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Vertebrates

Conodonts

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images

Jawless fish

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images

Crocodylomorphs

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Brasileosaurus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Huene	Turonian	Adamantina Formation	Brazil		Named as a coelurosaurbut reclassified as a notosuchid

Dinosaurs

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Carcharodontosaurus	Gen. et comb. nov.	Valid	Stromer	Cenomanian	Bahariya Formation	Egypt	A new genus for Megalosaurus saharicus	[[File:Carcharodontosaurus saharicus skeletal.jpg	200px]]
last=Riabinin	first=A.N.	year=1930	title=К вопросу о фауне и возрасте динозавровых слоев на р. Амур	trans-title=On the dinosaurian remains from the Upper Cretaceous of the lower parts of the Amu-Daria River	journal=Записки Российского минералогического общества	volume=60	issue=1	pages=114-118}}	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Riabinin	Cenomanian	Dzharakuduk Formation	Uzbekistan	A species of Cionodon
Embasaurus minax	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Riabinin	Berriasian	Neocomian sands	Kazakhstan	A theropod of uncertain placement
Orthogoniosaurus matleyi	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Das-Gupta	Maastrichtian	Lameta Formation	India	An indeterminate theropod tooth-taxon
last=Wiman	first=C.	year=1931	title=Parasaurolophus tubicen n. sp. aus der Kreide in New Mexico	journal=Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientarum Upsaliensis, Series IV	volume=7	issue=5	pages=3-11}}	Sp. nov.	Valid	Wiman	Campanian	Kirtland Formation	USA	A species of Parasaurolophus
last=Parks	first=W.A.	author-link=William A. Parks	year=1931	title=A new genus and two new species of trachodont dinosaurs from the Belly River Formation of Alberta	journal=University of Toronto. Geological Studies	volume=31	pages=1–11}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Jr. synonym	Parks	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	A juvenile of Lambeosaurus
Tetragonosaurus erectofrons	Sp. nov.	Jr. synonym	Parks	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	A juvenile of Corythosaurus

Synapsids

New taxa

Authors	Age	Notes	Images
Watson	250 Millions of years ago.	Despite the meaning of his name, it was not related to lizards.	[[File:Ericiolacerta BW.jpg	thumb	[[Ericiolacerta]]]]
Broom
Broom	261 Millions of years ago.
Broom	257 Millions of years ago.		[[File:Ictidosuchoides.jpg	thumb	[[Ictidosuchoides]]]]
Huene	261 Millions of years ago.	A protomammal with strange bumps on its head.	[[File:KeratocephalusDB.jpg	thumb	[[Keratocephalus]]]]
Broom	257 Millions of years ago.
Boonstra

Arthropods

Insects

Blattoidea

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Coleoptera

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Diptera

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Hymenoptera

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Hemiptera

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Plants

Angiosperms

Monocots

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Superasterids

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Superrosids

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''Incertae sedis''

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images

References

(1931). "Conodonts from the Fort Scott Limestone of Missouri". Journal of Paleontology.
(1931). "Fishes of the Jefferson Formation of Utah". The Journal of Geology.
Huene, F. 1931. Die fossilien Faehrten in Rhaet von Ischigualasto in Nordwest Argentinien. Paleob. 4 (2) Viena.
(1937). "An ancient eusuchian crocodile from Patagonia". American Museum Novitates.
Stromer, E. 1931. Vertebrate animal remainders of the Baharije stage (lowest Cenoman). 10. A skeleton remainder of ''Carcharodontosaurus'' Nov. towards. Abh. Bavarian Akad. Wissensch. Math. natutwiss. Abbott. 9: pp. 1 23.
Riabinin, A.N.. (1930). "К вопросу о фауне и возрасте динозавровых слоев на р. Амур". Записки Российского минералогического общества.
Riabinin, A.N. 1931. Two dinosaurian vertebrae from the Lower Cretaceous of Transcaspian Steppes. Zapiski Russkogo Min. Obshchestva (ser. 2) 60: pp. 110-113.
Dasgupta, H.C. 1931. On a new theropod dinosaur (''Orthogoniosaurus matleyi'', n. gen. et. n. sp.) from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal. 26: pp. 367-369.
Wiman, C.. (1931). "''Parasaurolophus tubicen'' n. sp. aus der Kreide in New Mexico". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientarum Upsaliensis, Series IV.
Parks, W.A.. (1931). "A new genus and two new species of trachodont dinosaurs from the Belly River Formation of Alberta". University of Toronto. Geological Studies.
(1931). "Insects from the Miocene (Latah) of Washington IV. Isoptera". Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
(1971). "Tertiary fossil species of the Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera), phylogeny of genera, and reciprocal phylogeny of associated Flagellata (Protozoa) and the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
(1931). "Insects from the Miocene (Latah) of Washington V. Coleoptera". Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
(2015). "Subfamily Limoniinae Speiser, 1909 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic Amber (Eocene): The Genus ''Elephantomyia'' Osten Sacken, 1860". PLOS ONE.
(1931). "Insects from the Miocene (Latah) of Washington II. Hymenoptera and Hemiptera". Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
(1931). "Insects from the Miocene (Latah) of Washington II. Hymenoptera and Hemiptera". Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
(1931). "Insects from the Miocene (Latah) of Washington II. Hymenoptera and Hemiptera". Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
(1932). "Shorter contributions to general geology, 1931". United States Geological Survey.
(1959). "Miocene Floras of the Columbia Plateau: Part II. Systematic Considerations, by Ralph W. Chaney and Daniel I. Axelrod". Carnegie Institution of Washington.
(1997). "Fossil record and ecology of Nyssa (Cornaceae)". The Botanical Review.
(1946). "Alterations in some fossil and living floras". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.

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