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Dinosaurs

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

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Acrocanthosaurus^[2]	Valid taxon	Stovall	Langston	late Aptian-early Albian	Antlers Formation Cloverly Formation Twin Mountains Formation	( )	A sail-backed carcharodontosaurid.
Pachyrhinosaurus^[3]	Valid taxon	C. M. Sternberg		Edmontonian	Horseshoe Canyon Formation		A centrosaurine.

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Notes	Images
Kitchingia	Junior synonym	Broom and George	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	A junior synonym of Rhachiocephalus.	<	-- -->
Leontosaurus	Junior synonym	Broom and George	Late Permian	Dicynodon Assemblage Zone	A junior synonym of Sycosaurus.
Silphoictidoides	Valid	Friedrich von Huene	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	A member of Gorgonopsia.
Theropsodon	Valid	Friedrich von Huene	Middle Triassic	Cynognathus Assemblage Zone	A traversodontid.
Tigrisaurus	Junior synonym	Broom and George	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	A junior synonym of Dinogorgon.

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 .
Stovall, J.W. and W. Langston. 1950.Acrocanthosaurus atokensis, a new genus andspecies of Lower Cretaceous Theropoda fromOklahoma. American Midland Naturalist 43 (3):pp. 696-728.
Sternberg, C.H. 1950. Pachyrhinosauruscanadensis, representing a new family ofCeratopsia. Bull. Natl. Mus. Can. 118: pp. 109-120.
Shuler (1950). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.

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.
Shuller; 1950; A new elasmosaur from the Eagle Ford shale of Texas - The elasmosaur and its environment (Part II); University press in Dallas southern Methodist University. Fondren Science Series pp. 1–32