List of dinosaur genera

Mounted skeletons of Tyrannosaurus (left) and Apatosaurus (right) at the AMNH.

This list of dinosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the superorder Dinosauria, excluding class Aves (birds, both living and those known only from fossils) and purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomen dubium), or were not formally published (nomen nudum), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that are no longer considered dinosaurs. Many listed names have been reclassified as everything from birds to crocodilians to petrified wood. The list contains 1497 names, of which approximately 1165 are considered either valid dinosaur genera or nomina dubia.

Scope and terminology

There is no official, canonical list of dinosaur genera. The closest is the Dinosaur Genera List, compiled by biological nomenclature expert George Olshevsky, which was first published online in 1995 and is regularly updated. The most authoritative general source in the field is the second (2004) edition of The Dinosauria. The vast majority of citations are based on Olshevsky's list, and all subjective determinations (such as junior synonymy or non-dinosaurian status) are based on The Dinosauria, except where they conflict with primary literature. These exceptions are noted.

Naming conventions and terminology follow the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Technical terms used include:

A

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Abelisaurus skull.
Replica of an Allosaurus skeleton.
Reconstructed skeleton of an Animantarx.
Artist's restoration of Archaeoceratops.

B

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A view from below of the rearing Barosaurus mounted in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

C

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Artist's restoration of Ceratosaurus.
Artist's restoration of Chasmosaurus.

D

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Artist's restoration of Deinocheirus.
Deinonychus skeleton.

E

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Life restoration of Euoplocephalus.

F

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Life restoration of Fruitadens.

G

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Skeleton of Giraffatitan.

H

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Artist's restoration of Hypsilophodon.

I

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Skeleton of an Iguanodon mounted in a modern quadrupedal posture in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

J

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Life restoration of Jinfengopteryx.

K

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Kentrosaurus skeleton.

L

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Life reconstruction of two individuals of Linhenykus in their arid Campanian-aged living environment.

M

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Sketch of the sauropod Mamenchisaurus.
Cast of a Muttaburrasaurus skeleton.

N

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Life restoration of Nomingia.

O

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Artist's restoration of Olorotitan.

P

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Life restoration of Pachycephalosaurus.
Parasaurolophus sketch.

Q

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Skeletal reconstruction of Qantassaurus at the Australian Museum in Sydney.

R

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Life restoration of Rebbachisaurus.

S

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Artist's restoration of Segnosaurus.
Life restoration of Stegosaurus.
Skeleton of Suchomimus.

T

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Skeleton of Tyrannosaurus at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

U

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Illustration of the skull of Udanoceratops.

V

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Life restoration of Velociraptor.

W

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Artist's restoration of Wintonotitan.

X

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Artist's restoration of Xuwulong.

Y

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Artist's restoration of Yunnanosaurus.

Z

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Life restoration of Zuniceratops.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Nesbitt, S.J.; Clarke, J.A.; Turner, A.H.; Norell, M.A. (2011). "A small alvarezsaurid from the eastern Gobi Desert offers insight into evolutionary patterns in the Alvarezsauroidea". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (1): 144–153. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.540053.
  2. ↑ Taylor, M. (12 February 2005). Re: Raptor Red and Heyday Of The Giants. Dinosaur Mailing List.
  3. ↑ Williams, T. (13 February 2005). Re: Raptor Red and Heyday Of The Giants. Dinosaur Mailing List.
  4. ↑ Tortosa, Thierry; Eric Buffetaut; Nicolas Vialle; Yves Dutour; Eric Turini; Gilles Cheylan (2013). "A new abelisaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of southern France: Palaeobiogeographical implications". Annales de Paléontologie. 100 (In press): 63–86. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2013.10.003. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
  5. ↑ Pascal Godefroit, François Escuillié, Yuri L. Bolotsky and Pascaline Lauters (2012). "A New Basal Hadrosauroid Dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Kazakhstan". In Godefroit, P. (eds). Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems. Indiana University Press. pp. 335–358.
  6. 1 2 3 Gregory S. Paul (2012). "Notes on the rising diversity of iguanodont taxa, and iguanodonts named after Darwin, Huxley and evolutionary science". Actas de V Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontologia de Dinosaurios y su Entorno, Salas de los Infantes, Burgos. Colectivo de Arqueologico-Paleontologico de Salas de los Infantes (Burgos). pp. 121–131.
  7. ↑ J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca (2011) Delapparentia turolensis nov. gen et sp., un nuevo dinosaurio iguanodontoideo (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) en el Cretácico Inferior de Galve. Estudios Geológicos (advance online publication) doi:10.3989/egeol.40276.124
  8. ↑ Jin Liyong, Chen Jun & Pascal Godefroit (2012). "A New Basal Ornithomimosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, Northeast China". In Godefroit, P. Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems. Indiana University Press. pp. 467–487.
  9. ↑ Cecilia Apaldetti, Ricardo N. Martinez, Oscar A. Alcober and Diego Pol (2011). "A New Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina". PLoS ONE. 6 (11): e26964. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964. PMC 3212523Freely accessible. PMID 22096511.
  10. ↑ Prieto-Márquez, A.; Chiappe, L. M.; Joshi, S. H. (2012). Dodson, Peter, ed. "The lambeosaurine dinosaur Magnapaulia laticaudus from the Late Cretaceous of Baja California, Northwestern Mexico". PLoS ONE. 7 (6): e38207. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038207. PMC 3373519Freely accessible. PMID 22719869.
  11. ↑ Henderson (2005). "Nano No More: The death of the pygmy tyrant." In: "The origin, systematics, and paleobiology of Tyrannosauridae", a symposium hosted jointly by Burpee Museum of Natural History and Northern Illinois University.
  12. 1 2 Andrew T. McDonald (2011). "The taxonomy of species assigned to Camptosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2783: 52–68.
  13. ↑ Tweet, J (n.d.). "Eusauropoda". Archived from the original on April 25, 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  14. ↑ Rauhut, O. W. M.; Foth, C.; Tischlinger, H.; Norell, M. A. (2012). "Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod dinosaur with filamentous integument from the Late Jurassic of Germany". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (29): 11746–11751. doi:10.1073/pnas.1203238109. PMC 3406838Freely accessible. PMID 22753486.
  15. ↑ "Japanese theropod nomen nudum extravaganza" Dinosaur Mailing List.
  16. ↑ Rubén D. Juárez Valieri, José A. Haro, Lucas E. Fiorelli and Jorge O. Calvo (2010). "A new hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Allen Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Patagonia, Argentina" (PDF). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales n.s. 11 (2): 217–231.
  17. ↑ You Hailu, Li Daqing & Liu Weichang (2011). "A New Hadrosauriform Dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Gansu Province, China". Acta Geologica Sinica. 85 (1): 51–57. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2011.00377.x.
  18. ↑ Sankar Chatterjee, Wang, T., Pan, S.G., Dong, Z., Wu, X.C., and Paul Upchurch (2010). "A complete skeleton of a basal Sauropod Dinosaur from the early Jurassic of China and the origin of Sauropoda". Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 42 (5): 26.

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