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Dinosaurs

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
last=Cope	first=E.D.	year=1876	title=Descriptions of some vertebrate remains from the Fort Union Beds of Montana	journal=Paleontological Bulletin	volume=22	pages=1-14}}	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Aublysodon
Chondrosteosaurus gigas	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Owen	Barremian	Wessex Formation	England	A sauropod
Diclonius pentagonus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A hadrosaurid
Diclonius calamarius	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Diclonius
Diclonius perangulatus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Diclonius
Dysganus encaustus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A ceratopsid
Dysganus bicarinatus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Dysganus
Dysganus haydenianus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Dysganus
Dysganus peiganus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Dysganus
Laelaps explanatus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Laelaps
Laelaps falculus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Laelaps
Laelaps incrassatus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Laelaps
Macrurosaurus semnus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A sauropod
Monoclonius crassus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A ceratopsid	[[File:Monoclonius crassus.jpg	200px]]
Paronychodon lacustris	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A troodontid	[[File:Paronychodon.png	150px]]
Zapsalis abradens	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A dromaeosaurid

Anapsids

Newly named anapsids

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes	Images

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Plesiosaurs

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Notes

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Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes	Images
					A Pterosaur with an antenna-like crest .
					An Crested Pterosaur, Erroneously known as "Pterodactyl"

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Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Age	Notes	Images
255 Millions of years ago.	Box-Headed animal	[[File:Cistecephalus1DB.jpg	thumb	150px	center	[[Cistecephalus]]]]
257 Millions of years ago.		[[File:Endothiodon12DB.jpg	thumb	[[Endothiodon]]]]
257 Millions of years ago.	A Gorgonopsian.	[[File:Gorgonops whaitsii1.jpg	thumb	[[Gorgonops]]]]
251 Millions of years ago.		[[File:ScaloposaurusDB.jpg	thumb	[[Scaloposaurus]]]]
261 Millions of years ago.	A Dome-headed Dinocephalian.	[[File:Tapinocephalus DB.jpg	thumb	[[Tapinocephalus]]]]
255 Millions of years ago.		[[File:Theriognathus.jpg	thumb	[[Theriognathus]]]]
261 Millions of years ago.	Titanic crocodile.	[[File:Titanosuchus ferox.jpg	thumb	[[Titanosuchus]]]]

References

Cope, E.D.. (1876). "Descriptions of some vertebrate remains from the Fort Union Beds of Montana". Paleontological Bulletin.
Roger B. J. Benson, Hilary F. Ketchum, Leslie F. Noè and Marcela Gómez-Pérez (2011). "New information on Hauffiosaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) based on a new species from the Alum Shale Member (Lower Toarcian: Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, UK". Palaeontology 54 (3): 547–571. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01044.x.
P. Vincent and A. S. Smith. 2009. A redescription of Plesiosaurus propinquus Tate & Blake, 1876 (Reptilia, Plesiosauria), from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Yorkshire, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 57(3-4):133-142

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