Arthropods
Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesLestes incertusSp. novsynonymPitonPiacenzianLake ChambonA Lestid damselfly, moved to Sympecma incerta in 1994
Conodonts
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images AncyrognathusConodonts from Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri. EB Branson and MG Mehl, Univ. Missouri Studies, 1934Valid Maurice Mehl Edward BransonGlassy Creek Shale of Missouri PseudopolygnathusValid Maurice Mehl Edward BransonGlassy Creek Shale of Missouri
Reptiles Dinosaurs Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images BahariasaurusStromer, E. 1934. Vertebrate animal remainders of the Baharije stage (lowest Cenoman). 13. Dinosauria. Abh. Bavarian. Akad. Wissensch. Math. naturwiss. Abbott. 22: pp. 1 79. Valid taxonStromerLate Cretaceous (Cenomanian)Bahariya Formation
A Megaraptorian. BrachypodosaurusChakravarti, D.K. 1934. On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. Q. I Mineral. Metallurg. Soc. India 30: pp. 75-79. Nomen dubium.ChakravartiMaastrichtianLameta Formation An ornithischian.
Synapsids Non-mammalian
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesArctognathoidesJr. synonymBoonstraLate PermianDicynodon Assemblage ZoneA junior synonym of Arctognathus.CompsodonValidvan HoepenLate PermianDicynodon Assemblage Zone A member of Emydopoidea.DaptocephalusValidvan HoepenLate PermianDicynodon Assemblage Zone A member of Dicynodontoidea.EmydopsoidesJr. synonymvan HoepenLate PermianCistecephalus Assemblage ZoneA junior synonym of Emydops.PachyrhinosJr. synonymBroili and SchroederMiddle PermianMiddle Abrahamskraal FormationA junior synonym of Gorgonops.PelorocyclopsJr. synonymvan HoepenLate PermianCistecephalus Assemblage ZoneA junior synonym of Rhachiocephalus.
Mammals Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Cephalophus parvusSp. nov ValidBroomLate Pliocene-Early PleistoceneTaungA duiker, potentially synonymous with the blue duiker.GypsorhynchusGen. et sp. novValidBroomLate Pliocene-Early PleistoceneTaungA blesmol, type species is G. darti.PalaeotragiscusGen. et sp. novJr. synonymBroomLate Pliocene-Early PleistoceneTaungType species is P. longiceps, junior synonym of Oreotragus oreotragus (the klipspringer).Pedetes gracilisSp. novValidBroomLate Pliocene-Early PleistoceneTaungA springhare.Procavia antiquaSp. novValidBroomLate Pliocene-Early PleistoceneTaungA hyrax.
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