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Dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[1]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Notes
Algoasaurus^[2]	Gen et sp nov	Nomen dubium.	Broom	Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous	Kirkwood Formation	now considered an indeterminate sauropod
Centrosaurus^[3]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Lambe	Late Cretaceous	Dinosaur Park Formation	Type species: Centrosaurus apertus

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Glanosuchus	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Broom	Middle Permian	Middle Abrahamskraal Formation		A member of Scylacosauridae.
Placerias	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Lucas	Late Triassic (Carnian)	Chinle Formation	(and)	A member of Stahleckeriidae.
Prodicynodon	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Broom	Late Permian
Scapanodon	Gen et sp nov	Junior synonym	Broom	Middle Permian			A junior synonym of Titanosuchus.

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Notes
Eocetus^[5]	Nom. nov.	Valid	Fraas	Middle Eocene (Bartonian)	Giushi Formation	A protocetid. Replacement name for Mesocetus Fraas, 1904 (non van Beneden, 1880).
Mesocetus	Gen. et. sp. nov		Fraas	Middle Eocene (Bartonian)
Protocetus^[6]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Fraas	Middle Eocene (Lutetian)	Mokattam Formation	A protocetid.

Brown, B. (1904) Stomach stones and food of plesiosaurs, Science, n.s. 20, (501): 184-185
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
Williston, Samuel Wendel; 1904; The stomach stones of the plesiosaurs; Science; 20 pp. 565; American Association for the Advancement of Science

Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
Broom, R. 1904. On the occurrence of an opisthocoelian dinosaur (Algoasaurus bauri) in the Cretaceous beds of South Africa. Geol. Mag., ser. 5 (1): 445-447.
Lambe, L. M. 1904. On the squamoso-parietal crest of two species of horned dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Ottawa Nat. 18: pp. 81-84.
Brown (1904). Williston (1904). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
E. Fraas. 1904. Neue Zeuglodonten aus dem unteren Mitteleozän von Mokattam bei Cairo. Geologisches Centralblatt 5(1048):374
Fraas, Eberhard (1904). "Neue Zeuglodonten aus dem unteren Mitteleocän vom Mokattam bei Cairo". Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen (Jena: Verlag Gustav Fischer) 6 (3): 199–220. Retrieved July 2013.