Plants Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesAnchietea borealisSp novjr synonymHeerPaleocenelate PaleoceneMenat FormationFirst described as a violaceous species.Moved to Atriplex borealis inn 1912. Moved to Palaeocarpinus borealis in 2021.
Dinosaurs
New taxa Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images Compsognathus longipes Gen. et. sp. nov. Valid Wagner Tithonian Solnhofen Limestone A compsognathid. Hadrosaurus foulkiiLeidy, J. 1859. Extinct vertebrata from the Judith River and Great Lignite Formations of Nebraska. American Philosophical Society Transactions 11:pp. 139-154. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Leidy Campanian Woodbury Formation A hadrosaurid. "Scelidosaurus"Owen, R. 1859. On the order of fossil and recent reptilia, and their distribution in time. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: pp. 153-166. Invalid Nomen nudum Owen Sinemurian Blue Lias A basal thyreophoran.
Pterosaurs Buckman described a clutch of 4.5 cm long oval-shaped fossil eggs from Middle Jurassic marine rock in the United Kingdom. He erected the new oogenus and oospecies Oolithes bathonicae for them, the first time fossil eggs had been given their own unique taxonomic name.
New taxa Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDimorphodon Gen. nov. Valid Owen Sinemurian Blue Lias A new generic name for Pterodactylus macronyx.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes ImagesGalesaurus252 Millions of years ago
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