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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils . [1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks ( ichnites ), burrows , cast-off parts, fossilised feces ( coprolites ), palynomorphs and chemical residues . Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science . This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2015.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Munnecke & Oswald | Silurian (early Wenlock) | A cystoporate bryozoan. The type species is Acantholunaria expansa. | ||||
Adeonellopsis incompta [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An adeonid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Adeonellopsis . | ||
Amphiblestrum paleogenicum [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A calloporid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Amphiblestrum . | ||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst & Nakrem | Silurian (Wenlock) | An amplexoporid trepostome bryozoan, a species of Amplexopora . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst & Nakrem | Silurian (Wenlock) | An amplexoporid trepostome bryozoan, a species of Amplexopora . | ||||
Andreella dubia [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A microporid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Andreella . | ||
Anaphragma undulata [6] | Sp. nov | Valid | Jiménez-Sánchez, Vennin & Villas | Ordovician (late Katian) | A trepostomate bryozoan, a species of Anaphragma . | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Jiménez-Sánchez in Jiménez-Sánchez, Villas & Vennin | Ordovician (late Katian) | A trepostomate bryozoan, a species of Aostipora . | ||||
Arachnopusia dimorpha [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An arachnopusiid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Arachnopusia . | ||
Arthropoma renipora [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian) | A lacernid schizoporelloid bryozoan, a species of Arthropoma . | |||
Aspidostoma clava [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An aspidostomatid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Aspidostoma . | ||
Aspidostoma gelasinus [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An aspidostomatid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Aspidostoma . | ||
Aspidostoma twinn [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An aspidostomatid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Aspidostoma . | ||
Atactoporella moroccoensis [6] | Sp. nov | Valid | Jiménez-Sánchez, Vennin & Villas | Ordovician (late Katian) | A trepostomate bryozoan, a species of Atactoporella . | |||
Baculopora redondensis [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Wyse Jackson & Aretz | Carboniferous (Viséan) | A member of Fenestrata belonging to the family Acanthocladiidae; a species of Baculopora . | |||
Bryopesanser bragai [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian to Serravallian) | An escharinid schizoporelloid bryozoan, a species of Bryopesanser . | |||
Bryopesanser sanfilippoae [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (Burdigalian-Langhian boundary to Serravallian) | An escharinid schizoporelloid bryozoan, a species of Bryopesanser . | |||
Buffonellaria sagittaria [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian) | A celleporid celleporoid bryozoan, a species of Buffonellaria . | |||
Caberoides gordoni [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian) | A catenicellid bryozoan, a species of Caberoides . | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Suárez Andrés & Ernst | Devonian | A member of the family Fenestellidae. | ||||
Gen. et sp. et comb. nov | Valid | Zágoršek, Gordon & Vávra | Eocene to Oligocene | A chlidoniopsid cheilostome bryozoan. The type species is Celiopsis vici; genus also contains "Crisidia" vindobonensis Reuss (1847) and "Chlidoniopsis" vavrai Zágoršek (2003). | ||||
Cellaria bicuspidata [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A cellariid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Cellaria . | ||
Cellaria gigas [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A cellariid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Cellaria . | ||
Cellaria inarticulata [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A cellariid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Cellaria . | ||
Cellaria palatum [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A cellariid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Cellaria . | ||
Chaperiopsis cookae [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A chaperiid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Chaperiopsis . | ||
Chataimulosia revelator [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A lepraliellid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Chataimulosia . | ||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A bryopastorid cheilostome bryozoan. The type species is Cladobryopastor philipi. | |||
Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A cheilostome bryozoan. Originally described as a species of Conopeum ; Dick, Sakamoto & Komatsu (2018) transferred this species to the genus Kenocharixa. [12] | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Munnecke & Oswald | Silurian (early Wenlock) | A cystoporate bryozoan. The type species is Curvipora monostylata. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Jiménez-Sánchez in Jiménez-Sánchez, Villas & Vennin | Ordovician (late Katian) | A trepostomate bryozoan, a species of Cyphotrypa . | ||||
Cystodictya gallensis [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Wyse Jackson & Aretz | Carboniferous (Viséan) | A cystoporate bryozoan belonging to the family Cystodictyonidae; a species of Cystodictya . | |||
Dactylostega spiralis [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A foveolariid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Dactylostega . | ||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An adeonoid cheilostome bryozoan. The type species is Diedropora gravabilis. | |||
