2015 in paleontology

{{Short description|none}}

{{Year nav topic20|2017|paleontology|paleobotany|arthropod paleontology|paleoentomology|paleomalacology|paleoichthyology|reptile paleontology|archosaur paleontology|mammal paleontology}}

{{Year in paleontology header}}

{{commons category}}

Plants

{{Main|2015 in paleobotany}}

Cnidarians

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Acropora darrellae{{Cite journal|author1=Nadiezhda Santodomingo |author2=Carden C. Wallace |author3=Kenneth G. Johnson |year=2015 |title=Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral genera Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=175 |issue=4 |pages=677–763 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12295 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Santodomingo, Wallace & Johnson

|

Miocene

|

|

{{Flag|Indonesia}}

|

A staghorn coral, a species of Acropora.

|

Acropora elenae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Santodomingo, Wallace & Johnson

|

Miocene

|

|

{{Flag|Indonesia}}

|

A staghorn coral, a species of Acropora.

|

Acropora emanuelae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Santodomingo, Wallace & Johnson

|

Miocene

|

|

{{Flag|Indonesia}}

|

A staghorn coral, a species of Acropora.

|

Acropora hasibuani

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Santodomingo, Wallace & Johnson

|

Miocene

|

|

{{Flag|Indonesia}}

|

A staghorn coral, a species of Acropora.

|

Acropora laurae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Santodomingo, Wallace & Johnson

|

Late Oligocene

|

|

{{Flag|Malaysia}}

|

A staghorn coral, a species of Acropora.

|

Acropora renemai

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Santodomingo, Wallace & Johnson

|

Miocene

|

|

{{Flag|Indonesia}}

|

A staghorn coral, a species of Acropora.

|

Actinaraea michoacanensis{{Cite journal|author1=Harry F. Filkorn |author2=Jerjes Pantoja-Alor |year=2015 |title=Mexican Cretaceous coral species (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia) described as new by Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor (2009), but deemed 'unpublished' under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature: republication of data necessary for nomenclatural availability |journal=Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=93–101 |url=http://iczn.org/sites/iczn.org/files/19%20-%20Filkorn_Pantoja-Alor_2015_Mexican%20Cretaceous%20coral%20species.pdf |doi=10.21805/bzn.v72i1.a5 |s2cid=87954034 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (early Aptian)

|

Cumburindio Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Actinacididae, a species of Actinaraea.

|

Actinastrea chumbitaroensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

Mal Paso Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Actinastraeidae, a species of Actinastrea.

|

Australastraea{{Cite journal|author1=Julien Denayer |author2=Gregory E. Webb |year=2015 |title=Cionodendron and related lithostrotionid genera from the Mississippian of eastern Australia: systematics, stratigraphy and evolution |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=315–376 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2015.1001218 |bibcode=2015Alch...39..315D |s2cid=84711514 }}

|

Gen. et comb. et 2 sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Denayer & Webb

|

Carboniferous (Mississippian)

|

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Lithostrotionidae. A new genus for "Lithostrotion" columnare Etheridge (1900); genus also contains "Orionastraea" columellaris Pickett (1966), "Lithostrotion" parvicolumnare Pickett (1966), "Lithostrotion" wilkinsoni Pickett (1966) and "Orionastraea" flemingi Webb (1990), as well as new species Australastraea arcifera and Australastraea carinata.

|

Axisvacuus tenerus{{Cite journal|author =Jerzy Fedorowski |year=2015 |title=Serpukhovian (Early Carboniferous) Rugosa (Anthozoa) from the Lublin Basin, eastern Poland |journal=Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae |volume=85 |pages=221–270 |url=http://www.asgp.pl/85_1_221_270 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Fedorowski

|

Carboniferous (early Serpukhovian)

|

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Antiphyllidae, a species of Axisvacuus.

|

Birkenmajerites

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Fedorowski

|

Carboniferous (early Serpukhovian)

|

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Ostravaiaidae. The type species is Birkenmajerites primus.

|

Cairnsipsammia{{Cite journal|author =Rosemarie C. Baron-Szabo |year=2015 |title=A new dendrophylliid coral genus Cairnsipsammia from the Lower Cretaceous of western Austria (Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Vorarlberg; Schrattenkalk Formation [upper Barremian-lower Aptian]) |journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |volume=128 |issue=4 |pages=216–226 |doi=10.2988/0006-324X-128.4.216 |s2cid=85709658 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Baron-Szabo

|

Early Cretaceous (late Barremian–early Aptian)

|

Schrattenkalk Formation

|

{{Flag|Austria}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Dendrophylliidae. The type species is C. merbeleri.

|

Chekhovichia{{Cite journal|author =Alexander B. Doweld |year=2015 |title=Chekhovichia, a new generic replacement name for Rotalites Leleshus 1970 (Anthozoa: Heliolitoidea) non Lamarck 1801 (Protista: Foraminifera) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4034 |issue=2 |pages=399–400 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4034.2.11 |pmid=26624450 }}

|

Nom. nov

|

Valid

|

Doweld

|

Late Silurian

|

|

{{Flag|Kyrgyzstan}}

{{Flag|Russia}}

{{Flag|Uzbekistan}}

|

An anthozoan belonging to the group Heliolitoidea and the family Innaporidae; a replacement name for Rotalites Leleshus (1970).

|

Chelmia

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Fedorowski

|

Carboniferous (early Serpukhovian)

|

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida. The type species is Chelmia radiata.

|

Cionodendron smithi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Denayer & Webb

|

Carboniferous (early Viséan)

|

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Lithostrotionidae; a species of Cionodendron.

|

Craspedophyllia japonica{{Cite journal|author1=George D. Stanley Jr. |author2=Tetsuji Onoue |year=2015 |title=Upper Triassic reef corals from the Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Kyushu, Japan |journal=Facies |volume=61 |issue=2 |pages=Article 1 |doi=10.1007/s10347-014-0425-1 |bibcode=2015Faci...61....1S |s2cid=129889380 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Stanley & Onoue

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Reimaniphylliidae, a species of Craspedophyllia.

|

Crassialveolites niigataensis{{Cite journal|author1=Shuji Niko |author2=Yousuke Ibaraki |author3=Jun-ichi Tazawa |year=2015 |title=Devonian tabulate corals from pebbles in Mesozoic conglomerate, Kotaki, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan Part 2: Alveolitina |journal=Science Reports of Niigata University. (Geology) |volume=30 |pages=15–25 |hdl=10191/32232 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Niko, Ibaraki & Tazawa

|

Devonian

|

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A tabulate coral belonging to the family Alveolitidae.

|

Crateroseris stefani{{Cite journal|author =Helena Eliášová |year=2015 |title=Genres nouveaux et peu connus de coraux Scléractiniaires des calcaires de Štramberk (Jurassique supérieur de République tchèque) |journal=Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=59–76 |url=http://institutions.ville-geneve.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/mhn/documents/Museum/Revue_de_Paleo/59_76_Eliasova.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Eliášová

|

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

|

Štramberk Limestone

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Synastraeidae, a species of Crateroseris.

|

Cryptosepta{{Cite journal|author1=Mélanie Gretz |author2=Bernard Lathuilière |author3=Rossana Martini |year=2015 |title=A new coral with simplified morphology from the oldest known Hettangian (Early Jurassic) reef in southern France |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=277–286 |doi=10.4202/app.00012.2013 |doi-access=free |url=https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:72649/ATTACHMENT01 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Gretz, Lathuilière & Martini

|

Early Jurassic (Hettangian)

|

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A zardinophyllid coral. The type species is Cryptosepta nuda.

|

Dendrophyllia okamotoi{{Cite journal|author1=Shuji Niko |author2=Shigeyuki Suzuki |author3=Eiji Taguchi |year=2015 |title=Dendrophyllia okamotoi, a new Miocene species of scleractinian coral from the Katsuta Group in the Tsuyama area, Okayama Prefecture, Southwest Japan |journal=Bulletin of the Akiyoshi-dai Museum of Natural History |volume=50 |pages=5–9 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Niko, Suzuki & Taguchi

|

Miocene

|

Katsuta Group

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A species of Dendrophyllia.

|

Echinophyllia sassellensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Budd & Bosellini

|

Oligocene

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

|

Eocolumastrea{{Cite journal|author1=Hannes Löser |author2=Patrick Zell |year=2015 |title=Revision of the Cretaceous coral family Columastraeidae (Scleractinia) |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=277 |issue=2 |pages=153–166 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2015/0510 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Löser & Zell

|

Cretaceous

|

|

{{Flag|Romania}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the group Faviina and the family Columastraeidae. A new genus for "Columnocoenia" ksiazkiewiczi bucovinensis Morycowa (1971) (raised to the rank of a separate species Eocolumastrea bucovinensis)

|

Eokoninckocarinia gemmina{{Cite journal|author=Julien Denayer |year=2015 |title=Rugose corals at the Tournaisian–Viséan transition in the Central Taurides (S Turkey) – Palaeobiogeography and palaeoceanography of the Asian Gondwana margin |journal=Journal of Asian Earth Sciences |volume=98 |pages=371–398 |doi=10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.11.008 |bibcode=2015JAESc..98..371D }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Denayer

|

Carboniferous (Mississippian)

|

Yaricak Formation

|

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida, possibly a member of the family Koninckocariniidae.

|

Goniophyllum osloense{{Cite journal|author =Anthony J. Wright |year=2015 |title=A new species of the early Silurian operculate coral Goniophyllum from Norway |journal=GFF |volume=137 |issue=3 |pages=195–196 |doi=10.1080/11035897.2015.1006138 |bibcode=2015GFF...137..195W |s2cid=129370479 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Johannessen in Wright

|

Silurian (late Telychian)

|

Vik Formation

|

{{Flag|Norway}}

|

An operculate coral, a species of Goniophyllum.

|

Guembelastraea kanmerae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Stanley & Onoue

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Guembelastraeidae, a species of Guembelastraea.

|

Halucinophyllia

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Eliášová

|

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

|

Štramberk Limestone

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Latomeandridae. The type species is Halucinophyllia subridens.

|

Heteropistophyllum carchensis{{Cite journal|author1=Hannes Löser |author2=Consuelo Arias |author3=Lorenzo Vilas |year=2015 |title=Aptian-Albian coral faunas from the Sierra de Carche (Prebetic, Murcia, southern Spain) |journal=Spanish Journal of Palaeontology |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=43–64 |url=http://www.sepaleontologia.es/revista/anteriores/REP%20%282015%29%20vol.%2030/04%20Loser%20et%20al%20bn%20web-.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Löser, Arias & Vilas

|

Early Cretaceous (Aptian and Albian)

|

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Elasmocoeniidae, a species of Heteropistophyllum.

|

Isopora matahari

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Santodomingo, Wallace & Johnson

|

Miocene

|

|

{{Flag|Indonesia}}

|

A staghorn coral, a species of Isopora.

|

Latiphyllia mexicana

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

Mal Paso Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Montlivaltiidae, a species of Latiphyllia.

|

Leleshusia{{Cite journal|author =Alexander B. Doweld |year=2015 |title=Leleshusia, a new replacement name for Granulina Leleshus, 1975 (Anthozoa: Heliolitoidea) nec Jousseaume, 1888 (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Marginellidae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3986 |issue=5 |pages=588–590 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3986.5.6 |pmid=26250211 }}

|

Nom. nov

|

Valid

|

Doweld

|

Late Ordovician

|

|

{{Flag|China}}

{{Flag|Kazakhstan}}

{{Flag|Russia}}

{{Flag|Tajikistan}}

{{Flag|Uzbekistan}}

|

An anthozoan belonging to the group Heliolitoidea; a replacement name for Granulina Leleshus (1975).

|

Margarosmilia mizukamia

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Stanley & Onoue

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Margarophylliidae, a species of Margarosmilia.

|

Mycetophyllopsis azteca

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

Mal Paso Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Montlivaltiidae, a species of Mycetophyllopsis.

|

Munusculum

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Eliášová

|

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

|

Štramberk Limestone

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the suborder Microsolenina. The type species is Munusculum martinaseki.

|

Nervophyllum lukoviensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Fedorowski

|

Carboniferous (early Serpukhovian)

|

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Aulophyllidae, a species of Nervophyllum.

|

Nudacolumastrea

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Löser & Zell

|

Cretaceous

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the group Faviina and the family Columastraeidae. The type species is Nudacolumastrea stefani.

|

Occulogermen

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Fedorowski

|

Carboniferous (early Serpukhovian)

|

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Lithostrotionidae. The type species is Occulogermen luciae.

|

Orbignygyra? incognita

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

Mal Paso Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Dendrogyridae, possibly a species of Orbignygyra.

|

Ovalastrea malpaso

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

Mal Paso Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Latomeandridae, a species of Ovalastrea.

|

Paraclausastrea vorarlbergensis{{Cite journal|author =Rosemarie C. Baron-Szabo |year=2015 |title=Paraclausastrea vorarlbergensis sp. nov.; a new coral from the Lower Cretaceous of western Austria (Scleractinia; upper Barremian-lower Aptian; Schrattenkalk Fm.; Vorarlberg) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4032 |issue=3 |pages=327–332 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4032.3.9 |pmid=26624368 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Baron-Szabo

|

Early Cretaceous (late Barremian-early Aptian)

|

Schrattenkalk Formation

|

{{Flag|Austria}}

|

A montlivaltiid stony coral, a species of Paraclausastrea.

|

Paracycloseris effrenatus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

Mal Paso Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Cunnolitidae, a species of Paracycloseris.

|

Paraleptoria{{cite journal | last1=Budd | first1=Ann F. | last2=Bosellini | first2=Francesca R. | title=Revision of Oligocene Mediterranean meandroid corals in the scleractinian families Mussidae, Merulinidae and Lobophylliidae | journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology | volume=14 | issue=9 | date=2016-09-01 | issn=1477-2019 | doi=10.1080/14772019.2015.1102171 | pages=771–798 |s2cid=87033166 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/1613772 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid{{Cite web|url=https://zoobank.org/References/A5731291-9792-464D-87CF-E1DED0C9057E|title=ZooBank.org|website=zoobank.org}}

|

Budd & Bosellini

|

Eocene (Lutetian) to Oligocene (Rupelian)

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A new genus for "Meandrina" polygonalis Catullo (1856); genus also includes "Diploria" flexuosissima d'Achiardi (1868).

|

Parascolymia bracherti{{Cite journal|author1=Markus Reuter |author2=Thomas Wiedl |author3=Werner E. Piller |year=2015 |title=Parascolymia (Scleractinia: Lobophylliidae) in the Central Paratethys Sea (Vienna Basin, Austria) and its possible biogeographic implications |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=10 |issue=7 |pages=e0132243 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0132243 |pmid=26201071 |pmc=4511765|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1032243R |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Reuter in Reuter, Wiedl & Piller

|

Miocene (Langhian‒early Serravallian)

|

Leitha Limestone

|

{{Flag|Austria}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Lobophylliidae, a species of Parascolymia.

|

Pickettodendron

|

Gen. et comb. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Denayer & Webb

|

Carboniferous (Tournaisian)

|

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Lithostrotionidae. A new genus for "Lithostrotion" williamsi Pickett (1966); genus also contains "Schoenophyllum" dalmaensis Webb (1990), as well as new species Pickettodendron nudum.

|

Preverastraea coatlicueae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

Mal Paso Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Rhipidogyridae, a species of Preverastraea.

|

Preverastraea tociae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

Mal Paso Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Rhipidogyridae, a species of Preverastraea.

|

Pseudoroemeripora sugimurai{{Cite journal|author1=Shuji Niko |author2=Masayuki Fujikawa |author3=Takehiko Haikawa |year=2015 |title=Pseudoroemeripora sugimurai, a new Permian species of auloporid tabulate coral from the Akiyoshi Limestone Group, Yamaguchi Prefecture |journal=Bulletin of the Akiyoshi-dai Museum of Natural History |volume=50 |pages=1–4 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Niko, Fujikawa & Haikawa

|

Permian

|

Akiyoshi Limestone Group

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A tabulate coral.

|

Retiophyllia tosaensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Stanley & Onoue

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Reimaniphylliidae, a species of Retiophyllia.

|

Rotiphyllum plumeum

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Fedorowski

|

Carboniferous (early Serpukhovian)

|

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Antiphyllidae, a species of Rotiphyllum.

|

Sakalavastraea perturbata{{Cite journal |author1=Hannes Lösser |author2=Jan Sklenář |year=2015 |title=The scleractinian coral genus Glenarea (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin) |journal=Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B, Historia Naturalis |volume=71 |issue=3–4 |pages=365–376 |url=http://actab.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/sbB_c3_4_loser_sklenar_web.pdf |doi=10.14446/AMNP.2015.365 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |access-date=2016-07-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160718022220/http://actab.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/sbB_c3_4_loser_sklenar_web.pdf |archive-date=2016-07-18 |url-status=dead }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lösser & Sklenář

|

Late Cretaceous (late Cenomanian)

|

Peruc-Korycany Formation

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the group Faviina.

|

Saltocyathus cumburindioensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (early Aptian)

|

Cumburindio Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral. Originally assigned to the family Rhipidogyridae and to the genus Saltocyathus, but subsequently transferred to the family Rayasmiliidae and to the genus Rayasmilia.{{Cite journal |author=Hannes Löser |title=A new coral family and three new genera from the Lower Cretaceous of Puebla and Sonora (Scleractinia; Mexico) |year=2022 |journal=Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=220–229 |doi=10.22201/cgeo.20072902e.2022.3.1698 |s2cid=254387480 |url=http://rmcg.geociencias.unam.mx/index.php/rmcg/article/view/1698 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sclerangia{{Cite journal|author1=Rosemarie Christine Baron-Szabo |author2=Stephen Douglas Cairns |year=2015 |title=A new rhizangiid genus from the Miocene of North America (Sclerangia n. gen.; Florida, USA) |journal=Paleontological Contributions |volume=13 |pages=1–3 |hdl=1808/17552 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Baron-Szabo & Cairns

|

Miocene

|

Chipola Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A rhizangiid stony coral. The type species is Sclerangia floridana.

|

?Sochkineophyllum symmetricum

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Fedorowski

|

Carboniferous (early Serpukhovian)

|

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Polycoeliidae, possibly a species of Sochkineophyllum.

|

Sylviella

|

Gen. et comb. et 4 sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Eliášová

|

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

|

Štramberk Limestone

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the suborder Caryophylliina. The type species is "Haplaraea" columnaris Ogilvie (1897); genus also contains new species Sylviella exquisita, Sylviella multisepta, Sylviella noveni and Sylviella benjamin.

|

Sylviellopsis

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Eliášová

|

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

|

Štramberk Limestone

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the suborder Caryophylliina. The type species is Sylviellopsis erici.

|

Tegocoenia

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Eliášová

|

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

|

Štramberk Limestone

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Placophylliidae. The type species is "Diplocoenia" jasenica Frajová (1960).

|

Thalamocaeniopsis mexicanensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

Mal Paso Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Thamnasteriidae, a species of Thalamocaeniopsis.

|

Thamnarea hornosensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (early Aptian)

|

Cumburindio Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Actinacididae, a species of Thamnarea.

|

Thamnasteria tonantzinae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

Mal Paso Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Thamnasteriidae, a species of Thamnasteria.

|

Thamnasteriamorpha okudai

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Stanley & Onoue

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Tropiastraeidae, a species of Thamnasteriamorpha.

|

Thecosmilia guerreroensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Filkorn & Pantoja-Alor

