Arthropoda Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnabrus caudeliSp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationA platycleidine tettigoniid Mormon cricket relativeCecidomyia(?) pontaniiformisSp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationA cecidomyiine gall midge gall Gall on Myrica drymeiaDryobius miocenicusSp novBeutenmüller & CockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationA cerambycine longhorned beetleElectromyrmexGen et sp novnom nudum WheelerLutetianBaltic amberA nyrmicine ant. Type species E. klebsiValidly described in 1910 Eriophyes(?) beutenmulleriSp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationAn eriophyid gall mite gall Described from galls on a possible Salix leaf Glossina oligocenaComb nov(Scudder) CockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationA Glossinid tsetse fly moved from Paloestrus oligocenus (1892)LithogryllitesGen et sp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationA cricket relativeThe type species is L. lutziiNecrodes primaevusSp novBeutenmüller & CockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationA silphine carrion beetleNymphalites scudderiSp novBeutenmüller & CockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationA nymphaline brush-footed butterflyPanorpa arctiiformisSp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationA scorpionflyPhenacolestesGen et sp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationA dysagrionine odonateThe type species is P. mirandus Also tentatively included is P.(?) parallelus Phymatodes volansSp novBeutenmüller & CockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationA callidiine cerambycine longhorned beetlePolystoechotes piperatusSp novjr synonymCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationAn ithonid giant lacewingMoved to Propsychopsis piperatus in 1943moved to Polystoechotites piperatus in 2006
Archosauromorphs Newly named basal archosauromorphs
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images ScaphonyxSynonym of HyperodapedonWoodwardLate Triassic(Carnian)Santa Maria FormationA hyperodapedontid rhynchosaur.
Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images AnkylosaurusBrown, B. 1908. The Ankylosauridae, a new family of armoured dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: pp. 187-201. Valid taxon Barnum Brown Late Cretaceous (Lancian)Hell Creek Formation Lance Formation Scollard Formation An ankylosaurid. "Gigantosaurus"Fraas, E. 1908. Ostafrikanische Dinosaurier. Mitteilungen aus dem Kgl. Naturalien-Kabinett zu Stuttgart: pp.105-144.Preoccupied. Eberhard Fraas Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)Tendaguru FormationPreoccupied by Harry Govier Seeley, 1869 renamed Tornieria. HalticosaurusHuene, F. von. 1907/1908. Die Dinosaurier der Europaiaschen Triasformation mit Berucksichtiging der aussereuropaischen Vorkommnisse. Geol. Paleont. Abhandl. Suppl. 1: pp. 1-419. Nomen dubium. Friedrich von Huene Late Triassic (early Norian)StubensandsteinA coelophysoid theropod. "Pachysaurus"Huene, F. von. 1908. Eine Zusammensteilung uber die englische Trias und Alter ihre Fossilen. Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, Stuttgart 1908: pp. 9-17.Preoccupied. Friedrich von Huene Late Triassic (middle Norian)Trossingen FormationPreoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843 renamed Pachysauriscus. Sellosaurus Valid taxon Friedrich von Huene Late Triassic (early Norian)StubensandsteinA plateosaurid sauropodomorph.
Synapsids Non-mammalian
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAlopecodonValidBroomMiddle PermianMiddle Abrahamskraal FormationA scylaosaurid theriodont.KannemeyeriaValidSeeleyEarly-Middle Triassic (late Olenekian to Anisian)Burgersdorp FormationA kannemeyeriid dicynodont.TetraceratopsValidMatthewEarly PermianArroyo FormationPossibly a basal therapsid.TrochosuchusNomen dubiumBroomMiddle PermianMiddle Abrahamskraal FormationNamed from fossils belonging to Lycosuchidae.
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