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Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George OlshevskyGeorge 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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| Euhelopus Euhelopus Euhelopus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous, between 130 and 112 million years ago . It lived in what is now Shandong Province in China. A large herbivore, it weighed approximately 15-20 tons and attained an adult length of 15m... |
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| "Teleocrater Teleocrater "Teleocrater" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of prehistoric reptile. It was an archosaur originally thought to be a dinosaur. The name "Teleocrater" was coined by English paleontologist Alan Charig in his 1956 doctoral dissertation, but has never been formally published... " |
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Misidentified non-dinosaurian archosaur. |
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