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Newly named dinosaurs

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
Archaeornithomimus Archaeornithomimus Archaeornithomimus is a genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China, 70 million years ago....	Valid taxon	Dale A. Russell
Azendohsaurus Azendohsaurus Azendohsaurus was a genus of herbivorous archosauromorph from the Late Triassic Period of Morocco. The type species is known only from a partial jaw fragment from Morocco. Azendohsaurus was previously regarded as a dinosaur, as either an ornithischian or a prosauropod...	Valid taxon	J. M. Dutuit
Dromiceiomimus	Valid taxon	Dale A. Russell
Gallimimus Gallimimus Gallimimus is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. With individuals as long as , it was one of the largest ornithomimosaurs...	Valid taxon	Halszka Osmólska Halszka Osmólska Halszka Osmólska was a Polish paleontologist who had specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs.She was born in Poznań. A member of the 1965 and 1970 Polish–Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi Desert, she described many finds from these rocks, often with Teresa Maryańska... Roniewicz	Rinchen Barsbold
"Gracilisuchus Gracilisuchus Gracilisuchus is an extinct genus of tiny crurotarsan from the Middle Triassic. It was a suchian close to the ancestry of crocodiles, and was at one time thought to be a dinosaur, but this hypothesis has since been rejected... "	Misidentification.	Alfred Romer Alfred Romer Alfred Sherwood Romer was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.-Biography:...		Valid non-dinosaurian taxon. Actually a primitive ornithodire.
"Lewisuchus Lewisuchus Lewisuchus is a genus of archosaur that lived during the Middle Triassic ; it was a silesaurid dinosauriform, a member of the group of reptiles which lead to the dinosaurs. Lewisuchus was about three feet long. Fossils have been found in Argentina... "	Misidentification.	Alfred Romer Alfred Romer Alfred Sherwood Romer was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.-Biography:...		Valid non-dinosaurian taxon. Actually a crurotarsan.
"Thotobolosaurus Thotobolosaurus "Thotobolosaurus" is the name given to an as yet not formally described genus of dinosaur. It lived during the Late Triassic . "Thotobolosaurus" lived in what is present-day Lesotho, and is believed to have been a prosauropod or early sauropod. The suggested "type species", "Thotobolosaurus... "	Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy... .	Paul Ellenberger
Vulcanodon Vulcanodon Vulcanodon was a relatively small early sauropod dinosaur genus from the Early Jurassic of southern Africa. About 6.5 metres long, Vulcanodon was herbivorous and had unusually long bones of the first toe and large claws on the inside toes. The type species, V. karibaensis, was formally...	Valid taxon	Michael A. Raath

Non-mammalian

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