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This list of fossil reptiles described in 2024 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2024, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2024.
Yang et al. (2024) describe a well-preserved scaled skin of a specimen of Psittacosaurus from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of China, providing evidence of preservation of epidermal layers, corneocytes and melanosomes, and interpret the studied specimen as indicative of co-occurrence of feathers and reptile-type skin in non-feathered regions ...
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A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs. The fossils of the predator ...
Sparganiaceaepollenites annulatus Thakre et al. 2024 (junior homonym of S. annulatus De Benedetti, 2023). Fossil pollen; a replacement name for Sparganiaceaepollenites reticulatus Samant et al. (2022). Sparganiaceaepollenites oczkowicensis [18] Nom. nov DeBenedetti et al. Miocene Poland
Seyfullah et al. (2024) report the discovery of a conifer twig belonging to the genus Elatides from the Middle Jurassic Ishpushta Coal Formation (Afghanistan) preserved with resin traces that impregnated the surrounding coalified leaf material, representing the first case of such type of resin preservation impregnating plant tissues reported to ...
Frese, McCurry & Wells (2024) describe pupae and uncased larvae of caddisflies from the Miocene McGraths Flat Lagerstätte (), including specimens with large compound eyes preserving details of the rhabdoms and corneal nanocoating and with other external and internal structures, and interpret the environment of the studied caddisflies as affected by cyclic catastrophic events.
Jiang et al. (2020) report the discovery of remains of a thalattosaur belonging to the genus Xinpusaurus in the abdominal region of a specimen of Guizhouichthyosaurus from the Middle Triassic Zhuganpo Member of the Falang Formation , and interpret this finding as likely the oldest evidence for predation on megafauna by marine tetrapods reported ...