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Arthropods

Newly named insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Dinosaurs

Eugene Stebinger became the first to identify the Two Medicine Formation and to formally describe its first fossil finds, which were excavated the previous year.

New taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Anchiceratops ornatus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Brown	Maastrichtian	Horseshoe Canyon Formation	Alberta	A ceratopsid	[[File:Anchiceratops BW.jpg	200px]]
Brachyceratops montanensis	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Gilmore	Campanian	Two Medicine Formation	Montana	A ceratopsid	[[File:Brachyceratops BW.jpg	200px]]
last=Lambe	first=L.M.	author-link=Lawrence Lambe	year=1914	title=On Gryposaurus notabilis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of Chasmosaurus belli	journal=The Ottawa Naturalist	volume=27	issue=11	pages=145–155 }}	Gen. nov.	Valid	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A replacement name for Protorosaurus, a new genus for Monoclonius belli	[[File:Chasmosaurus BW.jpg	200px]]
last=Brown	first=B.	author-link=Barnum Brown	year=1914	title=Corythosaurus casuarius, a new crested dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous, with provisional classification of the family Trachodontidae	journal=American Museum of Natural History Bulletin	volume=33	pages=559–565}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Brown	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A hadrosaurid	[[File:Corythosaurus TD.png	200px]]
Dicraeosaurus hansemanni	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Janensch	Kimmeridgian	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	A Jurassic sauropod	[[File:Dicraeosaurus hansemanni22.jpg	200px]]
Dicraeosaurus sattleri	Sp. nov.	Valid	Janensch	Kimmeridgian	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	A second species of Dicraeosaurus
last=Lambe	first=L.M.	author-link=Lawrence Lambe	year=1914	title=On a new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of Stephanosaurus marginatus from the same horizon	journal=The Ottawa Naturalist	volume=28	issue=1	pages=13–20}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A tyrannosaurid	[[File:Gorgosaurus.png	200px]]
Gryposaurus notabilis	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A hadrosaurid	[[File:Gryposaurus-notabilis jconway.png	200px]]
Leptoceratops gracilis	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Brown	Maastrichtian	Scollard Formation	Alberta	An early ceratopsian	[[File:Leptoceratops BW.jpg	200px]]
last=Lambe	first=L.M.	author-link=Lawrence Lambe	year=1914	title=On the forelimb of a carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, and a new genus of Ceratopsia from the same horizon, with remarks on the integument of some Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaurs	journal=The Ottawa Naturalist	volume=27	issue=10	pages=129–135}}	Gen. nov.	Preoccupied	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	New genus for Monoclonius belli, but preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosauromorph von Meyer, 1830. Renamed Chasmosaurus.
Stephanosaurus	Gen. nov.	Nomen dubium	Lambe	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A new genus name for Trachodon marginatus

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Authors	Age	Notes	Images
Watson	255 million years ago	A Gorgonopsian.	[[File:Arctops watsoni DB.jpg	thumb	[[Arctops]]]]
Watson	270 million years ago	A Dinocephalian.	[[File:Mormosaurus.jpg	thumb	[[Mormosaurus]]]]
	263 million years ago

Footnotes

References

Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 298–309.

References

(1914). "New and little known insects from the Miocene of Florissant, Colorado.". Journal of Geology.
(2014). "A revision of the late Eocene snakeflies (Raphidioptera) of the Florissant Formation, Colorado, with special reference to the wing venation of the Raphidiomorpha". Zootaxa.
Brown, B. 1914. Anchiceratops, a new genus of horned dinosaurs from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta, with discussion of the origin of the ceratopsian crests and brain casts of Anchiceratops and Trachodon. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 33: pp. 559-565.
Gilmore, C.W. 1914. A new ceratopsian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, with a note on Hypacrosaurus. Smithosian Miscellaneous Collections 43: pp. 1-10.
Lambe, L.M.. (1914). "On ''Gryposaurus notabilis'', a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of ''Chasmosaurus belli''". The Ottawa Naturalist.
Brown, B.. (1914). "''Corythosaurus casuarius'', a new crested dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous, with provisional classification of the family Trachodontidae". American Museum of Natural History Bulletin.
Janensch, W. 1914. Ubersicht uber die Wirbeltierfauna der Tendaguru-Schichten nebst einer kurzen Charakterisierung der neu aufgefuhrten Arten von Sauropoden. Arch. Biontol. 3: pp. 81-110.
Lambe, L.M.. (1914). "On a new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of ''Stephanosaurus marginatus'' from the same horizon". The Ottawa Naturalist.
Brown, B. 1914. Leptoceratops, a new genus of Ceratopsia from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 33: pp. 567-580.
Lambe, L.M.. (1914). "On the forelimb of a carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, and a new genus of Ceratopsia from the same horizon, with remarks on the integument of some Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaurs". The Ottawa Naturalist.
"Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.

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