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  • Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in 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...

    . He would return yet again in 1935
    1935 in paleontology
    -Dinosaurs:* Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:* Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University...

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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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Edmontonia
Edmontonia
Edmontonia was an armoured dinosaur, a part of the nodosaur family from the Late Cretaceous Period. It is named after the Edmonton Formation , the unit of rock it was found in.-Description:...

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  • Sternberg
    Charles Hazelius Sternberg
    Charles Hazelius Sternberg , was an American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist. His older brother, Dr. George M. Sternberg was a military surgeon assigned to Fort Harker near Ellsworth, Kansas and brought the rest of Sternberg family to Kansas to live on his ranch about 1868...


"Polacanthoides"

Junior synonym
  • Nopcsa
    Franz Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvás
    Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás was a Hungarian-born aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, and paleontologist...


May be a subjective synonym of Hylaeosaurus
Hylaeosaurus
Hylaeosaurus is the most obscure of the three animals used by Sir Richard Owen to first define the new group Dinosauria, in 1842. The original specimen, recovered by Gideon Mantell from the Tilgate Forest in the south of England in 1832, now resides in the Natural History Museum of London, where...

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Scolosaurus
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  • Nopcsa
    Franz Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvás
    Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás was a Hungarian-born aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, and paleontologist...


New taxa

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Eurysaurus
Eurysaurus
Eurysaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Early Jurassic of France, named in 1878. The type material, consisting of a cranium, teeth and five vertebrae, is now lost....


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Nopcsa

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New taxa

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Name Status Authors Notes

Campylognathoides
Campylognathoides
Campylognathoides was a genus of "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaur, discovered in the Württemberg Lias deposits, the first specimen consisting of wing fragments...


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Strand

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Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

Chalepotherium

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Gomphodontosuchus
Gomphodontosuchus
Gomphodontosuchus is a genus created to have described the species Gomphodontosuchus arasiliensis.-Species:Gomphodontosuchus brasiliensis, is a species first collected in 1928 by Friedrich von Huene in Santa Maria Formation, the Geopark of Paleorrota, Brazil.-References:* * *...


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Mnemeiosaurus
Mnemeiosaurus
Mnemeiosaurus is an extinct genus of Dinocephalian synapsid.-References:*...


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Taurocephalus
Taurocephalus
Taurocephalus is an extinct genus of Tapinocephalidae....


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Uraniscosaurus

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