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Crustaceans

New taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Dinosaurs

New taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
last=Meyer	first=H.	date=1861-09-20	title=Archaeopterix lithographica (Vogel-Feder) und Pterydactylus von Solenhofen	journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde	pages=678–679	url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/112180#page/698/mode/1up}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Meyer	Kimmeridgian	Solnhofen Limestone	Germany	Early bird, only known from a single flight feather.	[[File:Archaeopteryx lithographica by durbed.jpg	200px]]
last=Owen	first=R.	year=1861	title=Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Part V. Order Lacertilia	publisher=Palaeontographical Society	pages=31–39	url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t4Q5AQAAMAAJ}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Owen	Berriasian	Purbeck Beds	UK	last=Falconer	first=H.	year=1861	title=Note on the synonymy of the fossil genus Echinodon of Professor Owen	journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History	volume=8	issue=46	page=341	doi=10.1080/00222936108697425	url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/60943 }}
Teratosaurus suevicus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	von Meyer	Norian	Löwenstein Formation	Germany	Originally interpreted as an early dinosaur, now an early pseudosuchian.

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Scaphognathus	Gen. nov.	Valid	Wagner	Kimmeridgian	Solnhofen limestone	Germany	A new genus for Pterodactylus crassirostris Goldfuss, 1831	[[File:Scaphognathus crassirostris cast - Pterosaurs Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs.jpg	200px]]

References

A, Oppel. (1861). "Die Arten der Gattungen Eryma, Pseudastacus, Magila und Etallonia.". Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterlandische Naturkunde in Wurttemberg.
Meyer, H.. (1861-09-20). "''Archaeopterix lithographica'' (Vogel-Feder) und ''Pterydactylus'' von Solenhofen". Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde.
Owen, R.. (1861). "Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Part V. Order Lacertilia". Palaeontographical Society.
Falconer, H.. (1861). "Note on the synonymy of the fossil genus ''Echinodon'' of Professor Owen". Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
(1861). "Uebersicht über die fossilen Reptilien des lithographischen Schiefers in Bayern nach ihren Gattungen und Arten". Sitzungsberichte der königlich bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München, 1861 Theil 1.

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