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This list of fossil fishes described in 2016 is a list of new taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, acanthodians, fossil cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes and other fishes of every kind that have been described during the year 2016, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of fishes that occurred in the year 2016. The list only includes taxa at the level of genus or species.

Research

  • Tullimonstrum gregarium is argued to be a stem-lamprey by McCoy et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Victoria E. McCoy |author2=Erin E. Saupe |author3=James C. Lamsdell |author4=Lidya G. Tarhan |author5=Sean McMahon |author6=Scott Lidgard |author7=Paul Mayer |author8=Christopher D. Whalen |author9=Carmen Soriano |author10=Lydia Finney |author11=Stefan Vogt |author12=Elizabeth G. Clark |author13=Ross P. Anderson |author14=Holger Petermann |author15=Emma R. Locatelli |author16=Derek E. G. Briggs |year=2016 |title=The 'Tully monster' is a vertebrate |journal=Nature |volume=532 |issue=7600 |pages=496–499 |doi=10.1038/nature16992 |pmid=26982721|bibcode=2016Natur.532..496M |s2cid=205247805 |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a6b3721a-819f-4bb6-9e78-e219362fcae9 }}
  • A study of the eye anatomy of Tullimonstrum gregarium is published by Clements et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Thomas Clements |author2=Andrei Dolocan |author3=Peter Martin |author4=Mark A. Purnell |author5=Jakob Vinther |author6=Sarah E. Gabbott |year=2016 |title=The eyes of Tullimonstrum reveal a vertebrate affinity |journal=Nature |volume=532 |issue=7600 |pages=500–503 |doi=10.1038/nature17647 |pmid=27074512|bibcode=2016Natur.532..500C |s2cid=205248673 |url=https://leicester.figshare.com/articles/The_eyes_of_Tullimonstrum_reveal_a_vertebrate_affinity/10139060 |hdl=1983/b13733e6-9109-4bc2-843e-4bdeda11b926 |hdl-access=free }}
  • New information on the anatomy of the Carboniferous taxa Mayomyzon pieckoensis and Myxinikela siroka is published by Gabbott et al. (2016), who report the presence of melanosomes in their eyes; the authors also conduct a study on the phylogenetic relationships of these species, finding Mayomyzon to be a relative of lampreys and finding Myxinikela to be a relative of hagfish.{{Cite journal|author1=Sarah E. Gabbott |author2=Philip C. J. Donoghue |author3=Robert S. Sansom |author4=Jakob Vinther |author5=Andrei Dolocan |author6=Mark A. Purnell |year=2016 |title=Pigmented anatomy in Carboniferous cyclostomes and the evolution of the vertebrate eye |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=283 |issue=1836 |pages=20161151 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2016.1151 |pmid=27488650 |pmc=5013770}}
  • A study on the phylogenetic relationships of Palaeospondylus gunni is published by Hirasawa, Oisi & Kuratani (2016), who interpret it as a probable stem-hagfish.{{Cite journal|author1=Tatsuya Hirasawa |author2=Yasuhiro Oisi |author3=Shigeru Kuratani |year=2016 |title=Palaeospondylus as a primitive hagfish |journal=Zoological Letters |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=20 |doi=10.1186/s40851-016-0057-0 |pmc=5015246 |pmid=27610240 |doi-access=free }}
  • New information on the dermal bone histology and phylogenetic relationships of the jawless anaspids, published by Keating & Donoghue (2016), reveal that they are a monophyletic group nested within skeletonizing vertebrates, rather than early relatives of lampreys and hagfish.{{Cite journal|author1=Joseph N. Keating |author2=Philip C. J. Donoghue |year=2016 |title=Histology and affinity of anaspids, and the early evolution of the vertebrate dermal skeleton |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=283 |issue=1826 |pages=20152917 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2015.2917 |pmc=4810860 |pmid=26962140 }}
  • A study on the phylogenetic relationships of early jawed vertebrates is published by Qiao et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Tuo Qiao |author2=Benedict King |author3=John A. Long |author4=Per E. Ahlberg |author5=Min Zhu |year=2016 |title=Early Gnathostome Phylogeny Revisited: Multiple Method Consensus |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=9 |pages=e0163157 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0163157 |pmid=27649538 |pmc=5029804|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1163157Q |doi-access=free }}
  • A study on the ontogenetic composition of the Devonian placoderm material known from the Strud quarry (Namur Province, Belgium) is published by Olive et al. (2016), who interpret the Strud locality as representing a placoderm nursery.{{Cite journal|author1=Sébastien Olive |author2=Gaël Clément |author3=Edward B. Daeschler |author4=Vincent Dupret |year=2016 |title=Placoderm Assemblage from the Tetrapod-Bearing Locality of Strud (Belgium, Upper Famennian) Provides Evidence for a Fish Nursery |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=8 |pages=e0161540 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0161540 |pmid=27552196 |pmc=4994939|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1161540O |doi-access=free }}
  • A description of the general anatomy, morphology and histology of dermal elements and the endoskeletal shoulder girdle of three Devonian (Eifelian-Givetian) species of acanthodians known from Scotland (Diplacanthus crassisimus, Diplacanthus tenuistriatus and Rhadinacanthus longispinus) is published by Burrow et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Carole Burrow |author2=Jan den Blaauwen |author3=Michael Newman |author4=Robert Davidson |year=2016 |title=The diplacanthid fishes (Acanthodii, Diplacanthiformes, Diplacanthidae) from the Middle Devonian of Scotland |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 19.1.10A |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1398-scottish-diplacanthid-fishes |doi=10.26879/601 |doi-access=free }}
  • Fossil tooth of a member of the genus Lagarodus (a cartilaginous fish belonging to the group Euchondrocephali, of uncertain phylogenetic placement within the latter group) is reported for the first time from the Carboniferous of Svalbard by Cuny, Kristensen & Stemmerik (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Gilles Cuny |author2=Jakob Bruun Kristensen |author3=Lars Stemmerik |year=2016 |title=First record of Lagarodus (Chondrichthyes: Euchondrocephali) from the Carboniferous of Svalbard, Arctic Norway |journal=Norwegian Journal of Geology |volume=96 |issue=1 |pages=1–5 |doi=10.17850/njg96-1-01 |s2cid=132587141 |url=http://www.geologi.no/images/NJG_articles/NJG1_Vol96_1_Cuny_Pr.pdf }}
  • A study on the enameloid ultrastructure of the teeth of members of the genus Ptychodus recovered from the Lincoln Limestone of the Greenhorn Formation (Barton County, Kansas, USA) and its implications for the phylogenetic placement of the genus is published by Hoffman, Hageman & Claycomb (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Brian L. Hoffman |author2=Scott A. Hageman |author3=Gregory D. Claycomb |year=2016 |title=Scanning electron microscope examination of the dental enameloid of the Cretaceous durophagous shark Ptychodus supports neoselachian classification |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=90 |issue=4 |pages=741–762 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.64 |bibcode=2016JPal...90..741H |s2cid=132252846 }}
  • A specimen of Galeorhinus cuvieri (fossil relative of the school shark) with preserved soft tissues and stomach contents (indicating that it preyed on Eocene relatives of the living barracudas) is described from the Eocene (Ypresian) Monte Bolca site in Italy by Fanti et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Federico Fanti |author2=Daniela Minelli |author3=Gabriele Larocca Conte |author4=Tetsuto Miyashita |year=2016 |title=An exceptionally preserved Eocene shark and the rise of modern predator–prey interactions in the coral reef food web |journal=Zoological Letters |volume=2 |pages=9 |doi=10.1186/s40851-016-0045-4 |pmid=27042332 |pmc=4818435 |doi-access=free }}
  • A redescription of the Miocene shark Glyphis pagoda is published by Shimada et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Kenshu Shimada |author2=Naoko Egi |author3=Takehisa Tsubamoto |author4=Maung-Maung |author5=Thaung-Htike |author6=Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein |author7=Yuichiro Nishioka |author8=Teppei Sonoda |author9=Masanaru Takai |year=2016 |title=The extinct river shark Glyphis pagoda from the Miocene of Myanmar and a review of the fossil record of the genus Glyphis (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4161 |issue=2 |pages=237–251 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4161.2.6 |pmid=27615926}}
  • A study of geographical distribution patterns and global abundance of Carcharocles megalodon from the Miocene to the Pliocene, and a discussion of the possible causes of its extinction, is published by Pimiento et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Catalina Pimiento |author2=Bruce J. MacFadden |author3=Christopher F. Clements |author4=Sara Varela |author5=Carlos Jaramillo |author6=Jorge Velez-Juarbe |author7=Brian R. Silliman |year=2016 |title=Geographical distribution patterns of Carcharocles megalodon over time reveal clues about extinction mechanisms |journal=Journal of Biogeography |volume=43 |issue=8 |pages=1645–1655 |doi=10.1111/jbi.12754 |bibcode=2016JBiog..43.1645P |s2cid=55776834 }}
