Plants Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesCarpolithes dentatusSp novjr synonymPenhallow (in Dawson)EoceneYpresianOkanagan Highlands"Stump lake", Coldwater BedsA small betulaceous fruit; moved to Palaeocarpinus dentatus in 2003 Comptonia columbianaSp novvalidDawsonEoceneYpresianOkanagan HighlandsAllenby FormationA Sweet fern
Pteridophyta
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesAzollophyllum primaevumSp novjr synonymPenhallowYpresianAllenby Formationmoved to Azolla primaeva in 1955
Arthropods Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesCymatomera maculataSp novJr synonymScudderLate EoceneFlorissant FormationA palaeorehniid ensiferan. Synonymized with Palaeorehnia maculata in 1908Florissantiagen et sp novValidScudderLate EoceneFlorissant FormationA dictyopharine planthopper. Type species F. elegansTelmatrechusGen et sp et comb novValidScudderEarly EoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby FormationA gerrine water strider genus.Type species is Hygrotrechus stali (1879)Includes the new species T. parallelus.Synonymized into Gerris (1910)Resurrected as a valid genus in 1998.
Archosauromorphs Pseudosuchians Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images SuchodusLydekker, R. 1890, Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV. Containing the orders Anomodontia, Ecaudata, Caudata, and Labyrinthodonta, and Supplement, p. 1-295.Gen et sp nov Valid LydekkerMiddle Jurassic (Callovian)Oxford Clay FormationA metriorhynchid thalattosuchian,type species S. durobrivensis
Dinosaurs Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images Barosaurus Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Marsh Kimmeridgian-Tithonian Morrison Formation A diplodocid Ceratops paucidens Comb. nov. Nomen dubium Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation A new combination for Hadrosaurus paucidens Claosaurus Gen. nov. Valid Marsh Santonian Niobrara Formation A new genus for Hadrosaurus agilis Ornithomimus Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation An ornithomimid Trachodon longiceps Sp. nov. Nomen dubium Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation A species of Trachodon Triceratops prorsus Sp. nov. Jr. synonym Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation A species of Triceratops Triceratops serratus Sp. nov. Jr. synonym Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation A species of Triceratops Triceratops sulcatus Sp. nov. Jr. synonym Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation A species of Triceratops
Sauropterygia Nothosauroidea Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images AnarosaurusGen et sp nov Valid DamesMiddle TriassicLower MuschelkalkA pachypleurosaur. Type species B. pumilio
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