2012 in paleoichthyology

A cusk-eel, a species of Ampheristus.

Anguilla pfeili

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian)

A member of Anguillidae, a species of Anguilla.

Apsopelix miyazakii{{Cite journal|author1=Yoshitaka Yabumoto |author2=Yoshinori Hikida |author3=Takanobu Nishino |year=2012 |title=Apsopelix miyazakii, a New Species of Crossognathid Fish (Teleostei) from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan |journal=Paleontological Research |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=37–46 |doi=10.2517/1342-8144-16.1.037|s2cid=129122259 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Yabumoto, Hikida & Nishino

Late Cretaceous (Turonian)

A species of Apsopelix.

Argyripnus kroisbachensis

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Thanetian)

A member of Sternoptychidae, a species of Argyripnus.

Aspidopleurus kickapoo{{cite journal |author=Jesús Alvarado-Ortega |author2=Héctor Gerardo Porras-Múzquiz |name-list-style=amp |year=2012 |title=The first American record of Aspidopleurus (Teleostei, Aulopiformes), from La Mula Quarry (Turonian), Coahuila State, Mexico |journal=Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=251–263 |doi=10.4072/rbp.2012.3.02}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Alvarado-Ortega & Porras-Múzquiz

Late Cretaceous (Turonian)

Eagle Ford Formation

An aspidopleurid aulopiform, a species of Aspidopleurus.

Aspistor verumquadriscutis{{Cite journal|author1=Orangel Aguilera |author2=Alexander P. Marceniuk |year=2012 |title=Aspistor verumquadriscutis, a new fossil species of sea catfishes (Siluriformes; Ariidae) from the upper Miocene of Venezuela |journal=Swiss Journal of Palaeontology |volume=131 |issue=2 |pages=265–274 |doi=10.1007/s13358-012-0043-x|s2cid=129352445 |doi-access=free }}

sp nov

Valid

Aguilera & Marceniuk

Late Miocene

Urumaco Formation

An ariid, a species of Aspistor.

Aulopus praeteritus

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Thanetian)

A member of Aulopidae, a species of Aulopus.

Bavariscopelus parvinavis

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian)

A member of Myctophiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement, a species of Bavariscopelus.

Bawitius{{Cite journal|author =Grandstaff, B. S|author2 =Smith, J. B.|author3 =Lamanna M. C.|author4 = Lacovara, K. J.|author5 =Abdel-Ghani M. S. |year=2012 |title=Bawitius, gen. nov., a giant polypterid (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the Upper Cretaceous Bahariya Formation of Egypt |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=17–26 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2012.626823|s2cid =140547157}}

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Grandstaff et al.

Cenomanian

Bahariya Formation

A polypterid actinopterygian, a new genus for "Polypterus" bartheli (Schaal, 1984).

Belonostomus marquesbritoi{{Cite journal|author1=Louis Taverne |author2=Luigi Capasso |year=2012 |title=Les poissons crétacés de Nardò. 35°. Compléments à l'étude des halécostomes Belonostomus (Aspidorhynchiformes) et Pseudopycnodus (Pycnodontiformes) |journal=Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona |volume=36 |pages=25–44 |url=http://www.museostorianaturaleverona.it/media/_Musei/_StoriaNaturale/_Allegati/Biblioteca/Bollettino/Bollettino%2036/Geologia%20Preistoria%2036/02._Taverne_35.pdf }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Taverne & Capasso

Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary)

A member of Aspidorhynchiformes, a species of Belonostomus.

Bruehnopteron{{Cite journal|author1=Hans-Peter Schultze |author2=John W. Reed |year=2012 |title=A tristichopterid sarcopterygian fish from the upper Middle Devonian of Nevada |journal= Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=425–440 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2012.673599 |s2cid=129828591 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Schultze & Reed

Middle Devonian

A tristichopterid sarcopterygian. The type species is Bruehnopteron murphyi. The species was argued by Parfitt et al. (2014) to be likely junior synonym of Tinirau clackae.