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

Mal Paso Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A stony coral belonging to the family Montlivaltiidae, a species of Thecosmilia.

|

Variabilifavia ausuganensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Budd & Bosellini

|

Oligocene (late Rupelian–early Chattian)

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

|

Yakunopora mabutii{{Cite journal|author=Shuji Niko |year=2015 |title=Yakunopora mabutii, a New Species of Tabulate Coral from the Permian Iwaizaki Limestone, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan |journal=Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series C |volume=41 |pages=25–28 |url=https://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/publication/geology/download/41/L_BNMNS_C41_25-28.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Niko

|

Permian (Wordian)

|

Iwaizaki Limestone

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A tabulate coral belonging to the group Favositida and the family Pachyporidae.

|

Zaphrentites rotiphylloides

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Fedorowski

|

Carboniferous (early Serpukhovian)

|

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Stereophrentidae, a species of Zaphrentites.

|

Zaphriphyllum daleki{{Cite journal|author =Julien Denayer |year=2015 |title=Taxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography of the late Tournaisian rugose corals of north-western Turkey |journal=Paläontologische Zeitschrift |volume=89 |issue=3 |pages=313–333 |doi=10.1007/s12542-014-0245-1 |bibcode=2015PalZ...89..313D |s2cid=129718645 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Denayer

|

Carboniferous (late Tournaisian)

|

Yılanlı Formation

|

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the family Ekvasophyllidae, a species of Zaphriphyllum.

|

Zaphrufimia anceps

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Fedorowski

|

Carboniferous (early Serpukhovian)

|

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A rugose coral belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Stereophrentidae, a species of Zaphrufimia.

|

Arthropods

{{Main|2015 in arthropod paleontology}}

Bryozoans

{{main|2015 in bryozoan paleontology}}

Brachiopods

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Alaskothyris{{Cite journal|author1=Robert B. Blodgett |author2=Valeryi V. Baranov |author3=Vincent L. Santucci |year=2015 |title=Alaskothyris new genus (family Stringocephalidae, subfamily Rensselandiinae) from the Givetian (upper Middle Devonian) of the northwestern Brooks Range, northern Alaska |journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin |volume=67 |pages=5–8 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Blodgett, Baranov & Santucci

|

Devonian (Givetian)

|

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A stringocephalid terebratulid brachiopod. The type species is Alaskothyris frosti.

|

Albasphe{{Cite journal|author1=Adam T. Halamski |author2=Maria Aleksandra Bitner |author3=Andrzej Kaim |author4=Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek |author5=Bogdan Jurkovšek |year=2015 |title=Unusual brachiopod fauna from the Middle Triassic algal meadows of Mt. Svilaja (Outer Dinarides, Croatia) |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=4 |pages=553–575 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.34 |bibcode=2015JPal...89..553H |s2cid=131380210 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Halamski et al.

|

Middle Triassic (Ladinian)

|

|

{{Flag|Croatia}}

|

A member of Terebratulida. The type species is Albasphe albertimagni.

|

Alexenia? delepinei{{Cite journal|author1=M. Luisa Martínez Chacón |author2=Cor F. Winkler Prins |year=2015 |title=Late Bashkirian-early Moscovian (Pennsylvanian) Productidae (Brachiopoda) from the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) |journal=Geobios |volume=48 |issue=6 |pages=459–477 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2015.07.007 |bibcode=2015Geobi..48..459M }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Chacón & Winkler Prins

|

Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Productidae, possibly a species of Alexenia.

|

Ambikella bundellaensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian (Asselian)

|

Bundella Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Ingelarellidae.

|

Amictocracens? brocki{{Cite journal|author1=Leonid E. Popov |author2=Lars E. Holmer |author3=Nigel C. Hughes |author4=Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour |author5=Paul M. Myrow |year=2015 |title=Himalayan Cambrian brachiopods |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=1 |issue=4 |pages=345–399 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1017 |bibcode=2015PPal....1..345P |s2cid=128766012 |url=http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:823588/FULLTEXT01 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Popov et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Parahio Formation

|

{{Flag|India}}

|

A member of Acrotretida belonging to the family Acrotretidae, possibly a species of Amictocracens.

|

Anidanthia aplini{{cite book |author1=John Bruce Waterhouse |author2=Paul E. Balfe |chapter=Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the South Curra Limestone |year=2015 |editor=John Bruce Waterhouse |title=The Permian faunal sequence at Gympie, south-east Queensland, Australia |series=Earthwise |volume=12 |pages=74–123 |url=https://gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/Earthwise/Earthwise-12-Permian-Faunal-Sequence-at-Gimpie-Queensland.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse & Balfe

|

Permian (Changhsingian)

|

South Curra Limestone

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the superfamily Paucispiniferoidea and the family Anidanthidae.

|

Aphelotreta khemangarensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Popov et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Parahio Formation

|

{{Flag|India}}

|

A member of Acrotretida belonging to the family Acrotretidae, a species of Aphelotreta.

|

Auriculispina kanmerai{{Cite journal|author1=Jun-ichi Tazawa |author2=Tomohiko Shintani |year=2015 |title=Early Permian (Sakmarian) brachiopods from the Nagaiwa‒Sakamotozawa area, South Kitakami Belt, northeastern Japan, Part 3: Productidina |journal=Science Reports of Niigata University. (Geology) |volume=30 |pages=39–55 |hdl=10191/32234 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Tazawa & Shintani

|

Permian (Sakmarian)

|

Sakamotozawa Formation

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the family Kansuellidae.

|

Betaneospirifer gigoomganensis{{cite book |author=John Bruce Waterhouse |chapter=The Permian faunas of the Gigoomgan area |year=2015 |title=The Permian faunal sequence at Gympie, south-east Queensland, Australia |series=Earthwise |volume=12 |pages=124–162 |url=https://gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/Earthwise/Earthwise-12-Permian-Faunal-Sequence-at-Gimpie-Queensland.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian (Changhsingian)

|

Gigoomgan Limestone

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Georginakingiidae. Originally described as a species of Betaneospirifer, subsequently transferred to the genus Neilotreta.

|

Bifida rara{{Cite journal|author =V. V. Baranov |year=2015 |title=New atrypids (Brachiopoda) from the Emsian (Lower Devonian) of Northeast Eurasia |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=49 |issue=5 |pages=464–473 |doi=10.1134/S0031030115050044 |bibcode=2015PalJ...49..464B |s2cid=88424919 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Baranov

|

Devonian (Emsian)

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Atrypidae, a species of Bifida.

|

Bockelia canalis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Benedetto

|

Ordovician (Darriwilian)

|

Los Azules Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Strophomenida belonging to the superfamily Plectambonitoidea and the family Taffidae; a species of Bockelia.

|

Bookeria

|

Gen. et 2 sp. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the superfamily Proboscidelloidea and the family Paucispinauriidae. The type species is B. sparsispinosa; genus also includes new species B. drysdalei, as well as "Terrakea" pollex Hill (1950) and "Paucispinauria" geniculata Waterhouse (1986).

|

Briggsia{{cite book |author=John Bruce Waterhouse |chapter=Supplement: new Permian brachiopod genera and species from east Australia |year=2015 |title=The Permian faunal sequence at Gympie, south-east Queensland, Australia |series=Earthwise |volume=12 |pages=167–172 |url=https://gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/Earthwise/Earthwise-12-Permian-Faunal-Sequence-at-Gimpie-Queensland.pdf }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Junior homonym

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian (possibly Asselian)

|

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the superfamily Proboscidelloidea and the family Auriculispinidae. The type species is "Bandoproductus" hastingsensis Briggs (1998); genus also includes "Bandoproductus" youdalensis Briggs (1998). The generic name is preoccupied by Briggsia Craig & Randall (2009).

|

Castrillonia{{Cite journal|author=Jenaro L. García-Alcalde |year=2015 |title=La sucesión del Emsiense más alto-Eifeliense basal (Devónico) en el Dominio Astur-Leonés de la Zona Cantábrica (N de España) y su fauna de braquiópodos |journal=Trabajos de Geología |volume=35 |pages=41–98 |url=https://www.unioviedo.es/reunido/index.php/TDG/article/view/11883 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

García-Alcalde

|

Devonian

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Orthida belonging to the family Rhipidomellidae. The type species is C. vivaldiana.

|

Chilcorthis

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Benedetto

|

Ordovician (Darriwilian)

|

Los Azules Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Orthida belonging to the superfamily Plectorthoidea. The type species is Chilcorthis huarpe.

|

Chonetinetes elongatus{{Cite journal|author1=G. A. Afanasjeva |author2=Tazawa Jun-ichi |author3=Shintani Tomohiko |year=2015 |title=Brachiopods of the order Chonetida from the Lower and Middle Permian of the South Kitakami Mountains, Northeast Japan |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=19–25 |doi=10.1134/S0031030115010013 |bibcode=2015PalJ...49...19A |s2cid=129760733 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Afanasjeva, Jun-ichi & Tomohiko

|

Permian

|

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A member of Chonetida belonging to the family Rugosochonetidae, a species of Chonetinetes.

|

Chopinia{{Cite journal|author1=Jenaro L. García-Alcalde |author2=Zarela A. Herrera |year=2015 |title=Braquiópodos del Devónico Inferior (Lochkoviense-Praguiense) de la región Cántabro- Celtibérica (España) |journal=Trabajos de Geología |volume=35 |pages=99–138 |url=https://www.unioviedo.es/reunido/index.php/TDG/article/view/11884 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Junior homonym

|

García-Alcalde & Herrera

|

Devonian (late Lochkovian or the early Pragian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Athyridida belonging to the family Athyrididae. The type species is C. petercarlsi. The generic name is preoccupied by Chopinia d'Abrera (2001).

|

Chynithele intermedia{{Cite journal|author1=Michal Mergl |author2=Andrea Jiménez-Sánchez |year=2015 |title=Lingulate brachiopods from the Suchomasty Limestone (upper Emsian) of the Barrandian, Czech Republic |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=90 |issue=1 |pages=173–193 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1533 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mergl & Jiménez-Sánchez

|

Devonian (late Emsian)

|

Daleje-Třebotov Formation

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A member of Discinidae, a species of Chynithele.

|

Copperella

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Baranov

|

Devonian (Emsian)

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Atrypidae. The type species is Copperella kaskevichi.

|

Cyrtella papula

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse & Balfe

|

Permian (Changhsingian)

|

South Curra Limestone

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferinida belonging to the family Syringothyridae.

|

Cyrtonotreta vasculata{{Cite journal|author =Juan L. Benedetto |year=2015 |title=A Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) Dysaerobic Brachiopod Assemblage from the Precordillera Terrane of Argentina: Implications for Early Colonization of Deep Waters |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=69–106 |doi=10.5710/AMGH.05.08.2014.2752 |s2cid=129540546 |hdl=11336/10514 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Benedetto

|

Ordovician (Darriwilian)

|

Los Azules Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Acrotretida belonging to the family Acrotretidae; a species of Cyrtonotreta.

|

Dagyssia{{Cite journal|author1=Maurizio Gaetani |author2=Nadia Mantovani |year=2015 |title=Middle Triassic spiriferoid mentzeliids (Brachiopoda) from Alpine and Mediterranean areas |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |volume=121 |issue=2 |pages=163–194 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Gaetani & Mantovani

|

Triassic (Anisian)

|

|

{{Flag|Croatia}}

{{Flag|Hungary}}

{{Flag|Italy}}

{{Flag|China}}?

|

A mentzeliine mentzeliid brachiopod. The type species is "Spiriferina" palaeotypus Loretz (1875); genus might also contain "Mentzelia" multicostata Yang & Xu (1966).

|

Dalejina telemanni

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

García-Alcalde

|

Devonian

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Orthida belonging to the family Rhipidomellidae.

|

Drahanorhynchus gleniffensis{{Cite journal|author1=Bernard Mottequin |author2=George Sevastopulo |author3=Eric Simon |year=2015 |title=Micromorph brachiopods from the late Asbian (Mississippian, Visean) from northwest Ireland (Gleniff, County Sligo) |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=90 |issue=2 |pages=307–330 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1512 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mottequin, Sevastopulo & Simon

|

Carboniferous (Viséan)

|

Meenymore Formation

|

{{Flag|Ireland}}

|

A member of Orthotetida belonging to the family Schuchertellidae.

|

Duartea latoresensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Chacón & Winkler Prins

|

Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Productidae, possibly a species of Duartea.

|

Echinalosia cenula{{cite book |author=John Bruce Waterhouse |year=2015 |title=Early Permian Conulariida, Brachiopoda and Mollusca from Homevale, central Queensland |series=Earthwise |volume=11 |pages=1–391 |url=https://gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/Earthwise/Earthwise-11-Homevale-Fauna.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the group Strophalosiidina and the family Dasyalosiidae.

|

Echinalosia denmeadi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse & Balfe

|

Permian (Changhsingian)

|

South Curra Limestone

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Strophalosiidina belonging to the superfamily Dasyalosioidea and the family Mingenewiidae. Originally described as a species of Echinalosia, subsequently transferred to the genus Capillaria.

|

Echinalosia curtosa sulcata

|

Ssp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the group Strophalosiidina and the family Dasyalosiidae. Subsequently raised to the rank of the species Echinalosia? (Echinalosia) sulcata.{{cite book |author=John Bruce Waterhouse |year=2024 |title=Permian genera and species of Strophalosiidina (Brachiopoda) from east Australia and New Zealand |pages=147–198 |series=Earthwise |volume=23 |url=https://gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/Earthwise/Earthwise-23-Permian-Strophalosiidina-from-East-Australia-and-New-Zealand.pdf }}

|

Eodmitria sezgini{{Cite journal|author1=Rémy Gourvennec |author2=İzzet Hoşgör |year=2015 |title=Brachiopods and crinoids from the Middle-Upper Devonian boundary beds in the Darende-Gürün and Van-Zincirkıran areas (Eastern Taurus, Turkey) |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=90 |issue=3 |pages=577–600 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1526 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Gourvennec & Hoşgör

|

Devonian (latest Givetian to early Frasnian)

|

Gümüșali Formation

|

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Cyrtospiriferidae, a species of Eodmitria.

|

Eohadrotreta haydeni

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Popov et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Parahio Formation

|

{{Flag|India}}

|

A member of Acrotretida belonging to the family Acrotretidae, a species of Eohadrotreta.

|

Eremithyris? longiquincus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Terebratulida belonging to the family Cranaenidae.

|

Eucharitina bultyncki

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

García-Alcalde & Herrera

|

Devonian (early Lochkovian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the family Uncinulidae.

|

Eucharitina carlsi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

García-Alcalde & Herrera

|

Devonian (early Pragian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the family Uncinulidae.

|

Eurytreta harringtoni{{Cite journal|author1=Michal Mergl |author2=Zarela Herrera |author3=Enrique Villas |author4=Gladys Ortega |year=2015 |title=Lingulate brachiopods from the Lampazar Formation (late Cambrian) of the Cordillera Oriental of northwestern Argentina |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=4 |pages=537–552 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.42 |bibcode=2015JPal...89..537M |s2cid=131302273 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mergl & Herrera in Mergl et al.

|

Late Cambrian

|

Lampazar Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

|

Evanidisinurostrum saouraense{{Cite journal|author1=Bernard Mottequin |author2=Fatima Zohra Malti |author3=Madani Benyoucef |author4=Catherine Crônier |author5=Louisa Samar |author6=Carine Randon |author7=Denise Brice |year=2015 |title=Famennian rhynchonellides (Brachiopoda) from deep-water facies of the Ougarta Basin (Saoura Valley, Algeria) |journal=Geological Magazine |volume=152 |issue=6 |pages=1009–1024 |doi=10.1017/S0016756814000697 |bibcode=2015GeoM..152.1009M |s2cid=130753334 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mottequin et al.

|

Devonian (Famennian)

|

|

{{Flag|Algeria}}

|

A rhynchonellid brachiopod, a species of Evanidisinurostrum.

|

Fletcherithyris burdenae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Terebratulida belonging to the family Dielasmidae.

|

Fletcherithyris runnegari

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse & Balfe

|

Permian (Changhsingian)

|

South Curra Limestone

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Terebratulida belonging to the family Dielasmidae.

|

Geothomasia simplicatas

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian (Asselian)

|

Wasp Head Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Ingelarellidae.

|

Grantonia murrayi{{cite book |author=John Bruce Waterhouse |chapter=Brachiopoda and bivalve from the upper Rammutt Formation |year=2015 |title=The Permian faunal sequence at Gympie, south-east Queensland, Australia |series=Earthwise |volume=12 |pages=44–65 |url=https://gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/Earthwise/Earthwise-12-Permian-Faunal-Sequence-at-Gimpie-Queensland.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian (Asselian)

|

Rammutt Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of the family Trigonotretidae. Originally described as a species of Grantonia, subsequently tentatively assigned to the genus Trigonotreta.{{cite book |author=John Bruce Waterhouse |year=2024 |title=Brachiopod species of Spiriferidina from the Permian faunas of east Australia and New Zealand |pages=1–167 |series=Earthwise |volume=26 |url=https://gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/Earthwise/Earthwise-26-Brachiopod-species-of-Spiriferidina-from-the-Permian-faunas-of-East-Australia-and-New-Zealand.pdf }}

|

Gympietes{{cite book |author=John Bruce Waterhouse |chapter=Early Permian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the middle Rammutt Formation, Gympie |year=2015 |title=The Permian faunal sequence at Gympie, south-east Queensland, Australia |series=Earthwise |volume=12 |pages=8–43 |url=https://gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/Earthwise/Earthwise-12-Permian-Faunal-Sequence-at-Gimpie-Queensland.pdf }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian (Asselian)

|

Rammutt Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of the family Rugosochonetidae. The type species is G. aseptus.

|

Hadrotreta timchristiorum

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Popov et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Parahio Formation

|

{{Flag|India}}

|

A member of Acrotretida belonging to the family Acrotretidae, a species of Hadrotreta.

|

Hibernodonta lakhensis{{Cite journal|author1=Leonid E. Popov |author2=Vachik Hairapetian |author3=David H. Evans |author4=Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour |author5=Lars E. Holmer |author6=Christian Baars |year=2015 |title=Review of the Ordovician stratigraphy and fauna of the Anarak Region in Central Iran |journal=Acta Geologica Polonica |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=403–435 |doi=10.1515/agp-2015-0019 |bibcode=2015AcGeP..65..403P |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-269049 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Popov, Holmer & Baars in Popov et al.

|

Ordovician (Katian)

|

Chahgonbad Formation

|

{{Flag|Iran}}

|

A rafinesquinid strophomenid brachiopod; a species of Hibernodonta.

|

Hindella prima

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Popov, Holmer & Baars in Popov et al.

|

Ordovician (Katian)

|

Chahgonbad Formation

|

{{Flag|Iran}}

|

A meristellid athyridid brachiopod; a species of Hindella.

|

Hoskingia glabra

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian (Asselian)

|

Rammutt Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Terebratulida belonging to the family Dielasmidae.

|

Inflatia ovetensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Chacón & Winkler Prins

|

Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Productidae, possibly a species of Inflatia.

|

Ingelarella alteplica

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse & Balfe

|

Permian (Changhsingian)

|

South Curra Limestone

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Ingelarellidae.

|

Ingelarella fergusoni

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse & Balfe

|

Permian (Changhsingian)

|

South Curra Limestone

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Ingelarellidae.

