Amphibians

A. C. Henrici. 1998. A new pipoid anuran from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):321-332

Dinosaurs

• A paper in the journal Nature
  Nature (journal)
  Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...
  
  is published by Karen Chin and others announcing the earlier
  1995 in paleontology
  -Arachnids:-Insects:-Dinosaurs:* Fossil hunters working on behalf of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum discover a large coprolite from a theropod dinosaur in Maastrichtian strata. In 1997 it is sent to coprolite specialist Karen Chin, who determines that this specimen of fossilized feces was...
  
   discovery of a "king-sized coprolite" attributed to Tyrannosaurus rex
  Tyrannosaurus
  Tyrannosaurus meaning "tyrant," and sauros meaning "lizard") is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex , commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is a fixture in popular culture. It lived throughout what is now western North America, with a much wider range than other...
  
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• Lourinhasaurus gastroliths documented.
• Cedarosaurus gastroliths documented.
• Caudipteryx gastroliths documented.

• Volunteers from the Denver Museum of Natural History discovered Tony's Bone Bed in the Cedar Mountain Formation
  Cedar Mountain Formation
  The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to distinctive sedimentary rocks in eastern Utah that occur between the underlying Morrison Formation and overlying Naturita Formation . It is composed of non-marine sediments, that is, sediments deposited in rivers, lakes and on flood plains...
  
  's Poison Strip Member.

