Arthropods
Newly named insects
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
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1940s in paleontology
Paleontology
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