|

Jafarirhynchus{{Cite journal|author1=Leonid E. Popov |author2=Vachik Hairapetian |author3=Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour |author4=Tatiana L. Modzalevskaya |year=2015 |title=A new, unusual rhynchonellide with a strophic shell from the Silurian of Iran |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=747–754 |doi=10.4202/app.00030.2013 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Popov et al.

|

Silurian (Telychian)

|

Niur Formation

|

{{Flag|Iran}}

|

A rhynchotrematoid rhynchonellid brachiopod. The type species is Jafarirhynchus alatus.

|

Kerberellus{{Cite journal|author1=Lea Devaere |author2=Lars Holmer |author3=Sebastien Clausen |author4=Daniel Vachard |year=2015 |title=Oldest mickwitziid brachiopod from the Terreneuvian of southern France |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=755–768 |doi=10.4202/app.00021.2013 |url=http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:691076/FULLTEXT02 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Devaere, Holmer & Clausen in Devaere et al.

|

Cambrian (Terreneuvian)

|

Marcou Formation

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A mickwitziid-like stem-group brachiopod. The type species is Kerberellus marcouensis.

|

Kirkirhynchus{{Cite journal|author1=Valeryi V. Baranov |author2=Robert B. Blodgett |year=2015 |title=Revision of the rhynchonellid and atrypid brachiopods from the lower Pragian (Devonian) of Southeast Alaska (Heceta Island) |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=90 |issue=1 |pages=21–32 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1494 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Baranov & Blodgett

|

Devonian (early Pragian)

|

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A trigonirhynchiid rhynchonellid brachiopod; a new genus for "Camarotoechia" reesidei Kirk & Amsden (1952).

|

Koenigoria browni

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian (Changhsingian)

|

Gundiah Bridge Greywacke

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Georginakingiidae. Originally described as a species of Koenigoria, subsequently tentatively assigned to the genus Neilotreta.

|

Kosagittella robusta

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mergl & Jiménez-Sánchez

|

Devonian (late Emsian)

|

Daleje-Třebotov Formation

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A member of Obolidae, a species of Kosagittella.

|

Ktenopotamorhynchus{{Cite journal|author =Paul Sartenaer |year=2015 |title=Revision of the family Hebetoechiidae Havlíček, 1960, and proposal of three new rhynchonellid (brachiopod) families |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |volume=121 |issue=3 |pages=267–283 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/6518 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Sartenaer

|

Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

{{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A member of Rhynchonellida. The type species is "Rhynchonella" borealiformis Siemiradzki (1906); genus also includes "Plethorhyncha" altera (Barrande, 1879).

|

Kutorgina songshanensis{{Cite journal|author1=Yu-juan Liu |author2=Yuan-long Zhao |author3=Yu-ying Liu |author4=Yong-qin Mao |year=2015 |title=A preliminary study of Kutorgina Billings, 1861 from the Cambrian "Tsinghsutung Formation" of Guizhou, China |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Sinica |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=342–350 |url=http://eng.oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbCode=cjfd&QueryID=13&CurRec=4&filename=GSWX201503004&dbname=CJFDTEMP }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Liu et al.

|

Cambrian

|

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A species of Kutorgina.

|

Lakismatia sulcata

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the group Strophalosiidina and the family Aulostegidae. Originally described as a species of Lakismatia, subsequently tentatively assigned to the genus Lipanteris.

|

Leptembolon argentinum{{Cite journal|author1=Juan L. Benedetto |author2=Diego F. Muñoz |year=2015 |title=Linguloidean brachiopods from the Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian) of northwestern Argentina |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=90 |issue=2 |pages=417–430 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1539 |hdl=11336/43850 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Benedetto & Muñoz

|

Ordovician (Tremadocian)

|

Santa Rosita Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Obolidae, a species of Leptembolon.

|

Libecoviella lenticularis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mergl & Herrera in Mergl et al.

|

Late Cambrian

|

Lampazar Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

|

Libecoviella tilcarensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Benedetto & Muñoz

|

Ordovician (Tremadocian)

|

Santa Rosita Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Obolidae, a species of Libecoviella.

|

Lingularia salymica{{Cite journal|author1=T. N. Smirnova |author2=G. T. Ushatinskaya |author3=E. A. Zhegallo |author4=I. V. Panchenko |year=2015 |title=Lingularia Biernat et Emig, 1993 from the Upper Jurassic of western Siberia: Larval and embryonic shells and shell microstructure |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=125–133 |doi=10.1134/S0031030115020100 |bibcode=2015PalJ...49..125S |s2cid=128683942 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Smirnova in Smirnova et al.

|

Late Jurassic

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Lingulida, a species of Lingularia.

|

Lingulella? melonica

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mergl & Herrera in Mergl et al.

|

Late Cambrian

|

Lampazar Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

|

Lochkothele rugellata

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mergl & Jiménez-Sánchez

|

Devonian (late Emsian)

|

Daleje-Třebotov Formation

Zlíchov Formation

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A member of Discinidae, a species of Lochkothele.

|

Lomatorthis? multilamellosa

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Popov, Holmer & Baars in Popov et al.

|

Ordovician (Darriwilian)

|

Chahgonbad Formation

|

{{Flag|Iran}}

|

A glyptorthid orthid brachiopod; possibly a species of Lomatorthis.

|

Magniplicatina cranfieldi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse & Balfe

|

Permian (Changhsingian)

|

South Curra Limestone

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the superfamily Proboscidelloidea and the family Paucispinauriidae.

|

Magniplicatina dunstani

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian (Asselian)

|

Rammutt Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the superfamily Proboscidelloidea and the family Paucispinauriidae.

|

Maisorthina

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

García-Alcalde

|

Devonian (late Emsian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Orthida belonging to the family Platyorthidae. The type species is M. saroyani.

|

Maorielasma balfei

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Terebratulida belonging to the family Gilledidae.

|

Mariyaspiriferella{{Cite journal|author1=Valeryi V. Baranov |author2=Robert B. Blodgett |year=2015 |title=Раннедевонские спирифериды (Brachiopoda) Северо-Востока Евразии и Северной Америки |journal=Otechestvennaya Geologiya |volume=5/2015 |pages=77–82 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285581514 }}

|

Gen. et sp. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Baranov & Blodgett

|

Early Devonian

|

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

{{Flag|Russia}}

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A cyrtinid brachiopod. The type species is M. sibirica; genus also includes "Cyrtina" impressio Perry (1984).

|

Maxwellosia bryani

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the group Strophalosiidina and the family Dasyalosiidae.

|

Misensia

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Baranov

|

Devonian (Emsian)

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Atrypidae. The type species is Misensia gracilis.

|

Monklandia mcclungi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian (Sakmarian)

|

Rutherford Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Notospiriferidae.

|

Neochonetes (Zhongyingia) transversa{{Cite journal|author1=Yang Zhang |author2=Wei-Hong He |author3=G.R. Shi |author4=Ke-Xin Zhang |author5=Hui-Ting Wu |year=2015 |title=A new Changhsingian (Late Permian) brachiopod fauna from the Zhongzhai section (South China) Part 3: Productida |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=295–314 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2015.1001186 |bibcode=2015Alch...39..295Z |s2cid=128770202 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Zhang et al.

|

Permian (Lopingian)

|

Longtan Formation

Yanshi Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the family Rugosochonetidae.

|

Notospirifer triplicata

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Notospiriferidae.

|

Notostrophia laticostata

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Strophomenata belonging to the superfamily Orthotetoidea and the family Schuchertellidae.

|

Oceania{{cite book |author=Vladyslav Poletaev |chapter=Novyy rod i semeystvo kamennougol'nykh spiriferid Yevropy |year=2015 |editor=P. F. Gozhyk |title=Stratotypoví ta oporní rozrízy fanerozois'kykh vídkladív Ukraíny: suchasnyi stan ta perspektyvy podal'shykh doslídzhen'. Materíaly 36 sesií Paleontologichnogo tovarustva Ukraíny |pages=17–18 |publisher=Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine |isbn=978-966-02-7700-7 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Junior homonym

|

Poletaev

|

Carboniferous

|

|

{{Flag|Belgium}}

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Paeckelmanelloidea. The type species is "Spirifer" oceani d'Orbigny (1850). The generic name is preoccupied by Oceania Péron & Lesueur (1810); Poletaev (2024) coined a replacement name Johnsoniana.{{Cite journal|author=Vladyslav Poletaev |title=New and revised taxa of Carboniferous spiriferides (Brachiopoda, Spiriferida) from the Donets Basin (Ukraine) and South Urals (Russia) |year=2024 |journal=European Journal of Taxonomy |issue=968 |pages=132–155 |doi=10.5852/ejt.2024.968.2723 |doi-access=free }}

|

Ogilviella gerensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Baranov

|

Devonian (Emsian)

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Atrypidae, a species of Ogilviella.

|

Oviformia{{cite book |author=John Bruce Waterhouse |chapter=An Early Permian brachiopod faunule from the upper Rammutt Formation |year=2015 |title=The Permian faunal sequence at Gympie, south-east Queensland, Australia |series=Earthwise |volume=12 |pages=66–73 |url=https://gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/Earthwise/Earthwise-12-Permian-Faunal-Sequence-at-Gimpie-Queensland.pdf }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Muree Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Ingelarellidae. The type species is "Spirifera (Brachythyris)" oviformis M'Coy (1847); genus also includes new species O. sweeti.

|

Paillettia menae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Gourvennec & Hoşgör

|

Devonian (latest Givetian to early Frasnian)

|

Gümüșali Formation

|

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Adolfiidae, a species of Paillettia.

|

Palaeoglossa minima

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Benedetto

|

Ordovician (Darriwilian)

|

Los Azules Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Obolidae; a species of Palaeoglossa.

|

Papulinella wilsoni

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Notospiriferidae.

|

Parmorthina gozonica

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

García-Alcalde

|

Devonian

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Orthida belonging to the family Dalmanellidae.

|

Paryphella acutula

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Zhang et al.

|

Permian (Lopingian)

|

Dalong Formation

Longtan Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the family Productellidae.

|

Pelmanotreta{{Cite journal|author1=Christian B. Skovsted |author2=Galina Ushatinskaya |author3=Lars E. Holmer |author4=Leonid E. Popov |author5=Artem Kouchinsky |year=2015 |title=Taxonomy, morphology, shell structure and early ontogeny of Pelmanotreta nom. nov. from the lower Cambrian of Siberia |journal=GFF |volume=137 |issue=1 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1080/11035897.2014.982700 |bibcode=2015GFF...137....1S |s2cid=129175873 |url=http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:765882/FULLTEXT01 }}

|

Nom. nov

|

Valid

|

Skovsted et al.

|

Early Cambrian

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A replacement name for Cryptotreta Pelman (1977) (preoccupied).

|

Permasyrinx archboldi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferinida belonging to the family Syringothyridae.

|

Philhedra pauciradiata

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Benedetto

|

Ordovician (Darriwilian)

|

Los Azules Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Craniidae; a species of Philhedra.

|

Plekonella whitehousei

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the superfamily Wellerelloidea and the family Wellerellidae.

|

Portrania{{Cite journal|author =L. Robin |author2=M. Cocks |year=2015 |title=The relationships and diversification of Ordovician and Silurian chilidiopsoidean brachiopods |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=14 |issue=8 |pages=703–729 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2015.1084655 |s2cid=85721844 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid{{Cite web|url=https://zoobank.org/References/630E7168-319F-40ED-9CFD-81096FF10811|title=ZooBank.org|website=zoobank.org}}

|

Cocks

|

Ordovician (late Katian)

|

Portrane Limestone

|

{{Flag|Ireland}}

|

A chilidiopsoidean brachiopod. The type species is Portrania wrighti Cocks & Harper in Cocks (2015).

|

Praeoehlertella lukesi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mergl & Jiménez-Sánchez

|

Devonian (late Emsian)

|

Daleje-Třebotov Formation

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A member of Discinidae, a species of Praeoehlertella.

|

Prototreta? sumnaensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Popov et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Parahio Formation

|

{{Flag|India}}

|

A member of Acrotretida belonging to the family Acrotretidae, possibly a species of Prototreta.

|

Psilothyris corbachoi{{cite journal |author1=Sebastián Calzada |author2=Eduvigis Moreno |year=2015 |title=Una nueva especie del género Psilothyris |journal=Scripta Musei Geologici Seminarii Barcinonensis [Ser. palaeontologica] |volume=XVIII |pages=10–22 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283517162 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Calzada & Moreno

|

Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Terebratellidina belonging to the family Laqueidae and the subfamily Terebrataliopsinae, a species of Psilothyris.

|

Ptychomentzelia

|

Gen. et comb. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Gaetani & Mantovani

|

Middle Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Austria}}

{{Flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}

{{Flag|Hungary}}

{{Flag|Italy}}

{{Flag|Romania}}

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A tethyspirine mentzeliid brachiopod. The type species is "Spiriferina" propontica Toula (1896); genus also contains "Spiriferina" ptychitiphila Bittner (1890), as well as the new species Ptychomentzelia ritensis.

|

Raisiya

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Baranov

|

Devonian (Emsian)

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Atrypidae. The type species is Raisiya solonchanensis.

|

Rhipidomella cervantesi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

García-Alcalde

|

Devonian

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Orthida belonging to the family Rhipidomellidae.

|

Rugaria semicircularis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Afanasjeva, Jun-ichi & Tomohiko

|

Permian

|

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A member of Chonetida belonging to the family Rugosochonetidae, a species of Rugaria.

|

Rukavischnikovia{{Cite journal|author =Alexander B. Doweld |year=2015 |title=Rukavisсhnikovia, a new replacement name for preoccupied Iliella Rukavishnikova, 1980 (Brachiopoda) non Tschernyshev, 1940 (Crustacea) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4052 |issue=4 |page=478 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4052.4.5 |pmid=26701444 |doi-access=free }}

|

Nom. nov

|

Valid

|

Doweld

|

Ordovician (Katian)

|

|

{{Flag|Kazakhstan}}

|

A member of Spiriferida; a replacement name for Iliella Rukavischnikova (1980).

|

Saltaia

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mergl & Herrera in Mergl et al.

|

Late Cambrian

|

Lampazar Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Elkaniidae. The type species is Saltaia lampazarensis

|

Savagerhynchus

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Baranov & Blodgett

|

Devonian (early Pragian)

|

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A trigonirhynchiid rhynchonellid brachiopod. The type species is Savagerhynchus hecetaensis.

|

Scalenomena

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Cocks

|

Ordovician (early Katian

|

Craighead Limestone

|

{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

|

A chilidiopsoidean brachiopod. A new genus for "Fardenia" scalena Williams (1962).

|

Schizambon cardonalis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mergl & Herrera in Mergl et al.

|

Late Cambrian

|

Lampazar Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

|

Schizobolus pilasiensis{{cite journal |author1=Pierre Morzadec |author2=Michal Mergl |author3=Carlos Villarroel |author4=Philippe Janvier |author5=Patrick R. Racheboeuf |year=2015 |title=Trilobites and inarticulate brachiopods from the Devonian Floresta Formation of Colombia: a review |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=90 |issue=2 |pages=331–358 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1515 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mergl in Morzadec et al.

|

Devonian (Givetian)

|

Floresta Formation

|

{{Flag|Colombia}}

|

A member of the family Trematidae.

|

Sillakkudirhynchia{{Cite journal|author1=Barbara V. Radulović |author2=Wagih Ayoub-Hannaa |author3=Vladan J. Radulović |author4=Nenad J. Banjac |year=2015 |title=Sillakkudirhynchia gen. nov. (Rhynchonellida, Brachiopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of the Cauvery Basin, southern India: Taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=276 |issue=1 |pages=63–78 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2015/0475 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Radulović et al.

|

Late Cretaceous (Coniacian to early Maastrichtian)

|

Sillakkudi Formation

|

{{Flag|India}}

|

A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the family Tetrarhynchiidae. A new genus for "Rhynchonella" plicatiloides Stoliczka (1872); genus also contains "Cretirhynchia" sahnii Radulović & Ramamoorthy (1992).

|

Sivorthis precordillerana

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Benedetto

|

Ordovician (Darriwilian)

|

Los Azules Formation

San Juan Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Orthida belonging to the family Orthidae; a species of Sivorthis.

|

Svalbardia armstrongi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of the family Rugosochonetidae. Originally described as a species of Svalbardia, subsequently transferred to the genus Capillonia.{{cite book |author=John Bruce Waterhouse |year=2023 |title=A summary of Chonetidina (Brachiopoda) from the Permian faunas of east Australia and New Zealand |pages=37–64 |series=Earthwise |volume=21 |url=https://gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/Earthwise/Earthwise-21-Lingulida-Strophomenida-Chonetidina-and-Productida-from-Permian-of-East-Australia-and-New-Zealand.pdf }}

|

Svalbardia saeptata

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Farley Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of the family Rugosochonetidae. Originally described as a species of Svalbardia, subsequently transferred to the genus Capillonia.

|

Talexirhynchia{{Cite journal|author1=Howard R. Feldman |author2=Mena Schemm-Gregory |author3=Mark A. Wilson |author4=Fayez Ahmad |year=2015 |title=Talexirhynchia, a new rhynchonellid genus from the Jurassic Ethiopian Province of Jordan |journal=Paläontologische Zeitschrift |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=25–35 |doi=10.1007/s12542-013-0216-y |bibcode=2015PalZ...89...25F |s2cid=129095918 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Feldman et al.

|

Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

|

Mughanniyya Formation

|

{{Flag|Jordan}}

|

A rhynchonellid brachiopod. The type species is Talexirhynchia kadishi.

|

Tethyochonetes minor

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Zhang et al.

|

Permian (Changhsingian)

|

Longtan Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A member of Productida belonging to the family Rugosochonetidae.

|

Thecocyrtella dagysii

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Halamski et al.

|

Middle Triassic (Ladinian)

|

|

{{Flag|Croatia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida; a species of Thecocyrtella.

|

Theodossia kagarmanovi{{Cite journal|author =D.V. Bezgodova |year=2015 |title=A new species of Theodossia Nalivkin (Brachiopoda: Sprirferida) from the Frasnian of Novaya Zemlya |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences |volume=319 |issue=4 |pages=465–479 |url=http://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_319_4/TZ_319_4_Bezgodova.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bezgodova

|

Devonian (Frasnian)

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Theodossiidae, a species of Theodossia.

|

Theodossia novosemelica

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bezgodova

|

Devonian (Frasnian)

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Theodossiidae, a species of Theodossia.

|

Theodossia tcherkesovae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bezgodova

|

Devonian (Frasnian)

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Theodossiidae, a species of Theodossia.

|

Torobolus

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Benedetto & Muñoz

|

Ordovician (Tremadocian)

|

Devendeus Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Obolidae. The type species is Torobolus subplanus.

|

Trigonirhynchia celtiberica

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

García-Alcalde & Herrera

|

Devonian (early Pragian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the family Trigonirhynchiidae.

|

Trigonirhynchia palentina

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

García-Alcalde & Herrera

|

Devonian (early Pragian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the family Trigonirhynchiidae.

|

Tumulosulcus

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian (Roadian)

|

Moonlight Sandstone

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Ingelarellidae. The type species is "Ingelarella" magna Campbell (1959).

|

Validifera

|

Gen. et comb. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Waterhouse

|

Permian

|

Tiverton Formation

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Ingelarellidae. The type species is "Ingelarella" valida Campbell (1961); genus includes new species V. prima.