Dybowskiella piriforme [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Wyse Jackson & Aretz | Carboniferous (Viséan) | A cystoporate bryozoan belonging to the family Fistuliporidae; a species of Dybowskiella . | |||
Dybowskiella rotunda [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Wyse Jackson & Aretz | Carboniferous (Viséan) | A cystoporate bryozoan belonging to the family Fistuliporidae; a species of Dybowskiella . | |||
Dyscritella ornata [13] | Sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova, Ernst & Poty | Carboniferous (Tournaisian) | Namur-Dinant Basin | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova et al. | Devonian (latest Famennian) | A dyscritellid trepostome bryozoan, a species of Dyscritella . | ||||
Eridopora suarezi [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Wyse Jackson & Aretz | Carboniferous (Viséan) | A cystoporate bryozoan belonging to the family Fistuliporidae; a species of Eridopora . | |||
Exechonella chathamensis [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An exechonellid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Exechonella . | ||
Exochella abigailae [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A romancheinid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Exochella . | ||
Exochella linearis [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A romancheinid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Exochella . | ||
Exochella reidae [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A romancheinid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Exochella . | ||
Exochella woodae [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A romancheinid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Exochella . | ||
Fabifenestella macrofenestrata [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Wyse Jackson & Aretz | Carboniferous (Viséan) | A member of Fenestrata belonging to the family Fenestellidae; a species of Fabifenestella . | |||
?Filaguria kalimantanensis [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (Serravallian) | A cribrilinid bryozoan, possibly a species of Filaguria . | |||
Fistulipora tolokonnikovae [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Wyse Jackson & Aretz | Carboniferous (Viséan) | A cystoporate bryozoan belonging to the family Fistuliporidae; a species of Fistulipora . | |||
Floridina elegans [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An onychocellid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Floridina . | ||
Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Rosso | A member of Ascophora belonging to the family Cribrilinidae. | |||||
Gigantopora milenae [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (Serravallian) | A gigantoporid schizoporelloid bryozoan, a species of Gigantopora . | |||
Gigantopora grandis [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A gigantoporid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Gigantopora . | ||
Gigantopora modesta [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A gigantoporid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Gigantopora . | ||
Gen. et sp. et comb. nov | Valid | Ernst, Wyse Jackson & Aretz | Carboniferous (Viséan) | A member of Fenestrata belonging to the family Acanthocladiidae. The type species is Gorjunopora gallica; genus also includes Gorjunopora triangulata (Schulga-Nesterenko, 1955). | ||||
Hemicyclopora dissidens [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A romancheinid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Hemicyclopora . | ||
Hemicyclopora ventricosa [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A romancheinid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Hemicyclopora . | ||
Heminematopora gaetula [16] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Jiménez-Sánchez & Baidder | Ordovician (Katian) | A species of Heminematopora . | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Suárez Andrés & Ernst | Devonian | A member of the family Fenestellidae. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Suárez Andrés & Ernst | Devonian | A member of the family Fenestellidae. | ||||
Heteropora scholzi [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A cerioporid cyclostome bryozoan, a species of Heteropora . | ||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst & Nakrem | Silurian (Wenlock) | A heterotrypid trepostome bryozoan, a species of Heterotrypa . | ||||
?Hippomenella devatasae [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian) | A romancheinid lepralielloid bryozoan, possibly a species of Hippomenella . | |||
?Hippomenella uniserialis [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian) | A romancheinid lepralielloid bryozoan, possibly a species of Hippomenella . | |||
Hippopleurifera barbosae [17] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ramalho et al. | Miocene | A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the superfamily Lepralielloidea and the family Romancheneidae, a species of Hippopleurifera . | |||
Hippopleurifera confusa [17] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ramalho et al. | Miocene | A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the superfamily Lepralielloidea and the family Romancheneidae, a species of Hippopleurifera . | |||
Hippopodina indicata [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian to Langhian) | A hippopodinid schizoporelloid bryozoan, a species of Hippopodina . | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Wilson, Bosch & Taylor | Middle Jurassic (Callovian) | A plagioeciid cyclostome bryozoan, a species of Hyporosopora . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Wilson, Bosch & Taylor | Middle Jurassic (Callovian) | A plagioeciid cyclostome bryozoan, a species of Hyporosopora . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Wilson, Bosch & Taylor | Middle Jurassic (Callovian) | A multisparsid cyclostome bryozoan, a species of Idmonea . | ||||
Gen. et 2 sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A schizoporelloid cheilostome bryozoan. The type species is Illusiopora bifax; genus also contains Illusiopora recta. | |||