  • A study on the growth history of the teeth of Andreolepis hedei is published by Chen et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Donglei Chen |author2=Henning Blom |author3=Sophie Sanchez |author4=Paul Tafforeau |author5=Per E. Ahlberg |year=2016 |title=The stem osteichthyan Andreolepis and the origin of tooth replacement |journal=Nature |volume=539 |issue=7628 |pages=237–241 |doi=10.1038/nature19812 |pmid=27750278|bibcode=2016Natur.539..237C |s2cid=205251184 }}
  • A study on the anatomical diversification of teleosts and holosteans during 160 million years of their evolution (Permian–Early Cretaceous) is published by Clarke, Lloyd & Friedman (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=John T. Clarke |author2=Graeme T. Lloyd |author3=Matt Friedman |year=2016 |title=Little evidence for enhanced phenotypic evolution in early teleosts relative to their living fossil sister group |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=113 |issue=41 |pages=11531–11536 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1607237113 |pmid=27671652 |pmc=5068283|bibcode=2016PNAS..11311531C |doi-access=free }}
  • Specimens of Saurichthys costasquamosus, Saurichthys macrocephalus and Saurichthys paucitrichus with preserved casts of gastrointestinal tract are described by Argyriou et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Thodoris Argyriou |author2=Marcus Clauss |author3=Erin E. Maxwell |author4=Heinz Furrer |author5=Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra |year=2016 |title=Exceptional preservation reveals gastrointestinal anatomy and evolution in early actinopterygian fishes |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 18758 |doi=10.1038/srep18758 |pmid=26732746 |pmc=4702121|bibcode=2016NatSR...618758A }}
  • A redescription of Ionoscopus petrarojae and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Taverne & Capasso (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Louis Paul Taverne |author2=Luigi Capasso |year=2016 |title=Revision of Ionoscopus petrarojae (Ionoscopiformes, Osteichthyes) from the Albian of Pietraroja (Campania, southern Italy) |journal=Thalassia Salentina |volume=38 |pages=65–79 |doi=10.1285/i15910725v38p65 }}
  • A redescription and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of Dapedium pholidotum, based on new fossil material from the Jurassic (Toarcian) Posidonia Shale (Germany) is published by Thies & Waschkewitz (2016), who name a new order Dapediiformes including the family Dapediidae.{{Cite journal|author1=Detlev Thies |author2=Jens Waschkewitz |year=2016 |title=Redescription of Dapedium pholidotum (Agassiz, 1832) (Actinopterygii, Neopterygii) from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale, with comments on the phylogenetic position of Dapedium Leach, 1822 |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=339–364 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2015.1043361 |bibcode=2016JSPal..14..339T |s2cid=130282395 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281415190 }}
  • A redescription and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the dapediiform species Hemicalypterus weiri is published by Gibson (2016).{{cite journal |author=Sarah Z. Gibson |year=2016 |title=Redescription and Phylogenetic Placement of †Hemicalypterus weiri Schaeffer, 1967 (Actinopterygii, Neopterygii) from the Triassic Chinle Formation, Southwestern United States: New Insights into Morphology, Ecological Niche, and Phylogeny |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=9 |pages=e0163657 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0163657 |pmid=27657923 |pmc=5033578|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1163657G |doi-access=free }}
  • A study on the anatomy of the Carboniferous teleost relative Aetheretmon and its implications for the evolution of tail and caudal fin of vertebrates in published by Sallan (2016).{{cite journal |author=Lauren Sallan |year=2016 |title=Fish 'tails' result from outgrowth and reduction of two separate ancestral tails |journal=Current Biology |volume=26 |issue=23 |pages=R1224–R1225 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.036 |pmid=27923128 |doi-access=free }}
  • A redescription of the anatomy of the Early Cretaceous osteoglossiform Chanopsis lombardi known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is published by Taverne (2016).{{cite journal |author=Louis Taverne |year=2016 |title=Chanopsis lombardi (Teleostei, Osteoglossiformes) from the continental Lower Cretaceous of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Comments on the evolution of the caudal skeleton within osteoglossiform fishes |journal=Geologica Belgica |volume=19 |issue=3–4 |pages=291–301 |doi=10.20341/gb.2016.015 |doi-access=free }}
  • A specimen of an osteoglossid fish, putatively referred to the species Ridewoodichthys caheni, is described from the Paleocene (Danian) of Angola by Taverne (2016).{{cite journal |author=Louis Taverne |year=2016 |title=New data on the osteoglossid fishes (Teleostei, Osteoglossiformes) from the marine Danian (Paleocene) of Landana (Cabinda Enclave, Angola) |journal=Geo-Eco-Trop |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=297–304 |url=http://www.geoecotrop.be/uploads/publications/pub_404_04.pdf }}
  • A study on the anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of the ellimmichthyiform Codoichthys carnavalii is published by de Figueiredo & Ribeiro (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Francisco J. de Figueiredo |author2=Douglas R.M. Ribeiro |year=2016 |title=Relationships of †Codoichthys carnavalii Santos, 1994 (Teleostei, Clupeomorpha, †Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Late Aptian of São Luís-Grajaú Basin, NE Brazil |journal=Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências |volume=88 |issue=3 |pages=1277–1307 |doi=10.1590/0001-3765201620150495 |pmid=27598842 |doi-access=free }}
  • Fossilized hearts are reported in two specimens of Rhacolepis buccalis by Maldanis et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Lara Maldanis |author2=Murilo Carvalho |author3=Mariana Ramos Almeida |author4=Francisco Idalécio Freitas |author5=José Artur Ferreira Gomes de Andrade |author6=Rafael Silva Nunes |author7=Carlos Eduardo Rochitte |author8=Ronei Jesus Poppi |author9=Raul Oliveira Freitas |author10=Fábio Rodrigues |author11=Sandra Siljeström |author12=Frederico Alves Lima |author13=Douglas Galante |author14=Ismar S. Carvalho |author15=Carlos Alberto Perez |author16=Marcelo Rodrigues de Carvalho |author17=Jefferson Bettini |author18=Vincent Fernandez |author19=José Xavier-Neto |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=Heart fossilization is possible and informs the evolution of cardiac outflow tract in vertebrates |journal=eLife |volume=5 |pages=e14698 |doi=10.7554/eLife.14698 |pmid=27090087 |pmc=4841765 |doi-access=free }}
  • A phylogenetic study of spiny-rayed teleosts, including Late Cretaceous fossil taxa and that recovers the molecular-based interrelationships with morphological information for the first time, is published by Davesne et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Donald Davesne |author2=Cyril Gallut |author3=Véronique Barriel |author4=Philippe Janvier |author5=Guillaume Lecointre |author6=Olga Otero |year=2016 |title=The phylogenetic intrarelationships of spiny-rayed fishes (Acanthomorpha, Teleostei, Actinopterygii): fossil taxa increase the congruence of morphology with molecular data |journal=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |volume=4 |pages=129 |doi=10.3389/fevo.2016.00129|doi-access=free }}
  • Meemannia eos, initially classified as a lobe-finned fish, is reinterpreted as an early-diverging ray-finned fish by Lu et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Jing Lu |author2=Sam Giles |author-link2=Sam Giles|author3=Matt Friedman |author4=Jan L. den Blaauwen |author5=Min Zhu |year=2016 |title=The Oldest Actinopterygian Highlights the Cryptic Early History of the Hyperdiverse Ray-Finned Fishes |journal=Current Biology |volume=26 |issue=12 |pages=1602–1608 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.045 |pmid=27212403|doi-access=free }}
  • Description of new skull material of Qingmenodus yui from Pragian of China and a study of phylogenetic relationships of onychodonts is published by Lu et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Jing Lu |author2=Min Zhu |author3=Per Erik Ahlberg |author4=Tuo Qiao |author5=You’an Zhu |author6=Wenjin Zhao |author7=Liantao Jia |year=2016 |title=A Devonian predatory fish provides insights into the early evolution of modern sarcopterygians |journal=Science Advances |volume=2 |issue=6 |pages=e1600154 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.1600154 |pmid=27386576 |pmc=4928971|bibcode=2016SciA....2E0154L }}
  • Clement et al. (2016) reconstruct the shape of the brain of the Devonian lungfish Rhinodipterus kimberleyensis on the basis of a CT scan of its endocast.{{Cite journal|author1=Alice M. Clement |author2=Robin Strand |author3=Johan Nysjö |author4=John A. Long |author5=Per E. Ahlberg |year=2016 |title=A new method for reconstructing brain morphology: applying the brain-neurocranial spatial relationship in an extant lungfish to a fossil endocast |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=3 |issue=7 |pages=160307 |doi=10.1098/rsos.160307 |pmid=27493784 |pmc=4968476 |bibcode=2016RSOS....360307C |doi-access=free }}
  • Virtual cranial endocast of Dipnorhynchus sussmilchi is reconstructed by Clement et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Alice M. Clement |author2=Tom J. Challands |author3=John A. Long |author4=Per E. Ahlberg |year=2016 |title=The cranial endocast of Dipnorhynchus sussmilchi (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) and the interrelationships of stem-group lungfishes |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e2539 |doi=10.7717/peerj.2539 |pmid=27781157 |pmc=5075708 |doi-access=free }}

