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Arthropods
Newly named insects
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesBothriomyrmex goeppertiWheeler W. M. 1915 The ants of the Baltic amber Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg 55 4 56–59Comb novJr synonym(Mayr, 1868)Middle EoceneBaltic amberEuropeFossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Iridomyrmex goepperti in 1915, jr synonym of Ctenobethylus goeppertithumb|center|upright|Ctenobethylus goeppertiDolichoderus balticusComb novvalid
(Mayr, 1868)Middle EoceneBaltic amberEuropeFossil Dolichoderine ant, moved from Hypoclinea balticus
thumb|center|upright|Dolichoderus balticusDolichoderus cornutusComb novvalid
(Mayr, 1868)Middle EoceneBaltic amberEuropeFossil Dolichoderine ant, moved from Hypoclinea cornuta
thumb|center|upright|Dolichoderus cornutusDolichoderus longipennisComb novValid
MayrMiddle EoceneBaltic amberEuropeFossil Dolichoderine ant, moved from Hypoclinea longipennisthumb|center|upright|Dolichoderus longipennisDolichoderus sculpturataComb novValid
MayrMiddle EoceneBaltic amberEuropeFossil Dolichoderine ant, moved from Hypoclinea sculpturatathumb|center|upright|Dolichoderus sculpturatusDolichoderus tertiariaComb novValid
MayrMiddle EoceneBaltic amberEuropeFossil Dolichoderine ant, moved from Hypoclinea tertiariathumb|center|upright|Dolichoderus tertiariusIridomyrmex haueriDlussky G.M. Putyatina T.S. 2014 Early Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Radoboj, Croatia Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 272 3 237–285 10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0409Sp novSynonym(Mayr, 1868)BurdigalianRadobojCroatia A dolichoderine ant. synonym of Emplastus haueri
Fish
Newly named Ray-finned fish
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesAmyzon brevipinneCope E. 1893 Fossil fishes from British Columbia Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 45 401–402Liu J. Redescription of "Amyzon" brevipinne and remarks on North American Eocene catostomids (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae) 2021 Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19 9 677–689 10.1080/14772019.2021.1968966 free Sp novJr synonymCopeEarly EoceneAllenby FormationCanada(British Columbia)A catostomid sucker fish. Moved to Wilsonium brevipinne (2021).
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes
Argyrosaurus
Valid
Richard Lydekker Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian)Bajo Barreal Formation ArgentinaNomen dubium
Microcoelus
Nomen dubiumRichard LydekkerLate Cretaceous (Santonian)Bajo de la Carpa FormationArgentinaPossible subjective synonym of Neuquensaurus.
Sarcolestes
ValidRichard LydekkerMiddle Jurassic (Callovian)Oxford ClayUnited KingdomAn ankylosaur.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
PantosaurusGent et comb nov
Valid
MarshLate Jurassic (Oxfordian)Sundance FormationUnited StatesA cryptoclidid
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesCallibrachionGen et sp novvalidBoule and GlangeauLate Carboniferous-Early PermianFranceA basal Caseidae; Type species C. gaudryi thumb|center|upright|Callibrachion gaudryiGordoniaGen et sp novValidNewtonLate PermianLossiemouth SandstoneScotlandA dicynodont. Type species G. traquairithumb|center|upright|Gordonia traquairi
References
Paleontology