1947 in paleontology explained

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[3]

Newly named pseudosuchians

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Other Animals

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Dickinsonia^[6]	Valid	Sprigg		Australia and Ukraine	A bilaterian of uncertain affinities
Papilionata	Synonym of Dickinsonia	Sprigg

References

1. Book: LaMotte . R.S. . 1952 . Catalogue of the Cenozoic plants of North America through 1950 . Geological Society of America Memoirs . . 51 . 10.1130/MEM51.
2. Book: Miller . N. G. . 1980 . Fossil mosses of North America and their significance . The Mosses of North America . 9–36.
3. 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 .
4. Cabrera, A. 1947. Un sauropodo nuevo del Jurasico de Patagonia. Motas Mus. La Plata 12 Paleontol. 95: pp. 1-17.
5. Welles, S.P. 1947. Vertebrates from the upperMoenkopi Formation of northern Arizona.University of California Publications Geol. Sci. 27:pp. 241-294.
6. Sprigg . Reg C. . 1947 . Early Cambrian (?) jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia . Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. . 71 . 212–24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092905/http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/Journals/TRSSA/TRSSA_v071/trssa_v071_p212p224.pdf . 2007-09-29.