New taxa

=Jawless vertebrates=

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Arianalepis{{cite book |author1=Vachik Hairapetian |author2=Brett P. A. Roelofs |author3=Kate M. Trinajstic |author4=Susan Turner |year=2016 |chapter=Famennian survivor turiniid thelodonts of North and East Gondwana |editor1=R. T. Becker |editor2=P. Königshof |editor3=C. E. Brett |title=Devonian Climate, Sea Level and Evolutionary Events |publisher=The Geological Society of London |pages=273–289 |isbn=978-1-86239-734-7 |doi=10.1144/SP423.3 |s2cid=128437327 }}

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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Hairapetian et al.

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Devonian (Famennian)

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A turiniid thelodont. The type species is Arianalepis megacostata; genus also contains a second, indeterminate species.

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Kodinskaspis{{Cite journal|author1=Jerzy Dzik |author2=Tamara A. Moskalenko |year=2016 |title=Problematic scale-like fossils from the Ordovician of Siberia with possible affinities to vertebrates |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=279 |issue=3 |pages=251–260 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2016/0553 }}

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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Dzik & Moskalenko

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Ordovician (460 Mya)

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Mamyry Formation

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{{Flag|Russia}}

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A possible relative of Tesakoviaspis concentrica. The type species is Kodinskaspis angarensis.

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Neoturinia{{Cite journal|author1=Vachik Hairapetian |author2=Henning Blom |author3=Susan Turner |year=2016 |title=Early Frasnian thelodont scales from central Iran and their implications for turiniid taxonomy, systematics and distribution |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=e1100632 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1100632 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E0632H |s2cid=88188567 }}

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Gen. et comb. nov

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Valid

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Hairapetian, Blom & Turner

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Devonian (Frasnian)

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{{Flag|Iran}}

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A turiniid thelodont. The type species is "Turinia" hutkensis Blieck & Goujet (1978).

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Phyllonaspis{{Cite journal|author=David K. Elliott |year=2016 |title=The Boothiaspidinae, a new agnathan subfamily (Heterostraci, Cyathaspididae) from the late Silurian and Early Devonian of the western United States and the Canadian Arctic |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=90 |issue=6 |pages=1212–1224 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.113 |bibcode=2016JPal...90.1212E |s2cid=132286625 }}

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Gen. et 3 sp. nov

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Valid

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Elliott

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Early Devonian (late Emsian)

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Lost Burro Formation

Sevy Dolomite

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{{Flag|Utah}})

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A member of Cyathaspididae. The type species is P. laevis; genus also includes P. serratus and P. taphensis.

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=Placoderms=

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Bothriolepis rex{{Cite journal|author1=Jason P. Downs |author2=Edward B. Daeschler |author3=Valentina E. Garcia |author4=Neil H. Shubin |year=2016 |title=A new large-bodied species of Bothriolepis (Antiarchi) from the Upper Devonian of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=e1221833 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1221833 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E1833D |s2cid=132090672 }}

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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Downs et al.

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Devonian (Frasnian)

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Nordstrand Point Formation

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{{Flag|Canada}}
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A member of Antiarchi.

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Qilinyu{{Cite journal|author1=Min Zhu |author2=Per E. Ahlberg |author3=Zhaohui Pan |author4=Youan Zhu |author5=Tuo Qiao |author6=Wenjin Zhao |author7=Liantao Jia |author8=Jing Lu |year=2016 |title=A Silurian maxillate placoderm illuminates jaw evolution |journal=Science |volume=354 |issue=6310 |pages=334–336 |doi=10.1126/science.aah3764 |pmid=27846567|bibcode=2016Sci...354..334Z |s2cid=45922669 }}

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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Zhu et al.

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Silurian (late Ludlow)

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Kuanti Formation

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{{Flag|China}}

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The type species is Q. rostrata.

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Atopacanthus juvai{{Cite journal|author1=Vachik Hairapetian |author2=Carole J. Burrow |year=2016 |title=A new ischnacanthiform (Acanthodii) from the latest Devonian of Iran and the palaeogeography of Late Devonian ischnacanthiforms |journal=Journal of Asian Earth Sciences |volume=124 |pages=227–232 |doi=10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.05.007 |bibcode=2016JAESc.124..227H }}

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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Hairapetian & Burrow

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Late Devonian

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Bahram Formation

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{{Flag|Iran}}

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A member of Ischnacanthiformes; a species of Atopacanthus.

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=Cartilaginous fishes=

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Akaimia myriacuspis{{Cite journal|author1=Alex Srdic |author2=Christopher J. Duffin |author3=David M. Martill |year=2016 |title=First occurrence of the orectolobiform shark Akaimia in the Oxford Clay Formation (Jurassic, Callovian) of England |journal=Proceedings of the Geologists' Association |volume=127 |issue=4 |pages=506–513 |doi=10.1016/j.pgeola.2016.07.002 |bibcode=2016PrGA..127..506S |url=https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/first-occurrence-of-the-orectolobiform-shark-akaimia-in-the-oxford-clay-formation-jurassic-callovian-of-england(dfc43ced-c714-4737-9a73-83277c51be7a).html }}

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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Srdic, Duffin & Martill

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Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

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Peterborough Member of the Oxford Clay Formation

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{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

|

A carpet shark.

|

Ceolometlaouia{{Cite journal|author1=Andrea Engelbrecht |author2=Thomas Mörs |author3=Marcelo A. Reguero |author4=Jürgen Kriwet |year=2016 |title=Revision of Eocene Antarctic carpet sharks (Elasmobranchii, Orectolobiformes) from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=12 |pages=969–990 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1266048 |pmid=28785171 |pmc=5544119 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Engelbrecht et al.

|

Eocene

|

La Meseta Formation

|

Antarctica
(Seymour Island)

|

A carpet shark. Genus includes new species C. pannucae.

|

Crassodus{{Cite journal|author1=Michael W. Maisch |author2=Andreas T. Matzke |year=2016 |title=A new hybodontid shark (Chondrichthyes, Hybodontiformes) from the Lower Jurassic Posidonienschiefer Formation of Dotternhausen, SW Germany |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=280 |issue=3 |pages=241–257 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2016/0577 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Maisch & Matzke

|

Early Jurassic (early Toarcian)

|

Posidonienschiefer Formation

|

{{Flag|Germany}}

|

A member of Hybodontidae. The type species is C. reifi.

|

Deltalepis{{Cite journal|author1=Plamen S. Andreev |author2=Michael I. Coates |author3=Valentina Karatajūtė-Talimaa |author4=Richard M. Shelton |author5=Paul R. Cooper |author6=Ivan J. Sansom |year=2016 |title=Elegestolepis and its kin, the earliest monodontode chondrichthyans |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=e1245664 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1245664 |s2cid=132227969 |url=http://pure-oai.bham.ac.uk/ws/files/30375482/s1_ln245490411243641635_1939656818Hwf1085070195IdV_144799456024549041PDF....pdf }}

|

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Andreev et al.

