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Archosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

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

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Montanoceratops[2]	Valid	Charles M. Sternberg	Late Cretaceous (Edmontonian)	St. Mary River Formation		A leptoceratopsid.
Pachysuchus	Nomen dubium	Young	Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)	Lufeng Formation		A dubious basal sauropodomorph.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Baurocynodon	Junior synonym	Brink	Late Permian	Dicynodon Assemblage Zone		A junior synonym of Nanictosaurus.	<	-- -->
Gomphodontoides	Jr. synonym	Brink and Kitching	Middle Triassic	Burgersdorp Formation		A junior synonym of Diademodon.
Silphedocynodon	Junior synonym	Brink	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone		A junior synonym of Procynosuchus.
Walteria	Preoccupied	Brink and Kitching	Middle Permian	Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone		A junior homonym of Walteria Schulze, 1885; renamed Karroowalteria Kuhn, 1938

References

1. 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 .
2. Sternberg, C. M. 1951. Complete skeleton of Leptoceratops gracilis Brown from the Upper Edmonton member on Red Deer River, Alberta. Bull. Nail. Museum Can. 123: pp. 225-255.