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This list of fossil reptiles described in 2024 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2024, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2024.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | In press | Carvalho & Santucci | Early Cretaceous (Aptian) | A member of Polyglyphanodontia. The type species is C. pachysymphysealis. Announced in 2023; the final article version will be published in 2024. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Daza et al. | Cretaceous (Albian/Cenomanian) | Burmese amber | A skink. The type species is E. zedi. | |||
Sp. nov | In press | Shaker et al. | Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) | A mosasaur belonging to the subfamily Halisaurinae. Announced in 2023; the final article version will be published in 2024. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Croghan et al. | Oligocene (Rupelian) | A member of Booidea of uncertain affinities. The type species is H. breithaupti. | |||||
Khinjaria [5] | Gen. et sp. nov | In press | Longrich et al. | Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) | Ouled Abdoun Basin | ![]() | A mosasaur belonging to the subfamily Plioplatecarpinae. The type species is K. acuta. | |
Segurasaurus [6] | Gen. et comb. nov | Berrocal-Casero et al. | Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) | Tentúgal Formation | ![]() | A member of Pythonomorpha. The type species is "Carentonosaurus" soaresi. | ||
Vasuki [7] | Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Datta & Bajpai | Middle Eocene (Lutetian) | Naredi Formation | ![]() | A member of Madtsoiidae. The type species is V. indicus. | ![]() |
Sp. nov | Valid | Rivera-Sylva et al. | Late Cretaceous (Turonian-Coniacian) | A mosasaur belonging to the subfamily Plioplatecarpinae. Announced in 2023; the final article version was published in 2024. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Argovisaurus [31] | Gen. et sp. nov | Miedema et al. | Middle Jurassic (Bajocian-Bathonian) | Hauptrogenstein Formation | ![]() | An ichthyosaur closely related to Ophthalmosauria. The type species is A. martafernandezi. | ![]() | |
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Lomax et al. | Late Triassic (Rhaetian) | Possibly a member of the family Shastasauridae. The type species is I. severnensis. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Fang, Wolniewicz & Liu | Middle Triassic (Anisian) | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Hu, Li, & Liu | |||||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Sachs, Eggmaier & Madzia | A basal plesiosauroid. The type species is F. brevispinus. | |||||
Marambionectes [47] | Gen. et sp. nov | O'Gorman et al. | Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) | Lopez de Bertodano Formation | Antarctica | An elasmosaurid. The type species is M. molinai. | ||
Gen. et comb. nov | In press | Clark, O'Keefe, & Slack | A polycotylid. The type species is "Dolichorhynchops" bonneri. Announced in 2023; the final article version will be published in 2024. | ![]() | ||||
Gen. et comb. nov | In press | Clark, O'Keefe, & Slack | Late Cretaceous (Turonian) | A polycotylid. The type species is "Dolichorhynchops" tropicensis. Announced in 2023; the final article version will be published in 2024. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | In press | Clark, O'Keefe, & Slack | Late Cretaceous (Campanian) | A polycotylid. The type species is U. specta. Announced in 2023; the final article version will be published in 2024. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Pappa et al. | Miocene | ||||||
Gen. et. sp. nov | Valid | Pérez-García & Antunes | A pancheloniid turtle. The type species is L. emilianoi | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ferreira et al. | Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene | A podocnemidid turtle. A giant extinct species of Peltocephalus , represented today only by P. dumerilianus. | ![]() | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Zvonok, Panteleev & Danilov | Eocene (Bartonian) | A pan-cheloniid. The type species is P. shorymensis. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Ke et al. | Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) | A member of the family Nanhsiungchelyidae. The type species is X. yingliangi. | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Sues, Spiekman & Schoch | Middle Triassic (Anisian) | A non-archosaurian archosauriform. The type species is M. angustifrons. | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Agnolín et al. | Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) | A sphenodontid rhynchocephalian. The type species is A. mineri. Announced in 2023; the final article version was published in 2024. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Silva-Neves et al. | Late Triassic (Carnian) | A member of the family Procolophonidae belonging to the subfamily Leptopleuroninae. The type species is C. primus. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Kligman, Sues & Melstrom | Late Triassic (Carnian) | A small-bodied reptile of uncertain affinities. The type species is I. virginiensis. | |||||
Notosphenos [94] | Gen. et sp. nov | Agnolín et al. | Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) | Chorrillo Formation | ![]() | A sphenodontid rhynchocephalian. The type species is N. finisterre. | ||
Sp. nov | Jenkins et al. | Late Triassic | Chinle Formation | |||||
Parvosaurus [96] | Gen. et sp. nov | Freisem et al. | Late Triassic (Norian) | Arnstadt Formation | ![]() | A rhynchocephalian. The type species is P. harudensis. | ![]() | |
