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This list of dinosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the superorder Dinosauria, excluding class Aves (birds, both living and those known only from fossils) and purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomen dubium), or were not formally published (nomen nudum), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered dinosaurs. Many listed dinosaurs have since been reclassified as everything from birds to crocodilians to petrified wood. The list contains 1237 names, of which approximately 833 are considered either valid dinosaur genera or nomina dubia.
Scope and terminology
[edit]There is no official, canonical list of dinosaur genera. The closest is the Dinosaur Genera List, compiled by biological nomenclature expert George Olshevsky, which was first published online in 1995 and is regularly updated. The most authoritative general source in the field is the second (2004) edition of The Dinosauria. The vast majority of citations are based on Olshevsky's list, and all subjective determinations (such as junior synonymy or non-dinosaurian status) are based on The Dinosauria, except where they conflict with primary literature. These exceptions are noted.
Naming conventions and terminology follow the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Technical terms used include:
- Junior synonym: A name which describes the same taxon as a previously published name. If two or more genera are formally designated and the type specimens are later assigned to the same genus, the first to be published (in chronological order) is the senior synonym, and all other instances are junior synonyms. Senior synonyms are generally used, except by special decision of the ICZN (see Tyrannosaurus), but junior synonyms cannot be used again, even if deprecated. Junior synonymy is often subjective, unless the genera described were both based on the same type specimen.
- Nomen nudum (Latin for "naked name"): A name that has appeared in print but has not yet been formally published by the standards of the ICZN. Nomina nuda (the plural form) are invalid, and are therefore not italicized as a proper generic name would be. If the name is later formally published, that name is no longer a nomen nudum and will be italicized on this list. Often, the formally published name will differ from any nomina nuda that describe the same specimen.
- Nomen oblitum (Latin for "forgotten name"): A name that has not been used in the scientific community for more than fifty years after its original proposal.
- Preoccupied name: A name that is formally published, but which has already been used for another taxon. This second use is invalid (as are all subsequent uses) and the name must be replaced. Preoccupied names are not valid generic names.
- Nomen dubium (Latin for "dubious name"): A name describing a fossil with no unique diagnostic features. As this can be an extremely subjective and controversial designation (see Hadrosaurus), this term is not used on this list.
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Aachenosaurus | Smets | 1888 | Misident. | A piece of petrified wood misidentified as a hadrosaur. | ||
"Abdallahsaurus" | Maier | 2003 | Nomen nudum | Late Jurassic | Africa | Never formally described, but most likely synonymous with Brachiosaurus or Giraffatitan. |
Abelisaurus | Bonaparte & Novas | 1985 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | South America | |
Abrictosaurus | Hopson | 1975 | Valid | Early Jurassic | Africa | Originally a species of Lycorhinus. Has some significance in the debate over sexual dimorphism in heterodontosaurids. |
Abrosaurus | Ouyang | 1989 | Valid | Middle Jurassic | Asia | Type species named after 11th century Chinese poet. |
Acanthopholis | Huxley | 1867 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Europe | |
Achelosaurus | M. J. Ryan A. P. Russell D. A. Eberth Currie |
2001 | Invalid | Misspelling of Achelousaurus. | ||
Achelousaurus | Sampson | 1995 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | North America | |
