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Plants
Angiosperms
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Imageslodes multireticiilataManchester S.R. Fruits and Seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon 1994 Palaeontographica Americana 58 30–31Sp novvalidReid & ChandlerYpresianLondon ClayUKEnglandAn icacinaceous species. LangtoniaGen et sp novvalidReid & ChandlerYpresianLondon ClayUKEnglandA tupelo relative, type species L. bisulcata. PalaeophytocreneGen et sp novvalidReid & ChandlerYpresianLondon ClayUKEnglandAn icacinaceous relative. Type species P. foveolataTinomiscoideaGen et sp novvalidReid & ChandlerYpresianLondon ClayUKEnglandA moon seed relative. Type species T. scaphiformis
Arthropods
Newly named crustaceans
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnthracocarisCalman W.T. 1933 LX.— On Anthracocaris scotica ( Peach ), a fossil Crustacean from the Lower Carboniferous https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222933308673688 Annals and Magazine of Natural History en 11 65 562–565 10.1080/00222933308673688 0374-5481 subscription Gen et comb novvalidCalmanEarly Carboniferous ScotlandA tanaid, type species is A. scotica (originally named as a species of Palaeocaris in 1882)
Newly named insects
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesElectrostephanus brevicornisEngel M.S. Ortega-Blanco J. 2008 The fossil crown wasp Electrostephanus petiolatus Brues in Baltic Amber (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae): designation of a neotype, revised classification, and a key to amber Stephanidae https://archive.org/details/fossilcrownwasp4enge ZooKeys 4 55–64 10.3897/zookeys.4.49 free 2445/36428 free Sp novvalidBruesLutetianBaltic Amber RussiaA stephanid waspElectrostephanus petiolatusSp novvalidBruesLutetianBaltic Amber RussiaA stephanid wasp, Electrostephanus type species thumb|center|150px|Electrostephanus petiolatusElectrostephanus tridentatusSp novjr synonymBruesLutetianBaltic AmberA stephanid wasp, now Denaeostephanus tridentatus
Conodonts
Newly named conodonts
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesWurmiella excavataSp novvalidMehl and Branson420 Millions of years agoUSANevadaIdiognathoidesNew Pennsylvanian conodonts from Oklahoma. RW Harris and RV Hollingsworth, American Journal of Science, March 1933, series 5, volume 25, no. 147, pages 193-204, 10.2475/ajs.s5-25.147.193Gen novvalidHarris and HollingsworthPennsylvanianOklahoma China
Mexico
USA (Kentucky and Wyoming)CavusgnathusGen novvalidHarris and HollingsworthPennsylvanianOklahoma China
Mexico
Russia
UK
USA ( Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Pennsylvania , Utah and Wyoming)
Dinosaurs
Barnum Brown prospected the Two Medicine Formation, but found nothing significant.
Lull published a monograph where he discusses AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase.
New taxa
NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeType localityLocationNotesImages Alectrosaurus olseniGilmore, C.W. 1933. On the dinosaurian fauna of the Iren Dabasu Formation. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 67: PP. 23-78. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid taxon Gilmore Santonian Iren Dabasu Formation Mongolia A tyrannosauroid 200px Antarctosaurus septentrionalis Sp. nov. Valid Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation India A species of Antarctosaurus now Jainosaurus septentrionalis Austrosaurus mckillopiLongman, H.A. 1933. A new dinosaur from the Queensland Cretaceous. Mem. Queensland Mus. 10: pp. 131-144. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Longman Albian Allaru Formation Australia A titanosauriform Bactrosaurus johnsoni Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Gilmore Santonian Iren Dabasu Formation China A hadrosauroid 200px Coeluroides largusHuene, F. von, and C.A. Matley. 1933. The Cretaceous saurischia and ornithischia of the Central Provinces of India. Mem. Geol. Survey India Pabeontol. Indica 21: pp. 1-72. Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation India An abelisaur Compsosuchus solus Gen. et sp. nov Nomen dubium Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation India A noasaurid Dryptosauroides grandis Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation India A noasaurid Indosaurus matleyi Gen. et so. nov. Valid Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation India An abelisaurid Indosuchus raptorius Gen. et sp. nov. Valid taxon Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation India An abelisaurid 200px Jubbulpuria tenuis Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation India A noasaurid Laevisuchus indicus Gen. et sp. nov Valid Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation India A noasaurid Mandschurosaurus mongoliensis Sp. nov. Valid Gilmore Santonian Iren Dabasu Formation China A species of Mandschurosaurus now named Gilmoreosaurus mongoliensis Mongolosaurus haplodonGilmore, C.W. 1933. Two new dinosaurian reptiles from Mongolia with notes on some fragmentary specimens. Amer. Mus. Novitates 679: pp. 1-20 Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Gilmore Aptian-Albian On Gong Formation China A titanosaur Ornithomimoides mobilis Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation India A noasaurid Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Sp. nov. Nomen dubium Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation India A species of Ornithomimoides Ornithomimus asiaticus Sp. nov. Valid Gilmore Santonian Iren Dabasu Formation China A species of Ornithomimus now named Archaeornithomimus asiaticus Pinacosaurus grangeri Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Gilmore Campanian Djadochta Formation Mongolia An ankylosaurid 200px
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes ImagesMucrotheriumValidUniseriumValid
Other animals
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Paramedusium Gürich, G. 1933 Paläontologische Zeitschrift 15 2–3 137–154 Die Kuibis-Fossilien der Nama-Formation von Südwestafrika: Nachträge und Zusätze 10.1007/BF03041648 130968715 Gen. et sp. nov. Gürich Ediacaran Namibia A discoid fossil of uncertain affinity. The type species is P. africanum. Argued to be probably a junior synonym of Aspidella by Gehling et al. (2000). Gehling James G. Narbonne Guy M. Anderson Michael M. 2000 The first named Ediacaran body fossil, Aspidella terranovica Palaeontology 43 3 427–456 10.1111/j.0031-0239.2000.00134.x free 2000Palgy..43..427G 150px Pteridinium Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Gürich Ediacaran Namibia An erniettomorph. The type species is P. simplex. 150px
Footnotes
3 "Introduction," Makovicky (2001); page 244.
"Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.
References
Makovicky, P. J., 2001, A Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) braincase from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 243–262.
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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