Plants

Angiosperms

Arthropods

Newly named crustaceans

Newly named insects

Fish

Cartilaginous fish

Research

* Duffin ''et al'' (1996) describes chondrichthyan remains from the

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of the

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of Brazil and deems ''

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'' to be a

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of '' Cooleyella''.

New taxa

Amphibians

Temnospondyls

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Dinosaurs

* In the summer excavation resumed on the

Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur The Matanuska Formation consists of more than of Sedimentary rock, sedimentary Stratum, strata exposed in the northern Chugach Mountains, Matanuska Valley, and southern Talkeetna Mountains of south-central Alaska. The Matanuska Formation contain ...

, discovered in a quarry near the

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, approximately 150 miles northeast of

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Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Birds

Newly named birds

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Fossil eggs

New ootaxa

Synapsids

Mammals

New taxa

Footnotes

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References

* Pasch, A. D., K. C. May. 2001. Taphonomy and paleoenvironment of hadrosaur (Dinosauria) from the Matanuska Formation (Turonian) in South-Central Alaska. In: ''Mesozoic Vertebrate Life''. Ed.s Tanke, D. H., Carpenter, K., Skrepnick, M. W. Indiana University Press. Pages 219–236. 1990s in paleontology

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