1948 in paleontology explained

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[2]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Lukousaurus	Valid taxon	Yang Zhongjian (as Young C. C.)		Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)	Lower Lufeng Series	China	May be a crocodylomorph rather than a theropod.^[3]
Sinosaurus^[4]	Valid taxon	Yang Zhongjian (as Young C. C.)		Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)	Lower Lufeng Series	China	A dilophosaurid. (Formerly Dilophosaurus sinensis)

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Clelandina	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone Dicynodon Assemblage Zone Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone		A gorgonopsid.
Digalodon	Valid	Broom and Robinson	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone		For a time considered a junior synonym, its validity was reinstated in 2015.
Koupia	Valid	Boonstra		Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone		A dicynodont.
Pardocephalus	Junior synonym	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus
Robertia	Valid	Boonstra	Middle Permian	Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone		A pylaecephalid. Like Diictodon, it was also a burrower.
Smilesaurus	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone		A junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus.
Tetracynodon	Valid	Broom and Robinson	Late Permian-Early Triassic	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone		A lycideopid therocephalian.

References

1. Kehlmaier . C . Dierick . M . Skevington . JH . 2014 . Micro-CT studies of amber inclusions reveal internal genitalic features of big-headed flies, enabling a systematic placement of Metanephrocerus Aczel, 1948 (Insecta: Diptera: Pipunculidae) . Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny . 72 . 1 . 23–36.
2. 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 .
3. R. B. Irmis. 2004. First report of Megapnosaurus (Theropoda: Coelophysoidea) from China. PaleoBios 24(3):11-18
4. Young C.-C. 1948. On two new saurischiansfrom Lufeng, Yunnan. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 28:pp. 75-90.