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Plants

Pinophytes Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes ImagesAbies millerisp novValidSchorn & WehrEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsKlondike Mountain FormationOne of the oldest fir species

Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes ImagesMacginicarpaGen et sp novvalidManchesterMiddle EoceneClarno FormationA platanaceous infructescence genus. Type species M. glabra.MacginistemonGen et comb novvalid(MacGinitie) ManchesterMiddle EoceneClarno FormationA platanaceous stamen species. Moved from Calycites mikanoides 1941.Macginitiea angustilobaComb novvalid(Lesquereux) ManchesterMiddle EoceneClarno FormationA platanaceous species. Moved from Aralia angustiloba 1878.PlatananthusGen et sp novvalidManchesterMiddle EoceneClarno FormationA platanaceous staminate inflorescence genus. Type species P. synandrus.

Newly described insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes ImagesStenolestes fischeriSp nov ValidNel ChattianA Sieblosiid damselfly.

Molluscs

Bivalves Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes ImagesBuluniellagen et sp novnomen dubiumJermakEarly Cambrian"northern Siberia" possible jr synonym of PojetaiaJelliagen et sp novjunior synonymLi & ZhouEarly CambrianHenan province jr synonym of Pojetaia runnegari

Fish Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes ImagesDwykaselachusGen. et sp. novValidOelofsenPermianPrince Albert Formation (Ecca Group) A member of Symmoriida. The type species is D. oosthuizeni.

Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Name Status AuthorsLocation NotesImages AvaceratopsDodson, P. 1986. Avaceratops lammersi: a new ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation of Montana. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 138: pp. 305-317. Valid taxon Dodson () BaryonyxCharig, A.J. and A.C. Milner. 1986. Baryonyx, a remarkable new theropod dinosaur. Nature 324 (6095): pp. 359-361. Valid taxon Alan J. Charig Angela C. Milner

ConchoraptorBarsbold, R. 1986. [Raubdinosaurier Oviraptoren]. In: Vorobyeva, E. I. (ed.). Herpetologische Untersuchungen in der Mongolischen Volksrepublik. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. Inst. Evolyucionnoy Morfologii i Ekologil Zhivotnykh im. A. M. Severtsova, Moskva: pp.210-223. Valid taxon Rinchen Barsbold Frenguellisaurus Jr. synonym of Herrerasaurus Fernando Novas LapparentosaurusBonaparte, J.F. 1986. The early radiation and phylogenetic relationships of the Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs, based on vertebral anatomy. In: The beginnings of the age of dinosaurs (K. Padian, ed.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK: pp. 247-258. Valid taxon Jose Bonaparte SiamosaurusBuffetaut, E. and R. Ingevat. 1986. Unusual theropod dinosaur teeth from the Upper Jurassic of Phu Wiang northeastern Thailand. Rev. Paleobiol. 5: pp. 217-220. Valid taxon Eric Buffetaut Ingavat XenotarsosaurusMartinez, R, O. Gimenez, J. Rodriguez, and G. Bochatey. 1985. Xenotarsosaurus bonapartei nov. gen. et sp. (Carnosauria, Abelisauridae) un nuevo Theropoda de la Formacion Bajo Barrel Chubut, Argentina. Actas IV Congreso Argentino de Paleontoloiga y Bioestratigraffa 2: pp. 23-31. Valid taxon Martinez Gimenez Rodriguez Bochatey

Newly named birds Name Status Novelty Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAsiavis ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.NessovMiddle EoceneA Cygninae, type species A. phosphaticaBubo insularisValidSp. nov.Mourer-Chauviré & WeesieLate Pleistocene: ; : A Strigidae.EopuffinusValidGen. et Sp. nov.NessovLate PaleoceneA Procellariidae, type species E. kazachstanensisEurolimnornisValidGen. et Sp. nov.Kessler & JurcsákEarly CretaceousA Eurolimnornithidae, type species is E. corneti.Gallirallus ripleyiValidSp. nov.SteadmanHoloceneMangaiaA Rallidae.Ichthyornis maltshevskyi jr synonymSp. nov.NessovConiacianBissekty FormationDescribed as an Ichthyornithidae, transferred to Lenesornis maltshevskyi in Kurochkin, 1996.Nanantius ValidGen. et Sp. nov.MolnarAlbianToolebuc Formation:A Gobipteryginae Alexornithid, type species N. eosPalaeocursornis ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Kessler & JurcsákEarly CretaceousA Eurolimnornithidae, type genus P. biharicusPliogyps charon ValidSp. nov.BeckerLate MioceneAlachua Formation: A Cathartidae.Porzana rua ValidSp. nov.SteadmanHoloceneMangaiaA Rallidae.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status AuthorsLocation NotesImages Tuarangisaurus Valid Wiffen Moisley A Plesiosaur from New Zealand

Pterosaurs Fossil jaw fragments containing multicusped teeth were found in Dockum Group rocks in western Texas. One fragment, apparently from a lower jaw, contained two teeth, each with five cusps. Another fragment, from an upper jaw, also contained several multi-cusped teeth. These finds are very similar to the pterosaur genus Eudimorphodon and may be attributable to this genus, although without better fossil remains it is impossible to be sure.Wellnhofer, Peter (1991). "Summary of Triassic Pterosaurs." The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs. London, UK: Salamander Books Limited. p. 67. .

New taxa

Name Status Authors Notes Phobetor Junior Synonym Bakhurina Synonym of Noripterus.

Synapsids

Mammals Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes ImagesHulitherium tomasettiValidTomasetti & PlanePleistoceneA Diprotodont Metatherian.Rostriamynodon grangeriGen et sp novValidWall & ManningEarly late EoceneIrdin Manha FormationAn amynodontid

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