Achillesaurus | Martinelli & Vera | 2007 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Argentina | |
Achillobator | Perle, Norell, & Clark | 1999 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Mongolia | |
"Acracanthus" | Invalid | Original invalid name of Acrocanthosaurus. | ||||
Acrocanthosaurus | Stovall & Langston | 1950 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | North America | |
Actiosaurus | Nomina dubium | Jurassic | France | Probably an ichthyosaur. | ||
Adamantisaurus | Santucci & Bertini | 2006 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | South America | Known from only six tail vertebrae. |
Adasaurus | Barsbold | 1983 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Central Asia | |
Adeopapposaurus | Martínez | 2009 | Valid | Early Jurassic | Argentina | The fossils now referred to this genus were first thought to represent South American examples of Massospondylus. |
Aegyptosaurus | Stromer | 1932 | Valid | Middle Cretaceous | Africa | |
Aeolosaurus | Powell | 1987 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | South America | |
Aepisaurus | Gervais | 1852 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | France | An obscure genus from an unknown family, represented by a single humerus, now lost. It has been misspelled several ways in the scientific literature, with multiple dates given to the year of description as well. |
Aerosteon | Sereno et al. | 2009 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Argentina | The fossils show evidence of a bird-like respiratory system. |
Aetonyx | Broom | 1911 | Nomina dubium | Early Jurassic | South Africa | Possible junior synonym of Massospondylus. |
Afrovenator | Sereno et al. | 1994 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | North Africa | |
Agathaumas | Cope | 1872 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Wyoming | The first ceratopsian whose remains were found and described by a paleontologist. |
Aggiosaurus | Ambayrac | 1913 | Misident. | Late Jurassic | France | Actually a metriorhynchid crocodilian. |
Agilisaurus | Peng | 1990 | Valid | Middle Jurassic | China | |
Agnosphitys | Fraser et al. | 2002 | Disputed | Late Triassic | England | It may be a chimera. |
Agrosaurus | Seeley | 1891 | Disputed | Triassic | Australia | The name Agrosaurus is now generally considered to be a nomen dubium or a junior synonym of Thecodontosaurus. |
Agujaceratops | Lucas, Sullivan & Hunt | 2006 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Texas | Originally known as Chasmosaurus mariscalensis and described by Lehman in 1989, it was moved to a new genus by Lucas, Sullivan and Hunt in 2006. |
Agustinia | Bonaparte | 1999 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | South America | |
"Airakoraptor" | Perle, Norell & Clark | 1999 | nomen nudum | Late Cretaceous | Mongolia | |
Alamosaurus | Gilmore | 1922 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | New Mexico | |
"Alashansaurus" | nomen nudum | Early Cretaceous | Mongolia | Now known as Shaochilong. | ||
Alaskacephale | Sullivan | 2006 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Alaska | The genus name refers to Alaska, where the fossil was found in the Prince Creek Formation. |
Albertaceratops | Ryan | 2007 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Alberta | This genus is unusual in combining long brow horns with an otherwise centrosaurine skull, as centrosaurines normally possess short brow horns. |
Albertonykus | Longrich & Currie | 2008 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Alberta | The smallest known alvarezsaurid ever discovered in North America |
Albertosaurus | Osborn | 1905 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | North America | |
Albisaurus | Fritsch | 1893 | nomen dubium | Czech Republic | A non-dinosaurian reptile. | |
Alectrosaurus | Gilmore | 1933 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Inner Mongolia | |
Aletopelta | Kirkland & Ford | 2001 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | California | |
