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Newly named dinosaurs

Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Status Authors Notes Images
"Anatosaurus" Junior synonym of Edmontosaurus
Edmontosaurus
Edmontosaurus is a genus of crestless hadrosaurid dinosaur. It contains two species: Edmontosaurus regalis and Edmontosaurus annectens. Fossils of E. regalis have been found in rocks of western North America that date from the late Campanian stage of the Cretaceous Period 73 million years ago,...

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  • "Chienkosaurus" Junior synonym of Szechuanosaurus.
    • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)
    Sinocoelurus
    Sinocoelurus
    Sinocoelurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the ?Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Kyangyan Series of Sichuan, China. It is an obscure tooth taxon.-History:Famous Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhongjian Sinocoelurus (meaning "Chinese hollow tail", in reference to location and to relate the new...

    Valid taxon
  • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)
  • "Spondylosoma
    Spondylosoma
    Spondylosoma is a genus of archosaur of uncertain affinities from the late Ladinian-age Middle Triassic Lower Santa Maria Formation in Geopark of Paleorrota, Brazil. Recent studies have gone back and forth on its identity, suggesting rauisuchian or basal saurischian dinosaur...

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    Non-dinosaurian archosaur
    Archosaur
    Archosaurs are a group of diapsid amniotes whose living representatives consist of modern birds and crocodilians. This group also includes all extinct non-avian dinosaurs, many extinct crocodilian relatives, and pterosaurs. Archosauria, the archosaur clade, is a crown group that includes the most...

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  • 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:...

  • Szechuanosaurus
    Szechuanosaurus
    Szechuanosaurus is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic. This dinosaur lived in the Asia in the Oxfordian and early Kimmeridgian . It is based on four undiagnostic teeth from the Shangshaximiao Formation.-Discovery and species:Three species have been assigned to this genus...

    Nomen dubium
    Nomen dubium
    In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...

  • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)
  • Yunnanosaurus
    Yunnanosaurus
    Yunnanosaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Early to Middle Jurassic Period, a position in time that makes it one of the last prosauropods. It is closely related to Lufengosaurus...

    Valid taxon
  • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)

  • Non-mammalian

    Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Broomosuchus
    Broomosuchus
    Broomosuchus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...


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    Rubidgina

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