Lepidosaurs
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Patricosaurus Nomen dubiumHarry Govier SeeleyMiddle Cretaceous (late Albian to early Cenomanian)Cambridge GreensandAn indeterminate lepidosaur.Barrett and Evans, 2002. A reassessment of the Early Cretaceous reptile ‘Patricosaurus merocratus’ Seeley from the Cambridge Greensand, Cambridgeshire, UK. Cretaceous Research. 23, 231-240.
Archosaurs
Classification Events Harry Govier Seeley divides the Dinosaurs into two taxa based on the configuration of their hip bones.
Newly named dinosaurs
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location NotesImages Aristosuchus Valid Harry Govier Seeley Early Cretaceous (Barremian)Wessex FormationA compsognathid. Ornithodesmus ValidHarry Govier SeeleyEarly Cretaceous (Barremian)Wessex FormationA member of Paraves.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Name Status Authors Notes Orophosaurus Nomen dubium Cope Piptomerus Synonym of Cimoliasaurus Cope
Plants The Fossil Grove was discovered in Glasgow, Scotland. It contains the fossilised stumps of eleven extinct Lepidodendron trees, which are sometimes described as "giant club mosses" but they may be more closely related to quillworts.
Paleontologists Death of George Bax Holmes, a wealthy fossil collector who collaborated with Sir Richard Owen. His collection remains preserved in Brighton's Booth Museum of Natural History.
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