Gen. et comb. nov | Valid | Jung & Sues | Permian (Kungurian) | A member of the family Captorhinidae belonging to the subfamily Moradisaurinae. The type species is "Captorhinikos" chozaensis Olson (1954). | ![]() | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Pugh et al. | Late Triassic (Norian) | Garita Creek Formation | A member of Drepanosauromorpha. The type species is U. onyx. | ||||
Sauropterygia is an extinct taxon of diverse, aquatic reptiles that developed from terrestrial ancestors soon after the end-Permian extinction and flourished during the Triassic before all except for the Plesiosauria became extinct at the end of that period. The plesiosaurs would continue to diversify until the end of the Mesozoic. Sauropterygians are united by a radical adaptation of their pectoral girdle, adapted to support powerful flipper strokes. Some later sauropterygians, such as the pliosaurs, developed a similar mechanism in their pelvis. It is possible that sauropterygians are a distant relatives of turtles, uniting them under the group Pantestudines, although this is still debatable as sauropterygians might be archosauromorphs or completely unrelated to both.
Mixosaurus is an extinct genus of Middle Triassic ichthyosaur. Its fossils have been found near the Italy–Switzerland border and in South China.
Platypterygius is a historically paraphyletic genus of platypterygiine ichthyosaur from the Cretaceous period. It was historically used as a wastebasket taxon, and most species within Platypterygius likely are undiagnostic at the genus or species level, or represent distinct genera, even being argued as invalid. While fossils referred to Platypterygius have been found throughout different continents, the holotype specimen was found in Germany.
Protorosauria is an extinct, likely paraphyletic group of basal archosauromorph reptiles from the latest Middle Permian to the end of the Late Triassic of Asia, Europe and North America. It was named by the English anatomist and paleontologist Thomas Henry Huxley in 1871 as an order, originally to solely contain Protorosaurus. Other names which were once considered equivalent to Protorosauria include Prolacertiformes and Prolacertilia.
The Ichthyosauromorpha are an extinct clade of marine reptiles consisting of the Ichthyosauriformes and the Hupehsuchia, living during the Mesozoic.
This timeline of ichthyosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the ichthyosauromorphs, a group of secondarily aquatic marine reptiles whose later members superficially resembled dolphins, sharks, or swordfish. Scientists have documented ichthyosaur fossils at least as far back as the late 17th century. At that time, a scholar named Edward Lhuyd published a book on British fossils that misattributed some ichthyosaur vertebrae to actual fishes; their true nature was not recognized until the 19th century. In 1811, a boy named Joseph Anning discovered the first ichthyosaur fossils that would come to be scientifically recognized as such. His sister Mary would later find the rest of its skeleton and would go on to become a respected fossil collector and paleontologist in her own right.
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 2018.
Sachicasaurus is an extinct genus of brachauchenine pliosaurid known from the Barremian of the Paja Formation, Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Colombian Eastern Ranges of the Andes. The type species is S. vitae.
This list of fossil reptiles described in 2019 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2019, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2019.
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.
This list of fossil reptiles described in 2020 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2020, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2020.
This list of fossil reptiles described in 2021 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2021, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2021.
This list of fossil reptiles described in 2022 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2022, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2022.
This list of fossil reptiles described in 2014 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2014, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2014.
This article records new taxa of every kind of fossil archosaur that were scheduled to be described during 2023, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to the paleontology of archosaurs that were published in 2023.
This list of fossil reptiles described in 2023 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2023, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2023.
This list of fossil reptiles described in 2015 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2015, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2015.
This list of fossil reptiles described in 2016 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2016, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2016.
This article records new taxa of every kind of fossil archosaur that are scheduled to be described during 2024, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to the paleontology of archosaurs that will be published in 2024.
This list of fossil fish research presented in 2024 is a list of new fossil taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes, and other fishes that were described during the year, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleoichthyology that occurred in 2024.