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Mollusca

Newly named bivalves

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi.[1] Sp nov synonym Soot-Reyn & Soot-Reyn Late Ordovician Upper Chasmops Shale transferred to Similodonta in 1964

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list[2] and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.[3]

Name Status Authors Notes Images
Inosaurus[4] Nomen dubium.
Lophorhothon[5] Valid taxon.
  • Langston
Silvisaurus[6] Valid taxon.
  • Eaton

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Notes
Woolungasaurus Valid Persson
Valid

References

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  4. ↑ Lapparent. A.F. de. 1960. Les dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Sahara central. Mem. Soc. Geol. France 88A: pp. 1-57.
  5. ↑ Langston, W. Jr. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV, the Dinosaurs. Fieldiana Geol. Mem. 3: pp. 313-360.
  6. ↑ Eaton, T.H. 1960. A new armored dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Kansas. University of Kansas Palaeontological Contributions, Vertebrata (Article 8): 24 pages.





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