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Mosses

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Amygdalodon	Nomen dubium	Cabrera	Middle Jurassic Toarcian	* Argentina	A sauropod known from some vertebrae, ribs, four complete and three partial teeth, and a partial pelvis and shoulder-blade.	[[Image:Amygdalodon LM.png	thumb	center	200px	Amygdalodon]]

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
ArizonasaurusWelles, S.P. 1947. Vertebrates from the upper	Valid	Welles	Middle Triassic (Anisian)	USA (Arizona and New Mexico)	A poposaurid.	[[Image:Arizonasaurus BW.jpg	thumb	center	200px	Arizonasaurus]]

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Kunminia	Valid	Young	Sinemurian	* China

Other Animals

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
last = Sprigg	first = Reg C.	year = 1947	title = Early Cambrian (?) jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia	journal = Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust.	volume = 71	pages=212–24	url = http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/Journals/TRSSA/TRSSA_V071/trssa_v071_p212p224.pdf	url-status = dead	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092905/http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/Journals/TRSSA/TRSSA_v071/trssa_v071_p212p224.pdf	archive-date = 2007-09-29}}	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Sprigg	Ediacaran	Australia	The type species is B. gilesi.
Cyclomedusa	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Sprigg	Ediacaran	Australia	The type species is C. davidii.	[[File:Cyclomedusa.jpg	150px]]
Dickinsonia	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Sprigg	Ediacaran	Australia Russia and Ukraine	A bilaterian of uncertain affinities. The type species is D. costata.	[[File:DickinsoniaCostata.jpg	150px]]
Ediacaria	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Sprigg	Ediacaran	Australia	The type species is E. flindersi.	[[File:Ediacaria (35159560925).jpg	150px]]
Papilionata	Gen. et sp. nov.	Synonym of Dickinsonia	Sprigg	Ediacaran	Australia	The type species is P. eyrei.

References

(1952). "Catalogue of the Cenozoic plants of North America through 1950". [[Geological Society of America]].
(1980). "The Mosses of North America".
Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
Cabrera, A. 1947. Un sauropodo nuevo del Jurasico de Patagonia. Motas Mus. La Plata 12 Paleontol. 95: pp. 1-17.
Sprigg, Reg C.. (1947). "Early Cambrian (?) jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia". Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust..

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