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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.

Newly named dinosaurs

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Alioramus Alioramus Alioramus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia. The type A. remotus, is known from a partial skull and three metatarsals recovered from Mongolian sediments which were deposited in a humid floodplain between 70 and 65 million years ago. These...	Valid taxon	Sergei Kurzanov Sergei Kurzanov Sergei Kurzanov is a Russian paleontologist at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is known mainly for his work in Mongolia and the ex-Soviet republics in Central Asia. In 1998, a species of iguanodont dinosaur from Mongolia was named Altirhinus kurzanovi in his...
Itemirus Itemirus Itemirus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Turonian age of the Late Cretaceous period of Uzbekistan.Itemirus is known from a single small damaged fossil braincase or neurocranium, in 1958 found near the village of Itemir at the Dzharakuduk escarpment in layers of the Bissekty Formation.This...	Valid taxon	Sergei Kurzanov Sergei Kurzanov Sergei Kurzanov is a Russian paleontologist at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is known mainly for his work in Mongolia and the ex-Soviet republics in Central Asia. In 1998, a species of iguanodont dinosaur from Mongolia was named Altirhinus kurzanovi in his...
Othnielosaurus Othnielosaurus Othnielosaurus is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur that lived about 155 to 148 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic-age Morrison Formation of the western United States. It is named in honor of famed paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh, and was formerly assigned to the genus...	Valid taxon	J. H. Madsen
Ouranosaurus Ouranosaurus Ouranosaurus is an unusual genus of herbivorous iguanodont dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous about 110 million years ago in what is now Africa. Ouranosaurus measured about seven to eight meters long...	Valid taxon	Philippe Taquet Philippe Taquet Philippe Taquet is a French paleontologist who specializes in dinosaur systematics of finds primarily in northern Africa.He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences since November 30, 2004...
Zigongosaurus Zigongosaurus Zigongosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic-Late Jurassic-age Shaximiao Formation of Zigong, Sichuan, China...	Disputed.	Hou Chao	Chu	Possible junior synonym of Mamenchisaurus Mamenchisaurus Mamenchisaurus was a plant-eating four-legged dinosaur, known for its remarkably long neck which made up half its total length. It is known from numerous species which ranged in time from 160 to 145 million years ago, from the Oxfordian to Tithonian ages of the late Jurassic Period of... .

New taxa

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Georgia Georgiasaurus Georgiasaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Russia. Otschev originally named the specimen Georgia, but that name was preoccupied...	Valid	Otschev	preoccupied by a genus of mollusk, renamed to Georgiasaurus Georgiasaurus Georgiasaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Russia. Otschev originally named the specimen Georgia, but that name was preoccupied... in 1977
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Non-mammalian

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