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Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Name Status Authors Notes
MacroscelosaurusMuenster vide Meyer, H. 1847. Die Saurier des
Muschelkalkes mit Rucksicht auf die Saurier aus
Buntem Sandstein und Keuper. In: Zur Fauna der
Vorwelt, zweite Abtheilung: viii + 167pages;
Misidentification.
Muenster vide von Meyer An unpublished name for a misidentified prolacertiform reptile that was probably the same as Tanystropheus.
SphenosaurusMeyer, H. von. 1847. Brifel. Mittel: Neües
Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geologie u.
Palaontologie (1847): p. 181.
Misidentification.von MeyerA misidentified procolophonid.
thumb|center|150px|Macroscelosaurus is probably the same as Tanystropheus.
Pterosaurs
von Meyer erected the genus Rhamphorhynchus. hanson-2008 Hanson Mike The Pterosaur Species List The Pterosauria Archosauria.org 12 November 2008 http://archosauria.org/pterosauria/taxonomy/species.pdf 15 January 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070729075625/http://archosauria.org/pterosauria/taxonomy/species.pdf 29 July 2007
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name Status Authors Age Location Notes ImagesDinosaurusValidFischer
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