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Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Micropterix proavitella	Sp nov	jr synonym	Rebel Hans Rebel Hans Rebel was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.Rebel, who had an early interest in natural history and butterflies, first became a lawyer. He devoted his spare time to studying Lepidoptera and established the entomological section of the Botanical and Zoological Society of...	Early Eocene	Baltic amber Baltic amber The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite, with about 80% of the world's known amber found there. It dates from 44 million years ago...		Recombined as Baltimartyria proavitella

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky

George Olshevsky

George Olshevsky is a freelance editor, writer, publisher, amateur paleontologist, and mathematician living in San Diego, California.Olshevsky maintains the comprehensive online Dinosaur Genera List...

's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Nipponosaurus Nipponosaurus Nipponosaurus is a lambeosaurine hadrosaurid from Asia.The holotype was discovered in November 1934 during the construction of a hospital for the Kawakami colliery of the Mitsui Mining Company on Karafuto Prefecture , and additional material belonging to the specimen was recovered...	Valid taxon	Nagao
Segisaurus Segisaurus Segisaurus is a genus of small coelophysoid theropod dinosaur, that measured approximately 1 metre in length. The only known specimen was discovered in 1933 in early Jurassic strata in Tsegi Canyon, Arizona, for which it was named. Segisaurus is the only dinosaur to have ever been excavated from...	Valid taxon	Camp

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
"Odontorhynchus"	Valid taxon	Stolley

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Belesodon Belesodon Belesodon is a genus that was described by the species Belesodon magnificus.- Species:Belesodon magnificus, was the first cynodont found in the Santa Maria Formation in Paleorrota, Brazil. It was described by Friedrich von Huene in...	Valid
Cerdorhinus Cerdorhinus Cerdorhinus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Chiniquodon Chiniquodon Chiniquodon is a genus of carnivorous "mammal-like reptile", , which lived during the lower Upper Triassic in South America. These animals were up to the size of a dog. This genus seems to be most closely related to a contemporary genus, Probelesodon...	Valid
Dinogorgon Dinogorgon Dinogorgon was a gorgonopsid that lived in the Late Permian period of South Africa. Dinogorgon was a predator that ate reptiles and smaller therapsids. Its closest relatives included Lycaenops, and possibly Gorgonops. Like all other gorgonopsids, Dinogorgon perished prior to, or during the...	Valid
Dinosuchus Dinosuchus Not to be confused with Deinosuchus, a North American alligatoroid.Dinosuchus is a problematic genus of extinct alligatorid crocodylomorph. It was very large compared to other alligatorids, save for the giant caiman Purussaurus and its closest relatives...	Valid
Galerhynchus	Valid
Nanictosaurus	Valid
Notaelurops Notaelurops Notaelurops is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	Valid
Parathrinaxodon	Valid
Sysphinctostoma	Valid
Traversodon Traversodon Traversodon is a genus of therapsid. Being a cynodont, it was a relative of the direct ancestor to modern mammals. Traversodon lived in what is now the Northeastern part of the United States and South America.-Species:...	Valid

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