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Dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is t ...
s are a diverse group of
reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...
s of the
clade A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English term, ...
Dinosauria. They first appeared during the
Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 Mya. The Triassic is the first and shortest period ...
period Period may refer to: Common uses * Era, a length or span of time * Full stop (or period), a punctuation mark Arts, entertainment, and media * Period (music), a concept in musical composition * Periodic sentence (or rhetorical period), a concept ...
, between 243 and 233.23 
million years ago The abbreviation Myr, "million years", is a unit of a quantity of (i.e. ) years, or 31.556926 teraseconds. Usage Myr (million years) is in common use in fields such as Earth science and cosmology. Myr is also used with Mya (million years ago). ...
, although the exact origin and timing of the
evolution of dinosaurs Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is t ...
is the subject of active research. They became the dominant terrestrial
vertebrate Vertebrates () comprise all animal taxa within the subphylum Vertebrata () ( chordates with backbones), including all mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Vertebrates represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum Chordata, ...
s after the
Triassic–Jurassic extinction event The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event, often called the end-Triassic extinction, marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, , and is one of the top five major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon, profoundly affect ...
201.3 million years ago; their dominance continued throughout the
Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The J ...
and
Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of th ...
periods. The
fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...
record demonstrates that
bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
s are modern
feathered dinosaur A feathered dinosaur is any species of dinosaur possessing feathers. While this includes all species of birds, there is a hypothesis that many, if not all non-avian dinosaur species also possessed feathers in some shape or form. It has been su ...
s, having
evolved Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. These characteristics are the expressions of genes, which are passed on from parent to offspring during reproduction. Variation t ...
from earlier
theropods Theropoda (; ), whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally c ...
during the
Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.Owen 1987. In European lithostratigraphy, the name ...
epoch In chronology and periodization, an epoch or reference epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era. The "epoch" serves as a reference point from which time is measured. The moment of epoch is usually decided by ...
. Birds were therefore the only dinosaur lineage to survive the
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event (also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction) was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago. With the ...
approximately 66 million years ago. Dinosaurs can be divided into avian dinosaurs (birds) and non-avian dinosaurs, which are all dinosaurs other than birds. This list of dinosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all
genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
that have ever been considered to be non-avian dinosaurs, but also includes some dinosaurs of disputed status (avian? or non-avian?, where "avian" refers to the clade
Avialae Avialae ("bird wings") is a clade containing the only living dinosaurs, the birds. It is usually defined as all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds (Aves) than to deinonychosaurs, though alternative definitions are occasionally used ...
), as well as purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (''
nomen dubium In binomial nomenclature, a ''nomen dubium'' (Latin for "doubtful name", plural ''nomina dubia'') is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application. Zoology In case of a ''nomen dubium'' it may be impossible to determine whether a s ...
''), or were not formally published (''
nomen nudum In taxonomy, a ''nomen nudum'' ('naked name'; plural ''nomina nuda'') is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published with an adequate descr ...
''), as well as
junior synonyms The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered dinosaurs. Many listed names have been reclassified as everything from true
bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
s to
crocodilia Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both ) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period ( Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living ...
ns to
petrified wood Petrified wood, also known as petrified tree (from Ancient Greek meaning 'rock' or 'stone'; literally 'wood turned into stone'), is the name given to a special type of ''fossilized wood'', the fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. ''P ...
. The list contains 1740 names, of which approximately 1304 are considered either valid dinosaur genera or ''
nomina dubia In binomial nomenclature, a ''nomen dubium'' (Latin for "doubtful name", plural ''nomina dubia'') is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application. Zoology In case of a ''nomen dubium'' it may be impossible to determine whether a s ...
''.


Scope and terminology

There is no official, canonical list of all non-avian dinosaur genera. The closest is the ''Dinosaur Genera List'', compiled by
biological nomenclature Nomenclature codes or codes of nomenclature are the various rulebooks that govern biological taxonomic nomenclature, each in their own broad field of organisms. To an end-user who only deals with names of species, with some awareness that species ...
expert George Olshevsky, which was first published online in 1995 and was regularly updated until June 2021.Olshevsky, G. (1995–2021)
Dinosaur Genera List
Retrieved June 7, 2021.
The most authoritative general source in the field is the second (2004) edition of ''The Dinosauria''. The vast majority of names listed below are sourced to 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 The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals. It is also informally known as the ICZN Code, for its publisher, the ...
. Technical terms used include: *
Junior synonym The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...
: A name which describes the same taxon as a previously published name. If two or more genera are formally designated and the
type specimens In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes t ...
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 ''Tyrannosaurus'' is a genus of large theropoda, theropod dinosaur. The species ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' (''rex'' meaning "king" in Latin), often called ''T. rex'' or colloquially ''T-Rex'', is one of the best represented theropods. ''Tyrannosa ...
''), but junior synonyms cannot be used again for a different genus, even if deprecated. Junior synonymy is often subjective, unless the genera described were both based on the same type specimen. * ''
Nomen nudum In taxonomy, a ''nomen nudum'' ('naked name'; plural ''nomina nuda'') is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published with an adequate descr ...
'' (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 In zoological nomenclature, a ''nomen oblitum'' (plural: ''nomina oblita''; Latin for "forgotten name") is a disused scientific name which has been declared to be obsolete (figuratively 'forgotten') in favour of another 'protected' name. In its p ...
'' (Latin for "forgotten name"): A name that has not been used in the scientific community for more than fifty years after its original proposal. * ''Nomen manuscriptum'' (Latin for "manuscript name"): A name that appears in manuscript of a formal publication that has no scientific backing. * 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 In binomial nomenclature, a ''nomen dubium'' (Latin for "doubtful name", plural ''nomina dubia'') is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application. Zoology In case of a ''nomen dubium'' it may be impossible to determine whether a s ...
'' (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 ''Hadrosaurus'' (; ) is a genus of hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now the Woodbury Formation about 80 million to 78 million years ago. The holotype specimen was found in f ...
''), no genera should be marked as such on this list.