|

Silurian

|

Chargat Formation

|

{{Flag|Mongolia}}

|

A relative of Elegestolepis and Ellesmereia. Genus includes new species D. magna and D. parva.

|

Haimirichia{{Cite journal|author1=Romain Vullo |author2=Guillaume Guinot |author3=Gérard Barbe |year=2016 |title=The first articulated specimen of the Cretaceous mackerel shark Haimirichia amonensis gen. nov. (Haimirichiidae fam. nov.) reveals a novel ecomorphological adaptation within the Lamniformes (Elasmobranchii) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=14 |issue=12 |pages=1003–1024 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2015.1137983 |bibcode=2016JSPal..14.1003V |s2cid=85788544 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Vullo, Guinot & Barbe

|

Cretaceous

|

|

{{Flag|Angola}}

{{Flag|Egypt}}

{{Flag|France}}

{{Flag|Japan}}

{{Flag|Morocco}}

{{Flag|Nigeria}}

{{Flag|Spain}}

{{Flag|United States}}

|

A member of Lamniformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement; a new genus for "Odontaspis" amonensis Cappetta & Case (1975).

|

Isanodus nongbualamphuensis{{Cite journal|author1=Suchada Khamha |author2=Gilles Cuny |author3=Komsorn Lauprasert |year=2016 |title=Revision of Isanodus paladeji (Elasmobranchii, Hybodontiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand |journal=PalZ (Paläontologische Zeitschrift) |volume=90 |issue=3 |pages=533–541 |doi=10.1007/s12542-015-0282-4 |bibcode=2016PalZ...90..533K |s2cid=131660636 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Khamha, Cuny & Lauprasert

|

Early Cretaceous

|

|

{{Flag|Thailand}}

|

A member of Hybodontiformes, a species of Isanodus.

|

Lonchidion derenzii{{Cite journal|author1=Esther Manzanares |author2=Cristina Pla |author3=Carlos Martínez-Pérez |author4=Humberto Ferrón |author5=Héctor Botella |year=2016 |title=Lonchidion derenzii, sp. nov., a new lonchidiid shark (Chondrichthyes, Hybodontiformes) from the Upper Triassic of Spain, with remarks on lonchidiid enameloid |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=e1253585 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1253585 |hdl=10550/85565 |s2cid=132467956 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Manzanares et al.

|

Late Triassic

|

|

{{Flag|Spain}}

|

A member of Hybodontiformes.

|

Megachasma alisonae{{Cite journal|author1=Kenshu Shimada |author2=David J. Ward |year=2016 |title=The oldest fossil record of the megamouth shark from the late Eocene of Denmark, and comments on the enigmatic megachasmid origin |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=61 |issue=4 |pages=839–845 |doi=10.4202/app.00248.2016 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Shimada & Ward

|

Late Eocene

|

Søvind Marl Formation

|

{{Flag|Denmark}}

|

A relative of the megamouth shark.

|

Megalolamna{{Cite journal|author1=Kenshu Shimada |author2=Richard E. Chandler |author3=Otto Lok Tao Lam |author4=Takeshi Tanaka |author5=David J. Ward |year=2016 |title=A new elusive otodontid shark (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene, and comments on the taxonomy of otodontid genera, including the 'megatoothed' clade |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=704–714 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1236795 |s2cid=89080495 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Shimada et al.

|

Miocene (Aquitanian–Burdigalian)

|

Chilcatay Formation

Jewett Sand Formation

Oi Formation

O'oshimojo Formation

Pungo River Formation

Uitpa Formation

|

{{Flag|Colombia}}

{{Flag|Japan}}

{{Flag|Peru}}

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|California}},
{{Flag|North Carolina}})

|

A member of Otodontidae. The type species is M. paradoxodon. Pollerspöck & Shimada (2024) subsequently considered the type species to be a junior synonym of "Otodus" serotinus Probst (1879), resulting in a new combination Megalolamna serotinus.{{cite journal|author1=Jürgen Pollerspöck |author2=Kenshu Shimada |title=The first recognition of the enigmatic fossil shark genus Megalolamna (Lamniformes, Otodontidae) from the lower Miocene of Europe and M. serotinus (Probst, 1879) as the newly designated type species for the genus |year=2024 |journal=Zitteliana |volume=98 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.3897/zitteliana.98.e131387 |doi-access=free }}

|frameless

Notoramphoscyllium

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Engelbrecht et al.

|

Eocene

|

La Meseta Formation

|

Antarctica
(Seymour Island)

|

A carpet shark. Genus includes new species N. woodwardi.

|

Oligodalatias{{Cite journal|author=Bruce J. Welton |year=2016 |title=A new dalatiid shark (Squaliformes: Dalatiidae) from the early Oligocene of Oregon and California, USA |journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin |volume=74 |pages=289–302 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308794769 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Welton

|

Early Eocene-Miocene

|

Keasey Formation

Kirker Sandstone

Lillebælt Clay

Pittsburg Bluff Formation

|

{{Flag|Denmark}}

{{Flag|France}}

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|California}}
{{Flag|Oregon}})

|

A member of Dalatiidae. The type species is O. jordani.

|

Orectolobus ziegenhinei{{Cite journal|author1=Henri Cappetta |author2=Gerard R. Case |year=2016 |title=A Selachian Fauna from the Middle Eocene (Lutetian, Lisbon Formation) of Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama, USA |journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung A |volume=307 |issue=1–6 |pages=43–103 |doi=10.1127/pala/307/2016/43 |bibcode=2016PalAA.307...43C }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cappetta & Case

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Lisbon Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Alabama}})

|

A species of Orectolobus.

|

Orthechinorhinus davidae{{Cite journal|author=Bruce J. Welton |year=2016 |title=First report of Orthechinorhinus (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the Pacific Basin; a new species from Early Oligocene Rocks of Oregon, USA |journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin |volume=74 |pages=303–308 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Welton

|

Early Oligocene

|

Alsea Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Oregon}})

|

Probably a member of Etmopteridae.

|

Ossianodus{{Cite journal|author=Michał Ginter |year=2016 |title=The heterodonty in euselachian sharks from the Pennsylvanian of Nebraska |journal=Acta Geologica Polonica |volume=66 |issue=3 |pages=299–312 |doi=10.1515/agp-2016-0015 |bibcode=2016AcGeP..66..290G }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ginter

|

Carboniferous (Gzhelian)

|

Indian Cave Sandstone

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Nebraska}})

|

A member of Hybodontidae. The type species is O. nebraskensis.

|

Pristiophorus laevis{{Cite journal|author1=Andrea Engelbrecht |author2=Thomas Mörs |author3=Marcelo A. Reguero |author4=Jürgen Kriwet |year=2016 |title=A new sawshark, Pristiophorus laevis, from the Eocene of Antarctica with comments on Pristiophorus lanceolatus |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=6 |pages=841–853 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1252761 |pmid=28579693 |pmc=5447807 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Engelbrecht et al.

|

Eocene

|

|

Antarctica

|

A species of Pristiophorus.

|

Protosqualus argentinensis{{Cite journal|author1=Sergio Bogan |author2=Federico L. Agnolin |author3=Fernando E. Novas |year=2016 |title=New selachian records from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Patagonia: paleobiogeographical implications and the description of a new taxon |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=e1105235 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1105235 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E5235B |s2cid=130594147 |hdl=11336/17487 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bogan, Agnolin & Novas

|

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)

|

Calafate Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Squaliformes, a species of Protosqualus.

|frameless

Rhinoscymnus viridiadamas{{Cite journal|author1=Bruce J. Welton |author2=James L. Goedert |year=2016 |title=New fossil species of Somniosus and Rhinoscymnus (Squaliformes: Somniosidae), deep water sharks from Oligocene rocks of Western Washington State, USA |journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin |volume=74 |pages=309–326 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309153961 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Welton & Goedert

|

Oligocene

|

Lincoln Creek Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Washington}})

|

A member of Somniosidae, a species of Rhinoscymnus.

|

Scoliodon conecuhensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cappetta & Case

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Lisbon Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Alabama}})

|

A species of Scoliodon.

|

Solinalepis{{Cite journal|author1=Plamen Andreev |author2=Michael I. Coates |author3=Valentina Karatajūtė-Talimaa |author4=Richard M. Shelton |author5=Paul R. Cooper |author6=Nian-Zhong Wang |author7=Ivan J. Sansom |year=2016 |title=The systematics of the Mongolepidida (Chondrichthyes) and the Ordovician origins of the clade |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e1850 |doi=10.7717/peerj.1850 |pmid=27350896 |pmc=4918221 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Andreev et al.

