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  • Proaracana
    Proaracana
    Proaracana dubia is an extinct, prehistoric aracanid boxfish that lived during the Lutetian of middle Eocene Monte Bolca.-See also:* Eolactoria* Prehistoric fish* List of prehistoric bony fish...

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  • Eocene
    Eocene
    The Eocene Epoch, lasting from about 56 to 34 million years ago , is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Palaeocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the...

    Monte Bolca
    Monte Bolca
    Monte Bolca is a lagerstätte near Verona, Italy that was one of the first fossil sites with high quality preservation known to Europeans, and is still an important source of fossils from the Eocene....

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    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.
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    Deinonychus
    Deinonychus
    Deinonychus was a genus of carnivorous dromaeosaurid dinosaur. There is one described species, Deinonychus antirrhopus. This 3.4 meter long dinosaur lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 115–108 million years ago . Fossils have been recovered from the U.S...

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    • John Ostrom
      John Ostrom
      John H. Ostrom was an American paleontologist who revolutionized modern understanding of dinosaurs in the 1960s, when he demonstrated that dinosaurs are more like big non-flying birds than they are like lizards , an idea first proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in the 1860s, but which had garnered...

    Riojasaurus
    Riojasaurus
    Riojasaurus was a herbivorous prosauropod dinosaur named after La Rioja Province in Argentina where it was found by José Bonaparte. It lived during the Late Triassic and grew to about long. Riojasaurus is the only known riojasaurid to live in South America.-Description:Riojasaurus had a heavy...

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  • Jose Bonaparte
    José Bonaparte
    José Fernando Bonaparte, Ph.D. , is an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists like Rodolfo Coria...

  • "Riojasuchus
    Riojasuchus
    Riojasuchus is an extinct genus of quadrupedal crurotarsan archosaur. Riojasuchus is a member of Ornithosuchidae, a family of facultatively bipedal carnivores that were geographically widespread during the Late Triassic. Two other genera, Ornithosuchus and Venaticosuchus, are currently known....

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    • Jose Bonaparte
      José Bonaparte
      José Fernando Bonaparte, Ph.D. , is an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists like Rodolfo Coria...


    Ornithosuchid archosaur.
    "Strenusaurus"
    Junior synonym.
    • Jose Bonaparte
      José Bonaparte
      José Fernando Bonaparte, Ph.D. , is an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists like Rodolfo Coria...


    Junior synonym of Riojasaurus
    Riojasaurus
    Riojasaurus was a herbivorous prosauropod dinosaur named after La Rioja Province in Argentina where it was found by José Bonaparte. It lived during the Late Triassic and grew to about long. Riojasaurus is the only known riojasaurid to live in South America.-Description:Riojasaurus had a heavy...

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    "Syntarsus
    Syntarsus
    *Syntarsus is a beetle in the Colydiinae subfamily.*Megapnosaurus, a theropod dinosaur, was formerly called Syntarsus, and is occasionally still referred to as such....

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    Preoccupied name.
    • Raath

    Preoccupied by Fairmaire, 1869. Renamed Megapnosaurus.

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    Nesodactylus
    Nesodactylus
    Nesodactylus was a genus of "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaur from the Oxfordian-age Upper Jurassic Jagua Formation of Pinar del Río, western Cuba....


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