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Athabascasaurus

The generic name is derived from the name of the Athabasca River, which runs through Athabasca oil sands area where the holotype was collected, and sauros, Greek for "lizard".

Barreirosuchus

The generic name is derived from the name of the rural district of Barreiro, where the holotype was found, and Greek souchus meaning "crocodile".

Bellubrunnus

The generic name is derived from the Latin bellus meaning 'beautiful' and brunnus in reference to Brunn, its type locality.

Benhamina obliquata

Generic name Benhamina is in tribute to British oligo- and polychaetologist, William Blaxland Benham.

Gandheralophus

The generic name is derived from Gandhera, referring to Gandhera Quarry, the locality in which the genus was first reported, and Greek lophus, "crest", a common

Helcionopsis

The generic name is from the external resemblance which the genus bear to the recent species of the genus Helcion in family Patellidae.

Magnapaulia

The generic name is a combination of the Latin magnus, "large", and the first name of Paul G. Haaga, Jr., the president of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

Navajodactylus

The generic name honors the Navajo Nation, combining their name with a Greek δάκτυλος, daktylos, "finger".

Niassodon

The generic name combines the word Niassa, meaning "lake" in Chiyao and the name of the northwestern province in Mozambique where Niassodon was found, with odontos, meaning "tooth" in Ancient Greek.

Palaeohatteria

The generic name is derived from Greek παλαιός (palaios) "old, ancient", and from Hatteria, a proposed common name and generic name (like Rhynchocephalus) to the Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus).

Sophineta

The generic name honors Professor Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska of the Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, and it is derived from Greek sophia, meaning "wisdom" which is the classical root of the name Zofia.

Subgenus

In zoology, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the generic name and the specific epithet: e.g. the Tiger Cowry of the Indo-Pacific, Cypraea (Cypraea) tigris Linnaeus, which belongs to the subgenus Cypraea of the genus Cypraea.

Yongjinglong

The generic name is derived from the name of the historical Yongjing County, near where the holotype of Yongjinglong and numerous dinosaur track fossils were collected, and from long, meaning "dragon" in Chinese.


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