Algoasaurus | Broom | 1904 | Valid | Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous | South Africa | |
Alioramus | Kurzanov | 1976 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Asia | |
Aliwalia | Junior synonym | Late Triassic | South Africa | Junior synonym of Eucnemesaurus. | ||
Allosaurus | Marsh | 1877 | Valid | Late Jurassic | North America Portugal Tanzania | |
Alocodon | Thulborn | 1973 | nomen dubium | Middle Jurassic | Portugal | |
Altirhinus | Norman | 1998 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Mongolia | |
Altispinax | Huene | 1923 | nomen dubium | Early Cretaceous | Europe | |
Alvarezsaurus | Bonaparte | 1991 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Argentina | Possibly a bird. |
Alwalkeria | Chatterjee & Creisler | 1994 | Valid | Late Triassic | India | |
Alxasaurus | Russell & Dong | 1993 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Inner Mongolia | |
Amargasaurus | Salgado & Bonaparte | 1991 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | South America | |
Amargatitanis | Apesteguía | 2007 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Argentina | |
Amazonsaurus | Carvalho et al. | 2003 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | South America | |
Ammosaurus | Marsh | 1889 | Valid | Early-Middle Jurassic | North America | |
Ampelosaurus | Le Loeuff | 1995 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Europe | |
Amphicoelias | Cope | 1878 | Valid | Late Jurassic | North America | Based on surviving descriptions of a single fossil bone, A. fragillimus may have been the longest known vertebrate at 40–60 meters (131–196 ft) in length. |
"Amphicoelicaudia" | nomen nudum | Late Cretaceous | China | Possibly Huabeisaurus. | ||
"Amphisaurus" | preoccupied | Early Jurassic | North America | preoccupied name name, now known as Anchisaurus. | ||
Amtosaurus | Kurzanov & Tumanova | 1978 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Mongolia | Possibly Talarurus. |
Amurosaurus | Bolotsky & Kurzanov | 1991 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | East Asia | |
Amygdalodon | Cabrera | 1947 | Valid | Middle Jurassic | South America | |
Anabisetia | Coria & Calvo | 2002 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Patagonia | |
Anasazisaurus | Hunt and Lucas | 1993 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | New Mexico | |
Anatosaurus | Lull & Wright | 1942 | Junior synonym | Late Cretaceous | North America | Junior synonym of Edmontosaurus. |
Anatotitan | Chapman & Brett-Surman | 1990 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | North America | |
Anchiceratops | Brown | 1914 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | North America | |
Anchiornis | Xu et al. | 2009 | Valid | Early Cretaceous? | Liaoning, China | |
Anchisaurus | Marsh | 1885 | Valid | Early Jurassic | North America | |
Andesaurus | Calvo & Bonaparte | 1991 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | South America | |
Angaturama | Kellner & Campos | 1996 | Disputed | Early Cretaceous | Brazil | Probable junior synonym of Irritator |
"Angloposeidon" | nomen nudum | Early Cretaceous | Southern England | A possible brachiosaurid, but has not been formally named | ||
Angulomastacator | Wagner & Lehman | 2009 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Texas, U.S. | |
Aniksosaurus | Martinez & Novas | 2006 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Argentina, Patagonia | |
Animantarx | Carpenter et al. | 1999 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | North America | |
Ankistrodon | Huxley | 1865 | Misident. | Triassic | Argentina | Actually a proterosuchid archosauriform |
Ankylosaurus | Brown | 1908 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | North America | |
Anodontosaurus | C. M. Sternberg | 1929 | Junior synonym | Late Cretaceous | Alberta, Canada | Junior synonym of Euoplocephalus or Dyoplosaurus |
Anoplosaurus | Seeley | 1879 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Cambridgeshire, England | |
Anserimimus | Barsbold | 1988 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Mongolia | |
