Anomalocaridids

Newly named anomalocaridids
Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Amplectobelua stephenensis	Valid	Daley Budd	Middle Cambrian	Burgess Shale Formation	Canada	A second species of Amplectobelua.
Caryosyntrips Caryosyntrips Caryosyntrips is an extinct genus of anomalocaridid which existed in Canada, during the middle Cambrian. Caryosyntrips is known only from a handful of 12-segmented appendages, which resemble nut-crackers, recovered from the Burgess Shale Formation. It was first named by Allison C. Daley, Graham E....	Valid	Daley Budd	Middle Cambrian	Burgess Shale Formation	Canada
Stanleycaris Stanleycaris Stanleycaris is an extinct, monotypic genus of anomalocaridid which existed in Canada, during the middle Cambrian . It was first named by Jean-Bernard Caron, Robert R. Gaines, M. Gabriela Mángano, Michael Streng and Allison C. Daley in 2010 and the type species is Stanleycaris hirpex...	Valid	Caron Gaines et al.	Middle Cambrian	Stephen Formation Stephen Formation The Stephen Formation is a middle Cambrian unit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of soft-bodied fossils: the Burgess Shale biota...	Canada

Newly named crustaceans

Newly named insects

• A new family, Cascopleciidae, is published by Poinar Jr.
• A new family of ceraphronoid
  Ceraphronoidea
  Ceraphronoidea is a small Hymenopteran superfamily that includes only two families, and a total of some 800 species, though a great many species are still undescribed...
  
   Hymenopters, Radiophronidae, is published by Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, and Delclòs.
• A new family, Mendozachoristidae, is published by Brauckmann et al.
• A new family of Moths, Mesokristenseniidae, is published by Huang, Nel and Minet.
• A new order of holometabolous insects, Nakridletia
  Nakridletia
  Nakridletia are an extinct Mesozoic order of holometabolous insects, comprising three genera and species in two families...
  
  , is published by Vršanský, Ren & Shih.
• A new family of holometabolous insects, Vosilidae, is published by Vršanský, Ren & Shih.
• A new family of Cockroaches, Socialidae, is published by Vršanský.
• A new family of fulgoroid hemipterans, Weiwoboidae, is published by Lin, Szwedo, Huang and Stroiński.

  Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Bohemiatupus elegans Bohemiatupus Bohemiatupus is an extinct genus of griffenfly in the family Meganeuridae and containing a single species Bohemiatupus elegans. The species is known only from the Late Carboniferous, Bolsovian stage, Kladno Formation near the village of Radnice in the Radnice Basin, Czech Republic.-History and...	gen et sp nov	Valid	Prokop & Nel	Westphalian Westphalian Westphalian may refer to:* The culture or people of the Westphalia region of Germany* Westphalian language, one of the major dialect groups of West Low German* Westphalian sovereignty, a concept in international relations* Westphalian , in geology...	Kladno Formation	Czech Republic
  Camptoneurites soyanensis Camptoneurites Camptoneurites is an extinct insect which existed in Russia during the middle Permian period....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui	Kazanian	Soyana locality	Russia
  Cascoplecia Cascoplecia Cascoplecia, commonly known as the unicorn fly, is a monotypic genus of extinct dipteran that lived in the Early Cretaceous. Its fossil was found in the Burmese amber. George Poinar, Jr., who described this fossil, coined a new family name for it – Cascopleciidae...	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Poinar George Poinar, Jr. George O. Poinar, Jr. is an entomologist and writer. He is known for popularizing the idea of extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber, an idea which received widespread attention when adapted by Michael Crichton for the book and movie Jurassic Park.Poinar earned a B.S. and M.S. at Cornell...	Early Cretaceous Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...	Burmese amber	Myanmar	A flower-visiting fly.
  Crepidodera decolorata Crepidodera decolorata Crepidodera decolorata is an extinct species of flea beetle which existed in Ukraine during the late Eocene period....	sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A flea beetle Flea beetle Flea beetles is a general name applied to the small, jumping beetles of the leaf beetle family . They make up the tribe Alticini, which is a part of the subfamily Galerucinae, though they were historically classified as a subfamily in their own right...
  Ektatotricha Ektatotricha Ektatotricha is an extinct, monotypic, genus of ant-like stone beetle in the family Staphylinidae containing the single species Ektatotricha paradoxa....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Chatzimanolis, Engel Michael S. Engel Michael S. Engel is an American paleontologist and entomologist. He has undertaken field work in Central Asia, Asia Minor, and the Western Hemisphere, and published more than 300 papers in scientific journals. He was trained at the University of Kansas where in 1993 he received a B.S. in Cellular... , Newton, & Grimaldi David Grimaldi David A. Grimaldi is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his graduate training at Cornell University, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Dr. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect...	Middle Cretaceous	Burmese amber	Myanmar
  Electroatopos Electroatopos Electroatopos castaneus is an extinct species of ant-like stone beetle, described in 2010, and the only species in the genus Electroatopos. It existed in what is now Myanmar, during the Middle Cretaceous period....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Chatzimanolis, Engel Michael S. Engel Michael S. Engel is an American paleontologist and entomologist. He has undertaken field work in Central Asia, Asia Minor, and the Western Hemisphere, and published more than 300 papers in scientific journals. He was trained at the University of Kansas where in 1993 he received a B.S. in Cellular... , Newton, & Grimaldi David Grimaldi David A. Grimaldi is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his graduate training at Cornell University, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Dr. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect...	Middle Cretaceous	Burmese amber	Myanmar
  Iberoevania Iberoevania Iberoevania is an extinct genus of evaniid which existed in what is now Spain during the early Cretaceous period. It was named by Enrique Peñalver, Jaime Ortega-Blanco, André Nel and Xavier Delclòs in 2010, and the type species is Iberoevania roblesi....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Peñalver, Ortega-Blanco, Nel, & Delclòs	Early Cretaceous Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...	Amber	Spain	An evaniid Evaniidae Evaniidae, also known as the ensign wasps or hatchet wasps, is a family of parasitic wasps. It numbers around 20 extant genera containing over 400 described species, and is found all over the world except in the polar regions...
  Jerseyempheria Jerseyempheria Jerseyempheria is an extinct genus of empheriid psocodean which existed in what is now New Jersey during the Cretaceous period. It was named by Dany Azar, André Nel and Julian F. Petrulevicius in 2010, and the type species is Jerseyempheria grimaldii....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Azar, Nel, & Petrulevicius	Cretaceous Cretaceous The Cretaceous , derived from the Latin "creta" , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide , is a geologic period and system from circa to million years ago. In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period of the...	New Jersey amber	United States	A empheriid psocodean
  Kachinus Kachinus Kachinus is an extinct, monotypic, genus of ant-like stone beetle in the family Staphylinidae containing the single species Kachinus antennatus....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Chatzimanolis, Engel Michael S. Engel Michael S. Engel is an American paleontologist and entomologist. He has undertaken field work in Central Asia, Asia Minor, and the Western Hemisphere, and published more than 300 papers in scientific journals. He was trained at the University of Kansas where in 1993 he received a B.S. in Cellular... , Newton, & Grimaldi David Grimaldi David A. Grimaldi is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his graduate training at Cornell University, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Dr. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect...	Middle Cretaceous	Burmese amber	Myanmar
  Lichnomesopsyche Lichnomesopsyche Lichnomesopsyche is an extinct genus of mesopsychid mecopteran which existed in what is now China during the middle Jurassic period. It was named by Ren Dong, Conrad C. Labandeira and Shih ChungKun in 2010....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ren, Labandeira, & Shih	Middle Jurassic Middle Jurassic The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from 176-161 million years ago. In European lithostratigraphy, rocks of this Middle Jurassic age are called the Dogger....	Jiulongshan Formation	Mainland China	A mesopsychid mecoptera Mecoptera Mecoptera are an order of insects with about 550 species in nine families worldwide. Mecoptera are sometimes called scorpionflies after their largest family, Panorpidae, in which the males have enlarged genitals that look similar to the stinger of a scorpion... n
  Manobiomorpha Manobiomorpha Manobiomorpha is an extinct genus of flea beetle which existed in what is now Ukraine during the late Eocene period. It was named by Konstantin Nadein and Evgeny Perkovsky in 2010, and the type species is Manobiomorpha eocenica....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A flea beetle
  Mendozachorista Mendozachorista Mendozachorista is an extinct genus of insect which existed in Argentina during the late Triassic period. It was named by Carsten Brauckmann, Oscar F. Gallego, Norbert Hauschke, Rafael G. Martins-Neto, Elke Groening, Jan-M. Ilger and María B. Lara in 2010, and the type and only species is...	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Brauckmann, Gallego, Hauschke, Martins-Neto, Groening, Ilger, & Lara	Late Triassic Late Triassic The Late Triassic is in the geologic timescale the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic period. The corresponding series is known as the Upper Triassic. In the past it was sometimes called the Keuper, after a German lithostratigraphic group that has a roughly corresponding age...	Llantenes Formation	Argentina	The species is M. volkheimeri
  Mesokristensenia Mesokristensenia Mesokristensenia is an extinct genus of moth in the family Mesokristenseniidae. It existed in what is now China during the middle Jurassic period. It was named by Huang Diying, André Nel and Joël Minet in 2010, and the type species is Mesokristensenia latipenna.Currently, three species are known...	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Huang, Nel, & Minet	Middle Jurassic Middle Jurassic The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from 176-161 million years ago. In European lithostratigraphy, rocks of this Middle Jurassic age are called the Dogger....	Daohugou Beds Daohugou Beds The Daohugou Beds are a series of fossil-bearing rock deposits located in northeastern China, with the type locality around Daohugou village of Ningcheng County south of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, but extending into southwest Liaoning. The rocks are grey, finely bedded, lacustrine, sandy mudstones...	Mainland China
  Microcostaphron Microcostaphron Microcostaphron parvus is an extinct species of wasp which existed in Spain during the early Cretaceous period. Only a single specimen is known, which was found near Peñacerrada-Urizaharra in the Basque Country....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs	Early Cretaceous Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...	Álava amber	Spain	The species is M. parvus
  Paleophaedon Paleophaedon Paleophaedon is an extinct genus of chrysomeline leaf beetle which existed in what is now Ukraine during the late Eocene period. It was named by Konstantin Nadein and Evgeny Perkovsky in 2010, and the type species is Paleophaedon minutus....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A chrysomeline Chrysomelinae The Chrysomelinae are a subfamily of leaf beetles . There are some 2000 species, found worldwide. The most well-known member is the notorious Colorado potato beetle .-Genera:* Alfius* Cecchiniola...  leaf beetle
  Parazila	gen et sp nov	Valid	Vršanský, Ren, & Shih	Late Jurassic Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.2 ± 4.0 to 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago , which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata. In European lithostratigraphy, the name "Malm" indicates rocks of Late Jurassic age...		Siberia	A giant pterosaur parasite
  Psyllototus Psyllototus Psyllototus is an extinct genus of flea beetle which existed in what is now Ukraine during the late Eocene period. It was named by Konstantin Nadein and Evgeny Perkovsky in 2010, and the type species is Psyllototus progenitor....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Nadein & Perkovsky	Late Eocene	Rovno amber	Ukraine	A flea beetle
  Radiophron Radiophron Radiophron is an extinct genus of wasp which existed in Spain during the early Cretaceous period. The only species is Radiophron ibericus....	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs	Early Cretaceous Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...	Álava amber	Spain	The species is R. ibericus
  Raptorapax Raptorapax Raptorapax is an extinct genus of rhachiberothid which existed in what is now Lebanon during the early Cretaceous period. It was named by Julian F. Petrulevicius, Dany Azar and André Nel in 2010, and the type species is Raptorapax terribilissima....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Petrulevicius, Azar, & Nel	Early Cretaceous Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...	Amber	Lebanon	A rhachiberothid Rhachiberothidae The thorny lacewings, Rhachiberothidae, are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera.Long included in the Berothidae , they are usually considered a separate family by current authors...  lacewing
  Renphasma Renphasma Renphasma is an extinct genus of stick insect which existed in what is now China during the early Cretaceous period. It was named by André Nel and Emmanuel Delfosse in 2010, and the type species is Renphasma sinica. The generic name refers to Dr. Ren Dong, while the specific name refers to Sinica,...	gen et sp nov	In press	Nel & Delfosse	Early Cretaceous Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...	Yixian Formation Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...	Mainland China	A stick insect
  Sociala Sociala Sociala is an extinct genus of cockroach which existed in what is now France during the early Cretaceous period . It was named by Peter Vršanský in 2010, and the type species is Sociala perlucida.- Phylogeny :...	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Vršanský	Albian Albian The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous epoch/series. Its approximate time range is 112.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 99.6 ± 0.9 Ma...	Amber	Early Modern France	A cockroach Cockroach Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattaria or Blattodea, of which about 30 species out of 4,500 total are associated with human habitations...
  Tyulkinia Tyulkinia Tyulkinia is an extinct genus of camptoneuritid insects which existed in what is now Russia during the lower Permian period . It was named by Danil S. Aristov, Sergey Yu. Storozhenko, Cui Yingying in 2010, and the type species is Tyulkinia bashkuevi....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui	Kungurian Kungurian In the geologic timescale, the Kungurian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is the latest or upper of four subdivisions of the Cisuralian epoch or series. The Kungurian lasted between 275.6 ± 0.7 and 270.6 ± 0.7 million years ago...	Tyulkino locality	Russia
  Vitimopsyche kozlovi Vitimopsyche Vitimopsyche is an extinct genus of Mecopteran which existed in what is now northeastern China during the early Cretaceous period. It contains the species Vitimopsyche kozlovi and V. torta....	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ren, Labandeira, & Shih	Early Cretaceous Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...	Jehol Biota Jehol Biota The Jehol Biota includes all the living organisms - the ecosystem - of northeastern China between 133 to 120 million years ago. This is the Lower Cretaceous ecosystem which left fossils in the Yixian Formation and Jiufotang Formation. It is also believed to have left fossils in the Sinuiju series...	Mainland China	A mesopsychid mecopteran
  Vosila	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Vršanský, Ren, & Shih	Middle Jurassic Middle Jurassic The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from 176-161 million years ago. In European lithostratigraphy, rocks of this Middle Jurassic age are called the Dogger....		Mainland China
  Weiwoboa Weiwoboa Weiwoboa is an extinct genus of weiwoboid fulgoroid which existed in what is now China during the early Eocene period. It was named by Lin Qibin, Jacek Szwedo, Huang Diying and Adam Stroiński in 2010, and the type species is Weiwoboa meridiana....	Fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Lin, Szwedo, Huang, & Stroiński	Lower Eocene		Mainland China

  
  

  Newly named spiders

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Eoplectreurys Eoplectreurys Eoplectreurys is an extinct monotypic genus of spider from the family Plectreuridae, with a sole species, Eoplectreurys gertschi...	Valid	Selden Huang	Middle Jurassic	Daohugou Beds Daohugou Beds The Daohugou Beds are a series of fossil-bearing rock deposits located in northeastern China, with the type locality around Daohugou village of Ningcheng County south of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, but extending into southwest Liaoning. The rocks are grey, finely bedded, lacustrine, sandy mudstones...		The oldest known haplogyne Haplogynae The Haplogynae are a series of araneomorph spiders.Unlike the Entelegynae, they lack hardened female genitalia .Most of the species within this group have six eyes, as opposed to most other spiders...  spider.

  
  

  Newly named placoderms

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Potangaspis Potangaspis Potangaspis is an extinct genus of placoderm fish which existed in China during the Devonian period. It was first named by Zhu Min, Wang Jun-qing, and Wang Shi-tao in 2010, and the type species is Potangaspis parvoculatus....	Valid	Zhu Min Wang Jun-qing Wang Shi-tao	early Emsian (Early Devonian)	Yukiang Formation	Mainland China	An antarctaspid arthrodire. The species is P. parvoculatus.

