List of dinosaurs

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 dinosaurs have since been reclassified as everything from birds to crocodilians to petrified wood. The list contains 1305 names, of which approximately 910 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.
Model of Archaeopteryx.
Artist's restoration of a trio of Aucasaurus.

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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Camarasaurus skull.
Obsolete drawing of Ceratosaurus.
Drawing of the movement of a Corythosaurus.

D

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The painting Laelaps by Charles Knight, depicting two Dryptosaurus fighting.

E

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Edmontosaurus skull.

F

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Life restoration of Fukuiraptor.

G

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Skeleton of Giraffatitan brancai.

H

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Early sketch of Hadrosaurus.
Drawing of Huayangosaurus.

I

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Early, inaccurate sketch of two Iguanodon.

J

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Life restoration of Jinfengopteryx.

K

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Kentrosaurus skeleton.

L

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Drawing of a Leptoceratops.
Remains of a Lophorhothon skull.

M

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

N

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Artist's restoration of a pair of Nanshiungosaurus.

O

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Ornitholestes sketch.

P

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Parasaurolophus sketch.
Life-sized model of a Procompsognathus.
Life restoration of Protoceratops.

Q

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R

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Profile sketch of the head of Rinchenia.

S

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Artist's restoration of a pair of Saltasaurus.
Artist's restoration of Segisaurus.
Artist's restoration of Sellosaurus.
Early sketch of a Struthiomimus.

T

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Tarbosaurus skeleton.
Tyrannosaurus skull.

U

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Illustration of the skull of Udanoceratops.

V

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Drawing of a Velociraptor.

W

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X

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Y

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Artist's restoration of Yunnanosaurus.

Z

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Artist's restoration of Zalmoxes.

See also

  • Dinosaur classification
  • List of ichthyosaurs
  • List of plesiosaurs
  • List of pterosaurs
  • 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

Notes

Uncited genera names can be attributed to Olshevsky, 2010. Dalianraptor is listed by Olshevsky, but omitted from this list, since it has not been described as a dinosaur in a published source.

  1. ↑ New dinosaur discovered head first, for a change. Accessed 2010-02-23.
  2. ↑ Ryan, M.J., A.P. Russell, D.A. Eberth & P.J. Currie 2001. The Taphonomy of a Centrosaurus (Ornithischia: Certopsidae) Bone Bed from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper Campanian), Alberta, Canada, with Comments on Cranial Ontogeny. Palaios 16 (5): 482–506.
  3. ↑ Taylor, M. (12 February 2005). Re: Raptor Red and Heyday Of The Giants. Dinosaur Mailing List.
  4. ↑ Williams, T. (13 February 2005). Re: Raptor Red and Heyday Of The Giants. Dinosaur Mailing List.
  5. ↑ Z., Csiki; Vremir, M.; Brusatte, S. L.; and Norell, M. A. (in press). "An aberrant island-dwelling theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America preprint: 15357. doi:10.1073/pnas.1006970107. PMID 20805514. 
  6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 Lambert, D. (1993). "A to Z of Dinosaurs" In: The Ultimate Dinosaur Book. Dorling Kindersley.
  7. ↑ Worth, G. (Ed.). N.d. Chondrosteus. In: The Dinosaur Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 16, 2009. Attributes misspelling to Huene, F. von. 1907–1908. Die Dinosaurier der europaischen Triasformation mit Beriicksichtigung der aussereuropaischen Vorkominnisse. Geol. Paleontol. Abhandl. Suppl. 1, pp. 1–419.
  8. ↑ Ortega, F.; Escaso, F.; & Sanz, J. L. 2010. "A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain". Nature 467:203–206.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Galton, Peter M. (2009). "Notes on Neocomian (Late Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England - Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" – and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere". Revue de Paléobiologie 28 (1): 211–273. 
  10. ↑ Alifanov, V.R. & A.O. Averianov 2003. Палеонтология: Ферганозавр Верзилина. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Vol. 23. №2. pp. 358-372.
  11. ↑ Cau, Andrea; Maganuco, Simone (2009). "A new theropod dinosaur, represented by a single unusual caudal vertebra from the Kem Kem Beds (Cretaceous) of Morocco". Atti Soc. It. Sci. Nat. Museo civ. Stor. Nat. Milano 150 (II): 239–257. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Rana, A.N. 2006. Country’s first dinosaur fossils. DAWN March 25, 2006.
  13. ↑ McDonald, A.T.; Barrett, P.M.; and Chapman, S.D. (2010). "A new basal iguanodont (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) of England". Zootaxa 2569: 1–43. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02569p043f.pdf. 
  14. ↑ F. Li; Peng G.; Ye Y.; Jiang S.; and Huang, D. (2009). "A new carnosaur from the Late Jurassic of Qianwei, Sichuan, China". Acta Geologica Sinica 83 (9): 1203–1213. 
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ Zoltán Csiki, Vlad Codrea, Cǎtǎlin Jipa-Murzea and Pascal Godefroit (2010 (in press)). "A partial titanosaur (Sauropoda, Dinosauria) skeleton from the Maastrichtian of Nǎlaţ-Vad, Haţeg Basin, Romania". Neus Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaeontologie, Abhandlungen in press. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0098. 
  17. ↑ Olshevsky, G. (February 9, 2001). Sauropodus. Dinosaur Mailing List.
  18. ↑ This is an invalid name applied to what would now be recognized as a theropod, perhaps Megalosaurus, and considered invalid by the ICZN. For additional information, please see George Olshevsky's Dinosaur Genera List, The Theropod Database, or Dinogenera (French). Halstead, L.B. and Sarjeant, W.A.S. (1993). "Scrotum humanum Brookes - the earliest name for a dinosaur?" Modern Geology, 18: 221-224
  19. ↑ Chiappe, Luis M.; Dyke, Gareth J. (2006). "The Early Evolutionary History of Birds". Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 22 (1): 133–151. 
  20. ↑ Buffetaut, E.; Suteethorn, V.; Tong, H.; and Amiot, R. (2008). Geological Magazine. 145. pp. 745–748. 
  21. ↑ Worth, G. (Ed.). N.d. Tenchisaurus. In: The Dinosaur Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 16, 2009. Attributes misspelling to a Japanese guide to a Chinese dinosaur exhibit, 1981. And also to Glut, 1982.
  22. ↑ "Japanese theropod nomen nudum extravaganza" Dinosaur Mailing List.
  23. ↑ Malkani, M.S. 2006. First rostrum of carnivorous Vitakridrinda (Abelisaurid Theropod Dinosaur) found from the latest Cretaceous Dinosaur Beds (Vitakri) Member of PAB formation, Alam Kali Kakor Locality of Vitakri area, Barkhan District, Balochistan, Pakistan.PDF (855 KB) Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series) 38(2): 7–26.

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