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1892
Mollusca
Newly named bivalves
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesTellinomya similis.Cope J.C.W. 1999 Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland Palaeontology 42 3 467–499 10.1111/1475-4983.00081 free Sp novsynonym
UlrichAshgillianUpper Richmond Group, Minnesota USAtransferred to Similodonta in 1964 Tellinomya recurva.Sp novsynonym
LamontAshgillianUpper Richmond Group, MinnesotaUSAtransferred to Similodonta in 1964
Dinosaurs
New taxa
Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images Claosaurus annectensMarsh O.C. 1892 Notice of new reptiles from the Laramie Formation American Journal of Science 43 449-453 Sp. nov. Valid Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Wyoming A new species of Claosaurus later named Edmontosaurus annectens Claorhynchus trihedrusCope E.D. 1892 Fourth note on the Dinosauria of the Laramie. The American Naturalist 26 756-758 Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Cope Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Wyoming Possible synonym of Triceratops Iguanodon hilliNewton E.T. 1892 Note on an iguanodont tooth from the lower Chalk ("Totternhoe Stone"), near Hitchin Geological Magazine New Series, Decade III 9 49-50 Sp. nov. Nomen dubium Newton Cenomanian Hertfordshire England A species of Iguanodon Manospondylus gigas Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Cope Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Wyoming Possible subjective synonym of Tyrannosaurus Ornithomimus sedens Sp. nov. Valid Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Wyoming A species of Ornithomimus
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Name Status Authors Notes
Cryptocleidus
Valid
Seeley
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDelphinognathusValidSeeleyDiopaeusGeikiaValidNewton
References
Paleontology
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