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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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Poekilopleuron Poekilopleuron Poekilopleuron is an extinct genus of large basal tetanuran theropod dinosaur, perhaps belonging to the clade Allosauroidea. It measured 9 metres long and 1 ton in mass... |
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Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps was a French naturalist and palaeontologist.He was born at Caen in Normandy... discovers the remains of the first major French dinosaur find. He names the animal Poekilopleuron Poekilopleuron Poekilopleuron is an extinct genus of large basal tetanuran theropod dinosaur, perhaps belonging to the clade Allosauroidea. It measured 9 metres long and 1 ton in mass... , and mistakenly believes it to be marine. |
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New taxa
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Charitosaurus Charitosaurus Charitosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur.... |
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Meyer |
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Ischyrodon |
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Non-mammalian
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Brithopus Brithopus Brithopus is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsid.-Dinosaurus:Dinosaurus, a junior synonym of Brithopus, was first described in 1845 by Johann Fischer von Waldheim, first as a species of Rhopalodon Brithopus is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsid.-Dinosaurus:Dinosaurus, a junior... |
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Orthopus Orthopus Orthopus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*... |
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Syodon Syodon Syodon is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsid.... |
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