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1900
Dinosaurs
New taxa
Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images LimnosaurusNopcsa F. 1900 Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen (Schädel von Limnosaurus transsylvanicus nov. gen. et spec.) Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 68 555-591 Gen. et sp. nov. Preoccupied Nopcsa Maastrichtian Sânpetru Formation Romania A hadrosaurid preoccupied by Limnosaurus Marsh, 1872 later given the genus name Telmatosaurus 200px
Sauropterygia
Newly named plesiosaurs
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Cimoliasaurus laramiensissp. nov.
junior synonymKnightOxfordianSundance Formation, WyomingUSArecombined as Tatenectes laramiensis in 2003
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
DicranozygomaGen. et sp. novNomen dubiumSeeleyLate PermianCistecephalus Assemblage ZoneSouth AfricaA dicynodont of uncertain positionIctidosuchusGen. et sp. novValidBroomLate PermianTropidostoma Assemblage ZoneSouth AfricaA member of Baurioidea.
References
Paleontology