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==Dinosaurs==

===Newly named dinosaurs===
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.<ref name="ddinogeorge">{{cite web | last = Olshevsky | first = George | title = Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List | url = http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html | accessdate = 2008-08-07 | archive-date = 2011-07-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>

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! Name
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit 
! Location
! class="unsortable" | Notes
! class="unsortable" | Images
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| ''[[Asiatosaurus]]''<ref>Osborn, H.F. 1924. Sauropoda and Theropoda
of the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Amer. Mus.
Novitates 128: pp. 1-7.</ref>
| [[Nomen dubium]]
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
* [[Henry Fairfield Osborn]]
|
?[[Barremian]]-earliest [[Aptian]]
|
[[Öösh Formation]]
|
* {{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
An indeterminate [[sauropod]]. 
|-
| ''[[Chirostenotes]]''<ref>Gilmore, C.W. 1924. A new coelurid dinosaur
from the Belly River Cretaceous of Alberta. Bull.
Can. Dept. Mines Geol. Surv. 38: pp. 1-12.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
* [[Charles W. Gilmore]]
|
middle-late [[Campanian]]
|
[[Dinosaur Park Formation]]
|
* {{Flag|Canada}} ({{Flag|Alberta}})

| 
An [[Oviraptorosauria|Oviraptorosaur]].
|[[File:Chirostenotes BW.jpg|thumb|''[[Chirostenotes]]'']]
|-
| ''[[Dyoplosaurus]]''<ref>Parks, W.A. 1924. Dyoplosaurus
acutosquameus, a new genus and species of
armored dinosaur; with notes on a skeleton of
Prosaurolophus maximus. Univ. Toronto Stud.
(Geol. Ser.) 18: pp. 1-35.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
* [[William Parks (paleontologist)|William Parks]]
|
middle-late [[Campanian]]
|
[[Dinosaur Park Formation]]
|
* {{Flag|Canada}}({{Flag|Alberta}})

|
An [[ankylosaurid]]. 
|
|-
| "[[Fenestrosaurus]]"<ref name="unknowncontinent">Osborn, H.F. 1924. The discovery of an unknown
continent. Nat. Hist. 24: pp. 133-149.</ref> 
| ''[[Nomen nudum]]''. 
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
*[[Henry Fairfield Osborn]]
|
|
|
|
Same as ''[[Oviraptor]]''.
|-
| ''[[Lycorhinus]]''<ref name="haughton24stormberg">Haughton, S.H. 1924. The fauna and
stratigraphy of the Stormberg series. Ann. South
Africa Museum 12: pp. 323-497.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
*Haughton
|
[[Hettangian]]-[[Sinemurian]]
|
[[Elliot Formation]]
|
* {{Flag|South Africa}}
|
A [[heterodontosaurid]]. 
|-
| ''[[Melanorosaurus]]''<ref name="haughton24stormberg" />
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
*Haughton
|
late [[Norian]]-[[Rhaetian]]
|
[[Elliot Formation]]
|
* {{Flag|South Africa}}
| 
A [[melanorosaurid]].
|[[File:Melanorosaurus readi steveoc.jpg|thumb|''[[Melanorosaurus]]'']]
|-
| "[[Ornithoides]]"<ref name="osborn24three">Osborn, H.F. 1924. Three new Theropoda,
Protoceratops zone, central Mongolia. Amer.
Mus. Novitates 144: pp. 1-12.</ref>  
| ''[[Nomen nudum]]''. 
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
*[[Henry Fairfield Osborn]]
|
|
|
|
Same as ''[[Saurornithoides]]''
|
|- 
| ''[[Oviraptor]]''<ref name="osborn24three" />
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
*[[Henry Fairfield Osborn]]
|
middle-late [[Campanian]]
|
[[Djadochta Formation]]
|
* {{Flag|Mongolia}}

* {{Flag|China}}
|
An [[oviraptorid]].
|
|-
| "[[Ovoraptor]]"<ref name="unknowncontinent" />
| ''[[Nomen nudum]]''.
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
*[[Henry Fairfield Osborn]]
|
|
|
|
Same as ''[[Velociraptor]]''
|-
| ''[[Prodeinodon]]''
| ''[[Nomen dubium]]''.
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
*[[Henry Fairfield Osborn]]
|
?[[Barremian]]-early [[Aptian]]
|
[[Öösh Formation]]
|

* {{Flag|Mongolia}}


|
An indeterminate [[theropod]].
|-
| ''[[Saurornithoides]]''<ref name="unknowncontinent" />
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
*[[Henry Fairfield Osborn]]
|
middle-late [[Campanian]]
|
[[Djadochta Formation]]
|