Isostylus veserensis [19] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Tolokonnikova & Denayer | Devonian (late Frasnian) | A species of Isostylus . | |||
Lacerna ordinaria [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A lacernid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Lacerna . | ||
Lagenipora sciutoi [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian) | A celleporid celleporoid bryozoan, a species of Lagenipora . | |||
Lenapora gurievensis [20] | Sp. nov | Valid | Mesentseva | Devonian | ||||
Leptotrypa enodis [2] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Munnecke & Oswald | Silurian (early Wenlock) | A trepostome bryozoan, a species of Leptotrypa . | |||
Leptotrypa hexagona [13] | Sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova, Ernst & Poty | Carboniferous (Tournaisian) | Namur-Dinant Basin | |||
Leptotrypa perforata [2] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Munnecke & Oswald | Silurian (early Wenlock) | A trepostome bryozoan, a species of Leptotrypa . | |||
Macrocamera obesa [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An eminooeciid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Macrocamera . | ||
Margaretta amitabhae [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (Burdigalian-Langhian boundary to Serravallian) | A margarettid schizoporelloid bryozoan, a species of Margaretta . | |||
Marssonopora connexa [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A calloporid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Marssonopora . | ||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst & Nakrem | Silurian (Wenlock) | An arthrostylid cryptostome bryozoan, a species of Mediaporina . | ||||
Megacanthopora enodata [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Wyse Jackson & Aretz | Carboniferous (Viséan) | A member of Cryptostomata belonging to the family Rhomboporidae; a species of Megacanthopora . | |||
Melychocella bilamellata [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An aspidostomatid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Melychocella . | ||
Melychocella obliqua [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An aspidostomatid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Melychocella . | ||
Mesenteripora jamesi [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A plagioeciid cyclostome bryozoan, a species of Mesenteripora . | ||
Sp. nov | Valid | Wilson, Bosch & Taylor | Middle Jurassic (Callovian) | An oncousoeciid cyclostome bryozoan, a species of Microeciella . | ||||
Micropora chathamica [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A microporid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Micropora . | ||
Monticulipora globulata [6] | Sp. nov | Valid | Jiménez-Sánchez, Vennin & Villas | Ordovician (late Katian) | A trepostomate bryozoan, a species of Monticulipora . | |||
Monticulipora irregularis [6] | Sp. nov | Valid | Jiménez-Sánchez, Vennin & Villas | Ordovician (late Katian) | A trepostomate bryozoan, a species of Monticulipora . | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An arachnopusiid cheilostome bryozoan. The type species is Moyanopora hugoi. | |||
Multescharellina pisiformis [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A lepraliellid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Multescharellina . | ||
Sp. nov | Valid | Rosso & Di Martino | A member of Neocheilostomina belonging to the family Myriaporidae; a species of Myriapora . | |||||
Nematopora rara [20] | Sp. nov | Valid | Mesentseva | Devonian | A rhabdomesid bryozoan, a species of Nematopora . | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova et al. | Devonian (latest Famennian) | A nikiforovellid cryptostome bryozoan. The type species is Nikiforovastylus ourthensis. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova et al. | Devonian (latest Famennian) | A nikiforovellid cryptostome bryozoan, a species of Nikiforovella . | ||||
Nikiforovella tobolensis [22] | Sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova | Carboniferous (Tournaisian) | ||||
Ogiva ellinorvoigtae [23] | Sp. nov | Valid [24] | Martha et al. | Cretaceous (middle Santonian) | Gehrden Formation | An onychocellid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Ogiva . | ||
Sp. nov | Valid | Koromyslova & Shcherbinina | Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) | An onychocellid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Onychocella . | ||||
Onychocella subtriangulata [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An onychocellid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Onychocella . | ||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst & Nakrem | Silurian (Wenlock) | A rhabdomesid cryptostome bryozoan, a species of Orthopora . | ||||
Osthimosia aurora [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A celleporid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Osthimosia . | ||
Osthimosia curiosa [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A celleporid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Osthimosia . | ||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (Serravallian) | An exechonellid arachnopusioid bryozoan. The type species is Oviexechonella digeronimoi. | ||||
Paracuneatopora egregia [20] | Sp. nov | Valid | Mesentseva | Devonian | A rhabdomesid bryozoan, a species of Paracuneatopora . | |||
Paracuneatopora kuvaschensis [20] | Sp. nov | Valid | Mesentseva | Devonian | A rhabdomesid bryozoan, a species of Paracuneatopora . | |||
Paranicklesopora ornaisa [13] | Sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova, Ernst & Poty | Carboniferous (Tournaisian) | Namur-Dinant Basin | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Jiménez-Sánchez in Jiménez-Sánchez, Villas & Vennin | Ordovician (late Katian) | A trepostomate bryozoan, a species of Parvohallopora . | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Gorjunova | Carboniferous | A diploporariine acanthocladiid bryozoan. The type species is Perkhurovella clara. | ||||