Caruso{{Cite journal|author1=Giorgio Carnevale |author2=Theodore W. Pietsch |year=2012 |title=†Caruso, a new genus of anglerfishes from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy, with a comparative osteology and phylogeny of the teleost family Lophiidae |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=47–72 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2011.565083|s2cid=84909483 }}

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Carnevale & Pietsch

Eocene

A lophiid anglerfish, a new genus for "Lophius" brachysomus (Agassiz).

Centroberyx apogoniformis

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

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A member of Berycidae, a species of Centroberyx.

Cyclogonostoma

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Thanetian)

A member of Gonostomatidae. The type species is Cyclogonostoma disciformis.

Danoscopelus

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Selandian to Thanetian)

A member of Myctophiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement; a new genus for "genus Myctophidarum" schnetleri Schwarzhans (2003).

Dentex? solidus

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

A member of Sparidae, possibly a species of Dentex.

Deutschenchelys{{Cite journal|author =A. M. Prokofiev |year=2012 |title=Oligocene eel from the Frauenweiler site (Germany) |journal=Journal of Ichthyology |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=11–18 |doi=10.1134/S0032945212010109 |s2cid=17707852 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Prokofiev

Early Oligocene

An eel, possibly a member of Moringuidae. The type species is Deutschenchelys micklichi.

Diandongperleidus{{Cite journal |author1=Bing-he Geng |author2=Fan Jin |author3=Fei-xiang Wu |author4=Qiang Wang |year=2012 |title=New perleidid fishes from the Middle Triassic strata of Yunnan Province |journal=Geological Bulletin of China |volume=31 |issue=6 |pages=915–927 |url=http://www.cgs.gov.cn/UploadFiles/2012_7_5/3/%E5%9C%B0%E8%B4%A8%E9%80%9A%E6%8A%A52012%E5%B9%B4%E7%AC%AC6%E6%9C%9F-%E8%80%BF%E4%B8%99%E6%B2%B3.pdf |access-date=2013-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923202136/http://www.cgs.gov.cn/UploadFiles/2012_7_5/3/%E5%9C%B0%E8%B4%A8%E9%80%9A%E6%8A%A52012%E5%B9%B4%E7%AC%AC6%E6%9C%9F-%E8%80%BF%E4%B8%99%E6%B2%B3.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-23 |url-status=dead }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Geng et al.

Middle Triassic (middle or late Anisian)

A perleidid perleidiform. The type species is Diandongperleidus denticulatus.

Diretmus serrativenter

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Thanetian)

A spinyfin related to the silver spinyfin.

Echinelops{{Cite journal|author1=Alison M. Murray |author2=Izzet Hoşgör |year=2012 |title=An early Oligocene elopiform fish from a new locality in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=296–303 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2012.648248|s2cid=86066742 }}

Gen. et sp. nov.

Valid

Murray & Hoşgör

Early Oligocene

An elopiform fish. The type species is Echinelops ozcani.

Eotetraodon tavernei{{cite journal |author=James C. Tyler |author2=Alexandre F. Bannikov |name-list-style=amp |year=2012 |title=A new species of puffer fish, Eotetraodon tavernei, from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy (Tetraodontidae, Tetraodontiformes) |journal=Studi e Ricerche Sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca, XIV - Miscellanea Paleontologica |volume=11 |pages=51–58 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266089056 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Tyler & Bannikov

Eocene (Ypresian or Lutetian)

A pufferfish, a species of Eotetraodon.

Eurolebias{{Cite journal|author =Wilson J. E. M. Costa |year=2012 |title=Oligocene killifishes (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) from southern France: relationships, taxonomic position, and evidence of internal fertilization |journal=Vertebrate Zoology |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=371–386 |url=http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/vertebratezoology/vz62-3/04_vertebrate_zoology_62-3_costa_371-386.pdf }}

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Costa

Late Oligocene

A pupfish; a new genus for "Prolebias" meridionalis Gaudant (1978).