|

Yangtzeella chupananica

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Popov, Holmer & Baars in Popov et al.

|

Ordovician (Darriwilian)

|

Chahgonbad Formation

|

{{Flag|Iran}}

|

A clarkellid pentamerid brachiopod; a species of Yangtzeella.

|

Molluscs

{{Main|2015 in molluscan paleontology}}

Echinoderms

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Aegyptiaris{{cite journal |author1=Marouf A.M. Abdelhamid |author2=Medhat S. Abdelghany |year=2015 |title=Notatudiadema and Aegyptiaris: Two new regular echinoids genera with two new species from the Cenomanian of north Sinai, Egypt |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=55 |pages=129–140 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2015.01.003 |bibcode=2015CrRes..55..129A }}

|

Gen. et sp. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Abdelhamid & Abdelghany

|

Cretaceous (Aptian to Cenomanian)

|

|

{{Flag|Egypt}}

|

An emiratiid sea urchin. The type species is Aegyptiaris halalensis; genus also contains "Trochodiadema" isidis Fourtau (1921).{{cite journal |author1=Marouf A.M. Abdelhamid |author2=Gamal M.E. El Qot |author3=Medhat S. Abdelghany |year=2016 |title=Revision of the Cretaceous echinoids Heterodiadema and Trochodiadema, and description of two new genera from the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=57 |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2015.07.006 |bibcode=2016CrRes..57....1A }}

|

Aganaster jagiellonicus{{cite journal |author1=Ben Thuy |author2=Manfred Kutscher |author3=Bartosz J. Płachno |year=2015 |title=A new brittle star from the Early Carboniferous of Poland and its implications on Paleozoic modern-type ophiuroid systematics |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=923–929 |doi=10.4202/app.00093.2014 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Thuy, Kutscher & Płachno

|

Carboniferous (late Tournaisian)

|

Mazurowe Doły Formation

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A brittle star belonging to the suborder Ophiurina, a species of Aganaster.

|

Archaeocidaris marmorcataractensis{{cite journal |author1=Jeffrey R. Thompson |author2=Jennie Crittenden |author3=Chris L. Schneider |author4=David J. Bottjer |year=2015 |title=Lower Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian) echinoids from the Marble Falls Formation, San Saba, Texas, USA |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=276 |issue=1 |pages=79–89 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2015/0479 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Thompson et al.

|

Carboniferous (early Pennsylvanian)

|

Marble Falls Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A sea urchin, a species of Archaeocidaris.

|

Baficrinus{{Cite journal |author1=Rudolf J. Prokop |author2=Martina Nohejlová |year=2015 |title=Baficrinus gen. nov. (Crinoidea, Inadunata) from the Bohemian Early Devonian (the Czech Republic) |journal=Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B-Historia Naturalis |volume=71 |issue=1–2 |pages=25–30 |url=http://actab.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sbB_c1_2_2015_prokop_nohejlova_baficrinus_web.pdf |access-date=2016-01-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081318/http://actab.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sbB_c1_2_2015_prokop_nohejlova_baficrinus_web.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Prokop & Nohejlová

|

Devonian (late Emsian)

|

Daleje-Třebotov Formation

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A crinoid belonging to the group Disparida and the family Zophocrinidae. The type species is Baficrinus vigilis.

|

Baudicrinus{{cite journal |author1=Tatsuo Oji |author2=Richard J. Twitchett |year=2015 |title=The Oldest Post-Palaeozoic Crinoid and Permian-Triassic Origins of the Articulata (Echinodermata) |journal=Zoological Science |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=211–215 |doi=10.2108/zs140240 |pmid=25826072 |s2cid=22200155 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Oji & Twitchett

|

Early Triassic

|

AI Jil Formation

|

{{Flag|Oman}}

|

A dadocrinid articulate crinoid, a relative of encrinids. The type species is Baudicrinus krystyni.

|

Bizarroglobus{{cite journal |author1=Colin D. Sumrall |author2=James Sprinkle |year=2015 |title=Unusual ambulacral branching pattern in a new Ordovician giant edrioasteroid, Bizarroglobus |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=353–359 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2014.30 |bibcode=2015JPal...89..353S |s2cid=128761846 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Sumrall & Sprinkle

|

Ordovician

|

Kanosh Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

An edrioasteroid. The type species is Bizarroglobus medusae.

|

Browerocrinus{{cite journal |author1=William I. Ausich |author2=Mark E. Peter |author3=Frank R. Ettensohn |year=2015 |title=Echinoderms from the lower Silurian Brassfield Formation of east-central Kentucky |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=245–256 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2014.20 |bibcode=2015JPal...89..245A |s2cid=130463772 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ausich, Peter & Ettensohn

|

Silurian (Rhuddanian)

|

Brassfield Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A crinoid. The type species is Browerocrinus arthrikos.

|

Callocystites fresti{{cite journal |author =Christopher R. C. Paul |year=2015 |title=Callocystites fresti sp. nov., and the significance of ambulacral branching in the Callocystitidae (Echinodermata, Glyptocystitoida) |journal=Geological Journal |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=189–209 |doi=10.1002/gj.2545 |bibcode=2015GeolJ..50..189P |s2cid=82008911 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Paul

|

Silurian

|

Massie Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A callocystitid cystoid, a species of Callocystites.

|

‘Cidaris’ labergensis{{cite journal |author1=John-Paul Zonneveld |author2=Carolyn M. Furlong |author3=Shelby C. Sanders |year=2015 |title=Triassic echinoids (Echinodermata) from the Aksala Formation, north Lake Laberge, Yukon Territory, Canada |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=87–100 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1032 |s2cid=140199457 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid{{Cite web |url=http://zoobank.org/References/0E9DA092-4DFF-4745-B76F-A731EA019C4D |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-11-11 |archive-date=2020-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317190609/http://zoobank.org/References/0E9DA092-4DFF-4745-B76F-A731EA019C4D |url-status=dead }}

|

Zonneveld, Furlong & Sanders

|

Late Triassic

|

Aksala Formation

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A sea urchin. Zonneveld, Furlong & Sanders (2015) assign it to the form genus ‘Cidaris’, stressing that it does not imply affinity with the extant genus Cidaris.

|

Conollia sporranoides{{cite journal |author1=Imran A. Rahman |author2=Sarah E. Stewart |author3=Samuel Zamora |year=2015 |title=The youngest ctenocystoids from the Upper Ordovician of the United Kingdom and the evolution of the bilateral body plan in echinoderms (Echinodermata, Glyptocystitoida) |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=39–48 |doi=10.4202/app.00048.2013 |s2cid=53397800 |url=http://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/files/34853747/Rahman_et_al._2015_Ordovician_ctenocystoids.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Rahman, Stewart & Zamora

|

Ordovician (Sandbian)

|

Balclatchie Formation

|

{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

|

A member of Ctenocystoidea, a species of Conollia.

|

Deltoblastus beaveri{{cite journal |author=Ryan FitzGerald Morgan |year=2015 |title=Three New Species of Deltoblastus Fay from the Permian of Timor |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=10 |issue=6 |pages=e0127727 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0127727 |pmid=26061737 |pmc=4465186|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1027727M |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Morgan

|

Permian

|

|

Timor

|

A blastoid belonging to the family Schizoblastidae.

|

Deltoblastus elevatus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Morgan

|

Permian

|

|

Timor

|

A blastoid belonging to the family Schizoblastidae.

|

Deltoblastus ewini

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Morgan

|

Permian

|

|

Timor

|

A blastoid belonging to the family Schizoblastidae.

|

Dimerocrinites (Dimerocrinites) cheilobathron

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Early Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Birdsong Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A camerate crinoid belonging to the group Diplobathrida.

|

Echinanthus callosensis{{cite journal |author=José Francisco Carrasco |year=2015 |title=Echinanthus callosensis (Echinoidea, Eocene) nomen novum pro Echinanthus dorsalis Cotteau, 1889 nomen praeoccupatum |journal=Batalleria |volume=22 |pages=5–6 |url=http://mgsb.es/publications/index_archivos/Echinanthus%20callosensis%20nomen%20novum.pdf }}

|

Nom. nov

|

Valid

|

Carrasco

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A sea urchin; a replacement name for Echinanthus dorsalis Cotteau (1889).

|

Ekmelocrinus{{cite journal |author1=G.D. Webster |author2=Stephen K. Donovan |year=2016 |title=Review and revision of the West Timor Permian Graphiocrinus species of Johannes Wanner |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=497–522 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2015.10.003 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Webster & Donovan

|

Permian

|

|

{{Flag|Indonesia}}

|

A crinoid. Genus includes Ekmelocrinus amplior (Wanner, 1924), Ekmelocrinus subamplior (Wanner, 1949), Ekmelocrinus ovoides (Wanner, 1949), Ekmelocrinus verbeeki (Wanner, 1916) and Ekmelocrinus vermistriatus (Wanner, 1916).

|

Enakomusium

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Thuy

|

Jurassic (Toarcian to Oxfordian)

|

|

{{Flag|France}}

{{Flag|Germany}}

{{Flag|Switzerland}}

{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

|

A brittle star. A new genus for "Ophioderma" weymouthiense Damon (1880); genus also contains "Ophiomusium" ferrugineum Boehm (1889), "Ophiolepis" leckenbyi Wright (1880), "Ophiomusium" geisingense Kutscher (1992), "Ophiomusium" mammillatum Hess (1966) and "Ophiura" gagnebini Thurmann (1851).

|

Eodevonocystis

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Early Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Birdsong Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A mitrate belonging to the group Anomalocystitida. The type species is E. marilynni.

|

Eodolatocrinus

|

Gen. et sp. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Late Silurian-early Devonian

|

Bob Limestone (Brownsport Group)

Lower Birdsong Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A crinoid belonging to the group Monobathrida. The type species is E. hlabsei; genus also includes "Technocrinus" niagarensis Springer (1921).

|

Eohadroblastus

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Early Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Birdsong Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A blastoid belonging to the group Fissiculata. The type species is E. inexpectatus.

|

Eohalysiocrinus broweri

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Early Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Birdsong Shale

Rockhouse Limestone

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A disparid crinoid belonging to the group Calceocrinida.

|

Eohalysiocrinus gibsoni

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Early Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Birdsong Shale

Rockhouse Limestone

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A disparid crinoid belonging to the group Calceocrinida.

|

Eudimerocrinus hlabsei

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Late Silurian (Pridoli)-early Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Decatur Limestone

Rockhouse Limestone

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A camerate crinoid belonging to the group Diplobathrida.

|

Exaesiodiscus derbyi{{cite journal |author =Sandro Marcelo Scheffler |author2=Vera Maria Medina da Fonseca |author3=Antonio Carlos Sequeira Fernandes |year=2015 |title=New crinoids from the Maecuru formation (Middle Eifelian; Amazon Basin, State of Pará, Brazil) |journal=Geobios |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=57–69 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2014.11.002 |bibcode=2015Geobi..48...57S }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Scheffler, da Fonseca & Fernandes

|

Devonian (middle Eifelian)

|

Maecuru Formation

|

{{Flag|Brazil}}

|

A crinoid, a species of Exaesiodiscus.

|

Frasericrinus{{cite journal |author1=William I. Ausich |author2=Charles R. Stelck |author3=A. Guy Plint |author4=Robin A. Buckley |author5=Piotr J. Angiel |year=2015 |title=Early Cretaceous (?early late Albian) echinoderms from northeastern British Columbia, Canada |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=52 |issue=4 |pages=235–243 |doi=10.1139/cjes-2014-0218 |bibcode=2015CaJES..52..235A }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ausich et al.

|

Early Cretaceous (probably early late Albian)

|

Peace River Formation

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

An isocrinid crinoid. The type species is Frasericrinus mauricensis.

|

Globoeocrinus zhaoyuanlongensis{{cite journal |author1=Zai-Chun Yang |author2=Jih-Pai Lin |author3=Yao-Ping Zhang |author4=Yi-Shan Wu |author5=Xue-Yuan Meng |year=2015 |title=A new eocrinoid fauna (Cambrian Series 2) from Guizhou Province, South China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=430–437 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2015.03.007 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Yang et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Balang Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

An eocrinoid, a species of Globoeocrinus.

|

Guangxicrinus{{cite journal |author1=G.D. Webster |author2=Xiu-Qin Chen |year=2015 |title=Lower Middle Devonian, Eifelian, crinoids from central Guangxi, South China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=454–459 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2015.09.001 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Webster & Chen

|

Devonian (Eifelian)

|

Yingtang Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A marsupiocrinid crinoid. The type species is Guangxicrinus xiangzhouensis.

|

Hemidiadema batalleri{{cite journal |author =Arnaud Clément |year=2015 |title=Révision des espèces du genre Hemidiadema Agassiz, 1846 (Euechinoidea, Camaradonta, Glyphocyphidae), de l'Aptien (Crétacé inférieur) d'Espagne |journal=Carnets de Géologie |volume=15 |issue=20 |pages=279–330 |doi=10.4267/2042/58204 |url=http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1520/index.html |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clément

|

Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A sea urchin belonging to the family Glyphocyphidae, a species of Hemidiadema.

|

Hemidiadema forcallensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clément

|

Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A sea urchin belonging to the family Glyphocyphidae, a species of Hemidiadema.

|

Hemidiadema malladai

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clément

|

Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A sea urchin belonging to the family Glyphocyphidae, a species of Hemidiadema.

|

Heviacrinus tromelini{{cite journal |author1=Bertrand Lefebvre |author2=William I. Ausich |author3=Sébastien Clausen |author4=Philippe Courville |author5=Jean-Paul Kundura |author6=Xavier Legrain |author7=Serge Régnault |author8=Philippe Roussel |year=2015 |title=A review of Ordovician crinoids from France: New data from the Darriwilian of the Armorican Massif and palaeobiogeographic implications |journal=Annales de Paléontologie |volume=101 |issue=4 |pages=301–313 |doi=10.1016/j.annpal.2015.10.004 |bibcode=2015AnPal.101..301L }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lefebvre et al.

|

Ordovician (late Darriwilian)

|

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A crinoid, a species of Heviacrinus.

|

Icthyocrinus erugatus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Early Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Rockhouse Limestone

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A cladid crinoid belonging to the group Sagenocrinida.

|

Iocrinus africanus{{cite journal |author1=Samuel Zamora |author2=Imran A. Rahman |author3=William I. Ausich |year=2015 |title=Palaeogeographic implications of a new iocrinid crinoid (Disparida) from the Ordovician (Darriwillian) of Morocco |journal=PeerJ |volume=3 |pages=e1450 |doi=10.7717/peerj.1450 |pmid=26664800 |pmc=4675106 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Zamora, Rahman & Ausich

|

Ordovician (Darriwilian)

|

Taddrist Formation

|

{{Flag|Morocco}}

|

An iocrinid crinoid, a species of Iocrinus.

|

Lanxocolumnus (col.) chaleurensis{{cite journal |author1=Stephen K. Donovan |author2=David G. Keighley |year=2015 |title=A 'British' Silurian crinoid from Quinn Point, New Brunswick, eastern Canada |journal=Proceedings of the Geologists' Association |volume=126 |issue=2 |pages=226–231 |doi=10.1016/j.pgeola.2015.01.006 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015PrGA..126..226D }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Donovan & Keighley

|

Silurian (Telychian)

|

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A crinoid, a species of Lanxocolumnus.

|

Lapidaster hellersi{{cite book |author1=Lea D. Numberger-Thuy |author2=Ben Thuy |year=2015 |chapter=An unusual echinoderm assemblage from the earliest Bajocian (middle Jurassic) of Luxembourg, with special emphasis on the ophiuroids (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) |editor1=Robert Weis |editor2=Ben Thuy |title=Le Jurassique au Luxembourg (1) - Vertébrés, échinodermes et céphalopodes du Bajocien. Ferrantia 71 |journal=Ferrantia: Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle de Luxembourg |publisher=Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg |pages=39–52 |issn=1682-5519 |chapter-url=https://ps.mnhn.lu/ferrantia/publications/Ferrantia71.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Numberger-Thuy & Thuy

|

Middle Jurassic (earliest Bajocian)

|

|

{{Flag|Luxembourg}}

|

A brittle star belonging to the family Ophiacanthidae, a species of Lapidaster.

|

Laudonomphalus ferreirai

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Scheffler, da Fonseca & Fernandes

|

Devonian (middle Eifelian)

|

Maecuru Formation

|

{{Flag|Brazil}}

|

A crinoid, a species of Laudonomphalus.

|

Llanocystis{{cite journal |author1=Samuel Zamora |author2=Colin D. Sumrall |author3=James Sprinkle |year=2015 |title=New long-stemmed eocrinoid from the Furongian Point Peak Shale Member of the Wilberns Formation, central Texas |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=189–193 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2014.16 |bibcode=2015JPal...89..189Z |s2cid=130793961 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Zamora, Sumrall & Sprinkle

|

Cambrian (Furongian)

|

Wilberns Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

An eocrinoid of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Llanocystis wilbernsensis.

|

Lovenicystis kopfi{{cite journal |author =Christopher R. C. Paul |year=2015 |title=A cystoid with two left facets: the significance of Tetracystis in the evolution and classification of the Callocystitidae (Echinodermata, Glyptocystitoida) |journal=Geological Journal |volume=50 |issue=5 |pages=607–633 |doi=10.1002/gj.2578 |bibcode=2015GeolJ..50..607P |s2cid=86155820 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Paul

|

Silurian

|

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A callocystitid cystoid, a species of Lovenicystis.

|

Marettocrinus hartti

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Scheffler, da Fonseca & Fernandes

|

Devonian (middle Eifelian)

|

Maecuru Formation

|

{{Flag|Brazil}}

|

A crinoid, a species of Marettocrinus.

|

Marettocrinus katzeri

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Scheffler, da Fonseca & Fernandes

|

Devonian (middle Eifelian)

|

Maecuru Formation

|

{{Flag|Brazil}}

|

A crinoid, a species of Marettocrinus.

|

Marginix{{cite journal |author1=Sergio Martínez |author2=Claudia del Río |year=2015 |title=Fossil Asterozoa (Echinodermata) of Argentina |journal=Revista de Biología Tropical |volume=63 |issue=Suppl. 2 |pages=1–6 |url=https://www.academia.edu/13565253 }}

|

Nom. nov

|

Valid

|

Martínez & del Río

|

Devonian

|

Talacasto Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A brittle star belonging to the order Oegophiurida and the family Encrinasteridae; a replacement name for Marginaster Haude (1995) and Marginura Haude (1999) (both preoccupied).

|File:Marginix_yachalensis_holotype.jpg

Macrostylocrinus tertibrachialis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Early Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Rockhouse Limestone

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A camerate crinoid belonging to the group Monobathrida.

|

Marsupiocrinus (Amarsupiocrinus) devonicus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Early Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Birdsong Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A camerate crinoid belonging to the group Monobathrida.

|

Notatudiadema

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Abdelhamid & Abdelghany

|

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)

|

|

{{Flag|Egypt}}

|

A diadematoid sea urchin. The type species is Notatudiadema rekeibensis.

|

Ophiocantabria{{cite journal |author1=D.B. Blake |author2=S. Zamora |author3=J.L. García-Alcalde |year=2015 |title=A new Devonian asteroid-like ophiuroid from Spain |journal=Geologica Acta |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=335–343 |url=http://www.geologica-acta.com/pdf/vol1304a06.pdf |doi=10.1344/GeologicaActa2015.13.4.6 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Blake, Zamora & García-Alcalde

|

Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Furada Formation

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A brittle star belonging to the order Oegophiurida, suborder Lysophiurina and the family Encrinasteridae. The type species is Ophiocantabria elegans.

