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{{Year in paleontology header|1902}}

==Plants==
===Ferns and allies===
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''[[Ctenopteris columbiensis]]''<ref name="Penhallow1902">{{cite book |last1=Penhallow |first1=D. P. |year=1902 |chapter=Notes on Cretaceous and Tertiary plants of Canada. |title=Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 1902-03 |location=Ottawa, Canada |publisher=Royal Society of Canada |series=2 |volume= 8 (sect 4) |pages=31–91}}</ref>
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Sp nov
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[[David P. Penhallow|Penhallow]]
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[[Lower Cretaceous]]
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{{Flag|Canada}}<br/>{{Flag|British Columbia}}
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A ''[[Ctenopteris]]'' pinnule
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''[[Sagenopteris oblongifolia]]''<ref name="Penhallow1902"/>
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Sp nov
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[[David P. Penhallow|Penhallow]]
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[[Lower Cretaceous]]
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{{Flag|Canada}}<br/>{{Flag|British Columbia}}
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A ''[[Sagenopteris]]'' pinnule
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===Conifers===
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''[[Pseudotsuga miocena]]''<ref name="Penhallow1902"/>
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Sp nov
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valid
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[[David P. Penhallow|Penhallow]]
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[[Eocene]]<br/>[[Ypresian]]
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[[Eocene Okanagan Highlands|Okanagan Highlands]]<br/>[[Horsefly Shales]]
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{{Flag|Canada}}<br/>{{Flag|British Columbia}}
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A [[Pseudotsuga|douglas fir]] wood morphospecies
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[[File:Pseudotsuga miocena (Penhallow 1902) Plate15 Fig17.png|thumb|center|upright|''[[Pseudotsuga miocena]]'']]
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===Angiosperms===
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''[[Clintonia oblongifolia]]''<ref name="Penhallow1902"/>
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Sp nov
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[[David P. Penhallow|Penhallow]]
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[[Eocene]]
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[[Paskapoo Formation]]
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{{Flag|Canada}}<br/>{{Flag|Alberta}}
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A ''[[Clintonia]]'' leaf morphospecies
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''[[Majanthemophyllum grandifolium]]''<ref name="Penhallow1902"/>
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Sp nov
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[[David P. Penhallow|Penhallow]]
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[[Eocene]]
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A [[Smilaceae|green briar]] leaf morphospecies
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''[[Viburnum ovatum]]''<ref name="Penhallow1902"/>
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Sp nov
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[[David P. Penhallow|Penhallow]]
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[[Eocene]]
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A [[viburnum]] leaf morphospecies
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==Archosauromorphs==
===Newly named phytosaurs===
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''[[Rileyasuchus|Rileya]]''<ref name="huene02dertrias" />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Preoccupied
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[[Friedrich von Huene|von Huene]]
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[[Rhaetian]]
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A junior homonym of ''Rileya'' Ashmead, 1888 (hymenopteran). Renamed ''[[Rileyasuchus]]'' Kuhn, 1961.
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===Newly named dinosaurs===
Data courtesy of [[George Olshevsky]]'s dinosaur genera list.<ref name="ddinogeorge">{{cite web | last = Olshevsky | first = George | title = Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List | url = http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html | accessdate = 2008-08-07 | archive-date = 2011-07-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>

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| ''[[Dacentrurus]]''<ref name=lucas>{{cite journal|last=Lucas|first=F.A.|year=1902|title=Paleontological notes: The generic name ''Omosaurus''. A new generic name for ''Stegosaurus marshi''|journal=Science|volume=16|issue=402|pages=435}}</ref>
| Gen. nov.
| Valid taxon
| [[Frederic Augustus Lucas]]
| Late Jurassic, [[Kimmeridgian]]
| [[Kimmeridge Clay]]
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| A dacentrurine [[stegosaurid]]. New name for ''[[Dacentrurus|Omosaurus]] armatus'' Owen, 1875 ''non'' Leidy, 1856.
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| ''[[Didanodon]]''<ref name=osborn>{{cite journal|last=Osborn|first=H.F.|year=1902|title=On Vertebrata of the Mid-Cretaceous of the Northwest Territory. I:Distinctive characters of the Mid-Cretaceous fauna|journal=Contributions to Canadian Paleontology|volume=3|issue=4|pages=1–21}}</ref>
| Gen. nov.
| ''[[Nomen nudum]]''
| [[Henry Fairfield Osborn]]
| Late Cretaceous, [[Campanian]]
| [[Dinosaur Park Formation]]
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| A dubious [[hadrosaurid]], possibly ''[[Lambeosaurus]]''. ''Didanodon'' was a new genus name for ''[[Trachodon]] altidens'' Lambe, 1902.
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| ''[[Elosaurus parvus]]''<ref name=peterson>{{cite journal|last=Peterson|first=O.A.|last2=Gilmore|first2=C.W.|year=1902|title=''Elosaurus parvus'' a new genus and species of Sauropoda|journal=Annals of the Carnegie Museum|volume=1|pages=490–499}}</ref>
| Gen. et sp. nov.
| [[Junior synonym]]
| O.A. Peterson & [[Charles Whitney Gilmore]]
| Late Jurassic, [[Kimmeridgian]]
| [[Morrison Formation]]
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| Genus is a junior synonym of ''[[Brontosaurus]]'', while the species has been reassigned as ''Brontosaurus parvus''.
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| ''[[Hoplitosaurus]]''<ref name=lucas/>
| Gen. nov.
| Valid taxon
| Frederic Augustus Lucas
| Early Cretaceous, [[Barremian]]
| [[Lakota Formation]]
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| New genus name for ''[[Stegosaurus]] marshi'' (Lucas, 1901).
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| ''[[Onychosaurus]]''<ref name=nopcsa>{{cite journal|last=Nopcsa|first=F.|year=1902|title=Notizen uber Cretacische Dinosaurier (''Mochlodon'' u. ''Onychosaurus'')|journal=Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathnat. Kl. Wien|volume=39|pages=42–44}}</ref>
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gen et sp nov
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''Nomen dubium''
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[[Franz Nopcsa|Nopcsa]]
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[[Late Cretaceous]]
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A [[Nomen dubium|dubious]] name that may be a synonym of ''[[Zalmoxes]]''.
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''[[Stegoceras]]''<ref name="lambe02bellyriver">Lambe, L.M. 1902. New genera and species from the Belly River Series (mid-Cretaceous). Contrib. Canadian Palaeonto1. Geol. Surv. Can. 3: pp. 25-81.</ref>
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gen et sp nov
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Valid taxon
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[[Lawrence Lambe|Lambe]]
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[[Late Cretaceous]]
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[[Belly River Group]]
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A [[pachycephalosaur]]. 
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''[[Stereocephalus]]''<ref name="lambe02bellyriver" />
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gen et sp nov
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Preoccupied
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[[Lawrence Lambe|Lambe]]
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[[Late Cretaceous]]
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[[Belly River Group]]
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Later renamed ''[[Euoplocephalus]]''.
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==Protorosaurs==
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''[[Procerosaurus]]''<ref name="huene02dertrias">Huene, F. von. 1902. Ubersicht uber die Reptilien der Trias. Geologische und Palaeontologische Abhandlungne, n. f. 6 (1): 83 pages.</ref>
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gen et sp nov
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jr synonym
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* [[Friedrich von Huene|von Huene]]
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jr synonym of ''[[Tanystropheus]]''.
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==References==
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