| 释义 |
- Arthropods Newly named insects
- Archosauromorphs Newly named pseudosuchians Newly named dinosaurs
- Plesiosaurs Newly named plesiosaurs
- Synapsids Non-mammalian
- Footnotes
- References
{{Year nav topic5|1878|paleontology|science}}{{Year in paleontology header|1878}}ArthropodsNewly named insects| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Holcorpa[1]Gen et sp nov valid ScudderPriabonianFlorissant Formation{{Flag|USA}}A scorpionfly, type sp. H. maculosa |
ArchosauromorphsO. W. Lucas recovers more material which would be referred to Laelaps trihedrodon from Morrison Formation strata near Garden Park, Colorado.[2] Newly named pseudosuchians| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
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SymphyrophusNomen dubium| Edward Drinker Cope | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) Morrison Formation{{Flag|US}}Possibly a synonym of Amphicotylus.[3] | |
Newly named dinosaurs | | | Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
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| Amphicoelias fragillimusJr. synonym | Othniel Charles Marsh | Late Jurassic (Tithonian) Unknown {{Flag|US}}Synonym of Maraapunisaurus.[4] | BrachyrophusValid Edward Drinker Cope | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) Morrison Formation{{Flag|US}}Junior subjective synonym of Camptosaurus. | CreosaurusJunior synonym| Othniel Charles Marsh | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) Morrison Formation{{Flag|US}}Synonym of Allosaurus. | DiplodocusValid Othniel Charles Marsh | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) Morrison FormationA diplodocine diplodocid. | EpanteriasNomen dubium| Edward Drinker Cope | Possible subjective synonym of Allosaurus or Saurophaganax. | HypsirhophusJunior synonym| Edward Drinker Cope | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) Morrison Formation{{Flag|US}}Synonym of Stegosaurus. | LaosaurusNomen dubium| Othniel Charles Marsh | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) Morrison Formation{{Flag|US}} | MorosaurusJr. synonym| Othniel Charles Marsh | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) Morrison Formation{{Flag|US}}Junior subjective synonym of Camarasaurus. | |
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PlesiosaursNewly named plesiosaurs | | |
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| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
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EurysaurusValid Gaudry | Early Jurassic Unknown {{Flag|France}} | |
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SynapsidsNon-mammalian| Name | Status | Authors | Discovery year | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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DimetrodonValid | EmbolophorusValid OphiacodonValid SphenacodonValid TheropleuraValid |
Footnotes1. ^{{cite journal |last=Archibald |first=SB |year=2010 |title=Revision of the scorpionfly family Holcorpidae (Mecoptera), with description of a new species from Early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada |journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France |volume=46 |issue=1-2 |pages=173–182 |doi=10.1080/00379271.2010.10697654 |url=http://www.zoologie.umh.ac.be/asef/pdf/2010_46_01_02%5CCompact%5CArchibald_2010_ASEF_46_1_2_173_182_compact.pdf}}
2. ^"Introduction," Chure (2001) page 11.
3. ^Osborn, H.F., and Mook, C. C. (1921). "Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias and other sauropods of Cope." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History NS, 3(3): 249–387.
4. ^{{Cite journal|last=Carpenter|first=K.|date=2018|title=Maraapunisaurus fragillimus, n.g. (formerly Amphicoelias fragillimus), a basal Rebbachisaurid from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Colorado|url=https://www.utahgeology.org/publication/maraapunisaurus-fragillimus-n-g-formerly-amphicoelias-fragillimus-a-basal-rebbachisaurid-from-the-morrison-formation-upper-jurassic-of-colorado/|journal=Geology of the Intermountain West|language=en-US|volume=5|issue=9|pages=227–244|issn=2380-7601|via=}}
References- {{cite book |last=Chure |first=Daniel J. |year=2001 |chapter=On the type and referred material of Laelaps trihedrodon Cope 1877 (Dinosauria: Theropoda) |editors=Tanke, Darren; and Carpenter, Kenneth (eds.) |title=Mesozoic Vertebrate Life |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Bloomington and Indianapolis |pages=10–18 |isbn=0-253-33907-3 }}
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