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1904 in paleontology

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Summary

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Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Plesiosaurs

Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
		Valid

Metatherians

Name	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Argyrolagus	Ameghino	4 Millions years ago		A Distante relative of the Shrew Opossum

Eutherians

Cetaceans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
			Fraas

Even-toed Ungulates

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Prosthennops	Valid	Matthew	10 Millions of years ago		An Extinct Tayassuid.

References

Brown, B. (1904) Stomach stones and food of plesiosaurs, Science, n.s. 20, (501): 184–185
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; 1904; The stomach stones of the plesiosaurs; Science; 20 pp. 565; American Association for the Advancement of Science

References

Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
Broom, R. 1904. On the occurrence of an opisthocoelian dinosaur (Algoasaurus bauri) in the Cretaceous beds of South Africa. Geol. Mag., ser. 5 (1): 445-447.
Lambe, L. M. 1904. On the squamoso-parietal crest of two species of horned dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Ottawa Nat. 18: pp. 81-84.
Brown (1904). Williston (1904). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
E. Fraas. 1904. Neue Zeuglodonten aus dem unteren Mitteleozän von Mokattam bei Cairo. Geologisches Centralblatt 5(1048):374
Fraas, Eberhard (1904). "Neue Zeuglodonten aus dem unteren Mitteleocän vom Mokattam bei Cairo". Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen (Jena: Verlag Gustav Fischer) 6 (3): 199–220. Retrieved July 2013.

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