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Eriocampa tulameenensis Eriocampa tulameenensis Eriocampa tulameenensis is an extinct species of sawfly in the family Tenthredinidae that is known from early to early middle Eocene lake deposits near the small community of Princeton, British Columbia in the Similkameen region.... |
sp nov |
Valid |
H M A Rice |
Early Eocene |
Allenby Formation |
 Canada |
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Pseudosiobla campbelli |
sp nov |
Valid |
H M A Rice |
Early Eocene |
Horsefly beds |
Canada |
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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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Aralosaurus Aralosaurus Aralosaurus meaning "Aral Sea lizard", because it was found in the Aral Sea was a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous of what is now Kazakhstan... |
gen et sp nov |
Valid taxon |
Rozhdestvensky Anatoly Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky Anatoly Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky was a Russian paleontologist responsible for naming many dinosaurs, including Aralosaurus and Probactrosaurus.... |
Late Cretaceous Late Cretaceous The Late Cretaceous is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous series... |
 Kazakhstan |
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New taxa
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Ceraunosaurus |
gen et sp nov |
jr synonym |
Thurmond |
Late Cretaceous Late Cretaceous The Late Cretaceous is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous series... |
 United States |
junior synonym of Trinacromerum Trinacromerum Trinacromerum is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile belonging to the plesiosaur suborder. It lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Kansas. It was 3 meters long. Its teeth show it fed on small fish.... |
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