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Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
last = Emerson	first = A.E.	year = 1971	title = Tertiary fossil species of the Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera), phylogeny of genera, and reciprocal phylogeny of associated Flagellata (Protozoa) and the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)	journal = Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History	volume = 146	issue = 3	pages = 243–304	hdl = 2246/1093	url = https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/1093 }}	Gen. 4 comb nov	valid	Snyder & Emerson	Ypresian-Miocene	Latah Formation	USA
Washington	A Stylotermitid termite genus.
The type species is Stylotermes washingtonensis
Also includes S. calico, S. frazieri, & S. robustus.	[[File:ZooKeys-148-105-g001 Parastylotermes krishnai.jpg	thumb	center	[[Parastylotermes krishnai]]]]
last = Snyder	first = T.	year = 1949	title = A new Miocene Ulmeriella (fossil Isoptera, Hodotermitidae)	journal = Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington	volume = 51	issue = 4	pages = 164–165 }}	Sp nov.	Valid	Snyder	Miocene	Latah Formation	USA
Washington	A harvester termite

Archosauromorphs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Elachistosuchus	Gen et sp nov	valid	Janensch	Late Triassic (Norian)	* Germany	A neodiapsid reptile.

Plesiosaurs

Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
	Jr. Synonym of Theriognathus.	Broom and Robinson	Wuchiapingian	South Africa
	Valid	Broom	Wuchiapingian	South Africa	A therocephalian
Lemurosaurus	Valid	Broom	Wuchiapingian	* South Africa	A biarmosuchian	[[File:Lemurosaurus.jpg	thumb	[[Lemurosaurus]]]]
	Valid	Broom	Wuchiapingian	South Africa	A dicynodont

Other Animals

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
last = Sprigg	first = R.C.	year = 1949	title = Early Cambrian "jellyfishes" of Ediacara, South Australia, and Mount John, Kimberley District, Western Australia	journal = Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia	volume = 73	pages = 72–99	url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/82729 }}	Sp nov	Synonym of Dickinsonia costata	Sprigg	Ediacaran	Australia

References

Welles, Samuel P. and Bump, J. D.; 1949; Alzadasaurus pembertoni, a new elasmosaur from the Late Cretaceous of South Dakota; Journal of Paleontology; 23(5) pp. 521–535
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

Emerson, A.E.. (1971). "Tertiary fossil species of the Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera), phylogeny of genera, and reciprocal phylogeny of associated Flagellata (Protozoa) and the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
Snyder, T.. (1949). "A new Miocene ''Ulmeriella'' (fossil Isoptera, Hodotermitidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
Welles and Bump (1949). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
Sprigg, R.C.. (1949). "Early Cambrian "jellyfishes" of Ediacara, South Australia, and Mount John, Kimberley District, Western Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.

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