Dinosaur Genera List update #181

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No new genera this time, just a year-end summary (something new), since it's 
not very likely I will be adding any new names to the Dinosaur Genera List 
during the last few days of 2001. The latest Journal of Vertebrate 
Paleontology arrived here a few days ago and no new dinosaurs are described 
in it.

During 2001, the Dinosaur Genera List grew by 35 new names (#898 through 932) 
altogether, of which 24 represented valid, scientifically described 
dinosaurs; seven were dinosaur nomina nuda published in non-scientific 
articles; two were names in publicly available dissertations; and two at one 
time or another had been considered dinosaurian but are presently not 
"non-avian dinosaurs" (that is, are non-non-avian dinosaurs):

Scientifically described dinosaur genera (in the order added) [24]:
Jeholosaurus
Masiakasaurus
Draconyx
Eotyrannus
Paralititan
Losillasaurus
Nothronychus (first entered as a nomen nudum but later formally described)
Jinzhousaurus
Quilmesaurus
Venenosaurus
Planicoxa
Bienosaurus
Ruehleia
Citipati
Khaan
Liaoningosaurus
Rapetosaurus
Eshanosaurus
Aletopelta
Cedarpelta
Hesperosaurus
Jiangshanosaurus
Neimongosaurus
Pukyongosaurus

Nomina nuda and vernacular names [7]:
"Saltriosaurus"
Aucasaurus
"Colossosaurus"
Yibinosaurus
Tanycolagreus
"Hanwulosaurus"
Heilongjiangosaurus

Nomina ex dissertationes (names from dissertations) [2]:
Alashansaurus
Szechuanoraptor

Non-non-avian dinosaurian genera once regarded as non-avian dinosaurs [2]:
Deuterosaurus
Wellnhoferia

In addition, two names were changed from non-avian-dinosaurian to 
non-non-avian-dinosaurian:
Spondylosoma
Patricosaurus

One name was provisionally reinstated as non-avian dinosaurian, pending 
continuing debate and research:
Shuvosaurus

One name was upgraded from nomen nudum to scientifically described (as was 
Nothronychus):
Gobisaurus

One name was changed from nomen nudum to nomen ex dissertatione:
Acracanthus (which is in Wann Langston's M.Sc. thesis, not in his doctoral 
dissertation as noted in the DGL Update)

And one standalone nomen nudum became a different name when scientifically 
described:
Bilbeyhallorum [-> Cedarpelta]

Here's wishing everyone on my list of DGL Update recipients a most pleasant 
2001 holiday season and brightest of prospects for the coming new year!

George Olshevsky
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