Arthropods Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesTortrix? destructussp. novjr synonymCockerellPriabonian Florissant Formation A moth, moved to Paleolepidopterites destructus (2018)
Vertebrates Synapsids Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesMyosaurusValidHaughton250 Millions years agoPlatycraniellusValidVan Hoepen250 Millions years agoProlystrosaurusValidHaughton
Avialans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images "Archaeornis"Petronievics, B. and A.S. Woodward. 1917. On the pectoral and pelvic arches of the Britt.Mus. specimen of Archaeopteryx. Proc. Zool. Soc. London: pp. 1 - 16.Gen et comb nov Junior synonymPetronievicsTithonianSolnhofen limestone Moved from Archaeopteryx siemensii (1897) refuted and retained in Archaeopteryx.
Dinosaurs Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images Cheneosaurus Gen. et sp. nov. Jr. synonym Lambe Campanian Horseshoe Canyon Formation Juvenile of Hypacrosaurus Edmontosaurus Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Lambe Campanian Horseshoe Canyon Formation A hadrosaurid Struthiomimus Subgen. nov. Valid Osborn Campanian Oldman Formation A new subgenus for Ornithomimus altus elevated in 1972
Literature Hunting Dinosaurs in the Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley, Alberta by C. H. Sternberg was published. Although the work was mostly non-fiction, it concluded with a series of fictional chapters wherein Sternberg dreamt of traveling back in time to the various ages of prehistory.Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.
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