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Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Epiborkhausenites Epiborkhausenites Epiborkhausenites is an extinct genus of moth in the concealer moth family Oecophoridae and containing a single species Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus...	Gen et sp. nov	valid	Skalski	Bartonian Bartonian The Bartonian is, in the ICS's geological timescale, a stage or age in the middle Eocene epoch or series. The Bartonian age spans the time between and . It is preceded by the Lutetian and is followed by the Priabonian age.-Stratigraphic definition:...	Baltic amber Baltic amber The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite, with about 80% of the world's known amber found there. It dates from 44 million years ago...	Lithuania	monotypic; An Oecophoridae moth

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
Alocodon Alocodon Alocodon is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of what is now Portugal. It was described in 1973 by Richard Anthony Thulborn. It had small ornithopod-like teeth with vertical grooves...	Valid taxon	Thulborn
Efraasia Efraasia Efraasia is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It was a herbivore which lived during the middle Norian stage of the Late Triassic, around 210 million years ago, in what is now Germany...	Valid taxon	Peter Galton Peter Galton Peter M. Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist working in America, who has to date written or co-written about a hundred papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.With Robert Bakker in a joint article...
Kelmayisaurus Kelmayisaurus Kelmayisaurus is an extinct genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous. Its name refers to the petroleum-producing city of Karamay in the Xinjiang province of western China near where it was found.-Discovery and species:...	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming , from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time...
Lisboasaurus Lisboasaurus Lisboasaurus is a small genus of Mesozoic crocodylomorph that lived in fresh water. It is known from fossilized tooth and jaw fragments of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous age. Two species have been described. In the past Lisboasaurus has been interpreted as a Mid Jurassic avialan, troodontid,...	Misidentification.	Seiffert		Valid (although somewhat dubious) non-dinosaurian archosaur Archosaur Archosaurs are a group of diapsid amniotes whose living representatives consist of modern birds and crocodilians. This group also includes all extinct non-avian dinosaurs, many extinct crocodilian relatives, and pterosaurs. Archosauria, the archosaur clade, is a crown group that includes the most... .
Phaedrolosaurus Phaedrolosaurus Phaedrolosaurus was a genus of theropod dinosaur, based on a single tooth possibly from the Valanginian-Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Lianmugin Formation of Wuerho, Xinjiang, China. This tooth, IVPP V 4024-1, was described by Dong Zhiming as like those of Deinonychus, albeit thicker, shorter, and...	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming , from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time...
Phyllodon Phyllodon Phyllodon was a genus of small ornithopod dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic Guimarota Formation of Leiria, Portugal. It may have been closely related to contemporaneous dinosaurs in North America....	Valid taxon	Thulborn
Shantungosaurus Shantungosaurus Shantungosaurus, meaning "Shandong Lizard", is a genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaurs found in the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Formation of the Shandong Peninsula in China.-Description:...	Valid taxon	Hu C.
Trimucrodon Trimucrodon Trimucrodon is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous of what is now Portugal...	Valid taxon	Thulborn
Tugulusaurus Tugulusaurus Tugulusaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from early Cretaceous Tugulu Group in the Urhe area of the People's Republic of China.From 1964 dinosaur fossils were excavated in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang...	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming , from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time...
Wuerhosaurus Wuerhosaurus Wuerhosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of China. As such, it was one of the last genera of stegosaurians known to have existed, since most others lived in the late Jurassic.-Discovery and species:...	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming , from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time...
Wyleyia Wyleyia Wyleyia is a prehistoric bird genus with a single species, Wyleyia valdensis, known from the Early Cretaceous of England. Even this is only known from a single damaged right humerus. It has been named to honor J. F. Wyley, who found the specimen in the Weald Clay deposits of Henfield in Sussex...	Misidentification.	Harrison	C. A. Walker	Valid non-dinosaurian taxon. Actually a bird Bird Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from... .

New taxa

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Eudimorphodon Eudimorphodon Eudimorphodon was a pterosaur that was discovered in 1973 by Mario Pandolfi near Bergamo, Italy and described the same year by Rocco Zambelli. The nearly complete skeleton was retrieved from shale deposited during the Late Triassic , making Eudimorphodon the oldest pterosaur then known...	Valid	Zambelli
Noripterus Noripterus Noripterus is a genus of dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from Lower Cretaceous-age Lianmuqin Formation in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang, China. It was first named by Yang Zhongjian in 1973...	Valid	Yang

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Non-mammalian

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