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Aachenosaurus ''Nicolia'' is a genus of Fossil wood, fossilized wood from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian). At one time, specimens were misidentified as a jaw fragments of a hadrosaur and named ''Aachenosaurus''.H. N. Andrews. (1970). Index of Generic ...
'' – subsequently found to be a piece of
petrified wood Petrified wood, also known as petrified tree (from Ancient Greek meaning 'rock' or 'stone'; literally 'wood turned into stone'), is the name given to a special type of ''fossilized wood'', the fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. ''P ...
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Aardonyx ''Aardonyx'' (Afrikaans ''aard'', "earth" + Greek , "nail, claw") is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It is known from the type species ''Aardonyx celestae'' found from the Early Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. ''A. celestae' ...
'' * " Abdallahsaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', synonym of ''
Giraffatitan ''Giraffatitan'' (name meaning "titanic giraffe") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (geology), Period (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian stages) in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania. It was originally named as an ...
'' * '' Abdarainurus'' * '' Abditosaurus'' * '' Abelisaurus'' * ''
Abrictosaurus ''Abrictosaurus'' (; "wakeful lizard") is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic in what is now in parts of southern Africa such as Lesotho and South Africa. It was a bipedal herbivore or omnivore and was o ...
'' * '' Abrosaurus'' * ''
Abydosaurus ''Abydosaurus'' (meaning " Abydos lizard") is a genus of brachiosaurid sauropod dinosaur known from skull and postcranial material found in upper Lower Cretaceous rocks of northeastern Utah, United States. Discovery ''Abydosaurus'' is one of th ...
'' * ''
Acantholipan ''Acantholipan'' is a genus of herbivorous nodosaurid dinosaur from Mexico from the early Santonian age of the Late Cretaceous. It includes one species, ''Acantholipan gonzalezi.'' Discovery and naming In the north of Mexico, fragmentary fossil ...
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Acanthopholis ''Acanthopholis'' (; meaning "spiny scales") is a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur in the family Nodosauridae that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of England. A single species, ''A. horrida'', exists. History Around 1865 commercial foss ...
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Achelousaurus ''Achelousaurus'' () is a genus of centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America, about 74.2 million years ago. The first fossils of ''Achelousaurus'' were collected in Mont ...
'' * ''
Acheroraptor ''Acheroraptor'' is an extinct genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur known from the latest Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of Montana, United States. It contains a single species, ''Acheroraptor temertyorum''. ''A. temertyorum'' is one of ...
'' * '' Achillesaurus'' * ''
Achillobator ''Achillobator'' ( ; meaning "Achilles hero") is a genus of large dromaeosaurid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period about 96 million to 89 million years ago in what is now the Bayan Shireh Formation. The genus is curren ...
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Acristavus ''Acristavus'' (meaning "non-crested grandfather") is a genus of saurolophine dinosaur. Fossils have been found from the Campanian Two Medicine Formation in Montana and Wahweap Formation in Utah, United States. The type species ''A. gagslarsoni ...
'' * ''
Acrocanthosaurus ''Acrocanthosaurus'' ( ; ) is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that existed in what is now North America during the Aptian and early Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous, from 113 to 110 million years ago. Like most dinosaur genera, ' ...
'' * ''
Acrotholus ''Acrotholus'' (Greek for "highest dome"- akros meaning highest and tholos meaning dome) is an extinct genus of pachycephalosaur dinosaur that lived during the Santonian of the late Cretaceous, in the Milk River Formation of Canada. The type spe ...
'' * ''
Actiosaurus ''Actiosaurus'' (meaning "coast lizard") is an extinct genus of reptile first described by Henri Sauvage in 1883 from Antully bonebed, Autun (Triassic of France). The type species is ''A. gaudryi'' (commonly misspelled ''A. gaudrii'' after Boul ...
'' – subsequently found to be a choristoderan * ''
Adamantisaurus ''Adamantisaurus'' ( ) is a poorly-known genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. It is only known from six tail vertebrae but, as a sauropod, it can be assumed that this dinosaur was ...
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Adasaurus ''Adasaurus'' ( ; meaning "Ada lizard") is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period about 70 million years ago. The genus is known from two partial specimens found in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia ...
'' * '' Adelolophus'' * ''
Adeopapposaurus ''Adeopapposaurus'' (meaning "far eating lizard", in reference to its long neck) is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Cañón del Colorado Formation of San Juan, Argentina. It was similar to ''Massospondylus''. Four parti ...
'' * '' Adratiklit'' * '' Adynomosaurus'' * ''
Aegyptosaurus ''Aegyptosaurus'' (meaning 'Egypt's lizard') is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Africa, around 95 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period (Cenomanian faunal stage). Discovery and naming The holotype (1912V ...
'' * ''
Aeolosaurus ''Aeolosaurus'' (; "Aeolus' lizard") is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. Like most sauropods, it would have been a quadrupedal herbivore with a long neck and tail. ''Aeolos ...
'' * '' Aepisaurus'' * ''
Aepyornithomimus ''Aepyornithomimus'' (meaning "''Aepyornis'' mimic") is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation in Mongolia. It lived in the Campanian, around 75 million years ago, when the area is thought to have b ...
'' * ''
Aerosteon ''Aerosteon'' is a genus of megaraptoran dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Argentina. Its remains were discovered in 1996 in the Anacleto Formation, which is from the late Campanian. The type and only known species is ''A. riocolorad ...
'' * ''
Aetonyx ''Massospondylus'' ( ; from Greek, (massōn, "longer") and (spondylos, "vertebra")) is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years ago). It was described by Si ...
'' – junior synonym of ''
Massospondylus ''Massospondylus'' ( ; from Greek, (massōn, "longer") and (spondylos, "vertebra")) is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years ago). It was described by S ...
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Afromimus ''Afromimus'' (meaning "Africa mimic") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation of Niger. It contains a single species, ''A. tenerensis'', named in 2017 by Paul Sereno from parts of the right leg, vertebrae, and ...
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Afrovenator ''Afrovenator'' (; "African hunter") is a genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of northern Africa. Discovery and naming The remains of ''Afrovenator'' were discovered in 1993 in the Tiourarén Formation ...
'' * ''
Agathaumas ''Agathaumas'' (; "great wonder") is a dubious genus of a large ceratopsid dinosaur that lived in Wyoming during the Late Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian stage, 66 million years ago). The name comes from grc, αγαν - 'much' and - 'wonder'. I ...
'' – possible synonym of ''
Triceratops ''Triceratops'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivore, herbivorous Chasmosaurinae, chasmosaurine Ceratopsidae, ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (geology), period, about 68 m ...
'' * '' Aggiosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a
metriorhynchid Metriorhynchidae is an extinct family of specialized, aquatic metriorhynchoid crocodyliforms from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous period (Bajocian to early Aptian) of Europe, North America and South America. The name Metriorhynchidae ...
crocodilia Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both ) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period ( Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living ...
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Agilisaurus ''Agilisaurus'' (; 'agile lizard') is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of what is now eastern Asia. It was about 3.5–4 ft (1.2-1.7 m) long, 2 ft (0.6 m) in height and 40 kg in weight. It has ...
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Agnosphitys ''Agnosphitys'' (; "unknown begetter"; sometimes mistakenly called ''Agnostiphys'' or ''Agnosphytis'') is a genus of dinosauriform that lived during the Late Triassic. It contains only one species, the type species ''A. cromhallensis''. Its rema ...
'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * ''
Agrosaurus ''Agrosaurus'' (; perhaps from Greek ''agros'' meaning 'field' and ''sauros'' meaning 'lizard', "field lizard") is an extinct genus of thecodontosaurid sauropodomorph probably originating from England that was originally believed to be a Triassi ...
'' – probably a junior synonym of ''
Thecodontosaurus ''Thecodontosaurus'' ("socket-tooth lizard") is a genus of herbivorous basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the late Triassic period (Rhaetian age). Its remains are known mostly from Triassic "fissure fillings" in South England. ''The ...
'' * ''
Agujaceratops ''Agujaceratops'' (meaning "horned face from Aguja") is a genus of horned dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of west Texas. It is a chasmosaurine (long-frilled) ceratopsian. Two species are known, ''Agujaceratops mariscalensis'', and ...
'' * '' Agustinia'' * ''
Ahshislepelta ''Ahshislepelta'' (meaning "Ah-shi-sle-pah Wash shield") is a monotypic taxon, monospecific genus of ankylosauria, ankylosaur dinosaur from New Mexico that lived during the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian stage, 74.5 Ma) in what is now the Hunter ...
'' * " Airakoraptor" – ''nomen nudum''; ''
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Ajancingenia ''Heyuannia'' ("from Heyuan") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, in what is now China and Mongolia. It was the first oviraptorid found in China; most others were found in neighbouring Mongoli ...
'' –
synonym A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are all ...
of ''
Heyuannia ''Heyuannia'' ("from Heyuan") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, in what is now China and Mongolia. It was the first oviraptorid found in China; most others were found in neighbouring Mongolia ...
'' * ''
Ajkaceratops ''Ajkaceratops'' (pronounced "oi-ka-sera-tops") is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described in 2010. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in the western Tethyan archipelago, in what is now Europe. The type species, ''A. kozmai'', is most closely ...
'' * '' Ajnabia'' * ''
Akainacephalus ''Akainacephalus'' (meaning "thorn head") is a monospecific genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from southern Utah that lived during the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian, 76.26 Ma) in what is now the Horse Mountain Gryposaur Quarry of the Kaiparowits F ...
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Alamosaurus ''Alamosaurus'' (; meaning "Ojo Alamo lizard") is a genus of opisthocoelicaudiine titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs, containing a single known species, ''Alamosaurus sanjuanensis'', from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now southern North Am ...
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Alaskacephale ''Alaskacephale'' was a genus of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Prince Creek Formation, that lived in the early Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous (around 71 to 69 million years ago). Discovery ''Alaskacephale'' was named by Ro ...
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Albalophosaurus ''Albalophosaurus'' (meaning 'white crest lizard') is a genus of ceratopsian ornithischian dinosaur. It was described in 2009 from remains found in 1997 by Yoshinori Kobayashi from the Kuwajima Formation of central Japan, outcropping in Hak ...
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Albertaceratops ''Albertaceratops'' (meaning "Alberta horned face") was a genus of centrosaurine horned dinosaur from the middle Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Oldman Formation of Alberta, Canada. Description ''Albertaceratops'' is unusual in combining long ...
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Albertadromeus ''Albertadromeus'' is an extinct genus of orodromine thescelosaurid dinosaur known from the upper part of the Late Cretaceous Oldman Formation (middle Campanian stage) of Alberta, Canada. It contains a single species, ''Albertadromeus syntars ...
'' * ''
Albertavenator ''Albertavenator'' (meaning "Alberta hunter") is a genus of small troodontid theropod dinosaur, known from the early Maastrichtian in the Cretaceous period. It contains a single species, ''A. curriei'', named after paleontologist Phil Currie, bas ...
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Albertonykus ''Albertonykus'' (meaning "Alberta claw") is an alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Maastrichtian-age (Upper Cretaceous) rocks of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. It is known from forelimb and hindlimb remains from multiple indivi ...
'' * ''
Albertosaurus ''Albertosaurus'' (; meaning "Alberta lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 71 million years ago. The type species, ''A. sarcophagus'', was app ...
'' * '' Albinykus'' * ''
Albisaurus ''Albisaurus'' (meaning "Albis iverlizard") was once thought to be a genus of dinosaur, but is now thought to be a non-dinosaurian archosaur. Brinkmann, W. (1988). Zur Fundgeschichte und Systematik der Ornithopoden (Ornithischia, Reptilia) aus de ...
'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...
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Alcovasaurus ''Alcovasaurus'', alternatively known as ''Miragaia longispinus'', is a genus of herbivorous thyreophoran dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic. It was found in the Morrison Formation of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. The type species ...
'' – possible junior synonym of ''
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Alectrosaurus ''Alectrosaurus'' (; meaning "alone lizard") is a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about some 96 million years ago in what is now the Iren Dabasu Formation. It was a medium-sized, mo ...
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Aletopelta ''Aletopelta'' (; meaning 'wanderer shield') is a monospecific genus of basal ankylosaurid dinosaur from Southern California that lived during the Late Cretaceous (upper Campanian stage, 75.5 Ma) in what is now the Point Loma Formation. The type ...
'' * '' Algoasaurus'' * ''
Alioramus ''Alioramus'' (; meaning 'different branch') is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia. It currently contains two species. The type species, ''A. remotus'' is known from a partial skull and thre ...
'' * '' Aliwalia'' – junior synonym of '' Eucnemesaurus'' * ''
Allosaurus ''Allosaurus'' () is a genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian). The name "''Allosaurus''" means "different lizard" alluding to ...
'' * '' Almas'' * ''
Alnashetri ''Alnashetri'' is an extinct genus of alvarezsaurid coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur known from the early Late Cretaceous ( Cenomanian stage) of La Buitrera, Río Negro Province, Argentina. It contains one known species, ''Alnashetri cerropolici ...
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Alocodon ''Alocodon'' is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur known from multiple teeth from the Middle or Late Jurassic. The taxon was first described in 1973 by Richard A. Thulborn for an assemblage of teeth from the Pedrógão locality of Portugal, dist ...
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Altirhinus ''Altirhinus'' (; "high snout") is a genus of hadrosauroid ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Mongolia. History of discovery All known specimens of ''Altirhinus'' were recovered in 1981 during collaborative expeditions organ ...
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Altispinax ''Altispinax'' (; "with high spines") is a genus of large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period (Valanginian, 140 to 133 million years ago) of what is now the Wadhurst Clay Formation of East Sussex, England. History Pro ...
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Alvarezsaurus ''Alvarezsaurus'' (; "Alvarez's lizard") is a genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, living in Argentina approximately 86 - 83 million years ago. It was a small dinosaur, measuring long and weighing approximately . It was fou ...
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Alwalkeria ''Alwalkeria'' (; "for Alick Walker") is a genus partly based on basal saurischian dinosaur remains from the Late Triassic, living in India. A thighbone found indicates a small bipedal form. It has been seen as a chimera. Etymology This taxon w ...
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Alxasaurus ''Alxasaurus'' (; meaning " Alxa lizard") is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous (Albian age) Bayin-Gobi Formation of Inner Mongolia. History of discovery The fossil remains were first discovered in 1988 a ...
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Amanzia ''Amanzia'' (after Swiss geologist Amanz Gressly) is a genus of turiasaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Reuchenette Formation in Moutier, Switzerland. The type and only species is ''Amanzia greppini'', originally named as a species of ''Orni ...
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Amargasaurus ''Amargasaurus'' (; "La Amarga lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous epoch (129.4–122.46 mya) of what is now Argentina. The only known skeleton was discovered in 1984 and is virtually complete, including a fra ...
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Amargatitanis ''Amargatitanis'' (meaning " Amarga giant") is a genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur (a type of large, long-necked quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur) from the Barremian-age (Lower Cretaceous) La Amarga Formation of Neuquén, Argentina. Cl ...
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Ambopteryx ''Ambopteryx'' (meaning "both wing") is a genus of scansoriopterygid dinosaur from the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic of China. It is the second dinosaur to be found with both feathers and bat-like membranous wings. ''Yi'', the first such d ...
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Ammosaurus ''Anchisaurus'' is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Early Jurassic Period, and its fossils have been found in the red sandstone of the Portland Formation, Northeastern United States, which was deposited from the H ...
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Anchisaurus ''Anchisaurus'' is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Early Jurassic Period, and its fossils have been found in the red sandstone of the Portland Formation, Northeastern United States, which was deposited from the He ...
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Ampelosaurus ''Ampelosaurus'' ( ; meaning "vine lizard") is a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now France. Its type species is ''A. atacis'', named by Le Loeuff in 1995. A possible unnamed species has given ''Ampel ...
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Amphicoelias ''Amphicoelias'' (, meaning "biconcave", from the Greek ἀμφί, ''amphi'': "on both sides", and κοῖλος, ''koilos'': "hollow, concave") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived approximately 150 million years ago during t ...
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Huabeisaurus ''Huabeisaurus'' (, meaning " North China lizard") was a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous ( Cenomanian to Maastrichtian stages, around 99.7–70.6 million years ago). It was a sauropod which lived in what is present-day northern Chin ...
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Anchisaurus ''Anchisaurus'' is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Early Jurassic Period, and its fossils have been found in the red sandstone of the Portland Formation, Northeastern United States, which was deposited from the He ...
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Amtosaurus ''Amtosaurus'' (; " Amtgai lizard") is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur based on a fragmentary skull collected from the Upper Cretaceous Bayan Shireh Formation ( Cenomanian to Santonian) of Mongolia and originally believed to represent an ankyl ...
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Talarurus ''Talarurus'' ( ; meaning "basket tail" or "wicker tail") is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 96 million to 89 million years ago. The first remains of ''Talarurus'' were discovered in 19 ...
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Amurosaurus ''Amurosaurus'' (; "Amur lizard") is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur found in the latest Cretaceous period (66 million years ago)Godefroit, P., Lauters, P., Van Itterbeeck, J., Bolotsky, Y. and Bolotsky, I.Y. (2011). "Recent advanc ...
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Amygdalodon ''Amygdalodon'' (; "almond tooth" for its almond shaped teeth) was a genus of basal sauropod from the Middle Jurassic of Argentina. The type species is ''Amygdalodon patagonicus''. Fossils of ''Amygdalodon'' have been found in the Toarcian Cerro ...
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Anabisetia ''Anabisetia'' ( ) is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of Patagonia, South America. It was a small bipedal herbivore, around long. Discovery Argentine paleontologists Rodolfo Coria and Jorge Orlando Calvo named ...
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Analong ''Analong'' (meaning "Ana dragon") is a genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Chuanjie Formation in Yunnan, China. The type and only species is ''Analong chuanjieensis''. Discovery and naming The holotype, LFGT LCD 9701–1, fou ...
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Anasazisaurus ''Anasazisaurus'' ( ; "Anasazi lizard") is a genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid ("duckbill") ornithopod dinosaur that lived about 74 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous Period. It was found in the Farmington Member of the Kirtland Formati ...
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Anatosaurus ''Edmontosaurus annectens'' (meaning "connected lizard from Edmonton") is a species of flat-headed and duck-billed ( hadrosaurid) dinosaur from the very end of the Cretaceous Period, in what is now North America. Remains of ''E. annectens'' have ...
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Edmontosaurus ''Edmontosaurus'' ( ) (meaning "lizard from Edmonton") is a genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur. It contains two known species: ''Edmontosaurus regalis'' and ''Edmontosaurus annectens''. Fossils of ''E. regalis'' have been found in rocks ...
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Anatotitan ''Edmontosaurus annectens'' (meaning "connected lizard from Edmonton") is a species of flat-headed and duck-billed ( hadrosaurid) dinosaur from the very end of the Cretaceous Period, in what is now North America. Remains of ''E. annectens'' have ...
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Edmontosaurus ''Edmontosaurus'' ( ) (meaning "lizard from Edmonton") is a genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur. It contains two known species: ''Edmontosaurus regalis'' and ''Edmontosaurus annectens''. Fossils of ''E. regalis'' have been found in rocks ...
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Anchiceratops ''Anchiceratops'' ( ) is an extinct genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur that lived approximately 72 to 71 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Alberta, Canada. ''Anchiceratops'' was a medium-size ...
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Anchiornis ''Anchiornis'' is a genus of small, four-winged Paraves, paravian dinosaurs, with only one known species, the type species ''Anchiornis huxleyi'', named for its similarity to modern birds. The Latin name ''Anchiornis'' derives from a Greek word m ...
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Anchisaurus ''Anchisaurus'' is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Early Jurassic Period, and its fossils have been found in the red sandstone of the Portland Formation, Northeastern United States, which was deposited from the He ...
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Andesaurus ''Andesaurus'' ( ; "Andes lizard") is a genus of basal titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur which existed during the middle of the Cretaceous Period in South America. Like most sauropods, belonging to one of the largest animals ever to walk the Eart ...
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Irritator ''Irritator'' is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous Period, about 113 to 110 million years ago. It is known from a nearly complete skull found in the Romualdo Forma ...
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Angolatitan ''Angolatitan'' (meaning "Angolan giant") is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous. It is also the first non-avian dinosaur discovered in Angola. The genus contains a single species, ''Angolatitan adamastor'', kn ...
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Animantarx ''Animantarx'' ( ; meaning 'living citadel') is a genus of nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous, Early and Late Cretaceous of western North America. Like other nodosaurs, it would have been a slow-moving quadrupedal herbivo ...
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Ankistrodon ''Ankistrodon'' is an extinct genus of archosauriform known from the Early Triassic Panchet Formation of India. First thought to be a theropod dinosaur, it was later determined to be a proterosuchid. The type species is ''A. indicus'', described ...
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proterosuchid Proterosuchidae is an early family of basal archosauriforms whose fossils are known from the Latest Permian and the Early Triassic of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and possibly South America. The name comes from Greek πρότερο- ("first") ...
archosauriform Archosauriformes (Greek for 'ruling lizards', and Latin for 'form') is a clade of diapsid reptiles that developed from archosauromorph ancestors some time in the Latest Permian (roughly 252 million years ago). It was defined by Jacques Gauthier ...
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Ankylosaurus ''Ankylosaurus'' is a genus of armored dinosaur. Its fossils have been found in geological formations dating to the very end of the Cretaceous Period, about 68–66 million years ago, in western North America, making it among the last of the n ...
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Anodontosaurus ''Anodontosaurus'' is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid dinosaurs within the subfamily Ankylosaurinae. It is known from the entire span of the Late Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation (mid Late Campanian to "middle" Maastrichtian stage, about 7 ...
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Anoplosaurus ''Anoplosaurus'' (meaning "unarmored or unarmed lizard") is an extinct genus of herbivorous nodosaurid dinosaur, from the late Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand of Cambridgeshire, England. It has in the past been classified with e ...
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Anserimimus ''Anserimimus'' ( ; "goose mimic") is a genus of ornithomimid theropod dinosaur, from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It was a lanky, fast-running animal, possibly an omnivore. From what fossils are known, it probably closely ...
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Antarctopelta ''Antarctopelta'' ( ; meaning 'Antarctic shield') was a genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur with one known species, ''A. oliveroi'', which lived in Antarctica during the Late Cretaceous Period. It was a medium-sized ankylosaur, reaching 4 meters (13& ...
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Antarctosaurus ''Antarctosaurus'' (; meaning "southern lizard") is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. The type species, ''Antarctosaurus wichmannianus'', and a second species, ''Antarctosau ...
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Antetonitrus ''Antetonitrus'' is a genus of sauropod dinosaur found in the Early Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. The only species is ''Antetonitrus ingenipes''. As one of the oldest known sauropods, it is crucial for the understanding of the origi ...
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pareiasaur Pareiasaurs (meaning "cheek lizards") are an extinct clade of large, herbivorous parareptiles. Members of the group were armoured with scutes which covered large areas of the body. They first appeared in southern Pangea during the Middle Permian, ...
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Antrodemus ''Antrodemus'' ("chamber bodied") is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Middle Park, Colorado. It contains one species, ''Antrodemus valens'', first described and named a ...
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Allosaurus ''Allosaurus'' () is a genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian). The name "''Allosaurus''" means "different lizard" alluding to ...
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Anzu Anzu may refer to: *Anzû, a divine storm-bird in several Mesopotamian religions * ''Anzu'' (dinosaur), a genus of theropod dinosaur containing the species ''Anzu wyliei'' As a given name is a Japanese given name for females. Kyoko is an altern ...
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Aoniraptor ''Aoniraptor'' is a megaraptoran theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina (Huincul Formation). Discovery and naming The holotype, MPCA-Pv 804/1 to 804/25, which consists of the last sacral vertebra, six proximal caudal vertebrae, four mid ...
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Aorun ''Aorun'' (pron.:"AW-roon") is an extinct genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur first discovered in 2006, with its scientific description published in 2013. It is one of the oldest known coelurosaurian dinosaurs and is estimated to have lived ~ ...
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Apatodon ''Apatodon'' is a dubious genus of dinosaur that may have been a theropod. The type, and only species, ''A. mirus'', was named in 1877 by Othniel Charles Marsh. It was found in the Late Jurassic-aged Morrison Formation of Colorado. History When ...
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Allosaurus ''Allosaurus'' () is a genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian). The name "''Allosaurus''" means "different lizard" alluding to ...
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Apatoraptor ''Apatoraptor'' ("Apatè robber") is a genus of caenagnathid dinosaur which contains a single species, ''A. pennatus''. The only known specimen was discovered in the Campanian-age Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta. Discovery In 1993, at D ...
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Apatosaurus ''Apatosaurus'' (; meaning "deceptive lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the first-known species, ''A. ajax'', in 1877, an ...
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Appalachiosaurus ''Appalachiosaurus'' ( ; "Appalachian lizard") is a genus of tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of eastern North America. Like almost all theropods, it was a bipedal predator. Only a juvenile skeleton has been found ...
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Aquilarhinus ''Aquilarhinus'' (meaning "eagle snout" after the unusual beak morphology) is a genus of hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaur from the Aguja Formation from Texas in the United States. The type and only species is ''Aquilarhinus palimentus''. Due to i ...
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Aquilops ''Aquilops'' is an early herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur dating from the Early Cretaceous of North America, approximately 109 million to 104 million years ago. The type species is ''A. americanus''. Description The skull is 84.2 mm long. ...
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Aragosaurus ''Aragosaurus'' (meaning "Aragon lizard") was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Galve, province of Teruel, in the autonomous territory of Aragón, Spain.Sanz, J.L., Buscalioni, A.D., Casanovas, M.L. y Santafé, J ...
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Aralosaurus ''Aralosaurus'' was a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Kazakhstan. It is known only by a posterior half of a skull (devoid of its mandible) and some post-cranial bones found in the Bostobe Formati ...
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Aratasaurus ''Aratasaurus'' (meaning "lizard born of fire") is a monotypic genus of basal coelurosaurian theropod which includes a single species, ''Aratasaurus museunacionali'', known from fossils found in deposits of the Romualdo Formation in Brazil. ''Ara ...
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Araucanoraptor ''Neuquenraptor'' (meaning Neuquén thief) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaurs that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous in what is now the Portezuelo Formation of Argentina. It is one of the first dromaeosaurids found in ...
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Archaeoceratops ''Archaeoceratops'', meaning "ancient horned face", is a genus of basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian stage) of north central China. It appears to have been bipedal and quite small, reaching in length and in body m ...
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Archaeodontosaurus ''Archaeodontosaurus'' ("ancient-toothed lizard") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic. Its fossils were found in the Isalo III Formation of Madagascar. The type species, ''Archaeodontosaurus descouensi'', was described in ...
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Archaeopteryx ''Archaeopteryx'' (; ), sometimes referred to by its German name, "" ( ''Primeval Bird''), is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs. The name derives from the ancient Greek (''archaīos''), meaning "ancient", and (''ptéryx''), meaning "feather" ...
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bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
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Archaeoraptor "Archaeoraptor" is the informal generic name for a fossil chimera from China in an article published in ''National Geographic'' magazine in 1999. The magazine claimed that the fossil was a " missing link" between birds and terrestrial theropod ...
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bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
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Yanornis ''Yanornis'' () is an extinct genus of fish-eating Early Cretaceous birds. Two species have been described, both from Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, China: ''Yanornis martini'', based on several fossils found in the 120-million-ye ...
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dromaeosaur Dromaeosauridae () is a family of feathered theropod dinosaurs. They were generally small to medium-sized feathered carnivores that flourished in the Cretaceous Period. The name Dromaeosauridae means 'running lizards', from Greek ('), meaning ...
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Microraptor ''Microraptor'' (Greek, μικρός, ''mīkros'': "small"; Latin, ''raptor'': "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Numerous well-preserved fossil specimens have been recovered from Liaoning, China. They dat ...
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Archaeopteryx ''Archaeopteryx'' (; ), sometimes referred to by its German name, "" ( ''Primeval Bird''), is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs. The name derives from the ancient Greek (''archaīos''), meaning "ancient", and (''ptéryx''), meaning "feather" ...
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Archaeornithoides ''Archaeornithoides'' is a genus of maniraptoran theropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Discovery and naming In 1965, a Polish-Mongolian paleontological expedition found a fossil of a small dinosaur at Bayn Dzak, Mongolia. In 19 ...
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Archaeornithomimus ''Archaeornithomimus'' (meaning "ancient bird mimic") is a genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, around 96 million years ago in the Iren Dabasu Formation. Discovery and naming In 192 ...
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Arcovenator ''Arcovenator'' ("Arc hunter") is an extinct genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaurs hailing from the Late Cretaceous of France. The type and only described species is ''Arcovenator escotae''. Description Though shallower, the nearly complet ...
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Arctosaurus ''Arctosaurus'' is an extinct genus of archosauromorph, possibly an allokotosaurian, but was often classified as a sauropodomorph dinosaur between 1900 and 1976. Although it has also been classified as a theropod, recent review finds that the ...
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reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...
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Arcusaurus ''Arcusaurus'' is an extinct genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic ( Hettangian to Sinemurian stages) of South Africa. ''Arcusaurus'' was first named by Adam Yates, Matthew Bonnan and Johann Neveling in 2011 and the type ...
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Arenysaurus ''Arenysaurus'' is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (66 million years ago), being one of the last non-avian dinosaurs and it went extinct during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. It is known from a partial sku ...
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Argentinosaurus ''Argentinosaurus'' is a genus of giant sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Argentina. Although it is only known from fragmentary remains, ''Argentinosaurus'' is one of the largest known land animals o ...
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Argyrosaurus ''Argyrosaurus'' ( ) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived about 70 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Argentina. Discovery and naming The type species, ''Argyrosaurus superbus'', was formall ...
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Massospondylus ''Massospondylus'' ( ; from Greek, (massōn, "longer") and (spondylos, "vertebra")) is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years ago). It was described by S ...
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Aristosuchus ''Aristosuchus'' is a genus of small coelurosaurian dinosaur whose name was derived from the Greek ἄριστος (meaning bravest, best, noblest) and ''σουχος'' (the Ancient Greek corruption of the name of the Egyptian crocodile-headed go ...
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Arizonasaurus ''Arizonasaurus'' was a ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic (243 million years ago). ''Arizonasaurus'' is found in the Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation of northern Arizona. A fairly complete skeleton was found in 2002 by Sterling ...
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rauisuchian "Rauisuchia" is a paraphyletic group of mostly large and carnivorous Triassic archosaurs. Rauisuchians are a category of archosaurs within a larger group called Pseudosuchia, which encompasses all archosaurs more closely related to crocodilians ...
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Arkansaurus ''Arkansaurus'' (meaning "Arkansas lizard") is an extinct genus of ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Albian and Aptian stages of the Early Cretaceous. The type and only species is ''Arkansaurus fridayi''. History In Au ...
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Arrhinoceratops ''Arrhinoceratops'' (meaning "no nose-horn face", derived from the Ancient Greek "a-/α-" "no", rhis/ῥίς "nose" "keras/κέρας" "horn", "-ops/ὤψ" "face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. The name was coined as its origina ...
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Asfaltovenator ''Asfaltovenator'' (meaning "Cañadón Asfalto Formation hunter" after the fossil formation in which its fossils were found) is a genus of possibly allosauroid dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation from Chubut Province, Arge ...
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Asiaceratops ''Asiaceratops'' (meaning "Asian horned face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It lived during the Early-Late Cretaceous. The type species, ''A. salsopaludalis'' is known from Uzbekistan, while ''A. sulcidens'' is known from China ...
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fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
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Asilisaurus ''Asilisaurus'' ( ); from Swahili, ''asili'' ("ancestor" or "foundation"), and Greek, (, "lizard") is an extinct genus of silesaurid archosaur. The type species is ''Asilisaurus kongwe.'' ''Asilisaurus'' fossils were uncovered in the Manda Beds ...
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Astrodon ''Astrodon'' (aster: star, odon: tooth) is a genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, measuring in length, in height and in body mass. It lived in what is now the eastern United States during the Early Cretaceous period, and fossils have ...
'' * '' Astrodonius'' – junior synonym of ''
Astrodon ''Astrodon'' (aster: star, odon: tooth) is a genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, measuring in length, in height and in body mass. It lived in what is now the eastern United States during the Early Cretaceous period, and fossils have ...
'' * '' Astrodontaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Astrodon ''Astrodon'' (aster: star, odon: tooth) is a genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, measuring in length, in height and in body mass. It lived in what is now the eastern United States during the Early Cretaceous period, and fossils have ...
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Atacamatitan ''Atacamatitan'' (meaning "Atacama Desert titan") is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period. Discovery and naming In February 2000, with the purpose of looking for Mesozoic ...
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Atlantosaurus ''Atlantosaurus'' (meaning "Atlas lizard") is a dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur. It contains a single species, ''Atlantosaurus montanus'', from the upper Morrison Formation of Colorado, United States. ''Atlantosaurus'' was the first sauropod t ...
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Atlasaurus ''Atlasaurus'' is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs from Middle Jurassic (Bathonian to Callovian stages) beds in North Africa.M. Monbaron, D. A. Russell, and P. Taquet. (1999). ''Atlasaurus imelakei'' n.g., n.sp., a brachiosaurid-like sauropod from ...
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Atlascopcosaurus ''Atlascopcosaurus'' () is a genus of herbivorous basal iguanodont dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of the present Australia. Classification The type specimen, NMV P166409, was found in 1984 at the Dinosaur Cove East site at the coast of ...
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Atrociraptor ''Atrociraptor'' (meaning "savage thief") is a genus of saurornitholestine dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage) of Alberta, Canada. The type (and only) specimen of ''Atrociraptor'', holotype RTMP 95.1 ...
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Atsinganosaurus ''Atsinganosaurus'' is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur which existed in what is now France during the late Cretaceous period. Well-preserved remains (and the only known) of ''Atsinganosaurus'' were collected from the Grès à Reptiles ...
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Aublysodon ''Aublysodon'' (“backwards-flowing tooth") is a genus of carnivorous dinosaurs known only from the Judith River Formation in Montana, which has been dated to the late Campanian age of the late Cretaceous period (about 75 million years ago). The ...
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Aucasaurus ''Aucasaurus'' is a genus of medium-sized abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from Argentina that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Santonian to Campanian stage) of the Anacleto Formation. It was smaller than the related ''Carnotaurus'', although more ...
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Augustynolophus ''Augustynolophus'' is an extinct genus of herbivorous saurolophine hadrosaur dinosaur which was discovered in the Moreno Formation in California, dating to the late Maastrichtian age, making it one of the last dinosaurs known from the fossil re ...
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Auroraceratops ''Auroraceratops'', meaning "dawn horned face", is a genus of bipedal basal neoceratopsian dinosaur, from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian age) of north central China. The etymology of the generic name refers to its status as an early ceratopsian an ...
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Aurornis ''Aurornis'' is an extinct genus of anchiornithid theropod dinosaurs from the Jurassic period of China. The genus ''Aurornis'' contains a single known species, ''Aurornis xui'' (). ''Aurornis xui'' may be the most basal ("primitive") avialan di ...
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Australotitan ''Australotitan'' () is an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod that existed during the Cenomanian-Turonian age of the Late Cretaceous in what is now southern-central Queensland, Australia. The genus contains a single species, ''Australotitan c ...
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Australovenator ''Australovenator'' (meaning "southern hunter") is a genus of megaraptoran theropod dinosaur from Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)-age Winton Formation (dated to 95 million years ago) of Australia. It is known from partial cranial and postcranial rem ...
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Austrocheirus ''Austrocheirus'' is an extinct genus of theropod dinosaur, possibly a neoceratosaurian, which existed during the Late Cretaceous period. It was named and described by Martin Ezcurra, Federico Agnolin and Fernando Novas in 2010. It contains the ...
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Austroposeidon ''Austroposeidon'' is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Presidente Prudente Formation of Brazil. It contains one species, ''Austroposeidon magnificus'' (meaning "Magnificent Southern Poseidon"). Discovery and ...
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Austroraptor ''Austroraptor'' ( ) is a genus of large dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now Argentina. ''Austroraptor'' was a large-sized, moderately-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, estimated at in len ...
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Austrosaurus ''Austrosaurus'' (; ) was an extinct genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Allaru Formation, from the early Cretaceous (112-105 million years ago) of Central-Western Queensland in Australia. Discovery and species The holotype, QM ...
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Avaceratops ''Avaceratops'' is a genus of small herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaurs which lived during the late Campanian during the Late Cretaceous Period in what are now the Northwest United States. Most fossils come from the Judith River Formation. Discove ...
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Avalonia Avalonia was a microcontinent in the Paleozoic era. Crustal fragments of this former microcontinent underlie south-west Great Britain, southern Ireland, and the eastern coast of North America. It is the source of many of the older rocks of Wester ...
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Avalonianus ''Avalonianus'' is a highly dubious and possibly invalid genus of archosaur from the Late Triassic of England. It was first described in 1898 by Harry Seeley with the name ''Avalonia'',H. G. Seeley. 1898. On large terrestrial saurians from the Rh ...
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Avalonianus ''Avalonianus'' is a highly dubious and possibly invalid genus of archosaur from the Late Triassic of England. It was first described in 1898 by Harry Seeley with the name ''Avalonia'',H. G. Seeley. 1898. On large terrestrial saurians from the Rh ...
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Avimimus ''Avimimus'' ( ), meaning "bird mimic" (Latin ''avis'' = bird + ''mimus'' = mimic), is a genus of oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur, named for its bird-like characteristics, that lived in the late Cretaceous in what is now Mongolia, around 85 t ...
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dinosauromorph Dinosauromorpha is a clade of avemetatarsalian archosaurs (reptiles closer to birds than to crocodilians) that includes the Dinosauria (dinosaurs) and some of their close relatives. It was originally defined to include dinosauriforms and lag ...
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Avisaurus ''Avisaurus'' (meaning "bird lizard") is a genus of enantiornithine bird from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Discovery ''Avisaurus archibaldi'' was discovered in the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of North America (Maastrichtian, fr ...
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enantiornithine The Enantiornithes, also known as enantiornithines or enantiornitheans in literature, are a group of extinct avialans ("birds" in the broad sense), the most abundant and diverse group known from the Mesozoic era. Almost all retained teeth and cla ...
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Azendohsaurus ''Azendohsaurus'' is an extinct genus of herbivorous archosauromorph reptile from roughly the late Middle to early Late Triassic Period of Morocco and Madagascar. The type species, ''Azendohsaurus laaroussii'', was described and named by Jean-Mi ...
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archosauromorph Archosauromorpha (Greek for "ruling lizard forms") is a clade of diapsid reptiles containing all reptiles more closely related to archosaurs (such as crocodilians and dinosaurs, including birds) rather than lepidosaurs (such as tuataras, liza ...


