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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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| Abrictosaurus Abrictosaurus Abrictosaurus is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period of what is now southern Africa. It was a small bipedal herbivore or omnivore, approximately 1.2 meters long, and weighing less than 45 kilograms .This dinosaur is known from the fossil remains of only... |
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| Bagaceratops Bagaceratops Bagaceratops, meaning "small-horned face" , is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia around 80 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous... |
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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... |
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| Barapasaurus Barapasaurus Barapasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from Early Jurassic rocks of India. The specific name for its only species, B. tagorei, means 'Tagore's', which honors Bengali poet, writer, painter, and musician Rabindranath Tagore.-Description:... |
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Sankar Chatterjee Sankar Chatterjee is a paleontologist, and is the Paul W. Horn Professor of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University. He earned his Ph. D. from the University of Calcutta in 1970 and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian... |
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| Bradycneme Bradycneme Bradycneme is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Sânpetru Formation of the Haţeg Basin, Transylvania, Romania. It is known only from a partial right lower leg , which its describers believed came from a giant owl.-History:Harrison and Walker described... |
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Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... . Possibly synonymous with Elopteryx Elopteryx Elopteryx is a genus of troodontid maniraptoran theropod dinosaur based on fragmentary fossils found in late Cretaceous Period rocks of Romania. These fossils date from the early-mid Maastrichtian faunal stage, c.71-68 million years ago... . |
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| "Heptasteornis Heptasteornis Heptasteornis is the name given to a dubious genus of small dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. The type species is Heptasteornis andrewsi, described as a presumed gigantic prehistoric owl in 1975... " |
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Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... . Possibly synonymous with Elopteryx Elopteryx Elopteryx is a genus of troodontid maniraptoran theropod dinosaur based on fragmentary fossils found in late Cretaceous Period rocks of Romania. These fossils date from the early-mid Maastrichtian faunal stage, c.71-68 million years ago... . |
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| "Yubasaurus" | Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy... . |
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Same as Yandusaurus Yandusaurus Yandusaurus is a genus of herbivorous basal euornithopod dinosaur from the Bathonian age of China.-Discovery and naming:... . |
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Puntanipterus Puntanipterus Puntanipterus was a genus of ?dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous La Cruz Formation of San Luis, Argentina.... |
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Bonaparte Sanchez, T.M |
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Quetzalcoatlus Quetzalcoatlus Quetzalcoatlus was a pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of North America , and one of the largest known flying animals of all time. It was a member of the Azhdarchidae, a family of advanced toothless pterosaurs with unusually long, stiffened necks... |
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Lawson, Douglas A. Douglas A. Lawson Douglas A. Lawson is a geologist, paleontologist, and computer scientist.In 1971, Lawson discovered a partial wing Douglas A. Lawson (born 1947) is a geologist, paleontologist, and computer scientist.In 1971, Lawson discovered a partial wing Douglas A. Lawson (born 1947) is a geologist,... |
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Gluteus minimus Gluteus minimus (fossil) Gluteus minimus is a fossil from the Upper Devonian of Iowa. It was first collected in 1902, but only described in 1975. Each animal appears as a bi-lobed lens up to , and almost all specimens share the same slight asymmetry. The species is of uncertain affinities, having been thought of as either... |
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Richard Arnold Davis & Holmes A. Semken, Jr. |
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