Francolebias

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Costa

Early Oligocene

A relative of Valencia; a new genus for "Prolebias" delphinensis Gaudant (1989) and "Lebias" aymardi Sauvage (1869).

Frigosorbinia{{cite journal |author=Alexandre F. Bannikov |author2=James C. Tyler |name-list-style=amp |year=2012 |title=Redescription of the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy, surgeon fish Pesciarichthys punctatus (Perciformes, Acanthuridae), and a new genus, Frigosorbinia, for P. baldwinae |journal=Studi e Ricerche Sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca, XIV - Miscellanea Paleontologica |volume=11 |pages=19–30 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266089043 }}

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Bannikov & Tyler

Eocene

A surgeonfish; a new genus for "Pesciarichthys" baldwinae Sorbini & Tyler (1998).

Frippia{{cite journal |author1=A.F. Bannikov |author2=G. Carnevale |year=2012 |title=Frippia labroiformis n. gen. n. sp., a new perciform fish from the Eocene of Pesciara di Bolca, Italy |journal=Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=155–165 |url=http://paleoitalia.org/archives/bollettino-spi/69/vol-51-3-2012/ |access-date=2013-12-14 |archive-date=2013-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214154441/http://paleoitalia.org/archives/bollettino-spi/69/vol-51-3-2012/ |url-status=usurped }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Bannikov & Carnevale

Eocene

A member of Percoidei. The type species is Frippia labroiformis.

Fuyuanperleidus

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Geng et al.

Middle Triassic (late Ladinian)

Falang Formation

A perleidid perleidiform. The type species is Fuyuanperleidus dengi.

Galaxias angustiventris{{Cite journal|author1=Werner Schwarzhans |author2=R. Paul Scofield |author3=Alan J. D. Tennyson |author4=Jennifer P. Worthy |author5=Trevor H. Worthy |year=2012 |title=Fish remains, mostly otoliths, from the non-marine early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=319–350 |url=http://app.pan.pl/article/item/app20100127.html |doi=10.4202/app.2010.0127 |doi-access=free |hdl=2440/75818 |hdl-access=free }}

Sp nov

Valid

Schwarzhans in Schwarzhans et al.

Early Miocene

A galaxiid, a species of Galaxias.

Galaxias brevicauda

Sp nov

Valid

Schwarzhans in Schwarzhans et al.

Early Miocene

A galaxiid, a species of Galaxias.

Galaxias bobmcdowalli

Sp nov

Valid

Schwarzhans in Schwarzhans et al.

Early Miocene

A galaxiid, a species of Galaxias.

Galaxias papilionis

Sp nov

Valid

Schwarzhans in Schwarzhans et al.

Early Miocene

A galaxiid, a species of Galaxias.

Galaxias parvirostris

Sp nov

Valid

Schwarzhans in Schwarzhans et al.

Early Miocene

A galaxiid, a species of Galaxias.

Galaxias tabidus

Sp nov

Valid

Schwarzhans in Schwarzhans et al.

Early Miocene

A galaxiid, a species of Galaxias.

Gerpegezhus{{cite journal |author=Alexandre F. Bannikov |author2=Giorgio Carnevale |name-list-style=amp |year=2012 |title=A long-bodied centriscoid fish from the basal Eocene of Kabardino-Balkaria, northern Caucasus, Russia |journal=Naturwissenschaften |volume=99 |issue=5 |pages=379–389 |doi=10.1007/s00114-012-0912-6 |pmid=22528022|bibcode=2012NW.....99..379B |s2cid=13999034 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Bannikov & Carnevale

Early Eocene

A close relative of centriscids. The type species is Gerpegezhus paviai.

Gnathophis probus

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

A member of Congridae, a species of Gnathophis.

Gorgasia? turgidus

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Thanetian)

A member of Congridae, possibly a species of Gorgasia.