|File:Ophiocantabria_holotype.jpg

Ophiodoris reconciliator{{cite book |author =Ben Thuy |year=2015 |chapter=A peri-reefal brittle-star (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) assemblage from the Middle Jurassic of the northeast Paris Basin |editor1=Robert Weis |editor2=Ben Thuy |title=Le Jurassique au Luxembourg (1) - Vertébrés, échinodermes et céphalopodes du Bajocien. Ferrantia 71 |journal=Ferrantia: Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle de Luxembourg |publisher=Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg |pages=87–106 |issn=1682-5519 |chapter-url=https://ps.mnhn.lu/ferrantia/publications/Ferrantia71.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Thuy

|

Middle Jurassic (early Bajocian)

|

Longwy Formation

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A brittle star belonging to the family Ophionereididae, a species of Ophiodoris.

|

Ophiotitanos aschmannicor

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Thuy

|

Middle Jurassic (early Bajocian)

|

Longwy Formation

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A brittle star belonging to the family Ophiodermatidae, a species of Ophiotitanos.

|

Paracidaris (Anisocidaris) eluveitie{{cite journal |author1=Bernhard Hostettler |author2=Ursula Menkveld-Gfeller |year=2015 |title=Die Cidariden (Echinoidea, Echinodermata) der Wildegg-Formation (mittleres Oxfordien, Schweizer Jura) |journal=Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=195–233 |url=http://institutions.ville-geneve.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/mhn/documents/Museum/Revue_de_Paleo/195-233_Hostettler_Menkveld.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Hostettler & Menkveld-Gfeller

|

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

|

Wildegg Formation

|

{{Flag|Switzerland}}

|

A member of Cidaroida, a species of Paracidaris.

|

Parahormocrinus

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Late Silurian (Pridoli)

|

Decatur Limestone

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A cladid crinoid belonging to the group Sagenocrinida. The type species is P. decaturensis.

|

Paramarsupiocrinus

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Late Silurian (Pridoli)

|

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A camerate crinoid belonging to the group Monobathrida. The type species is P. broadheadi.

|

Parapatelliocrinus

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Lower Rockhouse Limestone

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A crinoid belonging to the group Monobathrida. The type species is P. broweri.

|

Pentaridica mendesi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Scheffler, da Fonseca & Fernandes

|

Devonian (middle Eifelian)

|

Maecuru Formation

|

{{Flag|Brazil}}

|

A crinoid, a species of Pentaridica.

|

Polycidaris gygii

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Hostettler & Menkveld-Gfeller

|

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

|

Lochen Formation

Wildegg Formation

|

{{Flag|Germany}}

{{Flag|Switzerland}}

|

A member of Cidaroida, a species of Polycidaris.

|

Porosublastus{{cite journal |author1=James Sprinkle |author2=Colin D. Sumrall |year=2015 |title=New edrioasterine and astrocystitid (Echinodermata: Edrioasteroidea) from the Ninemile Shale (Lower Ordovician), central Nevada |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=346–352 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2014.29 |bibcode=2015JPal...89..346S |s2cid=129561179 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Sprinkle & Sumrall

|

Early Ordovician

|

Ninemile Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

An edrioasteroid. The type species is Porosublastus inexpectus.

|

Probalocrinus{{Cite journal|author1=Craig R. Clement |author2=Carlton E. Brett |year=2015 |title=Echinoderm faunas of the Decatur Limestone and Ross Formation (Upper Silurian to Lower Devonian) of west-central Tennessee |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=388 |pages=1–111 |url=https://www.priweb.org/downloads/pubs/item_pdf_5800.pdf }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Clement & Brett

|

Late Silurian (Ludlovian)-early Devonian (Lochkovian)

|

Birdsong Shale

Henryhouse Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A camerate crinoid belonging to the group Diplobathrida. The type species is "Siphonocrinus" dignis Strimple (1963).

|

Protogloboeocrinus{{cite journal |author1=Yuanlong Zhao |author2=Jin Peng |author3=Mengyin Wu |author4=Xiuchun Luo |author5=Rongqin Wen |author6=Yujuan Liu |year=2015 |title=A new type eocrinoids of echinoderms from the Balang Formation in Cambrian at Xiasi Town, Majiang County, Guizhou Province, China |journal=Earth Science — Journal of China University of Geosciences |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=249–260 |doi=10.3799/dqkx.2015.018 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Zhao et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Balang Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A member of Eocrinoidea. Genus includes new species P. yini Zhao, Peng & Wu in Zhao et al. (2015).

|

Pseudedriophus

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Sprinkle & Sumrall

|

Early Ordovician

|

Ninemile Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

An edrioasteroid. The type species is Pseudedriophus guensburgi.

|

Quechuacrinus{{cite journal |author1=Thomas E. Guensburg |author2=Beatriz G. Waisfeld |year=2015 |title=South America's earliest (Ordovician, Floian) crinoids |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=4 |pages=622–630 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.49 |bibcode=2015JPal...89..622G |s2cid=131565136 |hdl=11336/43469 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Guensburg & Waisfeld

|

Ordovician (Floian)

|

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A crinoid. The type species is Quechuacrinus ticsa.

|

Ramseyocrinus argentinus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Guensburg & Waisfeld

|

Ordovician (Floian)

|

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A crinoid, a species of Ramseyocrinus.

|

Rautscholdticrinus

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Webster & Donovan

|

Permian

|

|

{{Flag|Indonesia}}

|

A crinoid. Genus includes Rautscholdticrinus indicus (Wanner, 1916) and Rautscholdticrinus weidnerii (Wanner, 1937).

|

Rhabdocidaris deubelbeissi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Hostettler & Menkveld-Gfeller

|

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

|

Wildegg Formation

|

{{Flag|Switzerland}}

|

A member of Cidaroida, a species of Rhabdocidaris.

|

Ristnacrinus oepiki{{cite journal |author1=W. I. Ausich |author2=S. V. Rozhnov |author3=T. W. Kammer |year=2015 |title=Iocrinid crinoids from the Ordovician of the Baltic Region, Estonia |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=145–152 |doi=10.1134/S0031030115020069 |bibcode=2015PalJ...49..145A |s2cid=85510047 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ausich, Rozhnov & Kammer

|

Ordovician (Katian)

|

|

{{Flag|Estonia}}

|

A crinoid related to Iocrinus, a species of Ristnacrinus.

|

Salamonicrinus{{cite journal |author =Dawid Trzęsiok |year=2015 |title=Crinoids (Crinoidea, Echinodermata) from the Štramberk-type limestones of Poland |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=276 |issue=2 |pages=155–172 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2015/0472 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Trzęsiok

|

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

|

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A cyrtocrinid crinoid. The type species is Salamonicrinus prodigiosum.

|

Salirocystis

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Paul

|

Silurian

|

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A callocystitid cystoid; a new genus for "Apiocystites" anna Safford (1869).

|

Temnocrinus americanus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ausich, Peter & Ettensohn

|

Silurian (Rhuddanian)

|

Brassfield Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A crinoid, a species of Temnocrinus.

|

Velocrinus{{cite journal |author =William I. Ausich |author2=Mark A. Wilson |author3=Olev Vinn |author3-link=Olev Vinn |year=2015 |title=Wenlock and Pridoli (Silurian) crinoids from Saaremaa, western Estonia (Phylum Echinodermata) |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=72–81 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2014.6 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015JPal...89...72A }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ausich, Wilson & Vinn

|

Late Silurian

|

Kaugatuma Formation

|

{{Flag|Estonia}}

|

A crotalocrinitid crinoid. The type species is Velocrinus coniculus.

|

Conodonts

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Arianagnathus{{Cite journal|author1=Peep Männik |author2=C. Giles Miller |author3=Vachik Hairapetian |year=2015 |title=A new early Silurian prioniodontid conodont with three P elements from Iran and associated species |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=733–746 |doi=10.4202/app.00003.2013 |hdl=10141/622016 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Männik, Miller & Hairapetian

|

Silurian

|

Niur Formation

|

{{Flag|Iran}}

|

A member of Prioniodontida, possibly a balognathid. The type species is Arianagnathus jafariani.

|

Dichognathus zhaoi{{Cite journal|author1=Jian-fei Xiong |author2=Tao Wu |author3=Jun-qi Wang |year=2015 |title=Biostratigraphy and correlation of Ordovician conodonts from drilling sites of the northern area of Tarim Basin |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Sinica |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=120–139 |url=http://eng.oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbCode=cjfd&QueryID=56&CurRec=10&filename=GSWX201501010&dbname=CJFDLAST2015 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Xiong, Wu & Wang

|

Ordovician

|

Tarim Basin

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

|

Eolinguipolygnathus radula{{Cite journal|author1=Zhor Sarah Aboussalam |author2=Ralph Thomas Becker |author3=Pierre Bultynck |year=2015 |title=Emsian (Lower Devonian) conodont stratigraphy and correlation of the Anti-Atlas (Southern Morocco) |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=90 |issue=4 |pages=893–980 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1534 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aboussalam & Becker in Aboussalam, Becker & Bultynck

|

Devonian (early Emsian)

|

|

{{Flag|Morocco}}

|

|

Eoplacognathus aisangensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Xiong, Wu & Wang

|

Ordovician

|

Tarim Basin

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

|

Gapparodus gapparites{{Cite journal|author1=Ben Yang |author2=Michael Steiner |author3=Helmut Keupp |year=2015 |title=Early Cambrian palaeobiogeography of the Zhenba–Fangxian Block (South China): Independent terrane or part of the Yangtze Platform? |journal=Gondwana Research |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=1543–1565 |doi=10.1016/j.gr.2014.09.020 |bibcode=2015GondR..28.1543Y }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Yang, Steiner & Keupp

|

Early Cambrian

|

Shuijingtuo Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A member of Furnishinidae; a species of Gapparodus.

|

Hayashiella{{Cite journal|author1=Ali Murat Kiliç |author2=Pablo Plasencia |author3=Keisuke Ishida |author4=Francis Hirsch |year=2015 |title=The case of the Carnian (Triassic) conodont genus Metapolygnathus Hayashi |journal=Journal of Earth Science |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=219–223 |doi=10.1007/s12583-015-0534-y |bibcode=2015JEaSc..26..219K |s2cid=84609412 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Kiliç et al.

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

{{Flag|Italy}}

{{Flag|Japan}}

{{Flag|Slovakia}}

|

A member of Gondolellidae. A new genus for "Metapolygnathus" nodosus Hayashi (1968); genus also includes "Gondolella" carpathica Mock (1979), H. lindae (Orchard) and H. permica (Hayashi).

|

Hindeodus capitanensis{{Cite journal|author1=Bruce R. Wardlaw |author2=Merlynd K. Nestell |year=2015 |title=Conodont faunas from a complete basinal succession of the upper part of the Wordian (Middle Permian, Guadalupian, West Texas) |journal=Micropaleontology |volume=61 |issue=4–5 |pages=257–292 |doi=10.47894/mpal.61.4.02 |bibcode=2015MiPal..61..257W |s2cid=132061177 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Wardlaw & Nestell

|

Permian

|

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

|

Icriodus ovalis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bultynck in Aboussalam, Becker & Bultynck

|

Devonian (late Emsian)

|

Mdâouer-el-Kbîr Formation

|

{{Flag|Morocco}}

|

|

Icriodus praerectirostratus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bultynck in Aboussalam, Becker & Bultynck

|

Devonian (late Emsian)

|

Timrhanrhart Formation

|

{{Flag|Morocco}}

|

|

Mazzaella

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Kiliç et al.

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Germany}}

{{Flag|Hungary}}

{{Flag|Italy}}

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A member of Gondolellidae. A new genus for "Epigondolella" carnica Krystyn (1975); genus also includes "Metapolygnathus" baloghi Kovacs (1977).

|

Moskalenkodus{{Cite journal|author =Jerzy Dzik |year=2015 |title=Evolutionary roots of the conodonts with increased number of elements in the apparatus |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |volume=106 |issue=1 |pages=29–53 |doi=10.1017/S1755691015000195 |bibcode=2015EESTR.106...29D |s2cid=55985923 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Dzik

|

Late Ordovician

|

Krivaya Luka Formation

Makarovo Formation

Tunguz Basin

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Prioniodontida belonging to the family Distomodontidae. A new genus for "Amorphognathus" quinquiradiatus Moskalenko in Kanygin et al. (1977). Genus also includes Moskalenkodus cruciformis (Moskalenko, 1970).

|

Neostreptognathodus costatus{{Cite journal|author1=Chengyuan Wang |author2=Fang Zhang |year=2015 |title=A new Early Permian conodont species from the Amushan Formation in Xiwuzhumuqin Qi, Inner Mongolia, China |journal=Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=209–218 |url=http://eng.oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?filename=WSGT201502010&DBName=cjfqtotal&dbcode=cjfq }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Wang & Zhang

|

Early Permian

|

Amushan Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

|

Ozarkodina derenjalensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Männik, Miller & Hairapetian

|

Silurian

|

Niur Formation

|

{{Flag|Iran}}

|

A member of Ozarkodinida, a spathognathodontid; a species of Ozarkodina.

|

Polygnathus bicristatus{{Cite journal|author1=Angelo Mossoni |author2=Nicola Carta |author3=Carlo Corradini |author4=Claudia Spalletta |year=2015 |title=Conodonts across the Devonian/Carboniferous boundary in SE Sardinia (Italy) |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=90 |issue=2 |pages=371–388 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1524 |url=https://iris.unica.it/bitstream/11584/72434/4/164.Mossoni%20et%20al%202014%20-%20Bruncu%20Bullai%20DCB%20-%20BullGeosci.pdf |hdl=11584/72434 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mossoni et al.

|

Late Devonian or Early Carboniferous

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Polygnathidae, a species of Polygnathus.

|

Polygnathus nuragicus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mossoni et al.

|

Late Devonian or Early Carboniferous

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Polygnathidae, a species of Polygnathus.

|

Postoistodus

|

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Xiong, Wu & Wang

|

Ordovician

|

Tarim Basin

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

Genus includes new species P. elongatus and P. tridens.

|

Pseudohindeodus brevis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Wardlaw & Nestell

|

Permian

|

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

|

Pseudopolygnathus granulobatus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Mossoni et al.

|

Late Devonian or Early Carboniferous

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Polygnathidae, a species of Pseudopolygnathus.

|

Pygodus serrus ambonis

|

Subsp. nov

|

Valid

|

Xiong, Wu & Wang

|

Ordovician

|

Tarim Basin

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

|

Spathogondolella{{Cite journal|author1=Yanlong Chen |author2=Haishui Jiang |author3=Xulong Lai |author4=Chunbo Yan |author5=Sylvain Richoz |author6=Xiaodan Liu |author7=Lina Wang |year=2015 |title=Early Triassic conodonts of Jiarong, Nanpanjiang Basin, southern Guizhou Province, South China |journal=Journal of Asian Earth Sciences |volume=105 |pages=104–121 |doi=10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.03.014 |bibcode=2015JAESc.105..104C }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Jiang in Chen et al.

|

Early Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

The type species is Spathogondolella jiarongensis.

|

Vjalovognathus nicolli{{Cite journal|author1=Dong-xun Yuan |author2=Yi-chun Zhang |author3=Shu-zhong Shen |author4=Charles M. Henderson |author5=Yu-jie Zhang |author6=Tong-xing Zhu |author7=Xian-yin An |author8=Hong-zhen Feng |year=2015 |title=Early Permian conodonts from the Xainza area, central Lhasa Block, Tibet, and their palaeobiogeographical and palaeoclimatic implications |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=14 |issue=5 |pages=365–383 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2015.1052027 |s2cid=140132543 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid{{Cite web|url=https://zoobank.org/References/35EFEF79-315E-4CCE-A72E-5BE27CFAFBF5|title=ZooBank.org|website=zoobank.org}}

|

Yuan, Shen & Henderson in Yuan et al.

|

Early Permian

|

Xiala Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A species of Vjalovognathus.

|

Fishes

{{Main|2015 in fish paleontology}}

Reptiles

{{Main|2015 in reptile paleontology|2015 in archosaur paleontology}}

Amphibians

=Research=

  • A study of the anatomy of the skull of Acanthostega gunnari is published by Porro, Rayfield & Clack (2015).{{cite journal |author1=Laura B. Porro |author2=Emily J. Rayfield |author3=Jennifer A. Clack |year=2015 |title=Descriptive Anatomy and Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Skull of the Early Tetrapod Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik, 1952 |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=e0118882 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0118882 |pmid=25760343 |pmc=4356540 |bibcode=2015PLoSO..1018882P |doi-access=free }}
  • A study of the skeletal morphogenesis of the lepospondyls Microbrachis pelikani and Hyloplesion longicostatum is published by Olori (2015).{{cite journal |author =Jennifer C. Olori |year=2015 |title=Skeletal Morphogenesis of Microbrachis and Hyloplesion (Tetrapoda: Lepospondyli), and Implications for the Developmental Patterns of Extinct, Early Tetrapods |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=10 |issue=6 |pages=e0128333 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0128333 |pmid=26083733 |pmc=4470922|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1028333O |doi-access=free }}
  • A study of the anatomy of the skull of the lepospondyl Quasicaecilia texana is published by Pardo, Szostakiwskyj & Anderson (2015).{{cite journal |author1=Jason D. Pardo |author2=Matt Szostakiwskyj |author3=Jason S. Anderson |year=2015 |title=Cranial Morphology of the Brachystelechid 'Microsaur' Quasicaecilia texana Carroll Provides New Insights into the Diversity and Evolution of Braincase Morphology in Recumbirostran 'Microsaurs' |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=10 |issue=6 |pages=e0130359 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0130359 |pmid=26107260 |pmc=4479878|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1030359P |doi-access=free }}

=New taxa=

==Temnospondyls==

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Eocyclotosaurus appetolatus{{cite journal |author1=Larry F. Rinehart |author2=Spencer G. Lucas |author3=Rainer R. Schoch |year=2015 |title=Eocyclotosaurus appetolatus, a new cyclotosaurid amphibian from the Middle Triassic (Perovkan) Moenkopi Formation of New Mexico, U.S.A. |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=e929140 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2014.929140 |bibcode=2015JVPal..35E9140R |s2cid=140694709 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Rinehart, Lucas & Schoch

|

Middle Triassic

|

Moenkopi Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A capitosaur, a species of Eocyclotosaurus.

|

Metoposaurus algarvensis{{cite journal |author1=Stephen L. Brusatte |author2=Richard J. Butler |author3=Octávio Mateus |author4=J. Sébastien Steyer |year=2015 |title=A new species of Metoposaurus from the Late Triassic of Portugal and comments on the systematics and biogeography of metoposaurid temnospondyls |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=e912988 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2014.912988 |bibcode=2015JVPal..35E2988B |s2cid=84007744 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Brusatte et al.