  
  

  Newly named cartilaginous fishes

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Akaimia Akaimia Akaimia is an extinct genus of carpet sharks which existed in Ogrodzieniec near Zawiercie, southern Poland, during the middle or late Jurassic . It was first named by Jan Rees in 2010 and the type species is Akaimia altucuspis....	Valid	Rees	Callovian – Oxfordian	Ogrodzieniec Ogrodzieniec Ogrodzieniec is town Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,499 inhabitants .It is noted for the extensive ruins of a medieval castle, damaged during the Swedish invasion of Poland in the years 1655–1660.- External links :...	Poland	A primitive carpet shark Carpet shark The carpet sharks are an order, Orectolobiformes, of sharks, so called because many members have ornate patterns reminiscent of carpets.... .
  Jiaodontus Jiaodontus Jiaodontus is an extinct genus of lonchidiid cartilaginous fish which existed in Liuhuanggou, Xingjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwestern China, during the late Jurassic . Fossils have been found in the Qigu Formation, China...	Valid	Klug Tütken et al.	Oxfordian	Qigu Formation Qigu Formation The Qigu Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.-See also:* List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations...	Mainland China	A lonchidiid hybodontiform Hybodontiformes Hybodontiformes was an order of sharks, they were characterised by possessing 1-2 pairs of hooked protrusions on their heads.-External links:* http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/070Chondrichthyes/070.600.html#Hybodontiformes... .

  
  

  Newly named bony fishes

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Bonnerichthys Bonnerichthys Bonnerichthys is a new genus of fossil fish within the family Pachycormidae that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period Fossil remains of this taxon are known from the Smoky Hill Member of the Niobrara Chalk Formation of Kansas...	Valid	Friedman Shimada et al.	Cenomanian	Niobrara Chalk Formation	United States	A gigantic pachycormid Pachycormidae Pachycormidae is an extinct family of ray-finned fish known from Mesozoic deposits from Eurasia and the Americas. They were characterized by having serrated pectoral fins, reduced pelvic fins and a bony rostrum. Certain members of the group were large filter-feeding planktivores...  fish. The species is B. gladius.
  Bullichthys Bullichthys Bullichthys is an extinct genus of albuliform fish which existed in Brazil during the Lower Cretaceous period. The type species is B. santanensis....	Valid	Mayrincka Britob Otero	Lower Cretaceous	Santana Formation Santana Formation The Santana Formation is a geologic Lagerstätte in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piauí and Ceará come together. The geological formation, named after the village of Santana do Cariri, lies at the base of the Araripe Plateau...	Brazil	An albuliform Bonefishes The bonefishes are a family of ray-finned fish that are popular as game fish in Florida, select locations in the South Pacific, and the Bahamas and elsewhere. The family is small, with twelve species in two genera.Presently the bonefishes are in their own order: Albuliformes...  fish. The species is B. santanensis.
  Macropycnodon Macropycnodon Macropycnodon is an extinct genus of bony fish which existed in New Mexico, USA during the upper Cretaceous period....	Valid	Shimada Williamson Sealey	Upper Cretaceous	Mancos Shale Formation	United States	A gigantic pycnodont fish.
  Polazzodus Polazzodus Polazzodus is an extinct pycnodontid from the late Cretaceous of the Polazzo locality of northeastern Italy. The paleoenvironment of Polazzo was a large marine carbonate platform and shallow internal lagoons formed from rudist reefs. P...	Valid	Poyoto-Ariza	Late Cretaceous		Italy	A pycnodont fish. The species is P. coronatus.
  Potamoceratodus Potamoceratodus Potamoceratodus is an extinct genus of sarcopterygiian lungfish which existed in Colorado, USA, during the late Jurassic. It was first named by Jason D. Pardo, Adam K. Huttenlocker, Bryan J. Small and Mark A. Gorman II in 2010 and the type species is Potamoceratodus guentheri....	Valid	Pardo Huttenlocker et al.	Late Jurassic	Morrison Formation Morrison Formation The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic sedimentary rock that is found in the western United States, which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. It is composed of mudstone, sandstone, siltstone and limestone and is light grey, greenish...	United States	A lungfish Lungfish Lungfish are freshwater fish belonging to the Subclass Dipnoi. Lungfish are best known for retaining characteristics primitive within the Osteichthyes, including the ability to breathe air, and structures primitive within Sarcopterygii, including the presence of lobed fins with a well-developed... .
  Rhinconichthys Rhinconichthys Rhinconichthys taylori is an extinct species of bony fish which existed during the upper Cretaceous period. It is the only species in the genus Rhinconichthys....	Valid	Friedman Shimada et al.	Cenomanian		Japan	A gigantic pachycormid fish. The species is Rhinconichthys taylori
  Rhombichthys Rhombichthys Rhombichthys is an extinct genus of bony fish which existed in West Bank during the upper Cretaceous period....	Valid	Khalloufi Zaragueta-Bagils Lelievre	Cenomanian	Ein Yabrud Ein Yabrud Ein Yabrud is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank. It is located approximately 7 km northeast of the city of Ramallah and its elevation is 800 m. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics the town had a population of 3,000...	West Bank	A double-armored member of the Ellimmichthyiformes.
  Shuleichthys Shuleichthys Shuleichthys brachypteryx is an extinct species of bony fish which existed in China during the Cretaceous period. It is the only species in the genus Shuleichthys and cannot be placed in any order of the Osteoglossomorpha without making that order paraphyletic....	Valid	Murry You Peng	Cretaceous		Mainland China	A osteoglossomorph fish. The species is S. brachypteryx.
  Xeradipterus Xeradipterus Xeradipterus is an extinct genus of lungfish which existed in Australia during the Frasnian period. Of moderate size , it is believed to be a primitive member of the family Holodontidae characterized by its powerful crushing dentition with thick heels on the lower jaw tooth plates...	Valid	Clement Long	Late Devonian (Frasnian)	Gogo Formation Gogo Formation The Gogo Formation in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is a Lagerstätte that exhibits exceptional preservation of a Devonian reef community.- Sedimentology :...	Australia	A holodontid lungfish Lungfish Lungfish are freshwater fish belonging to the Subclass Dipnoi. Lungfish are best known for retaining characteristics primitive within the Osteichthyes, including the ability to breathe air, and structures primitive within Sarcopterygii, including the presence of lobed fins with a well-developed... .

  
  

  Newly named amphibians

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Deltaherpeton Deltaherpeton Deltaherpeton is an extinct genus of colosteid from middle Mississippian deposits of Delta, Iowa, USA. It was first named by John R. Bolt and R. Eric Lombard in 2010 and the type species is Deltaherpeton hiemstrae....	Valid	Bolt Lombard	Late Viséan			A colosteid Colosteidae The Colosteidae are a family of amphibian tetrapods that lived in the Carboniferous period. They appear to be a fairly primitive group, a sister group to the reptile-like amphibians and the other temnospondylans.... .
  Fedexia Fedexia Fedexia is an extinct genus of carnivorous temnospondyl within the family Trematopidae. It lived 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period. It is estimated to have been two feet long, and likely resembled a salamander. Fedexia is known from a single skull found in Pittsburgh,...	Valid	Berman Henrici et al.	Gzhelian	Casselman Formation Casselman Formation The Casselman Formation mapped sedimentary bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia, of Pennsylvanian age. It is the uppermost of two formations in the Conemaugh Group, the lower being the Glenshaw Formation. The boundary between these two units is the top of the marine Ames...		A trematopid genus currently among the oldest known vertebrates with a primarily terrestrial lifestyle.
  Hungarobatrachus Hungarobatrachus Hungarobatrachus is an extinct genus of advanced frog. It is a ranoid which lived during the upper Cretaceous period in what is now Hungary. It is known from isolated ilia and tibio-fibulae recovered from the Iharkút locality in the Csehbánya Formation...	Valid	Szentesi Venczel	Santonian	Csehbánya Formation Csehbánya Formation The Csehbánya Formation is a geological formation in Hungary whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...		Advanced frog Frog Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail... .
  Madygenerpeton Madygenerpeton Madygenerpeton is an extinct genus of chroniosuchid reptiliomorph from middle and upper Triassic deposits of Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan. It was first named by paleontologists Rainer R. Schoch, Sebastian Voigt and Michael Buchwitz in 2010 from a nearly complete skull and associated osteoderms....	Valid	Schoch Voigt Buchwitz	Middle/Upper Triassic	Madygen Formation		A chroniosuchid Chroniosuchidae The Chroniosuchidae are a family of semi-aquatic reptiliomorp amphibians found in sediments from the upper Permian and the upper Triassic periods, most in Russia. They were generally rather large animals, with long jaws similar to those found in modern crocodiles, and probably lived a similar life...  reptiliomorph.

  
  

  Newly named basal anapsids

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Microleter Microleter Microleter is an extinct genus of parareptile which existed in Oklahoma during the upper Permian period. It was first named by paleontologists Linda A. Tsuji, Johannes Muller, and Robert R. Reisz in 2010. The type species is Microleter mckinzieorum. A very well preserved skull and lower jaw is the...	Valid	Tsuji Muller Reisz Robert R. Reisz Robert Rafael Reisz is a Canadian paleontologist and specialist in the study of early amniote and tetrapod evolution.Robert Reisz was born August 27, 1947, in Oradea, Romania. He received his B.Sc. , M.Sc. and Ph.D. from McGill University as Robert L. Carroll’s first doctoral graduate...	Lower Permian		United States	A basal parareptile Parareptilia Parareptilia is a subclass or clade of reptiles which is variously defined as an extinct group of primitive anapsids, or a more cladistically correct alternative to Anapsida... . The species is M. mckinzieorum.
  Phonodus Phonodus Phonodus is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile. It is known from a single skull found from the Early Triassic Katberg Formation in South Africa. It is the oldest known member of the subfamily Leptopleuroninae, and was likely the result of a procolophonid migration into the Karoo Basin...	Valid	Modesto Scott et al.	Induan (early Triassic)	Katberg Formation	South Africa	The earliest known leptopleuronine procolophonid Procolophonid The Procolophonids - family Procolophonidae - are a group of small reptiles. Skulls have been discovered, roughly 5 cm in diameter.... .
  Reiszorhinus Reiszorhinus Reiszorhinus is an extinct genus of Early Permian captorinid known from the United States. The type species is Reiszorhinus olsoni. Fossils have been found from the Waggoner Ranch Formation in north-central Texas. It is distinguishable by its recurved teeth and extremely large Meckelian foramen on...	Valid	Sumida Dodick et al.	Lower Permian	Waggoner Ranch Formation	United States	A basal captorhinid Captorhinidae Captorhinidae is one of the earliest and most basal reptile families.-Description:... . The species is Reiszorhinus olsoni.

  
  

  Newly named turtles

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Cerrejonemys Cerrejonemys Cerrejonemys is an extinct genus of turtle which existed in Colombia during the Paleocene period. The type species is Cerrejonemys wayuunaiki.-External links:* at the Fossil Wiki...	Valid	Cadena Bloch Jaramillo	Paleocene	Cerrejón Formation Cerrejón Formation The Cerrejón Formation is a geologic formation in Colombia dating back to the Middle-Late Paleocene. It is found in the El Cerrejón subbasin of the Racheria basin of La Guajira. The formation consists of bituminous coal fields that are an important economic resource. Coal from the Cerrejón...	Colombia
  Chupacabrachelys Chupacabrachelys Chupacabrachelys is an extinct genus of bothremydid turtle which existed in western Texas, USA during the late Cretaceous epoch . Its fossils were discovered in Aguja Formation in the Big Bend region, and its type example is one of the most complete bothremydid specimens known. It was first named...	Valid	Lehman Wick	Campanian	Aguja Formation Aguja Formation The Aguja Formation is a geological formation in North America, exposed in Texas, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Ammonites:-Crurotarsans:...	United States	A taphrosphyini bothremydid Bothremydidae Bothremydidae is an extinct family of side-necked turtle. They belong to sub-order Pleurodira and order Testudines. Bothremydidae lived in fresh water and were amphibious. They were actively mobile omnivores.-Taxonomy:...
  Gamerabaena Gamerabaena Gamerabaena is an extinct genus of baenid turtle which existed in North Dakota during the late Cretaceous period. It is known from a single fragmentary skull that was found in the Maastrichtian-age Hell Creek Formation. It contains the species Gamerabaena sonsalla...	Valid	Lyson Joyce	Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Hell Creek Formation Hell Creek Formation The Hell Creek Formation is an intensely-studied division of Upper Cretaceous to lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana...	United States
  Itilochelys Itilochelys Itilochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle in the family Cheloniidae containing the single species Itilochelys rasstrigin. The species is known only from the Early Paleocene, Danian stage Rasstrigin 2 locality, Dubovka District, Volgograd, Russia.-History and classification:Itilochelys...	Valid	Danilov Averianov Yarkov	Danian	Beryozovaya beds	Russia
  Jiangxichelys Jiangxichelys Jiangxichelys is an extinct genus of nanhsiungchelyid turtle which existed in China during the latest Cretaceous epoch. It was first named by Haiyan Tong and Jinyou Mo in 2010 and the type species is Jiangxichelys ganzhouensis....	Valid	Tong Mo	Late Cretaceous	Ganzhou Ganzhou Ganzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong .-History:...	Mainland China	A nanhsiungchelyid turtle.
  Liaochelys Liaochelys Liaochelys is an extinct genus of macrobaenid turtle which existed in western Liaoning, China during the early Cretaceous epoch. It was first named by Chang-Fu Zhou in 2010 and the type species is Liaochelys jianchangensis....	Valid	Zhou	Early Cretaceous	Jiufotang Formation Jiufotang Formation The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...	Mainland China	A macrobaenid turtle.
  Mexichelys Mexichelys Mexichelys is an extinct monotypic genus of sea turtle which lived in Mexico during the Cretaceous. The only species is Mexichelys coahuilaensis...	Valid	Parham Pyenson	Late Campanian	Cerro del Pueblo Formation Cerro del Pueblo Formation The Cerro del Pueblo Formation is a geological formation in Coahuila, Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...	Mexico	A sea turtle. A new genus for "Euclastes" coahuilaensis (Brinkman et al., 2009).
  Pacifichelys Pacifichelys Pacifichelys is an extinct sea turtle from the Miocene of Peru and California. It was first named by James F. Parham and Nicholas D. Pyenson in 2010, and the type species is Pacifichelys urbinai from Peru. A second species, P. hutchisoni, was reassigned from the genus Euclastes. It is known from...	Valid	Parham Pyenson	Miocene		Peru  United States	A sea turtle.

  
  

  Newly named ichthyosaurs

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Arthropterygius Arthropterygius Arthropterygius is an ichthyosaur which existed in Canada during the late Jurassic period. It contains the type species Arthropterygius chrisorum, named in 2010 by Erin E. Maxwell. Arthropterygius is the generic replacement name for Ophthalmosaurus chrisorum, named in 1993 from fossils found on ...	Valid	Maxwell		Queen Elizabeth Islands Queen Elizabeth Islands The Queen Elizabeth Islands are the northernmost cluster of islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, split between Nunavut and Northwest Territories in Northern Canada.-Geography:...		A new genus for "Ophthalmosaurus" chirsorum (Russell, 1993).
  Athabascasaurus Athabascasaurus Athabascasaurus is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur known from the Alberta of Canada.-Description:Athabascasaurus is known from the holotype TMP 2000.29.01, articulated nearly complete postcranial skeleton and nearly complete skull preserved in dorsal view, missing the premaxilla...	Valid	Druckenmiller Maxwell	Lower Albian	Clearwater Formation Clearwater Formation The Clearwater Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Albian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.It takes the name from Clearweater River. The formation is exposed on the banks of the Athabasca River between Brule Falls and Boiler Falls, as well as along the Christina River, a tributary...		The most complete and stratigraphically oldest known ichthyosaur from the Cretaceous of North America.
  Barracudasauroides Barracudasauroides Barracudasauroides is a genus of mixosaurid ichthyosaur which lived during the Middle Triassic. Fossils of this genus have been found in Guizhou Province, China. It is known from GMPKU-P-1033, a partial skeleton recovered from the Upper Member of the Guanling Formation of Yangjuan village, Xinmin...	Valid	Maisch	Middle Triassic	Guanling Formation Guanling Formation The Guanling Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Plesiosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from its strata....		A new genus for "Mixosaurus" panxianensis (Jiang, Schmitz, Hao & Sun, 2006).
  Mixosaurus xindianensis	Valid	Chen Cheng	Middle Triassic	Guanling Formation Guanling Formation The Guanling Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Plesiosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from its strata....