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Baalsaurus ''Baalsaurus'' (named after the dinosaur fossil site Baal in Argentina, which in turn is named after the ancient Phoenician god Baal) is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argent ...
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Bactrosaurus ''Bactrosaurus'' (; meaning "Club lizard," "baktron" = club + ''sauros'' = lizard) is a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, about 96-85 million years ago. The position ''Bactrosaurus'' occupie ...
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Bagaceratops ''Bagaceratops'' (meaning "small-horned face") is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 72 to 71 million years ago. ''Bagaceratops'' remains have been reported from the Barun Goyot Forma ...
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Bagaraatan ''Bagaraatan'' (/'ba-ɣa-raa-tan/ meaning 'small' ''baɣa'' + 'carnivorous animal, beast of prey' ''araatan'' in Mongolian) is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. Its fossils were found in the Nemegt Formation of Mongoli ...
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Bagualia ''Bagualia'' (meaning "wild horse" in Spanish, after Bagual Canyon, the type locality), is an extinct genus of eusauropod dinosaur, from the Early Jurassic Epoch in what is now Argentina. The type species, ''B. alba'', was formally described in ...
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Bagualosaurus ''Bagualosaurus'' is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Candelária Sequence (Uppermost Santa Maria Formation) of Brazil, dating to around 230 million years ago in the Carnian of the Late Triassic. It includes one species, ''Bagualosaur ...
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Bahariasaurus ''Bahariasaurus'' (meaning "Bahariya lizard") is an enigmatic genus of large theropod dinosaur. ''Bahariasaurus'' is known to have included at least 1 species, ''Bahariasaurus ingens'', which was found in North African rock layers dating to the C ...
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Bajadasaurus ''Bajadasaurus'' is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous epoch ( late Berriasian to Valanginian stages, between 145 and 132.9 million years ago) of northern Patagonia, Argentina. It was first described in 2019 based on a single ...
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Bactrosaurus ''Bactrosaurus'' (; meaning "Club lizard," "baktron" = club + ''sauros'' = lizard) is a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, about 96-85 million years ago. The position ''Bactrosaurus'' occupie ...
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Balaur A balaur ( pl. ''balauri'') in Romanian folklore is a type of many-headed dragon or monstrous serpent, sometimes said to be equipped with wings. The number of heads is usually around three, but they can also have seven heads or even twelve head ...
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bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
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Bambiraptor ''Bambiraptor'' is a Late Cretaceous, 72-million-year-old, bird-like dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur described by scientists at the University of Kansas, Yale University, and the University of New Orleans. The holotype fossil is less than one m ...
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Banji ''Banji'' is an extinct genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived approximately 66 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now China. It was a small, lightly-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore, that w ...
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Bannykus ''Bannykus'' is an alvarezsaur from the Early Cretaceous of the Bayin-Gobi Formation of Inner Mongolia, China. It includes one species, ''Bannykus wulatensis''. It is large for an alvarezsaur, with an estimated weight of 24 kg based on fe ...
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Baotianmansaurus ''Baotianmansaurus'' (named after the Baotianman National Nature Reserve) is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur. Its fossils have been found in Upper Cretaceous rocks in Henan, China, within the Gaogou Formation. The type species is ''B ...
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Barapasaurus ''Barapasaurus'' ( ) is a genus of basal sauropod dinosaur from Early Jurassic rocks of India. The only species is ''B. tagorei''. ''Barapasaurus'' comes from the lower part of the Kota Formation, that dates back to the Sinemurian and Pliensbac ...
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Barilium ''Barilium'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of ''Iguanodon'' (''I. dawsoni'') by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson. In 2010 it was reclassified ...
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Barosaurus ''Barosaurus'' ( ) was a giant, long-tailed, long-necked, plant-eating sauropod dinosaur closely related to the more familiar ''Diplodocus''. Remains have been found in the Morrison Formation from the Upper Jurassic Period of Utah and South Da ...
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Barrosasaurus ''Barrosasaurus'' is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur, first described by paleontologists Leonardo Salgado and Rodolfo Coria in 2009. The fossils, consisting of three fossil dorsal (back) vertebrae, are well-preserved but incomplete. ...
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Barsboldia ''Barsboldia'' (meaning "of Barsbold", a well-known Mongolian paleontologist) is a genus of large hadrosaurid dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian Nemegt Formation of Ömnogöv', Mongolia. It is known from a partial vertebral column, parti ...
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Baryonyx ''Baryonyx'' () is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous period, about 130–125 million years ago. The first skeleton was discovered in 1983 in the Smokejack Clay Pit, of Surrey, England, in se ...
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Bashanosaurus ''Bashanosaurus'' (meaning "Bashan lizard", after an ancient name for Chongqing) is a genus of stegosaur dinosaur recovered from the Bajocian (Middle Jurassic)-aged Shaximiao Formation of Yunyang, Chongqing, China. The type species is ''Bashano ...
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Bashunosaurus ''Bashunosaurus'' is a genus of potentially macronarian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation of Kaijiang, China. The type and only species is ''Bashunosaurus kaijiangensis''. Discovery The holotype of ''Bashunosau ...
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archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
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pelycosaur Pelycosaur ( ) is an older term for basal or primitive Late Paleozoic synapsids, excluding the therapsids and their descendants. Previously, the term ''mammal-like reptile'' had been used, and pelycosaur was considered an order, but this is no ...
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Dimetrodon ''Dimetrodon'' ( or ,) meaning "two measures of teeth,” is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid that lived during the Cisuralian (Early Permian), around 295–272 million years ago (Mya). It is a member of the family Sphenacodontid ...
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Batyrosaurus ''Batyrosaurus'' is an extinct genus of herbivorous basal hadrosauroid dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Bostobe Formation (Santonian to Campanian stage) of central Kazakhstan. It contains a single species, ''Batyrosaurus rozhdestvenskyi'' ...
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Baurutitan ''Baurutitan'' is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Brazil. The type species, ''Baurutitan britoi'', was described in 2005 by Kellner and colleagues, although the fossil remains had already been d ...
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Altispinax ''Altispinax'' (; "with high spines") is a genus of large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period (Valanginian, 140 to 133 million years ago) of what is now the Wadhurst Clay Formation of East Sussex, England. History Pro ...
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Beibeilong ''Beibeilong'' (meaning "baby dragon") is a genus of large caenagnathid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 96 million and 88 million years ago. The genus contains a single species, ''Beibeilong sinensis'', name ...
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chimera Chimera, Chimaera, or Chimaira (Greek for " she-goat") originally referred to: * Chimera (mythology), a fire-breathing monster of Ancient Lycia said to combine parts from multiple animals * Mount Chimaera, a fire-spewing region of Lycia or Cilicia ...
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Bellusaurus ''Bellusaurus'' (meaning "Beautiful lizard", from Vulgar Latin ''bellus'' 'beautiful' ( masculine form) and Ancient Greek ''sauros'' 'lizard') was a small short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic which measured about long. Its f ...
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Belodon ''Belodon'' (meaning "arrow tooth") is a genus of phytosaur, a crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic. Its fossils have been found in Europe and elsewhere. The type species, ''Belodon plieningeri'', was named by prolific German pa ...
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phytosaur Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in greek) are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform reptiles. Phytosaurs belong to the order Phytosauria. Phytosauria and Phytosauridae are often considered to be equivalent ...
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Berthasaura ''Berthasaura'' (meaning "Bertha's lizard") is a genus of noasaurid ceratosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous Goio-Erê Formation of Paraná, Brazil. The type and only species is ''Berthasaura leopoldinae''. Discovery and naming Betw ...
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Betasuchus ''Betasuchus'' is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period. ''Betasuchus'' is, besides ''Orthomerus'', the only dinosaur genus named from remains found in the Netherlands and the only non-avian theropod found in ...
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Bienosaurus ''Bienosaurus'' (meaning "Bien's lizard") is a genus of thyreophoran dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic (probably Sinemurian) Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province in China. Discovery and species In 1938, Bian Meinian, known in the W ...
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Cedarpelta ''Cedarpelta'' is a extinct genus of basal ankylosaurid Ankylosauridae () is a family of armored dinosaurs within Ankylosauria, and is the sister group to Nodosauridae. The oldest known Ankylosaurids date to around 122 million years ago and we ...
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Bissektipelta ''Bissektipelta'' (meaning "Bissekty Formation, Bissekty shield") is a genus of ankylosaurine Thyreophora, thyreophoran dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous in what is now the Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan. ''Bissektipelta'' ...
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Bistahieversor ''Bistahieversor'' (meaning "Bistahi destroyer"), also known as the "Bisti Beast", is a genus of eutyrannosaurian tyrannosauroid dinosaur; the genus contains only a single known species, ''B. sealeyi'', described in 2010, from the Late Cretaceo ...
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Bisticeratops ''Bisticeratops'' (meaning "Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness horned face") is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian from outcrops of the Campanian age Kirtland Formation found in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northwestern New Mexico, United States. ...
'' * " Blancocerosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', synonym of ''
Giraffatitan ''Giraffatitan'' (name meaning "titanic giraffe") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (geology), Period (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian stages) in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania. It was originally named as an ...
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Blasisaurus ''Blasisaurus'' is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It is known from a partial skull and skeleton found in late Maastrichtian-age rocks of Spain. The type species is ''Blasisaurus canudoi'', described in ...
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Blikanasaurus ''Blikanasaurus'' is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the late Triassic of South Africa. The generic name ''Blikanasaurus'' is derived from Greek, meaning "lizard from Blikana". The species name ''cromptoni'' is taken from the surname of ...
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Bolong ''Bolong'' (meaning "Bo's dragon") is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China. It lived about 125 million years ago in the earliest Aptian. Discovery and naming ...
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Bonapartenykus ''Bonapartenykus'' (meaning "José F. Bonaparte's claw") is a monospecific genus of alvarezsauroid dinosaur from Argentina that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) in what is now the upper Allen Formation of the Río Negro ...
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Bonapartesaurus ''Bonapartesaurus'' (meaning "Bonaparte's lizard", named after José Bonaparte) is an extinct genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur belonging to Hadrosauridae, which lived in the area of modern Argentina during the Campanian and Maastrichtia ...
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Bonatitan ''Bonatitan'' is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Allen Formation of Argentina. It was named in 2004. Description The type species is ''Bonatitan reigi'', first described by Martinelli and Forasiepi in 2004. The s ...
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Borealopelta ''Borealopelta'' (meaning "Northern shield") is a genus of nodosaurid ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. It contains a single species, ''B. markmitchelli'', named in 2017 by Caleb Brown and colleagues from a well-preserved ...
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Borealosaurus ''Borealosaurus'' is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of northern China. The type species is ''Borealosaurus wimani'', which was named in 2004. Description The type and only species is ''Borealosaurus wimani ...
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Borogovia ''Borogovia'' is a troodontid theropod dinosaur genus which lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, in what is now Mongolia. In 1971, a Polish-Mongolian expedition discovered the remains of a small theropod at the Altan Ula IV site, in the N ...
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Bothriospondylus ''Bothriospondylus'' ("excavated vertebra") is a dubious genus of neosauropod sauropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic. Discovery and naming The type species, ''Bothriospondylus suffossus'', was described by Richard Owen in 1875. The ...
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Brachiosaurus ''Brachiosaurus'' () is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic, about 154to 150million years ago. It was first described by American paleontologist Elmer S. Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in th ...
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Brachyceratops ''Brachyceratops'' ('short horned face') is a dubious genus of ceratopsian dinosaur known only from partial juvenile specimens dating to the late Cretaceous Period of Montana, United States. ''Brachyceratops'' has historically been known from ju ...
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Brachylophosaurus ''Brachylophosaurus'' ( or ; meaning "short-crested lizard", Greek ''brachys'' = short + ''lophos'' = crest + ''sauros'' = lizard, referring to its small crest) was a mid-sized member of the hadrosaurid family of dinosaurs. It is known from sev ...
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Brachypodosaurus ''Brachypodosaurus'' (meaning "short-footed lizard") is a dubious genus of dinosaur, possibly an ornithischian, from the Late Cretaceous Lameta Formation (Maastrichtian) in India. The only remains discovered so far for this animal consist of a ...
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Camptosaurus ''Camptosaurus'' ( ) is a genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America and possibly also Europe. The name means 'flexible lizard' (Greek (') meaning 'bent' and (') meaning 'lizard') ...
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metriorhynchid Metriorhynchidae is an extinct family of specialized, aquatic metriorhynchoid crocodyliforms from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous period (Bajocian to early Aptian) of Europe, North America and South America. The name Metriorhynchidae ...
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Dakosaurus ''Dakosaurus'' is an extinct genus of crocodylomorph within the family Metriorhynchidae that lived during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. It was large, with teeth that were serrated and compressed lateromedially (flattened from side to ...
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Geosaurus ''Geosaurus'' is an extinct genus of marine crocodyliform within the family Metriorhynchidae, that lived during the Late Jurassic and the Early Cretaceous. ''Geosaurus'' was a carnivore that spent much, if not all, its life out at sea. No ''Geosa ...
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Brachytrachelopan ''Brachytrachelopan'' is a short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic ( Oxfordian to Tithonian) of Argentina. The holotype and only known specimen (Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio MPEF-PV 1716) was collected from an erosion ...
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Bradycneme ''Bradycneme'' (meaning "ponderous leg") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Sânpetru Formation of the Hațeg Basin, Transylvania, Romania. The genus contains a single species, ''Bradycneme draculae'', k ...
'' * '' Brasileosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
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Brasilotitan ''Brasilotitan'' (meaning "Brazil giant") is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) Adamantina Formation of Brazil. The type species is ''Brasilotitan nemophagus''. Material and morphology The ho ...
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Bravoceratops ''Bravoceratops'' is a genus of large chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur that lived approximately 70 million years ago, and is known from the Late Cretaceous Javelina Formation in what is now Texas, United States. Discovery and naming ''Bravocer ...
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Breviceratops ''Breviceratops'' (meaning "short horned face") is a genus of protoceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now the Barun Goyot Formation, Mongolia. Discovery and naming The first fossils were discovered during the ...
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Brighstoneus ''Brighstoneus'' (after Brighstone, a village on the Isle of Wight) is a genus of hadrosauriform dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England. The genus contains a single species, ''Brighstoneus simmondsi'' ...
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Brohisaurus ''Brohisaurus'' is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic, based on largely indeterminate fragments of some ribs, vertebrae, and limb bones. The type and only species, ''B. kirthari'', was described by M. Sadiq Malkan ...
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Brontomerus ''Brontomerus'' (from Greek ''bronte'' meaning "thunder", and ''merós'' meaning "thigh") is a possibly dubious genus of camarasauromorph sauropod which lived during the early Cretaceous ( Aptian or Albian age, approximately 110 million years a ...
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Torvosaurus ''Torvosaurus'' () is a genus of carnivorous megalosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 165 to 148 million years ago during the late Middle and Late Jurassic period (Callovian to Tithonian stages) in what is now Colorado, Portuga ...
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Brontosaurus ''Brontosaurus'' (; meaning "thunder lizard" from Greek , "thunder" and , "lizard") is a genus of gigantic quadruped sauropod dinosaurs. Although the type species, ''B. excelsus'', had long been considered a species of the closely related ''A ...
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Thescelosaurus ''Thescelosaurus'' ( ; ancient Greek - (''-'') meaning "godlike", "marvellous", or "wondrous" and (') "lizard") was a genus of small neornithischian dinosaur that appeared at the very end of the Late Cretaceous period in North America. It was a ...
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Buitreraptor ''Buitreraptor'' (meaning "La Buitrera seizer") is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous of Argentina at the Candeleros Formation. ''Buitreraptor'' was described in 2005 and the type species is ''Buitreraptor go ...
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Burianosaurus ''Burianosaurus'' is an extinct genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now the Czech Republic (it was found in 2003 near the city of Kutná Hora), being the first validly named dinosaur from that country. The type species, ''B. august ...
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Buriolestes ''Buriolestes'' is a genus of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Late Triassic Santa Maria Formation of the Paraná Basin in southern Brazil. It contains a single species, ''B. schultzi'', named in 2016. The type specimen was found alongsid ...
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Caenagnathus ''Caenagnathus'' ('recent jaw') is a genus of caenagnathid oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period (Campanian stage; ~75 million years ago). It is known from partial remains including lower jaws, a tail vertebra, hand bones ...
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Caieiria ''Caieiria'' (named after the Caieira locality where its fossils were recovered) is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Serra da Galga Formation (formerly a unit of the Marília Formation) of Brazil. The type and only speci ...
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Calamospondylus ''Calamospondylus'' (meaning "quill vertebrae") is a genus of theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Early Cretaceous and its fossils were found on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The type species is ''C. oweni''. The holotype was collec ...
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Calamospondylus ''Calamospondylus'' (meaning "quill vertebrae") is a genus of theropod dinosaur. It lived during the Early Cretaceous and its fossils were found on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The type species is ''C. oweni''. The holotype was collec ...
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Callovosaurus ''Callovosaurus'' (meaning "Callovian lizard") is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur known from most of a left thigh bone discovered in Middle Jurassic-age rocks of England. At times, it has been considered dubious or a valid genus of basal igu ...
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Camarasaurus ''Camarasaurus'' ( ) was a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs and is the most common North American sauropod fossil. Its fossil remains have been found in the Morrison Formation, dating to the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to Titho ...
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Camarillasaurus ''Camarillasaurus'' (meaning " Camarillas lizard") is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period (Barremian) of Camarillas, Teruel Province, in what is now northeastern Spain. Described in 2014, it was originally identifie ...
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Camposaurus ''Camposaurus'' ( ) is a coelophysid dinosaur genus from the Norian stage of the Late Triassic period of North America. The pertinent fossil remains date back to the early to middle Norian stage, and is widely regarded as the oldest known neot ...
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Camptonotus ''Camptonotus'' is a genus of leaf-rolling crickets in the subfamily Gryllacridinae. It includes the following species are all found in the Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass compris ...
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Camptosaurus ''Camptosaurus'' ( ) is a genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America and possibly also Europe. The name means 'flexible lizard' (Greek (') meaning 'bent' and (') meaning 'lizard') ...
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Camptosaurus ''Camptosaurus'' ( ) is a genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America and possibly also Europe. The name means 'flexible lizard' (Greek (') meaning 'bent' and (') meaning 'lizard') ...
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Campylodoniscus ''Campylodoniscus'' is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Argentina. The type species was first named and described by Friedrich von Huene in 1929 as ''Campylodon ameghinoi'', the genus name ...
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Campylodoniscus ''Campylodoniscus'' is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Argentina. The type species was first named and described by Friedrich von Huene in 1929 as ''Campylodon ameghinoi'', the genus name ...
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Canardia ''Canardia'' is an extinct genus of lambeosaurine dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Marnes d'Auzas Formation (late Maastrichtian stage) of Haute-Garonne department, in Occitanie region, southwestern France. The type species ''Canardia garon ...
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Carcharodontosaurus ''Carcharodontosaurus'' (; ) is a genus of large carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed during the Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous in Northern Africa. The genus ''Carcharodontosaurus'' is named after the shark genus ''Carcha ...
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Cardiodon ''Cardiodon'' (meaning "heart tooth", in reference to the shape) was a herbivorous genus of sauropod dinosaur, based on a tooth from the late Bathonian-age Middle Jurassic Forest Marble Formation of Wiltshire, England. Historically, it is very o ...
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Carnotaurus ''Carnotaurus'' (; ) is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period, probably sometime between 71 and 69 million years ago. The only species is ''Carnotaurus sastrei''. Known from a single well-p ...
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Camarasaurus ''Camarasaurus'' ( ) was a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs and is the most common North American sauropod fossil. Its fossil remains have been found in the Morrison Formation, dating to the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to Titho ...
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Caudipteryx ''Caudipteryx'' (which means "tail feather") is a genus of peacock-sized theropod dinosaurs that lived in the Barremian age of the early Cretaceous (about 124.6 million years ago). They were feathered and extremely birdlike in their overall appea ...
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Caudocoelus ''Teinurosaurus'' (meaning "extended tail lizard") is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur. ''Teinurosaurus'' lived during the Late Jurassic in what is now France. The type species is ''Teinurosaurus sauvagei''. It's been estimated to be 11.4 ...
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Teinurosaurus ''Teinurosaurus'' (meaning "extended tail lizard") is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur. ''Teinurosaurus'' lived during the Late Jurassic in what is now France. The type species is ''Teinurosaurus sauvagei''. It's been estimated to be 11.4 ...
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Camarasaurus ''Camarasaurus'' ( ) was a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs and is the most common North American sauropod fossil. Its fossil remains have been found in the Morrison Formation, dating to the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to Titho ...
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Cedarosaurus ''Cedarosaurus'' (meaning "Cedar lizard" - named after the Cedar Mountain Formation, in which it was discovered) was a nasal-crested macronarian dinosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous Period (Valanginian). It was a sauropod which lived in what i ...
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Cedarpelta ''Cedarpelta'' is a extinct genus of basal ankylosaurid Ankylosauridae () is a family of armored dinosaurs within Ankylosauria, and is the sister group to Nodosauridae. The oldest known Ankylosaurids date to around 122 million years ago and we ...
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Cedrorestes ''Cedrorestes'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah. It is based on an incomplete skeleton which was found in the Valanginian-age Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation. Discovery and history ''Cedro ...
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phytosaur Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in greek) are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform reptiles. Phytosaurs belong to the order Phytosauria. Phytosauria and Phytosauridae are often considered to be equivalent ...
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Centrosaurus ''Centrosaurus'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Canada. Their remains have been found in the Dinosaur Park Formation, dating from 76.5 to 75.5 million years ago. Discovery and naming The firs ...
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Cerasinops ''Cerasinops'' (meaning 'cherry face') was a small ceratopsian dinosaur. It lived during the Campanian of the late Cretaceous Period.
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Ceratonykus ''Ceratonykus'' (meaning "horned claw") is a monospecific genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur from Mongolia that lived during the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian stage, 72.1 Ma) in what is now the Barun Goyot Formation. The type and only species, ''C ...
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Ceratops ''Ceratops'' (meaning "horn face") is a dubious genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in the Judith River Formation in Montana. Although poorly known, ''Ceratops'' is importa ...
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Ceratosaurus ''Ceratosaurus'' (from Ancient Greek, Greek κέρας/κέρατος, ' meaning "horn" and wikt:σαῦρος, σαῦρος ' meaning "lizard") was a carnivorous Theropoda, theropod dinosaur in the Late Jurassic Period (geology), period (Kim ...
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Ceratosuchops ''Ceratosuchops'' (meaning "horned crocodile face") is a genus of spinosaurid from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Britain. Discovery and naming In 2021, the type species ''C. inferodios'' was named and described by a team of paleonto ...
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Cetiosauriscus ''Cetiosauriscus'' ( ) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived between 166 and 164 million years ago during the Callovian (Middle Jurassic Period) in what is now England. A herbivore, ''Cetiosauriscus'' had — by sauropod standards — ...
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Cetiosaurus ''Cetiosaurus'' () meaning 'whale lizard', from the Greek '/ meaning 'sea monster' (later, 'whale') and '/ meaning 'lizard', is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period, living about 168 million years ago in what ...
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Changmiania ''Changmiania'' (from the Chinese "changmian", meaning "eternal sleep") is a genus of basal ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous. It contains a single species, ''Changmiania liaoningensis''. Discover ...
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Changyuraptor ''Changyuraptor '' is a genus of "four-winged", predatory dinosaurs. It is known from a single fossil specimen representing the species ''Changyuraptor yangi'', which was discovered from Early Cretaceous (125 million year old) deposits in Liaoni ...
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Chaoyangsaurus ''Chaoyangsaurus'' (" Chaoyang lizard") is a marginocephalian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China. It has been dated to between 150.8 and 145.5 million years ago. ''Chaoyangsaurus'' belonged to the Ceratopsia (Greek for "horned faces"). ''Ch ...
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Charonosaurus ''Charonosaurus'' ( ; meaning " Charon's lizard") is a genus of dinosaur whose fossils were discovered by Godefroit, Zan & Jin in 2000 on the south bank of the Amur River, dividing China from Russia. It is monotypic, consisting of the species ...
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Chasmosaurus ''Chasmosaurus'' ( ) is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period of North America. Its name means 'opening lizard', referring to the large openings ( fenestrae) in its frill (Greek ''chasma'' meaning 'opening' or 'hollow' ...
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Edmontonia ''Edmontonia'' is a genus of panoplosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It is part of the Nodosauridae, a family within Ankylosauria. It is named after the Edmonton Formation (now the Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Canada) ...
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Chebsaurus ''Chebsaurus'' is a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous, cetiosaurid sauropod dinosaur, specifically a eusauropod. It lived in present-day Algeria, in the Callovian aged Aïssa Formation. The type species, ''C. algeriensis'', was named in 2005 b ...
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Chenanisaurus ''Chenanisaurus'' is a genus of predatory abelisaurid dinosaur, with a single known species ''C. barbaricus''. It comes from the upper Maastrichtian phosphates of the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco, North Africa. The animal is known from a holo ...
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Hypacrosaurus ''Hypacrosaurus'' (meaning "near the highest lizard" reek υπο-, ''hypo-'' = less + ακρος, ''akros'', high because it was almost but not quite as large as ''Tyrannosaurus'') was a genus of duckbill dinosaur similar in appearance to ''Co ...
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Chialingosaurus ''Chialingosaurus'' (meaning "Chialing Lizard") is a genus of herbivorous stegosaurian dinosaur similar to ''Kentrosaurus'' from the Upper Shaximiao Formation, Late Jurassic beds in Sichuan Province in China. Its age makes it one of the oldest s ...
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Szechuanosaurus ''Szechuanosaurus'' (" Szechuan lizard") is an extinct Chure, D.J. (2000) ''A new species of'' Allosaurus ''from the Morrison Formation of Dinosaur National Monument (UT–CO) and a revision of the theropod family Allosauridae''. Unpublished Ph.D ...
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Sonorasaurus ''Sonorasaurus'' is a genus of Brachiosauridae, brachiosaurid dinosaur from the Early to Late Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian faunal stage, stages, around 112 to 93 Mya (unit), million years ago). It was a Herbivore, herbivorous sauropod wh ...
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Chilantaisaurus ''Chilantaisaurus'' (" lizard") is a genus of large theropod dinosaur, possibly a neovenatorid or a primitive coelurosaur, from the Late Cretaceous Ulansuhai Formation of China (Turonian age, about 92 million years ago). The type species, ''C. ta ...
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Chilesaurus ''Chilesaurus'' is an extinct genus of herbivorous dinosaur. The type and only known species so far is ''Chilesaurus diegosuarezi''. ''Chilesaurus'' lived about 145 million years ago (Mya) in the Late Jurassic period of Chile. Showing a combinat ...
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Chindesaurus ''Chindesaurus'' ( ) is an extinct genus of basal saurischian dinosaur from the Late Triassic (213-210 million years ago) of the southwestern United States. It is known from a single species, ''C. bryansmalli'', based on a partial skeleton recovere ...
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Chingkankousaurus ''Chingkankousaurus'' (named for Ch'ing-kang-kou, ''sic'' for Wade–Giles ''Chin''1''-kang''1''-k'ou''3, pinyin ''Jin-gang-kou'' 'diamond port' village) is a genus of theropod dinosaur containing the single species ''Chingkankousaurus fragilis' ...
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Chinshakiangosaurus ''Chinshakiangosaurus'' (JIN-shah-jiahng-uh-SOR-us, meaning "Chinshakiang lizard") is a genus of dinosaur and probably one of the most basal sauropods known. The only species, ''Chinshakiangosaurus chunghoensis'', is known from a fragmentary ...
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Chirostenotes ''Chirostenotes'' ( ; named from Greek 'narrow-handed') is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous (about 76.5 million years ago) of Alberta, Canada. The type species is ''Chirostenotes pergracilis''. History of discovery ...
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Choconsaurus ''Choconsaurus'' is an extinct genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur belonging to the group Titanosauriformes, which lived in the area of present-day Argentina at the end of the Cretaceous. Discovery and naming The holotype (specimen MMCh-P ...
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Chondrosteosaurus ''Chondrosteosaurus'' (meaning "cartilage and bone lizard") was a sauropod dinosaur from Early Cretaceous England. The type species, ''Chondrosteosaurus gigas'', was described and named by Richard Owen in 1876. The fossils of ''Chondrosteosau ...
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Choyrodon ''Choyrodon'' (meaning "Choir tooth" after where it was first discovered) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Albian-age Khuren Dukh Formation of Mongolia. The type and only species is ''Choyrodon barsboldi''. The ge ...
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Chromogisaurus ''Chromogisaurus'' is an extinct genus of saturnaliid sauropodomorph which existed in Argentina during the Late Triassic (Carnian) period. It is from the Cancha de Bochas, Valle Pintado member of the Ischigualasto Formation. It was a herbivore ...
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Chuanjiesaurus ''Chuanjiesaurus'' is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs from the middle Jurassic Period. They lived in what is now China. The type species, ''Chuanjiesaurus anaensis'', was first described by Fang, Pang, Lü, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Li and Cheng in 2000. ...
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Chuanqilong ''Chuanqilong'' (meaning "legendary dragon") is a monospecific genus of basal ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Liaoning Province, China that lived during the Early Cretaceous (late Barremian to Aptian stage, 122.0 to 118.9 Ma) in what is now the ...
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Chubutisaurus ''Chubutisaurus'' (meaning " Chubut lizard") is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It lived in South America. It is classified as a sauropod, specifically one of the titanosaurs. The type species, ''Chubutisaurus insignis'', w ...
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Chungkingosaurus ''Chungkingosaurus'', meaning "Chongqing Lizard", is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of th ...
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Citipati ''Citipati'' (; meaning "funeral pyre lord") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 75 million to 71 million years ago. It is mainly known from the Ukhaa Tolgod locality at the Djadokhta F ...
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Citipes ''Citipes'' (meaning "fleet-footed") is an extinct genus of caenagnathid dinosaurs known from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian aged) Dinosaur Park of southern Alberta, Canada. It lived about 76.9–75.8 million years ago. The specializations of th ...
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rauisuchia "Rauisuchia" is a paraphyletic group of mostly large and carnivorous Triassic archosaurs. Rauisuchians are a category of archosaurs within a larger group called Pseudosuchia, which encompasses all archosaurs more closely related to crocodilia ...
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Teratosaurus ''Teratosaurus'' is a genus of rauisuchians known from the Triassic Stubensandstein (Löwenstein Formation - Norian stage) of Germany. It is estimated to be 6 meters (19.5 ft) long. Discovery In 1860, Sixt Friedrich Jakob von Kapff at th ...
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Claorhynchus ''Claorhynchus'' (meaning "broken beak", as it is based on broken bones from the snout region) is a dubious genus of cerapodan dinosaur with a confusing history behind it. It has been considered to be both a hadrosaurid and a ceratopsid, someti ...
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Triceratops ''Triceratops'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivore, herbivorous Chasmosaurinae, chasmosaurine Ceratopsidae, ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (geology), period, about 68 m ...
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Claosaurus ''Claosaurus'' ( ; Greek κλάω, ''klao'' meaning 'broken' and , ''sauros'' meaning 'lizard'; "broken lizard", referring to the odd position of the fossils when discovered) is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretac ...
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sphenosuchia Sphenosuchia is a suborder of basal crocodylomorphs that first appeared in the Triassic and occurred into the Middle Jurassic. Most were small, gracile animals with an erect limb posture. They are now thought to be ancestral to crocodyliforms, a ...
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Sphenosuchus ''Sphenosuchus'' ("wedge crocodile") is an extinct genus of crocodylomorph from the Early Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa, discovered and described early in the 20th century. The skull is preserved very well but other than elements of ...
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Clepsysaurus ''Clepsysaurus'' is a dubious genus of extinct archosaur described by Isaac Lea in 1851 from remains discovered in the Carnian Passaic Formation of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Two species are known: ''C. pennsylvanicus'' (the type species) and ' ...
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phytosaur Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in greek) are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform reptiles. Phytosaurs belong to the order Phytosauria. Phytosauria and Phytosauridae are often considered to be equivalent ...
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Palaeosaurus ''Palaeosaurus'' (or ''Paleosaurus'') is a genus of indeterminate archosaur known from two teeth found in the Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation and also either the Magnesian Conglomerate or the Avon Fissure Fill of Clifton, Bristol, England (orig ...
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Coelophysis ''Coelophysis'' ( traditionally; or , as heard more commonly in recent decades) is an extinct genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 228 to 201.3 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period from t ...
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Coeluroides ''Coeluroides '' ("hollow form") is an extinct genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now India. It is based solely on the holotype caudal vertebrae GSI K27/562, K27/574 and K27/595, discovered in a lay ...
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Coelurosauravus ''Coelurosauravus'' (meaning "hollow lizard grandfather") is a genus of basal diapsid reptiles, known from the Late Permian of Madagascar. Like other members of the family Weigeltisauridae, members of this genus possessed long, rod-like ossifica ...
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Coelurus ''Coelurus'' ( ) is a genus of coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (mid-late Kimmeridgian faunal stage, 155–152 million years ago). The name means "hollow tail", referring to its hollow tail vertebrae (Greek κοῖλο ...
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Coloradisaurus ''Coloradisaurus'' (meaning "Los Colorados lizard") is a genus of massospondylid sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Late Triassic period ( Norian stage) in what is now La Rioja Province, Argentina. It is known from two specimens col ...
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Coloradisaurus ''Coloradisaurus'' (meaning "Los Colorados lizard") is a genus of massospondylid sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Late Triassic period ( Norian stage) in what is now La Rioja Province, Argentina. It is known from two specimens col ...
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Pelorosaurus ''Pelorosaurus'' ( ; meaning "monstrous lizard") is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur. Remains referred to ''Pelorosaurus'' date from the Early Cretaceous period, about 140-125 million years ago, and have been found in England and Port ...
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Compsognathus ''Compsognathus'' (; Greek ''kompsos''/κομψός; "elegant", "refined" or "dainty", and ''gnathos''/γνάθος; "jaw") is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. Members of its single species ''Compsognathus longipes'' c ...
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Compsosuchus ''Compsosuchus'' (meaning "elegant crocodile") is an extinct genus of abelisauroid dinosaur. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in India. Discovery and naming ''Compsosuchus'' was described in 1933 by von Huene and Matley. The type species ...
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Concavenator ''Concavenator'' is an extinct genus of theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 130 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period (Barremian age). The type species is ''C. corcovatus''; ''Concavenator corcovatus'' means " Cuenca hunter ...
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Conchoraptor ''Conchoraptor'' (meaning "conch plunderer") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 70 million years ago. It is known from the Barun Goyot and Nemegt formations of Mongolia. Discovery When ...
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Condorraptor ''Condorraptor'' is an extinct genus of megalosauroid theropod dinosaur. Its genus name means 'robber from Cerro Condor', referencing a nearby village, while its species name, ''currumili'', is named after Hipolito Currumil, the landowner and di ...
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Convolosaurus ''Convolosaurus'' (, meaning "flocking lizard" after the concentration of juvenile fossils found) is a genus of basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Twin Mountains Formation from Proctor Lake in Comanche County, Texas. The type species, type and on ...
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Coronosaurus ''Coronosaurus'' is a genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaurs which lived in the Late Cretaceous, in the middle Campanian stage. Its remains, two bone beds, were discovered by Phillip J. Currie in the Oldman Formation of Alberta, Canada, a ...
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Corythoraptor ''Corythoraptor'' () is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian Nanxiong Formation of South China. It contains one species, ''C. jacobsi'', known from a single well-preserved skeleton, and named after paleontologist Louis L ...
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Corythosaurus ''Corythosaurus'' (; ) is a genus of hadrosaurid "duck-billed" dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period (geology), Period, about 77–75.7 million years ago. It lived in what is now North America. Its name means "helmet lizard", derived fr ...
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Craspedodon ''Craspedodon'' (meaning 'edge tooth') is an extinct genus of ornithischian dinosaur, possibly a ceratopsian. It lived during the Late Cretaceous (Santonian stage, around 85 million years ago), in what is now Belgium. Only a few teeth have ever ...
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Craterosaurus ''Craterosaurus'' (meaning ''krater reptile'' or ''bowl reptile'') was a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur. It lived during the Early Cretaceous ( Aptian to Albian stages) around 121-113 million years ago. Its fossils were found in the Woburn Sand ...
'' * '' Creosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Allosaurus ''Allosaurus'' () is a genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian). The name "''Allosaurus''" means "different lizard" alluding to ...
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Crichtonpelta ''Crichtonpelta'' is a genus of extinct herbivorous ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous ( Cenomanian) of China. Discovery and naming In 2007, Lü Junchang, Ji Qiang, Gao Yubo and Li Zhixin named and described a second species of ''C ...
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Crichtonsaurus ''Crichtonsaurus'' (meaning "Crichton's lizard") is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now China. It was named after Michael Crichton, the author of the dinosaur novel ''Jurassic Park''. ...
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Cristatusaurus ''Cristatusaurus'' is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Niger, 112 million years ago. It was a baryonychine member of the Spinosauridae, a group of large bipedal carnivores with well-built ...
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Crittendenceratops ''Crittendenceratops'' (meaning "horned face from the Fort Crittenden Formation") is a genus of horned centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur from the late Campanian Fort Crittenden Formation of Arizona. It contains a single species, ''C. krzyzanows ...
'' * '' Crosbysaurus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosauriform Archosauriformes (Greek for 'ruling lizards', and Latin for 'form') is a clade of diapsid reptiles that developed from archosauromorph ancestors some time in the Latest Permian (roughly 252 million years ago). It was defined by Jacques Gauthier ...
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Cruxicheiros ''Cruxicheiros'' (meaning "cross hand") is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in the Middle Jurassic of England. The type species is ''C. newmanorum'', described by Roger Benson and Jonathan Radley in 2010. Discovery The remains of the ...
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Cryolophosaurus ''Cryolophosaurus'' ( or ; "CRY-oh-loaf-oh-SAWR-us") is a genus of large theropod dinosaur known from only a single species ''Cryolophosaurus ellioti'', from the early Jurassic of Antarctica. It was one of the largest theropods of the Early Jura ...
'' * '' Cryptodraco'' – junior synonym (unneeded replacement name) of ''
Cryptosaurus ''Cryptosaurus'' (meaning "hidden lizard") is a dubious genus of dinosaur known from a partial femur from the Late Jurassic of England. The sole species is ''Cryptosaurus eumerus''. The femur was found by the geologist Lucas Ewbank and donated ...
'' * " Cryptoraptor" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''
Cryptosaurus ''Cryptosaurus'' (meaning "hidden lizard") is a dubious genus of dinosaur known from a partial femur from the Late Jurassic of England. The sole species is ''Cryptosaurus eumerus''. The femur was found by the geologist Lucas Ewbank and donated ...
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Cryptovolans ''Microraptor'' (Greek language, Greek, μικρός, ''mīkros'': "small"; Latin language, Latin, ''raptor'': "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Numerous well-preserved fossil specimens have been recovere ...
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Microraptor ''Microraptor'' (Greek, μικρός, ''mīkros'': "small"; Latin, ''raptor'': "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Numerous well-preserved fossil specimens have been recovered from Liaoning, China. They dat ...
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Cumnoria ''Cumnoria'' is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It was a basal iguanodontian that lived during the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian age) in what is now Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Description The holotype of ''Cumnoria'' is o ...
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Dacentrurus ''Dacentrurus'' (meaning "tail full of points"), originally known as ''Omosaurus'', is a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (154 - 140 mya) of Europe. Its type species, ''Omosaurus armatus'', was named in 18 ...
'' * " Dachongosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''
Daemonosaurus ''Daemonosaurus'' is an extinct genus of possible theropod dinosaur from the Late Triassic of New Mexico. The only known fossil is a skull and neck fragments from deposits of the latest Triassic Chinle Formation at Ghost Ranch. ''Daemonosaurus'' ...
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Dahalokely ''Dahalokely'' is an extinct genus of carnivorous abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of Madagascar. Discovery In 2007, during an expedition by Andrew Farke to the north of Madagascar, Joseph Sertich discover ...
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Dakosaurus ''Dakosaurus'' is an extinct genus of crocodylomorph within the family Metriorhynchidae that lived during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. It was large, with teeth that were serrated and compressed lateromedially (flattened from side to ...
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metriorhynchid Metriorhynchidae is an extinct family of specialized, aquatic metriorhynchoid crocodyliforms from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous period (Bajocian to early Aptian) of Europe, North America and South America. The name Metriorhynchidae ...
crocodilia Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both ) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period ( Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living ...
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Dakotadon ''Dakotadon'' (meaning "Dakota tooth") is a genus of iguanodont dinosaur from the Barremian-age Lower Cretaceous Lakota Formation of South Dakota, USA, known from a partial skull. It was first described in 1989 as '' Iguanodon lakotaensis'', b ...
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Dakotaraptor ''Dakotaraptor'' (meaning “thief from Dakota”) is a potentially chimaeric genus of large dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous period. The remains have been found in the Maastrichtian stage of ...
'' * '' Daliansaurus'' * " Damalasaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''
Dandakosaurus ''Dandakosaurus'' (meaning "Dandakaranya lizard") is a dubious genus of extinct averostran theropod dinosaur from the Kota Formation, Andhra Pradesh, India. It lived 183 to 175 million years ago from the latest Pliensbachian to the late Toarcian ...
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Danubiosaurus ''Struthiosaurus'' (Latin ''struthio'' = ostrich + Greek ''sauros'' = lizard) is a genus of nodosaurid dinosaurs, from the Late Cretaceous period (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of Austria, Romania, France and Hungary in Europe.
'' – junior synonym of '' Struthiosaurus'' * " Daptosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; early manuscript name for ''
Deinonychus ''Deinonychus'' ( ; ) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur with one described species, ''Deinonychus antirrhopus''. This species, which could grow up to long, lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 115–108 million ye ...
'' * '' Darwinsaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Hypselospinus ''Hypselospinus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of ''Iguanodon'' (''I. fittoni'') by Richard Lydekker in 1889, the specific name honouring William Henry Fitton. History In May 2010 the fossils com ...
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Mantellisaurus ''Mantellisaurus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in the Barremian and early Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe. Its remains are known from Belgium (Bernissart), England, Spain and Germany. The type and only sp ...
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Dashanpusaurus ''Dashanpusaurus'' (meaning "Dashanpu lizard" after the township it was discovered in) is an extinct genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the middle of the Jurassic period. The dinosaur was described in 2005 by Peng Guangzhao, Ye Yong, G ...
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Daspletosaurus ''Daspletosaurus'' ( ; meaning "frightful lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived in Laramidia between about 79.5 and 74 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period. The genus ''Daspletosaurus'' contains three species ...
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Dasygnathoides ''Dasygnathoides'' is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland. Classification "''Dasygnathus''" ''longidens'' was erected by Thomas Huxley for a maxilla from the Lossiemouth Sandstone ...
'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
; possible junior synonym of ''
Ornithosuchus ''Ornithosuchus'' (meaning "bird crocodile") is an extinct genus of pseudosuchians from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland. It was originally thought to be the ancestor to the carnosaurian dinosaurs (such as ''Allosau ...
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name, now known as ''
Dasygnathoides ''Dasygnathoides'' is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland. Classification "''Dasygnathus''" ''longidens'' was erected by Thomas Huxley for a maxilla from the Lossiemouth Sandstone ...
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Datanglong ''Datanglong'' is an extinct genus of theropod belonging to either Carcharodontosauria or Megaraptora. It existed during the Early Cretaceous (Barremian-Albian) in what is now southeastern China. Discovery and naming In 2011, staff of the ...
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Datonglong ''Datonglong tianzhenensis'' is an herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur belonging to the Hadrosauroidea, which lived in the Late Cretaceous period in present-day China. It is the type species of the genus ''Datonglong''. Discovery and naming In ...
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Datousaurus ''Datousaurus'' (meaning "chieftain lizard" or "big-head lizard"; originally named using the Malay ''datu'', after its Chinese nickname ''qiulong'' - literally "chieftain dragon" - but also a pun on its big head; ''da tou'' means "big head" in Ch ...
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Daurlong ''Daurlong'' (meaning " Daur dragon") is an extinct genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Longjiang Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, ''D. wangi'', known from a nearly complete skeleton. ''Dau ...
'' * '' Daurosaurus'' – synonym of ''
Kulindadromeus ''Kulindadromeus'' was a herbivorous dinosaur, a basal neornithischian from the Middle Jurassic. The first ''Kulindadromeus'' fossil was found in Russia. Its feather-like integument is evidence for protofeathers being basal to Ornithischia and ...
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Daxiatitan ''Daxiatitan'' (; meaning "Daxia giant" after a tributary of the Yellow River) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from the Lower Cretaceous of Gansu, China. Its type and only species is ''Daxiatitan binglingi'' (). It is known from a single p ...
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Deinocheirus ''Deinocheirus'' ( ) is a genus of large ornithomimosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous around 70 million years ago. In 1965, a pair of large arms, shoulder girdles, and a few other bones of a new dinosaur were first discovered in the Ne ...
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Deinodon ''Deinodon'' (Greek for "terrible tooth") is a dubious tyrannosaurid dinosaur genus containing a single species, ''Deinodon horridus''. ''D. horridus'' is known only from a set of teeth found in the Late Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Monta ...
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Gorgosaurus ''Gorgosaurus'' ( ; ) is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.6 and 75.1 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in the Can ...
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Deinonychus ''Deinonychus'' ( ; ) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur with one described species, ''Deinonychus antirrhopus''. This species, which could grow up to long, lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 115–108 million ye ...
'' * '' Delapparentia'' – junior synonym of ''
Iguanodon ''Iguanodon'' ( ; meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. While many species have been classified in the genus ''Iguanodon'', dating from the late Jurassic Period to the early Cretaceous Period of Asia, Eu ...
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Deltadromeus ''Deltadromeus'' (meaning "delta runner") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from Northern Africa. It had long, unusually slender hind limbs for its size, suggesting that it was a swift runner. The skull is not known. One fossil specimen of a sin ...
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Demandasaurus ''Demandasaurus'' (meaning " Demanda lizard") is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur from early Cretaceous (late Barremian – early Aptian stage) deposits of Spain. ''Demandasaurus'' is known from an incomplete but associated skeleton t ...
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Denversaurus ''Denversaurus'' (meaning "Denver lizard") is a genus of panoplosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) of western North America. Although at one point treated as a junior synonym of ''Edmontonia'' by some t ...
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Deuterosaurus ''Deuterosaurus'' is an extinct genus of dinocephalian therapsids, one of the non-mammalian synapsids dominating the land during the late Paleozoic. Anatomy Skulls of ''Deuterosaurus'' are well known from several finds. They were around 80&nbs ...
'' – subsequently found to be a therapsid * ''Diabloceratops'' *''Diamantinasaurus'' * ''Dianchungosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a
crocodilia Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both ) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period ( Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living ...
n * "''Nedoceratops, Diceratops''" –
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name, now known as ''Nedoceratops'' * ''Nedoceratops, Diceratus'' – junior synonym of ''Nedoceratops'' * ''Diclonius'' * ''Dicraeosaurus'' * ''Didanodon'' – synonym of ''Lambeosaurus''; possibly a ''nomen nudum'' * ''Dilong paradoxus, Dilong'' * ''Dilophosaurus'' * ''Diluvicursor'' * ''Dimodosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Plateosaurus'' * ''Dineobellator'' * ''Dinheirosaurus'' – possible junior synonym of ''Supersaurus'' * ''Dinodocus'' * "''Plateosaurus, Dinosaurus''" –
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name for a junior synonym of ''Brithopus''; now a junior synonym of ''Plateosaurus'' * ''Dinotyrannus'' – junior synonym ''
Tyrannosaurus ''Tyrannosaurus'' is a genus of large theropoda, theropod dinosaur. The species ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' (''rex'' meaning "king" in Latin), often called ''T. rex'' or colloquially ''T-Rex'', is one of the best represented theropods. ''Tyrannosa ...
'' or some other tyrannosaurid * ''Diodorus (genus), Diodorus'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Diplodocus'' * ''Diplotomodon'' * ''Diracodon'' – junior synonym of ''Stegosaurus'' * ''Dolichosuchus'' * ''Dollodon'' – junior synonym of ''
Mantellisaurus ''Mantellisaurus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in the Barremian and early Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe. Its remains are known from Belgium (Bernissart), England, Spain and Germany. The type and only sp ...
'' * "Domeykosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', synonym of '' Arackar'' * ''Dongbeititan'' * ''Dongyangopelta'' * ''Dongyangosaurus'' * ''Doratodon'' – subsequently found to be a
crocodilia Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both ) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period ( Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living ...
n * ''Doryphorosaurus'' – junior synonym (unneeded replacement name) of ''Kentrosaurus'' * ''Draconyx'' * ''Dracopelta'' * ''Dracoraptor'' * ''Dracorex'' – junior synonym of ''Pachycephalosaurus'' * ''Dracovenator'' * ''Dravidosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a plesiosaurian * ''Dreadnoughtus'' * ''Drinker (dinosaur), Drinker'' – junior synonym of ''Nanosaurus'' * ''Dromaeosauroides'' * ''Dromaeosaurus'' * ''Dromiceiomimus'' * ''Dromicosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Massospondylus ''Massospondylus'' ( ; from Greek, (massōn, "longer") and (spondylos, "vertebra")) is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years ago). It was described by S ...
'' * ''Drusilasaura'' * ''Dryosaurus'' * ''Dryptosauroides'' * ''Dryptosaurus'' * ''Dubreuillosaurus'' * "List of informally named dinosaurs#Duranteceratops, Duranteceratops" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Duriatitan'' * ''Duriavenator'' * ''Dynamosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Tyrannosaurus ''Tyrannosaurus'' is a genus of large theropoda, theropod dinosaur. The species ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' (''rex'' meaning "king" in Latin), often called ''T. rex'' or colloquially ''T-Rex'', is one of the best represented theropods. ''Tyrannosa ...
'' * ''Dynamoterror'' * ''Dyoplosaurus'' * ''Dysalotosaurus'' * ''Dysganus'' * ''Dyslocosaurus'' * ''Dystrophaeus'' * ''Dystylosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Supersaurus'' *''Dzharaonyx'' *''Dzharatitanis''


