Albisaurus
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Albisaurus (meaning "Albis [River] lizard") is a possible dinosaur first discovered by Antonin Fritsch (also spelt Frič), a Czech palaeontologist, in 1893 but the remains are sparse. The species is unprovable, and is usually marked as nomen dubium. The remains are "probably not even dinosaurian". Etymology of generic name: From albi-, after the River Albis, as it was known in Roman times, now the Bile Labe, a part of the Elbe River system, which flows through the western Czech Republic, near a site where the type fossils were found + Greek sauros; "lizard".
The type species is Albisaurus albinus. A second species, A. scutifer, was also described by Fritsch, but is also considered dubious.
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