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A “saddle lizard” from Late Triassic Germany. It name was considered to be a Plateosaurus, but it is said that the saddle between the prezygopophyses and the neural spine is much wider and flatter than previously recognized. Named by German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1908.

Translated as, “Shamo (desert) lizard” from Early Cretaceous Asia. The name refers to the Gobi desert in Mongolia, where it was discovered. Named by Russian paleontologist Tatjana Alekseevna Tumanova in 1983.

“Shan-shan lizard” from Late Cretaceous China. It was found in Shan-shan, Turpan Basin, northwest China. Named by Chinese paleontologist Zhiming Dong in 1977.

“Shantung (or Shangdong) lizard” from Late Cretaceous Shangtung (Shangdong) Province, China. Named by Hu Chengzi (Hu Chengchih) in 1973.

“Shanyung lizard” from Late Cretaceous China. Its name comes from Chinese Shanyang (shan, “mountain” plus yang, “south [of]” or “south of the mountain”. Named by Xue, Yihong Zhang, and Bi in 1996.

A “Shandong lizard” from Late Cretaceous China. It was named by paleontologist Hu Chengzi (Hu Chengchih) in 1973.

An Ichthyosaur that lived during Late Triassic North America. It was not a dinosaur but another kind of extinct reptile.

“Sichuan lizard” from Middle Jurissac China. Its name is based on Shu, an old name for the Sichuan region of China. Named by Chinese paleontologists Zhiming Dong, Shiwu Zhou, and Yihong Zhang in 1983.

“Shu lizard” was dug up in Szechuan, China in 1979. Shu was the name of an old Chinese kingdom. It is estimated to have come from the Early-Middle Jurassic period.

“Shuvo’s lizard” from Late Triassic Texas. Its name was made to honor Sankar Chatterjee’s son, Shuvo, the one who discovered the toothless type skull during preparation of material from the Dockum Formation, Texas. Named by Indian paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee in 1993.

A “Siamese lizard” from Early Cretaceous Thailand. Its name is based on “Siam”, an old name for Thailand where the fossil was found. Named by French paleontologist Eric (Erik) Buffetaut and Rucha Ingavat in 1986.

A “Sijilmassa lizard” from Middle Cretaceous Morocco. Its name is based on “Sigilmassa”, now “Sijilmassa”; an ancient city, once known for its wealth and power, now in ruins in the Tafilalt oasis region in southern Morocco where the fossil was discovered. Named by Canadian paleontologist Dr. Dale Alan Russell in 1996.

A “silk-road lizard” from Early Cretaceous China. Its name comes from Clhinese Silu, “silk road”, the ancient trade route through China and Central Asia that carried Chinese silk and other goods to the Middle East and Europe. A 1992 Sino-Japanese Silk Road Expedition found the fossil as they were following the old Silk Road to Central Asia. Named by Chinese paleontologist Zhiming Dong in 1997.

A “forest lizard” from Late Cretaceous Kansas, USA. Named by paleontologist J. G. Eaton in 1960.

A Chinese pliosaur (“more lizard”) from Late Jurassic Weiyuan, Sichuan Province, China. Named by Chinese paleontologist Yang Zhong-jian (also known as: Chung Chien Young) in 1944.