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Dinosaurs
Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images Arctosaurus Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Adams Carnian Heiberg Formation Nunavut Dubious archosauriform Cionodon stenopsisCope E.D. 1875 On the transition beds of the Saskatchewan district Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 27 2-3 Sp. nov. Nomen dubium Cope Campanian Belly River Group Alberta A species of Cionodon Bothriospondylus Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Owen Kimmeridgian Kimmeridge Clay Formation England A sauropod Marmarospondylus Gen. nov. Nomen dubium Sir Richard Owen Bathonian Forest Marble Formation A new genus for Bothriospondylus robustus named earlier in the same year Omosaurus armatus Gen. et sp. nov. Preoccupied Owen Kimmeridgian Kimmeridge Clay Formation England Preoccupied by Omosaurus Joseph Leidy, 1856. Later renamed Dacentrurus Priodontognathus Gen. nov. Nomen dubium Seeley Oxfordian Yorkshire England A new genus for Iguanodon phillipsii
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Name Status Authors Notes
Doratorhynchus
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Seeley
Synapsids
Ophiacodontidae
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesClepsydropsE. D. Cope. 1875. On fossil remains of Reptilia and fishes from Illinois. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.Gen novValidCopeearly Late Carboniferous USAIllinoisAn ophiacodontid synapsid
Paleontologists
Birth of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist. Farlow James O. M. K. Brett-Surmann The Complete Dinosaur Indiana University Press 1999 Bloomington, Indiana 17 0-253-21313-4
References
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