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1943 in paleontology

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Dinosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
last=Hoffet	first=J.-H.	year=1943	title=Description des ossements les plus caractéristiques appartenant à des Avipelviens du Sénonien du Bas-Laos	journal=Comptes Rendus des Séances du Conseil des Recherches Scientifiques de l'Indochine 1944	pages=179–186}}	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Hoffet	Aptian-Albian	Grès supérieurs Formation	Laos	A species of Mandschurosaurus
Pachycephalosaurus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Brown & Schlaikjer	Maastrichtian	Lance Formation	USA	A new genus which at the time had the type species P. grangeri and includes the new combination for Troodon wyomingensis, P. grangeri is a synonym of P. wyomingensis which is a conserved name
Troodon sternbergi	Sp. nov.	Valid	Brown & Schlaikjer	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	A species of Troodon now Hanssuesia sternbergi
Troodon edmontonensis	Sp. nov.	Valid	Brown & Schlaikjer	Maastrichtian	Horseshoe Canyon Formation	Canada	A species of Troodon now Sphaerotholus edmontonense

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Images

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Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
		Romer	237 millions of years ago		The Dicinodont with terrible teeth.	[[File:Dinodontosaurus1DB.jpg	thumb	[[Dinodontosaurus]]]][[File:Exaeretodon BW.jpg	thumb	[[Exaeretodon]]]]
		Cabrera	226 millions of years ago		This was a plant-eating Cynodont.

References

Hoffet, J.-H.. (1943). "Description des ossements les plus caractéristiques appartenant à des Avipelviens du Sénonien du Bas-Laos". Comptes Rendus des Séances du Conseil des Recherches Scientifiques de l'Indochine 1944.
Brown, B. and E.M. Schlaikjer. 1943. A study of the troodont dinosaurs with the description of a new genus and four new species. Bull. Am. Museum. Nat. Hist. 82: pp. 121-149.

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