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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
Eoceratops	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...	May be a synonym of 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... .
Kangnasaurus Kangnasaurus Kangnasaurus is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur found in supposedly Early Cretaceous rocks of South Africa. It is known from a tooth and possibly some postcranial remains. At times, it has been considered dubious or a valid genus...	Valid taxon	Haughton
"Kentrosaurus Kentrosaurus Kentrosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Tanzania. Its fossils have been found only in the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, dated to the Kimmeridgian stage, between about 155.7 ± 4 Ma and 150.8 ± 4 Ma . Apparently, all finds belong to one species, K... "		Hennig
"Poposaurus Poposaurus Poposaurus is a genus of reptile from the Late Triassic of the southwestern United States. It was a crurotarsan archosaur which lived in what is now Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and Texas. The type species, Poposaurus gracilis, was described by M. G. Mehl in 1915. The second species, P... "	Misidentification.	Mehl	A misidentified non-dinosaurian archosaur.
Spinosaurus Spinosaurus Spinosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in what is now North Africa, from the lower Albian to lower Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous period, about 112 to 97 million years ago. This genus was first known from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German...	Valid taxon	Ernst Stromer Ernst Stromer Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach was a German paleontologist.He described the following Cretaceous dinosaurs from Egypt: Aegyptosaurus, Bahariasaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, and the largest known theropod, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus...

Turtles

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Cratochelone Cratochelone Cratochelone is an extinct genus of sea turtle in the family Protostegidae and containing a single species Cratochelone berneyi. The species is known only from the mid to late Albian Toolebuc Formation, part of the rolling downs group, in the Hughenden of Central northern Queensland,...	gen et sp nov	valid	Loangman	Albian Albian The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous epoch/series. Its approximate time range is 112.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 99.6 ± 0.9 Ma...	Toolebuc Formation Toolebuc Formation The Toolebuc Formation is a geological formation in Queensland, Australia whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...	Australia	largest protostegid turtle from Australia

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alopecognathus Alopecognathus Alopecognathus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Cerdodon Cerdodon Cerdodon is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-See also:* List of synapsidsMr Felipe Yaluff is a living specimen of Cerdodon --References:*...	Valid
Galesuchus Galesuchus Galesuchus is an extinct genus of Gorgonopsia. Its fossils have been found in Africa, in the Middle-Permian rocks. Galesuchus had a small skull and a short snout.-Further reading:...	Valid
Moschosaurus Moschosaurus Moschosaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Scoliomus	Valid
Scylacorhinus Scylacorhinus Scylacorhinus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Scymnognathus Scymnognathus Scymnognathus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Simorhinella	Valid
Struthiocephalus Struthiocephalus Struthiocephalus is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsid from the Permian of South Africa.-Sources:Dinosaur Encyclopedia by Jayne ParsonsThe Origin and Evolution of Mammals by T. S...	Valid
Trochosaurus Trochosaurus Trochosaurus is an extinct genus of mammal-like reptile. It belong to a synapsid suborder called Therocephalia. Like them, and the mammals, it had a secondary palate....	Valid
Tropidostoma Tropidostoma Tropidostoma is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid

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