1914 in paleontology
Dinosaurs
- Eugene Stebinger became the first to identify the Two Medicine Formation and to formally described its first fossil finds, which were excavated the previous year.
Newly named dinosaurs
Name | Status | Authors | Location | Notes | Images |
Anchiceratops | Valid taxon |
| Almost horned face. | ||
Brachyceratops | Valid taxon |
| The Short Horned Face | ||
Chasmosaurus | Valid taxon |
| The Opening Horned Dinosaur | ||
Corythosaurus | Valid taxon | The Helmet Dinosaur, with a Cassowary-like crest on its head. | |||
Dicraeosaurus | Valid taxon | A Long-Spined sauropod. | |||
Gorgosaurus | Valid |
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Leptoceratops | Valid taxon | ||||
Protorosaurus | Preoccupied |
| Preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosauromorph von Meyer, 1830. Renamed Chasmosaurus. | ||
Stephanosaurus | Nomen dubium |
| Possible junior synonym of Lambeosaurus''. |
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
Arctops | Valid | Watson | 255 million of years ago | A Gorgonopsian. | ||
Mormosaurus | Valid | Watson | 270 million of years ago | A Dinocephalian. | ||
Moschognathus | Valid | 263 million of years ago | ||||
Pnigalion | Valid |