Plants
Pinophytes
Angiosperms
Newly described insects
Molluscs
Bivalves
Fish
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Pterosaurs
* Fossil jaw fragments containing multicusped teeth were found in
Dockum Group
The Dockum is a Late Triassic (approximately late Carnian through Rhaetian, or 223–200 Ma) geologic group found primarily on the Llano Estacado of western Texas and eastern New Mexico with minor exposures in southwestern Kansas, eastern Colora ...
rocks in western Texas.
One fragment, apparently from a lower jaw, contained two teeth, each with five cusps.
Another fragment, from an upper jaw, also contained several multi-cusped teeth.
These finds are very similar to the pterosaur genus ''
Eudimorphodon
''Eudimorphodon'' was a pterosaur that was discovered in 1973 by Mario Pandolfi in the town of Cene, Italy and described the same year by Rocco Zambelli. The nearly complete skeleton was retrieved from shale deposited during the Late Triassic (mi ...
'' and may be attributable to this genus, although without better fossil remains it is impossible to be sure.
[Wellnhofer, Peter (1991). "Summary of Triassic Pterosaurs." ''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs.'' London, UK: Salamander Books Limited. p. 67. .]
New taxa
Synapsids
Mammals
References
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Paleontology
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