* {{Flag|Mongolia}}

|
A [[troodontid]].
|[[File:Saurornithoides restoration.png|thumb|''[[Saurornithoides]]'']]
|-
| ''[[Velociraptor]]''<ref name="osborn24three" />
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
*[[Henry Fairfield Osborn]]
|
middle-late [[Campanian]]
|
[[Djadochta Formation]]
|

* {{Flag|China}}
* {{Flag|Mongolia}}

|
A [[velociraptorine]] [[dromaeosaurid]].
|[[File:Velociraptor mongoliensis.jpg|thumb|''[[Velociraptor]]'']]
|-
|}

==Plesiosaurs==

===New taxa===

==Synapsids==

===Non-mammalian===

===Newly named mammals===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age 
! Unit
! class="unsortable" | Location
! class="unsortable" | Notes
!Images
|-
|
''[[Amphicticeps]]''<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Matthew |first=William Diller |last2=Granger |first2=Walter |date=1924-01-15 |title=New Carnivora from the Tertiary of Mongolia |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3213 |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=104}}</ref>
|
Gen et sp nov
|
Valid
|
Matthew & Granger
|
[[Oligocene]]
|
[[Hsanda Gol Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
An [[Amphicynodontidae|amphicynodont]], type species is ''A. shackelfordi''
|
|-
|''[[Andrewsarchus]]''<ref name="Osborn1924">{{cite journal |last=Osborn |first=H. F. |date=11 November 1924 |title=Andrewsarchus, giant mesonychid of Mongolia |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/3226 |url-status=live |journal=[[American Museum Novitates]] |publisher=[[American Museum of Natural History]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102065222/http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/3226/N0146.pdf;jsessionid=49D5559007A639D9D5FC35E0030DF06F?sequence=1 |archive-date=2 November 2020 |number=146}}</ref>
|
Gen et sp nov
|
Valid
| 
*[[Henry Fairfield Osborn]]
|
middle [[Eocene]]
|
[[Irdin Manha Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Cetancodontamorpha|cetancodontamorph]] originally thought to be a [[mesonychia]]n.
|[[File:Andrewsarchus09DB.jpg|thumb|''[[Andrewsarchus]]'']]
|-
|
''[[Bunaelurus parvulus]]''<ref name=":0" />
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Sp nov
|
jr synonym
|
Matthew & Granger
|
[[Oligocene]]
|
[[Hsanda Gol Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
Junior synonym of ''[[Palaeogale]] sectoria''
|
|-
|
''[[Bunaelurus ulysses]]''<ref name=":0" />
|
Sp nov
|
jr synonym
|
Matthew & Granger
|
[[Oligocene]]
|
[[Hsanda Gol Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
Junior synonym of ''[[Palaeogale]] sectoria''
|
|-
|
''[[Cynodictis elegans]]''<ref name=":0" />
|
Sp nov
|
Valid
|
Matthew & Granger
|
[[Oligocene]]
|
[[Hsanda Gol Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
An [[amphicyonid]]
|
|-
|
''[[Cynodon (Pachycynodon) teilhardi]]''<ref name=":0" />
|
Sp nov
|
jr synonym
|
Matthew & Granger
|
[[Oligocene]]
|
[[Hsanda Gol Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
An [[Amphicynodontidae|amphicynodont]], moved to ''[[Amphicynodon]] teilhardi''
|
|-
|
''[[Didymoconus]]''<ref name=":0" />
|
Gen et sp nov
|
Valid
|
Matthew & Granger
|
[[Oligocene]]
|
[[Hsanda Gol Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
A [[Didymoconida|didymoconid]], includes the species ''D. colgatei'' & ''D. berkeyi''
|
|-
|
''[[Hyaenodon pervagus]]''<ref name=":0" />
|
Sp nov
|
Valid
|
Matthew & Granger
|
[[Oligocene]]
|
[[Hsanda Gol Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
A [[hyaenodont]]
|
|-
|
''[[Palaeoprionodon gracilis]]''<ref name=":0" />
|
Jr synonym
|
Valid
|
Matthew & Granger
|
[[Oligocene]]
|
[[Hsanda Gol Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
Moved to the genus ''[[Asiavorator]]''.
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|-
|
''[[Paracynohyaenodon morrisi]]''<ref name=":0" />
|
Sp nov
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jr synonym
|
Matthew & Granger
|
[[Oligocene]]
|
[[Irdin Manha Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[hyaenodont]], moved to ''[[Propterodon morrisi]]'' in [[1993 in paleontology|1993]]
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|-
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''[[Viverravus constans]]''<ref name=":0" />
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Sp nov
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jr synonym
|
Matthew & Granger
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[[Oligocene]]
|
[[Hsanda Gol Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
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A carnivoran, moved to ''[[Shandgolictis]] constans''
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|-
|}

==References==
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