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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.
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Acrocanthosaurus
Acrocanthosaurus
Acrocanthosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that existed in what is now North America during the Aptian and early Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Like most dinosaur genera, Acrocanthosaurus contains only a single species, A. atokensis. Its fossil remains are found mainly in the U.S...

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  • Stovall
  • Langston
  • Pachyrhinosaurus
    Pachyrhinosaurus
    Pachyrhinosaurus is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period of North America. The first examples were discovered by Charles M. Sternberg in Alberta, Canada, in 1946, and named in 1950. Over a dozen partial skulls and a large assortment of other fossils from various species...

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  • C. M. Sternberg

  • Non-mammalian

    Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Kitchingia

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    Silphoictidoides

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    Sycosaurus
    Sycosaurus
    Sycosaurus is an extinct genus of Gorgonopsia. It was first named by Haughton in 1924, and contains four species, S. brodiei, S. kingoriensis, S. laticeps, S. vanderhorsti...


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    Theropsodon
    Theropsodon
    Theropsodon is a genus of traversodontid cynodont from the Middle Triassic of Tanzania. Fossils have been found from the Manda Formation. A single holotype skull of the type species T. njaliliris was named by German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1950....


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


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