1925 in paleontology explained

Plants

Angiosperms

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Mesoraphidiidae^[4]	Fam nov	valid	Martynov	Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous	Northern Hemisphere		Extinct snakefly family The type genus is Mesoraphidia
Inocellia exusta^[5]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Cockerell & Custer	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation		An inocelliid snakefly moved to Fibla exusta in 1936^[6]

Archosauromorpha

General pseudosuchian research

• Longman describes a crocodilian skull discovered at Lansdown Station in Australia, assigning it to the genus Pallimnarchus (now Paludirex).^[7]

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[8]

Newly named plesiosaurs

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images<	-- -->
Lycaenodon	Valid	Broom	257 Millions of years ago
Lycaenoides	Valid	Broom
Lycaenops	Valid	Broom	257 Millions of years ago		A Dog-like Gorgonopsian.
Notosollasia	Jr. synonym				Jr. synonym of Theriognathus.

Mammals

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ardynictis^[10]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Matthew & Granger	Late Eocene	Ergilin Dzo Formation		A didymoconid, type species is A. furunculus.
Ardynomys	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Matthew & Granger	Late Eocene	Ergilin Dzo Formation		A rodent, type species is A. olseni.
Hyaenodon eminus	Sp nov	Valid	Matthew & Granger	Late Eocene	Ergilin Dzo Formation

References

1. Cockerell . T.D.A. . 1925 . Plant and insect fossils from the Green River Eocene of Colorado. . Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum . 66 . 19 . 1–13.
2. Book: LaMotte . R.S. . 1952 . Catalogue of the Cenozoic plants of North America through 1950 . Geological Society of America Memoirs . . 51 . 10.1130/MEM51.
3. Correa Narvaez . J. E. . Allen . S. E. . Huegele . I. B. . Manchester . S. R. . 2023 . Fossil leaves and fruits of Tetramelaceae (Curcurbitales) from the Eocene of the Rocky Mountain region, USA, and their biogeographic significance . International Journal of Plant Sciences . 10.1086/724018 .
4. Pérez-de la Fuente . R. . Peñalver . E. . Delclòs . X. . Engel . M.S. . 2012 . Snakefly diversity in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Neuropterida, Raphidioptera) . ZooKeys . 204 . 1–40 . 10.3897/zookeys.204.2740 . 22787417 . 3391719. free .
5. Cockerell . T. D. A. . Custer . C. . 1925 . A New Fossil Inocellia (Neuroptera) from Florissant . The Entomologist . 58 . 295–297.
6. Carpenter . F.M. . 1936 . Revision of the Nearctic Raphidiodea (Recent and Fossil) . Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . 89 . 2 . 89–158 . 20023217. 10.2307/20023217 .
7. Longman. H.A.. 1925. A crocodilian fossil from Lansdowne Station. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 8. 2. 103–108.
8. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
9. Parks . W. A. . 1925 . Arrhinoceratops brachyops, a new genus and species of Ceratopsia from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta . University of Toronto Studies (Geological Series) . 19 . 5–15.
10. Matthew . William Diller . Granger . Walter . 1925 . New creodonts and rodents from the Ardyn Obo Formation of Mongolia . American Museum Novitates . 193.