Antarctopelta | Salgado & Gasparini | 2006 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Antarctica | |
Antarctosaurus | von Huene | 1929 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | South America | |
Antetonitrus | Yates & Kitching | 2003 | Valid | Late Triassic | South Africa | The oldest known genus of sauropod dinosaur |
Anthodon | Owen | 1876 | Misident. | Permian/Early Cretaceous | South Africa, Tanzania, ?Northern Russia | The genus was originally though to have been a dinosaur based on dinosaurian skull material from the Early Cretaceous that had become associated with Permian material. The dinosaur material was later separated out by Robert Broom in 1912 and was renamed as the stegosaurid Paranthodon by Franz Nopcsa in 1929. |
Antrodemus | Leidy | 1870 | Disputed | Late Jurassic | North America | Possibly a junior synonym of Allosaurus. |
Apatodon | Marsh | 1877 | nomen dubium | Late Jurassic | North America | Possibly a junior synonym of Allosaurus. |
Apatosaurus | Marsh | 1877 | Valid | Late Jurassic | North America | |
Appalachiosaurus | Carr et al. | 2005 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Eastern North America | |
Aragosaurus | Sanz et al. | 1987 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Galve, Teruel | |
Aralosaurus | Rozhdestvensky | 1968 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Kazakhstan | |
"Araucanoraptor" | 2005 | nomen nudum | Late Cretaceous | Patagonia, Argentina | nomen nudum of Neuquenraptor. | |
Archaeoceratops | Dong & Azuma | 1997 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | North central China | Unlike many later ceratopsians it doesn't have any horns and has only a small bony frill projecting from the back of its head. |
Archaeodontosaurus | Buffetaut | 2005 | Valid | Middle Jurassic | Madagascar | |
Archaeopteryx | Meyer | 1861 | Valid | Late Jurassic | Southern Germany | The earliest known bird. |
"Archaeoraptor" | 1999 | Nomina nuda | Early Cretaceous | China | Now known as the bird Yanornis and the dromaeosaur Microraptor. | |
Archaeornis | Petronievics | 1917 | Junior synonym | Late Jurassic | Southern Germany | Junior synonym of the bird Archaeopteryx |
Archaeornithoides | Elzanowksi & Wellnhofer | 1992 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Bayn Dzak, Mongolia | |
Archaeornithomimus | Russell | 1972 | Senior synonym | Early Cretaceous | Asia | Senior synonym of Ornithomimus asiaticus |
Archaeovolans | Czerkas & Xu | 2002 | Junior synonym | Early Cretaceous | Liaoning, China | Junior synonym of Yanornis. Described in the Dinosaur Museum Journal. |
Arctosaurus | Adams | 1875 | Misident. | Late Triassic | Canada | Originally classified as a small reptile of unknown affinities, but was often classified as a sauropodomorph dinosaur. Although it has also been classified as a theropod, recent review finds that the similarities it shares with theropods are spread throughout several groups of Late Triassic reptiles, and so it cannot be assigned any more specifically than to Archosauriformes. |
Argentinosaurus | Bonaparte & Coria | 1993 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | South America | |
Argyrosaurus | Lydekker | 1893 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | South America | |
Aristosaurus | Hoepen | 1920 | Junior synonym | Early Jurassic | Junior synonym of Massospondylus | |
Aristosuchus | Seeley | 1876 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Isle of Wight, England | |
Arizonasaurus | Welles | 1947 | Misident. | Middle Triassic | Arizona, USA | Actually a rauisuchian. |
"Arkanosaurus" | nomen nudum | Early Cretaceous | Lockesburg, Arkansas, USA | Variant spelling of "Arkansaurus" | ||
"Arkansaurus" | nomen nudum | Early Cretaceous | Lockesburg, Arkansas, USA | |||
Arrhinoceratops | Parks | 1925 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Canada | |
Arstanosaurus | Suslov and Shilin | 1982 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Kazakhstan | |
Asiaceratops | Nessov & Kaznyshkina vide Nessov, Kaznyshkina & Cherepanov | 1989 | Valid | Cretaceous (Late Cenomanian ?Turonian) | Uzbekistan | |
