1956 in paleontology
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Plants
=Pinophytes=
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| Name
! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! Notes ! Images |
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| Sequoiadendron chaneyi{{cite journal |last1=Call |first1=V.B. |last2=Dilcher |first2=D.L. |year=1997 |title=The fossil record of Eucommia (Eucommiaceae) in North America |journal=American Journal of Botany |volume=84 |issue=6 |pages=798–814 |doi=10.2307/2445816 |pmid=21708632 |jstor=2445816 |s2cid=20464075 }}
| Sp. nov | Valid | | | | {{flag|USA}} ({{flag|Nevada}}) | | |
Archosauromorphs
=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
! Status ! colspan="2" | Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! class="unsortable" | Notes ! class="unsortable" | Images |
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| EuhelopusRomer, A.S. 1956. Osteology of the Reptiles. University of Chicago Press (772 pages).
| Valid taxon |style="border-right:0px" valign="middle"| |style="border-left:0px" valign="middle"| | Early Cretaceous (Barremian to Aptian) | |
| A euhelopodid titanosauriform. | rowspan="99" | Image:EuhelopusDB2.jpg]] |
