Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesLaurophyllum litseafoliaSp novjr synonymMacGinitieEoceneYpresianIone FormationChalk Bluffs floraA dicot of uncertain affinity. Moved to Artocarpoides litseafolia (1968) Moved to Dicotylophyllum litseafolia (1969) Moved to Republica litseafolia (1987)
Arthropods Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Type Location Notes ImagesElectresiaGen. et sp. novValidKuznetsovHoloceneA Tortricidae moth in copal. The type species is E. zalesskii.ProraphidiaGen et sp novValid MartynovaJurassicP. turkestanica named as type species
Conodonts
Name Status Authors Age Location Notes ImagesBactrognathusNew and Little Known Carboniferous Conodont Genera. E. B. Branson and M. G. Mehl, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Mar., 1941), pages 97-106 (Stable URL, retrieved 29 April 2015) Valid Maurice Mehl Edward Branson Carboniferous Doliognathus Valid Maurice Mehl Edward Branson Carboniferous Scaliognathus Valid Maurice Mehl Edward Branson Carboniferous Staurognathus Valid Maurice Mehl Edward Branson Carboniferous Taphrognathus Valid Maurice Mehl Edward Branson Carboniferous
Dinosaurs Psittacosaurus gastroliths documented.Brown (1941). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
Newly named dinosaurs Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Status AuthorsLocation Notes Images LufengosaurusYoung, C.-C. 1941. A complete osteology of Lufengosaurus huenei Young (gen. et sp. nov.) from Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Paleontol Sinica (N.S.) Ser. C7: pp. 1-53. Valid taxon Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.) SaurophagusStovall vide Ray, G.E. 1941. Big for his day. Nat. Hist. 48: pp. 36-39. Preoccupied Stovall vide: Ray, 1941Now Saurophaganax. "Succinodon"Huene, F. von. 1941. Die Tetrapoden-Fahrten im toskanischen Verrucano und ihre Bedeutung. N. Jb. Mineral. Geol. Palaeontol. 1941B: pp. 1-34. Original fossil was petrified wood with mollusc borings that was misidentified as a jaw bone with tooth sockets. Friedrich von Huene
Plesiosaurs New taxa
Name Status AuthorsLocation NotesImages Aristonectes Valid Cabrera
A Long-Necked Plesiosaur.
Synapsids Non-mammalian
Name Status Authors Age Location Notes ImagesBayloriaJunior SynonymSynonym of Captorhinus.
References
Brown, B. 1941. The last dinosaurs. – Natural History 48: 290–295. Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.