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* ''Echinodon'' * ''Edmarka'' – junior synonym of ''
Torvosaurus ''Torvosaurus'' () is a genus of carnivorous megalosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 165 to 148 million years ago during the late Middle and Late Jurassic period (Callovian to Tithonian stages) in what is now Colorado, Portuga ...
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Edmontonia ''Edmontonia'' is a genus of panoplosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It is part of the Nodosauridae, a family within Ankylosauria. It is named after the Edmonton Formation (now the Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Canada) ...
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Edmontosaurus ''Edmontosaurus'' ( ) (meaning "lizard from Edmonton") is a genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur. It contains two known species: ''Edmontosaurus regalis'' and ''Edmontosaurus annectens''. Fossils of ''E. regalis'' have been found in rocks ...
'' * ''Efraasia'' * ''Einiosaurus'' * ''Ekrixinatosaurus'' * ''Elachistosuchus'' – subsequently found to be a sphenodontia, rhynchocephalian * ''Elaltitan'' * ''Elaphrosaurus'' * ''Elemgasem'' * ''Elmisaurus'' * ''Elopteryx'' * ''Elosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Brontosaurus ''Brontosaurus'' (; meaning "thunder lizard" from Greek , "thunder" and , "lizard") is a genus of gigantic quadruped sauropod dinosaurs. Although the type species, ''B. excelsus'', had long been considered a species of the closely related ''A ...
'' * ''Elrhazosaurus'' * "Elvisaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''
Cryolophosaurus ''Cryolophosaurus'' ( or ; "CRY-oh-loaf-oh-SAWR-us") is a genus of large theropod dinosaur known from only a single species ''Cryolophosaurus ellioti'', from the early Jurassic of Antarctica. It was one of the largest theropods of the Early Jura ...
'' * ''Emausaurus'' * ''Embasaurus'' * ''Enigmosaurus'' * ''Eoabelisaurus'' * ''Eobrontosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Brontosaurus ''Brontosaurus'' (; meaning "thunder lizard" from Greek , "thunder" and , "lizard") is a genus of gigantic quadruped sauropod dinosaurs. Although the type species, ''B. excelsus'', had long been considered a species of the closely related ''A ...
'' * ''Eocarcharia'' * ''Eoceratops'' – junior synonym of ''
Chasmosaurus ''Chasmosaurus'' ( ) is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period of North America. Its name means 'opening lizard', referring to the large openings ( fenestrae) in its frill (Greek ''chasma'' meaning 'opening' or 'hollow' ...
'' * ''Eocursor'' * ''Eodromaeus'' * "Eohadrosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Eolambia'' * ''Eolambia'' * ''Eomamenchisaurus'' * "Eoplophysis" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Eoraptor'' * ''Eosinopteryx'' * ''Eotrachodon'' * ''Eotriceratops'' * ''Eotyrannus'' * ''Eousdryosaurus'' * ''Epachthosaurus'' * ''Epanterias'' – may be ''
Allosaurus ''Allosaurus'' () is a genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian). The name "''Allosaurus''" means "different lizard" alluding to ...
'' * "Ephoenosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Machimosaurus'' (a
crocodilia Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both ) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period ( Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living ...
n) * ''Ankistrodon, Epicampodon'' – subsequently found to be a
proterosuchid Proterosuchidae is an early family of basal archosauriforms whose fossils are known from the Latest Permian and the Early Triassic of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and possibly South America. The name comes from Greek πρότερο- ("first") ...
archosauriform Archosauriformes (Greek for 'ruling lizards', and Latin for 'form') is a clade of diapsid reptiles that developed from archosauromorph ancestors some time in the Latest Permian (roughly 252 million years ago). It was defined by Jacques Gauthier ...
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Ankistrodon ''Ankistrodon'' is an extinct genus of archosauriform known from the Early Triassic Panchet Formation of India. First thought to be a theropod dinosaur, it was later determined to be a proterosuchid. The type species is ''A. indicus'', described ...
'' * ''Epichirostenotes'' * ''Epidendrosaurus'' – synonym of ''Scansoriopteryx'' * ''Epidexipteryx'' * ''Equijubus'' * ''Erectopus'' * ''Erketu'' * ''Erliansaurus'' * ''Erlikosaurus'' * ''Erythrovenator'' * ''Eshanosaurus'' * "Euacanthus" – ''nomen nudum''; junior synonym of ''Polacanthus'' * ''Eucamerotus'' * ''Eucentrosaurus'' – junior synonym (unneeded replacement name) of ''
Centrosaurus ''Centrosaurus'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Canada. Their remains have been found in the Dinosaur Park Formation, dating from 76.5 to 75.5 million years ago. Discovery and naming The firs ...
'' * ''Eucercosaurus'' * '' Eucnemesaurus'' * ''Eucoelophysis'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * "Eugongbusaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Euhelopus'' * ''Euoplocephalus'' * ''Eupodosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a nothosaur synonymous with ''Lariosaurus'' * "Eureodon" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Tenontosaurus'' * ''Eurolimnornis'' – subsequently found to be a pterosaur * ''Euronychodon'' * ''Europasaurus'' * ''Europatitan'' * ''Europelta'' * ''Euskelosaurus'' * ''Eustreptospondylus''