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Portugal}}

|

A species of Metoposaurus.

|

Parapytanga{{cite journal |author1=Adriana Strapasson |author2=Felipe L. Pinheiro |author3=Marina B. Soares |year=2015 |title=On a new stereospondylomorph temnospondyl from the Middle/Late Permian of Southern Brazil |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=843–855 |doi=10.4202/app.00059.2014 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Strapasson, Pinheiro & Soares

|

Middle or late Permian

|

Rio do Rasto Formation

|

{{Flag|Brazil}}

|

A basal member of Stereospondylomorpha. The type species is Parapytanga catarinensis.

|File:Parapytanga.jpg

Procuhy{{cite journal |author1=Juan C. Cisneros |author2=Claudia Marsicano |author3=Kenneth D. Angielczyk |author4=Roger M. H. Smith |author5=Martha Richter |author6=Jörg Fröbisch |author7=Christian F. Kammerer |author8=Rudyard W. Sadleir |year=2015 |title=New Permian fauna from tropical Gondwana |journal=Nature Communications |volume=6 |pages=Article number 8676 |doi=10.1038/ncomms9676 |pmid=26537112 |pmc=4659833|bibcode=2015NatCo...6.8676C }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cisneros et al.

|

Permian (Cisuralian)

|

Lower Pedra de Fogo Formation

|

{{Flag|Brazil}}

|

A member of Trimerorhachidae. The type species is Procuhy nazariensis.

|File:Procuhy.jpg

Timonya

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cisneros et al.

|

Permian (Cisuralian)

|

Lower Pedra de Fogo Formation

|

{{Flag|Brazil}}

|

A member of Dvinosauria. The type species is Timonya anneae.

|File:Timonya_anneae.jpg

==Lepospondyls==

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Aletrimyti{{cite journal |author1=Matt Szostakiwskyj |author2=Jason D. Pardo |author3=Jason S. Anderson |year=2015 |title=Micro-CT Study of Rhynchonkos stovalli (Lepospondyli, Recumbirostra), with Description of Two New Genera |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=10 |issue=6 |pages=e0127307 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0127307 |pmid=26061187 |pmc=4465623|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1027307S |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Szostakiwskyj, Pardo & Anderson

|

Permian (Kungurian)

|

Fairmont Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A member of Recumbirostra. The type species is Aletrimyti gaskillae.

|

Batropetes appelensis{{cite journal |author =Sabine Glienke |year=2015 |title=Two new species of the genus Batropetes (Tetrapoda, Lepospondyli) from the Central European Rotliegend (basal Permian) in Germany |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=e918041 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2014.918041 |bibcode=2015JVPal..35E8041G |s2cid=83855041 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Glienke

|

Early Permian

|

Saar–Nahe Basin

|

{{Flag|Germany}}

|

A species of Batropetes.

|

Batropetes palatinus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Glienke

|

Early Permian

|

Saar–Nahe Basin

|

{{Flag|Germany}}

|

A species of Batropetes.

|

Dvellecanus

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Szostakiwskyj, Pardo & Anderson

|

Permian (Kungurian)

|

Fairmont Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A member of Recumbirostra. The type species is Dvellecanus carrolli.

|

==Lissamphibians==

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Bufo mirus{{cite journal |author =Elena V. Syromyatnikova |year=2015 |title=A new species of Bufo (Amphibia, Anura) from the Miocene of Russia |journal=Russian Journal of Herpetology |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=281–288 |url=http://rjh.folium.ru/index.php/rjh/article/view/1026 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Syromyatnikova

|

Late Early – early Middle Miocene

|

Khalagay Formation

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A true toad of uncertain phylogenetic placement, most similar and possibly related to the Mongolian toad.

|

Hensonbatrachus{{cite book |author1=James D. Gardner |author2=Donald B. Brinkman |year=2015 |chapter=A new frog (Lissamphibia, Anura) from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada |editor1=O.R.P. Bininda-Emonds |editor2=G.L. Powell |editor3=H.A. Jamniczky |editor4=A.M. Bauer |editor5=J. Theodor |title=All animals are interesting: a Festschrift in honour of Anthony P. Russell |publisher=BIS Verlag |pages=35–105 |isbn=978-3-8142-2324-7 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Gardner & Brinkman

|

Late Cretaceous (Campanian)

|

Dinosaur Park Formation

Oldman Formation

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A frog. The type species is Hensonbatrachus kermiti.

|

Lepidobatrachus australis{{cite journal |author =Laura Nicoli |year=2015 |title=New fossil species of the extant genus Lepidobatrachus (Anura, Ceratophryidae) from the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene of central Argentina |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=5 |pages=e981636 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2015.981636 |bibcode=2015JVPal..35E1636N |hdl=11336/46258 |s2cid=83574417 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Nicoli

|

Late Miocene to Early Pliocene

|

Monte Hermoso Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A frog belonging to the family Ceratophryidae, a species of Lepidobatrachus.

|

Palaeoplethodon{{cite journal |author1=George Poinar Jr. |author2=David B. Wake |year=2015 |title=Palaeoplethodon hispaniolae gen. n., sp. n. (Amphibia: Caudata), a fossil salamander from the Caribbean |journal=Palaeodiversity |volume=8 |pages=21–29 |url=http://www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/08/03Palaeodiversity_8-15_Poinar-Wake_4.pdf }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Poinar & Wake

|

Eocene or Miocene

|

|

{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}

|

A lungless salamander found in Dominican amber. The type species is Palaeoplethodon hispaniolae.

|File:Salamander_in_amber.jpg

Tyrrellbatrachus{{cite journal |author =James D. Gardner |year=2015 |title=An edentulous frog (Lissamphibia; Anura) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation of southeastern Alberta, Canada |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=52 |issue=8 |pages=569–580 |doi=10.1139/cjes-2014-0176 |bibcode=2015CaJES..52..569G }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Gardner

|

Late Cretaceous (Campanian)

|

Dinosaur Park Formation

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A frog of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Tyrrellbatrachus brinkmani.

|

Varibatrachus{{cite journal |author1=Dennis Parmley |author2=Robert Chandler |author3=Linda Chandler |year=2015 |title=Fossil Frogs of the Late Clarendonian (Late Miocene) Pratt Slide Local Fauna of Nebraska, with the Description of a New Genus |journal=Journal of Herpetology |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=143–149 |doi=10.1670/13-171 |s2cid=85671201 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Parmley, Chandler & Chandler

|

Miocene (late Clarendonian)

|

Ash Hollow Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A frog of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Varibatrachus abraczinskasae.

|

==Diadectomorphs==

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Alveusdectes{{cite journal |author1=Jun Liu |author2=Gabe S. Bever |year=2015 |title=The last diadectomorph sheds light on Late Palaeozoic tetrapod biogeography |journal=Biology Letters |volume=11 |issue=5 |page=20150100 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2015.0100 |pmid=25948572 |pmc=4455737}}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Liu & Bever

|

Late Permian (Wuchiapingian, roughly 256 Ma)

|

Shangshihezi Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A diadectid. The type species is Alveusdectes fenestralis.

|

Synapsids

=Non-mammalian synapsids=

==Research==

  • Redescription of the anatomy of Tiarajudens eccentricus is published by Cisneros et al. (2015), who compare the species with Anomocephalus africanus.{{cite journal |author1=Juan Carlos Cisneros |author2=Fernando Abdala |author3=Tea Jashashvili |author4=Ana de Oliveira Bueno |author5=Paula Dentzien-Dias |year=2015 |title=Tiarajudens eccentricus and Anomocephalus africanus, two bizarre anomodonts (Synapsida, Therapsida) with dental occlusion from the Permian of Gondwana |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=2 |issue=7 |page=150090 |doi=10.1098/rsos.150090 |pmid=26587266 |pmc=4632579 |bibcode=2015RSOS....250090C }}

==New taxa==

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Endothiodon tolani{{cite journal |author1=C.B. Cox |author2=Kenneth D. Angielczyk |year=2015 |title=A new endothiodont dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Permian Ruhuhu Formation (Songea Group) of Tanzania and its feeding system |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=e935388 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2014.935388 |bibcode=2015JVPal..35E5388C |s2cid=128730997 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cox & Angielczyk

|

Permian

|

Ruhuhu Formation

|

{{Flag|Tanzania}}

|

A dicynodont, a species of Endothiodon.

|

Ichibengops{{cite journal |author1=Adam K. Huttenlocker |author2=Christian A. Sidor |author3=Kenneth D. Angielczyk |year=2015 |title=A new eutherocephalian (Therapsida, Therocephalia) from the upper Permian Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Luangwa Basin) of Zambia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=5 |pages=e969400 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2015.969400 |bibcode=2015JVPal..35E9400H |s2cid=83554630 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/1488656 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Huttenlocker, Sidor & Angielczyk

|

Late Permian

|

Madumabisa Mudstone Formation

|

{{Flag|Zambia}}

|

A therocephalian. The type species is Ichibengops munyamadziensis.

|

Lende{{cite journal |author1=Ashley Kruger |author2=Bruce S. Rubidge |author3=Fernando Abdala |author4=Elizabeth Gomani Chindebvu |author5=Louis L. Jacobs |year=2015 |title=Lende chiweta, a new therapsid from Malawi, and its influence on burnetiamorph phylogeny and biogeography |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=6 |pages=e1008698 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2015.1008698 |bibcode=2015JVPal..35E8698K |s2cid=83725100 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Kruger et al.

|

Late Permian

|

Chiweta Beds

|

{{Flag|Malawi}}

|

A burnetiamorph biarmosuchian therapsid. The type species is Lende chiweta.

|File:Lende_chiweta.jpg

Nothogomphodon sanjiaoensis{{cite journal |author1=Jun Liu |author2=Fernando Abdala |year=2015 |title=New discoveries from the Sinokannemeyeria-Shansisuchus Assemblage Zone: 2. A new species of Nothogomphodon (Therapsida: Therocephalia) from the Ermaying Formation of Shanxi, China |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=53 |issue=2 |pages=123–132 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201501/P020150420388968668307.pdf |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2015.02.003 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Liu & Abdala

|

Middle Triassic

|

Ermaying Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A therocephalian, a species of Nothogomphodon.

|

Ruberodon{{cite journal |author =Sanghamitra Ray |year=2015 |title=A new Late Triassic traversodontid cynodont (Therapsida, Eucynodontia) from India |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=e930472 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2014.930472 |bibcode=2015JVPal..35E0472R |s2cid=86368800 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ray

|

Late Triassic

|

Tiki Formation

|

{{Flag|India}}

|

A traversodontid cynodont. The type species is Ruberodon roychowdhurii.

|

Sinokannemeyeria baidaoyuensis{{cite journal |author =Jun Liu |year=2015 |title=New discoveries from the Sinokannemeyeria-Shansisuchus Assemblage Zone: 1. Kannemeyeriiformes from Shanxi, China |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=53 |issue=1 |pages=16–28 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201501/P020150112585713877414.pdf |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2015.01.002 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Liu

|

Middle Triassic

|

Tongchuan Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A kannemeyeriiform dicynodont, a species of Sinokannemeyeria.

|

=Mammals=

{{Main|2015 in mammal paleontology}}

Other animals

=Research=

  • A study of phylogenetic relationships of the Ediacaran animal Namacalathus, interpreting it as a member of Lophotrochozoa related to bryozoans and brachiopods, is published by Zhuravlev, Wood & Penny (2015).{{Cite journal|author1=A. Yu. Zhuravlev |author2=R. A. Wood |author3=A. M. Penny |year=2015 |title=Ediacaran skeletal metazoan interpreted as a lophophorate |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=282 |issue=1818 |page=20151860 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2015.1860 |pmid=26538593 |pmc=4650157}}

=New taxa=

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Aegirocassis{{Cite journal|author1=Peter Van Roy |author2=Allison C. Daley |author3=Derek E. G. Briggs |year=2015 |title=Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps |journal=Nature |volume=522 |issue=7554 |pages=77–80 |doi=10.1038/nature14256 |pmid=25762145|bibcode=2015Natur.522...77V |s2cid=205242881 |url=https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6852277/file/6879971 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/11/8191763/yale-nature-study-giant-lobster-aegirocassis-benmoulae |title = This giant lobster ancestor was once the biggest animal on Earth|date = 2015-03-11}}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Van Roy, Daley & Briggs

|

Early Ordovician

|

|

{{Flag|Morocco}}

|

A hurdiid radiodont. The type species is Aegirocassis benmoulae.

|File:20191205_Aegirocassis_benmoulai_Aegirocassis_benmoulae.png

Allonnia tintinopsis{{Cite journal|author1=Stefan Bengtson |author2=Desmond Collins |year=2015 |title=Chancelloriids of the Cambrian Burgess Shale |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 18.1.6A |doi=10.26879/498 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bengtson & Collins

|

Cambrian

|

Burgess Shale

El Gavilán Formation{{cite journal |author1=Matilde S. Beresi |author2=Blanca Buitrón-Sánchez |author3=Francisco J. Cuen-Romero |author4=Juan J. Palafox |year=2019 |title=Escleritomos de Chancelloria eros y escleritos del Cámbrico medio (Serie 3, Piso 5) de Sonora central, México |journal=Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=54–63 |doi=10.22201/cgeo.20072902e.2019.1.928 |doi-access=free }}

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A chancelloriid, a species of Allonnia.

|

Anguispongia siciliana

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Auriculospongiidae.

|

Archiasterella coriacea

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bengtson & Collins

|

Cambrian

|

Burgess Shale

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A chancelloriid, a species of Archiasterella.

|

Atrochaetetes conicus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge.

|

Banffia episoma{{Cite journal|author1=Simon Conway Morris |author2=Susan L. Halgedahl |author-link2=Susan Halgedahl|author3=Paul Selden |author4=Richard D. Jarrard |year=2015 |title=Rare primitive deuterostomes from the Cambrian (Series 3) of Utah |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=4 |pages=631–636 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.40 |bibcode=2015JPal...89..631C |s2cid=3962956 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Conway Morris et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Spence Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

An early deuterostome, a species of Banffia.

|File:Banffia_episoma_KUMIP_314017.jpg

Carterina burgioi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Disjectoporidae.

|

Collinsium{{Cite journal|author1=Jie Yang |author2=Javier Ortega-Hernández |author3=Sylvain Gerber |author4=Nicholas J. Butterfield |author5=Jin-bo Hou |author6=Tian Lan |author7=Xi-guang Zhang |year=2015 |title=A superarmored lobopodian from the Cambrian of China and early disparity in the evolution of Onychophora |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=112 |issue=28 |pages=8678–8683 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1505596112 |pmid=26124122 |pmc=4507230|bibcode=2015PNAS..112.8678Y |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Yang et al.

|

Early Cambrian

|

Xiaoshiba Lagerstätte

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A lobopodian belonging to the lineage leading to the velvet worms. The type species is Collinsium ciliosum.

|

Colospongia cribrifera{{Cite journal|author1=B. Senowbari-Daryan |author2=M. Link |author3=P. Riedel |year=2015 |title=Colospongia cribrifera nov. sp. and Parastylothalamia minima nov. sp. ("Sphinctozoa", Porifera) from the Norian of Taurus Mountains, Turkey |journal=Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=1–9 |url=http://institutions.ville-geneve.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/mhn/documents/Museum/Revue_de_Paleo/1_9_Senow_etal.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Link & Riedel

|

Late Triassic (Norian)

|

|

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A sponge, a species of Colospongia.

|

Conochaetetes

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge. Genus includes new species C. magnitubus.

|

Costatulites kimi{{Cite journal|author1=Mohammad Ghavidel-Syooki |author2=David H. Evans |author3=Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour |author4=Leonid E. Popov |author5=J. Javier Álvaro |author6=Utkyr Rakhmonov |author7=Inna A. Klishevich |author8=Mohammad H. Ehsani |year=2015 |title=Late Ordovician cephalopods, tentaculitides, machaeridians and echinoderms from Kuh-e Faraghan, High Zagros, Iran |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=530–549 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2015.1052677 |bibcode=2015Alch...39..530G |s2cid=127003665 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ghavidel-Syooki et al.

|

Ordovician (Katian)

|

|

{{Flag|Iran}}

|

A member of Tentaculita (a group of animals of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly molluscs), a species of Costatulites.

|

Cyrtograptus fui{{Cite journal|author1=Jian Wang |author2=Petr Štorch |author3=Xin Wang |author4=Ju Zhang |year=2015 |title=A new graptolite species of Cyrtograptus from the uppermost Llandovery of Ziyang, Shaanxi Province, China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=24 |issue=1–2 |pages=215–220 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2015.01.002 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Wang et al.

|

Silurian (Llandovery)

|

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A graptolite, a species of Cyrtograptus.

|

Dailyatia bacata{{Cite journal|author1=Christian B. Skovsted |author2=Marissa J. Betts |author3=Timothy P. Topper |author4=Glenn A. Brock |year=2015 |title=The early Cambrian tommotiid genus Dailyatia from South Australia |journal=Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists |volume=48 |pages=1–117 |bibcode=2015ectg.book.....S |url=https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=698833717454522;res=IELNZC }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Skovsted et al.

|

Cambrian

|

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A tommotiid.

|

Dailyatia helica

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Skovsted et al.

|

Cambrian

|

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A tommotiid.

|

Disjectopora gaetanii

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Austria}}

{{Flag|Italy}}

{{Flag|Oman}}

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Disjectoporidae.

|

Eocyathispongia{{Cite journal|author1=Zongjun Yin |author2=Maoyan Zhu |author3=Eric H. Davidson |author4=David J. Bottjer |author5=Fangchen Zhao |author6=Paul Tafforeau |year=2015 |title=Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=112 |issue=12 |pages=E1453–E1460 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1414577112 |pmid=25775601 |pmc=4378401|bibcode=2015PNAS..112E1453Y |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Yin et al.

|

Precambrian (Ediacaran)

|

Doushantuo Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A sponge. The type species is Eocyathispongia qiania.

|File:Eocyathispongia_qiani.jpg

Eokinorhynchus{{Cite journal|author1=Huaqiao Zhang |author2=Shuhai Xiao |author3=Yunhuan Liu |author4=Xunlai Yuan |author5=Bin Wan |author6=A. D. Muscente |author7=Tiequan Shao |author8=Hao Gong |author9=Guohua Cao |year=2015 |title=Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=5 |pages=Article number 16521 |doi=10.1038/srep16521 |pmid=26610151 |pmc=4660871|bibcode=2015NatSR...516521Z }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Zhang et al.

|

Cambrian (Fortunian)

|

Dengying Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A kinorhynch-like scalidophoran. The type species is Eokinorhynchus rarus.

|File:Eokinorhynchus_holotype.png

Eolarva{{Cite journal|author1=Huaqiao Zhang |author2=Xi-Ping Dong |year=2015 |title=The oldest known larva and its implications for the plesiomorphy of metazoan development |journal=Science Bulletin |volume=60 |issue=22 |pages=1947–1953 |doi=10.1007/s11434-015-0886-9 |bibcode=2015SciBu..60.1947Z |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Zhang & Dong

|

Cambrian (Fortunian)

|

Kuanchuanpu Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

An animal of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a cnidarian-grade animal. The type species is Eolarva kuanchuanpuensis.

|

Galeactena{{Cite journal|author1=Qiang Ou |author2=Shuhai Xiao |author3=Jian Han |author4=Ge Sun |author5=Fang Zhang |author6=Zhifei Zhang |author7=Degan Shu |year=2015 |title=A vanished history of skeletonization in Cambrian comb jellies |journal=Science Advances |volume=1 |issue=6 |pages=e1500092 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.1500092 |pmid=26601209 |pmc=4646772 |bibcode=2015SciA....1E0092O }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ou et al.

|

Early Cambrian

|

Heilinpu Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A comb jelly. The type species is Galeactena hemispherica.