  
  

  Newly named plesiosaurs

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Alexeyisaurus Alexeyisaurus Alexeyisaurus is an extinct genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur known from the upper Triassic of Wilczek Formation, Wilczek Land, of Franz Josef Land, Russia. It was first named by A. G. Sennikov and M. S. Arkhangelsky in 2010 and the type species is Alexeyisaurus karnoushenkoi....	Valid	Sennikov Arkhangelsky	Norian	Wilczek Formation	Russia	A new elasmosaurid
  Meyerasaurus Meyerasaurus Meyerasaurus is an extinct genus of rhomaleosaurid known from Holzmaden, Baden-Württemberg of southeastern Germany.-Description:Meyerasaurus is known from the holotype SMNS 12478, articulated and complete skeleton which preserved the skull, exposed in ventral view. The skull has a length of ,...	Valid	Smith Vincent	Lower Toarcian	Posidonia Shale Posidonia Shale The Posidonia Shale is a Lower Jurassic geological formation famous for its exceptionally well-preserved complete skeletons of fossil marine fish and reptiles. The Posidonienschiefer as German paleontologists call it, takes its name from the ubiquitous fossils of Posidonia bronni that characterize...	Germany	A pliosaur Pliosaur Pliosauroidea is an extinct clade of marine reptiles. Pliosauroids, also commonly known as pliosaurs, are known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. The pliosauroids were short-necked plesiosaurs with large heads and massive toothed jaws. These swimming reptiles were not dinosaurs but distant... . Previously assigned to Rhomaleosaurus Rhomaleosaurus Rhomaleosaurus is an extinct genus of Early Jurassic rhomaleosaurid pliosauroid known from Northamptonshire and from Yorkshire of the United Kingdom. It was first named by Harry Seeley in 1874 and the type species is Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni... (Seeley, 1874).

  
  

  Newly named basal lepidosaurs

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Cargninia Cargninia Cargninia is an extinct genus of basal lepidosaur from the Late Triassic period. It lived during the late Triassic period in what is now Faxinal do Soturno, Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. It is known from the holotype UFRGS PV 1027 T, a partial dentary, recovered from the...	Valid	Bonaparte Schultz et al.	Carnian - Norian	Caturrita Formation Caturrita Formation The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its sediments were deposited in the Paraná Basin. The formation has a late Carnian to early Norian age and forms part of the Santa Maria Supersequence in the upper section of the Rosário do Sul Group.-Etymology:The...	Brazil	A basal Basal (phylogenetics) In phylogenetics, a basal clade is the earliest clade to branch in a larger clade; it appears at the base of a cladogram.A basal group forms an outgroup to the rest of the clade, such as in the following example:...  lepidosaur Lepidosauria The Lepidosauria are reptiles with overlapping scales. This subclass includes Squamata and Sphenodontidae. It is a monophyletic group and therefore contains all descendents of a common ancestor. The squamata includes snakes, lizards, tuataras, and amphisbaenia. Lepidosauria is the sister taxon... .

  
  

  Newly named lizards

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Adriosaurus skrbinensis Adriosaurus Adriosaurus is an extinct genus of aquatic lizard that lived about 95 million years ago. It was snake-like and grew 10 to 12 inches. This is the first fossil record of vestigial limbs in lizards, and gives scientists a glimpse back to the time when terrestrial lizards evolved to be limbless...	Valid	Caldwell Palci	Late Cenomanian	Skrbina	Slovenia
  Headonhillia Headonhillia Headonhillia is an extinct genus of anguine lizard which existed in England during the Eocene epoch. It was first named by Jozef Klembaraa and Bryony Green in 2010, and represents one of the smallest anguines currently known. The type species is Headonhillia parva. Fossils have been found in the...	Valid	Klembara Green	Late Eocene, Ludian (Priabonian)	Bembridge Limestone Formation	Kingdom of England	An anguine Anguidae The Anguidae is a large and diverse family of lizards native to the northern hemisphere. The group includes the slowworms, glass lizards, and alligator lizards, among others. Anguidae is divided into three subfamilies and contains 94 species in eight genera. Their closest living relatives are the...  lizard. The species is H. parva.
  Kleskunsaurus Kleskunsaurus Kleskunsaurus is an extinct genus of scincomorph lizard from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. It was first named by paleontologists Randall L. Nydam, Michael W. Caldwell, and Federico Fanti in 2010, and the type species is Kleskunsaurus grandeprairiensis. The genus is named after Kleskun...	Valid	Nydam Caldwell Fanti	Upper Campanian	Wapiti Formation Wapiti Formation The Wapiti Formation is a geological formation in Alberta, Canada whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. The Wapiti Formation outcrops in northwestern Wapiti Formation...	Canada	A scincomorph lizard. The species is K. grandeprairiensis.
  Liushusaurus Liushusaurus Liushusaurus, is an extinct lizard described by Susan E. Evans and Yuan Wang in 2010. The genus has a single species Liushusaurus acanthocaudata, and is known from eight fossils, several of which preserve soft tissue detail. The specimens were found in the Lower Cretaceous aged Yixian Formation of...	Valid	Evans Wang	Lower Cretaceous	Yixian Formation Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...	Mainland China	A scincogekkonomorph lizard. The species is L. acanthocaudata.
  Pedrerasaurus Pedrerasaurus Pedrerasaurus is an extinct genus of scincogekkonomorph lizard from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. The type species is P. latifrontalis. It is similar in appearance to Meyasaurus, a widespread Early Cretaceous lizard that is also known from the Iberian Peninsula...	Valid	Bolet Evans	Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian-early Valanginan)	Montsec's Formation Montsec Montsec may refer to:* Serra del Montsec* Montsec, Meuse, a commune of the Meuse département, in France...	Spain	A scincogekkonomorph lizard. The species is P. latifrontalis.

  
  

  Newly named snakes

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Kelyophis Kelyophis Kelyophis is an extinct genus of nigerophiid snake which existed in Madagascar during the Late Cretaceous. The type species is Kelyophis hechti. Trunk vertebrae have been found from the Maastrichtian-age Maevarano Formation in the Mahajanga Basin...	Valid	Laduke Krause Scanlon Kley	Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Maevarano Formation Maevarano Formation The Maevarano Formation is an Upper Cretaceous sedimentary rock formation found in the Mahajanga Province of northwestern Madagascar. It is most likely Maastrichtian in age, and records a seasonal, semiarid environment with rivers that had greatly varying discharges...	Madagascar	A nigerophiid snake
  Menarana Menarana Menarana is an extinct genus of madtsoiid snake which existed in Madagascar during the Late Cretaceous. The type species is Menarana nosymena...	Valid	Laduke Krause Scanlon Kley	Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Maevarano Formation Maevarano Formation The Maevarano Formation is an Upper Cretaceous sedimentary rock formation found in the Mahajanga Province of northwestern Madagascar. It is most likely Maastrichtian in age, and records a seasonal, semiarid environment with rivers that had greatly varying discharges...	Madagascar	A madtsoiid snake
  Sanajeh Sanajeh Sanajeh is a genus of late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake from western India. A recently described fossil from the Lameta Formation has been found coiled around an egg and an adjacent skeleton of a 50 cm long sauropod dinosaur hatchling...	Valid	Wilson Mohabey et al.	Maastrichtian	Lameta Formation Lameta Formation The Lameta Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, India. It is of Maastrichtian age , and is notable for its dinosaur fossils...	India	A madtsoiid Madtsoiidae Madtsoiidae are an extinct group of mostly Gondwanan snakes with a fossil record extending from early Cenomanian to late Pleistocene strata located in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe...  snake which preyed on hatchling sauropods.

  
  

  Newly named basal archosauromorphs

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis Azendohsaurus Azendohsaurus was a genus of herbivorous archosauromorph from the Late Triassic Period of Morocco. The type species is known only from a partial jaw fragment from Morocco. Azendohsaurus was previously regarded as a dinosaur, as either an ornithischian or a prosauropod...	Valid	Flynn Nesbitt et al.	Ladinian/Carnian	Makay Formation	Madagascar	A basal archosauromorph Archosauromorpha Archosauromorpha is an infraclass of diapsid reptiles that first appeared during the late Permian and became more common during the Triassic. Included in this infraclass are the groups Rhynchosauria, Trilophosauridae, Prolacertiformes, Archosauriformes, and, tentatively, Choristodera... .
  Bentonyx Bentonyx Bentonyx is an extinct genus of rhynchosaur from the middle Triassic epoch of Devon in England. Its fossil, a well preserved skull, BRSUG 27200, was discovered in Otter Sandstone Formation and was first assigned to Rhynchosaurus spenceri, that is known from 25 specimens...	Valid	Langer Montefeltro et al.	Middle Triassic	Otter Sandstone Formation	Kingdom of England	A rhynchosaur Rhynchosaur Rhynchosaurs were a group of Triassic diapsid reptiles related to the archosaurs.-Description:Rhynchosaurs were herbivores, and at times abundant , with stocky bodies and a powerful beak... .
  Koilamasuchus Koilamasuchus Koilamasuchus is an extinct genus of Early Triassic archosauriform. Remains have been found from the Quebrada de los Fósiles Formation of the Puesto Viejo Group in Argentina. The holotype specimen of Koilamasuchus gonzalezdiazi, the type species, is the most well preserved and best known specimen...	Valid	Ezcurra Lecuona Martinelli	Early Triassic Early Triassic The Early Triassic is the first of three epochs of the Triassic period of the geologic timescale. It spans the time between 251 ± 0.4 Ma and 245 ± 1.5 Ma . Rocks from this epoch are collectively known as the Lower Triassic, which is a unit in chronostratigraphy...	Quebrada de los Fósiles Formation	Argentina	The best-known basal archosauriform from South America.
  Megalancosaurus endennae Megalancosaurus Megalancosaurus is a genus of extinct reptile from the Late Triassic period of Northern Italy, and one of the best known drepanosaurids. The type species is M. preonensis; a translation of the animal's scientific name would be "long armed reptile from the Preone Valley."-Anatomy:Megalancosaurus was...	Valid	Renesto Spielmann et al.	Alaunian (early Norian)	Zorzino Limestone Formation	Italy	A drepanosaurid Drepanosauridae Drepanosaurs are a group of strange reptiles that lived during the Carnian stage of the late Triassic Period, between 220 and 216 million years ago. The various species of drepanosaurid were characterized by odd specialized grasping limbs and often prehensile tails, adaptions for arboreal , and/or...  that is known from MBSN 25, a partial skeleton Skeleton The skeleton is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism. There are two different skeletal types: the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, and the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body.In a figurative sense, skeleton can...  (Partial postcranial skeleton).
  Teyumbaita Teyumbaita Teyumbaita is an extinct genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from the Upper Triassic epoch of Paleorrota, Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil...	Valid	Montefeltro Langer Schultz	Late Triassic	Caturrita Formation Caturrita Formation The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its sediments were deposited in the Paraná Basin. The formation has a late Carnian to early Norian age and forms part of the Santa Maria Supersequence in the upper section of the Rosário do Sul Group.-Etymology:The...	Brazil	A rhynchosaur Rhynchosaur Rhynchosaurs were a group of Triassic diapsid reptiles related to the archosaurs.-Description:Rhynchosaurs were herbivores, and at times abundant , with stocky bodies and a powerful beak... . A new genus for "Scaphonyx" sulcognathus (Azevedo & Schultz, 1987).
  Uatchitodon schneideri	Valid	Mitchell Heckert Sues	Late Triassic	Cumnock Formation  Bluewater Creek Formation	United States	A venomous archosauriform known only from isolated teeth.
  Vallesaurus zorzinensis Vallesaurus Vallesaurus is an extinct genus of Late Triassic elyurosaur drepanosauromorph. First found in Northern Italy in 1975, it is one of the most primitive drepanosaurs. V. cenenis is the type species, named in 2006. A second species, V...	Valid	Renesto Spielmann et al.	Alaunian (early Norian)	Zorzino Limestone Formation	Italy	A basal drepanosauromorph that is known from MCSNB 4783, a set of vertebrae and hindlimbs.

  
  