Asiamericana | Nessov | 1995 | Valid | Cretaceous | Uzbekistan; Kazakhstan | Nessov cautioned that the teeth may belong to saurodont fish instead of dinosaurs. |
Asiatosaurus | Hou, Yeh, & Zhao | 1975 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Mongolia; China | |
Astrodon | Johnston | 1859 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Eastern US | Two teeth were found in the Arundel Formation near Bladensburg, Maryland and named Astrodon in 1859 by Christopher Johnston. However, Johnston did not attach a specific epithet, so Joseph Leidy is credited with naming Astrodon johnstoni (the type species) in 1865. If Johnston had attached a scientific epithet, it would have been the second dinosaur identified in the United States. |
Astrodonius | Junior synonym | Early Cretaceous | Eastern US | Junior synonym of Astrodon. | ||
Astrodontaurus | Junior synonym | Early Cretaceous | Eastern US | Junior synonym of Astrodon. | ||
Asylosaurus | Galton | 2007 | Valid | Late Triassic | England | |
Atlantosaurus | Marsh | 1877 | Disputed | Late Jurassic | Colorado, USA | Possible junior synonym of Apatosaurus or Camarasaurus. |
Atlasaurus | Monbaron, Russell & Taquet | 1999 | Valid | Middle Jurassic | North Africa | |
Atlascopcosaurus | Rich & Vickers-Rich | 1989 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Australia | |
Atrociraptor | Currie & Varricchio | 2004 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Alberta, Canada | |
Aublysodon | Leidy | 1868 | Disputed | Late Cretaceous | Montana, USA | Most palaeontologists no longer recognize Aublysodon as a valid genus. It is now widely considered to be just a juvenile tyrannosaurine. The apparently unique morphological traits of a long, low snout, nonserrated teeth, and upturned dentary tip are characteristic of younger tyrannosaurines in general. |
Aucasaurus | Coria, Chiappe, & Dingus | 2002 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Argentina | |
"Augustia" | preoccupied | Early Cretaceous | Argentina | preoccupied name, now known as Agustinia | ||
Auroraceratops | You et al. | 2005 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | North central China | |
Australodocus | Remes | 2007 | Valid | Late Jurassic | Tanzania | |
Austroraptor | Novas | 2008 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Argentina | |
Austrosaurus | Longman | 1933 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Central-Western Queensland, Australia | |
Avaceratops | Dodson | 1986 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Northwest US | |
"Avalonia" | Seeley | 1898 | Preoccupied name | Late Triassic | England | Preoccupied name, now known as Avalonianus. It was first described by Seeley from teeth from the Late Triassic of England, but the name was preoccupied (Walcott, 1889), so Kuhn renamed it in 1961. It was thought to be a prosauropod, as additional, prosauropod postcranial remains were added to it (which would eventually be named Camelotia). Later analysis revealed it was actually a chimera of prosauropod remains (Camelotia) and teeth from a non-dinosaurian archosaur (or possibly an early theropod). |
Avalonianus | Seeley | 1898 | Valid/Misident. | Late Triassic | England | It was first described by Seeley from teeth from the Late Triassic of England, but the name was preoccupied (Walcott, 1889), so Kuhn renamed it in 1961. It was thought to be a prosauropod, as additional, prosauropod postcranial remains were added to it (which would eventually be named Camelotia). Later analysis revealed it was actually a chimera of prosauropod remains (Camelotia) and teeth from a non-dinosaurian archosaur (or possibly an early theropod). |
Aviatyrannis | Rauhut | 2003 | Valid | Late Jurassic | Portugal | |
Avimimus | Kurzanov | 1981 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Mongolia | |
Avipes | von Huene | 1932 | Disputed | Middle Triassic | Germany | Probably a non-dinosaurian dinosauromorph. |
Avisaurus | Brett-Surman & Paul | 1985 | Misident. | Late Cretaceous | Montana, USA | Actually an enantiornithine bird. |
