Plants Pteridophyta
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesAzolla primaevaComb novValid(Penhallow) ArnoldYpresianAllenby FormationA waterfern, moved from Azollophyllum primaevum Penhallow, 1890
Arthropods Crustaceans
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesEryon yehoachiSp novJr. synonymRemy and AvnimelechLate Cretaceous (Campanian)Mishash FormationMoved to Ursquilla in 1998.
Dinosaurs Massospondylus gastroliths are documented.Bond (1955). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location NotesImages MajungasaurusLavocat, R. 1955. Sur une portion de mandibule de thérepode provenant de Crétace supérieur de Madagascar. Bull. Musee Natl. d’Histoire Nat. (ser. 2) 27: pp. 256-259. Valid taxon René Lavocat Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation A majungasaurine abelisaurid. Tarbosaurus Valid taxon Evgeny Maleev Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian) Nemegt Formation Subashi Formation An Asian Tyrannosaurus-looking tyrannosaurid.
Synapsids Theriodonts
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Sauroctonus Valid Bystrow Late Permian Semen FormationTeekloof Formation A gorgonopsian. Scalenodon Valid Crompton and Parrington Middle Triassic Manda Formation A traversodontid cynodont.
Mammals Eutherians Cetaceans Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Lophocetus pappus Now renamed Miminiacetus. Kellogg Middle Miocene (Langhian) Pelodelphis Valid Kellogg Middle Miocene (Langhian) Calvert Formation * () An odontocete of uncertain position. Tretosphys Valid Kellogg Middle Miocene (Langhian) Calvert Formation (, , and ) An odontocete of uncertain position; new genus for "Delphinapterus" gabbi Cope (1868).
Other Animals Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Dickinsonia spriggi Synonym of Dickinsonia costata Harrington & Moore Ediacaran
References
Bond, G. 1955. A note on dinosaur remains from the Forest Sandstone (Upper Karoo). Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Rhodesia 2: 795–800. Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.