  Newly named crurotarsans

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Baurusuchus albertoi Baurusuchus Baurusuchus is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. It was a terrestrial predator and scavenger, about 3.5 to 4 meters long. Baurusuchus lived during the Turonian to Santonian stages of the Late Cretaceous Period, in Adamantina Formation, Brazil...	Valid	Nascimento Zaher	Turonian/Santonian	Adamantina Formation Adamantina Formation The Adamantina Formation is a geological formation in Brazil whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation...	Brazil
  Crocodylus anthropophagus Crocodylus anthropophagus Crocodylus anthropophagus is an extinct species of crocodile from Plio-Pleistocene from Tanzania. It lived 1.84 million years ago.- Etymology :...	Valid	Brochu Njau et al.	Plio-Pleistocene Plio-Pleistocene The term Plio-Pleistocene refers to the geological period more recent than circa 5 million years ago, incorporating both the formally defined epochs of the Pliocene and the Pleistocene...		Tanzania	A horned crocodile that preyed on early hominids
  Cerrejonisuchus Cerrejonisuchus Cerrejonisuchus is an extinct genus of dyrosaurid crocodylomorph. It is known from a complete skull and mandible from the Cerrejón Formation in northeastern Colombia, which is Paleocene in age. Specimens belonging to Cerrejonisuchus and to several other dyrosaurids have been found from the Cerrejón...	Valid	Hastings Bloch et al.	Paleocene	Cerrejón Formation Cerrejón Formation The Cerrejón Formation is a geologic formation in Colombia dating back to the Middle-Late Paleocene. It is found in the El Cerrejón subbasin of the Racheria basin of La Guajira. The formation consists of bituminous coal fields that are an important economic resource. Coal from the Cerrejón...	Colombia	A short-snouted dyrosaurid Dyrosauridae Dyrosauridae is a family of extinct neosuchian crocodyliforms that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Eocene. Fossils of this group have been found in almost every continent, specifically Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America....  which had a generalist feeding strategy. It grew to lengths of about 7 feet.
  Diplocynodon elavericus Diplocynodon Diplocynodon is an extinct genus of alligatoroid that lived during the Paleocene to middle Miocene 49 million years ago in Europe. It looked very similar to the modern caiman in that it was small and had bony armour scutes covering its neck, back, belly, and tail...	Valid	Martin	Late Eocene		Early Modern France
  Eoneustes Eoneustes Eoneustes is an extinct genus of metriorhynchoid crocodyliform from Middle Jurassic deposits of France. Eoneustes was a carnivore that lived in the oceans and spent much, if not all, its life out at sea.-Discovery and species:*E. bathonicus: Western Europe of the Middle Jurassic...	Valid	Young Brusatte Ruta de Andrade	Bathonian		Early Modern France
  Gracilineustes Gracilineustes Gracilineustes is an extinct genus of marine crocodyliform that lived in the oceans during the Middle to Late Jurassic. Gracilineustes was a carnivore that spent much, if not all, its life out at sea.-Discovery and species:...	Valid	Young Brusatte Ruta de Andrade	Callovian/Kimmeridgian	Oxford Clay Oxford Clay The Oxford Clay Formation is a Jurassic marine sedimentary rock formation underlying much of southeast England, from as far west as Dorset and as far north as Yorkshire. The Oxford Clay is of middle Callovian to lower Oxfordian age and comprises 2 main facies. The lower facies comprises the...	Early Modern France  Kingdom of England
  Krabisuchus Krabisuchus Krabisuchus is an extinct alligatorine which existed in what is now Thailand during the late Eocene. It was first named by paleontologists Jeremy A. Martin and Komsorn Lauprasert in 2010, and the type species is K. siamogallicus...	Valid	Martin Lauprasert	Late Eocene		Thailand	An early alligatorine.
  Pakasuchus Pakasuchus Pakasuchus is a genus of notosuchian crocodyliform distinguished by its unusual mammal-like appearance, including mammal-like teeth that would have given the animal the ability to chew. It also had long, slender legs and a doglike nose. Pakasuchus lived approximately 105 million years ago, in the...	Valid	O’Connor Sertich et al.	Albian		Tanzania
  Pravusuchus Pravusuchus Pravusuchus is an extinct genus of phytosaur known from the late Triassic of Chinle Formation in Arizona. It was first named by Michelle R. Stocker in 2010 and the type species is Pravusuchus hortus....	Valid	Stocker	Norian	Chinle Formation Chinle Formation The Chinle is a geologic formation that is spread across the U.S. states of northern Arizona, Nevada, Utah, western New Mexico, and western Colorado. The Chinle is controversially considered to be synonymous to the Dockum Group in eastern Colorado, eastern New Mexico, southwestern Kansas, the...	United States	A phytosaur Phytosaur Phytosaurs are an extinct group of large semi-aquatic Late Triassic archosaurs. Phytosaurs belong to the family Phytosauridae and the order Phytosauria. They were long-snouted and heavily armoured, bearing a remarkable resemblance to modern crocodiles in size, appearance, and lifestyle, an example... .
  Stagonolepis olenkae Stagonolepis Stagonolepis is an extinct genus of aetosaur. It was about long.An aetosaur, Stagonolepis was a quadrupedal animal covered in thick armoured scales that ran down the length of the its body. A slow-moving browser, it would have used this heavy body armour to repel attacks from contemporary...	Valid	Sulej	Late Carnian	Krasiejów deposits	Poland
  Theriosuchus sympiestodon Theriosuchus Theriosuchus is an extinct genus of atoposaurid mesoeucrocodylian from the Late Jurassic of Europe, the Early Cretaceous of Asia and the Late Cretaceous of Romania. The five species are T. pusillus from England , T. ibericus from Spain , T. guimarotae from Portugal , T. sympiestodon from Romania...	Valid	Martin Rabi Csiki	Maastrichtian	Haţeg Basin	Kingdom of Romania	A fourth species of Theriosuchus.
  Torvoneustes Torvoneustes Torvoneustes is a genus of extinct metriorhynchid mesoeucrocodylian. It is known from a partial skull and some postcranial remains that have been found from the Kimmeridge Clay of Wiltshire, England. The skull was first to be found, and was first assigned to the species Metriorhynchus superciliosus...	Valid	Andrade Young et al.	Kimmeridgian	Kimmeridge Clay Kimmeridge Clay The Kimmeridge Clay Formation is a sedimentary deposit of fossiliferous marine clay which is of Jurassic age. It occurs in Europe.Kimmeridge Clay is arguably the most economically important unit of rocks in the whole of Europe, being the major source rock for oil fields in the North Sea hydrocarbon...		Previously assigned to Geosaurus Geosaurus Geosaurus is an extinct genus of marine crocodyliform within the family Metriorhynchidae that lived during the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. Geosaurus was a carnivore that spent much, if not all, its life out at sea... and Dakosaurus Dakosaurus Dakosaurus is an extinct genus within the family Metriorhynchidae that lived during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. It was large, with teeth that were serrated and compressed lateromedially . The genus was established by Friedrich August von Quenstedt in 1856 for an isolated tooth named...
  Tsoabichi Tsoabichi Tsoabichi is an extinct genus of alligatoroid. Fossils are known from the Eocene Green River Formation in Wyoming, and date back to the Wasatchian. The genus was named and described in 2010, with the type species being T. greenriverensis...	Valid	Brochu	Eocene (Wasatchian)	Green River Formation Green River Formation The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes. The sediments are deposited in very fine layers, a dark layer during the growing season and a light-hue inorganic layer in winter. Each pair of layers is called a varve and...	United States	An early caiman Caiman Caimans are alligatorid crocodylians within the subfamily Caimaninae. The group is one of two subfamilies of the family Alligatoridae, the other being alligators. Caimans inhabit Central and South America. They are relatively small crocodilians, with most species reaching lengths of only a few... .

  
  

  Newly named birds

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Aquila bullockensis Aquila bullockensis Aquila bullockensis is an extinct species of large true eagles in the Accipitridae family. A. bullockensis is related to the living species A. audax to which it might be ancestral. The species is solely known from the distal end of a right humerus found in the Middle Miocene , Bullock Creek...	Valid	Gaff Boles	Middle Miocene	Bullock Creek Bullock Creek The Bullock Creek Fossil site is one of three known vertebrate fossil sites in the Australia's Northern Territory, along with the Alcoota Fossil Beds on Alcoota Station and the Kangaroo Well site on Deep Well Station. It is located about 550km south-southeast of Darwin, on Camfield Station...		Oldest Aquila species in Australia
  Bauxitornis Bauxitornis Bauxitornis is an extinct genus of avisaurid enantiornithine which existed in what is now Hungary during the late Cretaceous period . It was named by Gareth J. Dyke and Attila Ősi in 2010, and the type species is Bauxitornis mindszentyae....	Valid	Dyke Ősi	Santonian	Csehbánya Formation Csehbánya Formation The Csehbánya Formation is a geological formation in Hungary whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...		An avisaurid Avisauridae The Avisauridae are a family of extinct Enantiornithine birds known from Cretaceous North and South America. They are represented by eight genera.Avisauridae was erected by Brett-Surman and Paul in 1985...  enantiornithine.
  Camptodontus Camptodontus "Camptodontus" is an extinct genus of enantiornithine bird which existed in what is now Chaoyang in Liaoning Province, China during the early Cretaceous period . It is known from a well-preserved skeleton including a skull found in the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province...	Valid	Li Gong et al.	Aptian	Jiufotang Formation Jiufotang Formation The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...		An longipterygid Longipterygidae Longipterygidae is a family of early enantiornithine birds from the early Cretaceous Period of China. All known specimens come from the Jiufotang Formation and Yixian Formation, dating to the early Aptian age, 122-120 million years ago.-Description:...  enantiornithine.
  Confuciusornis jianchangensis Confuciusornis Confuciusornis is a genus of primitive crow-sized birds from the Early Cretaceous Yixian and Jiufotang Formations of China, dating from 125 to 120 million years ago...	Valid	Li Wang Hou	Aptian	Jiufotang Formation Jiufotang Formation The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...		A fourth valid species of Confuciusornis. It is known from a single skeleton.
  Flexomornis Flexomornis Flexomornis is a genus of enantiornithine bird. Its fossils were found in Texas rocks belonging to the Woodbine Formation dating to the middle Cenomanian age of the late Cretaceous period...	Valid	Tykoski Fiorillo	Campanian	Woodbine Formation Woodbine Formation The Woodbine Formation is a geological formation in east Texas whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...		An enantiornithine.
  Hollanda Hollanda (bird) Hollanda is a genus of small, predatory ground bird known from fossils found in the Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia. Found at Khermeen Tsav, it dates from the late Cretaceous period , about 75 million years ago. Known only from partial hind limbs, Hollanda has long legs with an unusual...	Valid	Bell Chiappe et al.	Campanian	Barun Goyot Formation Barun Goyot Formation The Barun Goyot Formation , dating from the Late Cretaceous Period, is located within and is widely represented in the Gobi Desert basin, in the Ömnögovi Province of Mongolia....		A predatory ground bird known from an unusual hind limb.
  Huoshanornis Huoshanornis Huoshanornis is an extinct genus of enantiornithine which existed in what is now Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning Province, China during the early Cretaceous period. Its fossil remains were found at Chaoyang City. It was first named by Xia Wang, Zihui Zhang, Chunling Gao, Lianhai Hou,...	Valid	Wang Zhang et al.	Early Cretaceous	Jiufotang Formation Jiufotang Formation The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...		An enantiornithine.
  Inkayacu Inkayacu Inkayacu is an extinct genus of penguin. It lived in Peru during the Late Eocene, around 36 million years ago. A nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 2008 and includes fossilized feathers, the first known in penguins. A study of the melanosomes, pigment-containing organelles within the...	Valid	Clarke Ksepka et al.	Late Eocene	Ica Region Ica Region Ica is a region in Peru. It borders the Pacific Ocean on the west; the Lima Region on the north; the Huancavelica and Ayacucho regions on the east; and the Arequipa Region on the south. Its capital is the city of Ica.- Geography :...		A giant penguin Penguin Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become flippers... .
  Intiornis Intiornis Intiornis is an extinct genus of avisaurid enantiornithine which existed in what is now North-West Argentina during the late Cretaceous period . It is known from a partial hind limb found in beds of the Upper Cretaceous Las Curtiembres Formation...	Valid	Novas Agnolín Scanferla	Campanian	Las Curtiembres Formation		An avisaurid enantiornithine.
  Leptoptilos robustus Leptoptilos robustus Leptoptilos robustus or Flores Flightless Stork is an extinct species of stork from the Flores island chain in Indonesia. It was tall and weighed an estimated . Since the bones in the legs and body are very heavy, it is assumed that it rarely, if ever, flew.-References:*...	Valid	Meijer Due	Late Pleistocene	Liang Bua		A giant marabou stork Marabou Stork The Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, occurring in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation, especially waste tips... .
  Longicrusavis Longicrusavis Longicrusavis is an extinct genus of basal ornithuromorph bird within the family Hongshanornithidae. Remains have been found from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Liaoning Province, China.-Description:...	Valid	O'Connor Gao Chiappe	Barremian	Yixian Formation Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...		A hongshanornithid.
  Lophogallus Lophogallus Lophogallus is a genus of prehistoric phasianid which existed in Naran Bulak Formation, Mongolia during the middle Miocene. It was described by N. V. Zelenkov and E. N. Kurochkin in 2010, and the type species is Lophogallus naranbulakensis....	Valid	Zelenkov Kurochkin	Middle Miocene	Naran Bulak Formatiom		A phasianid Phasianidae The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, including the junglefowl , Old World Quail, francolins, monals and peafowl. The family is a large one, and is occasionally broken up into two subfamilies, the Phasianinae, and the Perdicinae... .
  Mogontiacopsitta Mogontiacopsitta Mogontiacopsitta is a genus of prehistoric parrot which existed in Mainz Basin, Germany during the late Oligocene or early Miocene. It was described by Gerald Mayr in 2010, from an incomplete tarsometatarsus. The type species is Mogontiacopsitta miocaena....	Valid	Mayr	Late Oligocene/ Early Miocene	Mainz Basin		A small parrot Parrot Parrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three families: the Psittacidae , the Cacatuidae and the Strigopidae... .
  Pelagornis chilensis Pelagornis Pelagornis is a widely-known genus of the prehistoric pseudotooth birds. These were probably rather close relatives of either pelicans and storks, or of waterfowl, and are here placed in the order Odontopterygiformes to account for this uncertainty....	Valid	Mayr Rubilar-Rogers	Miocene	Bahia Inglesa Formation		A pseudotooth bird with a large wingspan
  Rhenanorallus Rhenanorallus Rhenanorallus is a genus of prehistoric rail which existed in Mainz Basin, Germany during the late Oligocene or early Miocene. It was described by Gerald Mayr in 2010, from a humerus. The type species is Rhenanorallus rhenanus....	Valid	Mayr	Late Oligocene/ Early Miocene	Mainz Basin		A small rail Rail Rail or rails may refer to:Railway transportation* A generic term for railroads, railways, rail transport, and related matters* Rail tracks, or railway lines, the running surface of a railway... .
  Shenqiornis Shenqiornis Shenqiornis is a genus of enantiornithine . It was found in the Qiaotou member of the Huajiying Formation of Hebei Province, China, and is therefore of uncertain age. The Qiaotou Member may correlate with the more well-known Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, and so probably dates to around 122 Ma...	Valid	Wang O'Connor et al.	Aptian	Qiaotou Formation		An enantiornithine.
  Shenshiornis Shenshiornis Shenshiornis is a genus of primitive bird which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period. It is known from one partial skeleton recovered from he Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning province, dating to . The type species is Shenshiornis primita...	Valid	Hu Li et al.	Aptian	Jiufotang Formation Jiufotang Formation The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...		An sapeornithid.
  Zhongjianornis Zhongjianornis Zhongjianornis is a genus of long-beaked, pigeon-sized bird from the early Cretaceous period of China. It is known from one fossil found at Jianchang, Liaoning Province, in rocks of the Jiufotang Formation...	Valid	Zhou Zhang Li	Aptian	Jiufotang Formation Jiufotang Formation The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...		A beaked basal avialan

  
  

  Newly named basal dinosauriforms

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Asilisaurus Asilisaurus Asilisaurus , and Greek, σαυρος is an extinct genus of silesaurid archosaur. It is the oldest avian-line archosaur, dating to about 245 million years ago....	Valid	Nesbitt Sidor Christian Sidor Christian A. Sidor is an American biologist and paleontologist, Associate Professor of the Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, curator of vertebrate paleontology in the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Vertebrate... et al.	Anisian	Manda Beds		A silesaurid Silesauridae Silesauridae is an extinct clade of dinosauriformes, a group of Triassic reptiles that included early ancestors of the dinosaurs. The silesaurids were a sister clade to the dinosaurs. The family was named in 2010 by paleontologist Max C. Langer and colleagues from Brazil and Argentina... , and the oldest known ornithodire.

  
  

  Newly named non-avian dinosaurs

  • A new family of allosauroid theropods, Neovenatoridae
    Neovenatoridae
    Neovenatoridae is a family of large carnivorous dinosaurs. The group is a branch of the allosauroids, a large group of carnosaurs that also includes the sinraptorids, carcharodontosaurids, and allosaurids...
    
    , is published by Benson, Carrano, and Brusatte.
  • A new family of tyrannosauroid theropods, Proceratosauridae
    Proceratosauridae
    Proceratosauridae is a family or clade of theropod dinosaurs, probably belonging to the tyrannosaur lineage. It was first named in 2010 by Oliver Rauhut and colleagues in their re-evaluation of the type genus, Proceratosaurus...
    
     is published by Rauhut, Milner and Moore-Fay.
  
  
  62 new genera and additional 2 new species have been described in 2010.

  Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Aardonyx Aardonyx Aardonyx is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur. It is known from the type species Aardonyx celestae found from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. A. celestae was named after Celeste Yates, who prepared much of the first known fossil material of the species...	Valid	Yates Bonnan et al.		Hettangian	Elliot Formation Elliot Formation The Elliot Formation is a geological formation dating to roughly 210 to 190 million years ago and covering the Norian to Sinemurian stages. The Elliot Formation is found in South Africa and Lesotho and is a member of the Stormberg Group. It consists mainly of limestone, sandstone, and mudstone...		A facultively quadrupedal prosauropod which displays transitional characters connecting more primitive obligate bipedal forms with the more derived obligative quadrupedal sauropodomorphs.
  Abydosaurus	Valid	Chure Britt et al.		Albian	Cedar Mountain Formation Cedar Mountain Formation The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to distinctive sedimentary rocks in eastern Utah that occur between the underlying Morrison Formation and overlying Naturita Formation . It is composed of non-marine sediments, that is, sediments deposited in rivers, lakes and on flood plains...		A narrow toothed brachiosaurid whose remains include the first known cranial material of any Cretaceous sauropod from the Americas.
  Ajkaceratops Ajkaceratops Ajkaceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described in 2010. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Europe, in what was then the western Tethyan archipelago. The type species, A. kozmai, is most closely related to forms in east Asia, from where its ancestors may have migrated by...	Valid	Ösi Butler Weishampel		Santonian	Csehbánya Formation Csehbánya Formation The Csehbánya Formation is a geological formation in Hungary whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...		A coronosaurian ceratopsian.
  Archaeoceratops yujingziensis Archaeoceratops Archaeoceratops, meaning "ancient horned face", is a genus of basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of north central China. It appears to have been bipedal and quite small with a comparatively large head...	Valid	You Tanque Dodson		?Aptian–Albian	Xinminpu Group		A second species of Archaeoceratops.
  Arkharavia Arkharavia Arkharavia is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur. It lived in what is now Russia, during the Late Cretaceous. It was described in 2010 by Alifanov and Bolotsky. The type species is A. heterocoelica.-Known material:...	Valid	Alifanov Bolotsky		Maastrichtian	Udurchukan Formation Udurchukan Formation The Udurchukan Formation is a palaeontological formation located in Amur Region, Far East Russia. It dates to the Upper Cretaceous period....		A titanosauriform sauropod known only from weakly heterocoelous tail vertebrae. Heterocoelous vertebrae are those where the centrum or body of a vertebra has saddle-shaped surface where it meets the vertebrae both in front and behind it.
  Atsinganosaurus Atsinganosaurus Atsinganosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur which existed in what is now France during the late Cretaceous period. Well-preserved remains of Atsinganosaurus were collected from the Grès à Reptiles Formation of the Aix-en-Provence Basin...	Valid	Garcia Amico et al.		Late Cretaceous	Grès à Reptiles Formation		A titanosaur
  Austrocheirus Austrocheirus Austrocheirus is an extinct genus of neoceratosaurian theropod dinosaur which existed during the late Cretaceous period. It was named and described by Martín Ezcurra, Federico Agnolin and Fernando Novas in 2010. It contains the type species Austrocheirus isasii. The generic name means "southern hand"...	Valid	Ezcurra Agnolin Novas	2002	Maastrichtian	Pari Aike Formation Pari Aike Formation The Pari Aike Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....		A basal abelisauroid
  Balaur Balaur (dinosaur) Balaur is a uniquely specialized species of carnivorous dinosaur. It lived in what is now Romania during the latter part of the Late Cretaceous. Balaur was described by scientists in August 2010, and was named after the balaur, a dragon of Romanian folklore. It is known from a single partial...	Valid	Csiki Vremir et al.		Maastrichtian	Sebeş Formation		A four-toed, two-fingered dromaeosaurid with twin killing claws
  Banji Banji Banji is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur. It contains one species, Banji long, named from the Chinese for "striped crest dragon". The species is represented by a single skull and lower jaw. The specimen was donated to the Chinese Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology by an...	Valid	Xu Han		Maastrichtian	Nanxiong Formation Nanxiong Formation The Nanxiong Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Guangdong Province. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation...		An oviraptorid known from a skull with a striated crest.
  Barilium Barilium Barilium is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson....	Valid	Norman		Early Valanginian	Wealden Group Wealden Group The Wealden Group is a group in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental facies sedimentary rocks of Valanginian to Barremian age and thus forms part of the English Lower Cretaceous. It is composed of alternating sands and clays...		A new genus for "Iguanodon" dawsoni (Lydekker, 1888).
  Beishanlong Beishanlong Beishanlong is a genus of giant ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.-Discovery and naming:Three fossils of Beishanlong were in the early twenty-first century found in northwestern China at the White Ghost Castle site, in the province of Gansu...	Valid	Makovicky Li et al.		Aptian-Albian	Xinminpu Group		A giant ornithomimosaur.
  Bistahieversor Bistahieversor Bistahieversor is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur. Bistahieversor existed around 75 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous....	Valid	Carr Williamson		Campanian	Kirtland Formation Kirtland Formation The Kirtland Formation is a sedimentary geological formation. It is the product of alluvial muds and overbank sand deposits from the many channels draining the coastal plain that existed on the inland seashore of North America, in the late Cretaceous period. It overlies the Fruitland Formation...		A 30 foot tyrannosauroid known from the remains of both adults and juveniles.
  Blasisaurus Blasisaurus Blasisaurus is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It is known from a partial skull and skeleton found in late Maastrichtian-age rocks of Spain. The type species is Blasisaurus canudoi, described in 2010 by Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola...	Valid	Cruzado-Caballero Pereda-Suberbiola Ruiz-Omeñaca		Late Maastrichtian	Arén Formation Arén Formation The Arén Formation is a geological formation in Arén, Spain whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Dinosaurs:...		A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid
  Bolong Bolong Bolong is a genus of iguanodontoid dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China. It was named by Wu Wen-hao, Pascal Godefroit and Hu Dong-yu in 2010 and the type species is Bolong yixianensis....	Valid	Wu Godefroit Hu		Early Cretaceous	Yixian Formation Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...		An iguanodontoid
  Chromogisaurus Chromogisaurus Chromogisaurus is a sauropodomorph which existed in Argentina during the late Triassic period.Chromogisaurus was first named by Martín Daniel Ezcurra in 2010, and the type species is Chromogisaurus novasi. The generic name is derived from Greek chroma, "colour", and gè, "earth", a reference to the...	Valid	Ezcurra		Late Triassic	Ischigualasto Formation		A guaibasaurid Guaibasauridae Guaibasauridae is a family of primitive saurischian dinosaurs, known from fossil remains of late Triassic period formations in Brazil and Argentina....  sauropodomorph
  Chuxiongosaurus Chuxiongosaurus Chuxiongosaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic Period. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan Province, southern China...	Valid	Lü Kobayashi et al.		Early Jurassic	Lower Lufeng Formation		A prosauropod.
  Coahuilaceratops Coahuilaceratops Coahuilaceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now southern Coahuila in northern Mexico. It is known from the holotype CPC 276, a partial skeleton of an adult individual which...	Valid	Loewen Sampson et al.		Campanian	Cerro del Pueblo Formation Cerro del Pueblo Formation The Cerro del Pueblo Formation is a geological formation in Coahuila, Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...		A chasmosaurine ceratopsid with the largest horns of any dinosaur currently known.
  Concavenator Concavenator Concavenator is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 130 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period . The type species is C. corcovatus; Concavenator corcovatus means "hump backed hunter from Cuenca"...	Valid	Ortega Escaso Sanz		Barremian	Calizas de La Huérguina Formation		A carcharodontosaurid with a pointed, hump-like crest near the hips and bumps on the ulnae that may be quill knobs.
  Cruxicheiros Cruxicheiros Cruxicheiros is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur which lived in the Middle Jurassic of England. The type species is C. newmanorum, described by Roger Benson and Jonathan Radley in 2010.-Discovery:...	Valid	Benson Radley	early 1960s	Lower Bathonian	Chipping Norton Formation Chipping Norton Formation The Chipping Norton Formation is a geological formation in Europe. It dates back to the Middle Jurassic.-Vertebrate fauna:The so-called "Scrotum humanum" remains may have come from this formation.-References:...		A large basal tetanuran known from scant remains.
  Diabloceratops Diabloceratops Diabloceratops is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur in the infraorder Ceratopsia. It lived in and around Utah during the Campanian stage.-Name:...	Valid	Kirkland DeBlieux		Middle Campanian	Wahweap Formation Wahweap Formation The Wahweap Formation of the Grand Staircase-Escelante National Monument is a geological formation in southern Utah and northern Arizona, around the Lake Powell region, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous...		A centrosaurinae ceratopsid
  Duriatitan Duriatitan Duriatitan is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now United Kingdom. The holotype specimen of Duriatitan, BMNH 44635, is a partial left upper arm bone which was found by R.I. Smith near Sandsfoot in the lower Kimmeridge Clay from Dorset,...	Valid	Barrett Benson Upchurch		Late Jurassic	Kimmeridge Clay Formation		A titanosauriform Macronaria Macronaria is a clade of sauropod dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous Periods of what are now North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The name means 'large nostrils' , in reference to the large nasal openings high on the head that probably supported fleshy...  sauropod
  Fruitadens Fruitadens Fruitadens is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur. The name means "Fruita tooth", in reference to Fruita, Colorado , where its fossils were first found. It is known from partial skulls and skeletons from at least four individuals of differing biological ages, found in Tithonian rocks of the...	Valid	Butler Galton et al.	late 1970s	Lower Tithonian	Morrison Formation Morrison Formation The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic sedimentary rock that is found in the western United States, which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. It is composed of mudstone, sandstone, siltstone and limestone and is light grey, greenish...		A heterodontosaurid and the smallest known ornithischian dinosaur.
  Fukuititan Fukuititan Fukuititan is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Japan. It is known from FPDM-V8468, the associated partial skeleton of a single individual, recovered from the Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry of the Tetori Group, at Katsuyama City...	Valid	Azuma Shibata		Barremian	Kitadani Formation Kitadani Formation The Kitadani Formation is a geological formation in Fukui, Japan whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...		A titanosauriform sauropod.
  Geminiraptor Geminiraptor Geminiraptor is a genus of troodontid dinosaur. Geminiraptor lived during the lower Cretaceous period in what is now Utah, USA. It is known from CEUM 7319, a maxilla recovered from the lower Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, dating to at least the early Barremian stage...	Valid	Senter Kirkland et al.		?lower Barremian Barremian The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale between 130.0 ± 1.5 Ma and 125.0 ± 1.0 Ma). It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous epoch...	Cedar Mountain Formation Cedar Mountain Formation The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to distinctive sedimentary rocks in eastern Utah that occur between the underlying Morrison Formation and overlying Naturita Formation . It is composed of non-marine sediments, that is, sediments deposited in rivers, lakes and on flood plains...		A troodontid.
  Glishades Glishades Glishades is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous in North America. It is based on AMNH 27414, two partial premaxillae discovered in the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Two Medicine Formation in Montana...	Valid	Prieto-Márquez		Campanian	Two Medicine Formation Two Medicine Formation The Two Medicine Formation is a geologic formation, or rock body, that was deposited between 83.5 ± 0.7 Ma to 70.6 ± 0.6 Ma , during Campanian time, and is located in northwestern Montana...		A basal hadrosauroid Hadrosauroidea Hadrosauroidea is a clade or superfamily of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes the "duck-billed" dinosaurs, or hadrosaurids, and their close relatives. Many primitive hadrosauroids, such as the sail-backed Ouranosaurus, have traditionally been included in a paraphyletic "Iguanodontidae"...
  Haplocheirus Haplocheirus Haplocheirus is a genus of alvarezsauroid theropod dinosaur. It is the most basal member of its clade. It is the oldest known alvarezsauroid, predating all other members by about 63 million years. This also makes it about 15 million years older than the oldest known bird Archaeopteryx...	Valid	Choiniere Xu et al.	2004	Oxfordian	Shishugou Formation Shishugou Formation The Shishugou Formation is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China, whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic period. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....		The most primitive known alvarezsauroid.
  Hippodraco Hippodraco Hippodraco is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It is a basal iguanodontian which lived during the Lower Cretaceous period in what is now Utah, USA...	Valid	McDonald Kirkland et al.		Upper Barremian Barremian The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale between 130.0 ± 1.5 Ma and 125.0 ± 1.0 Ma). It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous epoch... -lowermost Aptian Aptian The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is a subdivision of the Early or Lower Cretaceous epoch or series and encompasses the time from 125.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 112.0 ± 1.0 Ma , approximately...	Cedar Mountain Formation Cedar Mountain Formation The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to distinctive sedimentary rocks in eastern Utah that occur between the underlying Morrison Formation and overlying Naturita Formation . It is composed of non-marine sediments, that is, sediments deposited in rivers, lakes and on flood plains...		A basal iguanodontian
  Hypselospinus Hypselospinus Hypselospinus is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon by Richard Lydekker in 1889, the specific name honouring William Henry Fitton....	Valid	Norman		Early Valanginian	Wealden Group Wealden Group The Wealden Group is a group in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental facies sedimentary rocks of Valanginian to Barremian age and thus forms part of the English Lower Cretaceous. It is composed of alternating sands and clays...		A new genus for "Iguanodon" fittoni (Lydekker, 1889).
  Ignavusaurus Ignavusaurus Ignavusaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic in what is now present-day Lesotho. Its fossils were found in the upper Elliot Formation which is probably Hettangian in age. It was described on the basis of a partial, well preserved articulated skeleton...	Valid	Knoll		Hettangian	Elliot Formation Elliot Formation The Elliot Formation is a geological formation dating to roughly 210 to 190 million years ago and covering the Norian to Sinemurian stages. The Elliot Formation is found in South Africa and Lesotho and is a member of the Stormberg Group. It consists mainly of limestone, sandstone, and mudstone...		A basal sauropodomorph Sauropodomorpha Sauropodomorpha is an extinct clade of long-necked, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaurs which includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives. Sauropods generally grew to very large sizes, had long necks and tails, were quadrupedal, and became the largest animals to ever walk the Earth. The...
  Iguanacolossus Iguanacolossus Iguanacolossus is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It is a basal iguanodontian which lived during the lower Cretaceous period in what is now Utah, USA...	Valid	McDonald Kirkland et al.		?lower Barremian Barremian The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale between 130.0 ± 1.5 Ma and 125.0 ± 1.0 Ma). It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous epoch...	Cedar Mountain Formation Cedar Mountain Formation The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to distinctive sedimentary rocks in eastern Utah that occur between the underlying Morrison Formation and overlying Naturita Formation . It is composed of non-marine sediments, that is, sediments deposited in rivers, lakes and on flood plains...		A basal iguanodontian
  Jeyawati Jeyawati Jeyawati is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur which lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous. The type species, J. rugoculus, was described in 2010, based on fossils recovered in the U.S. state of New Mexico....	Valid	Mcdonald Wolfe Kirkland		Turonian	Moreno Hill Formation Moreno Hill Formation The Moreno Hill Formation is a geological formation in New Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Dinosaurs:-References:...		Basal hadrosauroid.
  Kayentavenator Kayentavenator Kayentavenator is a small carnivorous dinosaur genus which lived during the Early Jurassic Period; fossils were recovered from the Kayenta Formation of northeastern Arizona and were described in 2010.-Description:...	Valid	Gay		Sinemurian/Pliensbachian	Kayenta Formation Kayenta Formation The Kayenta Formation is a geologic layer in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the Colorado Plateau province of the United States, including northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. This rock formation is particularly prominent in southeastern Utah, where it is seen in the...		A basal tetanuran
