1928 in paleontology

Plants

Angiosperms Superrosids - Fabids Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesPaliurus hesperiusSp novvalid?BerryMioceneLanghianLatah FormationGrand Coulee florule A Paliurus speciesSynonymized into Paliurus favonii (2008)But contested in 2014

Archosauromorphs Dinosaurs Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images Edmontonia longicepsSternberg, C.H. 1928. A new armored dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Can. Field-Nat. 22: pp. 93-106. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Sternberg Maastrichtian Horseshoe Canyon Formation A nodosaurid Polacanthoides ponderosus Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Nopcsa Early Cretaceous A chimera of Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus. Scolosaurus cutleri Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Nopcsa Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation An ankylosaurid Teinurosaurus Gen. nov. Nomen dubium Nopcsa Tithonian Mont-Lambert Formation Lacking a type species until material named Caudocoelus sauvagei

Pterosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes Images CampylognathoidesGen nov ValidStrandJurassicToarcianSachrang FormationPosidonia Shale A campylognathoidid pterosaur

Field work Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation. He would return yet again in 1935.

Synapsids Therapsids Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesChalepotheriumGen novSimpsonGomphodontosuchusGen et sp novHueneTriassicCarnianA Plant-Eating Cynodont.The type species is G. brasiliensisTaurocephalusGen et sp novBroom

Footnotes

References 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.