Plants Ferns Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesEquisetum similkamenseSp novvalidDawsonYpresianAllenby FormationA scouring rush
Arthropods Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesBuprestis saxigenaSp novvalidScudderYpresianColdwater BedsA jewel beetleBuprestis sepultaSp novvalidScudderYpresianColdwater BedsA jewel beetleBuprestis tertiariaSp novvalidScudderYpresianColdwater BedsA jewel beetleCercopis selwyniSp novvalidScudderYpresianAllenby FormationA froghopperCercyon? terrigenaSp novvalidScudderYpresianColdwater BedsA water scavenger beetleCoelidia columbianaSp novvalidScudderYpresianAllenby FormationA leafhopperHygrotrechus staliSp novjr synonymScudderYpresianAllenby FormationA gerrine water stridermoved to Telmatrechus stali (1890) moved to "Gerris" stali (1910) returned to Telmatrechus stali (1998)Nebria paleomelasSp novvalidScudderYpresianColdwater BedsA ground beetle Penthetria similkameenaSp novJr synonymScudderYpresianAllenby FormationA plecian marchfly moved to Plecia similkameena (1885)PlanophlebiaGen et sp novJr synonymScudderYpresianAllenby FormationA hemipteran of uncertain placementTenebrio primigeniusSp novvalidScudderYpresianAllenby FormationA darkling beetleTrox oustaletiSp novvalidScudderYpresianAllenby FormationA hide beetle
Ichthyosauromorpha Ichthyosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images SauranodonGen novJunior homonymMarshLate Jurassic (Oxfordian)Sundance FormationPreoccupied by Sauranodon Jourdan, 1862; renamed Baptanodon Marsh, 1880.
Archosauromorphs
Newly named non-avian dinosaurs
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes AnoplosaurusSeeley, H. G., 1879, On the Dinosauria of the Cambridge Greensand: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 35, p. 591-636. Valid Harry Govier Seeley middle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian)Cambridge GreensandA nodosaurid ankylosaur, a member of Struthiosaurinae. The type species is A. curtonotus. Brontosaurus ValidOthniel Charles MarshLate Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)Morrison FormationAn apatosaurine diplodocid. Camptonotus Preoccupied.Othniel Charles MarshLate Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)Morrison FormationPreoccupied by Uhler, 1864. Later renamed Camptosaurus. CoelurusMarsh, O. C., 1879. Notice of New Jurassic Reptiles: American Journal of Science, 3rd series, v. 18, p. 501-505. ValidOthniel Charles MarshLate Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)Morrison FormationA basal coelurosaur. The type species is Coelurus fragilis. Eucercosaurus Nomen dubiumHarry Govier Seeleymiddle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian)Cambridge GreensandAn dubious ornithopod. LabrosaurusMarsh, O. C., 1879. Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs. Part II: American Journal of Science, 3rd series, v. 17, p. 86-92. ValidOthniel Charles MarshLate Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)Morrison FormationJunior subjective synonym of Allosaurus. The type species is Allosaurus lucaris Marsh, 1878. Syngonosaurus Nomen dubiumHarry Govier Seeleymiddle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian)Cambridge GreensandA dubious ornithopod. The type species is S. macrocercus. VectisaurusHulke, J. W., 1879, Vectisaurus valdensis, a new Wealden Dinosaur: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 35, p. 421-424. Nomen dubiumHulkeearly Cretaceous (Barremian)Wessex FormationA dubious iguanodont. The type species is Vectisaurus valdensis.
Synapsids
"Pelycosaurians"
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesMacromerionGen et comb novValidFritschLate CarboniferousA new genus for "Labyrinthodon" schwartzenbergii 1875.
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