1952 in paleontology explained

Plants

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Archosauromorphs

Dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[1]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
"Syrmosaurus"^[2]		Junior synonym	Maleev	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian)			Junior synonym of Pinacosaurus.
Talarurus^[3]		Valid	Maleev	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian)	Bayan Shireh Formation		An ankylosaurid.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alzadasaurus kansasensis^[4]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Welles	Late Cretaceous Early Campanian	Niobrara Formation		A long-necked elasmosaurid plesiosaur. Synonymized with Styxosaurus snowii in 1999
Styxosaurus browni	Sp nov	valid	Welles	Late Cretaceous Early Campanian	Pierre Shale		A long-necked elasmosaurid plesiosaur. Synonymized with Hydralmosaurus serpentinus in 1999 Removed from synonymy in 2016

References

1. 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 .
2. Maleev . E. A. . 1952 . Новое семейство бронированные динозавры из верхнего производство мела Монголии . A new family of armored dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia . . 87 . 131–134.
3. Maleev . E. A. . 1952 . Новый анкилозавр из верхнего мела Монголии . A new ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia . Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR . 87 . 273–276.
4. Carpenter . K. . 1999 . Revision of North American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior . Paludicola . 2 . 2 . 148–173.