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Newly named dinosaurs

Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Pachycephalosaurus Pachycephalosaurus Pachycephalosaurus is a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. Remains have been excavated in Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming. It was an herbivorous or omnivorous creature which is only known from a single skull and a few...	Valid taxon	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...	Schlaikjer

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
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"Alzadasaurus"	Valid	Welles
Aphrosaurus Aphrosaurus Aphrosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Mesozoic. The type species is Aphrosaurus furlongi, named by Welles in 1943. Aphrosaurus furlongi was discovered in the Panoche Hills of Fresno County, California in 1939 by rancher Frank C...	Valid	Welles
Fresnosaurus Fresnosaurus Fresnosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now California. The type species is Fresnosaurus drescheri, first described by Welles in 1943. The generic name Fresnosaurus honors Fresno County, while the specific name honors Arthur Drescher.Fresnosaurus was...	Valid	Welles
Hydralmosaurus Hydralmosaurus Hydralmosaurus is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur. It is known from fossils discovered in Late Cretaceous rocks of Nebraska and Wyoming. Hydralmosaurus was coined as a replacement name for "Elasmosaurus" serpentinus in 1943 by Samuel Paul Welles....	Valid	Welles
Hydrotherosaurus Hydrotherosaurus Hydrotherosaurus is an extinct genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Fresno County, California, measuring up to 13 m in length. The species H. alexandrae was named for its discoverer, Annie Montague Alexander by Samuel Paul Welles.-References:* Welles, S. P. 1943...	Valid	Welles
Morenosaurus Morenosaurus Morenosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Cretaceous of what is now California. The type species is Morenosaurus stocki, first named by Samuel Welles in 1943, in honor of Dr. Chester Stock. The species was found by Robert Wallace and Arthur Drescher in the Panoche Hills region of...	Valid	Welles
Thalassomedon Thalassomedon Thalassomedon is a genus of plesiosaur, named by Welles in 1943. Greek, thalassa, "sea" and Greek, medon, "lord, ruler": Sea lord.-Introduction:...	Valid	Welles
Thalassonomosaurus	Valid	Welles

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Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Dinodontosaurus Dinodontosaurus Dinodontosaurus is a genus of dicynodont therapsid. It was one of the largest herbivores of the Triassic and had a beak corneum...	Valid
Exaeretodon Exaeretodon Exaeretodon is a genus of traversodontid cynodont; several species are known, from various formations. E. argentinus, E. frenguelli, and E. vincei are from the Carnian-age Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina. E. major and E. riograndensis are from the Ladinian-age portion of the Santa Maria...	Valid
Theropsis	Valid

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