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Dinosaurs

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
last=Marsh	first=O.C.	year=1889	title=Notice of new American Dinosauria	journal=The American Journal of Science and Arts	series=Series 3	volume=38	pages=331-336}}	Sp. nov.	Jr. synonym	Marsh	Hettangian	Portland Formation	Connecticut	A species of Anchisaurus now a synonym of Anchisaurus polyzelus
Calamospondylus foxi	Gen. et sp. nov.	Preoccupied	Lydekker	Barremian	Wessex Formation	England	Preoccupied by Fox vide [Anonymous] 1866. Renamed Calamosaurus
Ceratops horridus	Sp. nov.	Valid	Marsh	Maastrichtian	Laramie Formation	Wyoming	A species of Ceratops now named Triceratops horridus
Ceratops alticornis	Comb. nov.	Nomen dubium	Marsh	Maastrichtian	Laramie Formation	Colorado	A reassignment of Bison alticornis to Ceratops following reidentification of the age
Coelophysis	Gen. nov.	Valid	Cope	Rhaetian	Chinle Formation	New Mexico	A new genus for Coelurus bauri	[[File:Coelophysis size flipped.jpg	200px]]
Cryptodraco	Gen. nov.	Jr. synonym	Lydekker	Oxfordian	Oxford Clay Formation	England	Unnecessary replacement name for Cryptosaurus
Hadrosaurus breviceps	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Marsh	Maastrichtian	Laramie Formation	Montana	A species of Hadrosaurus
Hadrosaurus paucidens	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Marsh	Maastrichtian	Laramie Formation	Montana	A species of Hadrosaurus
Monoclonius fissus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Monoclonius
last=Cope	first=E.D.	year=1889	title=The horned Dinosauria of the Laramie	journal=The American Naturalist	volume=23	issue=272	pages=715-717}}	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Monoclonius
Monoclonius sphenocerus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A species of Monoclonius
Morosaurus agilis	Sp. nov.	Valid	Marsh	Kimmeridgian	Morrison Formation	Colorado	A species of Morosaurus, now Smitanosaurus agilis
Morosaurus lentus	Sp. nov.	Valid	Marsh	Kimmeridgian	Morrison Formation	Wyoming	A species of Morosaurus, now Camarasaurus lentus
Nodosaurus textilis	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Marsh	Cenomanian	Frontier Formation	Wyoming	A club-less ankylosaur	[[File:Nodosaurus 500 TWA.JPG	200px]]
Orinosaurus	Gen. nov.	Jr. synonym	Lydekker	Norian	Elliot Formation	South Africa	Unnecessary replacement name for Orosaurus
last=Cope	first=E.D.	year=1889	title=Notes on the Dinosauria of the Laramie	journal=The American Naturalist	volume=23	pages=904-906}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Cope	Maastrichtian	Laramie Formation	Montana	A hadrosaurid
last=Marsh	first=O.C.	year=1889	title=Notice of gigantic horned Dinosauria from the Cretaceous	journal=The American Journal of Science	series=Third Series	volume=38	issue=224	pages=173-175}}	Gen. nov.	Valid	Marsh	Maastrichtian	Laramie Formation	Wyoming	A new genus for Ceratops horridus	[[File:202007 Triceratops horridus.svg	200px]]
Triceratops flabellatus	Sp. nov.	Jr. synonym	Marsh	Maastrichtian	Laramie Formation	Wyoming	A species of Triceratops now a synonym of Triceratops horridus
Triceratops galeus	Sp. nov.	Jr. synonym	Marsh	Maastrichtian	Laramie Formation	Colorado	A species of Triceratops now a synonym of Triceratops horridus

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Notes

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Xiphosurans

Newly named xiphosurans

References

Marsh, O.C.. (1889). "Notice of new American Dinosauria". The American Journal of Science and Arts.
Cope, E.D.. (1889). "The horned Dinosauria of the Laramie". The American Naturalist.
Cope, E.D.. (1889). "Notes on the Dinosauria of the Laramie". The American Naturalist.
Marsh, O.C.. (1889). "Notice of gigantic horned Dinosauria from the Cretaceous". The American Journal of Science.

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