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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
Jaxartosaurus Jaxartosaurus Jaxartosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur similar to Corythosaurus which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in Kazakhstan and China. It had a large, helmet-like crest that it may have used for visual identification, or to vocalize with members of the same herd.The type...	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... .	Riabinin
Parksosaurus Parksosaurus Parksosaurus was a genus of hypsilophodont ornithopod dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. It is based on most of a partially articulated skeleton and partial skull, showing it to have been a small, bipedal, herbivorous dinosaur...	Valid taxon	C. M. Sternberg
Tienshanosaurus Tienshanosaurus Tienshanosaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. It was a sauropod which lived in what is now China....	Valid taxon	Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Brachyprosopus Brachyprosopus Brachyprosopus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Cyonosaurus Cyonosaurus Cyonosaurus is a genus of the extinct suborder Gorgonopsia. There are five species in this genera: C. broomianus, C. kitchingi, C. longiceps , C. rubidgei,, and C. tenuirostris. They lived in the late Permian period, with fossils discovered in South Africa...	Valid
Micrictodon	Valid
Moschoides Moschoides Moschoides is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Myctosuchus Myctosuchus Myctosuchus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Newtonella Newtonella Newtonella is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Nitosaurus Nitosaurus Nitosaurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Procynosuchus Procynosuchus Procynosuchus was a cynodont from the Late Permian. It is considered to be one of the earliest and most basal cynodonts. Remains of Procynosuchus have been found in Germany, Zambia and South Africa...	Valid
Sinokannemeyeria Sinokannemeyeria Sinokannemeyeria was a large , long snouted, Chinese dicynodont with downward-pointing tusks that grew from bulbous projections on its upper jaw. The muscle attachment sites on the back of the skull were quite small, which suggestd that Sinokannemeyeria did not have powerful skull muscles for...	Valid

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