1995 in paleontology
Molluscs
Bivalves
Arthropods
New taxa
Arachnids
Insects
Fish
Newly named bony fish
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
- Fossil hunters working on behalf of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum discover a large coprolite from a theropod dinosaur in Maastrichtian strata. In 1997 it is sent to coprolite specialist Karen Chin, who determines that this specimen of fossilized feces was attributable to Tyrannosaurus rex. One year later, in 1998, Karen Chin and others publish a joint paper in Nature announcing the finding.
- Paul Sereno lead an expedition to the Kem Kem region of southeastern Morocco. Among the fossils discovered is a partial skull of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus. Significantly, it preserves a "complete and undistorted braincase" which would later be described in detail along with the structure of the inner ear of C. saharicus by Hans C. E. Larsson in 2001.
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
Achelousaurus | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Sampson | Campanian | Two Medicine Formation | A centrosaurin ceratopsian | ||
Ampelosaurus | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Le Loeuff | Maastrichtian | Marnes Rouges Inferieures Formation | A French titanosaur | ||
"Brontoraptor" | nomen nudum | Redman | ||||||
Bugenasaura | Gen et sp nov | Junior synonym of Thescelosaurus | Galton | Lancian | Hell Creek | - | ||
| Chindesaurus | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Long & Murry | A herrerasaurid | ||||
| "Dinotyrannus" | Gen et sp nov | Junior synonym of Tyrannosaurus | Olshevsky | Lancian | ||||
Einiosaurus | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Sampson | Campanian | Two Medicine Formation | A centrosaurin ceratopsian | ||
Genusaurus | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Accarie et al. | |||||
| Giganotosaurus | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Coria & Salgado | A carcharodontosaurid | ||||
Jainosaurus | Valid | Hunt, Lockley, Lucas, & Meyer | ||||||
"Jenghizkhan" | Junior Synonym | Olshevsky | Junior synonym of Tarbosaurus | . | ||||
Jingshanosaurus | Valid | Zhang & Yang | " | |||||
Kulceratops | Valid | Nesov | ||||||
"Liassaurus" | nomen nudum | Welles, Powell, & Pickering | ||||||
"Merosaurus" | nomen nudum | Welles, Powell, & Pickering | ||||||
Niobrarasaurus | Valid | Carpenter, Dilkes, & Weishampel | Coniacian-Santonian | Niobrara Formation | A nodosaurid | |||
Saurophaganax | Valid | Chure | Kimmeridgian-Tithonian | Morrison Formation | An allosaurid | |||
"Stygivenator" | Gen nov | junior synonym | Olshevsky | Lancian | Hell Creek Formation | Junior synonym of Tyrannosaurus | - | |
Texasetes | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Coombs | late Albian-early Cenomanian | Paw Paw Formation | A nodosaurid | ||
"Walkersaurus" | nomen nudum | Welles, Powell & Pickering vide: Pickering | Bajocian | Material later named Duriavenator |