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Plants

Ferns and allies

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images

Conifers

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images

Angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images

Turtles

New turtle taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Baena antiqua	Sp. nov.	Valid	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A species of Baena
Neurankylus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A chelydrid turtle

Archosauromorphs

Dinosaurs

New dinosaur taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
last=Lucas	first=F.A.	year=1902	title=Paleontological notes: The generic name Omosaurus. A new generic name for Stegosaurus marshi	journal=Science	volume=16	issue=402	pages=435}}	Gen. nov.	Valid	Lucas	Kimmeridgian	Kimmeridge Clay	UK	A new name for Omosaurus armatus Owen, 1875 non Leidy, 1856.
last=Osborn	first=H.F.	author-link=Henry Fairfield Osborn	year=1902	title=Distinctive characters of the Mid-Cretaceous fauna	journal=Geological Survey of Canada. Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. Part II. On Vertebrata of the Mid-Cretaceous of the North West Territory	volume=3	issue=2	pages=5–21}}	Gen. nov.	Nomen dubium	Osborn	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A new genus name for Trachodon altidens Lambe, 1902.
last=Peterson	first=O.A.	last2=Gilmore	first2=C.W.	year=1902	title=Elosaurus parvus a new genus and species of Sauropoda	journal=Annals of the Carnegie Museum	volume=1	pages=490–499}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Jr. synonym	Peterson & Gilmore	Kimmeridgian	Morrison Formation	US	Genus is a junior synonym of Brontosaurus, while the species has been reassigned as Brontosaurus parvus.
Hoplitosaurus	Gen. nov.	Valid	Lucas	Barremian	Lakota Formation	USA	New genus name for Stegosaurus marshi (Lucas, 1901).	[[File:Hoplitosaurus femur.jpg	200px]]
Monoclonius belli	Sp. nov.	Valid	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	Later given the genus name Chasmosaurus
Monoclonius canadensis	Sp. nov.	Jr. synonym	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	Junior synonym of Chasmosaurus belli
Monoclonius dawsoni	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A dubious species of ceratopsid
last=Nopcsa	first=F.	year=1902	title=Notizen uber Cretacische Dinosaurier (Mochlodon u. Onychosaurus)	journal=Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathnat. Kl. Wien	volume=39	pages=42–44}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Nopcsa	Campanian			A dubious name that may be a synonym of Zalmoxes.
Ornithomimus altus	Sp. nov.	Valid	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	Later given the genus name Struthiomimus	[[File:Struthiomimus ROM.jpg	200px]]
Palaeoscincus asper	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A dubious species of ankylosaurid.
Stegoceras	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A pachycephalosaur	[[File:Stegoceras validum.jpg	200px]]
Stereocephalus tutus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Preoccupied	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	Later renamed Euoplocephalus
Trachodon (Pteropelyx) altidens	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A dubious species of hadrosaurid. Given the genus name Didanodon by Osborn in 1902.	[[File:Trachodon altidens GSC 1092.png	200px]]
Trachodon (Pteropelyx) marginatus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A dubious species of hadrosaurid. Later given the genus name Stephanosaurus	[[File:Trachodon (Pteropelyx) marginatus humerus and skin.png	100px]]
Trachodon (Pteropelyx) selwyni	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A dubious species of hadrosaurid	[[File:Trachodon selwyni GSC 290.png	200px]]

Phytosaurs

New phytosaur taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Protorosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Mammals

New mammal taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ptilodus primaevus	Sp. nov.	Valid	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A species of Ptilodus
Boreodon	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A species of multituberculate

Fish

New fish taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Acipenser albertensis	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A species of Acipenser
Diphyodus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A species of fish

References

(1902). "Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 1902-03". Royal Society of Canada.
Lucas, F.A.. (1902). "Paleontological notes: The generic name ''Omosaurus''. A new generic name for ''Stegosaurus marshi''". Science.
Osborn, H.F.. (1902). "Distinctive characters of the Mid-Cretaceous fauna". Geological Survey of Canada. Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. Part II. On Vertebrata of the Mid-Cretaceous of the North West Territory.
Peterson, O.A.. (1902). "''Elosaurus parvus'' a new genus and species of Sauropoda". Annals of the Carnegie Museum.
Nopcsa, F.. (1902). "Notizen uber Cretacische Dinosaurier (''Mochlodon'' u. ''Onychosaurus'')". Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathnat. Kl. Wien.
Lambe, L.M.. (1902). "New genera and species from the Belly River Series (Mid-Cretaceous)". Geological Survey of Canada. Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. Part II. On Vertebrata of the Mid-Cretaceous of the North West Territory.
Huene, F. von. 1902. Ubersicht uber die Reptilien der Trias. Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungne, n. f. 6 (1): 83 pages.

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