|

Gamascolex vanroyi{{Cite journal|author1=Juan C. Gutiérrez-Marco |author2=Diego C. García-Bellido |year=2015 |title=Micrometric detail in palaeoscolecid worms from Late Ordovician sandstones of the Tafilalt Konservat-Lagerstätte, Morocco |journal=Gondwana Research |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=875–881 |doi=10.1016/j.gr.2014.04.006 |bibcode=2015GondR..28..875G |hdl=10261/98917 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Gutiérrez-Marco & García-Bellido

|

Late Ordovician

|

|

{{Flag|Morocco}}

|

A palaeoscolecid worm, a species of Gamascolex.

|

Gemmactena

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ou et al.

|

Early Cambrian

|

Heilinpu Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A comb jelly. The type species is Gemmactena actinala.

|

Globucatenula

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge. Genus includes new species G. siciliana.

|

Glyptograptus perneri{{Cite journal|author =Petr Štorch |year=2015 |title=Graptolites from the Rhuddanian-Aeronian boundary interval (Silurian), Prague Synform, Czech Republic |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=90 |issue=4 |pages=841–891 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1568 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Štorch

|

Silurian

|

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A graptolite belonging to the family Retiolitidae, a species of Glyptograptus.

|

Guanshanchaeta{{Cite journal|author1=Jianni Liu |author2=Qiang Ou |author3=Jian Han |author4=Jinshu Li |author5=Yichen Wu |author6=Guoxiang Jiao |author7=Tongjiang He |year=2015 |title=Lower Cambrian polychaete from China sheds light on early annelid evolution |journal=The Science of Nature |volume=102 |issue=5–6 |page=34 |doi=10.1007/s00114-015-1285-4 |pmid=26017277 |pmc=4446521 |bibcode=2015SciNa.102...34L }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Liu et al.

|

Early Cambrian

|

Wulongqing Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A polychaete annelid. The type species is Guanshanchaeta felicia.

|

Hindenites parkheadensis{{Cite journal|author1=Mats E. Eriksson |author2=Peter H. von Bitter |year=2015 |title=Jaw-bearing polychaetes of the Silurian Eramosa Lagerstätte, Ontario, Canada |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=222–235 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2014.18 |bibcode=2015JPal...89..222E |s2cid=128586407 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Eriksson & von Bitter

|

Silurian (Wenlock)

|

Eramosa Lagerstätte

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A polychaete, a species of Hindenites.

|

Incertuspongia

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge. Genus includes new species I. maxima.

|

Irregulaspongia

|

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Auriculospongiidae. Genus includes I. magna and I. parva.

|

Magnicanalifera

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge. Genus includes new species M. lupensis.

|

Multilaticanalia

|

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge. Genus includes new species M. panormitana and M. reticulata.

|

Neomonograptus aequabilis latus{{Cite journal|author1=Xu Chen |author2=Yunan Ni |author3=Alfred C. Lenz |author4=Linna Zhang |author5=Zhongyang Chen |author6=Lan Tang |year=2015 |title=Early Devonian graptolites from the Qinzhou–Yulin region, southeast Guangxi, China |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=52 |issue=11 |pages=1000–1013 |doi=10.1139/cjes-2015-0025 |bibcode=2015CaJES..52.1000C }}

|

Subsp. nov

|

Valid

|

Chen et al.

|

Early Devonian

|

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A graptolite, a subspecies of Neomonograptus aequabilis.

|

Noritubispongia{{Cite journal|author1=Baba Senowbari-Daryan |author2=Pietro di Stefano |author3=Benedetto Abate |year=2015 |title=Hypercalcified sponges from the Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) of Sicily |journal=Quaderni del Museo Geologico Gemmellaro |volume=10 |pages=1–300 |url=https://pure.unipa.it/it/publications/hypercalcified-sponges-from-the-upper-triassic-norian-rhaetian-re-2 }}

|

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Greece}}

{{Flag|Italy}}

{{Flag|Turkey}}{{cite journal |author1=Baba Senowbari-Daryan |author2=Michael Link |year=2016 |title=Hypercalcified inozoan sponges from the Norian reef carbonates of Turkey |journal=Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=279–339 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305374639 |doi=10.5281/zenodo.51882 }}

|

A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida. The type species is N. chaetetiformis; genus also includes N. arcularia.

|

Normalograptus frydai

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Štorch

|

Silurian

|

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A graptolite belonging to the family Normalograptidae, a species of Normalograptus.

|

Normalograptus parvus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Štorch

|

Silurian

|

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A graptolite belonging to the family Normalograptidae, a species of Normalograptus.

|

Ottoia tricuspida{{Cite journal|author1=Martin R. Smith |author2=Thomas H. P. Harvey |author3=Nicholas J. Butterfield |year=2015 |title=The macro- and microfossil record of the Cambrian priapulid Ottoia |journal=Palaeontology |volume=58 |issue=4 |pages=705–721 |doi=10.1111/pala.12168 |bibcode=2015Palgy..58..705S |s2cid=55337080 |url=http://dro.dur.ac.uk/18218/1/18218.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Smith, Harvey & Butterfield

|

Cambrian

|

Burgess Shale

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A stem-group priapulid, a species of Ottoia.

|File:Ottoia_tricuspida_ROM_63057.jpg

Oymurania{{Cite journal|author1=Artem Kouchinsky |author2=Lars E. Holmer |author3=Michael Steiner |author4=Galina T. Ushatinskaya |year=2015 |title=The new stem-group brachiopod Oymurania from the lower Cambrian of Siberia |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=963–980 |doi=10.4202/app.00037.2013 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ushatinskaya in Kouchinsky et al.

|

Cambrian

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

{{Flag|Morocco}}?

|

A stem-group brachiopod. The type species is Oymurania gravestocki from Siberian Platform; genus might also contain a second, yet-unnamed species from Morocco.

|

Parastylothalamia minima

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Link & Riedel

|

Late Triassic (Norian)

|

|

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A sponge, a species of Parastylothalamia.

|

Pauxillites thaddei{{Cite journal |author1=Martin Valent |author2=Joan Carbacho |year=2015 |title=Pauxillites thaddei a new Lower Ordovician hyolith from Morocco |journal=Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B-Historia Naturalis |volume=71 |issue=1–2 |pages=51–54 |url=http://actab.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sbB_c1_2_2015_valent_corbacho_web.pdf |access-date=2016-01-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094918/http://actab.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sbB_c1_2_2015_valent_corbacho_web.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Valent & Carbacho

|

Ordovician (Floian)

|

Upper Fezouata Formation

|

{{Flag|Morocco}}

|

A member of Hyolitha (a group of animals of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly molluscs), a species of Pauxillites.

|

Pernerograptus pribyli

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Štorch

|

Silurian

|

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A graptolite belonging to the family Monograptidae, a species of Pernerograptus.

|

Polytubithalamia

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge. Genus includes new species P. perforata.

|

Preperonidella tabulata

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

{{Flag|Turkey}}

|

A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Preperonidellidae.

|

Protopholoe colombiana{{Cite journal|author =Javier Luque |author2=Stéphane Hourdez |author3=Olev Vinn |author3-link=Olev Vinn |year=2015 |title=A new fossil bristle worm (Annelida: Polychaeta: Aphroditiformia) from the late Cretaceous of tropical America |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=257–261 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2014.22 |bibcode=2015JPal...89..257L |s2cid=43867766 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Luque, Hourdez & Vinn

|

Late Cretaceous (Coniacian)

|

|

{{Flag|Colombia}}

|

An aphroditiform polychaete, a species of Protopholoe.

|

Pseudorthograptus mitchelli

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Štorch

|

Silurian

|

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A graptolite belonging to the family Retiolitidae, a species of Pseudorthograptus.

|

Pustulispongia

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge. Genus includes new species P. anulifera.

|

Pyrgopolon (Septenaria) nekvasilovae{{Cite journal |author1=Tomáš Kočí |author2=Manfred Jäger |year=2015 |title=Sabellid and serpulid worms (Polychaeta, Canalipalpata, Sabellida, Sabellidae, Serpulidae) from the rocky coast facies (Late Cenomanian) at Předboj near Prague |journal=Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B-Historia Naturalis |volume=71 |issue=1–2 |pages=31–50 |url=http://actab.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sbB_c1_2_2015_koci_jager_web1.pdf |access-date=2016-01-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604044041/http://actab.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sbB_c1_2_2015_koci_jager_web1.pdf |archive-date=2016-06-04 |url-status=dead }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Kočí & Jäger

|

Late Cretaceous (late Cenomanian)

|

Bohemian Cretaceous Basin

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A polychaete belonging to the family Serpulidae, a species of Pyrgopolon.

|

Pyrgopolon (Septenaria) zitti

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Kočí & Jäger

|

Late Cretaceous (late Cenomanian)

|

Bohemian Cretaceous Basin

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A polychaete belonging to the family Serpulidae, a species of Pyrgopolon.

|

Quasimolites{{Cite journal|author1=Martin Valent |author2=Oldřich Fatka |author3=Michal Szabad |author4=Václav Micka |author5=Ladislav Marek |year=2015 |title=Skryjelites auritus gen. et sp. nov. and Quasimolites quasimodo gen. et sp. nov.—two new middle Cambrian hyolithids (?Mollusca) from the Czech Republic |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4007 |issue=3 |pages=419–426 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4007.3.8 |pmid=26623820 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Valent et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Buchava Formation

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A member of Hyolitha (a group of animals of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly molluscs). The type species is Quasimolites quasimodo.

|

Rollinschaeta{{Cite journal|author1=Luke A. Parry |author2=Paul Wilson |author3=Dan Sykes |author4=Gregory D. Edgecombe |author5=Jakob Vinther |year=2015 |title=A new fireworm (Amphinomidae) from the Cretaceous of Lebanon identified from three-dimensionally preserved myoanatomy |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=15 |issue=1 |page=256 |doi=10.1186/s12862-015-0541-8 |pmid=26577802 |pmc=4650273 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015BMCEE..15..256P }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Parry et al.

|

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)

|

|

{{Flag|Lebanon}}

|

A polychaete belonging to the family Amphinomidae. The type species is Rollinschaeta myoplena.

|

Rostrospongia

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge. Genus includes new species R. magna.

|

Sarmentofascis? digitatus{{Cite journal|author1=Felix Schlagintweit |author2=Marcin Krajewski |year=2015 |title=Sarmentofascis? digitatus n. sp., a new cladocoropsid stromatoporoid from the Tithonian-early Berriasian (Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous) of the Ay-Petri massif (Crimea Peninsula) |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=277 |issue=2 |pages=141–151 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2015/0508 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schlagintweit & Krajewski

|

Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (Tithonian-early Berriasian)

|

|

Crimean Peninsula

|

A cladocoropsid stromatoporoid sponge, possibly a species of Sarmentofascis.

|

Scathascolex{{Cite journal|author =Martin R. Smith |year=2015 |title=A palaeoscolecid worm from the Burgess Shale |journal=Palaeontology |volume=58 |issue=6 |pages=973–979 |doi=10.1111/pala.12210 |s2cid=86747103 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015Palgy..58..973S }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid{{Cite web|url=https://zoobank.org/References/B24B1FAF-AB0A-4829-B316-10F53280E6DB|title=ZooBank.org|website=zoobank.org}}

|

Smith

|

Cambrian

|

Burgess Shale

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A palaeoscolecid worm. The type species is Scathascolex minor.

|File:Scathascolex_83939d.png

Semiuvanella

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge. Genus includes new species S. siciliana.

|

Skryjelites

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Valent et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Buchava Formation

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A member of Hyolitha (a group of animals of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly molluscs). The type species is Skryjelites auritus.

|

Sphenoecium wheelerensis{{Cite journal|author1=Jörg Maletz |author2=Michael Steiner |year=2015 |title=Graptolite (Hemichordata, Pterobranchia) preservation and identification in the Cambrian Series 3 |journal=Palaeontology |volume=58 |issue=6 |pages=1073–1107 |doi=10.1111/pala.12200 |s2cid=129341868 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015Palgy..58.1073M }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid{{Cite web|url=https://zoobank.org/References/D3744422-1AC6-4240-A534-3BE3A30BDDF8|title=ZooBank.org|website=zoobank.org}}

|

Maletz & Steiner

|

Cambrian

|

Wheeler Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A graptolite, a species of Sphenoecium.

|

Stipesia{{Cite journal|author =Ewa Świerczewska-Gładysz |year=2015 |title=Early Campanian (Late Cretaceous) Pleromidae and Isoraphiniidae (lithistid Demospongiae) from the Łódź-Miechów Synclinorium (central and southern Poland): new data and taxonomic revision |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=189–233 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1037 |s2cid=130761343 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid{{Cite web |url=http://zoobank.org/References/C65BCFC8-65D8-4D92-88EA-13D039516312 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-12-17 |archive-date=2020-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317185106/http://zoobank.org/References/C65BCFC8-65D8-4D92-88EA-13D039516312 |url-status=dead }}

|

Świerczewska-Gładysz

|

Late Cretaceous (early Campanian)

|

|

{{Flag|Poland}}

|

A lithistid demosponge belonging to the family Pleromidae. The type species is Stipesia belchatowiensis.

|

Tenuipariespongia

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida. The type species is T. conica.

|

Thaumactena

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ou et al.

|

Early Cambrian

|

Heilinpu Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A comb jelly. The type species is Thaumactena ensis.

|

Thylacocercus

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Conway Morris et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Wheeler Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A vetulicystid deuterostome. The type species is Thylacocercus ignota.

|

Trinakrispongia

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge. Genus includes new species T. gracilis.

|

Triplicatella papilio{{Cite journal|author1=Artem Kouchinsky |author2=Stefan Bengtson |author3=Sébastien Clausen |author4=Michael J. Vendrasco |year=2015 |title=An early Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Emyaksin Formation, northern Siberia |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=421–512 |doi=10.4202/app.2012.0004 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Kouchinsky in Kouchinsky et al.

|

Early Cambrian

|

Emyaksin Formation

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A member of Hyolitha (a group of animals of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly molluscs), a species of Triplicatella.

|

Uncinatograptus jadae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Chen et al.

|

Early Devonian

|

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A graptolite, a species of Uncinatograptus.

|

Vesicotubispongia

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Senowbari-Daryan, Di Stefano & Abate

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A demosponge. Genus includes new species V. triasica.

|

Wiwaxia herka{{Cite journal|author1=Simon Conway Morris |author2=Paul A. Selden |author3=Glade Gunther |author4=Paul G. Jamison |author5=Richard A. Robison |year=2015 |title=New records of Burgess Shale-type taxa from the middle Cambrian of Utah |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=3 |pages=411–423 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.26 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015JPal...89..411C }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Conway Morris et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Spence Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A stem-lophotrochozoan, a species of Wiwaxia.

|File:Holotype of Wiwaxia herka.png

Wiwaxia papilio{{Cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Zhifei |last2=Smith |first2=Martin R. |last3=Shu |first3=Degan |date=2015-10-07 |title=New reconstruction of the Wiwaxia scleritome, with data from Chengjiang juveniles |journal=Scientific Reports |language=en |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=14810 |doi=10.1038/srep14810 |issn=2045-2322 |pmc=4595806 |pmid=26443243}}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Zhang et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Maotianshan Shales

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A stem-lophotrochozoan, a species of Wiwaxia.

|File:Wiwaxia papilio.jpg

Yuknessia stephenensis{{Cite journal|author1=Steven T. LoDuca |author2=Jean-Bernard Caron |author3=James D. Schiffbauer |author4=Shuhai Xiao |author5=Anthony Kramer |year=2015 |title=A reexamination of Yuknessia from the Cambrian of British Columbia and Utah |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=82–95 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2014.7 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015JPal...89...82L }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

LoDuca et al.

|

Cambrian

|

Burgess Shale

Pierson Cove Formation

Spence Shale

Wheeler Shale

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A species of Yuknessia (originally thought to be an alga, reinterpreted as a member of Pterobranchia by LoDuca et al., 2015).

|

Other organisms

class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; width:100%;"
Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Actinella goodwinii{{Cite journal|author =Peter A. Siver |author2=Jordan Bishop |author3=Anne Lott |author4=Alexander P. Wolfe |year=2015 |title=Heteropolar eunotioid diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) were common in the North American Arctic during the middle Eocene |journal=Journal of Micropalaeontology |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=151–163 |doi=10.1144/jmpaleo2014-005 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015JMicP..34..151S }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Siver et al.

|

Eocene

|

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A diatom, a species of Actinella.

|

Actinella hickeyi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Siver et al.

|

Eocene

|

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A diatom, a species of Actinella.

|

Actinella kimberlitica

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Siver et al.

|

Eocene

|

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A diatom, a species of Actinella.

|

Adeliesphaera{{Cite journal|author1=Peter K. Bijl |author2=Henk Brinkhuis |year=2015 |title=A new genus and two new species of dinoflagellate cysts from lower Eocene marine sediments of the Wilkes Land Margin, Antarctica |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=220 |pages=88–97 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.05.004 |bibcode=2015RPaPa.220...88B |hdl=1874/329918 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bijl & Brinkhuis

|

Early Eocene

|

|

Antarctica

|

A dinoflagellate. The type species is Adeliesphaera ohanlonii.

|

Annulatubus{{Cite journal|author1=Calla A. Carbone |author2=Guy M. Narbonne |author3=Francis A. Macdonald |author4=Thomas H. Boag |year=2015 |title=New Ediacaran fossils from the uppermost Blueflower Formation, northwest Canada: disentangling biostratigraphy and paleoecology |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=281–291 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2014.25 |bibcode=2015JPal...89..281C |s2cid=131344652 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Carbone et al.

|

Ediacaran

|

Blueflower Formation

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A tubular organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Annulatubus flexuosus.

|

Caledonicratis{{Cite journal|author1=Mikołaj K. Zapalski |author2=Euan N. K. Clarkson |year=2015 |title=Enigmatic Fossils from the Lower Carboniferous Shrimp Bed, Granton, Scotland |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=10 |issue=12 |pages=e0144220 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0144220 |pmid=26701306 |pmc=4689481 |bibcode=2015PLoSO..1044220Z |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Zapalski & Clarkson

|

Carboniferous (Viséan)

|

Gullane Formation

|

{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

|

An organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement; possibly an animal belonging to the cnidarian family Solanderiidae (the possibility considered to be more probable by the authors of its description) or an alga similar to Perissothallus. The type species is Caledonicratis caridum.

|

Callimothallus semicircularis{{Cite journal|author1=Hukam Singh |author2=Mahesh Prasad |author3=Kishor Kumar |author4=Sanjai K. Singh|year=2015 |title=Early Eocene macroflora and associated palynofossils from the Cambay Shale Formation, western India: Phytogeographic and palaeoclimatic implications |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=293–323 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2015.05.002 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Singh et al.

|

Early Eocene

|

Cambay Shale Formation

|

{{Flag|India}}

|

A fungal thallus similar to thalli of members of Microthyriaceae.

|

Casparyotorula{{Cite journal|author1=Elina Kettunen |author2=Heinrich Grabenhorst |author3=Carsten Gröhn |author4=Heinrich Dörfelt |author5=Eva-Maria Sadowski |author6=Jouko Rikkinen |author7=Alexander R. Schmidt |year=2015 |title=The enigmatic hyphomycete Torula sensu Caspary revisited |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=219 |pages=183–193 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.03.010 |bibcode=2015RPaPa.219..183K }}

|

Gen. et comb et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Rikkinen, Schmidt & Kettunen in Kettunen et al.