  Kileskus Kileskus Kileskus is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur known from partial remains found in Middle Jurassic rocks of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Fossils recovered include the holotype maxilla, a premaxilla, a surangular, and a few bones from the hand and foot. The skull bones are similar to those of...	Valid	Averianov Krasnolutskii Ivantsov		Bathonian	Itat Formation Itat Formation The Itat Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....		A tyrannosauroid
  Kosmoceratops Kosmoceratops Kosmoceratops is a genus of herbivorous chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur, which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in the part of the island continent Laramidia that is now Utah, United States...	Valid	Sampson Loewen et al.		Late Campanian	Kaiparowits Formation Kaiparowits Formation The Kaiparowits Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in the Kaiparowits Plateau in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, in the southern part of Utah in the western United States. It is over 2800 feet thick, and is Campanian in age...		A chasmosaurine ceratopsid.
  Kukufeldia Kukufeldia Kukufeldia is a genus of iguanodont which existed in what is now England during the Early Cretaceous period. Identified from a nearly complete right dentary found near Cuckfield and originally described in 1848 by Gideon Mantell, it was named by Andrew T. McDonald, Paul M. Barrett, and Sandra D....	Valid	McDonald Barrett Chapman	1848	Barremian	Wealden Formation Wealden Formation The Wealden Group is a group in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental facies sedimentary rocks of Valanginian to Barremian age and thus forms part of the English Lower Cretaceous. It is composed of alternating sands and clays...		A basal iguanodont Iguanodont Iguanodonts were herbivorous dinosaurs that lived from the mid-Jurassic to Late Cretaceous. Some members include Camptosaurus, Callovosaurus, Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus, and the hadrosaurids or "duck-billed dinosaurs". Iguanodonts were one of the first groups of dinosaurs to be found... , formerly classified as Iguanodon anglicus
  Linheraptor Linheraptor Linheraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur which lived in what is now China in the Late Cretaceous. It was named by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2010, and contains the species Linheraptor exquisitus. This bird-like dinosaur was less than 2 m long and was found in Inner Mongolia...	Valid	Xu Choinere et al.		Campanian	Bayan Mandahu Formation Bayan Mandahu Formation The Bayan Mandahu Formation is a geological unit of "redbeds" located near the village of Bayan Mandahu in Inner Mongolia, China Asia and dates from the Late Cretaceous Period...		A dromaeosaurid
  Liubangosaurus Liubangosaurus Liubangosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now southern China. Liubangosaurus is known from the holotype NHMG8152, five nearly complete and articulated middle-caudal dorsal vertebrae referred to as. It was collected from the Napai Formation in...	Valid	Mo Xu Buffetaut		Early Cretaceous	Napai Formation		An eusauropod.
  Machairasaurus Machairasaurus Machairasaurus is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur which was found in the Bayan Mandahu Formation, China during the late Cretaceous period. It was first named by Nicholas R. Longrich, Philip J. Currie and Dong Zhi-Ming in 2010 and the type species is Machairasaurus leptonychus....	Valid	Longrich Currie Dong		Late Cretaceous	Bayan Mandahu Formation Bayan Mandahu Formation The Bayan Mandahu Formation is a geological unit of "redbeds" located near the village of Bayan Mandahu in Inner Mongolia, China Asia and dates from the Late Cretaceous Period...		An ingeniine oviraptorid.
  Medusaceratops Medusaceratops Medusaceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Montana. It is known from two partial parietals, the holotype WDC DJR 001 and the paratype WDC DJR 002...	Valid	Ryan Russell Hartman		Campanian	Judith River Formation Judith River Formation The Judith River Formation is a fossil-bearing geologic formation in Montana, and is part of the Judith River Group. It dates to the upper Cretaceous, between 80 and 75 million years ago, corresponding to the "Judithian" land vertebrate age...		A chasmosaurine ceratopsid.
  Mojoceratops Mojoceratops Mojoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Western Canada...	Valid	Longrich		Late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation Dinosaur Park Formation The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Judith River Group, a major geologic unit in southern Alberta. It was laid down over a period of time between about 76.5 and 75 million years ago. The formation is made up of deposits of a high-sinuosity fluvial system, and is capped...		A long-horned chasmosaurine ceratopsid.
  Ojoceratops Ojoceratops Ojoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur which lived in what is now New Mexico. Ojoceratops fossils have been recovered from strata of the Ojo Alamo Formation , dating to the late Cretaceous period . The type species is Ojoceratops fowleri...	Valid	Sullivan Lucas		Late Cretaceous	Ojo Alamo Formation Ojo Alamo Formation The Ojo Alamo Formation is a geologic formation spanning the Mesozoic/Cenozoic boundary. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, though all dinosaur remains come from the lowest part of the formation, the Naashoibito member The Ojo Alamo Formation is a...		A chasmosaurine ceratopsid.
  Paludititan Paludititan Paludititan is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur which existed in what is now Haţeg Basin, Romania during the late Cretaceous period. The type species is Paludititan nalatzensis, after its finding place Nǎlaţ-Vad. The type species was determined and described by Zoltán Csiki, Vlad Codrea, Cǎtǎlin...	Valid	Csiki Codrea et al.		Maastrichtian	Haţeg Basin		A titanosaur
  Panamericansaurus Panamericansaurus Panamericansaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. It is very similar to the closely related Aeolosaurus, differing only in details of the vertebrae....	Valid	Calvo Porfiri		Campanian-Maastrichtian	Allen Formation Allen Formation The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the...		An aeolosaurini titanosaur
  Pneumatoraptor Pneumatoraptor Pneumatoraptor is a genus of small, paravian dinosaur that lived in Hungary. It is known from a single complete left shoulder girdle found in the Csehbánya Formation of the Iharkút locality in the Bakony Mountains of western Hungary...	Valid	Ősi Apesteguía Kowalewski		Santonian	Csehbánya Formation Csehbánya Formation The Csehbánya Formation is a geological formation in Hungary whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...		A small bird-like paravian estimated to reach slightly more than two feet in length.
  Proplanicoxa Proplanicoxa Proplanicoxa is a genus of iguanodont which existed in what is now England during the Early Cretaceous period ....	Valid	Carpenter Ishida		Late Barremian	Wessex Formation Wessex Formation The Wessex Formation is an English fossil site and geological formation that dates to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous. It is part of the Wealden Group and underlies the younger Vectis Formation.-Invertebrates:...		A basal iguanodont
  Psittacosaurus gobiensis Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia, about 130 to 100 million years ago. It is notable for being the most species-rich dinosaur genus...	Valid	Sereno Zhao Tan		Lower Cretaceous	Bayan Gobi Formation		A ninth or eleventh species of Psittacosaurus.
  Rahiolisaurus Rahiolisaurus Rahiolisaurus is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur which existed in India during the Late Cretaceous period. It was described in 2010, based on fossils recovered from the Lameta Formation in the Indian state of Gujarat...	Valid	Novas Chatterjee et al.		Maastrichtian	Lameta Formation Lameta Formation The Lameta Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, India. It is of Maastrichtian age , and is notable for its dinosaur fossils...		An abelisaurid
  Rubeosaurus Rubeosaurus Rubeosaurus is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur which lived in what is now North America. Rubeosaurus fossils have been recovered from strata of the upper Two Medicine Formation of the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, dating to between 75 and 74 million years ago...	Valid	McDonald Horner		Campanian	Two Medicine Formation Two Medicine Formation The Two Medicine Formation is a geologic formation, or rock body, that was deposited between 83.5 ± 0.7 Ma to 70.6 ± 0.6 Ma , during Campanian time, and is located in northwestern Montana...		A new genus for "Styracosaurus" ovatus Gilmore, 1930.
  Sanjuansaurus Sanjuansaurus Sanjuansaurus is a genus of herrerasaurid dinosaur from the Late Triassic-age Ischigualasto Formation of northwestern Argentina...	Valid	Alcober Martinez		Late Carnian	Ischigualasto Formation		A herrerasaurid Herrerasauridae Herrerasaurids are among the oldest known dinosaurs, appearing in the fossil record 231.4 million years ago . They became extinct by the end of the Triassic period. Herrerasaurids were small-sized carnivorous theropods or basal saurischians...
  Seitaad Seitaad Seitaad is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur which lived during the lower Jurassic period in what is now southern Utah, USA.Seitaad is known from an articulated partial postcranial holotype skeleton referred to as UMNH VP 18040. The skeleton is missing its head, neck and tail...	Valid	Sertich Loewen	2005	Pleinsbachian	Navajo Sandstone Navajo Sandstone Navajo Sandstone is a geologic formation in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the U.S. states of northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, and Utah; as part of the Colorado Plateau province of the United States...		A basal sauropodomorph
  Sellacoxa Sellacoxa Sellacoxa is a genus of iguanodont which existed in what is now England during the Early Cretaceous period ....	Valid	Carpenter Ishida		Early Valanginian	Wealden Group Wealden Group The Wealden Group is a group in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental facies sedimentary rocks of Valanginian to Barremian age and thus forms part of the English Lower Cretaceous. It is composed of alternating sands and clays...		A basal iguanodont
  Sinoceratops Sinoceratops Sinoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2010. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now China. The type species is S. zhuchengensis....	Valid	Xu Wang et al.		Upper Cretaceous	Wangshi Group Wangshi Group The Wangshi Group is a geological formation in Shandong, China whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Dinosaurs:-References:...		A basal centrosaurine.
  Tatankaceratops Tatankaceratops Tatankaceratops is a controversial genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a small chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now South Dakota. It is known from a single partial skull which was collected from the Hell Creek Formation, dating to...	Valid	Ott Larson		Maastrichtian	Hell Creek Formation Hell Creek Formation The Hell Creek Formation is an intensely-studied division of Upper Cretaceous to lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana...		A chasmosaurine ceratopsid.
  Texacephale Texacephale Texacephale is a genus of basal pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. The type species is Texacephale langstoni; its fossils were discovered in the Aguja Formation and described in 2010 by Longrich, Sankey and Tanke...	Valid	Longrich Sankey Tanke		Upper Campanian	Aguja Formation Aguja Formation The Aguja Formation is a geological formation in North America, exposed in Texas, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Ammonites:-Crurotarsans:...		A basal pachycephalosaur.
  Tianyuraptor Tianyuraptor Tianyuraptor is a genus of short-armed dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous, about 122 million years ago. Its remains have been found in western Liaoning, China. It was similar to other dromaeosaurids found in Liaoning, with the exception of being somewhat more primitive...	Valid	Zheng Xu et al.		Early Cretaceous	Yixian Formation Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...		A short-armed dromaeosaurid Dromaeosauridae Dromaeosauridae is a family of bird-like theropod dinosaurs. They were small- to medium-sized feathered carnivores that flourished in the Cretaceous Period. The name Dromaeosauridae means 'running lizards', from Greek dromeus meaning 'runner' and sauros meaning 'lizard'... .
  Tonganosaurus Tonganosaurus Tonganosaurus is a genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur, similar to Omeisaurus. It is known from one specimen consisting of twenty vertebrae, a front limb and pectoral girdle, and a complete hind limb with partial hip. It lived during the early Jurassic period in what is now China...	Valid	Li Yang et al.		Early Jurassic	Yimen Formation		A mamenchisaurid Mamenchisauridae Mamenchisauridae is an extinct family of sauropod dinosaurs. The family was first named by Chinese paleontologists C.C. Young and H.C. Chao in 1972, in a paper describing Mamenchisaurus. Other mamenchisaurids may include Bellusaurus, Chuanjiesaurus, Eomamenchisaurus, Hudiesaurus, Klamelisaurus,...  sauropod.
  Torilion	Junior synonym	Carpenter Ishida		Mid Valanginian	Wadhurst Clay		Junior synonym of Barilium Barilium Barilium is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson....
  Utahceratops Utahceratops Utahceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Utah. Its fossils have been recovered from the Kaiparowits Formation. It was first named by Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A....	Valid	Sampson Loewen et al.		Late Campanian	Kaiparowits Formation Kaiparowits Formation The Kaiparowits Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in the Kaiparowits Plateau in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, in the southern part of Utah in the western United States. It is over 2800 feet thick, and is Campanian in age...		A chasmosaurine ceratopsid.
  Vagaceratops Vagaceratops Vagaceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Alberta. Its fossils have been recovered from the Upper Dinosaur Park Formation...	Valid	Sampson Loewen et al.		Late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation Dinosaur Park Formation The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Judith River Group, a major geologic unit in southern Alberta. It was laid down over a period of time between about 76.5 and 75 million years ago. The formation is made up of deposits of a high-sinuosity fluvial system, and is capped...		A chasmosaurine ceratopsid. A new genus for "Chasmosaurus" irvinensis Holmes et al., 2001.
  Wadhurstia	Junior synonym	Carpenter Ishida		Early Valanginian	Wadhurst Clay		Junior synonym of Hypselospinus Hypselospinus Hypselospinus is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon by Richard Lydekker in 1889, the specific name honouring William Henry Fitton....
  Willinakaqe Willinakaqe Willinakaqe is an extinct genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur which lived during the late Cretaceous of the Río Negro Province of southern Argentina....	Valid	Juárez Valieri Haro et al.		late Campanian-early Maastrichtian	Allen Formation Allen Formation The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the...		Second hadrosauroid from South America.
  Xiongguanlong Xiongguanlong Xiongguanlong is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous of what is now China. The type species is X. baimoensis, described online in 2009 by a group of researchers from China and the United States, and formally published in January 2010. The genus name refers to the...	Valid	Li Norell et al.		Aptian–Albian	Xinminpu Group		A longirostrine tyrannosauroid.
  Xixianykus Xixianykus Xixianykus is a genus of alvarezsauroid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of China. It was discovered in Xixia County in Henan, China...	Valid	Xu Wang et al.		Campanian	Majiacun Formation Majiacun Formation The Majiacun Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-See also:* List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations** List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera...		A parvicursorine.
  Xixiasaurus Xixiasaurus Xixiasaurus is a genus of troodontid dinosaur described in 2010. The type species is X. henanensis. Fossils of Xixiasaurus were discovered in central China, in the Majiacun Formation of Henan, and are believed to have been from the Late Cretaceous...	Valid	Lü Xu et al.		Campanian	Majiacun Formation Majiacun Formation The Majiacun Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-See also:* List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations** List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera...		A troodontid.
  Xixiposaurus Xixiposaurus Xixiposaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur which existed in what is now Lower Lufeng Formation, China during the lower Jurassic period. It was first named by Sekiya Toru in 2010 and the type species is Xixiposaurus suni....	Valid	Sekiya		Lower Jurassic	Lower Lufeng Formation		A prosauropod.
  "Yizhousaurus Yizhousaurus "Yizhousaurus" is an informally named genus of basal sauropod dinosaur which existed in what is now Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan Province of southern China during the lower Jurassic period. Identified from a nearly complete and exquisitely preserved skeleton, it is the most complete basal... "	Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...	Chatterjee Wang et al.		Lower Jurassic	Lower Lufeng Formation		A basal sauropod, informally named in a 2010 abstract with no valid description yet published
  Zhuchengceratops Zhuchengceratops Zhuchengceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a derived leptoceratopsid ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Kugou, Zhucheng County, China. It is known from a partial articulated skeleton including vertebrae, ribs, teeth, and parts of...	Valid	Xu Wang et al.		Upper Cretaceous	Wangshi Group Wangshi Group The Wangshi Group is a geological formation in Shandong, China whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Dinosaurs:-References:...		A leptoceratopsid Leptoceratopsidae The family Leptoceratopsidae, its name derived from the type genus Leptoceratops, is a group of several small neoceratopsian genera which appear not to belong to the clade Protoceratopsidae. They resembled, and were closely related to, other ceratopsids, but all discovered species are generally... .
  Zuolong Zuolong Zuolong is a genus of coelurosaur dinosaur which existed in what is now Wucaiwan, Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China during the Late Jurassic period . The holotype fossil of Zuolong, IVPP V15912, a partial skeleton with skull, was discovered in 2001 in China, in the upper part of the...	Valid	Choiniere Clark et al.		Oxfordian	Shishugou Formation Shishugou Formation The Shishugou Formation is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China, whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic period. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....		Basal coelurosaur

