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- Barnum Brown prospected the Two Medicine FormationTwo Medicine FormationThe 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...
, but found nothing significant. - Lull published a mongraph wherein he discusses AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase.
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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Alectrosaurus Alectrosaurus Alectrosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of Inner Mongolia. It was a bipedal carnivore with a body shape similar to its much larger relative, Tyrannosaurus rex... |
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Austrosaurus Austrosaurus Austrosaurus was a sauropod dinosaur from the Allaru Mudstone, from the early Cretaceous of Central-Western Queensland in Australia.-Discovery and species:... |
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Bactrosaurus Bactrosaurus Bactrosaurus is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur that lived in east China during the late Cretaceous, about 70 mya. The position Bactrosaurus occupies in the Cretaceous makes it one of the earliest known hadrosaurs, and although it is not known from a full skeleton, Bactrosaurus is one of the best... |
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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... |
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Coeluroides Coeluroides Coeluroides is a nomen dubium. A small, little-known dinosaur, specifically a theropod, Coeluroides lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now India. It is known from scattered tail vertebrae discovered in the Lameta Formation... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:... |
Charles Alfred Matley Charles Alfred Matley was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales.He married Sarah A. Loach in Birmingham in 1891.... |
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Compsosuchus Compsosuchus Compsosuchus is an extinct genus of abelisaurian dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous. It lived in India. Compsosuchus was described in 1933 by von Huene and Matley. The type species is C. solus. The genus is often considered a nomen dubium.-References:* at Dino Russ's Lair... |
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Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:... |
Charles Alfred Matley Charles Alfred Matley was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales.He married Sarah A. Loach in Birmingham in 1891.... |
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Dryptosauroides Dryptosauroides Dryptosauroides is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a large theropod possibly belonging to the Abelisauridae.... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:... |
Charles Alfred Matley Charles Alfred Matley was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales.He married Sarah A. Loach in Birmingham in 1891.... |
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Indosaurus Indosaurus Indosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur once living in what is now India. It lived approximately 69 million years ago, in the Maastrichtian division of the Late Cretaceous... |
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Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:... |
Charles Alfred Matley Charles Alfred Matley was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales.He married Sarah A. Loach in Birmingham in 1891.... |
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Indosuchus Indosuchus Indosuchus is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period , a theropod related to Abelisaurus. Like most theropods, Indosuchus was a bipedal carnivore... |
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Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:... |
Charles Alfred Matley Charles Alfred Matley was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales.He married Sarah A. Loach in Birmingham in 1891.... |
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Jubbulpuria Jubbulpuria Jubbulpuria is the name given to a dubious genus of small dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of India.The genus was in 1932 named by Friedrich von Huene. The generic name refers to Jabalpur in the vicinity of which the fossils were found. The type species, Jubbulpuria tenuis, was described by von... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:... |
Charles Alfred Matley Charles Alfred Matley was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales.He married Sarah A. Loach in Birmingham in 1891.... |
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Laevisuchus Laevisuchus Laevisuchus is a genus of abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous.Its remains were discovered by Charles Alfred Matley near Jabalpur in Maastrichtian deposits in the Lameta Formation in India, and named and described by paleontologists Friedrich von Huene and Matley in 1933. The... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:... |
Charles Alfred Matley Charles Alfred Matley was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales.He married Sarah A. Loach in Birmingham in 1891.... |
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Mongolosaurus Mongolosaurus Mongolosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous of China.In 1928 a team from the American Museum of Natural History, headed by Roy Chapman Andrews, at On Gong Gol near Hukongwulong in Inner Mongolia, in Quarry 714 discovered a sauropod tooth. In 1933 Charles W... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
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... |
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Ornithomimoides Ornithomimoides Ornithomimoides is a dubious genus of small theropod dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous period of India. Two species have been identified, though they are known only from isolated vertebrae. O. barasimlensis is known from five dorsal vertebrae, and O. mobilis from four smaller vertebrae, found at... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... |
Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:... |
Charles Alfred Matley Charles Alfred Matley was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales.He married Sarah A. Loach in Birmingham in 1891.... |
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Pinacosaurus Pinacosaurus Pinacosaurus is a genus of medium-sized ankylosaur dinosaurs that lived from the late Santonian to the late Campanian stages of the late Cretaceous Period , in Mongolia and China... |
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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... |
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Non-mammalian
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