Haemulon? conjugator

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Selandian)

A member of Haemulidae of uncertain phylogenetic placement.

Hippotropiscis{{Cite journal|author1=Jure Žalohar |author2=Tomaž Hitij |year=2012 |title=The first known fossil record of pygmy pipehorses (Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Hippocampinae) from the Miocene Coprolitic Horizon, Tunjice Hills, Slovenia |journal=Annales de Paléontologie |volume=98 |issue=2 |pages=131–151 |doi=10.1016/j.annpal.2012.02.003}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Žalohar & Hitij

Middle Miocene

A hippocampine syngnathid. The type species is Hippotropiscis frenki.

Holocentronotus blandus

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

A member of Holocentridae, a species of Holocentronotus.

Ictalurus countermani{{Cite journal|author1=John G. Lundberg |author2=Kyle R. Luckenbill |year=2012 |title=A Late Miocene channel catfish (Siluriformes, Ictaluridae, Ictalurus) from the St. Marys Formation, Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA |journal=Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |volume=485 |pages=1–32 }}

sp nov

Valid

Lundberg & Luckenbill

Late Miocene

St. Marys Formation

A species of Ictalurus.

Illusionella{{cite journal |author=E. M. Baykina |year=2012 |title=A new clupeid genus (Pisces, Clupeiformes, Clupeidae) from the Sarmatian of the Eastern Paratethys, Krasnodar Region |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=302–312 |doi=10.1134/S0031030112030057 |s2cid=85281010 }}

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

Valid

Baykina

Miocene

A clupeid fish. Genus contains two species: Illusionella tsurevica and Illusionella pshekhensis. The genus Illusionella was subsequently synonymized with the genus Sarmatella Menner (1949) by Baykina (2013); however, Baykina kept the species I. tsurevica and I. pshekhensis as valid, distinct species within the genus Sarmatella.{{cite journal |author=E. M. Baykina |year=2013 |title=A revision of Clupea doljeana Kramberger and Sarmatella vukotinovici (Kramberger) (Pisces, Clupeidae) from the Sarmatian of Croatia |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=47 |issue=5 |pages=523–532 |doi=10.1134/S0031030113050043 |s2cid=83659668 }}

Isozen mareikeae

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Thanetian)

A member of Zeiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement, related to the family Parazenidae; a species of Isozen.

Isurichthys breviusculus{{cite journal |author=A. F. Bannikov |year=2012 |title=The first record of the genus Isurichthys (Perciformes, Ariommatidae) in the Lower Oligocene of the Northern Caucasus |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=171–176 |doi=10.1134/S0031030112020025 |s2cid=84512853 }}

Sp nov

Valid

Bannikov

Lower Oligocene

An ariommatid, a species of Isurichthys.

Kressenbergichthys

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

A member of Berycidae. The type species is Kressenbergichthys kuhni.

Kyphosichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Xu, G. -H. |author2=F.- X., Wu. |year=2012 |title=A deep-bodied ginglymodian fish from the Middle Triassic of eastern Yunnan Province, China, and the phylogeny of lower neopterygians |journal=Chinese Science Bulletin |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=111–118 |doi=10.1007/s11434-011-4719-1|bibcode=2012ChSBu..57..111X |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Xu & Wu

Middle Anisian

A ginglymodian actinopterygian.

Lactarius? simplex

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

A relative of the false trevally.

Lebonichthys nardoensis{{Cite journal|author1=Louis Taverne |author2=Luigi Capasso |year=2012 |title=Les poissons crétacés de Nardò. 34°. Nardoelops nybelini gen. et sp. nov. et Lebonichthys nardoensis sp. nov. (Teleostei, Elopomorpha) |journal=Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona |volume=36 |pages=3–24 |url=http://www.museostorianaturaleverona.it/media/_Musei/_StoriaNaturale/_Allegati/Biblioteca/Bollettino/Bollettino%2036/Geologia%20Preistoria%2036/01._Taverne_34.pdf }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Taverne & Capasso

Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary)

A bonefish, a species of Lebonichthys.

