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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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Abrosaurus
Abrosaurus
Abrosaurus is a genus of macronarian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of what is now Asia, one of many dinosaurs found at the Dashanpu Quarry in the Sichuan Province of China. Like most sauropods, Abrosaurus was a quadrupedal herbivore but it was rather small for a sauropod, not...

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  • Ouyang

Asiaceratops
Asiaceratops
Asiaceratops was a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in China, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan. The type species, A. salsopaludalis, was formally described by Nesov and Kaznyshkina in 1989. A second species, A...

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  • Lev A. Nesov and Kaznyshkina vide:
  • Lev A. Nesov
  • Kaznyshkina
  • Cherepanov
  • Atlascopcosaurus
    Atlascopcosaurus
    Atlascopcosaurus is a genus of herbivorous basal euornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the present Australia....

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  • Thomas H. Rich
  • Patricia Vickers-Rich
  • Bihariosaurus
    Bihariosaurus
    Bihariosaurus was a genus of camptosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Romania. The type species, Bihariosaurus bauxiticus, was described by Marinescu in 1989. It was similar to Camptosaurus, and was an iguanodont....

    Valid taxon
  • Marinescu
  • "Daptosaurus" Junior synonym of 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...


    Brown vide:
    • Chure
  • McIntosh
  • "Eucentrosaurus" Junior synonym of Centrosaurus
    Centrosaurus
    Centrosaurus is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous of Canada. Their remains have been found in the Dinosaur Park Formation and uppermost Oldman Formation, dating from 76.5 to 75.5 million years ago....

  • Chure
  • McIntosh
  • "Gravisaurus" Junior synonym of Lurdusaurus
    Lurdusaurus
    Lurdusaurus is a genus of large ornithopod dinosaur which lived in the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous, sometime between 121 to 112 million years ago.-Discovery and naming:...


    Chabli vide:
    • David Norman
      David B. Norman
      David Bruce Norman is a British paleontologist, currently Director of the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University. He is a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge where he teaches geology in the Natural Sciences tripos. He is a member of the Palaeontological Association. He has studied Iguanodon...

    Leaellynasaura
    Leaellynasaura
    Leaellynasaura is a genus of small herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous, first discovered in Dinosaur Cove, Australia. The type species is Leaellynasaura amicagraphica...

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  • Thomas H. Rich
  • Patricia Vickers-Rich
  • "Peltosaurus
    Peltosaurus
    Peltosaurus is an extinct genus of anguid lizard from North America that lived from the Middle Eocene to the Early Miocene. It was named in 1873 by Edward Drinker Cope...

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    Anguidae
    The Anguidae is a large and diverse family of lizards native to the northern hemisphere. The group includes the slowworms, glass lizards, and alligator lizards, among others. Anguidae is divided into three subfamilies and contains 94 species in eight genera. Their closest living relatives are the...

     taxon

    Brown vide:
    • Chure
  • McIntosh
  • Revueltosaurus
    Revueltosaurus
    Revueltosaurus is a genus of prehistoric crurotarsan from Late Triassic New Mexico and Arizona.According to William Parker, who discovered the partial skeleton, "we have pretty much erased the record of Triassic ornithischian dinosaurs from North America, Europe and worldwide, except for South...

    Valid non-dinosaurian taxon
  • Hunt
  • "Tenantosaurus" Misspelling of Tenontosaurus
    Tenontosaurus
    Tenontosaurus is a genus of medium- to large-sized ornithopod dinosaur. The genus is known from the late Aptian to Albian ages of the middle Cretaceous period sediments of western North America, dating between 115 to 108 million years ago...


    Brown vide:
    • Chure
  • McIntosh
  • Turanoceratops
    Turanoceratops
    Turanoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur, possibly a ceratopsid. Its fossil remains were recovered from the Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan, dating to the late Cretaceous Period about 90 million years ago...

    Valid taxon
  • Lev A. Nesov and Kaznyshkina vide:
  • Lev A. Nesov
  • Kaznyshkina
  • Cherepanov

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    Name Status Authors Notes

    Turneria
    Turneria
    Turneria is a genus of ants that belongs to the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae. They form small colonies of fewer than 500 workers, and nest in trees and twigs....


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    Chatterjee
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    Name Status Authors Notes

    Bogolubovia
    Bogolubovia
    Bogolubovia is a genus of pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Rybushka Formation of Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is named for Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolubov, the palaeontologist who discovered the remains in 1914. It has in 1991 been assigned to the Azhdarchidae. Wellnhofer however,...


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    Nesov
    A. A. Yarkov

    Mesadactylus
    Mesadactylus
    Mesadactylus is an extinct genus of pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, USA....


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    Jensen
    Padian

    Tapejara
    Tapejara
    Tapejara is a genus of Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous Period...


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    Kellner
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