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* ''Fabrosaurus'' – possibly ''Lesothosaurus'' * ''Falcarius'' * "Fendusaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * "Fenestrosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Oviraptor'' * ''Ferganasaurus'' * "Ferganastegos" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Ferganocephale'' * ''Ferrisaurus'' * ''Foraminacephale'' * ''Fosterovenator'' * ''Fostoria dhimbangunmal, Fostoria'' * ''Frenguellisaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Herrerasaurus'' * ''Fruitadens'' * ''Fukuiraptor'' * ''Fukuisaurus'' * ''Fukuititan'' * ''Fukuivenator'' * ''Fulengia'' * ''Fulgurotherium'' * ''Fushanosaurus'' * "Fusinasus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Eotyrannus'' * ''Fusuisaurus'' * "Futabasaurus (dinosaur), Futabasaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; not to be confused with the formally named plesiosaur ''Futabasaurus'' * ''Futalognkosaurus'' *''Fylax''


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* "Gadolosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Galeamopus'' * ''Galesaurus'' – subsequently found to be a therapsida, therapsid * ''Galleonosaurus'' * ''Gallimimus'' * ''Galtonia (archosaur), Galtonia'' – subsequently found to be a pseudosuchian; possibly a junior synonym of ''Revueltosaurus'' * ''Galveosaurus'' – synonym of ''Galvesaurus'' * ''Galvesaurus'' * ''Gamatavus'' — possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Gannansaurus'' * "Gansutitan" – ''nomen nudum''; ''
Daxiatitan ''Daxiatitan'' (; meaning "Daxia giant" after a tributary of the Yellow River) is a genus of sauropod dinosaur known from the Lower Cretaceous of Gansu, China. Its type and only species is ''Daxiatitan binglingi'' (). It is known from a single p ...
'' * ''Ganzhousaurus'' * ''Gargoyleosaurus'' * ''Garrigatitan'' * ''Garudimimus'' * ''Gasosaurus'' * ''Gasparinisaura'' * ''Gastonia (dinosaur), Gastonia'' * "Gavinosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Eotyrannus'' * ''Geminiraptor'' * ''Genusaurus'' * ''Genyodectes'' * ''Geranosaurus'' * ''Gideonmantellia'' * ''Giganotosaurus'' * ''Gigantoraptor'' * "''Tornieria, Gigantosaurus''" –
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name, now known as ''Tornieria'' * ''Gigantosaurus'' * ''Gigantoscelus'' – Probable junior synonym of ''Euskelosaurus'' * ''Gigantspinosaurus'' * ''Gilmoreosaurus'' * "Ginnareemimus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Kinnareemimus'' * ''
Giraffatitan ''Giraffatitan'' (name meaning "titanic giraffe") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (geology), Period (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian stages) in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania. It was originally named as an ...
'' * ''Glacialisaurus'' * ''Glishades'' * ''Glyptodontopelta'' * ''Gnathovorax'' * ''Gobiceratops'' – possibly a junior synonym of ''
Bagaceratops ''Bagaceratops'' (meaning "small-horned face") is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 72 to 71 million years ago. ''Bagaceratops'' remains have been reported from the Barun Goyot Forma ...
'' * ''Gobihadros'' * ''Gobiraptor'' * ''Gobisaurus'' * ''Gobititan'' * ''Gobivenator'' * "Godzillasaurus (dinosaur), Godzillasaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Gojirasaurus'' * ''Gojirasaurus'' * ''Gondwanatitan'' * ''Gongbusaurus'' * ''Gongpoquansaurus'' * ''Gongxianosaurus'' * ''
Gorgosaurus ''Gorgosaurus'' ( ; ) is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.6 and 75.1 million years ago. Fossil remains have been found in the Can ...
'' * ''Goyocephale'' * ''Graciliceratops'' * ''Graciliraptor'' * ''Gracilisuchus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
* ''Gravitholus'' * ''Gresslyosaurus'' – possible junior synonym of ''Plateosaurus'' * ''Griphornis'' – junior synonym of ''
Archaeopteryx ''Archaeopteryx'' (; ), sometimes referred to by its German name, "" ( ''Primeval Bird''), is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs. The name derives from the ancient Greek (''archaīos''), meaning "ancient", and (''ptéryx''), meaning "feather" ...
'' * ''Griphosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Archaeopteryx ''Archaeopteryx'' (; ), sometimes referred to by its German name, "" ( ''Primeval Bird''), is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs. The name derives from the ancient Greek (''archaīos''), meaning "ancient", and (''ptéryx''), meaning "feather" ...
'' * ''Gryphoceratops'' * ''Gryponyx'' * ''Gryposaurus'' * "Gspsaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Guaibasaurus'' * ''Gualicho'' * ''Guanlong'' * ''Guemesia'' * ''Gwyneddosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a Tanystropheus, tanystrophid * ''Gyposaurus'' – possibly a junior synonym of ''
Massospondylus ''Massospondylus'' ( ; from Greek, (massōn, "longer") and (spondylos, "vertebra")) is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years ago). It was described by S ...
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* "Hadrosauravus" – ''nomen nudum''; junior synonym of ''Gryposaurus'' * ''
Hadrosaurus ''Hadrosaurus'' (; ) is a genus of hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now the Woodbury Formation about 80 million to 78 million years ago. The holotype specimen was found in f ...
'' * ''Haestasaurus'' * ''Hagryphus'' * ''Hallopus'' – subsequently found to be a crocodylomorph * ''Halszkaraptor'' * ''Halticosaurus'' * ''Hamititan'' * ''Hanssuesia'' * "Hanwulosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Haplocanthosaurus'' * "''Haplocanthus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Haplocanthosaurus'' * ''Haplocheirus'' * ''Harpymimus'' * ''Haya griva, Haya'' * ''Hecatasaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Telmatosaurus'' * "Heilongjiangosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Heishansaurus'' * ''Helioceratops'' * "''Euhelopus, Helopus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Euhelopus'' * ''Heptasteornis'' * ''Herbstosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a pterosaur * ''Herrerasaurus'' * ''Hesperonychus'' * ''Hesperornithoides'' * ''Hesperosaurus'' * ''Heterodontosaurus'' * ''Heterosaurus'' – possible synonym of ''
Mantellisaurus ''Mantellisaurus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in the Barremian and early Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe. Its remains are known from Belgium (Bernissart), England, Spain and Germany. The type and only sp ...
'' * ''Hexing'' * ''Hexinlusaurus'' * ''
Heyuannia ''Heyuannia'' ("from Heyuan") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous epoch, in what is now China and Mongolia. It was the first oviraptorid found in China; most others were found in neighbouring Mongolia ...
'' * ''Hierosaurus'' * ''Hikanodon'' – junior synonym of ''
Iguanodon ''Iguanodon'' ( ; meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. While many species have been classified in the genus ''Iguanodon'', dating from the late Jurassic Period to the early Cretaceous Period of Asia, Eu ...
'' * ''Hippodraco'' * "Hironosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * "Hisanohamasaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Histriasaurus'' * ''Homalocephale'' * "Yandusaurus, Honghesaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' later described as ''Yandusaurus''; name later used for Honghesaurus, a genus of marine reptile * ''Hongshanosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Psittacosaurus'' * ''Hoplitosaurus'' * ''Hoplosaurus'' – junior synonym of '' Struthiosaurus'' * ''Horshamosaurus'' * ''Hortalotarsus'' – possible junior synonym of ''
Massospondylus ''Massospondylus'' ( ; from Greek, (massōn, "longer") and (spondylos, "vertebra")) is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years ago). It was described by S ...
'' * ''
Huabeisaurus ''Huabeisaurus'' (, meaning " North China lizard") was a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous ( Cenomanian to Maastrichtian stages, around 99.7–70.6 million years ago). It was a sauropod which lived in what is present-day northern Chin ...
'' * ''Hualianceratops'' * ''Huallasaurus'' * ''Huanansaurus'' * ''Huanghetitan'' * ''Huangshanlong'' * ''Huaxiagnathus'' * ''Huaxiaosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Shantungosaurus'' * "Huaxiasaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Huaxiagnathus'' * ''Huayangosaurus'' * ''Hudiesaurus'' * ''Huehuecanauhtlus'' * ''Huinculsaurus'' * ''Hulsanpes'' * ''Hungarosaurus'' * ''Huxleysaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Hypselospinus ''Hypselospinus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of ''Iguanodon'' (''I. fittoni'') by Richard Lydekker in 1889, the specific name honouring William Henry Fitton. History In May 2010 the fossils com ...
'' * ''Hylaeosaurus'' * ''Hylosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Hylaeosaurus'' * ''
Hypacrosaurus ''Hypacrosaurus'' (meaning "near the highest lizard" reek υπο-, ''hypo-'' = less + ακρος, ''akros'', high because it was almost but not quite as large as ''Tyrannosaurus'') was a genus of duckbill dinosaur similar in appearance to ''Co ...
'' * ''Hypselorhachis'' – subsequently found to be a ctenosauriscid * ''Hypselosaurus'' * ''
Hypselospinus ''Hypselospinus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of ''Iguanodon'' (''I. fittoni'') by Richard Lydekker in 1889, the specific name honouring William Henry Fitton. History In May 2010 the fossils com ...
'' * ''Hypsibema'' * ''Hypsilophodon'' * ''Hypsirhophus''


