"Nurosaurus" mounted skeleton, Inner Mongolia Museum
This list of informally named dinosaurs is a listing of dinosaurs (excluding Aves; birds and their extinct relatives) that have never been given formally published scientific names. This list only includes names that were not properly published ("unavailable names") and have not since been published under a valid name (see list of dinosaur genera for valid names). The following types of names are present on this list:
Nomen nudum, Latin for "naked name": A name that has appeared in print but has not yet been formally published by the standards of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Nomina nuda (the plural form) are invalid, and are therefore not italicized as a proper generic name would be.
Nomen manuscriptum, Latin for "manuscript name": A name that appears in manuscript but was not formally published. A nomen manuscriptum is equivalent to a nomen nudum for everything except the method of publication, and description.
Nomen ex dissertationae, Latin for "dissertation name": A name that appears in a dissertation but was not formally published.
Nicknames or descriptive names given to specimens or taxa by researchers or the press.
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fossil site on the land of the farmer Ricky Reagan, which was called the Dinosaur Ridge Quarry and contained fossils of horned dinosaurs. On 20 June 1986, Horner...
(/ˈθæɡəmaɪzər/) is the distinctive arrangement of four spikes on the tails of stegosaurian dinosaurs. These spikes are believed to have been a defensive...
Tyrannosaurus is one of the most iconic dinosaurs and is known from numerous specimens, some of which have individually acquired notability due to their...
of large carnivorous dinosaurs like Megalosaurus, in the late 19th century, depicted the animals as large, slow, tail-dragging behemoths. Dinosaurs portal...
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containing all theropod dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to carnosaurs. Coelurosauria is a subgroup of theropod dinosaurs that includes compsognathids...
Study ofDinosaurs. Second Edition. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing. 560 pp. ISBN 1-4051-3413-5. Paul, Gregory S. (1988). Predatory Dinosaursof the World...
Sauropoda is a clade ofdinosaurs that consists of roughly 300 species of large, long-necked herbivores and includes the largest terrestrial animals ever...
crests of hadrosaurian dinosaurs". Postilla. 62: 1–29. Parks, W.A. (1922). "Parasaurolophus walkeri, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur". University...
related to crocodilians than to birds and other dinosaurs. First named in the 1940s, Rauisuchia was a name exclusive to Triassic archosaurs which were generally...
end of the Maastrichtian age, 66 million years ago. Edmontosaurus was one of the last non-avian dinosaurs to ever exist, and lived alongside dinosaurs like...
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Giraffatitan, and a comparison of the world's largest dinosaurs" (PDF). Hunteria. 2 (3): 1–14. McGowan, C. (1992). Dinosaurs, Spitfires and Sea Dragons....
Pseudosuchians are also informally known as "crocodilian-line archosaurs". Despite Pseudosuchia meaning "false crocodiles", the name is a misnomer as true...
(1997). Dinosaurs, the encyclopedia. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN 0-89950-917-7. OCLC 33665881. Azuma Y, Tomida Y. 1998. Japanese dinosaurs. In:...
(saúra) 'lizard'), or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae. This group is known as the duck-billed dinosaurs for the flat duck-bill...
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