Plants Newly named angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesFlorissantiaGen et sp novjr synonym (pro part)KnowltonLate EoceneFlorissant FormationA mallow relative.Type species F. physalis, jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1886) Porana similisSp novjr synonymKnowltonLate EoceneFlorissant FormationA mallow relative. jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1992)
Echinoderms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesArgentinasterGen et sp novValidRuedemannEarly DevonianTalacasto FormationA brittle star belonging to the family Ophiurinidae, type species is A. bodenbenderi.Encrinaster yachalensisSp novJr synonymRuedemannEarly DevonianTalacasto FormationA brittle star belonging to the family Encrinasteridae, moved to the genus Marginaster in 1995, which was then renamed to Marginix in 2015.
Fish Bony fish Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesLucious roseiSp novjr synonymHussakofEoceneYpresianTranquille FormationA moon eye relative. Moved to Eohiodon rosei (1966) moved to Hiodon rosei (2008)
Dinosaurs New taxa Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images DoryphorosaurusNopcsa, F. 1916. Doryphorosaurus nov. nom. fiir Kentrosaurus Hennig. Centralbl. Mineral. Geol. Palaeont. 1916: pp. 511-512. Gen. nov. Jr. synonym Nopcsa Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation Unnecessary replacement name for Kentrosaurus Gigantoscelus molengraaffiHoepen, E.C.N. van. 1916. De ouderdom der Transvaalsche Karroolagen. Verh. Geol.- mijnbouwkundig genootschap Nederland en kolonien (Geol. Ser.) 3: pp. 107-117. Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium van Hoepen Early Jurassic Bushveld Sandstone Formation A prosauropod KentrurosaurusHennig, E. 1916. Zweite Mirteilung tiber den Stegosauriden vom Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1916: pp.175-182. Gen. nov. Jr. synonym Hennig Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation Unnecessary replacement name for Kentrosaurus Prosaurolophus maximus Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Brown Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation ) A hadrosaurid
Plesiosaurs Newly named taxa Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images ApractocleidusGen nov jr synonym Smellie jr synonym of Cryptocleidus
Synapsids Non-mammalian
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/state NotesImagesJonkeriaGen et sp novValidVan HoepenCapitanianAbrahamskraal FormationA titanosuchid dinocephalian Type species J. truculenta
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