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Newly named dinosaurs

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
"Brasileosaurus Brasileosaurus Brasileosaurus is the name of a sparse collection of fossils that are nomen vanum-- that is, they will probably never be identified. They are believed to be the fossils of a non-dinosaurian archosaur. The type species is B... "	Indeterminate non-dinosaurian remains.	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:...
Carcharodontosaurus Carcharodontosaurus Carcharodontosaurus was a gigantic carnivorous carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived around 100 to 93 million years ago, during the late Albian to early Cenomanian stages of the mid-Cretaceous Period...	Valid taxon	Stromer
Embasaurus Embasaurus Embasaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period. Fossils have been found in Kazakhstan in central Asia. As it is known only from two fragmentary vertebrae, Embasaurus is considered a nomen dubium, taxonomic placeholder lacking sufficient evidence to establish the...		Riabinin
Orthogoniosaurus Orthogoniosaurus Orthogoniosaurus was a genus of theropod dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of Jabalpur, India...	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... .	Das-Gupta
"Tetragonosaurus"	Nomen rejectum that was discarded in favor of the name Procheneosaurus Procheneosaurus Procheneosaurus is a disused genus of hadrosaur dinosaur, based on small skulls with low domes in front of the eyes. It is now believed that the remains referred to its various species were from juvenile individuals of multiple genera of crested hadrosaurs...	Parks

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Cerataelurus Cerataelurus Cerataelurus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Ericiolacerta Ericiolacerta Ericiolacerta was a small therocephalian therapsid from the early Triassic of South Africa and Antarctica. It was around in length, with long limbs and relatively small teeth. It was probably fairly active, and ate insects and other small invertebrates....	Valid
Euchambersia Euchambersia Euchambersia was a therocephalian therapsid that lived during the Late Permian epoch, approximately 250 million years ago, in what is now South Africa....	Valid
Ictidostoma Ictidostoma Ictidostoma is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Ictidosuchoides Ictidosuchoides Ictidosuchoides is an extinct genus of ictidosuchid therocephalian. Fossils have been found from the Karoo Basin in South Africa. The genus is known to have been one of the few therocephalians to have survived the Permian-Triassic extinction event in this area, although its numbers were quite low...	Valid
Keratocephalus Keratocephalus Keratocephalus is an extinct genus of Tapinocephalia from the middle Permian of South Africa. Lower and Middle Tapinocephalus Zone, Karoo deposits, Lower Beaufort Beds; Beaufort West. It has a 2.5 to 3 m long ; 700 to 1000 kg; with a variable snout length; variable pachyostosis; nasofrontal...	Valid
Lycideops	Valid
Megacyclops Megacyclops Megacyclops is a genus of copepods, containing the following species:Megacyclops bicuspidatus Megacyclops bisetosus Megacyclops brachypus Kiefer, 1955Megacyclops clandestinus...	Valid
Neomegacyclops	Valid

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