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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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| Herrerasaurus Herrerasaurus Herrerasaurus was one of the earliest dinosaurs. All known specimens of this carnivore have been discovered in rocks of late Ladinian age in northwestern Argentina... |
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| "Ischisaurus" | Junior synonym of Herrerasaurus Herrerasaurus Herrerasaurus was one of the earliest dinosaurs. All known specimens of this carnivore have been discovered in rocks of late Ladinian age in northwestern Argentina... |
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| "Microsaurops" | Junior synonym of Saltasaurus Saltasaurus Saltasaurus is a genus of titanosaurid sauropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous Period. Relatively small among sauropods, though still massive by the standards of modern creatures, Saltasaurus was characterized by a diplodocid-like head... |
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| "Tanystrosuchus" | Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... . Probably synonymous with Halticosaurus Halticosaurus Halticosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic period . It was a coelophysoid found in the Middle Stubensandstein formation of what is present-day Germany... . |
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| "Triassolestes" | A non-dinosaurian genus. Later renamed Trialestes Trialestes Trialestes is an extinct genus of Late Triassic crocodylomorph that lived in South America. It has been classified as a dinosaur in the past due it being adapted as a terrestrial, running carnivore. It is classified in Sphenosuchia, which were early relatives of crocodilians.- External links :* at... . |
Osvaldo Reig Osvaldo Alfredo Reig, , was an Argentine biologist and paleontologist. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.... |
Preoccupied by Tillyard 1918. |
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