Azendohsaurus | Dutuit | 1972 | Disputed | Late Triassic | Morocco | Possibly a non-dinosaurian reptile. |
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Bactrosaurus | Gilmore | 1933 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | China; Mongolia | |
Bagaceratops | Maryanska & Osmolska | 1975 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Mongolia | |
Bagaraatan | Osmolska | 1996 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Mongolia | |
Bahariasaurus | Stromer | 1934 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | North Africa | |
Bainoceratops | Tereschenko & Alifanov | 2003 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Mongolia | |
"Bakesaurus" | nomen nudum | Late Cretaceous | China | Mentioned and pictured in the Chinese book The Dinosaur Egg Fossils in Nanyang, China by Zhou S. (2005). There is still uncertainty in the scientific community as to whether or not "Bakesaurus" exists as a valid scientific name, and no specific name has surfaced. | ||
Balochisaurus | Malkani | 2006 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Pakistan | |
Bambiraptor | Burnham et al. | 2000 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Montana, US | |
Banji | Xu & Han | 2010 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | China | |
Baotianmansaurus | Zhang et al. | 2009 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Henan, China | |
Barapasaurus | Jain, Kutty, Roy-Chowdhury, & Chatterjee | 1975 | Valid | Early Jurassic | India | |
Barosaurus | Marsh | 1890 | Valid | Late Jurassic | North America | |
Barrosasaurus | Salgado & Coria | 2009 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Argentina | |
Barsboldia | Maryańska & Osmólska | 1981 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Mongolia | |
Baryonyx | Charig & Milner | 1986 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Dorking, England | |
"Bashunosaurus" | nomen nudum | |||||
Basutodon | von Huene | 1932 | Misident. | Late Triassic | Lesotho, Africa | Actually a non-dinosaurian archosaur. |
Bathygnathus | Misident. | Middle Permian | Canada | Actually a pelycosaur. | ||
Baurutitan | Kellner et al. | 2005 | Valid | Late Cretaceous | Brazil | |
"Bayosaurus" | Rodolfo Coria Philip J. Currie Paulina Carabajal |
2006 | nomen nudum | Turonian | Argentina | Possible abelisauroid. |
Becklespinax | Olshevsky | 1991 | Valid | Early Cretaceous | Sussex, England | The vertebrae were originally assumed to be linked with some theropod teeth and the result named Altispinax dunkeri, a species of the superfamily Megalosauroidea. Later this assignment was shown to be unjustified, as the vertebrae identified as belonging to a new species of Acrocanthosaurus, Acrocanthosaurus altispinax. In 1991 it was reassigned to a new sinraptorid genus, Becklespinax, by George Olshevsky, in honour of its discoverer. |
"Beelemodon" | nomen nudum | |||||
Beipiaosaurus | ||||||
Beishanlong | ||||||
Bellusaurus | ||||||
Belodon | — actually a phytosaur | |||||
Berberosaurus | ||||||
Betasuchus | ||||||
Bienosaurus | ||||||
Bihariosaurus | ||||||
"Bilbeyhallorum" | nomen nudum; Cedarpelta | |||||
Bistahieversor | ||||||
Bissektipelta | ||||||
"Blancocerosaurus" | — nomen nudum, probably Brachiosaurus or Giraffatitan | |||||
Blikanasaurus | ||||||
Bonatitan | ||||||
Bonitasaura | ||||||
Borealosaurus | ||||||
Borogovia | ||||||
Bothriospondylus | ||||||
Brachiosaurus | ||||||
Brachyceratops | ||||||
Brachylophosaurus | ||||||
Brachypodosaurus | ||||||
Brachyrophus | — junior synonym of Camptosaurus | |||||
Brachytaenius | — actually some sort of non-dinosaurian reptile, possibly the same as Dakosaurus | |||||
Brachytrachelopan | ||||||
Bradycneme | ||||||
Brasileosaurus | — actually a non-dinosaurian archosaur | |||||
Breviceratops | ||||||
Brohisaurus | ||||||
"Brontoraptor" | — nomen nudum | |||||
Brontosaurus | — junior synonym of Apatosaurus | |||||
Bruhathkayosaurus | ||||||
Bugenasaura | — junior synonym of Thescelosaurus | |||||
Buitreraptor | ||||||
"Byranjaffia" | — nomen nudum; Byronosaurus | |||||
