .His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from the fossil beds in Alberta, did much to bring dinosaurs into the public eye and helped usher in the Golden...

    Leptoceratops
    Leptoceratops
    Leptoceratops , was a primitive ceratopsian dinosaur genus from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Western North America, at the same time as its giant...

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  • 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...


  • "Protorosaurus
    Protorosaurus
    Protorosaurus , a lizard-like reptile of the order Prolacertiformes, is the earliest known archosauromorph. It lived during the Late Permian period in Germany. In 1914, a new ceratopsian dinosaur found by Lawrence Lambe was again given the name Protorosaurus...

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    • Lawrence Lambe
      Lawrence Lambe
      Lawrence Morris Lambe was a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist from the Geological Survey of Canada .His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from the fossil beds in Alberta, did much to bring dinosaurs into the public eye and helped usher in the Golden...


    Preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosauromorph von Meyer, 1830. Renamed Chasmosaurus
    Chasmosaurus
    Chasmosaurus is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period of North America. Its name means 'opening lizard', referring to the large openings in its frill . With a length of and a weight of , Chasmosaurus was a ceratopsian of average size...

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    "Stephanosaurus
    Stephanosaurus
    Stephanosaurus is a dubious genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur, with a complicated taxonomic history.In 1902, Lawrence Lambe named a new set of hadrosaurid limb material and other bones from Alberta as Trachodon marginatus...

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    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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    • Lawrence Lambe
      Lawrence Lambe
      Lawrence Morris Lambe was a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist from the Geological Survey of Canada .His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from the fossil beds in Alberta, did much to bring dinosaurs into the public eye and helped usher in the Golden...


    Possible junior synonym of Lambeosaurus
    Lambeosaurus
    Lambeosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived about 76 to 75 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous Period of North America. This bipedal/quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaur is known for its distinctive hollow cranial crest, which in the best-known species resembled a hatchet...

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    Brancasaurus
    Brancasaurus
    Brancasaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Germany. The type species is Brancasaurus brancai, first named by Wegner in 1914 in honor of German paleontologist Wilhelm von Branca...


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    Wegner

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    Lonchodectes
    Lonchodectes
    Lonchodectes was a genus of pterosaur from several formations dating to the Turonian of England, mostly in the area around Kent...


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    Hooley

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    Non-mammalian

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    Arctops
    Arctops
    Arctops is an extinct genus of therapsid known from the Late Permian of South Africa. Its skull was 30 cm long. It perished during or before the P-T Extintion event....


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    Lamiasaurus

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    Mormosaurus
    Mormosaurus
    Mormosaurus is an extinct genus of Tapinocephalidae. It was first named by Watson in 1914, and contains one species, M. Seeleyi. Mormosaurus had a long skull.-External links:* in the Paleobiology Database...


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    Moschognathus
    Moschognathus
    Moschognathus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...


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    Pnigalion
    Pnigalion
    Pnigalion is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...


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    Reference

    • Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 298–309.
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