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Plants

Angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Arthropods

insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Archosauromorphs

Crurotarsans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Dinosaurs

Data from George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Images

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Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Location
		Haughton and Brink
		Young	193 Millions of years ago.
		Broom	257 Millions of years ago.
		Broom	257 Millions of years ago

References

(1997). "The fossil record of ''Eucommia'' (Eucommiaceae) in North America". American Journal of Botany.
(1992). "Two new species of ''Pseudolarix'' Gordon (Pinaceae) from the middle Eocene of the Pacific Northwest". PaleoBios.
(1940). "New species and changes of name in some American fossil floras". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.
(1994). "Fruits and Seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon". Palaeontographica Americana.
(1940). "Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune)". Mémoire de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle d'Auvergne.
Mook, Charles Craig. (December 26, 1940). "A new fossil crocodilian from Mongolia.". American Museum Novitates.
Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
Sternberg, R.M. 1940. A toothless bird from the Cretaceous of Alberta. J. Paleontol. 14: pp. 81-85.

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