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* ''Iberospinus'' * ''Ibirania'' * "Ichabodcraniosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Shri devi, Shri'' * ''Ichthyovenator'' * ''Ignavusaurus'' * ''Ignotosaurus'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Iguanacolossus'' * ''
Iguanodon ''Iguanodon'' ( ; meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. While many species have been classified in the genus ''Iguanodon'', dating from the late Jurassic Period to the early Cretaceous Period of Asia, Eu ...
'' * "Iguanoides" – ''nomen nudum''; ''
Iguanodon ''Iguanodon'' ( ; meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. While many species have been classified in the genus ''Iguanodon'', dating from the late Jurassic Period to the early Cretaceous Period of Asia, Eu ...
'' * "Iguanosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''
Iguanodon ''Iguanodon'' ( ; meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. While many species have been classified in the genus ''Iguanodon'', dating from the late Jurassic Period to the early Cretaceous Period of Asia, Eu ...
'' * ''Iliosuchus'' * ''Ilokelesia'' * ''Imperobator'' * ''Incisivosaurus'' * ''Indosaurus'' * ''Indosuchus'' * "''Heyuannia, Ingenia''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Heyuannia, Heyuannia yanshini'' * ''Ingentia'' * ''Inosaurus'' * ''Invictarx'' * ''Irisosaurus'' * ''
Irritator ''Irritator'' is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous Period, about 113 to 110 million years ago. It is known from a nearly complete skull found in the Romualdo Forma ...
'' * ''Isaberrysaura'' * ''Isanosaurus'' * ''Isasicursor'' * ''Ischioceratops'' * ''Ischisaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Herrerasaurus'' * "''Ischyrosaurus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
genus name, species ''Ischyrosaurus manseli'' * ''Isisaurus'' * "Issasaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Dicraeosaurus'' * ''Issi'' * ''Itapeuasaurus'' * ''Itemirus'' * ''Iuticosaurus'' * ''Iyuku''


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* ''Jainosaurus'' * ''Jakapil'' * ''Jaklapallisaurus'' * ''Janenschia'' * ''Jaxartosaurus'' * ''Jeholosaurus'' * ''Jenghizkhan'' – junior synonym of ''Tarbosaurus'' * "Jensenosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Supersaurus'' * ''Jeyawati'' * ''Jianchangosaurus'' * "Jiangjunmiaosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Monolophosaurus'' * ''Jiangjunosaurus'' * ''Jiangshanosaurus'' * ''Jiangxisaurus'' * ''Jianianhualong'' * ''Jinbeisaurus'' * ''Jinfengopteryx'' * ''Jingshanosaurus'' * ''Jintasaurus'' * ''Jinyunpelta'' * ''Jinzhousaurus'' * ''Jiutaisaurus'' * ''Jobaria'' * ''Jubbulpuria'' * ''Judiceratops'' * ''Jurapteryx'' – junior synonym of ''
Archaeopteryx ''Archaeopteryx'' (; ), sometimes referred to by its German name, "" ( ''Primeval Bird''), is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs. The name derives from the ancient Greek (''archaīos''), meaning "ancient", and (''ptéryx''), meaning "feather" ...
'' * "Jurassosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Tianchisaurus'' * ''Juratyrant'' * ''Juravenator''


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* ''Kaatedocus'' * "Kagasaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Kaijiangosaurus'' * ''Kaijutitan'' * ''Kakuru'' * ''Kamuysaurus'' * ''Kangnasaurus'' * ''Kansaignathus'' * ''Karongasaurus'' * ''Katepensaurus'' * "Katsuyamasaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' *''Kayentavenator'' * ''Kazaklambia'' * ''Kelmayisaurus'' * ''Kelumapusaura'' * ''Kemkemia'' – subsequently found to be a crocodyliform * ''Kentrosaurus'' * ''Kentrurosaurus'' – junior synonym (unneeded replacement name) of ''Kentrosaurus'' * ''Kerberosaurus'' * ''Khaan'' * "Khetranisaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Kholumolumo'' * ''Khulsanurus'' * ''Kileskus'' * ''Kinnareemimus'' * "Kitadanisaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Fukuiraptor'' * "Kittysaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Eotyrannus'' * ''Klamelisaurus'' * ''Kol ghuva, Kol'' * ''Koparion'' * ''Koreaceratops'' * ''Koreanosaurus'' * "Koreanosaurus (theropod), Koreanosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; name later used formally for a Koreanosaurus, genus of ornithopod * ''Koshisaurus'' * ''Kosmoceratops'' * ''Kotasaurus'' * ''Koutalisaurus'' – possible junior synonym of ''Pararhabdodon'' * ''Kritosaurus'' * ''Kryptops'' * ''Krzyzanowskisaurus'' – probably a pseudosuchian (''Revueltosaurus''?) * ''Kukufeldia'' – junior synonym of ''
Barilium ''Barilium'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of ''Iguanodon'' (''I. dawsoni'') by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson. In 2010 it was reclassified ...
'' * ''Kulceratops'' * ''
Kulindadromeus ''Kulindadromeus'' was a herbivorous dinosaur, a basal neornithischian from the Middle Jurassic. The first ''Kulindadromeus'' fossil was found in Russia. Its feather-like integument is evidence for protofeathers being basal to Ornithischia and ...
'' * ''Kulindapteryx'' – synonym of ''
Kulindadromeus ''Kulindadromeus'' was a herbivorous dinosaur, a basal neornithischian from the Middle Jurassic. The first ''Kulindadromeus'' fossil was found in Russia. Its feather-like integument is evidence for protofeathers being basal to Ornithischia and ...
'' * ''Kunbarrasaurus'' * ''Kundurosaurus'' * "Kunmingosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''
Kuru Kuru may refer to: Anthropology and history * Kuru (disease), a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy associated with the cannibalistic funeral practices of the Fore people * Kuru (mythology), part of Meithei mythology * Kuru Kingdom, ...
'' * ''Kurupi itaata, Kurupi'' * ''Kuszholia'' – probably a
bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
* ''Kwanasaurus'' – possibly non-dinosaurian


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* ''Labocania'' * ''Labrosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Allosaurus ''Allosaurus'' () is a genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian). The name "''Allosaurus''" means "different lizard" alluding to ...
'' * "''Laelaps (dinosaur), Laelaps''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Dryptosaurus'' * ''Laevisuchus'' * ''Lagerpeton'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian pterosauromorph * ''Lagosuchus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
dinosauromorph Dinosauromorpha is a clade of avemetatarsalian archosaurs (reptiles closer to birds than to crocodilians) that includes the Dinosauria (dinosaurs) and some of their close relatives. It was originally defined to include dinosauriforms and lag ...
* ''Laiyangosaurus'' * ''Lajasvenator'' * ''Lamaceratops'' – possible junior synonym of ''
Bagaceratops ''Bagaceratops'' (meaning "small-horned face") is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 72 to 71 million years ago. ''Bagaceratops'' remains have been reported from the Barun Goyot Forma ...
'' * ''Lambeosaurus'' * ''Lametasaurus'' * ''Lamplughsaura'' * ''Lanasaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Lycorhinus'' * "Lancangosaurus" – variant spelling of "Lancanjiangosaurus" * "Lancanjiangosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Lanzhousaurus'' * ''Laosaurus'' * ''Lapampasaurus'' * ''Laplatasaurus'' * ''Lapparentosaurus'' * ''Laquintasaura'' * ''Latenivenatrix'' – possible junior synonym of ''Stenonychosaurus'' * ''Latirhinus'' * ''Lavocatisaurus'' * ''Leaellynasaura'' * ''Ledumahadi'' * ''Leinkupal'' * ''Leipsanosaurus'' – junior synonym of '' Struthiosaurus'' * "Lengosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Eotyrannus'' * ''Leonerasaurus'' * ''Lepidocheirosaurus'' — junior synonym of ''
Kulindadromeus ''Kulindadromeus'' was a herbivorous dinosaur, a basal neornithischian from the Middle Jurassic. The first ''Kulindadromeus'' fossil was found in Russia. Its feather-like integument is evidence for protofeathers being basal to Ornithischia and ...
'' * ''Lepidus praecisio, Lepidus'' * ''Leptoceratops'' * ''Leptorhynchos (dinosaur), Leptorhynchos'' * ''Leptospondylus'' – junior synonym of ''
Massospondylus ''Massospondylus'' ( ; from Greek, (massōn, "longer") and (spondylos, "vertebra")) is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years ago). It was described by S ...
'' * ''Leshansaurus'' * ''Lesothosaurus'' * ''Lessemsaurus'' * ''Levnesovia'' * ''Lewisuchus'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Lexovisaurus'' * ''Leyesaurus'' * ''Liaoceratops'' * ''Liaoningosaurus'' * ''Liaoningotitan'' * ''Liaoningvenator'' * "Liassaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; possible synonym of ''Sarcosaurus'' * ''Libycosaurus'' – subsequently found to be an anthracothere mammal * ''Ligabueino'' * ''Ligabuesaurus'' * "Ligomasaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', synonym of ''
Giraffatitan ''Giraffatitan'' (name meaning "titanic giraffe") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (geology), Period (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian stages) in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania. It was originally named as an ...
'' * "Likhoelesaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Liliensternus'' * ''Limaysaurus'' * "''Palaeocursornis, Limnornis''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Palaeocursornis'' ( a pterosaur) * "''Telmatosaurus, Limnosaurus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Telmatosaurus'' * ''Limusaurus'' * ''Lingwulong'' * ''Lingyuanosaurus'' * ''Linhenykus'' * ''Linheraptor'' * ''Linhevenator'' * ''Lirainosaurus'' * ''Lisboasaurus'' – subsequently found to be a
crocodilia Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both ) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period ( Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living ...
n * ''Liubangosaurus'' * ''Llukalkan'' * ''Lohuecotitan'' * ''Loncosaurus'' * ''Longisquama'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...
* ''Longosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Coelophysis ''Coelophysis'' ( traditionally; or , as heard more commonly in recent decades) is an extinct genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 228 to 201.3 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period from t ...
'' * ''Lophorhothon'' * ''Lophostropheus'' * ''Loricatosaurus'' * ''Loricosaurus'' * ''Losillasaurus'' * ''Lourinhanosaurus'' * ''Lourinhasaurus'' * ''Luanchuanraptor'' * "Luanpingosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Psittacosaurus'' * ''Lucianosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosauriform Archosauriformes (Greek for 'ruling lizards', and Latin for 'form') is a clade of diapsid reptiles that developed from archosauromorph ancestors some time in the Latest Permian (roughly 252 million years ago). It was defined by Jacques Gauthier ...
* ''Lucianovenator'' * ''Lufengosaurus'' * ''Lukousaurus'' – possibly a crurotarsi, crurotarsan * ''Luoyanggia'' * ''Lurdusaurus'' * ''Lusitanosaurus'' * ''Lusotitan'' * ''Lusovenator'' * ''Lutungutali'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Lycorhinus'' * ''Lythronax''


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* ''Macelognathus'' – subsequently found to be a sphenosuchian
crocodilia Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both ) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period ( Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living ...
n * ''Machairasaurus'' * ''Machairoceratops'' * ''Macrocollum'' * ''Macrodontophion'' – subsequently found to be a member of Lophotrochozoa * ''Macrogryphosaurus'' * ''Macrophalangia'' – junior synonym of ''
Chirostenotes ''Chirostenotes'' ( ; named from Greek 'narrow-handed') is a genus of oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from the late Cretaceous (about 76.5 million years ago) of Alberta, Canada. The type species is ''Chirostenotes pergracilis''. History of discovery ...
'' * "Macroscelosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; junior synonym of ''Tanystropheus'' * ''Macrurosaurus'' * "Madsenius" – ''nomen nudum'', ''
Allosaurus ''Allosaurus'' () is a genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian). The name "''Allosaurus''" means "different lizard" alluding to ...
'' * ''Magnamanus'' * ''Magnapaulia'' * ''Magnirostris'' – possible junior synonym of ''
Bagaceratops ''Bagaceratops'' (meaning "small-horned face") is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 72 to 71 million years ago. ''Bagaceratops'' remains have been reported from the Barun Goyot Forma ...
'' * ''Magnosaurus'' * "Magulodon" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Magyarosaurus'' * ''Mahakala omnogovae, Mahakala'' * ''Mahuidacursor'' * ''Maiasaura'' * ''Maip'' * ''Majungasaurus'' * ''Majungatholus'' – junior synonym of ''Majungasaurus'' * ''Malarguesaurus'' * ''Malawisaurus'' * ''Maleevosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Tarbosaurus'' * ''Maleevus'' * ''Malefica'' * ''Mamenchisaurus'' * ''Mandschurosaurus'' * ''Manidens'' * ''Manospondylus'' – synonym of ''
Tyrannosaurus ''Tyrannosaurus'' is a genus of large theropoda, theropod dinosaur. The species ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' (''rex'' meaning "king" in Latin), often called ''T. rex'' or colloquially ''T-Rex'', is one of the best represented theropods. ''Tyrannosa ...
'' * ''Mansourasaurus'' * ''
Mantellisaurus ''Mantellisaurus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in the Barremian and early Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe. Its remains are known from Belgium (Bernissart), England, Spain and Germany. The type and only sp ...
'' * ''Mantellodon'' – junior synonym of ''
Mantellisaurus ''Mantellisaurus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in the Barremian and early Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe. Its remains are known from Belgium (Bernissart), England, Spain and Germany. The type and only sp ...
'' * "Maojandino" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Mapusaurus'' * ''Maraapunisaurus'' * ''Marasuchus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
dinosauromorph Dinosauromorpha is a clade of avemetatarsalian archosaurs (reptiles closer to birds than to crocodilians) that includes the Dinosauria (dinosaurs) and some of their close relatives. It was originally defined to include dinosauriforms and lag ...
* "Marisaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Marmarospondylus'' * ''Marshosaurus'' * ''Martharaptor'' * ''Masiakasaurus'' * ''
Massospondylus ''Massospondylus'' ( ; from Greek, (massōn, "longer") and (spondylos, "vertebra")) is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years ago). It was described by S ...
'' * ''Matheronodon'' * ''Maxakalisaurus'' * ''Mbiresaurus'' * ''Medusaceratops'' * "Megacervixosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * "''Megadactylus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''
Anchisaurus ''Anchisaurus'' is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Early Jurassic Period, and its fossils have been found in the red sandstone of the Portland Formation, Northeastern United States, which was deposited from the He ...
'' * "Megadontosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Microvenator'' * ''Megalosaurus'' * ''Megapnosaurus'' – possible junior synonym of ''
Coelophysis ''Coelophysis'' ( traditionally; or , as heard more commonly in recent decades) is an extinct genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 228 to 201.3 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period from t ...
'' * ''Megaraptor'' * ''Mei (dinosaur), Mei'' * ''Melanorosaurus'' * ''Mendozasaurus'' * ''Menefeeceratops'' * ''Menucocelsior'' * ''Meraxes gigas, Meraxes'' * ''Mercuriceratops'' * ''Meroktenos'' * ''Metriacanthosaurus'' * "Microcephale" – ''nomen nudum'' * "''Microceratops gobiensis, Microceratops''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Microceratus'' * ''Microceratus'' * ''Microcoelus'' * "Microdontosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Microhadrosaurus'' * ''Micropachycephalosaurus'' * ''
Microraptor ''Microraptor'' (Greek, μικρός, ''mīkros'': "small"; Latin, ''raptor'': "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs. Numerous well-preserved fossil specimens have been recovered from Liaoning, China. They dat ...
'' * ''Microvenator'' * ''Mierasaurus'' * "Mifunesaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Minmi paravertebra, Minmi'' * ''Minotaurasaurus'' * ''
Miragaia Miragaia () is a former Freguesia, civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória. The population in 2011 was 2,067, in an area ...
'' * ''Mirischia'' * ''Mnyamawamtuka'' * ''Moabosaurus'' * ''Mochlodon'' * "Mohammadisaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Tornieria'' * ''Mojoceratops'' – junior synonym of ''
Chasmosaurus ''Chasmosaurus'' ( ) is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period of North America. Its name means 'opening lizard', referring to the large openings ( fenestrae) in its frill (Greek ''chasma'' meaning 'opening' or 'hollow' ...
'' * ''Mongolosaurus'' * ''Mongolostegus'' * ''Monkonosaurus'' * ''Monoclonius'' * ''Monolophosaurus'' * "''Mononychus olecranus, Mononychus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Mononykus'' * ''Mononykus'' * ''Montanoceratops'' * ''Morelladon'' * ''Morinosaurus'' * ''Moros intrepidus, Moros'' * ''Morosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Camarasaurus ''Camarasaurus'' ( ) was a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs and is the most common North American sauropod fossil. Its fossil remains have been found in the Morrison Formation, dating to the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to Titho ...
'' * ''Morrosaurus'' * ''Mosaiceratops'' * "Moshisaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; possibly ''Mamenchisaurus'' * "Mtapaiasaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', synonym of ''
Giraffatitan ''Giraffatitan'' (name meaning "titanic giraffe") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (geology), Period (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian stages) in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania. It was originally named as an ...
'' * "Mtotosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Dicraeosaurus'' * ''Murusraptor'' * ''Mussaurus'' * ''Muttaburrasaurus'' * ''Muyelensaurus'' * ''Mymoorapelta''