Luopingperleidus

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Geng et al.

Middle Triassic (middle or late Anisian)

A perleidid perleidiform. The type species is Luopingperleidus sui.

Luoxiongichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Wen Wen |author2=Qi-Yue Zhang |author3=Chang-Yong Zhou |author4=Jin-Yuan Huang |author5=Zhong Qiang Chen |author6=Michael J. Benton |year=2012 |title=A new genus of basal actinopterygian fish from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Luoping, Yunnan Province, Southwest China |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=149–160 |doi=10.4202/app.2010.0089 |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Wen et al.

Middle Anisian

A basal actinopterygian.

Macrosemimimus{{Cite journal|author1=Kerstin M. Schröder |author2=Adriana López-Arbarello |author3=Martin Ebert |year=2012 |title=Macrosemimimus, gen. nov. (Actinopterygii, Semionotiformes), from the Late Jurassic of Germany, England, and France |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=512–529 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2012.649626|s2cid=83811606 }}

Gen. et sp. et comb. nov

Valid

Schröder, López-Arbarello & Ebert

Late Jurassic

A semionotiform. The type species is Macrosemimimus fegerti; "Lepidotes" lennieri (Sauvage, 1893) is a second species of Macrosemimimus.

Mataichthys

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans, Scofield, Tennyson & T. Worthy in Schwarzhans et al.

Early Miocene

An eleotrid. Contains M. bictenatus, M. procerus, M. rhinoceros, and M. taurinus

Melamphaes? protoforma

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Thanetian)

A ridgehead of uncertain phylogenetic placement.

Mercediella{{Cite journal|author=Stefan Koerber |year=2012 |title=Mercediella nom. nov., a replacement name for Camposichthys Figueiredo & Silva Santos, 1991 (Pisces: Pycnodontiformes) |journal=Bonn Zoological Bulletin |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=29–30 |url=http://zoologicalbulletin.de/BzB_Volumes/Volume_61_1/029_030_BzB61_1_Koerber_S.pdf }}

Nom. nov

Valid

Koerber

Early Cretaceous

Riachuelo Formation

A member of Pycnodontiformes; a replacement name for Camposichthys Figueiredo & Silva Santos (1991).

Nanaichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Cesar R. L. Amaral |author2=Paulo M. Brito |year=2012 |title=A New Chanidae (Ostariophysii: Gonorynchiformes) from the Cretaceous of Brazil with Affinities to Laurasian Gonorynchiforms from Spain |journal=PLoS ONE |volume=7 |issue=5 |pages=e37247 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0037247 |pmid=22629376 |pmc=3357423|bibcode=2012PLoSO...737247A |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Amaral & Brito

Early Cretaceous, possibly Aptian

Marizal Formation

A member of Chanidae. The type species is Nanaichthys longipinnus.

Nardoelops

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Taverne & Capasso

Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary)

A member of Elopidae. The type species is Nardoelops nybelini.

Nettastoma davejohnsoni

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Selandian to Thanetian)

A member of Nettastomatidae, a species of Nettastoma.

Ogcocephalus? semen

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Thanetian)

A member of Ogcocephalidae, possibly a species of Ogcocephalus.

Pachyrhizodus grawi{{Cite journal|author=Alan Bartholomai |year=2012 |title=The pachyrhizodontid teleosts from the marine Lower Cretaceous (latest mid to late Albian) sediments of the Eromanga Basin, Queensland, Australia |journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=119–148 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Bartholomai

Early Cretaceous (Albian)

Allaru Formation

Toolebuc Formation

Palaeogadus? bratishkoi

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and Paleocene (Danian and Thanetian)