Byronosaurus |
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Fabrosaurus | — possibly Lesothosaurus | |||||
Falcarius | ||||||
"Fenestrosaurus" | — nomen nudum; Oviraptor | |||||
Ferganasaurus | ||||||
Ferganosaurus | — misspelling of FerganasaurusFerganosaurus | |||||
Ferganocephale | ||||||
Frenguellisaurus | — junior synonym of Herrerasaurus | |||||
Fruitadens | ||||||
Fukuiraptor | ||||||
Fukuisaurus | ||||||
Fulengia | ||||||
Fulgurotherium | ||||||
"Fusinasus" | — nomen nudum; Eotyrannus | |||||
Fusuisaurus | ||||||
"Futabasaurus" | — nomen nudum; not to be confused with the formally-named plesiosaur Futabasaurus | |||||
Futalognkosaurus | ||||||
"Futalongkosaurus" | — variant spelling of Futalognkosaurus |
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"Ichabodcraniosaurus" | — nomen nudum; probably Velociraptor | |||||
Iguanodon | ||||||
"Iguanoides" | — nomen nudum; Iguanodon | |||||
"Iguanosaurus" | — nomen nudum; Iguanodon | |||||
Iliosuchus | ||||||
Ilokelesia | ||||||
Incisivosaurus | ||||||
Indosaurus | ||||||
Indosuchus | ||||||
"Ingenia" | — preoccupied name, has not yet been renamed | |||||
Inosaurus | ||||||
Irritator | ||||||
Isanosaurus | ||||||
Ischisaurus | — junior synonym of Herrerasaurus | |||||
"Ischyrosaurus" | — preoccupied name, has not yet been renamed | |||||
Isisaurus | ||||||
"Issasaurus" | — nomen nudum; Dicraeosaurus | |||||
Itemirus | ||||||
Iuticosaurus |
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Janenschia | ||||||
Jaxartosaurus | ||||||
Jeholornis | — actually a bird | |||||
Jeholosaurus | ||||||
Jenghizkhan | — junior synonym of Tarbosaurus | |||||
"Jensenosaurus" | — nomen nudum; Supersaurus | |||||
"Jiangjunmiaosaurus" | — nomen nudum; Monolophosaurus | |||||
Jiangjunosaurus | ||||||
Jiangshanosaurus | ||||||
Jinfengopteryx | ||||||
Jingshanosaurus | ||||||
Jintasaurus | ||||||
Jinzhousaurus | ||||||
Jiutaisaurus | ||||||
Jixiangornis | — actually a bird | |||||
Jobaria | ||||||
Jubbulpuria | ||||||
Jurapteryx | — junior synonym of the bird Archaeopteryx | |||||
"Jurassosaurus" | — nomen nudum; Tianchisaurus | |||||
Juravenator |
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Kaijiangosaurus | ||||||
Kakuru | ||||||
Kangnasaurus | ||||||
Karongasaurus | ||||||
"Katsuyamasaurus" | — nomen nudum | |||||
Kelmayisaurus | ||||||
Kemkemia | ||||||
Kentrosaurus | ||||||
Kentrurosaurus | — junior synonym (unneeded replacement name) of Kentrosaurus | |||||
Kerberosaurus | ||||||
Khaan | ||||||
"Khateranisaurus" | — misspelling of "Khetranisaurus" | |||||
Khetranisaurus | ||||||
Kinnareemimus | ||||||
"Kitadanisaurus" | — nomen nudum; Fukuiraptor | |||||
"Kittysaurus" | — nomen nudum; Eotyrannus | |||||
Klamelisaurus | ||||||
Kol | ||||||
Koparion | ||||||
"Koreanosaurus" | — nomen nudum | |||||
"Koreasaurus" | — nomen nudum; probably an alternate spelling of "Koreanosaurus" | |||||
Kotasaurus | ||||||
Koutalisaurus | ||||||
Kritosaurus | ||||||
Kryptops | ||||||
Krzyzanowskisaurus | — probably a pseudosuchian (?Revueltosaurus) | |||||
Kulceratops | ||||||
Kunmingosaurus | — may be a nomen nudum | |||||
Kuszholia | — probably a bird |
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Ohmdenosaurus | ||||||
Oligosaurus | — junior synonym of Rhabdodon | |||||
Olorotitan | ||||||
Omeisaurus | ||||||
Omnivoropteryx | - probably a bird | |||||
"Omosaurus" | — preoccupied name, now known as Dacentrurus | |||||
Onychosaurus | — synonym of Rhabdodon, or a dubious ankylosaurian | |||||
Opisthocoelicaudia | ||||||
Oplosaurus | ||||||
"Orcomimus" | — nomen nudum | |||||
Orinosaurus | — junior synonym (unneeded replacement name) of Orosaurus | |||||
Orkoraptor | ||||||
Ornatotholus | ||||||
Ornithodesmus | ||||||
"Ornithoides" | — nomen nudum; Saurornithoides | |||||
Ornitholestes | ||||||
Ornithomerus | — junior synonym of Rhabdodon | |||||
Ornithomimoides | ||||||
Ornithomimus | ||||||
Ornithopsis | ||||||
Ornithosuchus | — actually a non-dinosaurian archosaur | |||||
Ornithotarsus | — possible junior synonym of Hadrosaurus | |||||