Phonicosia sinuosa [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A lacernid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Phonicosia . | ||
Plagioecia zatoni [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A plagioeciid cyclostome bryozoan, a species of Plagioecia . | ||
Platonea dilatata [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A tubuliporid cyclostome bryozoan, a species of Platonea . | ||
Porella tiorioriensis [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A bryocryptellid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Porella . | ||
Porina turrita [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A porinid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Porina . | ||
Primorella variata [22] | Sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova | Carboniferous (Tournaisian) | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid [28] | Ma et al. | Ordovician (early Tremadocian) | A cryptostome bryozoan, a species of Prophyllodictya . | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova et al. | Devonian (latest Famennian) | A dyscritellid trepostome bryozoan, a species of Pseudobatostomella . | ||||
Pseudothyracella campbelli [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A bryopastorid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Pseudothyracella . | ||
Puellina bontangensis [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian) | A cribrilinid bryozoan, a species of Puellina . | |||
Pyrisinella primazelandiae [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A pyrisinellid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Pyrisinella . | ||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | An arachnopusiid cheilostome bryozoan. The type species is Quasitrilaminopora curiosa. | |||
Radiotrypa alnifensis [16] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Jiménez-Sánchez & Baidder | Ordovician (Katian) | A species of Radiotrypa . | |||
Sp. nov | Valid | Suárez Andrés & Ernst | Devonian | A member of the family Fenestellidae. | ||||
Reptadeonella curvabilis [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian) | An adeonid bryozoan, a species of Reptadeonella . | |||
Reptadeonella toddi [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian or early Langhian to Serravallian) | An adeonid bryozoan, a species of Reptadeonella . | |||
Reteporella mediocris [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A phidoloporid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Reteporella . | ||
Revalotrypa ramosa [16] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Jiménez-Sánchez & Baidder | Ordovician (Katian) | A species of Revalotrypa . | |||
Saevitella renemai [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian) | A hippopodinid schizoporelloid bryozoan, a species of Saevitella . | |||
Saffordotaxis spinigerus [13] | Sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova, Ernst & Poty | Carboniferous (Tournaisian) | Namur-Dinant Basin | |||
Gen. et 5 sp. nov | Junior homonym | Mesentseva | Devonian | A rhabdomesid bryozoan. Genus contains five species: S. petaloida, S. variabilis, S. maculata, S. baskuskanensis and S. recta. The generic name is a junior homonym of Salairella Khalfina (1961) and Salairella Severgina (1984). Hernández (2019) coined a replacement name Devonavictoria. [29] | ||||
Schizoretepora tamagawensis [30] | Sp. nov | Valid | Zágoršek, Takashima & Hirose | Miocene | A member of Phidoloporidae, a species of Schizoretepora . | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (Serravallian) | A tessaradomid lepralielloid bryozoan. The type species is Sendinopora prima. | ||||
Siphonicytara litotes [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A siphonicytarid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Siphonicytara . | ||
Siphonicytara primitiva [3] | Sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A siphonicytarid cheilostome bryozoan, a species of Siphonicytara . | ||
Spinofenestella nodosa [13] | Sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova, Ernst & Poty | Carboniferous (Tournaisian) | Namur-Dinant Basin | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Munnecke & Oswald | Silurian (early Wenlock) | A trepostome bryozoan. The type species is Stellatotrypa hirsuta. | ||||
Sulcoretepora regularis [22] | Sp. nov | Valid | Tolokonnikova | Carboniferous (Tournaisian) | ||||
Gen. et comb. nov | Valid | Gorjunova | Carboniferous | A diploporariine acanthocladiid bryozoan. A new genus for "Pinnatopora" longicellata Morozova (1955); genus also contains "Pinnatopora" volgensis Shishova (1959), "Pinnatopora" inconstans Shishova (1959), "Pinnatopora" subpunctata Shishova (1959) and "Pinnatopora" distincta Shishova (1950). | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst & Nakrem | Silurian (Wenlock) | A trematoporid trepostome bryozoan, a species of Trematopora . | ||||
Triznotrypa potii [19] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Tolokonnikova & Denayer | Devonian (late Frasnian) | A species of Triznotrypa . | |||
Trypostega hasibuani [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian) | A trypostegid hippothooid bryozoan, a species of Trypostega . | |||
Tubiporella magnipora [8] | Sp. nov | Valid | Di Martino & Taylor | Miocene (late Burdigalian) | A didymosellid didymoselloid bryozoan, a species of Tubiporella . | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A calloporid cheilostome bryozoan. The type species is Tumaiella dieffenbachi. | |||
Volgia deftera [9] | Sp. nov | Valid | Ernst, Wyse Jackson & Aretz | Carboniferous (Viséan) | A cystoporate bryozoan belonging to the family Hexagonellidae; a species of Volgia . | |||
Zagorsekia [3] | Gen. et comb. nov | Valid [4] | Gordon & Taylor | Early Eocene | Tumaio Limestone | A tubuliporid cyclostome bryozoan; a new genus for "Heteropora" nodulosa MacGillivray (1895). | ||
Stenolaemata are a class of exclusively marine bryozoans. Stenolaemates originated and diversified in the Ordovician, and more than 600 species are still alive today. All extant (living) species are in the order Cyclostomatida, the third-largest order of living bryozoans.