Kemp Clay

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Originally described as a member of Merlucciidae and a possible species of Palaeogadus. Subsequently reinterpreted as a stem gadiform of uncertain familial affinities and transferred to the genus Archaemacruroides by Schwarzhans & Stringer (2020).{{Cite journal|author1=Werner Schwarzhans |author2=Gary L. Stringer |year=2020 |title=Fish otoliths from the late Maastrichtian Kemp Clay (Texas, USA) and the early Danian Clayton Formation (Arkansas, USA) and an assessment of extinction and survival of teleost lineages across the K-Pg boundary based on otoliths |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |volume=126 |issue=2 |pages=395–446 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/13425 }}

Palatinichthys{{cite journal |author=Florian Witzmann |author2=Rainer R. Schoch |year=2012 |title=A megalichthyid sarcopterygian fish from the Lower Permian (Autunian) of the Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany |journal=Geobios |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=241–248 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2011.03.002}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Witzmann & Schoch

Lower Permian

Saar–Nahe Basin

A megalichthyid sarcopterygian. The type species is Palatinichthys laticeps.

Paleotetra{{Cite journal|author1=Fernanda E. Weiss |author2=Luiz R. Malabarba |author3=Maria Claudia Malabarba |year=2012 |title=Phylogenetic relationships of Paleotetra, a new characiform fish (Ostariophysi) with two new species from the Eocene-Oligocene of south-eastern Brazil |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=73–86 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2011.565082|s2cid=84218377 }}

Gen. et 2 sp.

Valid

Weiss, L. R. Malabarba & M. C. Malabarba

Eocene to Oligocene

A characiform, probably a characid. The genus contains two species: Paleotetra entrecorregos and Paleotetra aiuruoca.

Paraconger vetustus

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian)

A member of Congridae, a species of Paraconger.

Paraulopus novellus

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian, possibly Thanetian)

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A species of Paraulopus.

Paranaichthys{{Cite journal|author =Eliseu Vieira Dias |year=2012 |title=A new deep-bodied fossil fish (Actinopterygii) from the Rio do Rasto Formation, Paraná Basin, Brazil |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3192 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3192.1.1 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/z03192p023f.pdf}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Dias

Permian, Guadalupian (Wordian or Capitanian)

Rio do Rasto Formation

A probable relative of Platysomus and other platysomids. The type species is Paranaichthys longianalis.

Parawenzichthys{{Cite journal|author1=F.J. de Figueiredo |author2=V. Gallo |author3=A.F.P. Delarmelina |year=2012 |title=A new protacanthopterygian fish from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of the Pelotas Basin, southern Brazil |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=34 |pages=116–123 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2011.10.009 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

de Figueiredo, Gallo & Delarmelina

Turonian

Atlântida Formation

A protacanthopterygian.

Platysepta kressenbergensis

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

A member of Sparidae, a species of Platysepta.

Plesiopoma elegantissima

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian)

A member of Acropomatidae, a species of Plesiopoma.

Plesiopoma traubi

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

A member of Acropomatidae, a species of Plesiopoma.

Polymixia polita

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

A beardfish.

Polyperca exserta

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian)

A member of Serranidae, a species of Polyperca.

Prognathoglossum{{Cite journal|author1=Louis Taverne |author2=Luigi Capasso |year=2012 |title=Osteology and relationships of Prognathoglossum kalassyi gen. and sp. nov. (Teleostei, Osteoglossiformes, Pantodontidae) from the marine Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of En Nammoura (Lebanon) |journal=Cybium |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=563–574 |doi=10.26028/cybium/2012-364-009 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Taverne & Capasso

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)

A member of the family Pantodontidae. The type species is P. kalassyi.

Progonostoma

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Thanetian)

A member of Gonostomatidae. The type species is Progonostoma primordialis; genus also contains Progonostoma hagni.

Prototroctes modestus

Sp nov

Valid

Schwarzhans in Schwarzhans et al.

Early Miocene

A retropinnid, a species of Prototroctes.

Prototroctes vertex

Sp nov

Valid

Schwarzhans in Schwarzhans et al.

Early Miocene

Sulphur Mountain Formation

A retropinnid, a species of Prototroctes.