Orodromeus | ||||||
Orosaurus | — possible junior synonym of Euskelosaurus | |||||
Orthogoniosaurus | ||||||
Orthomerus | ||||||
Oryctodromeus | ||||||
"Oshanosaurus" | — nomen nudum | |||||
Othnielia | ||||||
Othnielosaurus | ||||||
"Otogosaurus" | — nomen nudum | |||||
Ouranosaurus | ||||||
Oviraptor | ||||||
"Ovoraptor" | — nomen nudum; Velociraptor | |||||
Owenodon | ||||||
Ozraptor |
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Qantassaurus | ||||||
Qiaowanlong | ||||||
Qinlingosaurus | ||||||
Qingxiusaurus | ||||||
Quaesitosaurus | ||||||
Quilmesaurus |
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Uberabatitan | ||||||
Udanoceratops | ||||||
Ugrosaurus | — probably junior synonym of Triceratops | |||||
Uintasaurus | — junior synonym of Camarasaurus | |||||
Ultrasauros | — junior synonym of Supersaurus | |||||
Ultrasaurus | (H. M. Kim, 1983) | |||||
"Ultrasaurus" | (Jensen, 1985) — preoccupied name, now known as Ultrasauros | |||||
Umarsaurus | — nomen nudum; Barsboldia | |||||
Unaysaurus | ||||||
Unenlagia | ||||||
"Unicerosaurus" | — nomen nudum, actually a fish | |||||
Unquillosaurus | ||||||
Urbacodon | ||||||
Utahraptor |
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Valdoraptor | ||||||
Valdosaurus | ||||||
Variraptor | ||||||
Vectensia | — junior synonym of Hylaeosaurus | |||||
Vectisaurus | — junior synonym of Iguanodon | |||||
Velafrons | ||||||
Velocipes | ||||||
Velociraptor | ||||||
Velocisaurus | ||||||
Venaticosuchus | — actually a non-dinosaurian archosaur | |||||
Venenosaurus | ||||||
Vitakridrinda | ||||||
"Vitaridrinda" | — misspelling of Vitakridrinda | |||||
Volkheimeria | ||||||
Vulcanodon |
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Wakinosaurus | ||||||
Walgettosuchus | ||||||
"Walkeria" | — preoccupied name, now known as Alwalkeria | |||||
"Walkersaurus" | — nomen nudum; Duriavenator | |||||
"Wangonisaurus" | — nomen nudum, probably Brachiosaurus or Giraffatitan | |||||
Wannanosaurus | ||||||
Wellnhoferia | — actually a bird, possible junior synonym of Archaeopteryx | |||||
Wintonotitan | ||||||
Wuerhosaurus | ||||||
Wulagasaurus | ||||||
Wyleyia | — probably a bird | |||||
"Wyomingraptor" | — nomen nudum |
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Xenoposeidon | ||||||
Xenotarsosaurus | ||||||
Xianshanosaurus | ||||||
Xiaosaurus | ||||||
Xinjiangovenator | ||||||
Xiongguanlong | ||||||
Xixiasaurus | ||||||
Xuanhanosaurus | ||||||
Xuanhuaceratops | ||||||
"Xuanhuasaurus" | — nomen nudum; Xuanhuaceratops |
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Yaleosaurus | — junior synonym of Anchisaurus | |||||
Yamaceratops | ||||||
Yandusaurus | ||||||
Yangchuanosaurus | ||||||
Yanornis | — actually a bird | |||||
Yaverlandia | ||||||
Yaxartosaurus | — misspelling of Jaxartosaurus | |||||
"Yezosaurus" | — nomen nudum; non-dinosaurian | |||||
"Yibinosaurus" | — nomen nudum | |||||
Yimenosaurus | ||||||
"Yingshanosaurus" | — nomen nudum | |||||
Yinlong | ||||||
Yixianosaurus | ||||||
Yuanmousaurus | ||||||
"Yubasaurus" | — nomen nudum; Yandusaurus | |||||
Yunnanosaurus | ||||||
"Yunxiansaurus" | — nomen nudum |
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Zalmoxes | ||||||
Zanabazar | ||||||
Zanclodon | — non-dinosaurian (in part), some species referred to Megalosaurus and Plateosaurus | |||||
Zapalasaurus | ||||||
Zapsalis | — junior synonym of Paronychodon | |||||
Zatomus | — actually a non-dinosaurian archosaur | |||||
Zephyrosaurus | ||||||
Zhejiangosaurus | ||||||
Zhongyuansaurus | ||||||
Zhuchengosaurus | ||||||
Zigongosaurus | — possible junior synonym of Mamenchisaurus | |||||
Zizhongosaurus | ||||||
Zuniceratops | ||||||
Zupaysaurus |
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References
[edit]- Olshevsky, G. 2008. Dinosaur Genera List. Retrieved November 6, 2008.
- Weishampel, D.B., P. Dodson & H. Osmólska (Eds.) 2004. The Dinosauria, Second Edition. University of California Press, 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- Worth, G. (Ed.) N.d. The Dinosaur Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 16, 2009.