|

Ordovician (Sandbian)

|

Harding Sandstone

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Colorado}})

|

A member of Mongolepidida of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is S. levis.

|

Somniosus gonzalezi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Welton & Goedert

|

Oligocene

|

Pysht Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Washington}})

|

A member of Somniosidae, a species of Somniosus.

|

Sphenacanthus tenuis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ginter

|

Carboniferous (Gzhelian)

|

Indian Cave Sandstone

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Nebraska}})

|

A member of Sphenacanthidae.

|

Squalicorax deckeri{{Cite journal|author1=Kelly N. Bice |author2=Kenshu Shimada |year=2016 |title=Fossil marine vertebrates from the Codell Sandstone Member (middle Turonian) of the Upper Cretaceous Carlile Shale in Jewell County, Kansas, USA |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=65 |pages=172–198 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2016.04.017 |bibcode=2016CrRes..65..172B }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bice & Shimada

|

Late Cretaceous (Turonian)

|

Codell Sandstone Member of the Carlile Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Kansas}})

|

|

Squatina (Squatina) fortemordeo{{cite book |author1=M. Siversson |author2=T. D. Cook |author3=P. Cederström |author4=H. E. Ryan |year=2016 |chapter=Early Campanian (Late Cretaceous) squatiniform and synechodontiform selachians from the Åsen locality, Kristianstad Basin, Sweden |editor1=B. P. Kear |editor2=J. Lindgren |editor3=J. H. Hurum |editor4=J. Milàn |editor5=V. Vajda |title=Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories |publisher=The Geological Society of London |pages=251–275 |isbn=978-1-86239-748-4 |doi=10.1144/SP434.9 |s2cid=131667250 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Siversson et al.

|

Late Cretaceous (early Campanian)

|

Kristianstad Basin

|

{{Flag|Sweden}}

|

An angel shark.

|

Squatina (Squatina) lundegreni

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Siversson et al.

|

Late Cretaceous (early Campanian)

|

Kristianstad Basin

|

{{Flag|Sweden}}

|

An angel shark.

|

Synechodus filipi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Siversson et al.

|

Late Cretaceous (early Campanian)

|

Kristianstad Basin

|

{{Flag|Sweden}}

|

A member of Synechodontiformes, a species of Synechodus.

|

Tethylamna

|

Gen. et sp. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Cappetta & Case

|

Eocene (Lutetian-Priabonian)

|

Lisbon Formation

|

{{Flag|Egypt}}

{{Flag|Morocco}}

{{Flag|Pakistan}}

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Alabama}}
{{Flag|Georgia (U.S. state)}})

|

Genus includes new species T. dunni, as well as "Lamna" twiggsensis Case (1981).

|

=Bony fishes=

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Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Adrianaichthys{{Cite journal|author1=François J. Meunier |author2=René-Paul Eustache |author3=Didier Dutheil |author4=Lionel Cavin |year=2016 |title=Histology of ganoid scales from the early Late Cretaceous of the Kem Kem beds, SE Morocco: systematic and evolutionary implications |journal=Cybium |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=121–132 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303018377 |doi=10.26028/cybium/2016-402-003 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Meunier et al.

|

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)

|

Kem Kem Group

|

{{Flag|Morocco}}

|

A member of Lepisosteiformes; a new genus for "Lepidotes" pankowskii Forey, López-Arbarello & MacLeod (2011).

|

Altamuraichthys{{Cite journal|author =Louis Taverne |year=2016 |title=Les poissons crétacés de Nardò. 39°. Altamuraichthys meleleoi gen. et sp. nov. (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes, Ichthyodectidae) |journal=Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona |volume=40 |pages=3–20 |url=http://www.museostorianaturaleverona.it/media/_Musei/_StoriaNaturale/_Allegati/Biblioteca/Bollettino/Bollettino%2040(2016)/Geologia%20Paleontologia%20Preistoria/01_Taverne.pdf }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Taverne

|

Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian)

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A member of Ichthyodectidae. The type species is A. meleleoi.

|

Amazonasciaena{{Cite journal|author1=Orangel A. Aguilera |author2=Werner Schwarzhans |author3=Philippe Béarez |year=2016 |title=Otoliths of the Sciaenidae from the Neogene of tropical America |journal=Palaeo Ichthyologica |volume=14 |pages=7–90 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Aquitanian to early Burdigalian)

|

Pirabas Formation

|

{{Flag|Brazil}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae; a new genus for "Sciaenops" rossettiae Aguilera & Schwarzhans (2014).

|

Amyzon kishenehnicum{{Cite journal|author1=Juan Liu |author2=Mark V.H. Wilson |author3=Alison M. Murray |year=2016 |title=A new catostomid fish (Ostariophysi, Cypriniformes) from the Eocene Kishenehn Formation and remarks on the North American species of †Amyzon Cope, 1872 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=90 |issue=2 |pages=288–304 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.28 |bibcode=2016JPal...90..288L |s2cid=88581209 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Liu, Wilson & Murray

|

Eocene

|

Kishenehn Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Montana}})

|

A member of Catostomidae.

|

Argentina antarctica{{Cite journal|author1=Werner Schwarzhans |author2=Thomas Mörs |author3=Andrea Engelbrecht |author4=Marcelo Reguero |author5=Jürgen Kriwet |year=2016 |title=Before the freeze: otoliths from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica, reveal dominance of gadiform fishes (Teleostei) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=147–170 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1151958 |pmid=28077930 |pmc=5221741 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans et al.

|

Eocene (late Ypresian

|

La Meseta Formation

|

Antarctica (Seymour Island)

|

A herring smelt, a species of Argentina.

|

Ariomma? astridae{{Cite journal|author1=Kristiaan Hoedemakers |author2=Steffen Schneider |year=2016 |title=Fish otoliths from the Rupelian (Early Oligocene) of Bad Freienwalde (NE Germany) |journal=Paläontologische Zeitschrift |volume=90 |issue=1 |pages=125–144 |doi=10.1007/s12542-015-0278-0 |bibcode=2016PalZ...90..125H |s2cid=130821374 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Hoedemakers & Schneider

|

Oligocene (Rupelian)

|

|

{{Flag|Germany}}

|

Possibly a species of Ariomma.

|

Armigatus dalmaticus{{Cite journal|author1=Alison M. Murray |author2=Oksana Vernygora |author3=Sanja Japundžić |author4=Jakov Radovčić |author5=Mark V. H. Wilson |author6=David Bardack |author7=Terry Grande |year=2016 |title=Relationships of the species of Armigatus (Clupeomorpha, Ellimmichthyiformes) and the description of a new species from the Cretaceous of Dalmatia, Croatia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=e1226851 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1226851 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E6851M |s2cid=89072541 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Murray et al.

|

Late Cretaceous (Campanian)

|

|

{{Flag|Croatia}}

|

A clupeomorph belonging to the group Ellimmichthyiformes.

|

Askerichthys{{cite book |author1=Ulf J. Borgen |author2=Hans A. Nakrem |year=2016 |title=Fossils and Strata, Number 61, Morphology, phylogeny and taxonomy of osteolepiform fish |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |pages=1–514 |isbn=978-1-119-28643-1 |doi=10.1002/9781119286448 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Borgen & Nakrem

|

Late Carboniferous

|

Tanum Formation

|

{{Flag|Norway}}

|

A member of the family Megalichthyidae. The type species is A. heintzi.

|

Atractoscion odeai

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (late Burdigalian to early Langhian)

|

Cantaure Formation

Castilletes Formation

|

{{Flag|Colombia}}

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Atractoscion

|

Axelrodichthys megadromos{{Cite journal|author1=Lionel Cavin |author2=Xavier Valentin |author3=Géraldine Garcia |year=2016 |title=A new mawsoniid coelacanth (Actinistia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern France |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=62 |pages=65–73 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2016.02.002 |bibcode=2016CrRes..62...65C }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cavin, Valentin & Garcia

|

Late Cretaceous (early Campanian)

|

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A mawsoniid coelacanth, a species of Axelrodichthys.

|

Balkaria{{Cite journal|author1=Alexandre F. Bannikov |author2=James C. Tyler |author3=Dahiana Arcila |author4=Giorgio Carnevale |year=2016 |title=A new family of gymnodont fish (Tetraodontiformes) from the earliest Eocene of the Peri-Tethys (Kabardino-Balkaria, northern Caucasus, Russia) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=129–146 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1149115 |s2cid=88303722 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bannikov et al.

