1960 in paleontology
Encyclopedia

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
Inosaurus
Inosaurus
Inosaurus is the name given to a dubious genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. Only partial fossils have ever been found.The type species is Inosaurus tedreftensis, described by Albert-Félix de Lapparent in 1960. The specific name is derived from the location of the site, In Tedreft...

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

.
  • Albert-Félix de Lapparent
    Albert-Félix de Lapparent
    Albert-Félix de Lapparent was a French palaeontologist. He was also a Sulpician priest. He undertook a number of fossil-hunting explorations in the Sahara desert. He contributed greatly to our knowledge of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures...

Lophorhothon
Lophorhothon
Lophorhothon is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, the first genus of dinosaur discovered in Alabama.-Discovery and naming:...

Valid taxon.
  • Langston
  • Silvisaurus
    Silvisaurus
    Silvisaurus, from the Latin silva "woodland" and Greek saurus "lizard", is a nodosaurid ankylosaur from the middle Cretaceous of Kansas.-Discovery and species:...

    Valid taxon.
  • Eaton

  • New taxa

    EWLINE
    Name Status Authors Notes

    Woolungasaurus
    Woolungasaurus
    Woolungasaurus glendowerensis was a plesiosaur, an extinct marine reptile, of the family Elasmosauridae...


    Valid

    Persson

    Valid
    EWLINE

    Non-mammalian

    Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images


    Valid


    Valid
    The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
     
    x
    OK