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Dinosaurs
New taxa
NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeType localityLocationNotesImages "Antarctosaurus jaxarticus" Nomen nudum Riabinin Santonian Dabrazinskaya Svita Kazakhstan An informal species of Antarctosaurus "Bactrosaurus prynadai" Nomen nudum Riabinin Santonian Dabrazinskaya Svita Kazakhstan A species of Bactrosaurus, formally described in 1939 "Jaxartosaurus aralensis"Riabinin A.N. 1938 Некоторые Результаты Изучения Верхнемеловой Динозавровой Фауны Из Окрестностей Ст. Сары-агач В Южном Казахстане Some results of the studies of the Upper Cretaceous dinosaurian fauna from the vicinity of the station Sary-Agach, South Kazakhstan Problems of Paleontology 4 125-135 Nomen nudum Riabinin Santonian Dabrazinskaya Svita Kazakhstan A hadrosaurid, formally described in 1939
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type strata Location Notes ImagesDinanomodonBroom R. 1938 On two new anomodont genera https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00411752_492 PDF Annals of the Transvaal Museum 247–250ValidBroomSouth Africathumb|center|upright|DinanomodonHaughtonianaValidBoonstraIctidosuchopsValidBroomSouth AfricaPelanomodonValidBroomSouth Africathumb|center|upright|PelanomodonRubidgeaBroom R. October 1938 20. On a New Family of Carnivorous Therapsids from the Karroo Beds of South Africa https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1938.tb08528.x Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London en B108 3 527–533 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1938.tb08528.x 0370-2774 subscription ValidBroomSouth Africathumb|center|upright|RubidgeaTitanophoneusValidEfremovRussiathumb|center|upright|TitanophoneusUlemosaurusValidRiabininRussiathumb|center|upright|Ulemosaurus
Mammals
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes ImagesCooperiaWood Horace Elmer December 30, 1938 Cooperia totadentata, a remarkable rhinoceros from the Eocene of Mongolia. https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/2209 American Museum Novitates en-US 1012 1–20 2246/2209 Gen. et. sp. nov.Jr HomonymWoodEoceneIrdin Manha FormationChinaThe type species is C. totadentata.A replacement name Forstercooperia given in 1939. Genus a jr homonym of the nematode Cooperia Ransomthumb|center|upright|Forstercooperia totadentataPachycrocutaKretzoi, M. Miklós Kretzoi 1938 Die Raubtiere von Gombaszög nebst einer Übersicht der Gesamtfauna (Ein Beitrag zur Stratigraphie des Altquartärs) https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/ORSZ_TTUD_Annales_1937_38_031_MinGeolPal/?pg=93&layout=s Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici Budapest Hungarian Natural History Museum 31 88–157ValidKretzoithumb|center|upright|PachycrocutaLeo gombaszögensisSp novValidKretzoiPleistoceneItalyCurrently known as Panthera gombaszogensis.Wagner, J. 2011 A short nomenclatural note to correct spelling of the species-group name "gombaszögensis" Quaternaire, Hors-série 4 245thumb|center|upright|Panthera gombaszogensisSarkastodonGranger Walter April 21, 1938 A giant oxyaenid from the Upper Eocene of Mongolia. American Museum novitates; no. 969 https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/2199 American Museum Novitates en-US 969 1–5 2246/2199 Gen et sp novValidGrangerEoceneIrdin Manha FormationChinaThe type species is S. mongoliensisthumb|center|upright|Sarkastodon mongoliensisXenocyonValidKretzoithumb|center|upright|Xenocyon
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