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Plants

Ferns and fern allies

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images

Flowering plants

Magnoliids

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
								synonymy}}	Magnolia sp.
of Knowlton (1926)

Monocots

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images

Basal Eudicots and unplaced core Eudicots

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
								synonymy}}	Acer merriami
Auct non. Knowlton. nec Knowlton, (1926)

Superasterids - basal

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
								synonymy}}

Superasterids

Name	Notes	Images
	synonymy}}	Arbutus traini
MacGinitie (1933)
	synonymy}}	Magnolia sp.
of Knowlton (1926)
	synonymy}}	Odostemon hollicki
auct. non Dorf. nec. MacGinitie (1933)

Superrosids

Name	Notes	Images
	synonymy}}	Acer dimorphum
Lesquereux (1888)
	synonymy}}	Acer chaneyi
Knowlton (1926)
	synonymy}}	Betula elliptica
auct. non Saporta nec Lesquereux (1883)
	synonymy}}	Betula bryani
Knowlton 1926
	synonymy}}	Comptonia acutiloba
(Lesquereux) Cockerell (1906)
	synonymy}}	Fagopsis longifolia
auct. non (Lesquereux) Hollick nec. Berry (1929)

Angiosperms - other

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Vertebrates

Dinosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
"Bactrosaurus prynadai"		Nomen nudum	Riabinin	Santonian	Dabrazinskaya Svita	Kazakhstan	A species of Bactrosaurus, formally described in 1939
last=Riabinin	first=A.N.	year=1937	title=О Находке Шлемоносных Форм Dinosauria В Верхнемеловых Отложениях Южного Казахстана	trans-title=The discovery of crested forms of Upper Cretaceous dinosaurs in southern Kazakhstan	journal=Priroda. Новости науки	volume=1937	issue=9	page=91}}		Nomen nudum	Riabinin	Santonian	Dabrazinskaya Svita	Kazakhstan	A hadrosaurid, formally described in 1939
Parksosaurus	Gen. nov.	Valid	Sternberg	Maastrichtian	Horseshoe Canyon Formation	Canada	A new genus name for Thescelosaurus warreni	[[File:Parksosaurus Steveoc86.jpg	200px]]

Synapsids

Authors	Age	Notes	Images
Olson	255 Millions of years ago	A Gorgonopsian.	[[File:Cyonosaurus1DB.jpg	thumb	[[Cyonosaurus]]]]
		Junior Synonym of Thrinaxodon.
Broom	255 Millions of years ago	One of the Earliest-Known Cynodonts.	[[File:Procynosuchus BW.jpg	thumb	[[Procynosuchus]]]]
Young	245 Millions of years ago	A Chinese Kannemeyerid Dicynodont.	[[File:Sinokannemeyeria1db.jpg	thumb	[[Sinokannemeyeria]]]]

Popular culture

Amusement parks and attractions

August 28th: The Calgary Zoo's Prehistoric Park opened. Paleontologist Darren Tanke has described Prehistoric Park as "an extensive treed park and pathways containing numerous life-sized concrete dinosaurs and other prehistoric life". It also had "two long, walkthrough display buildings containing a Corythosaurus skeleton and individual dinosaur bones", as well as exhibits of paleozoic invertebrates and prehistoric plants. It became a popular attraction among visitors to the zoo.

Literature

In 1937, Morant imagined a feathered dinosaur-like animal that lived during the Triassic and glided about on four wings. This portrayal reflected contemporary scientific speculations attempting to reconstruct the hypothetical ancestor of birds. Fossils from China later revealed the existence of just this sort of animal.

References

(1937). "Additions to some fossil floras of the Western United States". 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.
(1929). "A revision of the flora of the Latah Formation". United States Geological Survey.
(1937). "Les lignites et schistes bitumineux de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme). II: Les insectes fossiles de Menat.". Revue des Sciences Naturelles d'Auvergne.
Riabinin, A.N.. (1937). "О Находке Шлемоносных Форм Dinosauria В Верхнемеловых Отложениях Южного Казахстана". Priroda. Новости науки.
Sternberg, C.H. 1937. Classification of ''Thescelosaurus'': A description of a new species. Proc. Geol. Soc. Amer. 1936: p. 375.
Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, p. 504–529.
D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541–550.

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