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Dinosaurs

New taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Asiatosaurus mongoliensis	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Osborn	Early Cretaceous	Öösh Formation	Mongolia	An indeterminate sauropod
last=Gilmore	first=C.W.	author-link=Charles W. Gilmore	year=1924	title=A new coelurid dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous of Alberta	journal=National Museum of Canada Bulletin. Geological Series	volume=38	issue=43	pages=1–12}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Gilmore	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	An oviraptorosaur	[[File:Chirostenotes BW.jpg	200px]]
Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	William Parks	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	An ankylosaurid
Euskelesaurus africanus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Haughton	Norian	Elliot Formation	South Africa	A species of the prosauropod Euskelosaurus (often misspelled Euskelesaurus)
"Fenestrosaurus philoceratops"		Nomen nudum	Henry Fairfield Osborn	Campanian	Djadochta Formation	Mongolia	Named Oviraptor
Gryponyx taylori	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Haughton	Hettangian-Sinemurian	Elliot Formation	South Africa	A species of the prosauropod Gryponyx
last=Gilmore	first=C.W.	author-link=Charles W. Gilmore	year=1924	title=On the genus Stephanosaurus, with a description of the type specimen of Lambeosaurus lambei Parks	journal=National Museum of Canada Bulletin. Geological Series	volume=38	issue=43	pages=29–48}}	Nov. comb.	Nomen dubium	Gilmore	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A reassignment of Stephanosaurus marginatus to Kritosaurus
last=Haughton	first=S.H.	year=1924	title=The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg series	journal=Annals of the South Africa Museum	volume=12	pages=323–497}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Haughton	Hettangian-Sinemurian	Elliot Formation	South Africa	A heterodontosaurid
Massospondylus schwarzi	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Haughton	Hettangian-Sinemurian	Elliot Formation	South Africa	A species of the prosauropod Massospondylus
Melanorosaurus readi	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Haughton	Norian-Rhaetian	Elliot Formation	South Africa	A melanorosaurid prosauropod	[[File:Melanorosaurus readi steveoc.jpg	200px]]
"Ornithoides oshiensis"		Nomen nudum	Osborn	Campanian	Djadochta Formation	Mongolia	Named Saurornithoides
Oviraptor philoceratops	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Osborn	Campanian	Djadochta Formation	Mongolia	An oviraptorid
"Ovoraptor djadochtari"		Nomen nudum	Osborn	Campanian	Djadochta Formation	Mongolia	Named Velociraptor
Plateosaurus cullingworthi	Sp. nov.	Valid	Haughton	Norian	Elliot Formation	South Africa	Later given the genus name Plateosauravus
Prodeinodon mongoliensis	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Osborn	Early Cretaceous	Öösh Formation	Mongolia	An indeterminate theropod
Saurornithoides mongoliensis	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Osborn	Campanian	Djadochta Formation	Mongolia	A troodontid	[[File:Saurornithoides restoration.png	200px]]
Thecodontosaurus dubius	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Haughton	Hettangian-Sinemurian	Elliot Formation	South Africa	A species of the prosauropod Thecodontosaurus
last=Gilmore	first=C.W.	author-link=Charles W. Gilmore	year=1924	title=A new species of hadrosaurian dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation (Cretaceous) of Alberta	journal=National Museum of Canada Bulletin. Geological Series	volume=38	issue=43	pages=13–26}}	Sp. nov.	Jr. synonym	Gilmore	Maastrichtian	Horseshoe Canyon Formation	Alberta	A new species of Thespesius, now a synonym of Edmontosaurus regalis	[[File:Edmontosaurus annectens specimen.jpg	200px]]
Velociraptor mongoliensis	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Osborn	Campanian	Djadochta Formation	Mongolia	A velociraptorine dromaeosaurid	[[File:Velociraptor mongoliensis.jpg	200px]]

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Newly named mammals

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
last=Osborn	first=H. F.	date=11 November 1924	title=Andrewsarchus, giant mesonychid of Mongolia	url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/3226	url-status=live	journal=American Museum Novitates	publisher=American Museum of Natural History	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102065222/http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/3226/N0146.pdf;jsessionid=49D5559007A639D9D5FC35E0030DF06F?sequence=1	archive-date=2 November 2020	number=146}}								[[File:Andrewsarchus09DB.jpg	thumb	[[Andrewsarchus]]]]

References

Osborn, H.F. 1924. Sauropoda and Theropoda of the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Amer. Mus. Novitates 128: pp. 1-7.
Gilmore, C.W.. (1924). "A new coelurid dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous of Alberta". National Museum of Canada Bulletin. Geological Series.
Parks, W.A. 1924. Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus, a new genus and species of armored dinosaur; with notes on a skeleton of Prosaurolophus maximus. Univ. Toronto Stud. (Geol. Ser.) 18: pp. 1-35.
Osborn, H.F.. (1924). "The discovery of an unknown continent". Natural History.
Gilmore, C.W.. (1924). "On the genus ''Stephanosaurus'', with a description of the type specimen of ''Lambeosaurus lambei'' Parks". National Museum of Canada Bulletin. Geological Series.
Haughton, S.H.. (1924). "The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg series". Annals of the South Africa Museum.
Osborn, H.F. 1924. Three new Theropoda, Protoceratops zone, central Mongolia. Amer. Mus. Novitates 144: pp. 1-12.
Gilmore, C.W.. (1924). "A new species of hadrosaurian dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation (Cretaceous) of Alberta". National Museum of Canada Bulletin. Geological Series.
Matthew, William Diller. (1924-01-15). "New Carnivora from the Tertiary of Mongolia". American Museum Novitates.
Osborn, H. F.. (11 November 1924). "Andrewsarchus, giant mesonychid of Mongolia". [[American Museum of Natural History]].

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