|

Eocene

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}
({{Flag|Kabardino-Balkaria}})

|

A member of Tetraodontiformes belonging to the suborder Tetraodontoidei. The type species is Balkaria histiopterygia.

|

‘Branchiostegus’ brevis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

Possibly a species of Branchiostegus

|

Callaus cubaguanus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Late Miocene to late Pliocene

|

Cubagua Formation

|

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Callaus

|

Carlomonnius{{Cite journal|author1=Alexandre F. Bannikov |author2=Giorgio Carnevale |year=2016 |title=†Carlomonnius quasigobius gen. et sp. nov.: the first gobioid fish from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=13–22 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1577 |doi-access=free |hdl=2318/1632180 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bannikov & Carnevale

|

Eocene (late Ypresian)

|

Monte Bolca locality

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A member of Gobioidei of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Carlomonnius quasigobius.

|

Cataetyx stringeri{{Cite journal|author1=Werner Schwarzhans |author2=Orangel Aguilera |year=2016 |title=Otoliths of the Ophidiiformes from the Neogene of tropical America |journal=Palaeo Ichthyologica |volume=14 |pages=91–124 }}

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Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene

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Bowden Formation

Moin Formation

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{{Flag|Costa Rica}}

{{Flag|Jamaica}}

|

A viviparous brotula; a species of Cataetyx.

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Catutoichthys{{Cite journal|author=Soledad Gouiric-Cavalli |year=2016 |title=A new Late Jurassic halecomorph fish from the marine Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina, southwestern Gondwana |journal=Fossil Record |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=119–129 |doi=10.5194/fr-19-119-2016 |bibcode=2016FossR..19..119G |doi-access=free |hdl=11336/54624 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Gouiric-Cavalli

|

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

|

Vaca Muerta Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of Caturidae. The type species is C. olsacheri.

|

Cepola anderssoni

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans et al.

|

Eocene (late Ypresian

|

La Meseta Formation

|

Antarctica (Seymour Island)

|

A bandfish, a species of Cepola.

|

Cepola rostislavi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A species of Cepola

|

Ceratodus kranzi{{Cite journal|author1=Joseph A. Frederickson |author2=Thomas R. Lipka |author3=Richard L. Cifelli |year=2016 |title=A new species of the lungfish Ceratodus (Dipnoi) from the Early Cretaceous of the eastern U.S.A. |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=e1136316 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1136316 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E6316F |s2cid=87607819 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/3122959 |url-access=subscription }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Frederickson, Lipka & Cifelli

|

Early Cretaceous

|

Potomac Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Maryland}})

|

A lungfish, a species of Ceratodus.

|

Coelorinchus balushkini

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans et al.

|

Eocene (late Ypresian

|

La Meseta Formation

|

Antarctica (Seymour Island)

|

A grenadier, a species of Coelorinchus.

|

Coelorinchus nordenskjoeldi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans et al.

|

Eocene (late Ypresian

|

La Meseta Formation

|

Antarctica (Seymour Island)

|

A grenadier, a species of Coelorinchus.

|

Ctenoplectus{{Cite journal|author1=Roger A. Close |author2=Zerina Johanson |author3=James C. Tyler |author4=Richard C. Harrington |author5=Matt Friedman |year=2016 |title=Mosaicism in a new Eocene pufferfish highlights rapid morphological innovation near the origin of crown tetraodontiforms |journal=Palaeontology |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=499–514 |doi=10.1111/pala.12245 |bibcode=2016Palgy..59..499C |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Close et al.

|

Eocene (Ypresian)

|

London Clay Formation

|

{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

|

A member of Tetraodontiformes related to the threetooth puffer. The type species is C. williamsi.

|

Cumbaaichthys{{Cite journal|author = Alison M. Murray |year=2016 |title=Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada |journal=Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=101–115 |url=https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/VAMP/article/view/25439 |doi=10.18435/b5cc78|doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Murray

|

Late Cretaceous (Turonian)

|

|

{{Flag|Canada}}

|

A member of Polymixiiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Cumbaaichthys oxyrhynchus.

|

Cynoscion latiostialis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Tortonian)

|

Gatun Formation

Urumaco Formation

|

{{Flag|Panama}}

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Cynoscion

|

Cynoscion prolixus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Tortonian) to late Pliocene

|

Chagres Formation

Cubagua Formation

Urumaco Formation

|

{{Flag|Panama}}

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Cynoscion

|

Cynoscion scitulus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Tortonian)

|

Gatun Formation

|

{{Flag|Panama}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Cynoscion

|

Diaphus? marambionis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans et al.

|

Eocene (late Ypresian

|

La Meseta Formation

|

Antarctica (Seymour Island)

|

A lanternfish, possibly a species of Diaphus.

|

Ebertichthys{{Cite journal|author =G. Arratia |year=2016 |title=New remarkable Late Jurassic teleosts from southern Germany: Ascalaboidae n. fam., its content, morphology, and phylogenetic relationships |journal=Fossil Record |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=31–59 |doi=10.5194/fr-19-31-2016 |bibcode=2016FossR..19...31A |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Arratia

|

Late Jurassic

|

|

{{Flag|Germany}}

|

A teleost related to Ascalabos voithii. The type species is Ebertichthys ettlingensis.

|

Eekaulostomus{{Cite journal|author1=Kleyton Magno Cantalice |author2=Jesús Alvarado-Ortega |year=2016 |title=Eekaulostomus cuevasae gen. and sp. nov., an ancient armored trumpetfish (Aulostomoidea) from Danian (Paleocene) marine deposits of Belisario Domínguez, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=19 |issue=3 |page=19.3.53A |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1659-ancient-armored-trumpetfish |doi=10.26879/682 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Cantalice & Alvarado-Ortega

|

Paleocene (Danian)

|

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A member of the superfamily Aulostomoidea. The type species is E. cuevasae.

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‘Elops’ miiformis{{Cite journal|author1=Chien-Hsiang Lin |author2=Dirk Nolf |author3=Etienne Steurbaut |author4=Angela Girone |year=2016 |title=Fish otoliths from the Lutetian of the Aquitaine Basin (SW France), a breakthrough in the knowledge of the European Eocene ichthyofauna |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=11 |pages=879–907 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1246112 |s2cid=133534902 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Fish_otoliths_from_the_Lutetian_of_the_Aquitaine_Basin_SW_France_a_breakthrough_in_the_knowledge_of_the_European_Eocene_ichthyofauna/4249406 |url-access=subscription }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

Possibly a species of Elops

|

Eoengraulis{{Cite journal|author1=Giuseppe Marramà |author2=Giorgio Carnevale |year=2016 |title=An Eocene anchovy from Monte Bolca, Italy: The earliest known record for the family Engraulidae |journal=Geological Magazine |volume=153 |issue=1 |pages=84–94 |doi=10.1017/S0016756815000278 |bibcode=2016GeoM..153...84M |s2cid=85847651 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Marramà & Carnevale

|

Eocene (late Ypresian)

|

Monte Bolca locality

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

An anchovy. The type species is Eoengraulis fasoloi.

|

‘Evermannella’ razza

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

Possibly a species of Evermannella

|

Foreyclupea{{Cite journal|author1=Oksana Vernygora |author2=Alison M. Murray |author3=Mark V.H. Wilson |year=2016 |title=A primitive clupeomorph from the Albian Loon River Formation (Northwest Territories, Canada) |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=331–342 |doi=10.1139/cjes-2015-0172 |bibcode=2016CaJES..53..331V |hdl=1807/71653 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Vernygora, Murray & Wilson

|

Early Cretaceous (Albian)

|

Loon River Formation

|

{{Flag|Canada}}
({{Flag|Northwest Territories}})

|

A member of Clupeomorpha, possibly related to Ranulfoichthys dorsonudum and Scutatuspinosus itapagipensis. The type species is Foreyclupea loonensis.

