1948 in paleontology
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{{Year in paleontology header|1948}}
Arthropods
=Newly named insects=
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! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! Notes ! Images |
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| Metanephrocerus{{cite journal |last1=Kehlmaier |first1=C |last2=Dierick |first2=M |last3=Skevington |first3=JH |year=2014 |title=Micro-CT studies of amber inclusions reveal internal genitalic features of big-headed flies, enabling a systematic placement of Metanephrocerus Aczel, 1948 (Insecta: Diptera: Pipunculidae) |journal=Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=23–36}}
| Gen nov | valid | Aczél | | | {{Flag|Europe}} | A big-headed fly; new genus for Protonephrocerus collini | |
Archosauromorphs
=Newly named dinosaurs=
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.{{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 }}
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| Name
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| Lukousaurus
| Valid taxon |style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
|style="border-left:0px" valign="top"| | Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) | | {{flag|China}} | May be a crocodylomorph rather than a theropod.R. B. Irmis. 2004. First report of Megapnosaurus (Theropoda: Coelophysoidea) from China. PaleoBios 24(3):11-18 |
| SinosaurusYoung C.-C. 1948. On two new saurischians
from Lufeng, Yunnan. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 28: pp. 75-90. | Valid taxon |style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
|style="border-left:0px" valign="top"| | Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) | | {{flag|China}} | A dilophosaurid. (Formerly Dilophosaurus sinensis) |
Pterosaurs
=New taxa=
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| Name
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| Batrachognathus
| Valid |style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| Rjabinin |style="border-left:0px" valign="top"| | Late Jurassic (Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian) | | {{flag|Kazakhstan}} | An anurognathid. |
Synapsids
=Non-mammalian=
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| Clelandina
| Valid | | | | {{Flag|South Africa}} | A gorgonopsid. | |
| Digalodon
| Valid | Broom and Robinson | Late Permian | | {{Flag|South Africa}} {{Flag|Zambia}} | For a time considered a junior synonym, its validity was reinstated in 2015. | |
| Koupia
| Valid | | | Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone | {{Flag|South Africa}} | A dicynodont. | |
| Pardocephalus
| Junior synonym | Broom | Late Permian | | {{flag|South Africa}} | A junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus | |
| Robertia
| Valid | Boonstra | Middle Permian | Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone | {{Flag|South Africa}} | A pylaecephalid. Like Diictodon, it was also a burrower. |
| Smilesaurus
| Valid | Broom | Late Permian | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone | {{Flag|South Africa}} | A junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus. | |
| Tetracynodon
| Valid | Broom and Robinson | Late Permian-Early Triassic | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone | {{Flag|South Africa}} | | |
