1902 in paleontology explained

Plants

Ferns and allies

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Ctenopteris columbiensis[1]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Lower Cretaceous			A Ctenopteris pinnule
Sagenopteris oblongifolia	Sp nov		Penhallow	Lower Cretaceous			A Sagenopteris pinnule

Angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Clintonia oblongifolia	Sp nov		Penhallow	Eocene	Paskapoo Formation		A Clintonia leaf morphospecies
Majanthemophyllum grandifolium	Sp nov		Penhallow	Eocene			A green briar leaf morphospecies
Viburnum ovatum	Sp nov		Penhallow	Eocene			A viburnum leaf morphospecies

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[2]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Dacentrurus[3]	Gen. nov.	Valid taxon	Frederic Augustus Lucas	Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian	Kimmeridge Clay	,,,	A dacentrurine stegosaurid. New name for Omosaurus armatus Owen, 1875 non Leidy, 1856.
Didanodon[4]	Gen. nov.	Nomen nudum	Henry Fairfield Osborn	Late Cretaceous, Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	A dubious hadrosaurid, possibly Lambeosaurus. Didanodon was a new genus name for Trachodon altidens Lambe, 1902.
Elosaurus parvus[5]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Junior synonym	O.A. Peterson & Charles Whitney Gilmore	Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian	Morrison Formation	United States	Genus is a junior synonym of Brontosaurus, while the species has been reassigned as Brontosaurus parvus.
Hoplitosaurus	Gen. nov.	Valid taxon	Frederic Augustus Lucas	Early Cretaceous, Barremian	Lakota Formation		New genus name for Stegosaurus marshi (Lucas, 1901).
Onychosaurus[6]	gen et sp nov	Nomen dubium	Nopcsa	Late Cretaceous			A dubious name that may be a synonym of Zalmoxes.
Stegoceras[7]	gen et sp nov	Valid taxon	Lambe	Late Cretaceous	Belly River Group	,	A pachycephalosaur.
Stereocephalus	gen et sp nov	Preoccupied	Lambe	Late Cretaceous	Belly River Group		Later renamed Euoplocephalus.

References

1. Book: Penhallow . D. P. . 1902 . Notes on Cretaceous and Tertiary plants of Canada. . Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 1902-03 . Ottawa, Canada . Royal Society of Canada . 2 . 8 (sect 4) . 31–91.
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. Lucas. F.A.. 1902. Paleontological notes: The generic name Omosaurus. A new generic name for Stegosaurus marshi. Science. 16. 402. 435.
4. Osborn. H.F.. 1902. On Vertebrata of the Mid-Cretaceous of the Northwest Territory. I:Distinctive characters of the Mid-Cretaceous fauna. Contributions to Canadian Paleontology. 3. 4. 1–21.
5. Peterson. O.A.. Gilmore. C.W.. 1902. Elosaurus parvus a new genus and species of Sauropoda. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 1. 490–499.
6. Nopcsa. F.. 1902. Notizen uber Cretacische Dinosaurier (Mochlodon u. Onychosaurus). Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathnat. Kl. Wien. 39. 42–44.
7. Lambe, L.M. 1902. New genera and species from the Belly River Series (mid-Cretaceous). Contrib. Canadian Palaeonto1. Geol. Surv. Can. 3: pp. 25-81.
8. Huene, F. von. 1902. Ubersicht uber die Reptilien der Trias. Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungne, n. f. 6 (1): 83 pages.