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Plants
Ferns and fern allies
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
A horsetail species. |
Flowering plants
Magnoliids
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
A Machilus species. |
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Sp nov |
A Machilus species. |
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Comb nov |
synonymy
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A Magnolia species. |
Monocots
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Syn nov |
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A greenbriar species. |
Basal Eudicots and unplaced core Eudicots
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Brown |
First described as a Tetracera species. |
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Comb nov |
(Knowlton) Brown |
synonymy
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A grape species |
Superasterids - basal
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Comb nov |
( Knowlton) Brown
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Phyllites peculiaris |
A Philadelphus species. |
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Comb nov |
( Knowlton) Brown
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synonymy
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A Vaccinium species. |
Superasterids
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Nom nov. |
jr synonym |
Aralia whitneyi non Lesquereux nec Berry, (1929) |
First named as an Macginitiea gracilis (1987 )
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Comb nov |
( Knowlton) Brown
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synonymy
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An Arbutus species. |
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Comb nov |
synonymy
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A Hydrangea species. |
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Comb nov |
Strawberry Volcanics |
synonymy
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An Oregon grape species. |
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Comb nov |
A viburnum species. |
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Syn nov |
Aesculus hesperia Berry (1929) |
A viburnum species. |
Superrosids
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Syn nov |
synonymy
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A maple species. |
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Syn nov |
John Day Formation |
synonymy
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A maple species. |
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Syn nov |
John Day Formation |
Alnus prerhombifolia Berry (1929) |
An alder species.Two species synonymized in. |
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Comb nov |
synonymy
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An ) |
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Comb nov |
synonymy |
A birch species .Three species synonymized in |
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Sp nov |
A birch species .
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Comb nov |
A ) |
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Syn nov |
( Cockerell
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A cotton-easter species. |
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Sp nov |
A sapindaceous species. |
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Comb nov |
Jr synonym |
synonymy
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A sapindaceous species. |
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Syn nov |
A beech species.One species synonymized in. |
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Syn nov |
Acalypha myricina |
A rhamnaceous species. |
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Comb nov |
A wingnut species. |
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Comb et syn nov |
A ) |
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Comb nov |
synonymy
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A Zelkova species. |
Angiosperms - other
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Comb nov |
valid? |
Latah Formation |
A fruit or seed of uncertain affinity |
Arthropods
Insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
A Trogossitid bark gnawing beetle |
Vertebrates
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[6]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Riabinin |
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Gen et comb nov |
Valid |
A parksosaurid
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Olson | 255 Millions of years ago | A Gorgonopsian. | |||
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Junior Synonym |
Junior Synonym of Thrinaxodon. | ||||
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Broom | 255 Millions of years ago | One of the Earliest-Known Cynodonts .
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Young | 245 Millions of years ago | A Chinese Dicynodont .
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Popular culture
Amusement parks and attractions
- August 28th: The Calgary Zoo's Prehistoric Park opened. Paleontologist Darren Tanke has described Prehistoric Park as "an extensive treed park and pathways containing numerous life-sized concrete dinosaurs and other prehistoric life". It also had "two long, walkthrough display buildings containing a prehistoric plants. It became a popular attraction among visitors to the zoo.[9]
Literature
- In 1937, Morant imagined a ancestor of birds. Fossils from China later revealed the existence of just this sort of animal.[10]
References
- OCLC 46769716.
- ^ doi:10.3133/pp186J.
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- doi:10.3133/pp154h. 154-H.
- ^ Piton, L.; Théobald, N. (1937). "Les lignites et schistes bitumineux de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme). II: Les insectes fossiles de Menat". Revue des Sciences Naturelles d'Auvergne. 3 (2): 76–88.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Riabinin, A.N. 1937. A new finding of dinosaurs in the Trans-Baikal region. Ezheg Vserossijskogo Pal. Obstcg. 11: pp. 142–144.
- ^ Sternberg, C.H. 1937. Classification of Thescelosaurus: A description of a new species. Proc. Geol. Soc. Amer. 1936: p. 375.
- ^ D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541–550.
- ^ Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, p. 504–529.