|

Francolebias arvernensis{{Cite journal|author=Jean Gaudant |year=2016 |title=Francolebias arvernensis n. sp., une nouvelle espèce de poissons cyprinodontiformes oligocènes de Chadrat (Saint-Saturnin, Puy-de-Dôme, France), avec une brève notice sur un Umbridae fossile du même gisement |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=435–449 |doi=10.5252/g2016n3a4 |s2cid=132131039 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/38/3/francolebias-arvernensis-n-sp-une-nouvelle-espece-de-poissons-cyprinodontiformes-oligocenes-de-chadrat-saint-saturnin-puy-de-dome-france-avec-une-breve-notice-sur-un-umbridae-fossile-du-meme-gisement |url-access=subscription }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Gaudant

|

Oligocene

|

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A relative of Valencia.

|

Frodoichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Zuo-Yu Sun |author2=Andrea Tintori |author3=Cristina Lombardo |author4=Da-Yong Jiang |year=2016 |title=New miniature neopterygians from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan Province, South China |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=282 |issue=2 |pages=135–156 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2016/0610 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Sun et al.

|

Middle Triassic (Anisian)

|

Guanling Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A member of Neopterygii of uncertain phylogenetic placement, showing similarities to Prosantichthys and thus to the halecomorph order Panxianichthyformes. The type species is F. luopingensis.

|

Gimlichthys

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Sun et al.

|

Middle Triassic (Anisian)

|

Guanling Formation

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

A member of Neopterygii of uncertain phylogenetic placement, more similar to ginglymodians than to halecomorphs. The type species is G. dawaziensis.

|

Gladiopycnodus byrnei{{Cite journal|author1=Giuseppe Marramà |author2=Boris Villier |author3=Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia |author4=Giorgio Carnevale |year=2016 |title=A new species of Gladiopycnodus (Coccodontoidea, Pycnodontomorpha) from the Cretaceous of Lebanon provides new insights about the morphological diversification of pycnodont fishes through time |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=61 |pages=34–43 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2015.12.022 |bibcode=2016CrRes..61...34M |hdl=2318/1566888 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Marramà et al.

|

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)

|

|

{{Flag|Lebanon}}

|

A member of Pycnodontiformes belonging to the superfamily Coccodontoidea, a species of Gladiopycnodus.

|

Habroichthys dolomiticus{{Cite journal|author1=Andrea Tintori |author2=Cristina Lombardo |author3=Evelyn Kustatscher |year=2016 |title=The Pelsonian (Anisian, Middle Triassic) fish assemblage from Monte Prà della Vacca/Kühwiesenkopf (Braies Dolomites, Italy) |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=282 |issue=2 |pages=181–200 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2016/0612 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Tintori, Lombardo & Kustatscher

|

Middle Triassic (Anisian)

|

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

|

‘Haemulon’ strascinate

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

Possibly a species of Haemulon

|

Herreraichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Jesús Alvarado-Ortega |author2=Paulo M. Brito |author3=Héctor Gerardo Porras-Múzquiz |author4=Irene Heidi Mújica-Monroy |year=2016 |title=A Late Cretaceous marine long snout "pejelagarto" fish (Lepisosteidae, Lepisosteini) from Múzquiz, Coahuila, northeastern Mexico |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=57 |pages=19–28 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2015.07.009 |bibcode=2016CrRes..57...19A }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Alvarado-Ortega et al.

|

Late Cretaceous (Santonian)

|

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A gar. The type species is Herreraichthys coahuilaensis.

|

Hoplobrotula? antipoda

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans et al.

|

Eocene (late Ypresian

|

La Meseta Formation

|

Antarctica (Seymour Island)

|

A cusk-eel, possibly a species of Hoplobrotula.

|

Hoplopteryx dakotaensis{{Cite journal|author1=Barbara S. Grandstaff |author2=David C. Parris |year=2016 |title=A New Species of Hoplopteryx from the Carlile Formation (Cretaceous) of South Dakota |journal=Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science |volume=95 |pages=73–84 |url=http://www.sdaos.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/2016/73-84%20Parris.pdf }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Grandstaff & Parris

|

Late Cretaceous (Turonian)

|

Carlile Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|South Dakota}})

|

|

Hyporhamphus tatjanchenkoi{{Cite journal|author1=A.F. Bannikov |author2=G. Carnevale |author3=A. N. Kotlyar |year=2016 |title=A new halfbeak species (Beloniformes, Hemiramphidae) from the Lower Sarmatian of the Krasnodar Region |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=50 |issue=6 |pages=616–622 |url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=27145979 |doi=10.1134/S0031030116060034 |bibcode=2016PalJ...50..616B |s2cid=89531400 |url-access=subscription }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Bannikov, Carnevale & Kotlyar

|

Miocene

|

|

{{Flag|Russia}}
({{Flag|Krasnodar Krai}})

|

A halfbeak, a species of Hyporhamphus.

|

Igornichthys bohemicus{{Cite journal|author=Stanislav Štamberg |year=2016 |title=A new actinopterygian species of Igornichthys Heyler, 1972 from the Permian of the Krkonoše Piedmont Basin (Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic), and its relationship to the actinopterygians of other European Permo-Carboniferous basins |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=475–488 |doi=10.5252/g2016n4a1 |s2cid=55549782 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/38/4/une-nouvelle-espece-d-igornichthys-du-permien-du-bassin-de-krkonose-piedmont-massif-bohemien-republique-tcheque-et-ses-relations-avec-les-actinopterygiens-d-autres-bassins-europeens-permo-carboniferes |url-access=subscription }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Štamberg

|

Permian (Asselian)

|

Vrchlabí Formation

|

{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|

A ray-finned fish belonging to the group Brookvaliiformes.

|

Isopisthus acer

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Late Pliocene

|

Río Banano Formation

|

{{Flag|Costa Rica}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Isopisthus

|

Khoratichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Uthumporn Deesri |author2=Pratueng Jintasakul |author3=Lionel Cavin |year=2016 |title=A new Ginglymodi (Actinopterygii, Holostei) from the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous of Thailand, with comments on the early diversification of Lepisosteiformes in Southeast Asia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=e1225747 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1225747 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E5747D |s2cid=89359438 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/A_new_Ginglymodi_Actinopterygii_Holostei_from_the_Late_Jurassic_Early_Cretaceous_of_Thailand_with_comments_on_the_early_diversification_of_Lepisosteiformes_in_Southeast_Asia/3998448 |url-access=subscription }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Deesri, Jintasakul & Cavin

|

Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous

|

Phu Kradung Formation

|

{{Flag|Thailand}}

|

A basal member of Lepisosteiformes. The type species is K. gibbus.

|

Kooiichthys{{Cite journal|author =María de las Mercedes Azpelicueta |author2=Alberto Luis Cione |author3=Mario Alberto Cozzuol |author4=Juan Marcos Mirande |year=2016 |title=Kooiichthys jono n. gen. n. sp., a primitive catfish (Teleostei, Siluriformes) from the marine Miocene of southern South America |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=5 |pages=791–801 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.52 |s2cid=130973337 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Azpelicueta et al.

|

Miocene

|

Puerto Madryn Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A catfish. The type species is Kooiichthys jono.

|

Lamprogrammus manzanilla

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Miocene (late Tortonian)

|

Manzanilla Formation

|

{{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}

(Trinidad)

|

A cusk-eel; a species of Lamprogrammus.

|

Larimus angosturae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Tortonian) to Pliocene (Zanclean)

|

Angostura Formation

Río Banano Formation

|

{{Flag|Costa Rica}}

{{Flag|Ecuador}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Larimus

|

Larimus humboldti

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Burdigalian to early Langhian)

|

Cantaure Formation

Jimol Formation

|

{{Flag|Colombia}}

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Larimus

|

Larimus pandus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Tortonian)

|

Angostura Formation

Gatun Formation

|

{{Flag|Ecuador}}

{{Flag|Panama}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Larimus

|

Lepophidium borbonensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Miocene (Tortonian and Messinian)

|

Angostura Formation

Onzole Formation

|

{{Flag|Ecuador}}

|

A cusk-eel; a species of Lepophidium.

|

Lepophidium crebrum

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Miocene (Serravallian and Tortonian)

|

Angostura Formation

Manzanilla Formation

Tamana Formation

|

{{Flag|Ecuador}}

{{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}

(Trinidad)

|

A cusk-eel; a species of Lepophidium.

|

Lepophidium gentilis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Miocene (Tortonian)

|

Gatun Formation

|

{{Flag|Panama}}

|

A cusk-eel; a species of Lepophidium.

|

Lepophidium leai

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Late Pliocene

|

Cubagua Formation

|

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A cusk-eel; a species of Lepophidium.

|

Lepophidium limulum

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Miocene (Messinian)

|

Onzole Formation

|

{{Flag|Ecuador}}

|

A cusk-eel; a species of Lepophidium.

