Plants Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Imageslodes multireticiilataSp novvalidReid & ChandlerYpresianLondon ClayAn icacinaceous species. LangtoniaGen et sp novvalidReid & ChandlerYpresianLondon ClayA tupelo relative, type species L. bisulcata. PalaeophytocreneGen et sp novvalidReid & ChandlerYpresianLondon ClayAn icacinaceous relative. Type species P. foveolataTinomiscoideaGen et sp novvalidReid & ChandlerYpresianLondon ClayA moon seed relative. Type species T. scaphiformis
Arthropods Newly named crustaceans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnthracocarisGen et comb novvalidCalmanEarly Carboniferous A 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 brevicornisSp novvalidBruesLutetianBaltic Amber A stephanid waspElectrostephanus petiolatusSp novvalidBruesLutetianBaltic Amber A stephanid wasp, Electrostephanus type species Electrostephanus 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 agoIdiognathoidesNew Pennsylvanian conodonts from Oklahoma. RW Harris and RV Hollingsworth, American Journal of Science, March 1933, series 5, volume 25, no. 147, pages 193-204, Gen novvalidHarris and HollingsworthPennsylvanianOklahoma
( and )CavusgnathusGen novvalidHarris and HollingsworthPennsylvanianOklahoma
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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 A tyrannosauroid Antarctosaurus septentrionalis Sp. nov. Valid Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation 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 A titanosauriform Bactrosaurus johnsoni Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Gilmore Santonian Iren Dabasu Formation A hadrosauroid 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 An abelisaur Compsosuchus solus Gen. et sp. nov Nomen dubium Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation A noasaurid Dryptosauroides grandis Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation A noasaurid Indosaurus matleyi Gen. et so. nov. Valid Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation An abelisaurid Indosuchus raptorius Gen. et sp. nov. Valid taxon Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation An abelisaurid Jubbulpuria tenuis Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation A noasaurid Laevisuchus indicus Gen. et sp. nov Valid Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation A noasaurid Mandschurosaurus mongoliensis Sp. nov. Valid Gilmore Santonian Iren Dabasu Formation 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 A titanosaur Ornithomimoides mobilis Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation A noasaurid Ornithomimoides barasimlensis Sp. nov. Nomen dubium Huene & Matley Maastrichtian Lameta Formation A species of Ornithomimoides Ornithomimus asiaticus Sp. nov. Valid Gilmore Santonian Iren Dabasu Formation A species of Ornithomimus now named Archaeornithomimus asiaticus Pinacosaurus grangeri Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Gilmore Campanian Djadochta Formation An ankylosaurid
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 Gen. et sp. nov. Gürich Ediacaran 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). Pteridinium Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Gürich Ediacaran An erniettomorph. The type species is P. simplex.
Footnotes
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.