  
  

  Newly named pterosaurs

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Aetodactylus Aetodactylus Aetodactylus is a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur. It is known from a lower jaw discovered in Upper Cretaceous rocks of northeastern Texas, United States...	Valid	Myers	Cenomanian	Tarrant Formation Tarrant Formation The Tarrant Formation is a geologic formation that dates to the Middle Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous....	United States	An ornithocheirid Ornithocheiroidea Ornithocheiroidea is an extinct group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.-Locomotion:Ornithocheiroids, like other pterosaurs, are considered to have been skilled fliers as well as adept at moving on the ground...  known only from a partial lower jaw.
  Alanqa Alanqa Alanqa is a genus of pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous Kem Kem Beds of southeastern Morocco....	Valid	Ibrahim Unwin et al.	Late Cretaceous	Kem Kem Beds Kem Kem Beds The Kem Kem Beds is a geological formation in Morocco and Algeria whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous...	Morocco	An azhdarchid known only from five fragments of the front upper and lower jaws, and possibly a neck vertebra.
  Darwinopterus Darwinopterus Darwinopterus is a genus of pterosaur, discovered in China and named after biologist Charles Darwin. Between 30 and 40 fossil specimens have been identified, all collected from the Tiaojishan Formation, which dates to the middle Jurassic period. The type species, D. modularis, was described in...	Valid	Lü Unwin et al.	Oxfordian	Tiaojishan Formation Tiaojishan Formation The Tiaojishan Formation is a geological formation in Hebei and Liaoning, People's Republic of China, dating to the middle-late Jurassic period . It is known for its fossil plants, and is made up mainly of pyroclastic rock interspersed with basic volcanic and sedimentary rocks...	Mainland China	A wukongopterid that was described as a derived rhamphorhynchoid with transitional characters connecting it with pterodactyloids.
  D. linglongtaensis Darwinopterus Darwinopterus is a genus of pterosaur, discovered in China and named after biologist Charles Darwin. Between 30 and 40 fossil specimens have been identified, all collected from the Tiaojishan Formation, which dates to the middle Jurassic period. The type species, D. modularis, was described in...	Valid	Wang Kellner et al.	Late Jurassic	Daohugou Formation?	Mainland China	A second species of Darwinopterus
  Dawndraco Dawndraco Dawndraco is a genus of pteranodontid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America.Dawndraco was named by Alexander W.A. Kellner in 2010. The type species is Dawndraco kanzai. The generic name combines the Dawn deity of the Iroquois with a Latin draco, "dragon"...	Valid	Kellner	Late Coniacian/Early Santonian	Niobrara Formation Niobrara Formation The Niobrara Formation, also called the Niobrara Chalk , is a geologic formation in North America that was laid down between 87 and 82 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian, and Campanian ages of the Late Cretaceous. It is composed of two structural units, the Smoky Hill Chalk Member...	United States	A pteranodontid. The type species is Dawndraco kanzai.
  Faxinalipterus Faxinalipterus Faxinalipterus is a genus of pterosaur from the Late Triassic Caturrita Formation of southern Brazil.The type species, Faxinalipterus minima was named and described in 2010 by José Fernando Bonaparte, Marina Bento Soares and César Leandro Schultz. The generic name is derived from Faxinal do Soturno...	Valid	Bonaparte José Bonaparte José Fernando Bonaparte, Ph.D. , is an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists like Rodolfo Coria... Schultz Soares	Late Triassic	Caturrita Formation Caturrita Formation The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its sediments were deposited in the Paraná Basin. The formation has a late Carnian to early Norian age and forms part of the Santa Maria Supersequence in the upper section of the Rosário do Sul Group.-Etymology:The...	Brazil
  Fenghuangopterus Fenghuangopterus Fenghuangopterus is a genus of basal pterosaur that lived in northeastern China during the Middle Jurassic.The type species Fenghuangopterus lii was in 2010 described and named by Lü Junchang e.a. The generic name is derived from the Fenghuang Mountain and a Latinised Ancient Greek pteron, "wing"....	Valid	Lü Fucha Chen	Middle Jurassic	Tiaojishan Formation Tiaojishan Formation The Tiaojishan Formation is a geological formation in Hebei and Liaoning, People's Republic of China, dating to the middle-late Jurassic period . It is known for its fossil plants, and is made up mainly of pyroclastic rock interspersed with basic volcanic and sedimentary rocks...	Mainland China	An earliest scaphognathine pterosaur.
  Geosternbergia maiseyi Geosternbergia Geosternbergia from the Late Cretaceous geological period of North America, was one of the largest pterosaur genera and had a wingspan of up to .-Description:...	Valid	Kellner	Late Coniacian - Early Campanian	Sharon Springs Formation	United States	A pteranodontid.
  Kunpengopterus Kunpengopterus Kunpengopterus is a genus of wukongopterid pterosaur from the middle-late Jurassic or early Cretaceous of northeastern China.Kunpengopterus is known from holotype IVPP V16047, an almost complete skeleton with complete skull and lower jaws recovered from rocks of the Tiaojishan Formation or...	Valid	Wang Kellner et al.	Late Jurassic	Daohugou Formation?	Mainland China	A wukongopterid. The type species is Kunpengopterus sinensis.
  Prejanopterus Prejanopterus Prejanopterus is an extinct genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous layers of the Leza Formation of La Rioja, Spain....	Valid	Vidarte Calvo	Lower Aptian	Leza Formation	Spain
  Sericipterus Sericipterus Sericipterus is an extinct genus of rhamphorhynchid pterosaur. It is known from the Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation in Xinjiang, China....	Valid	Andres Clark Xing	Oxfordian	Shishugou Formation Shishugou Formation The Shishugou Formation is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China, whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic period. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	Mainland China	A rhamphorhynchid with a nearly six foot wingspan.
  Zhenyuanopterus Zhenyuanopterus Zhenyuanopterus is a genus of pterosaur which is known from Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.-Paleaoecology:...	Valid	Lü	Barremian	Yixian Formation Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...	Mainland China	A boreopterid Boreopteridae Boreopteridae is a group of ornithocheiroid pterosaurs from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.-Palaeoecology:... .

  
  

  Newly named non-mammalian synapsids

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Beishanodon Beishanodon Beishanodon is a genus of eucynodont from Lower Triassic of China. The type species is Beishanodon youngi....	Valid	Gao Fox et al.	Lower Triassic	Hongyanjing Formation	Mainland China	An eucynodont. The type species is Beishanodon youngi.
  Chiniquodon kalanoro	Valid	Kammerer Flynn et al.	Middle Triassic? (Ladinian or Carnian)	Makay Formation	Madagascar	A cynodont Cynodont Cynodontia or cynodonts are a taxon of therapsids which first appeared in the Late Permian and were eventually distributed throughout all seven continents by the Early Triassic . This clade includes modern mammals and their extinct close relatives. They were one of the most diverse groups of... .
  Kombuisia antarctica	Valid	Fröbisch Angiekczyk Sidor	Early Triassic (Induan)	Fremouw Formation Fremouw Formation The Fremouw Formation is a Triassic-age rock formation in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. Fossils of prehistoric reptiles and amphibians have been found in the formation. Fossilized trees have also been found. The formation's beds were deposited along the banks of rivers and on...	Antarctica	A dicynodont.
  Minicynodon Minicynodon Minicynodon is a genus of carnivorous brasilodontid cynodont from the Late Triassic period. It lived during the late Triassic period in what is now Faxinal do Soturno, Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil...	Valid	Bonaparte Schultz et al.	Carnian - Norian	Caturrita Formation Caturrita Formation The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its sediments were deposited in the Paraná Basin. The formation has a late Carnian to early Norian age and forms part of the Santa Maria Supersequence in the upper section of the Rosário do Sul Group.-Etymology:The...	Brazil	A brasilodontid Brasilodontidae The brasilodontids include non-mammalian cynodonts that are currently considered to be the sister group of mammals. They were small, the size of a mouse. The brasilodontids' remains were found in the municipalities of Candelária and Faxinal do Soturno...  cynodont.
  Prosictodon Prosictodon Prosictodon is an extinct genus of pylaecephalid dicynodont from Middle Permian of South Africa. It was first named by Kenneth D. Angielczyk and Bruce S. Rubidge in 2010 and the type species is Prosictodon dubei....	Valid	Angielczyk Rubidge	Middle Permian	Abrahamskraal Formation Abrahamskraal formation The Abrahamskraal is the lowermost formation of the Beaufort group. Early Guadalupian in age it corresponds to the Eodicynodon faunal assemblage zone.-Therapsida:-References:...	South Africa	A pylaecephalid dicynodont Dicynodont Dicynodontia is a taxon of anomodont therapsids or mammal-like reptiles. Dicynodonts were small to large herbivorous animals with two tusks, hence their name, which means 'two dog tooth'... . The type species is Prosictodon dubei.
  Trucidocynodon Trucidocynodon Trucidocynodon is an extinct, monotypic genus of synapsid from Upper Triassic of Brazil. Trucidocynodon riograndensis is the only species descript for genus....	Valid	Oliveira Soares Schultz	Upper Triassic	Santa Maria Formation Santa Maria Formation The Santa Maria Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It has a late Ladinian – early Carnian age , and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs, including the herrerasaur Staurikosaurus, the basal saurischian Teyuwasu, and the basal sauropodomorph...	Brazil	A cynodont. The type species is Trucidocynodon riograndensis.

  
  

  Newly named non-eutherian mammals

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Acinacodus Acinacodus Acinacodus is an extinct genus of amphidontid "eutriconodont" which existed in Shestakovo 1 locality in Western Siberia, Russia during the early Cretaceous period. It was described by A. V. Lopatin, E. N. Maschenko and A. O. Averianov in 2010, and the type species is Acinacodus tagaricus....	Valid	Lopatin Maschenko Averianov	Early Cretaceous	Western Siberia Siberia Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...	Russia	An amphidontid Amphidontidae The Amphidontidae are a family of extinct mammals from the Early Creataceous, belonging to the triconodonts. It contains most of the species previously belonged to Amphilestidae.- Phylogeny :...  'eutriconodont' Eutriconodonta Eutriconodonta is a order of early mammals. Eutriconodonts existed in Asia, Europe, North and South America during the Jurassic and the Cretaceous periods. The order was named by Kermack et al. in 1973 as a replacement name for the paraphyletic Triconodonta.... .
  Galadi Galadi Galadi is an extinct genus of predatory bandicoot from Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia. It was first named by K.J. Travouillon, Y. Gurovich, R.M.D. Beck and J. Muirhead in 2010 and the type species is Galadi speciosus. The genus is represented by three...	Valid	Travouillon Gurovich et al.	Oligo-Miocene		Australia	A bandicoot Bandicoot Bandicoots are a group of about 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial marsupial omnivores in the order Peramelemorphia.- Etymology :... .
  Heishanobaatar Heishanobaatar Heishanobaatar is an extinct genus of eobaatarid multituberculate which existed in Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China, during the early Cretaceous . It was first named by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Takeshi Setoguchi and Hiroshige Marsuoka in 2010 and the type species is...	Valid	Kusuhashi Hu et al.	Aptian/Albian	Shahai and Fuxin formations	Mainland China	An eobaatarid Eobaataridae Eobaataridae is a family of fossil mammal within the order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe and Asia. These herbivores thus lived during the Mesozoic era, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs". They were among the most derived representatives of the...  multituberculate Multituberculata The Multituberculata were a group of rodent-like mammals that existed for approximately one hundred and twenty million years—the longest fossil history of any mammal lineage—but were eventually outcompeted by rodents, becoming extinct during the early Oligocene. At least 200 species are... .
  Hutegotherium Hutegotherium Hutegotherium is an extinct genus of tegotheriid docodont known from partial remains found in Middle Jurassic rocks of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It was first named by Averianov, A. A.; Lopatin, A. V.; Krasnolutskii, S. A.; and Ivantsov, S. V. in 2010 and the type species is Hutegotherium...	Valid	Averianov Lopatin et al.	Bathonian	Itat Formation Itat Formation The Itat Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	Russia	A tegotheriid docodont. The type species is H. yaomingi.
  Juchilestes Juchilestes Juchilestes is an extinct genus of amphidontid "triconodont" from the early Cretaceous . It lived in what is now the Beipiao of western Liaoning, eastern China. It is known from the holotype D2607, which consists of three-dimensionally preserved, partial skull with mandibles and some teeth...	Valid	Gao Wilson et al.	Lower Aptian	Yixian Formation Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...	Mainland China	An amphidontid 'eutriconodont'. The type species is J. liaoningensis.
  Kielanobaatar Kielanobaatar Kielanobaatar is an extinct genus of albionbaatarid multituberculate which existed in Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China, during the early Cretaceous . It was first named by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Takeshi Setoguchi and Hiroshige Marsuoka in 2010 and the type species...	Valid	Kusuhashi Hu et al.	Aptian/Albian	Shahai and Fuxin formations	Mainland China	An albionbaatarid Albionbaataridae Albionbaataridae is a family of small, extinct mammals within the order Multituberculata. Fossil remains are known from the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Europe and Asia. These herbivores lived their obscure lives during the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs." They were...  multituberculate.
  Nidimys Nidimys Nidimys occultus is a multituberculate which existed in the United States during the Edmontonian faunal stage of the upper Cretaceous period, and the only species in the genus Nidimys....	Valid	Hunter Heinrich Weishampel	Upper Cretaceous	St. Mary River Formation St. Mary River Formation The St. Mary River Formation is a geological formation in Alberta, Canada whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. The St. Mary River Formation has produced only a few dinosaur fossils in its Albertan...	United States	A neoplagiaulacid Neoplagiaulacidae Neoplagiaulacidae is a family of mammal within the extinct order Multituberculata. Fossil remains are known from the Upper Cretaceous through the Eocene. Representatives have been found in North America, Europe and Asia....  multituberculate. The type species is N. occultus.
  Paressonodon Paressonodon Paressonodon is an extinct genus of multituberculate which existed in Colorado during the late Cretaceous period. It contains the species Paressonodon nelsoni....	Valid	Wilson Dechesne Anderson	Late Cretaceous	Laramie Formation Laramie Formation The Laramie Formation is a geologic formation of Cretaceous age, named by Clarence King in 1876 for exposures in northeastern Colorado, in the United States....	United States	A neoplagiaulacid Neoplagiaulacidae Neoplagiaulacidae is a family of mammal within the extinct order Multituberculata. Fossil remains are known from the Upper Cretaceous through the Eocene. Representatives have been found in North America, Europe and Asia....  multituberculate. The type species is P. nelsoni.
  Parikimys Parikimys Parikimys carpenteri is a multituberculate which existed in Colorado at the end of the Cretaceous period. The species is named "in honor of the DMNS vertebrate paleontologist Ken Carpenter, whose initial field work in the sparse, non-marine Cretaceous exposures of Weld County inspired this project."...	Valid	Wilson Dechesne Anderson	Late Cretaceous	Laramie Formation Laramie Formation The Laramie Formation is a geologic formation of Cretaceous age, named by Clarence King in 1876 for exposures in northeastern Colorado, in the United States....	United States	A cimolomyid Cimolomyidae Cimolomyidae is a family of fossil mammal within the extinct order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from the Upper Cretaceous and the Paleocene of North America and perhaps Mongolia. The family is part of the suborder Cimolodonta. Other than that, their systematic relationships are hard...  multituberculate. The type species is P. carpenteri.
  Paritatodon Paritatodon Paritatodon is an extinct mammal which existed in Kyrgyzstan during the Jurassic period....	Valid	Martin Averianov	Middle Jurassic (Callovian)	Balabansai Formation Balabansai Formation The Balabansai Fomration is a geological formation in Asia whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...	Kyrgyzstan	A basal docodont Docodonta Docodonta is an order of extinct proto-mammals that lived during the mid- to late-Mesozoic era. Their most distinguishing physical features were their relatively sophisticated set of molars, from which the order gets its name. In the fossil record, Docodonta is represented primarily by isolated... . A new genus for "Shuotherium" kermacki Sigogneau-Russell, 1988.
  Sineleutherus Sineleutherus Sineleutherus is an extinct genus of allotherian mammal which existed in China during the late Jurassic period . It was described by Thomas Martin, Alexander O. Averianov and Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner in 2010 and the type species is Sineleutherus uyguricus....	Valid	Martin Averianov Pfretzschner	Oxfordian	Qigu Formation Qigu Formation The Qigu Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.-See also:* List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations...	Mainland China	A eleutherodontid allotheria Allotheria Allotheria was a branch of successful Mesozoic mammals. The most important characteristic was the presence of lower molariform teeth equipped with two longitudinal rows of cusps... n.

