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Dinosaurs

New taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Brachiosaurus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Riggs	Late Jurassic	Morrison Formation	Colorado	A brachiosaurid		[[File:Brachiosaurus DB.jpg	150px]]
last=Weiland	first=G.R.	year=1903	title=Note on the marine turtle Archelon. I. On the structure of the carapace, II. associated fossils	journal=The American Journal of Science	series=Series 4	volume=15	issue=87	pages=211-216}}	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Wieland	Maastrichtian	Pierre Shale	South Dakota	A species of Claosaurus
Haplocanthosaurus	Gen. nov.	Nomen conservandum	Hatcher	Late Jurassic	Morrison Formation	Colorado	New name for "Haplocanthus", mistakenly thought preoccupied	[[File:Haplocanthosaurus.jpg	150px]]
Haplocanthosaurus utterbacki	Sp. nov.	Jr. synonym	Hatcher	Late Jurassic	Morrison Formation	Colorado	A species of Haplocanthosaurus now a synonym of Haplocanthosaurus priscus
last=Hatcher	first=J.B.	year=1903	title=A new sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic of Colorado	journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington	volume=16	pages=1-2}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen rejectum	Hatcher	Late Jurassic	Morrison Formation	Colorado	Erroneously thought preoccupied by Haplacanthus Agassiz, 1845 and renamed Haplocanthosaurus.
Ornitholestes	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Osborn	Kimmeridgian	Morrison Formation	Wyoming	Known from a single skull and partial skeleton.	[[File:Ornitholestes NT.jpg	150px]]
Telmatosaurus	Gen. nov.	Valid	Nopcsa	Maastrichtian	Sânpetru Formation	Romania	New genus name for Limnosaurus transsylvanicus

Sauropterygians

Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Eutherians

Cetaceans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Pholidotes

Name	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Metacheiromys	Wortman	48 Million years ago.		An Eocene Mammal related to modern pangolins.	[[File:Metacheiromys DB152.jpg	thumb	[[Metacheiromys]]]]

References

Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
Williston, Samuel Wendel; 1903. North American Plesiosaurs; Field Columbian Museum Publication 73, Geological Series; II(I); Field Columbian Museum, Chicago.

References

Riggs, E.S. 1903. ''Brachiosaurus altithorax'', the largest known dinosaurs. Amer. J. Science 15 (4):pp. 299-306.
Weiland, G.R.. (1903). "Note on the marine turtle Archelon. I. On the structure of the carapace, II. associated fossils". The American Journal of Science.
Hatcher, J.B. 1903. A new name for the Dinosaur ''Haplocanthus'' Hatcher. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 16: p.100.
Hatcher, J.B. 1903. Osteology of ''Haptocanthosaurus''. with description of a new species, and remarks on the probable habits of the Sauropoda and the age and origin of the ''Atlantosaurus'' beds. Mem. Carnegie Mus. 2: pp. 1-72.
Hatcher, J.B.. (1903). "A new sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic of Colorado". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.
Osborn, H. F. 1903. ''Ornitholestes hermanni'', a new compsognathoid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 19: pp. 459-464.
Nopcsa, F. 1903. ''Telmatosaurus'', new name for the dinosaur ''Limnosaurus''. Geol. Mag. (ser. 4) 10:pp. 94-95.
Williston (1903). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.

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