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Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy 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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| "Leipsanosaurus" | Disputed. |
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Possible junior synonym of Struthiosaurus Struthiosaurus Struthiosaurus is one of the smallest known and most basal genera of nodosaurid dinosaurs, from the Late Cretaceous period of Austria, Romania and France in Europe. It was protected by body armour... . |
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| Notoceratops Notoceratops Notoceratops is the name given to a dubious genus of dinosaur based on a toothless dentary from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia , probably dating from the Campanian and about 77 million years old.-Discovery and naming:In 1918 Augusto Tapia named the type species Notoceratops Bonarellii... |
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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Non-mammalian
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Akidnognathus Akidnognathus Akidnognathus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*... |
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Whaitsia Whaitsia Whaitsia is an extinct genus of therocephalian therapsid.-References:*... |
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