Hallopora is an extinct genus of bryozoans of the family Halloporidae, first identified from the Lower Silurian period. They can be found in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky of the Midwestern United States, commonly in the Ordovician Kope Formation.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2012.
Chasmatopora is an extinct genus of bryozoans which existed in what is now Mongolia, China, Estonia, Russia, Poland, Argentina, the United States and Canada. It was described by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1849, and the type species is Chasmatopora tenella, which was originally described as a species of Retepora by Eichwald in 1842.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2013.
Cystoporida, also known as Cystoporata or cystoporates, are an extinct order of Paleozoic bryozoans in the class Stenolaemata. Their fossils are found from Ordovician to Triassic strata.
Fenestrata is an extinct order of bryozoan, dating from the Upper Arenig. Most fenestrate bryozoans formed net-like colonies, often in funnel- or fan-shaped forms, with a single layer of zooids facing one direction. The colony shape served as a filter-feeding apparatus that water currents flowed through, with autozooecial apertures only on the side of the colony facing into the current. This colony structure was vulnerable to predators, so some fenestrate bryozoans produced skeletal superstructures, likely to strengthen or protect the colony, and others had protective spines surrounding their autozooecial apertures.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2014.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2015.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2016.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2017.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2019.
Monticulipora is an extinct genus of Ordovician bryozoans belonging to the family Monticuliporidae. It was first named in 1849, and its description was published the following year by French paleontologist Alcide M. d'Orbigny, making it one of the earliest bryozoans to be recognized in science. It is still one of the most widespread fossil bryozoan genera. Though colonies that grow in masses made of multiple layers are characteristic of the genus, its colonies have varying shapes, able to be encrusting, branching, massive, or frond-like, and are covered in monticules (bumps). Most Monticulipora species have distinctively granular walls, and Monticulipora and can be distinguished from Homotrypa by the presence of axial diaphragms.
Dekayia is an extinct genus of Ordovician bryozoans of the family Heterotrypidae. Its colonies can be branching, encrusting, or massive. All species have acanthopores in varying sizes and numbers. The autozooecia appear angular or sub-angular viewed through a cross-section of the colony, and their walls are distinctively undulating or crenulated. Maculae generally protrude from the colony surface very little or at all, and can contain unusually large autozooecia and a cluster of mesozooecia in their centers.
Homotrypa is an extinct genus of bryozoans from the Ordovician and Silurian periods, known from fossils found in the United States. Its colonies are branch-like and have small monticules made of groups of three or four larger zooecia slightly protruding out from the main surface of the colony. In cross section, the zooecia are erect in axis and gently curve toward the surface of the colony.
Eridotrypa is an extinct genus of bryozoans of the family Aisenvergiidae, consistently forming colonies made of thin branches. Diaphragms are very common in colonies. Distinctively, in the exozone there are serrated dark borders separating the autozooecia.
Leptotrypa is an extinct genus of bryozoans of the family Atactotoechidae that formed unifoliate encrusting colonies, growing on surfaces like the shells of brachiopods.
Metastenodiscus is an extinct genus of Triassic trepostome bryozoans of the family Stenoporidae. It is distinct from Stenodiscus because of the presence of cystiphragms and the presence of a wide range of sizes of acanthostyles.
Arthrostyloecia is an extinct genus of bryozoan of the family Arthrostylidae, that lived in the Ordovician period. Its colonies are articulated, distinctively containing ball and socket joints. It contains a single species, Arthrostyloecia nitida.
Fistuliphragma is an extinct genus of cystoporate bryozoan of the family Fistuliporidae that lived in the Devonian period. Its colonies could have branched or encrusting forms, with hollow tubular branches in the case of the branched form, and possessed a well-developed vesicular skeleton. Its autozooecia possessed prominent lunaria and hemiphragms. The genus is distinct from Cliotrypa and Strotopora because of the absence of gonozooecia.