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Conodonts

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Images
Lochriea	valid

Dinosaurs

New taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
last1=Lull	first1=R.S.	authorlink1=Richard Swann Lull	last2=Wright	first2=N.E.	year=1942	title=Hadrosaurian Dinosaurs of North America	journal=Geological Society of America Special Papers	volume=40	pages=1–272	doi=10.1130/SPE40-p1}}	Gen. nov.	Jr. synonym	Lull & Wright	Maastrichtian	Frenchman Formation, Hell Creek Formation, Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Lance Formation	Alberta, Montana, Saskatchewan, Wyoming	A new genus for Claosaurus annectens and other species
Chienkosaurus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Yang	Tithonian	Kuangyuan Series	China	A dubious theropod
Kritosaurus breviceps	Comb. nov.	Nomen dubium	Lull & Wright	Campanian	Judith River Formation	Montana	A new combination for Hadrosaurus breviceps
Procheneosaurus altidens	Comb. nov.	Nomen dubium	Lull & Wright	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A new combination for Trachodon altidens
Procheneosaurus cranibrevis	Comb. nov.	Jr. synonym	Lull & Wright	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A new combination for Tetragonosaurus cranibrevis, now a juvenile Lambeosaurus
Procheneosaurus praeceps	Comb. nov.	Jr. synonym	Lull & Wright	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A new combination for Tetragonosaurus praeceps, now a juvenile of Lambeosaurus
Procheneosaurus erectofrons	Comb. nov.	Jr. synonym	Lull & Wright	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Alberta	A new combination for Tetragonosaurus erectofrons, now a juvenile Corythosaurus
Sinocoelurus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Yang	Tithonian	Kuangyuan Series	China	A dubious theropod
Spondylosoma	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Huene	Ladinian	Santa Maria Formation	Brazil	An aphanosaur	[[File:Spondylosoma skeletal Headden.png	200px]]
Szechuanosaurus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Yang	Tithonian	Kuangyuan Series	China	A dubious theropod
Yunnanosaurus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Yang	Sinemurian	Lufeng Formation	China	A prosauropod

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
		Broom

References

Conodont Assemblages from the Heath Formation, Montana. Harold W. Scott, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 16, No. 3 (May, 1942), pp. 293-300 ([https://www.jstor.org/stable/1298905 Stable URL])
(1942). "Hadrosaurian Dinosaurs of North America". Geological Society of America Special Papers.
Young C.-C. 1942. Fossil vertebrates from Kuangynan, N. Szechuan, China. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 22: pp. 293-309.
Huene, F. Von. 1942. Die fossilen Reptilien des sudamerikanischen Gondwanalandes. Ergebnisse der Sauriergrabuiigen in Shdbrasilien 1928/29. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich.
Young . C.C. 1942. Yunnanosauris huangi (gen. et sp. nov.) a new Prosauropoda from the red Beds at Lufeng, Yunnan. Bull Geol. Soc. China. 22: pp. 63-104.

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