Plants Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesAmelanchier couleeanaComb novvalid(E.W. Berry, 1931) MioceneLanghianLatah FormationAmelanchier dignata of Smith, 1941 Amelanchier dignatus of Brown, 1935 p. p. Amelanchier elliptica of Smith, 1941 Amelanchier grayi of MacGinitie, 1933 Amelanchier magnifolia 1937 Amelanchier scudderi of Berry, 1929 Amelanchier subserrata of Smith, 1941 Phyllites couleeanus 1931A saskatoon berry species. Moved from Phyllites couleeanus (1931)Betula tayloranaComb novvalidR.W. Brown EoceneAckerman FormationA birch species.Cladrastis oregonensisComb novvalid(E.W. Berry & T.D.A. Cockerell, 1919) EoceneClarno FormationA yellowwood species. First named as Fraxinus oregonensis (1919)Moved from Umbellularia oregonensis (1925).Cornus republicensisNom novjr synonymLaMotteEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsKlondike Mountain FormationTom Thumb TuffA replacement name for Cornus acuminata Berry, 1929 Moved to Schoepfia republicensis in 1987Koelreuteria mixtaComb novvalid (pro parte)(Lesquereux, 1878) Eocene, YpresianIone FormationA golden rain tree species Moved from Rhus mixta (1878)Species definition expanded to include fruitsFruits moved to Koelreuteria dilcheri in 2013.

Arthropods Newly named crustaceans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesPalaeophoberus portlandicusSp novValidRoger & LapparentLate Jurassic (Tithonian)HannachesA stenochirid

Conodonts

Name Status Authors Location Images SiphonodellaConodonts. EB Branson and MG Mehl, in HW Shimer and RR Shrock, Index Fossils of North America. 1944 valid Edward Branson Maurice Mehl

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Dinosaurs The only known fossils of Poekilopleuron are destroyed during the Allied liberation of Normandy.

Newly named dinosaurs Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.

Name Status AuthorsLocation Notes Images SanpasaurusYoung C.-C. 1944. On the reptilian remains from Weiyuan, Szechuan, China. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 24: pp. 187-209. Nomen dubium.Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.) It has been argued that the remains were ornithopods or sauropods. They are now the remains of a sauropod.

Plesiosaurs New taxa

Name Status AuthorsLocation Notes Sinopliosaurus Valid Young

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