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  • Proraphidia
    Proraphidia
    Proraphidia is a genus of Snakefly in the extinct family Mesoraphidiidae. The genus currently contains three species; Proraphidia gomezi from Spain, Proraphidia hopkinsi from England, and the type species Proraphidia turkestanica from Kazakhstan. The genus was first described by O. M. Martynova...

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  • Martynova
  • Jurassic
    Jurassic
    The Jurassic is a geologic period and system that extends from about Mya to  Mya, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of the Mesozoic era, also known as the age of reptiles. The start of the period is marked by...

     Kazakhstan *P. turkestanica named as type species

    Newly named dinosaurs

    Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
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    Lufengosaurus
    Lufengosaurus
    Lufengosaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic period in what is now southwestern China.-Discovery and species:...

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    • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)
    Saurophagus Valid taxon
    Stovall vide:
    • Ray, 1941

    Preoccupied by Swainson 1831.
    "Succinodon
    Succinodon
    Succinodon putzeri was the scientific name given by German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene to a fossil that he attributed to the sauropod family Titanosauridae. It was discovered in late-Cretaceous rock near Warsaw, Poland, in 1941...

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    Original fossil was petrified wood with mollusc borings that was misidentified as a jaw bone with tooth sockets.
    Friedrich von Huene
    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:...


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    Aristonectes
    Aristonectes
    Aristonectes is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now South America and Antarctica...


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    Cabrera

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    Non-mammalian

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    Bayloria

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