  
  

  Newly named eutherians

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Acristatherium Acristatherium Acristatherium yanensis is an extinct basal eutherian from the Early Cretaceous Lujiatun Bed of the Yixian Formation. It was described on the basis of a single specimen from Beipiao, Liaoning, China by Yaoming Hu, Jin Meng, Chuankui Li and Yuanqing Wang in 2010. The specimen comprises a partial...	Valid	Hu Meng et al.	Aptian	Yixian Formation Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...	Mainland China	An early eutheria Eutheria Eutheria is a group of mammals consisting of placental mammals plus all extinct mammals that are more closely related to living placentals than to living marsupials . They are distinguished from noneutherians by various features of the feet, ankles, jaws and teeth... n
  Afrotragulus Afrotragulus Afrotragulus is an extinct genus of tragulid ruminant which existed in Kenya during the early Miocene period. It contains the species Afrotragulus moruorotensis and Afrotragulus parvus, formerly classified in genus Dorcatherium....	Valid	Sánchez Quiralte et al.	Early Miocene	Lothidok Formation	Kenya	A tragulid ruminant.
  Ageitonomys Ageitonomys Ageitonomys neimongolensis is an extinct species of rodent which existed in Alxa Left Banner, Inner Mongolia , China during the early Oligocene period. It was first named by Wang Ban-Yue in 2010....	Valid	Wang Ban-Yue	Early Oligocene	Ulantatal Formation	Mainland China	A ctenodactyloid rodent. The species is A. neimongolensis.
  Alloeumyarion Alloeumyarion Alloeumyarion is an extinct genus of Cricetidae which existed in China during the early Miocene period. It was first named by Qiu Zhu-Ding in 2010, and the type species is Alloeumyarion sihongensis....	Valid	Qiu Zhu-Ding	Early Miocene	Xiacaowan Formation	Mainland China	A eumyarionine cricetid Cricetidae The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, and New World rats and mice... . The species is A. sihongensis.
  Australopithecus sediba Australopithecus sediba Australopithecus sediba is a species of Australopithecus of the early Pleistocene, identified based on fossil remains dated to about 2 million years ago....	Valid	Berger de Ruiter et al.	Late Tertiary to Early Quaternary	Cradle of Humankind Cradle of Humankind The Cradle of Humankind is a World Heritage Site first named by UNESCO in 1999, about 50 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Gauteng province. This site currently occupies ; it contains a complex of limestone caves, including the Sterkfontein Caves, where the 2.3-million...	South Africa	One of the youngest known australopithecines to date.
  Basirepomys Basirepomys Basirepomys is an extinct genus of Cricetidae that existed in the United States during the Late Miocene period. It contains the species B. pliocenicus and B. robertsi....	Valid	Kortha De Blieux	Late Hemphillian (Late Miocene)	Sevier River Formation	United States	Species: B. pliocenicus (previously Peromyscus pliocenicus Wilson 1937) (type) B. robertsi
  Darocasorex Darocasorex Darocasorex is an extinct shrew which existed in Europe during the Miocene period. It was first named by Jan A. van Dam in 2010....	Valid	van Dam	Miocene			A anourosoricini soricidae.
  Dawsonicyon Dawsonicyon Dawsonicyon is an extinct genus of basal carnivoramorphan which existed in Wyoming, USA, during the middle Eocene. Fossils are known from the ‘Bridger B’, site of Black’s Fork member of the Bridger Formation and includes an almost complete skeleton . It was first named by Michelle Spaulding, John...	Valid	Spaulding Flynn Stucky	Middle Eocene	Bridger Formation	United States	A basal carnivoramorpha Carnivoramorpha Carnivoramorpha are a clade of mammals that includes the modern order Carnivora and its closest extinct relatives in the Miacoidea , but excludes the creodonts. The order Creodonta are a sister taxon to the Carnivoramorpha dating back 58.7 million years ago... n.
  Dimaitherium Dimaitherium Dimaitherium is an extinct hyracoid which existed in what is now Egypt, during the late Eocene period. It was first named by Eugenie Barrow, Erik R. Seiffert, and Elwyn L. Simons in 2010. The type species is Dimaitherium patnaiki....	Valid	Barrow Seiffert Simons	early Late Eocene (early Priabonian)	Birket Qarun Formation	Egypt	A hyracoid Hyrax A hyrax is any of four species of fairly small, thickset, herbivorous mammals in the order Hyracoidea. The rock hyrax Procavia capensis, the yellow-spotted rock hyrax Heterohyrax brucei, the western tree hyrax Dendrohyrax dorsalis, and the southern tree hyrax, Dendrohyrax arboreus live in Africa... . The type species is D. patnaiki.
  Dilambdogale Dilambdogale Dilambdogale is an extinct genus of afrosoricid which existed in Fayum, Egypt during the latest Eocene . It was first named by Erik R. Seiffert in 2010 and the type species is Dilambdogale gheerbranti. Dilambdogale is the oldest known afrosoricid and its closest relative was...	Valid	Seiffert	Earliest Priabonian	Birket Qarun Formation	Egypt	The oldest known afrosoricid Afrosoricida The order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar and Africa, two families of small mammals that have traditionally been considered to be a part of the order Insectivora.Some biologists use Tenrecomorpha as the name for the tenrec-golden mole clade,... .
  Diunatans Diunatans Diunatans is an extinct genus of rorqual whale. It lived in the North Sea during the Early Pliocene. Two specimens have been found from the Netherlands. They were collected from the Kattendijk Formation in the province of Zeeland, which is Zanclean in age...	Valid	Bosselaers Post	Early Pliocene (Zanclean)	Kattendijk Formation	Netherlands	A small rorqual Rorqual Rorquals are the largest group of baleen whales, with nine species in two genera. They include the largest animal that has ever lived, the Blue Whale, which can reach , and another that easily reaches ; even the smallest of the group, the Northern Minke Whale, reaches .-Characteristics:Rorquals...  whale Whale Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea. The term whale sometimes refers to all cetaceans, but more often it excludes dolphins and porpoises, which belong to suborder Odontoceti . This suborder also includes the sperm whale, killer whale, pilot whale, and beluga...
  Edworthia Edworthia Edworthia is an extinct genus of paromomyid plesiadapiform which existed in Alberta, Canada, during the early Paleocene . It was first named by Richard C. Fox, Craig S. Scott and Brian D. Rankin in 2010 and the type species is Edworthia lerbekmoi...	Valid	Fox Scott Rankin	Middle Torrejonian	Paskapoo Formation Paskapoo Formation The Paskapoo Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Paleocene age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.It takes the name from the Blindman River , and was first described in outcrops along the river, north of Red Deer by J. B...	Canada	A primitive paromomyid plesiadapiform Plesiadapiformes Plesiadapiformes is an extinct order of mammals. It is either closely related to the primates or a precursor to them. Many are too derived to be ancestral to primates, but the earliest Plesiadapiformes have teeth that are strongly indicative of a common ancestor... .
  Erlianomys Erlianomys Erlianomys combinatus is an extinct species of myodont rodent which existed in Inner Mongolia, China, during the early Eocene period....	Valid	Li Qian Meng Jin	Early Eocene	Arshanto Formation	Mainland China	A primitive myodont rodent. The species is E. combinatus.
  Gracilocyon Gracilocyon Gracilocyon is an extinct genus of miacid carnivoran which existed in USA and in Belgium during the earliest Eocene. It was first named by Thierry Smith and Richard Smith in 2010 and the type species is Gracilocyon winkleri....	Valid	Smith Smith	earliest Eocene		Belgium  United States	A miacid carnivora Carnivora The diverse order Carnivora |Latin]] carō "flesh", + vorāre "to devour") includes over 260 species of placental mammals. Its members are formally referred to as carnivorans, while the word "carnivore" can refer to any meat-eating animal... n.
  Guiomys Guiomys Guiomys is an extinct genus of cavioid rodent which existed in west central Patagonia of Argentina, during the middle Miocene. Guiomys is known from mandibular and maxillary fragments with molars, and isolated cheek teeth. It was first named by María E. Pérez in 2010 and the type species is Guiomys...	Valid	Pérez	Middle Miocene		Argentina	A primitive cavioid rodent.
  Homo gautengensis Homo gautengensis Homo gautengensis is a hominin species proposed by biological anthropologist Darren Curnoe in 2010. The species is composed of South African hominin fossils previously attributed to Homo habilis and is argued by some to be the earliest species in the genus Homo.-Discovery and analysis:Analysis...	Valid	Curnoe	Pleistocene	Cradle of Humankind Cradle of Humankind The Cradle of Humankind is a World Heritage Site first named by UNESCO in 1999, about 50 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Gauteng province. This site currently occupies ; it contains a complex of limestone caves, including the Sterkfontein Caves, where the 2.3-million...	South Africa	Identification of H. gautengensis was based on partial skulls, several jaws, teeth and other bones found at various times at the Caves. It emerged over 2 million years ago and died out approximately 600,000 years ago, and is believed to have arisen earlier than Homo habilis.
  Joumocetus Joumocetus Joumocetus is an extinct baleen whale genus in the family Cetotheriidae and containing the single species Joumocetus shimizui. The species is known only from a partial skeleton found in Miocene age sediments of Japan....	Valid	Kimura Hasegawa	earliest Late Miocene	Haraichi Formation	Japan	A cetotheriid Cetotheriidae Cetotheriidae is an extinct family of baleen whales in the suborder Mysticeti. The family existed from the Late Oligocene to the Late Pliocene before going extinct.-Taxonomy:...  whale Whale Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea. The term whale sometimes refers to all cetaceans, but more often it excludes dolphins and porpoises, which belong to suborder Odontoceti . This suborder also includes the sperm whale, killer whale, pilot whale, and beluga... . The type species is J. shimizui.
  Kabirmys Kabirmys Kabirmys is an extinct genus of anomaluroid rodent from the earliest late Eocene of the Birket Qarun Formation from northern Egypt. It was described in September 2010 by Hesham Sallam, Erik Seiffert, Elwyn Simons, and Chlöe Brindley based on isolated teeth, partial mandibles, and an edentulous...	Valid	Sallam Seiffert et al.	earliest late Eocene	Birket Qarun Formation	Egypt	An anomaluroid Anomalure Anomaluridae is a family of rodents found in central Africa. They are known as anomalures or scaly-tailed squirrels. There are seven extant species, classified into three genera...  rodent.
  Kutchisiren Kutchisiren Kutchisiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now India during the Miocene period. It was named by S. Bajpai, D. P. Domning, D. P. Das, J. Velez-Juarbe, and V. P. Mishra in 2010, and the type species is Kutchisiren cylindrica. It was originally named Kotadasiren gracilis in...	Valid	Bajpai Domning et al.	Miocene	Khari Nadi Formation	India	A new name for Kotadasiren gracilis Das & Basu, 1994 (nomen nudum). The type species Type species In biological nomenclature, a type species is both a concept and a practical system which is used in the classification and nomenclature of animals and plants. The value of a "type species" lies in the fact that it makes clear what is meant by a particular genus name. A type species is the species...  is Kutchisiren cylindrica.
  Lestobradys Lestobradys Lestobradys is an extinct genus of mylodontidae which existed in Uruguay during the late Miocene period. The type species is L. sprechmanni....	Valid	Rinderknechta Bostelmann et al.	Late Miocene (Huayquerian)	Camacho Formation	Uruguay	A mylodontid Mylodontidae Mylodontidae is a family of extinct mammals within the order of Pilosa and suborder Folivora living from approximately 23 mya—11,000 years ago, existing for approximately . This family of ground sloths is related to the other families of extinct ground sloths, being the Megatheriidae, the... . The type species is L. sprechmanni.
  Livyatan Livyatan melvillei Livyatan melvillei is an extinct species of physeteroid whale, which lived during the Miocene epoch, approximately 12-13 million years ago.- Discovery :...	Valid	Lambert Bianucci et al.	Miocene	Pisco Formation	Peru	A physeteroid whale Whale Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea. The term whale sometimes refers to all cetaceans, but more often it excludes dolphins and porpoises, which belong to suborder Odontoceti . This suborder also includes the sperm whale, killer whale, pilot whale, and beluga... . The type species is L. melvillei.
  Mendozahippus Mendozahippus Mendozahippus is an extinct genus of notohippid notoungulate which existed in Mendoza, Argentina, during the late Oligocene. Fossils are known from the site of Quebrada Fiera of the Agua de la Piedra Formation and includes a complete skull and two associated metatarsals, two maxillary fragments and...	Valid	Cerdeño Vera	Late Oligocene	Agua de la Piedra Formation	Argentina	A notohippid Notohippidae Notohippidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals from South America. Notohippids are known from the Eocene and Oligocene epochs....  notoungulate.
  Metaliomys Metaliomys Metaliomys is an extinct genus of Heteromyidae that existed in the United States during the Late Miocene period. The only species is Metaliomys sevierensis....	Valid	Kortha De Blieux	Late Hemphillian (Late Miocene)	Sevier River Formation	United States	Species: Metaliomys sevierensis
  Omoiosicista Omoiosicista Omoiosicista is an extinct genus of dipodid rodent which existed in central Nei Mongol, China, during the early Miocene . It was first named by Yuri Kimura in 2010 and the type species is Omoiosicista fui....	Valid	Kimura	Early Miocene		Mainland China	A dipodid Dipodidae The Dipodidae, or dipodids, are a family of rodents found across the northern hemisphere. This family includes over 50 species among the 16 genera....  rodent.
  Plesiobalaenoptera Plesiobalaenoptera Plesiobalaenoptera is an extinct genus of rorqual whale which existed in Italy during the late Miocene epoch. The type species is P. quarantellii. It is the oldest known rorqual from the Mediterranean basin...	Valid	Bisconti	Late Miocene (Tortonian)	Sediments of the Stirone River	Italy	A parabalaenopterine balaenopterid. The type species is P. quarantellii.
  Platalearostrum	Valid	Post Kompanje	early or middle Pleistocene Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years BP that spans the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....		Netherlands	A prehistoric pilot whale Pilot whale Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala. There are two extant species, the long-finned pilot whale and the short-finned pilot whale . The two are not readily distinguished at sea and analysis of the skulls is the best way to tell the difference between them...  (Family Delphinidae). The type species is P. hoekmani
  Presbytherium Presbytherium Presbytherium is an extinct pantodont which existed in what is now Alberta, Canada, during the Paleocene period. It was first named by Craig S. Scott in 2010....	Valid	Scott	Paleocene	Paskapoo Formation Paskapoo Formation The Paskapoo Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Paleocene age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.It takes the name from the Blindman River , and was first described in outcrops along the river, north of Red Deer by J. B...	Canada	A cyriacotheriid pantodont. Species: P. rhodorugatus P. taurus
  Saadanius Saadanius Saadanius is a genus of fossil primate dating to the Oligocene that is closely related to the common ancestor of the Old World monkeys and apes, collectively known as catarrhines. It is represented by a single species, Saadanius hijazensis, which is known only from a single partial skull...	Valid	Zalmout Sanders et al.	Oligocene	Shumaysi Formation	Saudi Arabia	A catarrhine primate Primate A primate is a mammal of the order Primates , which contains prosimians and simians. Primates arose from ancestors that lived in the trees of tropical forests; many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging three-dimensional environment... . The species was named S. hijazensis.
  Sinodonomys Sinodonomys Sinodonomys is an extinct genus of dipodid rodent which existed in central Nei Mongol, China, during the early Miocene . It was first named by Yuri Kimura in 2010 and the type species is Sinodonomys simplex....	Valid	Kimura	Early Miocene		Mainland China	A dipodid rodent.
  Qatranilestes Qatranilestes Qatranilestes is an extinct genus of afrosoricid which existed in Fayum, Egypt during the earliest Oligocene period . It was first named by Erik R. Seiffert in 2010 and the type species is Qatranilestes oligocaenus. Qatranilestes is the youngest known afrosoricid....	Valid	Seiffert	Rupelian	Jebel Qatrani Formation Jebel Qatrani Formation The Jebel Qatrani Formation is a palaeontological formation located in Egypt. It dates to the Eocene-Oligocene period....	Egypt	The youngest known afrosoricid Afrosoricida The order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar and Africa, two families of small mammals that have traditionally been considered to be a part of the order Insectivora.Some biologists use Tenrecomorpha as the name for the tenrec-golden mole clade,... .

  
  

  Angiosperms

  Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
  Sagaria Sagaria Sagaria is an extinct plant which existed in Italy during the Albian period. The type species is Sagaria cilentana....	Valid	Bravia Barone Lumagab Mickle	Middle Albian	Monti Alburni, near Petina
  Solaranthus Solaranthus Solaranthus is an extinct angiosperm plant which existed in Jiulongshan Formation, China during the middle Jurassic period. It was first named by Shaolin Zheng and Xin Wang in 2010 and the type species is Solaranthus daohugouensis....	Valid	Shaolin Zheng Xin Wang	Middle Jurassic	Jiulongshan Formation		An early flowering plant Flowering plant The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies... .
  Xingxueanthus Xingxueanthus Xingxueanthus is an extinct angiosperm plant which existed in China during the middle Jurassic period. It was first named by Xin Wang and Shijun Wang in 2010 and the type species is Xingxueanthus sinensis. This plant was very rare....	Valid	Xin Wang Shijun Wang	Middle Jurassic	Haifanggou Formation Haifanggou Formation The Haifanggou Formation is a fossil-bearing rock deposit located in northeastern China, near Daohugou village of Ningcheng County. The rocks consists of coarse conglomerates, sandstone, mudstone and thin coal layers. The formation dates from the Middle Jurassic.-Arthropods:-Flora:...		An early flowering plant.

  
  

  Complete author list

  As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.
  
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