N

* ''Naashoibitosaurus'' * ''Nambalia'' * ''Nankangia'' * ''Nanningosaurus'' * ''Nanosaurus'' * ''Nanotyrannus'' – junior synonym of ''
Tyrannosaurus ''Tyrannosaurus'' is a genus of large theropoda, theropod dinosaur. The species ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' (''rex'' meaning "king" in Latin), often called ''T. rex'' or colloquially ''T-Rex'', is one of the best represented theropods. ''Tyrannosa ...
'' * ''Nanshiungosaurus'' * ''Nanuqsaurus'' * ''Nanyangosaurus'' * ''Napaisaurus'' * ''Narambuenatitan'' * ''Narindasaurus'' * ''Nasutoceratops'' * ''Natovenator'' * "Natronasaurus" – invalid name, either ''
Alcovasaurus ''Alcovasaurus'', alternatively known as ''Miragaia longispinus'', is a genus of herbivorous thyreophoran dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic. It was found in the Morrison Formation of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. The type species ...
'' or ''
Miragaia Miragaia () is a former Freguesia, civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória. The population in 2011 was 2,067, in an area ...
'' * ''Navajoceratops'' * ''Nebulasaurus'' * "''Nectosaurus navajovius, Nectosaurus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Kritosaurus'' * ''Nedcolbertia'' * ''Nedoceratops'' – possible junior synonym of ''
Triceratops ''Triceratops'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivore, herbivorous Chasmosaurinae, chasmosaurine Ceratopsidae, ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (geology), period, about 68 m ...
'' * ''Neimongosaurus'' * "''Nemegtomaia, Nemegtia''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Nemegtomaia'' * ''Nemegtomaia'' * ''Nemegtonykus'' * ''Nemegtosaurus'' * "''Neosaurus missouriensis, Neosaurus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name; renamed ''Parrosaurus'', which is now ''Hypsibema'' * ''Neosodon'' * ''Neovenator'' * '' Neuquenraptor'' * ''Neuquensaurus'' * ''Nevadadromeus'' * "Newtonsaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', possibly ''Zanclodon cambrensis, Zanclodon'' * "Ngexisaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Ngwevu'' * ''Nhandumirim'' * ''Nicksaurus'' – ''nomen manuscriptum'' * ''Niebla antiqua, Niebla'' * ''Nigersaurus'' * ''Ningyuansaurus'' * ''Ninjatitan'' * ''Niobrarasaurus'' * ''Nipponosaurus'' * ''Noasaurus'' * ''Nodocephalosaurus'' * ''Nodosaurus'' * ''Nomingia'' – possible junior synonym of ''Elmisaurus'' * ''Nopcsaspondylus'' * ''Normanniasaurus'' * ''Notatesseraeraptor'' * ''Nothronychus'' * ''Notoceratops'' * ''Notocolossus'' * ''Notohypsilophodon'' * ''Nqwebasaurus'' * "Nteregosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Janenschia'' * ''Nullotitan'' * "Nurosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Nuthetes'' * ''Nyasasaurus'' — possibly non-dinosaurian * "Nyororosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Dicraeosaurus''


O

* ''Oceanotitan'' * ''Ohmdenosaurus'' * ''Ojoceratops'' – possible synonym of ''Eotriceratops'' * ''Ojoraptorsaurus'' * ''Oksoko avarsan, Oksoko'' * ''Oligosaurus'' * ''Olorotitan'' * ''Omeisaurus'' * "''Omosaurus armatus, Omosaurus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''
Dacentrurus ''Dacentrurus'' (meaning "tail full of points"), originally known as ''Omosaurus'', is a genus of stegosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (154 - 140 mya) of Europe. Its type species, ''Omosaurus armatus'', was named in 18 ...
'' * ''Ondogurvel'' * ''Onychosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Zalmoxes'' or ''Rhabdodon'', or an ankylosaurian * ''Oohkotokia'' * ''Opisthocoelicaudia'' * ''Oplosaurus'' * "Orcomimus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Orinosaurus'' – junior synonym (unneeded replacement name) of ''Orosaurus'' * ''Orkoraptor'' * ''Ornatops'' * ''Ornatotholus'' – junior synonym of ''Stegoceras'' * ''Ornithodesmus'' * "Ornithoides" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Saurornithoides'' * ''Ornitholestes'' * ''Ornithomerus'' * ''Ornithomimoides'' * ''Ornithomimus'' * ''Ornithopsis'' * ''
Ornithosuchus ''Ornithosuchus'' (meaning "bird crocodile") is an extinct genus of pseudosuchians from the Late Triassic (Carnian) Lossiemouth Sandstone of Scotland. It was originally thought to be the ancestor to the carnosaurian dinosaurs (such as ''Allosau ...
'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
* ''Ornithotarsus'' – junior synonym of ''
Hadrosaurus ''Hadrosaurus'' (; ) is a genus of hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now the Woodbury Formation about 80 million to 78 million years ago. The holotype specimen was found in f ...
'' * ''Orodromeus'' * ''Orosaurus'' * ''Orthogoniosaurus'' * ''Orthomerus'' * ''Oryctodromeus'' * "Oshanosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Osmakasaurus'' * ''Ostafrikasaurus'' * ''Ostromia'' * ''Othnielia'' – junior synonym of ''Nanosaurus'' * ''Othnielosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Nanosaurus'' * ''Otogosaurus'' — possibly a ''nomen nudum'' * ''Ouranosaurus'' * ''Overoraptor'' * ''Overosaurus'' * ''Oviraptor'' * "Ovoraptor" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Velociraptor'' * ''Owenodon'' * ''Oxalaia'' – possible junior synonym of ''Spinosaurus'' * ''Ozraptor''


P

* ''Pachycephalosaurus'' * ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' * ''Pachysauriscus'' – junior synonym of ''Plateosaurus'' * ''Pachysaurops'' – junior synonym of ''Plateosaurus'' * "''Pachysaurus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Pachysauriscus''; junior synonym of ''Plateosaurus'' * ''Pachyspondylus'' – junior synonym of ''
Massospondylus ''Massospondylus'' ( ; from Greek, (massōn, "longer") and (spondylos, "vertebra")) is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. (Hettangian to Pliensbachian ages, ca. 200–183 million years ago). It was described by S ...
'' * ''Pachysuchus'' * ''Padillasaurus'' * "Pakisaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Palaeoctonus'' – subsequently found to be a
phytosaur Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in greek) are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform reptiles. Phytosaurs belong to the order Phytosauria. Phytosauria and Phytosauridae are often considered to be equivalent ...
* ''Palaeocursornis'' – subsequently found to be an azhdarchoid pterosaur * "Palaeolimnornis" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Palaeocursornis'', pterodactyloid pterosaur belonging to Azhdarchoidea * ''Palaeopteryx'' – possibly a
bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
* ''Palaeosauriscus'' – junior synonym of ''
Palaeosaurus ''Palaeosaurus'' (or ''Paleosaurus'') is a genus of indeterminate archosaur known from two teeth found in the Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation and also either the Magnesian Conglomerate or the Avon Fissure Fill of Clifton, Bristol, England (orig ...
'' * ''
Palaeosaurus ''Palaeosaurus'' (or ''Paleosaurus'') is a genus of indeterminate archosaur known from two teeth found in the Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation and also either the Magnesian Conglomerate or the Avon Fissure Fill of Clifton, Bristol, England (orig ...
'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...
* "''Palaeosaurus sternbergii, Palaeosaurus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Sphenosaurus'' and considered to be a non-dinosaurian procolophonid * ''Palaeoscincus'' * ''Paleosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
; junior synonym (unneeded replacement name) of ''
Palaeosaurus ''Palaeosaurus'' (or ''Paleosaurus'') is a genus of indeterminate archosaur known from two teeth found in the Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation and also either the Magnesian Conglomerate or the Avon Fissure Fill of Clifton, Bristol, England (orig ...
'' * ''Paludititan'' * ''Paluxysaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Sauroposeidon'' * ''Pampadromaeus'' * ''Pamparaptor'' * ''Panamericansaurus'' * ''Pandoravenator'' * ''Panguraptor'' * ''Panoplosaurus'' * ''Panphagia'' * ''Pantydraco'' – possible synonym of ''
Thecodontosaurus ''Thecodontosaurus'' ("socket-tooth lizard") is a genus of herbivorous basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the late Triassic period (Rhaetian age). Its remains are known mostly from Triassic "fissure fillings" in South England. ''The ...
'' * ''Papiliovenator'' * "Paraiguanodon" – ''nomen nudum''; ''
Bactrosaurus ''Bactrosaurus'' (; meaning "Club lizard," "baktron" = club + ''sauros'' = lizard) is a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, about 96-85 million years ago. The position ''Bactrosaurus'' occupie ...
'' * ''Paralitherizinosaurus'' * ''Paralititan'' * ''Paranthodon'' * ''Pararhabdodon'' * ''Parasaurolophus'' * ''Paraxenisaurus'' * ''Pareiasaurus'' – subsequently found to be a
pareiasaur Pareiasaurs (meaning "cheek lizards") are an extinct clade of large, herbivorous parareptiles. Members of the group were armoured with scutes which covered large areas of the body. They first appeared in southern Pangea during the Middle Permian, ...
* ''Pareisactus'' * ''Parksosaurus'' * ''Paronychodon'' * ''Parrosaurus'' – now known as ''Hypsibema missouriensis'' * ''Parvicursor'' * ''Patagonykus'' * ''Patagopelta'' * ''Patagosaurus'' * ''Patagotitan'' * ''Pawpawsaurus'' * ''Pectinodon'' * ''Pedopenna'' * ''Pegomastax'' * ''Peishansaurus'' * ''Pekinosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a pseudosuchian; junior synonym of ''Revueltosaurus'' * ''Pelecanimimus'' * ''Pellegrinisaurus'' * ''Peloroplites'' * ''
Pelorosaurus ''Pelorosaurus'' ( ; meaning "monstrous lizard") is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur. Remains referred to ''Pelorosaurus'' date from the Early Cretaceous period, about 140-125 million years ago, and have been found in England and Port ...
'' * "''Peltosaurus (dinosaur), Peltosaurus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Sauropelta'' * ''Pendraig'' * ''Penelopognathus'' * ''Pentaceratops'' * ''Perijasaurus'' * ''Petrobrasaurus'' * ''Phaedrolosaurus'' * ''Philovenator'' * ''Phuwiangosaurus'' * ''Phuwiangvenator'' * ''Phyllodon'' * ''Piatnitzkysaurus'' * ''Picrodon'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Pilmatueia'' * ''Pinacosaurus'' * ''Pisanosaurus'' — possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Pitekunsaurus'' * ''Piveteausaurus'' * ''Planicoxa'' * ''Plateosauravus'' * ''Plateosaurus'' * ''Platyceratops'' – possible junior synonym of ''
Bagaceratops ''Bagaceratops'' (meaning "small-horned face") is a genus of small protoceratopsid dinosaurs that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, around 72 to 71 million years ago. ''Bagaceratops'' remains have been reported from the Barun Goyot Forma ...
'' * ''Platypelta'' * ''Plesiohadros'' * ''Pleurocoelus'' – possible junior synonym of ''
Astrodon ''Astrodon'' (aster: star, odon: tooth) is a genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, measuring in length, in height and in body mass. It lived in what is now the eastern United States during the Early Cretaceous period, and fossils have ...
'' * ''Pleuropeltus'' – junior synonym of '' Struthiosaurus'' * ''Pneumatoarthrus'' – subsequently found to be a turtle * ''Pneumatoraptor'' * ''Podokesaurus'' * ''Poekilopleuron'' * ''Polacanthoides'' – possible junior synonym of ''Hylaeosaurus'' or ''Polacanthus'' * ''Polacanthus'' * ''Polyodontosaurus'' * ''Polyonax'' * ''Ponerosteus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
* ''Poposaurus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
* ''Portellsaurus'' *''Postosuchus'' – subsequently found to be a
rauisuchia "Rauisuchia" is a paraphyletic group of mostly large and carnivorous Triassic archosaurs. Rauisuchians are a category of archosaurs within a larger group called Pseudosuchia, which encompasses all archosaurs more closely related to crocodilia ...
n * ''Powellvenator'' * ''Pradhania'' * ''Prenocephale'' * ''Prenoceratops'' * ''Priconodon'' * ''Priodontognathus'' * ''Proa valdearinnoensis, Proa'' * ''Probactrosaurus'' * ''Probrachylophosaurus'' * ''Proceratops'' – junior synonym (unneeded replacement name) of ''
Ceratops ''Ceratops'' (meaning "horn face") is a dubious genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in the Judith River Formation in Montana. Although poorly known, ''Ceratops'' is importa ...
'' * ''Proceratosaurus'' * ''Procerosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a Tanystropheidae, tanystropheid Protorosauria, protorosaur, ''Tanystropheus'' * "''Procerosaurus exogirarum, Procerosaurus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Ponerosteus'' * ''Procheneosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Lambeosaurus'' * ''Procompsognathus'' * ''Prodeinodon'' * "Proiguanodon" – ''nomen nudum''; ''
Iguanodon ''Iguanodon'' ( ; meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. While many species have been classified in the genus ''Iguanodon'', dating from the late Jurassic Period to the early Cretaceous Period of Asia, Eu ...
'' * ''Propanoplosaurus'' * ''Proplanicoxa'' – junior synonym of ''
Mantellisaurus ''Mantellisaurus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in the Barremian and early Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe. Its remains are known from Belgium (Bernissart), England, Spain and Germany. The type and only sp ...
'' * ''Prosaurolophus'' * ''Protarchaeopteryx'' * ''Protecovasaurus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosauriform Archosauriformes (Greek for 'ruling lizards', and Latin for 'form') is a clade of diapsid reptiles that developed from archosauromorph ancestors some time in the Latest Permian (roughly 252 million years ago). It was defined by Jacques Gauthier ...
* ''Protiguanodon'' – junior synonym of ''Psittacosaurus'' * ''Protoavis'' – described as a bird, probably a chimera (paleontology), chimera including theropoda, theropod dinosaur bones * ''Protoceratops'' * ''Protognathosaurus'' * "''Protognathus oxyodon, Protognathus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Protognathosaurus'' * ''Protohadros'' * "''Protorosaurus belli, Protorosaurus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''
Chasmosaurus ''Chasmosaurus'' ( ) is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period of North America. Its name means 'opening lizard', referring to the large openings ( fenestrae) in its frill (Greek ''chasma'' meaning 'opening' or 'hollow' ...
'' * ''Protorosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...
* "Protrachodon" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Orthomerus'' * "Proyandusaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Hexinlusaurus''. * ''Pseudolagosuchus'' – possibly non-dinosaurian; a junior synonym of ''Lewisuchus'' * ''Psittacosaurus'' * ''Pteropelyx'' * ''Pterospondylus'' * ''Puertasaurus'' * ''Pukyongosaurus'' * ''Pulanesaura'' * ''Punatitan'' * ''Pycnonemosaurus'' * ''Pyroraptor''


Q

* ''Qantassaurus'' * ''Qianzhousaurus'' * ''Qiaowanlong'' * ''Qijianglong'' * ''Qingxiusaurus'' * ''Qinlingosaurus'' * ''Qiupalong'' * ''Qiupanykus'' * ''Quaesitosaurus'' * ''Quetecsaurus'' * ''Quilmesaurus''


R

* ''Rachitrema'' – subsequently found to be a chimera (paleontology), chimera primarily based on ichthyosaur fossils * ''Rahiolisaurus'' * "''Rahona ostromi, Rahona''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Rahonavis'' * ''Rahonavis'' – possibly a
bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
* ''Rajasaurus'' * ''Rapator'' * ''Rapetosaurus'' * ''Raptorex'' – possible junior synonym of ''Tarbosaurus'' * ''Ratchasimasaurus'' * ''Rativates'' * ''Rayososaurus'' * ''Razanandrongobe'' – subsequently found to be a crocodylomorph * ''Rebbachisaurus'' * ''Regaliceratops'' * ''Regnosaurus'' * ''Revueltosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a pseudosuchian * ''Rhabdodon'' * ''Rhadinosaurus'' – may be non-dinosaurian, possibly
crocodilia Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both ) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period ( Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living ...
n * ''Rhinorex'' – possible synonym of ''Gryposaurus'' * ''Rhodanosaurus'' – junior synonym of '' Struthiosaurus'' * ''Rhoetosaurus'' * ''Rhomaleopakhus'' * ''Rhopalodon'' – subsequently found to be a synapsid * ''Riabininohadros'' * ''Richardoestesia'' * "''Rileya bristolensis, Rileya''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Rileyasuchus'' * ''Rileyasuchus'' – subsequently found to be a
phytosaur Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in greek) are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform reptiles. Phytosaurs belong to the order Phytosauria. Phytosauria and Phytosauridae are often considered to be equivalent ...
* ''Rinchenia'' * ''Rinconsaurus'' * ''Rioarribasaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Coelophysis ''Coelophysis'' ( traditionally; or , as heard more commonly in recent decades) is an extinct genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 228 to 201.3 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period from t ...
'' * "Riodevasaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Turiasaurus'' * ''Riojasaurus'' * ''Riojasuchus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
* ''Riparovenator'' * ''Rocasaurus'' * "Roccosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Melanorosaurus'' * "List of informally named dinosaurs#Ronaldoraptor, Ronaldoraptor" – ''nomen nudum'' *''Rubeosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Styracosaurus'' * ''Ruehleia'' * ''Rugocaudia'' * ''Rugops'' * ''Ruixinia'' * ''Rukwatitan'' * ''Ruyangosaurus''


