newly named

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Coprinites Coprinites Coprinites is an extinct monotypic genus of gilled fungus in the Agaricales family Agaricaceae. At present it contains the single species Coprinites dominicana....	Valid	Poinar Singer	Burdigalian Burdigalian The Burdigalian is, in the geologic timescale, an age or stage in the early Miocene. It spans the time between 20.43 ± 0.05 Ma and 15.97 ± 0.05 Ma...  (Miocene)	Dominican amber Dominican amber Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic. Resin from the extinct species Hymenaea protera is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found in the tropics.... .	Dominican Republic	first mushroom genus described from the fossil record

Newly named taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Veronavelifer Veronavelifer Veronavelifer sorbinii is an extinct sailfin moonfish from the Lutetian epoch of the Monte Bolca lagerstatten....	Valid	Bannikov	Eocene	Monte Bolca Monte Bolca Monte Bolca is a lagerstätte near Verona, Italy that was one of the first fossil sites with high quality preservation known to Europeans, and is still an important source of fossils from the Eocene....	Italy

Dinosaurs

• All Anatosaurus species except A. copei were moved to the previously existing genus Edmontosaurus
  Edmontosaurus
  Edmontosaurus is a genus of crestless hadrosaurid dinosaur. It contains two species: Edmontosaurus regalis and Edmontosaurus annectens. Fossils of E. regalis have been found in rocks of western North America that date from the late Campanian stage of the Cretaceous Period 73 million years ago,...
  
  by Brett-Surman
• "Seismosaurus" gastroliths documented.

Newly named dinosaurs

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Agilisaurus Agilisaurus Agilisaurus is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Period of what is now eastern Asia. The name is derived from the Latin agilis meaning 'agile' and the Greek sauros meaning 'lizard', and refers to the agility suggested by its lightweight skeleton and long legs...	Valid taxon	Peng G.
Anatotitan Anatotitan Anatotitan is a genus of flat-headed or hadrosaurine hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaur from the very end of the Cretaceous Period, in what is now North America...	Valid taxon formerly called Anatosaurus copei	Brett-Surman vide: Chapman	Michael K. Brett-Surman
Bellusaurus Bellusaurus Bellusaurus was a small short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic which measured about long...	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming , from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time...
Breviceratops Breviceratops Breviceratops was a ceratopsian dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. It was related to Protoceratops. The fossils originally described by Maryanska and Osmolska in 1975 and placed in Protoceratops, were moved to the new genus by Kurzanov in 1990.The type species is Breviceratops...	Valid taxon	Kurzanov
Drinker Drinker Drinker was a genus of hypsilophodont dinosaur from the late Jurassic period of North America. Although based on good remains, it remains obscure due to a lack of post-naming publications.-Description:...	Valid taxon	Robert Bakker Galton	Siegwarth Filla
Emausaurus Emausaurus Emausaurus is a genus of thyreophoran or armored dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. Its fossils have been found in Germany. It is known from a skull and partial postcranial remains, although only the skull is known well. Armor includes conical scutes and tall, spiny elements.The type species,...	Valid taxon	Haubold
Epachthosaurus Epachthosaurus Epachthosaurus was a genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It was a titanosaurid sauropod. Its fossils have been found in Central and Northern Patagonia in South America....	Valid taxon	Jaime Eduardo Powell
"Futabasaurus Futabasaurus Futabasaurus is a genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Fukushima, Japan. Described and named in 2006, it was assigned to the family Elasmosauridae. The length was about 7 m, and the weight was about 3~4 tons. Futabasaurus is the first elasmosaurid found in Japan. The type... "	Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy... ; later applied to a plesiosaur Plesiosaur Plesiosauroidea is an extinct clade of carnivorous plesiosaur marine reptiles. Plesiosauroids, are known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods... .	David Lambert
“Hadrosauravus"	Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...	David Lambert
“Hisanohamasaurus Hisanohamasaurus "Hisanohamasaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It is a nomen nudum known only from teeth that first appeared in a general-audience dinosaur book by David Lambert in 1990... ”	Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...	David Lambert
“Katsuyamasaurus Katsuyamasaurus "Katsuyamasaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous. It was a carnosaur which lived in what is now Japan. The type species was coined by Lambert in 1990, but is not formally described, making it a nomen nudum... "	Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...	David Lambert
"Kitadanisaurus"	Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...	David Lambert
"Madsenius Madsenius "Madsenius" is the name given to an as-yet undescribed genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of North America, from the Morrison Formation. It was a theropod which may have been closely related to Allosaurus, or even a species of Allosaurus... "	Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...	David Lambert
Monkonosaurus Monkonosaurus Monkonosaurus is the name given to a dubious genus of dinosaur from the Late Jurassic . It was a stegosaur which lived in what is now Tibet. The type specimen, Monkonosaurus lawulacus was formalized by Zhao in 1983, but is based only on one partial skeleton...	Valid taxon	Zhao X. vide: Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming , from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time...
"Ricardoestesia Ricardoestesia Richardoestesia is a medium-sized genus of theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. It is known from a single pair of lower jaw bones and a large number of isolated teeth.... "	Name accidentally invalidated and replaced with misspelling.	Phillip Currie Rigby and	R.E. Sloan
“Sugiyamasaurus Sugiyamasaurus "Sugiyamasaurus" is the informal name given to an as yet undescribed genus of dinosaur known only from a few spatulate teeth. It was a sauropod, possibly a camarasaurid, which lived in Japan during the Late Cretaceous... "	Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...	David Lambert
Yimenosaurus Yimenosaurus Yimenosaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. Fossils from several individuals were recovered from Yimen, China, and the type species Y. youngi was named by Bai, Yang & Wang in 1990. Reconstructions are based on mostly complete skeletons, missing only parts of the...	Valid taxon	Bai vide: Bai Yang J.	Wang G.H.

Non-mammalian