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Newly named crustaceans
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Dinosaurs
- In the summer excavation resumed on the Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur, discovered in a quarry near the Glenn HighwayGlenn Highway-References:* Pasch, A. D., K. C. May. 2001. Taphonomy and paleoenvironment of hadrosaur from the Matanuska Formation in South-Central Alaska. In: Mesozioc Vertebrate Life. Ed.s Tanke, D. H., Carpenter, K., Skrepnick, M. W. Indiana University Press. Pages 219-236.-External links:**...
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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...
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"Angaturama'" | Junior synonym of Irritator Irritator Irritator is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in the early Cretaceous Period , around 110 million years ago. Current estimations indicate a length of 8 meters . It was found in Brazil... |
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Bagaraatan Bagaraatan Bagaraatan was a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. Its fossils were found in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Bagaraatan may have been around 3–4 metres in length.... |
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Deltadromeus Deltadromeus Deltadromeus is a genus of large basal ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur from Northern Africa. It had long, unusually slender hind limbs for its size, suggesting that it was a swift runner. The skull is not known. Two fossil specimens of a single species Deltadromeus (meaning "delta runner") is a... |
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Paul Sereno Paul Callistus Sereno is an American paleontologist from the University of Chicago who discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents. He has conducted excavations at sites as varied as Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco, and Niger... |
Jeffrey A. Wilson Jeffrey A. Wilson also known as "JAW "is a professor of geological sciences and assistant curator at the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan.... . |
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Gasparinisaura Gasparinisaura Gasparinisaura is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in Argentina. The type species, Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis, was described in 1996 by Coria and Salgado. Originally classified as an iguanodont, recent research indicates it is more basal... |
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Rodolfo Coria Dr. Rodolfo Coria is an Argentine paleontologist.He is best known for having directed the field study and co-naming of the Argentinosaurus in 1993, and the Giganotosaurus , in 1996 among other landmark South American dinosaurs... |
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Irritator Irritator Irritator is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in the early Cretaceous Period , around 110 million years ago. Current estimations indicate a length of 8 meters . It was found in Brazil... |
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Ligabueino Ligabueino Ligabueino is a genus of noasaurid dinosaur named after Italian doctor Giancario Ligabue. It is known only from an extremely fragmentary specimen, measuring 70 cm long. In spite of initial reports that it was an adult, the unfused vertebrae indicate that the specimen was a juvenile... |
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José Bonaparte José Fernando Bonaparte, Ph.D. , is an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists like Rodolfo Coria... |
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"Jensenosaurus" | Junior synonym of Supersaurus Supersaurus Supersaurus is a genus of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur discovered by Vivian Jones of Delta, Colorado, in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado in 1972. The fossil remains came from the Brushy Basin Member of the formation, dating to about 153 million years ago... |
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... vide:
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"Luanpingosaurus" | Junior synonym of Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia, about 130 to 100 million years ago. It is notable for being the most species-rich dinosaur genus... |
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"Magulodon Magulodon "Magulodon" is the name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous . It was a possible ornithischian, either an ornithopod or basal ceratopsian, which lived in what is now Maryland, in the United States. The type species, "Magulodon muirkirkensis", was coined by... " |
Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy... |
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Neovenator Neovenator Neovenator is a genus of allosauroid dinosaur. Since its discovery on the Isle of Wight, UK, it has become one of the best-known large carnivorous dinosaurs in Europe. Neovenator was at first considered possibly a new species of Megalosaurus. It measured approximately 7.5 meters in length,... |
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Parvicursor Parvicursor Parvicursor is a genus of tiny maniraptoran dinosaur with long slender legs for fast running. At only about 39 cm from snout to end of tail, and 162 grams in weight, it is one of the smallest non-avian dinosaurs known from an adult specimen.Like other members of the family Alvarezsauridae,... |
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Patagonykus Patagonykus Patagonykus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina. This alvarezsaur was discovered in exposures of the Portezuelo Member of the Rio Neuquen Formation in the Neuquen Province of Argentina... |
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Pawpawsaurus Pawpawsaurus Pawpawsaurus, meaning "Pawpaw Lizard", is a nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Cretaceous of Tarrant County, Texas, discovered in May 1992. The only species yet assigned to this taxon, Pawpawsaurus campbelli, is based on a complete skull from the marine Paw Paw Formation... |
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Pellegrinisaurus Pellegrinisaurus Pellegrinisaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a titanosaur which lived in what is now Argentina. The type species, Pellegrinisaurus powelli, was described by Salgado in 1996, and is based on mostly vertebrae... |
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Qinlingosaurus Qinlingosaurus Qinlingosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from Cretaceous Asia. The type species, Q. luonanensis, was named by Xue, Zhang and Bi in 1996 on the strength of an ilium, ischium and three vertebrae. From such little fossil evidence, it is classified as Sauropoda incertae sedis... |
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Rayososaurus Rayososaurus Rayososaurus is a genus of plant-eating sauropod dinosaur of the superfamily Diplodocoidea. It was found in the Rayoso Formation, in Patagonia, Argentina and lived about 99 million years ago . The type species is R... |
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José Bonaparte José Fernando Bonaparte, Ph.D. , is an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists like Rodolfo Coria... |
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Shanyangosaurus Shanyangosaurus Shanyangosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur found in Shaanxi, China, and known only from a few fragmentary leg bones. The bones are reportedly hollow; this, along with other features of the femur and known foot bones, suggest it is a member of the coelurosauria, but a specific family cannot be... |
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Siamotyrannus Siamotyrannus Siamotyrannus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous . It is known from a partial skeleton which includes part of the pelvis, the sacrum, and a number of vertebrae. The fossils were found in 1993 by Somchai Traimwichanon in the Sao Khua Formation of northeastern Thailand... |
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Sigilmassasaurus Sigilmassasaurus Sigilmassasaurus is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur from the middle of the Cretaceous Period of northern Africa... |
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Sinosauropteryx Sinosauropteryx Sinosauropteryx was the first genus of dinosaur outside of Avialae to be found with evidence of feathers. They were covered with "furry" coats of very simple filament-like feathers... |
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Pachycostasaurus Pachycostasaurus Pachycostasaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur.... |
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Thalassiodracon Thalassiodracon Thalassiodracon is an extinct genus of small pliosaur that lived in the Late Triassic to the Early Jurassic of Europe. The animal is known from a number of complete skeletons found by the fossil collector Thomas Hawkins in Somerset, England... |
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Kepodactylus Kepodactylus Kepodactylus is an extinct genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, USA.... |
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