Rebellatrix{{Cite journal|author1=Andrew J. Wendruff |author2=Mark V. H. Wilson |year=2012 |title=A fork-tailed coelacanth, Rebellatrix divaricerca, gen. et sp. nov. (Actinistia, Rebellatricidae, fam. nov.), from the Lower Triassic of Western Canada |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=499–511 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2012.657317|s2cid=85826893 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Wendruff & Wilson

Lower Triassic

A coelacanth. The type species is Rebellatrix divaricerca.

Reidus{{Cite journal|author =John Graf |year=2012 |title=A new Early Cretaceous coelacanth from Texas |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=441–452 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2012.696636 |s2cid=140726624 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Graf

Albian

A coelacanth. The type species is Reidus hilli.

Rhinodipterus kimberleyensis{{Cite journal|author =Alice M. Clement |year=2012 |title=A new species of long-snouted lungfish from the Late Devonian of Australia, and its functional and biogeographical implications |journal=Palaeontology |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=51–71 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01118.x|doi-access=free }}

Sp nov

Valid

Clement

Late Devonian

Gogo Formation

A lungfish, a species of Rhinodipterus.

Rhynchoconger intercedens

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

A member of Congridae, a species of Rhynchoconger.

Sangiorgioichthys valmarensis{{cite journal |author1=C. Lombardo |author2=A. Tintori |author3=D. Tona |year=2012 |title=A new species of Sangiorgioichthys (Actinopterygii, Semionotiformes) from the Kalkschieferzone of Monte San Giorgio (Middle Triassic; Meride, Canton Ticino, Switzerland) |journal=Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=203–212 |url=http://paleoitalia.org/archives/bollettino-spi/69/vol-51-3-2012/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214154441/http://paleoitalia.org/archives/bollettino-spi/69/vol-51-3-2012/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=December 14, 2013 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Lombardo, Tintori & Tona

Middle Triassic (late Ladinian)

A semionotid semionotiform, a species of Sangiorgioichthys.

Schaefferius{{Cite journal |author1=Aydın Akbulut |author2=Hüseyin Özdikmen |year=2012 |title=To the memory of Dr. Bobb Schaeffer, Schaefferius nom. nov., a new name for the preoccupied genus Marquesia Schaeffer, 1990 (Osteichtyes: Actinopterygii: Palaeonisciformes) |journal=Munis Entomology & Zoology |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=1272–1273 |url=https://www.munisentzool.org/Issue/abstract/to-the-memory-of-dr-bobb-schaeffer-schaefferius-nom-nov-a-new-name-for-the-preoccupied-genus-marquesia-schaeffer-1990-osteichtyes-actinopterygii-palaeonisciformes_626 }}

Nom. nov

Valid

Akbulut & Özdikmen

Early Triassic

A member of Palaeonisciformes belonging to the family Canobiidae; a replacement name for Marquesia Schaeffer (1990).

Sinamia liaoningensis{{Cite journal|author =Jiang-Yong Zhang |year=2012 |title=A new species of Sinamia from western Liaoning, China |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=322–334 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201211/P020121102499043969778.pdf |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2012.04.002 }}

sp nov

Valid

Zhang

Early Cretaceous (Barremian to Aptian)

Jiufotang Formation

Yixian Formation

A sinamiid amiiform, a species of Sinamia.

Squamibolcoides{{cite journal |author=Alexandre F. Bannikov |author2=Roberto Zorzin |name-list-style=amp |year=2012 |title=A new genus and species of deep-bodies squamipinne-like percoid fish (Perciformes) frrom (SIC) the Eocene of Bolca in {{sic|Norhtern|nolink=y}} Italy |journal=Studi e Ricerche Sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca, XIV - Miscellanea Paleontologica |volume=11 |pages=31–42 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245023251 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Bannikov & Zorzin

Eocene

A member of Percoidei of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Squamibolcoides minciottii.