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	Images
Altirhinus Altirhinus Altirhinus is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of Mongolia.-Description:Altirhinus was herbivorous and bipedal when walking or running, but probably became quadrupedal when feeding from the ground. According to the original description, the entire body...	Valid taxon	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...			rowspan="99" |
Camposaurus Camposaurus Camposaurus is a coelophysoid dinosaur genus from the Late Triassic of North America. With fossils dating back to the early to middle Norian stage, it is the oldest known neotheropod. It is known from partial lower leg bones, holotype UCMP 34498, and other fragmentary material...	Valid taxon	Hunt, Lucas Spencer G. Lucas Spencer George Lucas is an American paleontologist and stratigrapher, and curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. His main areas of study are late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils, stratigraphy, and continental deposits,... , Heckert,	Sullivan, and Lockley
Caseosaurus Caseosaurus Caseosaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Late Triassic of North America. The type species, Caseosaurus crosbyensis, was formally described by Hunt, Lucas, Heckert, Sullivan and Lockley in 1998. It was found in the Dockum Formation of Texas, in strata dating to the Late Triassic...	Valid taxon	Hunt, Lucas Spencer G. Lucas Spencer George Lucas is an American paleontologist and stratigrapher, and curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. His main areas of study are late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils, stratigraphy, and continental deposits,... , Heckert,	Sullivan, and Lockley
Caudipteryx Caudipteryx Caudipteryx is a genus of peacock-sized theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Aptian age of the early Cretaceous Period . They were feathered and remarkably birdlike in their overall appearance....	Valid taxon	Ji Q., Phillip Currie,	Mark Norell and Ji S.
Cristatusaurus Cristatusaurus Cristatusaurus is an extinct genus of spinosaurid theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Africa....	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...	Dale A. Russell
Eobrontosaurus Eobrontosaurus Eobrontosaurus is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America. It was a sauropod probably closely related to Apatosaurus. It is known from a single site from the lower Morrison Formation, dating to about 154 million years ago. It grew up to long.The type species, E...	Valid taxon	Robert Bakker
Eolambia Eolambia Eolambia is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur from the mid-Cretaceous Period of the USA.In 1992 Carole Jones and her husband Ramal Jones near Castle Dale in Emery County, Utah, on the San Rafael Swell Anticline discovered a fossil site which would be named the Carol Quarry in her honour...	Valid taxon	James Kirkland
Gargoyleosaurus Gargoyleosaurus Gargoyleosaurus is one of the earliest ankylosaurs known from reasonably complete fossil remains. Its skull measures in length, and its total body length is an estimated . It may have weighed as much as...	Valid taxon	Kenneth Carpenter Kenneth Carpenter Kenneth Carpenter is a paleontologist. He is the museum director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum and author or co-author of a number of books on dinosaurs and Mesozoic life... Miles	Cloward
Gastonia Gastonia (dinosaur) Gastonia is a genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of North America, around 125 million years ago. Closely related to Polacanthus, it has a sacral shield and large shoulder spikes. It is also the first polacanthine dinosaur to have been mounted for display at the Denver Museum of...	Valid taxon	James Kirkland
Gongxianosaurus Gongxianosaurus Gongxianosaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period. It was a sauropod or prosauropod from China.The type species, G. shibeiensis, was described by He, Wang, Lui, Zhou, Lui, Cai and Dai in 1998.-References:...	Valid taxon	He, Wang C., Liu S., Zhou F.,	Liu T., Cai and Dai
Histriasaurus Histriasaurus Histriasaurus was a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous . Its fossils, holotype WN V-6, were found in Croatia, and described in 1998 by Dalla Vecchia. It was a diplodocoid sauropod, related to, but more primitive than, Rebbachisaurus...	Valid taxon	Dalla Vecchia
Lourinhanosaurus Lourinhanosaurus Lourinhanosaurus was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur genus that lived during the Late Jurassic Period . Its first remains were found at Peralta, near Lourinhã, Portugal in 1982, but were not described until 1998, by Portuguese paleontologist Octávio Mateus.Its type species is L...	Valid taxon	Mateus
Lourinhasaurus Lourinhasaurus Lourinhasaurus was a sauropod dinosaur genus hailing from Late Jurassic strata from two localities in Estremadura, Portugal. It was described by Dantas et al. in 1998. Its type species is L...	Valid taxon	Dantas, Sanz, Da Silva,	Ortega, Dos Santos and Cachao
Megaraptor Megaraptor Megaraptor is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in the Coniacian stage of the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been discovered in the Patagonian region of Argentina...	Valid taxon	Novas
Nedcolbertia Nedcolbertia Nedcolbertia is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It was a coelurosaur which lived in North America during the Barremian. Kirkland, Britt, Madsen and Burge in 1995 reported its discovery in the basal Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah. The type species, N...	Valid taxon	James Kirkland, Britt, Whittle,	S. K. Madsen and Burge
Notohypsilophodon Notohypsilophodon Notohypsilophodon was a genus of hypsilophodont ornithopod dinosaur. It was described as the only hypsilophodont known from South America, although this assessment is not universally supported, and Gasparinisaura is now believed to have been a hypsilophodont as well...	Valid taxon	Martínez
Ozraptor Ozraptor Ozraptor is an abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Colalura Sandstone of Australia.In 1967 a group of four twelve-year-old Scotch College schoolboys found a fossil at the Bringo Railway Cutting site near Geraldton, which they showed to Professor Rex Prider of the University of...	Valid taxon	J. A. Long and	Ralph Molnar Ralph Molnar Ralph E. Molnar is a paleontologist who had been Curator of Mammals at the Queensland Museum and more recently associated with the Museum of Northern Arizona. He is also a research associate at the Texas natural Science Centre. He co-authored descriptions of the dinosaurs Muttaburrasaurus, Kakuru,...
Protohadros Protohadros Protohadros is a genus of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous , 95 million years ago....	Valid taxon	Head
Rahonavis Rahonavis Rahonavis is a genus of bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now northwestern Madagascar. It is known from a partial skeleton found in Maevarano Formation rocks at a quarry near Berivotra, Mahajanga Province...	Valid taxon	Forster, Sampson,	Luis M. Chiappe and Krause
Scipionyx Scipionyx Scipionyx is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Italy, around 113 million years ago. There has been only one skeleton discovered, which is notable for the preservation of soft tissue and internal organs. It is the fossil of a juvenile only half a metre long...	Valid taxon	Dal Sasso and	Signore
Shanxia Shanxia Shanxia is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur that lived during the upper Cretaceous Period. Its fossils were recovered and named after the Shanxi Province of China, and it is known only from scrappy remains found in river deposits...	Valid taxon	Barrett, You,	Upchurch and Burton
Shuvuuia Shuvuuia Shuvuuia is a genus of bird-like theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of Mongolia. It is a member of the family Alvarezsauridae, small coelurosaurian dinosaurs which are characterized by short but powerful forelimbs specialized for digging. The type species is Shuvuuia deserti, or...	Valid taxon	Luis M. Chiappe, Mark Norell and	Clark
Sonorasaurus Sonorasaurus Sonorasaurus is a genus of brachiosaurid dinosaur from the middle Cretaceous . It was a herbivorous sauropod whose fossils have been found in southern Arizona in the United States. Its name, which means "Sonora lizard", comes from the Sonoran Desert where its fossils were first found...	Valid taxon	Ratkevich, Sidor, Varricchio,	G. P. Wilson and Jeffrey A. Wilson 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.... .
Tianzhenosaurus Tianzhenosaurus Tianzhenosaurus is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur discovered in Tianzhen County, at Kangdailiang near Zhaojiagou Village, in Shanxi Province, China, in the Late Cretaceous Huiquanpu Formation. Thus far, a virtually complete skull and postcranial skeleton have been assigned to the genus, which is...	Valid taxon	Pang and	Cheng Z.
Variraptor Variraptor Variraptor is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of France.Between 1992 and 1995 amateur paleontologists Patrick Méchin and Annie Méchin-Salessy uncovered the remains of a small theropod in the Grès à Reptiles Formation at La Bastide Neuve, near Fox-Amphoux...	Valid taxon	Le Loeuff and	Buffetaut
Zuniceratops Zuniceratops Zuniceratops was a ceratopsian dinosaur from the mid Turonian of the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now New Mexico, United States...	Valid taxon	Wolfe and	James Kirkland

New taxa

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Name	Status	Authors		Notes
"Dendrorhynchus"	Valid	Ji S.-A. Ji Q.
Normannognathus Normannognathus Normannognathus is a genus of dsungaripteroid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic Argiles d'Octeville Formation of France....	Valid	Buffetaut Lepage, J.-J. Lepage, G.

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