Plants
Angiosperms
Arthropods
insects
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data from George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
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1940s in paleontology
Paleontology
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