Thoracopterus wushaensis{{Cite journal |author1=Andrea Tintori |author2=Zuo-Yu Sun |author3=Cristina Lombardo |author4=Da-Yong Jiang |author5=Cheng Ji |author6=Ryosuke Motani |year=2012 |title=A new "flying" fish from the upper Ladinian (Middle Triassic) of Wusha (Guizhou Province, southern China) |journal=Gortania. Geologia, Paleontologia, Paletnologia |volume=33 |pages=39–50 |url=http://www.udinecultura.it/opencms/opencms/release/ComuneUdine/cittavicina/cultura/it/musei/storianaturale/pubblicazioni/Gortania/G33/volume_33_sc_terra_Tintori_Sun_Lombardo_Jiang_Ji_Motani_bassa.pdf |access-date=2013-12-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219031449/http://www.udinecultura.it/opencms/opencms/release/ComuneUdine/cittavicina/cultura/it/musei/storianaturale/pubblicazioni/Gortania/G33/volume_33_sc_terra_Tintori_Sun_Lombardo_Jiang_Ji_Motani_bassa.pdf |archive-date=2013-12-19 |url-status=dead }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Tintori et al.

Middle Triassic (late Ladinian)

Falang Formation

A thoracopterid peltopleuriform, a species of Thoracopterus. The species might be synonymous with the species Potanichthys xingyiensis Xu et al. (2013).{{Cite journal|author1=Zuo-Yu Sun |author2=Cristina Lombardo |author3=Andrea Tintori |author4=Da-Yong Jiang |year=2015 |title=A new species of Altisolepis (Peltopleuriformes, Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Southern China |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=e909819 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2014.909819 |s2cid=83593398 }}

Tinirau{{Cite journal|author =Brian Swartz |year=2012 |title=A Marine Stem-Tetrapod from the Devonian of Western North America |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=e33683 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0033683 |pmid=22448265 |pmc=3308997|bibcode=2012PLoSO...733683S |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Swartz

Middle Devonian

Red Hill I beds

An eotetrapodiform tetrapodomorph related to the clade Elpistostegalia or a tristichopterid.{{Cite journal|author1=Matthew Parfitt |author2=Zerina Johanson |author3=Sam Giles |author-link3=Sam Giles|author4=Matt Friedman |year=2014 |title=A large, anatomically primitive tristichopterid (Sarcopterygii: Tetrapodomorpha) from the Late Devonian (Frasnian) Alves Beds, Upper Old Red Sandstone, Moray, Scotland |journal=Scottish Journal of Geology |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=79–85 |doi=10.1144/sjg2013-013 |s2cid=129313060 }} The type species is Tinirau clackae.

Tomognathus gigeri{{Cite journal|author1=Lionel Cavin |author2=Stephen Giner |year=2012 |title=A large halecomorph fish (Actinopterygii: Holostei) from the Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) of southeast France |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=37 |pages=201–208 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2012.03.020}}

sp nov

Valid

Cavin & Giner

Valanginian

A halecomorph fish, a species of Tomognathus.

Trachichthys anomalopsoides

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

A slimehead, a species of Trachichthys.

Trachichthys impavidus

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Danian to Thanetian)

A slimehead, a species of Trachichthys.

Tungsenia{{Cite journal|author1=Jing Lu |author2=Min Zhu |author3=John A. Long |author4=Wenjin Zhao |author5=Tim J. Senden |author6=Liantao Jia |author7=Tuo Qiao |year=2012 |title=The earliest known stem-tetrapod from the Lower Devonian of China |journal=Nature Communications |volume=3 |pages= 1160|doi=10.1038/ncomms2170 |pmid=23093197|bibcode=2012NatCo...3.1160L |doi-access=free |hdl=1885/69314 |hdl-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Lu et al.

Early Devonian

A basal member of Tetrapodomorpha. The type species is Tungsenia paradoxa.

Valenciennellus kennetti

Sp. nov

Valid

Schwarzhans

Paleocene (Thanetian)