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Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Hydriomena? protrita Hydriomena? protrita Hydriomena? protrita is an extinct species of moth in the family Geometridae, and possibly in the modern genus Hydriomena. The species is known from late Eocene, Priabonian stage, lake deposits near the small community of Florissant in Teller County, Colorado, USA.-History and...	sp. nov	valid	Cockerell Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell was an American zoologist, born at Norwood, England, and brother of Sydney Cockerell. He was educated at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and then studied botany in the field in Colorado in 1887-90...	Priabonian Priabonian The Priabonian is, in the ICS's geologic timescale, the latest age or the upper stage of the Eocene epoch or series. It spans the time between and...	Florissant Formation	United States	A geometrid moth

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
Alamosaurus Alamosaurus Alamosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. It was a large quadrupedal herbivore. Isolated vertebrae and limb bones indicate that it reached sizes comparable to Argentinosaurus and Puertasaurus, which would make it the...	Valid taxon	Charles W. Gilmore Charles W. Gilmore Charles Whitney Gilmore was an American paleontologist, who named dinosaurs in North America and Mongolia, including the Cretaceous sauropod Alamosaurus, Alectrosaurus, Archaeornithomimus, Bactrosaurus, Brachyceratops, Chirostenotes, Mongolosaurus, Parrosaurus, Pinacosaurus, Styracosaurus and...
Dromaeosaurus Dromaeosaurus Dromaeosaurus was a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous period , sometime between 76.5 and 74.8 million years ago, in the western United States and Alberta, Canada. The name means 'running lizard'....	Valid taxon	Matthew	Barnum Brown Barnum Brown Barnum Brown , a paleontologist born in Carbondale, Kansas, and named after the circus showman P.T. Barnum, discovered the second fossil of Tyrannosaurus rex during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil hunters working from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century.Sponsored...
Erectopus Erectopus Erectopus is an allosauroid theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of France.The material comprising the type series was discovered in the late 19th century from the Phosphate-bearing beds of La Penthèive at Louppy-le-Château in eastern France, which have also produced remains of plesiosaurs,...	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:...
Parasaurolophus Parasaurolophus Parasaurolophus is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 76.5–73 million years ago. It was an herbivore that walked both as a biped and a quadruped. Three species are recognized: P. walkeri , P. tubicen, and the...	Valid taxon	Parks

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors
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Eurycleidus Eurycleidus Eurycleidus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur. The type species is E. arcuatus, which lived during the Hettangian age . Like other plesiosaurs, Eurycleidus probably lived on a diet of fish, using its sharp needle-like teeth to catch prey. Its shoulder bones were fairly large, indicating a powerful...	Valid	Andrews
Leptocleidus Leptocleidus Leptocleidus is an extinct genus of pliosaurid plesiosaur, belonging to the family Leptocleididae. It is the only known pliosaur to be found in sediments on the Isle of Wight.-Etymology:In short, the term Leptocleidus means "slender clavicle"...	Valid	Andrews

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Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Dvinia Dvinia Dvinia was a therapsid mammal-like "reptile" of the family Dviniidae found in Sokolki on the Northern Dvina River near Kotlas in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia...	Valid
Eosimops Eosimops Eosimops is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Inostrancevia Inostrancevia Inostrancevia is a genus of gorgonopsid therapsid found in Sokolki, on the Smaller Northern Dvina River near Kotlas in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. The animal lived 251 million years ago during the Late Permian. The species I...	Valid
Oligokyphus Oligokyphus Oligokyphus was an advanced herbivorous cynodont of the late Triassic to early Jurassic periods. Originally considered to be an early mammal, it is now classified as a synapsid because Oligokyphus does not have the mammalian jaw attachments and it retains a vestigial joint between the quadrate...	Valid
Venjukovia Venjukovia Venjukovia is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid from the Middle Permian of Russia.-References:*...	Valid

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