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Plants
Angiosperms
Superrosids - Fabids
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesPaliurus hesperiusBerry E.W. 1928 A Miocene Paliurus from the state of Washington American Journal of Science 5 91 39–44Sp novvalid?BerryMioceneLanghianLatah FormationGrand Coulee florule
USAWashingtonA Paliurus speciesSynonymized into Paliurus favonii (2008)Burge D.O. Manchester S.R. 2008 Fruit morphology, fossil history, and biogeography of Paliurus (Rhamnaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 169 8 1066–1085But contested in 2014Li X. Wang H. Leng Q. Xiao L. Guo J. He W. 2014 Paliurus (Paliureae, Rhamnaceae) from the Miocene of East China and its Macrofossil-based Phylogenetic and Phytogeographical History Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 88 5 1364–1377 10.1111/1755-6724.12304 129463506
Archosauromorphs
Dinosaurs
Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images Edmontonia longicepsSternberg, C.H. 1928. A new armored dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Can. Field-Nat. 22: pp. 93-106. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Sternberg Maastrichtian Horseshoe Canyon Formation Alberta A nodosaurid Polacanthoides ponderosusNopcsa F. 1928 Paleontological notes on reptiles Geol. Hungarica, Set. Palaeontol. 1 1–84 Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Nopcsa Early Cretaceous England A chimera of Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus.Raven T.J. Barrett P.M. Pond S.B. Maidment S.C. 2020 Osteology and Taxonomy of British Wealden Supergroup (Berriasian–Aptian) Ankylosaurs (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40 4 10.1080/02724634.2020.1826956 Scolosaurus cutleri Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Nopcsa Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation Alberta An ankylosaurid 200px TeinurosaurusNopcsa F. 1928 The genera of reptiles Palaeobiologica 1 163–188 Gen. nov. Nomen dubium Nopcsa Tithonian Mont-Lambert Formation France Lacking a type species until material named Caudocoelus sauvagei
Pterosaurs
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes Images
CampylognathoidesGen nov
ValidStrandJurassicToarcianSachrang FormationPosidonia Shale GermanyBaden-WürttembergA campylognathoidid pterosaurthumb|center|upright|Campylognathoides
Field work
Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation. He would return yet again in 1935.
Synapsids
Therapsids
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesChalepotheriumGen novSimpsonGomphodontosuchusGen et sp novHueneTriassicCarnianBrazilA Plant-Eating Cynodont.The type species is G. brasiliensisTaurocephalusGen et sp novBroomSouth Africa
Footnotes
Paleontology
3 "Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.
References
Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 298–309.
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