Arthropods
Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesMetanephrocerusGen novvalidAczélPriabonianBaltic AmberA big-headed fly; new genus for Protonephrocerus collini
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Lukousaurus Valid taxon Yang Zhongjian (as Young C. C.)Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)Lower Lufeng SeriesMay be a crocodylomorph rather than a theropod.R. B. Irmis. 2004. First report of Megapnosaurus (Theropoda: Coelophysoidea) from China. PaleoBios 24(3):11-18
Pterosaurs
New taxa Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Batrachognathus Valid Rjabinin Late Jurassic (Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian)Karabastau SvitaAn anurognathid.
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesClelandinaValid Broom Late PermianCistecephalus Assemblage Zone Dicynodon Assemblage Zone Tropidostoma Assemblage ZoneA gorgonopsid.DigalodonValidBroom and RobinsonLate PermianCistecephalus Assemblage Zone For a time considered a junior synonym, its validity was reinstated in 2015.KoupiaValid BoonstraMiddle Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage ZoneA dicynodont.PardocephalusJunior synonym BroomLate PermianCistecephalus Assemblage ZoneA junior synonym of the gorgonopsid AelurognathusRobertiaValid BoonstraMiddle PermianTapinocephalus Assemblage ZoneA pylaecephalid. Like Diictodon, it was also a burrower.SmilesaurusValid BroomLate PermianCistecephalus Assemblage ZoneA junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus.TetracynodonValid Broom and RobinsonLate Permian-Early TriassicCistecephalus Assemblage Zone Lystrosaurus Assemblage ZoneA lycideopid therocephalian.
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