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Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Cystosaurus[1]	Gen. nov.	Nomen oblitum	Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire			France	Probably a teleosaurid crocodyliform in addition to being "forgotten."[2]
Hylaeosaurus[3]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Gideon Algernon Mantell	Early Cretaceous, 140–136 million years ago[4]	Tilgate Forest, Grinstead Clay Formation, Westfalen[5]		Hylaeosaurus was named in 1833 by Mantell for most of a skeleton including an isolated tail. This material was then later described in more detail by Mantell and Alexander Gordon Melville in an 1849 publication entitled Additional Observations on the Osteology of the Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus.[6]

Pterosaurs

New taxa

References

1. Saint-Hilaire. G.É-F.. 1833. Considérations sur les ossements fossiles, la plupart inconnus, trouvés et observés dans les bassins d'Auvergne. Revue Encyclopédique. 59. 76–95.
2. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
3. Mantell. G.A.. 1833. Observations on the remains of the Iguanodon, and other fossil reptiles, of the strata of Tilgate Forest in Sussex. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London. 1. 410–411.
4. Naish. D.. Martill. D.M.. 2008. Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the role of the Geological Society of London in their discovery: Ornithischia. Journal of the Geological Society. London. 165. 3. 613–623. 10.1144/0016-76492007-154. 2008JGSoc.165..613N. 129624992.
5. Sachs . S. . Hornung . J. J. . Evans . David C . 10.1371/journal.pone.0060571 . Ankylosaur Remains from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of Northwestern Germany . PLOS ONE . 8 . 4 . e60571 . 2013 . 23560099. 3616133. 2013PLoSO...860571S . free .
6. Mantell. G.A.. Melville. A.G.. 1849. Additional Observations on the Osteology of the Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 139. 271–305. 108479. 10.1098/rstl.1849.0015. 83530724.
7. Bennett. C.S.. 2002. Soft Tissue Preservation of the Cranial Crest of the Pterosaur Germanodactylus from Solnhofen. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22. 1. 43–48. 10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0043:STPOTC]2.0.CO;2. 4524192.
8. Bennett. C.S.. 2013. New information on body size and cranial display structures of Pterodactylus antiquus, with a revision of the genus. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 87. 2. 269–289. 10.1007/s12542-012-0159-8. 83722829.