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Arthropods

Newly named Arachnids

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Newly named insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Dinosaurs

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Bactrosaurus prynadai	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Riabinin	Santonian	Dabrazinskaya Svita	Kazakhstan	A species of Bactrosaurus
last=Riabinin	first=A.N.	year=1939	title=The Upper Cretaceous Vertebrate Fauna of South Kazakhstan. I. Reptilia. Part 1. I. Ornithischia	journal=Transactions of the Central Geological and Prospecting Institute	issue=118	pages=1-39}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Riabinin	Santonian	Dabrazinskaya Svita	Kazakhstan	A hadrosaurid
Omeisaurus junghsiensis	Gen. et sp. nov .	Valid	Yang	Bathonian-Callovian	Shaximiao Formation	China	A sauropod

Plesiosaurs

Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.

References

Riggs, Elmer Samuel; 1939a; A specimen of Elasmosaurus serpentinus; Geological Series of Field Museum of Natural History; VI(No. 25) pp. 385–391
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.

References

(1939). "Description de quelques arignées fossils". Revue Française d'Entomologie.
(1997). "Genera of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Baltic amber". Paleontological Journal.
(2014). "Micro-CT studies of amber inclusions reveal internal genitalic features of big-headed flies, enabling a systematic placement of ''Metanephrocerus'' Aczel, 1948 (Insecta: Diptera: Pipunculidae)". Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny.
(2014). "Early Eocene big headed flies (Diptera: Pipunculidae) from the Okanagan Highlands, western North America". The Canadian Entomologist.
Riabinin, A.N.. (1939). "The Upper Cretaceous Vertebrate Fauna of South Kazakhstan. I. Reptilia. Part 1. I. Ornithischia". Transactions of the Central Geological and Prospecting Institute.
Riggs (1939). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.

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