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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.
Name Status Authors Notes Images
Amygdalodon
Amygdalodon
Amygdalodon was a genus of herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck. It is a nomen dubium. The dinosaur itself is from the Bajocian stage of the Jurassic, and only a few bone fragments and teeth have been discovered...

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

  • Cabrera
"Arizonasaurus
Arizonasaurus
Arizonasaurus was a ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic . Arizonasaurus is found in the Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation of northern Arizona. A fairly complete skeleton was found in 2002 by Sterling Nesbitt. The taxon has a large sailback formed by elongate neural spines of the...

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Misidentification.
  • Welles

A misidentified Poposaurid.
"Libycosaurus
Libycosaurus
Libycosaurus was one of the last anthracothere genera. It lived from the Middle to the Late Miocene, and ranged throughout Central and Northern Africa, and in Uganda, in what was then a lush, marshy environment....

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Misidentification.
  • Bonarelli

A misidentified anthracothere mammal
Mammal
Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...

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Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

Kunminia

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