S

* ''Sacisaurus'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Sahaliyania'' * ''Saichania'' * "Saldamosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * "Salimosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', synonym of ''
Giraffatitan ''Giraffatitan'' (name meaning "titanic giraffe") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (geology), Period (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian stages) in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania. It was originally named as an ...
'' * ''Saltasaurus'' * ''Saltopus'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * "Saltriosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Saltriovenator'' * "Sanchusaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', possible ''Gallimimus'' * "Sangonghesaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', ''Tianchisaurus'' * ''Sanjuansaurus'' * ''Sanpasaurus'' * ''Santanaraptor'' * ''Sanxiasaurus'' * ''Sarahsaurus'' * ''Saraikimasoom'' – ''nomen manuscriptum'' * ''Sarcolestes'' * ''Sarcosaurus'' * ''Sarmientosaurus'' * ''Saturnalia (dinosaur), Saturnalia'' * "Sauraechinodon" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Echinodon'' * "Sauraechmodon" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Echinodon'' * "Saurechinodon" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Echinodon'' * ''Saurolophus'' * ''Sauroniops'' * ''Sauropelta'' * ''Saurophaganax'' * "''Saurophagus maximus, Saurophagus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Saurophaganax'' * ''Sauroplites'' * ''Sauroposeidon'' * ''Saurornithoides'' * ''Saurornitholestes'' * ''Savannasaurus'' * ''Scansoriopteryx'' * ''Scaphonyx'' – subsequently found to be a rhynchosaur, ''Hyperodapedon'' * ''Scelidosaurus'' * ''Schleitheimia'' * ''Scipionyx'' * ''Sciurumimus'' * ''Scleromochlus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian avemetatarsalian * ''Scolosaurus'' * ''Scutellosaurus'' * ''Secernosaurus'' * ''Sefapanosaurus'' * ''Segisaurus'' * ''Segnosaurus'' * ''Seismosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Diplodocus'' * ''Seitaad'' * ''Sektensaurus'' * "Selimanosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Dicraeosaurus'' * ''Sellacoxa'' – junior synonym of ''
Barilium ''Barilium'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of ''Iguanodon'' (''I. dawsoni'') by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson. In 2010 it was reclassified ...
'' * ''Sellosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Plateosaurus'' * ''Serendipaceratops'' * ''Serikornis'' * ''Shamosaurus'' * ''Shanag'' * ''Shanshanosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Tarbosaurus'' * ''Shantungosaurus'' * ''Shanxia'' * ''Shanyangosaurus'' * ''Shaochilong'' * ''Shenzhousaurus'' * ''Shidaisaurus'' * ''Shingopana'' * ''Shishugounykus'' * ''Shixinggia'' * ''Shri devi, Shri'' * ''Shuangbaisaurus'' – possible synonym of ''Sinosaurus'' * ''Shuangmiaosaurus'' * ''Shunosaurus'' * ''Shuvosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a
rauisuchia "Rauisuchia" is a paraphyletic group of mostly large and carnivorous Triassic archosaurs. Rauisuchians are a category of archosaurs within a larger group called Pseudosuchia, which encompasses all archosaurs more closely related to crocodilia ...
n * ''Shuvuuia'' * ''Siamodon'' * "Siamodracon" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Siamosaurus'' * ''Siamotyrannus'' * ''Siamraptor'' * ''Siats (dinosaur), Siats'' * "Sibirosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', now known as ''Sibirotitan'' * ''Sibirotitan'' * "Sidormimus" – ''nomen nudum'' *''Sierraceratops'' * ''Sigilmassasaurus'' – possible junior synonym of ''Spinosaurus'' * ''Silesaurus'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Siluosaurus'' * ''Silutitan'' * ''Silvisaurus'' * ''Similicaudipteryx'' * ''Sinankylosaurus'' * ''Sinocalliopteryx'' * ''Sinocephale'' * ''Sinoceratops'' * ''Sinocoelurus'' * "Sinopelta" – ''nomen nudum''; synonym of ''Sinopeltosaurus'' * "Sinopeltosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Sinopliosaurus'' – a pliosaur; one species, ''"Sinopliosaurus" fusuiensis, "S." fusuiensis'', is actually a dinosaur that may be synonymous with ''Siamosaurus'' * ''Sinornithoides'' * ''Sinornithomimus'' * ''Sinornithosaurus'' * ''Sinosauropteryx'' * ''Sinosaurus'' * ''Sinotyrannus'' * ''Sinovenator'' * ''Sinraptor'' * ''Sinusonasus'' * ''Sirindhorna'' * ''Skorpiovenator'' * "''Zanclodon, Smilodon''" –
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name, now known as ''Zanclodon'' * ''Smitanosaurus'' * ''Smok wawelski, Smok'' — possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Sonidosaurus'' * ''
Sonorasaurus ''Sonorasaurus'' is a genus of Brachiosauridae, brachiosaurid dinosaur from the Early to Late Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian faunal stage, stages, around 112 to 93 Mya (unit), million years ago). It was a Herbivore, herbivorous sauropod wh ...
'' * ''Soriatitan'' * ''Soumyasaurus'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Spectrovenator'' * ''Sphaerotholus'' * ''Sphenosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...
* ''Sphenospondylus'' – junior synonym of ''
Mantellisaurus ''Mantellisaurus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in the Barremian and early Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe. Its remains are known from Belgium (Bernissart), England, Spain and Germany. The type and only sp ...
'' * ''Spiclypeus'' * ''Spicomellus'' * ''Spinophorosaurus'' * ''Spinops'' * ''Spinosaurus'' * ''Spinostropheus'' * ''Spinosuchus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...
* ''Spondylosoma'' – subsequently found to be an aphanosaur * ''Squalodon'' – subsequently found to be a cetacean * ''Staurikosaurus'' * ''Stegoceras'' * ''Stegopelta'' * ''Stegosaurides'' * ''Stegosaurus'' * ''Stegouros'' * ''Stellasaurus'' * ''Stenonychosaurus'' * ''Stenopelix'' * ''Stenotholus'' – junior synonym of ''Stygimoloch'', which is a possible junior synonym of ''Pachycephalosaurus'' * ''Stephanosaurus'' * "''Stereocephalus tutus, Stereocephalus''" –
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name, now known as ''Euoplocephalus'' * ''Sterrholophus'' – junior synonym of ''
Triceratops ''Triceratops'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivore, herbivorous Chasmosaurinae, chasmosaurine Ceratopsidae, ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (geology), period, about 68 m ...
'' * ''Stokesosaurus'' * ''Stormbergia'' – junior synonym of ''Lesothosaurus'' * ''Strenusaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Riojasaurus'' * ''Streptospondylus'' * ''Struthiomimus'' * '' Struthiosaurus'' * ''Stygimoloch'' – junior synonym of ''Pachycephalosaurus'' * ''Stygivenator'' – junior synonym of ''
Tyrannosaurus ''Tyrannosaurus'' is a genus of large theropoda, theropod dinosaur. The species ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' (''rex'' meaning "king" in Latin), often called ''T. rex'' or colloquially ''T-Rex'', is one of the best represented theropods. ''Tyrannosa ...
'' * ''Styracosaurus'' * ''Succinodon'' – subsequently found to be
fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...
ized mollusc borings * ''Suchomimus'' * ''Suchoprion'' – subsequently found to be a
phytosaur Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in greek) are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform reptiles. Phytosaurs belong to the order Phytosauria. Phytosauria and Phytosauridae are often considered to be equivalent ...
* ''Suchosaurus'' – possible synonym of ''
Baryonyx ''Baryonyx'' () is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous period, about 130–125 million years ago. The first skeleton was discovered in 1983 in the Smokejack Clay Pit, of Surrey, England, in se ...
'' * "Sugiyamasaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * "Sulaimanisaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Supersaurus'' * ''Suskityrannus'' * ''Suuwassea'' * ''Suzhousaurus'' * ''Symphyrophus'' – junior synonym of ''
Camptosaurus ''Camptosaurus'' ( ) is a genus of plant-eating, beaked ornithischian dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic period of western North America and possibly also Europe. The name means 'flexible lizard' (Greek (') meaning 'bent' and (') meaning 'lizard') ...
'' * ''Syngonosaurus'' * "''Coelophysis? kayentakatae, Syntarsus''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, sometimes assigned to ''
Coelophysis ''Coelophysis'' ( traditionally; or , as heard more commonly in recent decades) is an extinct genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 228 to 201.3 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period from t ...
'' or ''Megapnosaurus'' * ''Syrmosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Pinacosaurus'' * ''
Szechuanosaurus ''Szechuanosaurus'' (" Szechuan lizard") is an extinct Chure, D.J. (2000) ''A new species of'' Allosaurus ''from the Morrison Formation of Dinosaur National Monument (UT–CO) and a revision of the theropod family Allosauridae''. Unpublished Ph.D ...
''


T

* ''Tachiraptor'' * ''
Talarurus ''Talarurus'' ( ; meaning "basket tail" or "wicker tail") is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 96 million to 89 million years ago. The first remains of ''Talarurus'' were discovered in 19 ...
'' * ''Talenkauen'' * ''Talos (dinosaur), Talos'' * ''Tamarro'' * ''Tambatitanis'' * ''Tangvayosaurus'' * ''Tanius'' * ''Tanycolagreus'' * ''Tanystropheus'' – subsequently found to be a protorosaur * ''Tanystrosuchus'' * ''Taohelong'' * ''Tapinocephalus'' – subsequently found to be a therapsid * ''Tapuiasaurus'' * ''Tarascosaurus'' * ''Tarbosaurus'' * ''Tarchia'' * ''Tastavinsaurus'' * ''Tatankacephalus'' * ''Tatankaceratops'' – probable junior synonym of ''
Triceratops ''Triceratops'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivore, herbivorous Chasmosaurinae, chasmosaurine Ceratopsidae, ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (geology), period, about 68 m ...
'' * ''Tataouinea'' * ''Tatisaurus'' * ''Taurovenator'' * ''Taveirosaurus'' * ''Tawa (dinosaur), Tawa'' * ''Tawasaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Lufengosaurus'' * ''Tazoudasaurus'' * ''Technosaurus'' – possibly non-dinosaurian * ''Tecovasaurus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosauriform Archosauriformes (Greek for 'ruling lizards', and Latin for 'form') is a clade of diapsid reptiles that developed from archosauromorph ancestors some time in the Latest Permian (roughly 252 million years ago). It was defined by Jacques Gauthier ...
* ''Tehuelchesaurus'' * "Teihivenator" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''
Teinurosaurus ''Teinurosaurus'' (meaning "extended tail lizard") is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur. ''Teinurosaurus'' lived during the Late Jurassic in what is now France. The type species is ''Teinurosaurus sauvagei''. It's been estimated to be 11.4 ...
'' * ''Teleocrater'' – subsequently found to be a basal avemetatarsalian * ''Telmatosaurus'' * "Tenantosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Tenontosaurus'' * "Tenchisaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; an unpublished museum name for ''Tianchisaurus'' * ''Tendaguria'' * ''Tengrisaurus'' * ''Tenontosaurus'' * ''Teratophoneus'' * ''
Teratosaurus ''Teratosaurus'' is a genus of rauisuchians known from the Triassic Stubensandstein (Löwenstein Formation - Norian stage) of Germany. It is estimated to be 6 meters (19.5 ft) long. Discovery In 1860, Sixt Friedrich Jakob von Kapff at th ...
'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
* ''Termatosaurus'' – subsequently found to be a
phytosaur Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in greek) are an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic Late Triassic archosauriform reptiles. Phytosaurs belong to the order Phytosauria. Phytosauria and Phytosauridae are often considered to be equivalent ...
* ''Terminocavus'' * ''Tethyshadros'' * ''Tetragonosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Lambeosaurus'' * ''Texacephale'' * ''Texasetes'' * ''Teyuwasu'' – possibly junior synonym of ''Staurikosaurus'' * ''Thanatotheristes'' * ''Thanos simonattoi, Thanos'' * ''Thecocoelurus'' * ''
Thecodontosaurus ''Thecodontosaurus'' ("socket-tooth lizard") is a genus of herbivorous basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the late Triassic period (Rhaetian age). Its remains are known mostly from Triassic "fissure fillings" in South England. ''The ...
'' * ''Thecospondylus'' * ''Theiophytalia'' * ''Therizinosaurus'' * ''Therosaurus'' – a synonym of ''
Iguanodon ''Iguanodon'' ( ; meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur. While many species have been classified in the genus ''Iguanodon'', dating from the late Jurassic Period to the early Cretaceous Period of Asia, Eu ...
'' * ''
Thescelosaurus ''Thescelosaurus'' ( ; ancient Greek - (''-'') meaning "godlike", "marvellous", or "wondrous" and (') "lizard") was a genus of small neornithischian dinosaur that appeared at the very end of the Late Cretaceous period in North America. It was a ...
'' * ''Thespesius'' * "Thotobolosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Kholumolumo'' * ''Tianchiasaurus'' – alternate spelling of ''Tianchisaurus'' * ''Tianchisaurus'' * "Tianchungosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Dianchungosaurus'' (
crocodilia Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both ) is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, known as crocodilians. They first appeared 95 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period ( Cenomanian stage) and are the closest living ...
n) * ''Tianyulong'' * ''Tianyuraptor'' * ''Tianzhenosaurus'' * ''Tichosteus'' * ''Tienshanosaurus'' * ''Timimus'' * ''Timurlengia'' * ''Titanoceratops'' * ''Titanosaurus'' * "''Titanosaurus montanus, Titanosaurus''" –
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name, now known as ''
Atlantosaurus ''Atlantosaurus'' (meaning "Atlas lizard") is a dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur. It contains a single species, ''Atlantosaurus montanus'', from the upper Morrison Formation of Colorado, United States. ''Atlantosaurus'' was the first sauropod t ...
'' * ''Tlatolophus'' * ''Tochisaurus'' * "''Tomodon horrificus, Tomodon''" –
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name, now known as ''Diplotomodon'' *''Tonganosaurus'' * ''Tongtianlong'' * "Tonouchisaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Torilion'' – junior synonym of ''
Barilium ''Barilium'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of ''Iguanodon'' (''I. dawsoni'') by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson. In 2010 it was reclassified ...
'' * ''Tornieria'' * ''Torosaurus'' * ''
Torvosaurus ''Torvosaurus'' () is a genus of carnivorous megalosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 165 to 148 million years ago during the late Middle and Late Jurassic period (Callovian to Tithonian stages) in what is now Colorado, Portuga ...
'' * ''Tototlmimus'' * ''Trachodon'' * ''Tralkasaurus'' * ''Transylvanosaurus'' * ''Tratayenia'' * ''Traukutitan'' * ''Trialestes'' – subsequently found to be a basal crocodylomorph * "''Triassolestes''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''Trialestes'' * ''Tribelesodon'' – junior synonym of ''Tanystropheus'', a protorosaur * ''
Triceratops ''Triceratops'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivore, herbivorous Chasmosaurinae, chasmosaurine Ceratopsidae, ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (geology), period, about 68 m ...
'' * ''Trierarchuncus'' * ''Trigonosaurus'' * ''Trimucrodon'' * ''Trinisaura'' * ''Triunfosaurus'' * ''Troodon'' * ''Tsaagan'' * ''Tsagantegia'' * ''Tsintaosaurus'' * ''Tuebingosaurus'' * ''Tugulusaurus'' * ''Tuojiangosaurus'' * ''Turanoceratops'' * ''Turiasaurus'' * ''Tylocephale'' * ''Tylosteus'' – synonym of ''Pachycephalosaurus'' * ''
Tyrannosaurus ''Tyrannosaurus'' is a genus of large theropoda, theropod dinosaur. The species ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' (''rex'' meaning "king" in Latin), often called ''T. rex'' or colloquially ''T-Rex'', is one of the best represented theropods. ''Tyrannosa ...
'' * ''Tyrannotitan''


U

* ''Uberabatitan'' * "Ubirajara jubatus, Ubirajara" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Udanoceratops'' * ''Ugrosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Triceratops ''Triceratops'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivore, herbivorous Chasmosaurinae, chasmosaurine Ceratopsidae, ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (geology), period, about 68 m ...
'' * ''Ugrunaaluk'' – junior synonym of ''
Edmontosaurus ''Edmontosaurus'' ( ) (meaning "lizard from Edmonton") is a genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur. It contains two known species: ''Edmontosaurus regalis'' and ''Edmontosaurus annectens''. Fossils of ''E. regalis'' have been found in rocks ...
'' * ''Uintasaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Camarasaurus ''Camarasaurus'' ( ) was a genus of quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs and is the most common North American sauropod fossil. Its fossil remains have been found in the Morrison Formation, dating to the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to Titho ...
'' * ''Ultrasauros'' – junior synonym of ''Supersaurus'' * "''Ultrasauros, Ultrasaurus''" –
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name, renamed ''Ultrasauros'' which is now a junior synonym of ''Supersaurus'' * ''Ultrasaurus'' * ''Ulughbegsaurus'' * "Umarsaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''
Barsboldia ''Barsboldia'' (meaning "of Barsbold", a well-known Mongolian paleontologist) is a genus of large hadrosaurid dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian Nemegt Formation of Ömnogöv', Mongolia. It is known from a partial vertebral column, parti ...
'' * ''Unaysaurus'' * ''Unenlagia'' * ''Unescoceratops'' * "Unicerosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', subsequently found to be a
fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
* ''Unquillosaurus'' * ''Urbacodon'' * ''Utahceratops'' * ''Utahraptor'' * ''Uteodon''


V

* ''Vagaceratops'' * ''Vahiny'' * ''Valdoraptor'' – possible synonym of ''Thecocoelurus'' * ''Valdosaurus'' * ''Vallibonavenatrix'' * ''Variraptor'' * ''Vayuraptor'' * ''Vectaerovenator'' * ''Vectensia'' – junior synonym of ''Polacanthus'' or ''Hylaeosaurus'' * ''Vectiraptor'' * ''Vectisaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Mantellisaurus ''Mantellisaurus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur that lived in the Barremian and early Aptian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period of Europe. Its remains are known from Belgium (Bernissart), England, Spain and Germany. The type and only sp ...
'' * ''Velafrons'' * ''Velocipes'' * ''Velociraptor'' * ''Velocisaurus'' * ''Venaticosuchus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
* ''Venenosaurus'' * ''Vespersaurus'' * ''Veterupristisaurus'' * ''Viavenator'' * "Vitakridrinda" – ''nomen nudum'' * "Vitakrisaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Volgatitan'' * ''Volkheimeria'' * ''Vouivria'' * ''Vulcanodon''


W

* ''Wadhurstia'' – junior synonym of ''
Hypselospinus ''Hypselospinus'' is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of ''Iguanodon'' (''I. fittoni'') by Richard Lydekker in 1889, the specific name honouring William Henry Fitton. History In May 2010 the fossils com ...
'' * ''Wakinosaurus'' * ''Walgettosuchus'' – possible synonym of ''Rapator'' * "''Walkeria maleriensis, Walkeria''" –
preoccupied The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linn ...
name, now known as ''
Alwalkeria ''Alwalkeria'' (; "for Alick Walker") is a genus partly based on basal saurischian dinosaur remains from the Late Triassic, living in India. A thighbone found indicates a small bipedal form. It has been seen as a chimera. Etymology This taxon w ...
'' * "Walkersaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Duriavenator'' * ''Wamweracaudia'' * "Wangonisaurus" – ''nomen nudum'', synonym of ''
Giraffatitan ''Giraffatitan'' (name meaning "titanic giraffe") is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic Period (geology), Period (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian stages) in what is now Lindi Region, Tanzania. It was originally named as an ...
'' * ''Wannanosaurus'' * ''Weewarrasaurus'' * ''Wellnhoferia'' – subsequently found to be a bird, possible junior synonym of ''
Archaeopteryx ''Archaeopteryx'' (; ), sometimes referred to by its German name, "" ( ''Primeval Bird''), is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs. The name derives from the ancient Greek (''archaīos''), meaning "ancient", and (''ptéryx''), meaning "feather" ...
'' * ''Wendiceratops'' * ''Wiehenvenator'' * ''Willinakaqe'' *''Wintonotitan'' * ''Wuerhosaurus'' * ''Wulagasaurus'' * ''Wulatelong'' * ''Wulong bohaiensis, Wulong'' * ''Wyleyia'' – possibly a bird * "Wyomingraptor" – ''nomen nudum'', synonym of ''
Allosaurus ''Allosaurus'' () is a genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian). The name "''Allosaurus''" means "different lizard" alluding to ...
''


X

* ''Xenoceratops'' * ''Xenoposeidon'' * ''Xenotarsosaurus'' * ''Xianshanosaurus'' * ''Xiaosaurus'' * ''Xiaotingia'' * ''Xingtianosaurus'' * ''Xingxiulong'' * ''Xinjiangovenator'' * ''Xinjiangtitan'' * ''Xiongguanlong'' * ''Xixianykus'' * ''Xixiasaurus'' * ''Xixiposaurus'' * ''Xiyunykus'' * ''Xuanhanosaurus'' * ''Xuanhuaceratops'' * "Xuanhuasaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; ''Xuanhuaceratops'' * ''Xunmenglong'' * ''Xuwulong''


Y

* ''Yaleosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''
Anchisaurus ''Anchisaurus'' is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Early Jurassic Period, and its fossils have been found in the red sandstone of the Portland Formation, Northeastern United States, which was deposited from the He ...
'' * ''Yamaceratops'' * ''Yamanasaurus'' * ''Yamatosaurus'' * ''Yandusaurus'' * ''Yangchuanosaurus'' * ''Yaverlandia'' * ''Yehuecauhceratops'' * "Yezosaurus" – ''nomen nudum''; subsequently found to be a junior synonym of the mosasaur ''Taniwhasaurus'' * ''Yi (dinosaur), Yi'' * "Yibinosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Yimenosaurus'' * ''Yingshanosaurus'' * ''Yinlong'' * ''Yixianosaurus'' * ''Yizhousaurus'' * ''Yongjinglong'' * ''Ypupiara'' * "Yuanmouraptor" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Yuanmousaurus'' * ''Yueosaurus'' * ''Yulong mini, Yulong'' * ''Yunganglong'' * ''Yunmenglong'' * ''Yunnanosaurus'' * "Yunxianosaurus" – ''nomen nudum'' * ''Yunyangosaurus'' * ''Yurgovuchia'' * ''Yutyrannus'' * ''Yuxisaurus'' * ''Yuzhoulong''


Z

* ''Zalmoxes'' * ''Zanabazar (dinosaur), Zanabazar'' * ''Zanclodon'' – subsequently found to be non-dinosaurian * ''Zapalasaurus'' * ''Zapsalis'' * ''Zaraapelta'' * ''Zatomus'' – subsequently found to be a non-dinosaurian
archosaur Archosauria () is a clade of diapsids, with birds and crocodilians as the only living representatives. Archosaurs are broadly classified as reptiles, in the cladistic sense of the term which includes birds. Extinct archosaurs include non-avian d ...
* ''Zby'' * ''Zephyrosaurus'' * ''Zhanghenglong'' * ''Zhejiangosaurus'' * ''Zhenyuanlong'' * ''Zhongjianosaurus'' * ''Zhongornis'' – possibly a bird * ''Zhongyuansaurus'' – possible junior synonym of ''Gobisaurus'' * ''Zhuchengceratops'' * ''Zhuchengosaurus'' – junior synonym of ''Shantungosaurus'' * ''Zhuchengtitan'' * ''Zhuchengtyrannus'' * ''Ziapelta'' * ''Zigongosaurus'' * ''Zizhongosaurus'' * ''Zuniceratops'' * "Zunityrannus" – ''nomen nudum'', ''Suskityrannus'' * ''Zuolong'' * ''Zuoyunlong'' * ''Zupaysaurus'' * ''Zuul''


See also

* Dinosaur classification * List of birds * List of bird genera * List of dinosaur ichnogenera * List of informally named dinosaurs * List of ichthyosaur genera * List of Mesozoic birds * List of mosasaur genera * List of pelycosaurs * List of plesiosaur genera * List of pterosaur genera * List of therapsids * List of South American dinosaurs * List of North American dinosaurs * List of African dinosaurs * List of Asian dinosaurs * List of European dinosaurs * List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs * List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs * List of commonly used taxonomic affixes


Notes

* Most uncited genus names are taken from Olshevsky's "Dinosaur Genera List". Non-dinosaur dinosauromorphs and non-avebrevicaudan avialans are also listed by Olshevsky, but are omitted from this list as they are not considered "non-avian dinosaurs" in most published sources.


References

* Lambert, D. (1993). "A to Z of Dinosaurs" In: ''The Ultimate Dinosaur Book''. Dorling Kindersley, 192 pp.  * Olshevsky, G. (1995–2021)
Dinosaur Genera List
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