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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	Notes
Brachylophosaurus Brachylophosaurus Brachylophosaurus was a mid-sized member of the hadrosaurid family of dinosaurs. It is known from several skeletons and bonebed material from the Judith River Formation of Montana and the Oldman Formation of Alberta, living about 76.5 million years ago....	Valid taxon	C. M. Sternberg
Chiayusaurus Chiayusaurus Chiayusaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from teeth found in Asia. Two species have been named for this obscure genus. It was originally named as Chiayüsaurus, but the ICZN does not permit special characters, so it has become Chiayusaurus...	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... .	Birger Bohlin Birger Bohlin Dr. Anders Birger Bohlin was a Swedish palaeontologist. As well as his work on dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals, Bohlin was part of the group that established the existence of Peking Man ...
Heishansaurus Heishansaurus Heishansaurus, meaning "Heishan lizard" after the area in China where it was discovered, is the name given to a dubious genus of dinosaur. First described in 1953 as a pachycephalosaur, this dinosaur may actually be an ankylosaur. The fossils, dating from the Late Cretaceous , are fragmentary, and...	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... .	Birger Bohlin Birger Bohlin Dr. Anders Birger Bohlin was a Swedish palaeontologist. As well as his work on dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals, Bohlin was part of the group that established the existence of Peking Man ...
Microceratops Microceratops Microceratus is a genus of small ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in the Cretaceous period in Asia. It walked on two legs, had short front arms, a characteristic ceratopsian frill and beak-like mouth, and was maybe long...	Preoccupied.	Bohlin	Preoccupied by Seyrig 1952. Renamed Microceratus in 2008.
Peishansaurus Peishansaurus Peishansaurus was a genus of plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period , roughly 97.5-65 million years ago....	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... .	Birger Bohlin Birger Bohlin Dr. Anders Birger Bohlin was a Swedish palaeontologist. As well as his work on dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals, Bohlin was part of the group that established the existence of Peking Man ...
Sauroplites Sauroplites Sauroplites is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. The type species, Sauroplites scutiger, was formally described by Bohlin in 1953, but is often considered a nomen dubium because it is based on fragmentary material. Sauroplites lived in what is now Gansu, China, during the...	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... .	Birger Bohlin Birger Bohlin Dr. Anders Birger Bohlin was a Swedish palaeontologist. As well as his work on dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals, Bohlin was part of the group that established the existence of Peking Man ...
Stegosaurides Stegosaurides Stegosaurides is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in the Xinminbao Formation near Heishan in Gansu Province in China. These fossils consist of fragmentary material, including spinal elements...	Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... .	Birger Bohlin Birger Bohlin Dr. Anders Birger Bohlin was a Swedish palaeontologist. As well as his work on dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals, Bohlin was part of the group that established the existence of Peking Man ...

New taxa

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