|

Eocene

|

|

{{Flag|Germany}}

{{Flag|Russia}} (Kaliningrad Oblast)

|

A hyphomycete fungus known from Baltic amber and Bitterfeld amber. A new genus for "Torula" globulifera Caspary (1886); genus also contains "Torula" heteromorpha Caspary (1886), as well as the new species Casparyotorula arnoldii.

|

Circulodinium? laeve{{Cite journal|author1=Jinhui Cheng |author2=Chunmei Zhou |author3=Chengquan He |author4=Tianming Shi |author5=Aliya Amuti |year=2015 |title=New Eocene dinoflagellate cysts from the southern edge of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China |journal=Grana |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=294–304 |doi=10.1080/00173134.2015.1096300 |bibcode=2015Grana..54..294C |s2cid=85637116 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cheng et al.

|

Eocene

|

Anjihaihe Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A dinoflagellate, possibly a species of Circulodinium.

|

Cyclostephanos nepalensis{{Cite journal|author1=Tatsuya Hayashi |author2=Yoshihiro Tanimura |year=2015 |title=Two new Cyclostephanos species, C. nepalensis and C. pseudonepalensis (Bacillariophyta), from middle Pleistocene sediments of the Paleo-Kathmandu Lake, Nepal |journal=Nova Hedwigia |volume=101 |issue=1–2 |pages=191–204 |doi=10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2015/0264 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Hayashi in Hayashi & Tanimura

|

Pleistocene

|

|

{{Flag|Nepal}}

|

A diatom, a species of Cyclostephanos.

|

Cyclostephanos pseudonepalensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Hayashi in Hayashi & Tanimura

|

Pleistocene

|

|

{{Flag|Nepal}}

|

A diatom, a species of Cyclostephanos.

|

Cyclostephanos ramosus{{Cite journal|author1=Tatsuya Hayashi |author2=Yoshihiro Tanimura |year=2015 |title=Morphological variability of Cyclostephanos ramosus sp. nov. from Pleistocene sediments of the Paleo-Kathmandu Lake, Nepal |journal=Diatom |volume=31 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.11464/diatom.31.1 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Hayashi & Tanimura

|

Pleistocene

|

|

{{Flag|Nepal}}

|

A diatom, a species of Cyclostephanos.

|

Cyclotella paleo-ocellata{{Cite journal|author1=Hannah Vossel |author2=Jane M. Reed |author3=Václav Houk |author4=Aleksandra Cvetkoska |author5=Bart Van de Vijver |year=2015 |title=Cyclotella paleo-ocellata, a new centric diatom (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Kinneret (Israel) |journal=Fottea |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=63–75 |doi=10.5507/fot.2015.006 |doi-access=free |hdl=10067/1263890151162165141 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Vossel & Van de Vijver in Vossel et al.

|

Holocene

|

|

{{Flag|Israel}}

|

A diatom. Originally described as a species of Cyclotella; transferred to the genus Lindavia by Nakov et al. (2015).{{Cite journal|author1=Teofil Nakov |author2=Wilson Guillory |author3=Matthew Julius |author4=Edward Theriot |author5=Andrew Alverson |year=2015 |title=Towards a phylogenetic classification of species belonging to the diatom genus Cyclotella (Bacillariophyceae): Transfer of species formerly placed in Puncticulata, Handmannia, Pliocaenicus and Cyclotella to the genus Lindavia |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=217 |issue=3 |pages=249–264 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.217.3.2 }}

|

Dictyosphaera tacita{{Cite journal|author1=Qing Tang |author2=Ke Pang |author3=Xunlai Yuan |author4=Bin Wan |author5=Shuhai Xiao |year=2015 |title=Organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Gouhou Formation, Huaibei region, North China Craton, and their biostratigraphic implications |journal=Precambrian Research |volume=266 |pages=296–318 |doi=10.1016/j.precamres.2015.05.025 |bibcode=2015PreR..266..296T }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Tang et al.

|

Tonian

|

Gouhou Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

An acritarch.

|

Donskinica{{cite book |author1=N. I. Strelnikova |author2=T. F. Kozyrenko |year=2015 |chapter=Donskinica gen. nov., a new biddulphioid fossil diatom genus |editor1=Jakub Witkowski |editor2=David Williams |editor3=J. Patrick Kociolek |title=Diatoms and the continuing relevance of morphology to studies on taxonomy, systematics and biogeography. Celebrating the work and impact of Patricia A. Sims on the occasion of her 80th birthday |publisher=J. Cramer in der Gebr. Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung |pages=133–142 |isbn=978-3-443-51066-4 }}

|

Gen. nov

|

Valid

|

Strelnikova & Kozyrenko

|

|

|

|

A diatom.

|

Elatera minor{{Cite journal|author1=Natalya G. Vorob’eva |author2=Vladimir N. Sergeev |author3=Peter Yu. Petrov |year=2015 |title=Kotuikan Formation assemblage: A diverse organic-walled microbiota in the Mesoproterozoic Anabar succession, northern Siberia |journal=Precambrian Research |volume=256 |pages=201–222 |doi=10.1016/j.precamres.2014.11.011 |bibcode=2015PreR..256..201V }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Vorob’eva & Sergeev in Vorob’eva, Sergeev & Petrov

|

Early Mesoproterozoic

|

Kotuikan Formation

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A probable eukaryotic microorganism of uncertain phylogenetic placement

|

Eosolena minuta

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Vorob’eva & Sergeev in Vorob’eva, Sergeev & Petrov

|

Early Mesoproterozoic

|

Kotuikan Formation

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A probable eukaryotic microorganism of uncertain phylogenetic placement.

|

Gigantosphaeridium{{Cite journal|author1=Heda Agić |author2=Małgorzata Moczydłowska |author3=Lei-Ming Yin |year=2015 |title=Affinity, life cycle, and intracellular complexity of organic-walled microfossils from the Mesoproterozoic of Shanxi, China |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=28–50 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2014.4 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015JPal...89...28A }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Agić, Moczydłowska & Yin

|

Late Mesoproterozoic

|

Baicaoping Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A microfossil belonging to the stem group of Chloroplastida. Genus includes new species G. fibratum.

|

Haslea antiqua{{cite book |author =Juliane M. Fenner |year=2015 |chapter=Description of a new fossil diatom species, Haslea antiqua (Bacillariophyceae), with comments on its valve structure, and habitat |editor1=Jakub Witkowski |editor2=David Williams |editor3=J. Patrick Kociolek |title=Diatoms and the continuing relevance of morphology to studies on taxonomy, systematics and biogeography. Celebrating the work and impact of Patricia A. Sims on the occasion of her 80th birthday |publisher=J. Cramer in der Gebr. Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung |pages=107–124 |isbn=978-3-443-51066-4 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Fenner

|

Paleocene

|

|

Southwestern Pacific Ocean (Campbell Plateau)

|

A diatom, a species of Haslea.

|

Hirudiforma

|

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Vorob’eva & Sergeev in Vorob’eva, Sergeev & Petrov

|

Early Mesoproterozoic

|

Kotuikan Formation

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

A eukaryotic microorganism, possibly a green alga. The type species is H. simmetrica; genus also includes H. lancetica.

|

Kaiwaradinium abbreviatum

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cheng et al.

|

Eocene

|

Anjihaihe Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A dinoflagellate, a species of Kaiwaradinium.

|

Kuckaraukia{{Cite journal|author1=A. A. Razumovskiy |author2=A. Yu. Ivantsov |author3=I. A. Novikov |author4=A. V. Korochantsev |year=2015 |title=Kuckaraukia multituberculata: A New Vendian Fossil from the Basa Formation of the Asha Group in the South Urals |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=49 |issue=5 |pages=449–456 |doi=10.1134/S0031030115050111 |bibcode=2015PalJ...49..449R |s2cid=129965088 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ivantsov, Novikov & Razumovskiy in Razumovskiy et al.

|

Late Vendian

|

Basa Formation

|

{{Flag|Russia}}

|

An organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, might be a unitary organism or as a colony of motionless benthic organisms. The type species is Kuckaraukia multituberculata.

|

Lineaforma

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Disputed

|

Vorob’eva & Sergeev in Vorob’eva, Sergeev & Petrov

|

Early Mesoproterozoic

|

Belt Supergroup

Kotuikan Formation

Roper Group

|

{{Flag|Australia}}{{Cite journal|author1=Emmanuelle J. Javaux |author2=Andrew H. Knoll |year=2017 |title=Micropaleontology of the lower Mesoproterozoic Roper Group, Australia, and implications for early eukaryotic evolution |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=91 |issue=2 |pages=199–229 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.124 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2017JPal...91..199J }}

{{Flag|Russia}}

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A probable eukaryotic microorganism of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is L. elongata. Possibly a junior synonym of Jixiania lineata.{{Cite journal|author1=Lanyun Miao |author2=Małgorzata Moczydłowska |author3=Maoyan Zhu |year=2021 |title=A diverse organic-walled microfossil assemblage from the Mesoproterozoic Xiamaling Formation, North China |journal=Precambrian Research |volume=360 |pages=Article 106235 |doi=10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106235 |bibcode=2021PreR..36006235M |s2cid=236235509 }}

|

Mallomonas schumachii{{Cite journal|author =Peter A. Siver |year=2015 |title=Mallomonas schumachii sp. nov., a fossil Synurophyte bearing large scales described from an Eocene maar lake in Northern Canada |journal=Nova Hedwigia |volume=101 |issue=3–4 |pages=285–298 |doi=10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2015/0270 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Siver

|

Eocene

|

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A synurophyte, a species of Mallomonas.

|

Matris{{Cite journal|author1=Wei Du |author2=Xun Lian Wang |author3=Tsuyoshi Komiya |year=2015 |title=Potential Ediacaran sponge gemmules from the Yangtze Gorges area in South China |journal=Gondwana Research |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=1246–1254 |doi=10.1016/j.gr.2014.08.012 |bibcode=2015GondR..28.1246D }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

|

Du, Wang & Komiya

|

Ediacaran

|

Doushantuo Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

An organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Its fossil were originally interpreted as a probable sponge gemmules; this interpretation was criticized by Pronzato, Pisera & Manconi (2017), who stated that the fossils resemble some arcellid testate amoebae.{{Cite journal|author1=Roberto Pronzato |author2=Andrzej Pisera |author3=Renata Manconi |year=2017 |title=Fossil freshwater sponges: taxonomy, geographic distribution, and critical review |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=467–495 |doi=10.4202/app.00354.2017 |doi-access=free }} Genus includes new species M. gemmuleanalogi.

|

Meliolinites buxi{{Cite journal|author1=Fujun Ma |author2=Bai-Nian Sun |author3=Qiujun Wang |author4=Junling Dong |author5=Guolin Yang |author6=Yi Yang |year=2015 |title=A new species of Meliolinites associated with Buxus leaves from the Oligocene of Guangxi, southern China |journal=Mycologia |volume=107 |issue=3 |pages=505–511 |doi=10.3852/14-270 |pmid=25724995|s2cid=33248739 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ma & Sun in Ma et al.

|

Oligocene

|

Ningming Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A fungus belonging to the family Meliolaceae; a species of Meliolinites.

|

Notothyrites undulatus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Singh et al.

|

Early Eocene

|

Cambay Shale Formation

|

{{Flag|India}}

|

A fungal thallus similar to thalli of members of Microthyriaceae.

|

Oligosphaeropsis

|

Gen. et 3 sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cheng et al.

|

Eocene

|

Anjihaihe Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A dinoflagellate. The type species is Oligosphaeropsis accreta; genus also contains Oligosphaeropsis complex and Oligosphaeropsis megaprocessa.

|

Palaeoborrelia{{Cite journal|author =George Poinar Jr. |year=2015 |title=Spirochete-like cells in a Dominican amber Ambylomma tick (Arachnida: Ixodidae) |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=27 |issue=5 |pages=565–570 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2014.897699 |bibcode=2015HBio...27..565P |s2cid=73668526 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Poinar

|

Miocene

|

|

{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}

|

A spirochaete belonging to the family Spirochaetaceae known from Dominican amber. The type species is Palaeoborrelia dominicana.

|

Palaeoclaviceps{{cite journal |author1=George Poinar Jr. |author2=Stephen Alderman |author3=Joerg Wunderlich |year=2015 |title=One hundred million year old ergot: psychotropic compounds in the Cretaceous? |journal=Palaeodiversity |volume=8 |pages=13–19 |url=http://www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/08/02Palaeodiversity_8-15_Poinar-et-al_1.pdf }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Poinar, Alderman & Wunderlich

|

Cretaceous (roughly 100 million years ago)

|

|

{{Flag|Myanmar}}

|

A fungus belonging to the family Clavicipitaceae (a relative of ergots). The type species is Palaeoclaviceps parasiticus.

|

Palaeorickettsia{{Cite journal|author =George Poinar Jr. |year=2015 |title=Rickettsial-like cells in the Cretaceous tick, Cornupalpatum burmanicum (Ixodida: Ixodidae) |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=52, Part B |pages=623–627 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2014.02.007 |bibcode=2015CrRes..52..623P }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Poinar

|

Early Cretaceous (late Albian)

|

|

{{Flag|Myanmar}}

|

Probably a member of Rickettsiales. The type species is Palaeorickettsia protera.

|

Palaeozoosporites{{cite journal |author1=Christine Strullu-Derrien |author2=Zuzanna Wawrzyniak |author3=Tomasz Góral |author4=Paul Kenrick |year=2015 |title=Fungal colonization of the rooting system of the early land plant Asteroxylon mackiei from the 407-Myr-old Rhynie Chert (Scotland, UK) |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=179 |issue=1 |pages=201–213 |doi=10.1111/boj.12307 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Strullu-Derrien in Strullu-Derrien et al.

|

Devonian (approximately 407 Mya)

|

|

{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

|

A chytrid-like (i.e. similar to members of Blastocladiomycota and Chytridiomycota) fungus of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Palaeozoosporites renaultii.

|

Rajkanella{{Cite journal|author1=Felix Schlagintweit |author2=Sylvain Rigaud |year=2015 |title=Rajkanella hottingerinaformis n. gen., n. sp., a new larger benthic foraminifer from the middle-upper Cenomanian of Kosovo |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=56 |pages=193–199 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2015.04.012 |bibcode=2015CrRes..56..193S }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schlagintweit & Rigaud

|

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)

|

|

{{Flag|Kosovo}}

|

A foraminifer. Genus includes new species R. hottingerinaformis.

|

Rhoicosphenia gandhii{{Cite journal|author1=Evan W. Thomas |author2=J. Patrick Kociolek |author3=Balasubramanian Karthick |year=2015 |title=Four new Rhoicosphenia species from fossil deposits in India and North America |journal=Diatom Research |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=35–54 |doi=10.1080/0269249X.2014.961554 |bibcode=2015DiaRe..30...35T |s2cid=83982051 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Thomas, Karthick & Kociolek in Thomas, Kociolek & Karthick

|

Probably Pliocene or Pleistocene

|

|

{{Flag|India}}

|

A diatom, a species of Rhoicosphenia.

|

Rhoicosphenia indica

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Thomas, Karthick & Kociolek in Thomas, Kociolek & Karthick

|

Probably Pliocene or Pleistocene

|

|

{{Flag|India}}

|

A diatom, a species of Rhoicosphenia.

|

Rhoicosphenia patrickae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Thomas & Kociolek in Thomas, Kociolek & Karthick

|

Probably Pliocene or Pleistocene

|

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A diatom, a species of Rhoicosphenia.

|

Rhoicosphenia reimeri

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Thomas & Kociolek in Thomas, Kociolek & Karthick

|

Probably Pliocene or Pleistocene

|

|

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A diatom, a species of Rhoicosphenia.

|

Rhyniosarcina{{Cite journal|author1=Thomas N. Taylor |author2=Michael Krings |year=2015 |title=A colony-forming microorganism with probable affinities to the Chroococcales (cyanobacteria) from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=219 |pages=147–156 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.04.003 |bibcode=2015RPaPa.219..147T }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Taylor & Krings

|

Early Devonian

|

|

{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

|

A member of Cyanobacteria, probably a member or a relative of Chroococcales. The type species is Rhyniosarcina devonica.

|

Scepasmatocarpion{{cite journal |author1=Michael Krings |author2=Thomas N. Taylor |year=2015 |title=A fungal reproductive unit from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) that demonstrates an unusual hyphal investment pattern |journal=Scottish Journal of Geology |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=131–139 |doi=10.1144/sjg2014-026 |bibcode=2015ScJG...51..131K |s2cid=131224600 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Krings & Taylor

|

Early Devonian

|

|

{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

|

A fungus of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Scepasmatocarpion fenestrulatum.

|

Sekwitubulus

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Carbone et al.

|

Ediacaran

|

Blueflower Formation

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A tubular organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Sekwitubulus annulatus.

|

Sinotubulites hexagonus{{Cite journal|author1=Yaoping Cai |author2=Shuhai Xiao |author3=Hong Hua |author4=Xunlai Yuan |year=2015 |title=New material of the biomineralizing tubular fossil Sinotubulites from the late Ediacaran Dengying Formation, South China |journal=Precambrian Research |volume=261 |pages=12–24 |doi=10.1016/j.precamres.2015.02.002 |bibcode=2015PreR..261...12C }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cai et al.

|

Late Ediacaran

|

Dengying Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A tubular organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, of probable animal affinities; a species of Sinotubulites.

|

Sinotubulites pentacarinalis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cai et al.

|

Late Ediacaran

|

Dengying Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A tubular organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, of probable animal affinities; a species of Sinotubulites.

|

Sinotubulites triangularis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cai et al.

|

Late Ediacaran

|

Dengying Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A tubular organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, of probable animal affinities; a species of Sinotubulites.

|

Spiniferites adnatus latispinus

|

Subsp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cheng et al.

|

Eocene

|

Anjihaihe Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A dinoflagellate, a subspecies of Spiniferites adnatus.

|

Squamosphaera

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Tang et al.

|

Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic

|

Gouhou Formation

Kwagunt Formation

Zigazino-Komarovsk Beds

|

{{Flag|Australia}}

{{Flag|China}}

{{Flag|Russia}}

{{Flag|United States}}

|

An acritarch. The type species is "Satka" colonialica Jankauskas (1979).

|

Tertiarius juriljii{{Cite journal|author1=Nadja Ognjanova-Rumenova |author2=Elena Jovanovska |author3=Aleksandra Cvetkoska |author4=Zlatko Levkov |year=2015 |title=Two new Tertiarius (Bacillariophyta, Coscinodiscophyceae) species from Mariovo Neogene Basin, Macedonia |journal=Fottea |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=51–62 |doi=10.5507/fot.2015.005 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ognjanova-Rumenova et al.

|

Pliocene

|

Vitacevo Formation

|

{{Flag|Macedonia}}

|

A diatom; a species of Tertiarius.

|

Tertiarius mariovensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ognjanova-Rumenova et al.

|

Pliocene

|

Vitacevo Formation

|

{{Flag|Macedonia}}

|

A diatom; a species of Tertiarius.

|

Tianshandinium

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cheng et al.

|

Eocene

|

Anjihaihe Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A dinoflagellate. The type species is Tianshandinium biconicum.

|

Turbiosphaera guersteinae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bijl & Brinkhuis

|

Early Eocene

|

|

Antarctica

|

A dinoflagellate, a species of Turbiosphaera.

|

See also

References