- Plants Angiosperms
- Arthropods insects
- Dinosaurs Newly named dinosaurs
- Plesiosaurs New taxa
- Synapsids Non-mammalian
- References
{{Year nav topic5|1940|paleontology|science}}{{Year in paleontology header|1940}}PlantsAngiosperms| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Eucommia eocenica[1]Species valid (Berry) Brown Middle EoceneClaiborne Formation{{flag|USA}}new generic placement of Simaroubites eocenica Eucommia montana[1]Species valid BrownMiddle EoceneRenova Formation{{flag|USA}}Eucommia species, found across Western North America |
Arthropodsinsects| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Centrinus longipes[2]Sp nov valid PitonThanetianMenat Formation{{flag|France}}A weevil Lixus ligniticus[2]Sp nov valid PitonThanetianMenat Formation{{flag|France}}A weevil Doryderes laticollis[2]Sp nov valid PitonThanetianMenat Formation{{flag|France}}A pentatomid stinkbug Phaenolobus arvernus[2]Sp nov valid PitonThanetianMenat Formation{{flag|France}}An ichneumonid wasp
DinosaursNewly named dinosaursData from George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.[3] | Name | Status | Authors | Location | Images |
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| Caenagnathus[4] | Valid taxon | | - {{flag|Canada}} ({{flag|Alberta}})
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PlesiosaursNew taxa | | |
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| Name | Status | Authors | Location | Images |
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SeeleyosaurusValid White | | TremamesacleisJr. Synonim of Muraenosaurus. White | | |
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SynapsidsNon-mammalian| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Location |
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AelurosauroidesJr. Synonim of Aelurosaurus. }} --> | AelurosauropsisValid Haughton and Brink | BienotheriumValid Young | 193 Millions of years ago. | DicynodontoidesValid Broom | 257 Millions of years ago.- {{Flag|South Africa}}
- {{Flag|Tanzania}}
- {{Flag|Zambia}}
| LeontocephalusJr. Synonim of Aelurognathus. NanictocephalusValid Broom | 257 Millions of years ago | ProrubidgeaJr. Synonim of Aelurognathus |
References{{Portal|Paleontology}}1. ^1 {{cite journal |last1=Call |first1=V.B. |last2=Dilcher |first2=D.L. |year=1997 |title=The fossil record of Eucommia (Eucommiaceae) in North America |journal= American Journal of Botany |volume=84 |issue=6 |pages=798–814 |url= http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/reprint/84/6/798.pdf |doi=10.2307/2445816 |pmid=21708632}}
2. ^1 2 3 {{cite journal |last1=Piton |first1=L. |year=1940 |title=Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) |journal=Mémoire de la Société d'Histoire naturelle d'Auvergne |volume=1 |issue= |pages=1–303 |url=}}
3. ^{{cite web| last = Olshevsky| first = George | title = Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List | url = http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html| accessdate = 2008-08-07 }}
4. ^Sternberg, R.M. 1940. A toothless bird from theCretaceous of Alberta. J. Paleontol. 14: pp. 81-85.
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