|

Lepophidium refugum

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Early Pliocene

|

Cubagua Formation

|

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A cusk-eel; a species of Lepophidium.

|

Leptolumamia{{Cite journal|author1=Alexandre F. Bannikov |author2=Thomas H. Fraser |year=2016 |title=A new genus and species of cardinalfish (Percomorpha, Apogonidae) from the Eocene of Bolca, northern Italy (Monte Postale site) |journal=Studi e ricerche sui giacimenti terziari di Bolca, XVII - Miscellanea Paleontologica |volume=14 |pages=13–23 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311913539 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov.

|

Valid

|

Bannikov & Fraser

|

Lower Eocene, upper Ypresian

|

North-eastern Italy, Monte Bolca locality, Monte Postale site

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A new genus and species of cardinalfish (Percomorpha, Apogonidae). The type species is L. vetula.

|

‘Liopropoma’ sculpta

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

Possibly a species of Liopropoma

|

Macruronus eastmani

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans et al.

|

Eocene

|

La Meseta Formation

|

Antarctica (Seymour Island)

{{Flag|Australia}}

|

A member of Merlucciidae, a species of Macruronus.

|

Malacanthus carosii{{Cite journal|author =Giorgio Carnevale |year=2016 |title=Blanquillos (Teleostei, Malacanthidae) from the Middle Miocene of St. Margarethen in Burgenland, Austria: Palaeoenvironmental implications |journal=Annales de Paléontologie |volume=102 |issue=1 |pages=51–57 |doi=10.1016/j.annpal.2016.01.003 |bibcode=2016AnPal.102...51C }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Carnevale

|

Miocene (Badenian)

|

Leitha Limestone

|

{{Flag|Austria}}

|

A species of Malacanthus.

|

Megalichthys syndentolaminaris

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Borgen & Nakrem

|

Carboniferous

|

|

{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

|

A member of the family Megalichthyidae.

|

Melamphaes acanthifer

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A species of Melamphaes

|

Nebris dioneae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Tortonian)

|

Urumaco Formation

|

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Nebris

|

‘Neobythites’ auribatianus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

Possibly a species of Neobythites

|

‘Neobythites’ bozzolo

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A cusk-eel. Originally described as a possible species of Neobythites, but subsequently transferred to the genus Pronobythites by Schwarzhans & Nielsen (2023).{{Cite journal|author=Werner W. Schwarzhans |author2=Kent A. Nielsen |year=2023 |title=Fish otoliths from the bathyal Eocene Lillebælt Clay Formation of Denmark |journal=Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark |volume=72 |pages=207–219 |doi=10.37570/bgsd-2023-72-08 |doi-access=free }}

|

Neobythites huddlestoni

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Miocene (late Langhian)

|

Brasso Formation

|

{{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}

(Trinidad)

|

A cusk-eel; a species of Neobythites.

|

‘Neobythites’ leonardi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A cusk-eel. Originally described as a possible species of Neobythites, but subsequently transferred to the genus Pronobythites by Schwarzhans & Nielsen (2023).

|

Neoscopelus navicularis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A species of Neoscopelus

|

Nezumia teoulerensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A species of Nezumia

|

Notoberyx

|

Gen. et sp. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans et al.

|

Early Eocene

|

La Meseta Formation

|

Antarctica (Seymour Island)

{{Flag|Denmark}}

|

A slimehead. The type species is Notoberyx cionei; genus also includes Notoberyx madseni (Schwarzhans, 2007).

|

Occitanichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Adriana López-Arbarello |author2=Lukardis C. M. Wencker |year=2016 |title=New callipurbeckiid genus (Ginglymodi: Semionotiformes) from the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) of Canjuers, France |journal=PalZ (Paläontologische Zeitschrift) |volume=90 |issue=3 |pages=543–560 |doi=10.1007/s12542-016-0312-x |bibcode=2016PalZ...90..543L |s2cid=132452470 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

López-Arbarello & Wencker

|

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

|

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A member of Semionotiformes belonging to the family Callipurbeckiidae. The type species is Occitanichthys canjuersensis.

|

Ogilbichthys dariensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Miocene (early Tortonian)

|

Tuira Formarion

|

{{Flag|Panama}}

|

A viviparous brotula; a species of Ogilbichthys.

|

Oligoremora{{Cite journal|author1=Norbert Micklich |author2=Růžena Gregorová |author3=Alexandre F. Bannikov |author4=Dorin-Sorin Baciu |author5=Ionuţ Grădianu |author6=Giorgio Carnevale |year=2016 |title=Oligoremora rhenana n. g. n. sp., a new echeneid fish (Percomorpha, Echeneoidei) from the Oligocene of the Grube Unterfeld ("Frauenweiler") clay pit |journal=PalZ (Paläontologische Zeitschrift) |volume=90 |issue=3 |pages=561–592 |doi=10.1007/s12542-016-0303-y |bibcode=2016PalZ...90..561M |s2cid=87744476 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Micklich et al.

|

Oligocene

|

|

{{Flag|Germany}}

|

A remora. The type species is Oligoremora rhenana.

|

Oncorhynchus belli{{Cite journal|author1=Ralph F. Stearley |author2=Gerald R. Smith |year=2016 |title=Fishes of the Mio-Pliocene Western Snake River Plain and vicinity. I. Salmonid fishes from Mio-Pliocene lake sediments in the Western Snake River Plain and the Great Basin |journal=Miscellaneous Publications. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan |volume=204 |issue=1 |pages=1–43 |hdl=2027.42/134040 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Stearley & Smith

|

Miocene

|

Truckee Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Nevada}})

|

A species of Oncorhynchus.

|

Oncorhynchus rastellus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Stearley & Smith

|

Miocene

|

Chalk Hills Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Idaho}})

|

A species of Oncorhynchus.

|

Ophidion bowdenensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Late Pliocene

|

Bowden Formation

|

{{Flag|Jamaica}}

|

A cusk-eel; a species of Ophidion.

|

Ophidion pauxillicauda

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Middle Pleistocene

|

Swan Cay Formation

|

{{Flag|Panama}}

|

A cusk-eel; a species of Ophidion.

|

Ophidion sporoformis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans & Aguilera

|

Miocene (Tortonian)

|

Angostura Formation

|

{{Flag|Ecuador}}

|

A cusk-eel; a species of Ophidion.

|

Ophioscion amphiamericanus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Tortonian and Messinian)

|

Angostura Formation

Cercado Formation

|

{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}

{{Flag|Ecuador}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Ophioscion.

|

Ophioscion inflaticauda

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (late Tortonian)

|

Manzanilla Formation

|

{{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}

(Trinidad)

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Ophioscion.

|

Ophioscion transitivus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (late Burdigalian to Langhian)

|

Baitoa Formation

Brasso Formation

|

{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}

{{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}

(Trinidad)

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Ophioscion.

|

‘Ophichthus’ mignolo

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

Possibly a species of Ophichthus

|

Orthogonikleithrus francogalliensis{{Cite journal|author =Martin Konwert |year=2016 |title=Orthogonikleithrus francogalliensis, sp. nov. (Teleostei, Orthogonikleithridae) from the Late Jurassic Plattenkalks of Cerin (France) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=e1101377 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1101377 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E1377K |s2cid=88135367 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Konwert

|

Late Jurassic

|

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A teleost belonging to the family Orthogonikleithridae, a species of Orthogonikleithrus.

|

Palaeomacrosemius{{Cite journal|author1=Martin Ebert |author2=Jennifer A. Lane |author3=Martina Kölbl-Ebert |year=2016 |title=Palaeomacrosemius thiollieri, gen. et sp. nov., a new Macrosemiidae (Neopterygii) from the Upper Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago (Germany) and Cerin (France), with a revision of the genus Macrosemius |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=e1196081 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1196081 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E6081E |s2cid=88649682 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Ebert, Lane & Kölbl-Ebert

|

Late Jurassic (late Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian)

|

|

{{Flag|France}}

{{Flag|Germany}}

|

A member of Macrosemiidae. Genus includes new species P. thiollieri.

|

Palimphemus seymourensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schwarzhans et al.

|

Eocene (late Ypresian

|

La Meseta Formation

|

Antarctica (Seymour Island)

|

A member of Gadidae, a species of Palimphemus.

|

Pavarottia maiseyi{{Cite journal|author=Alexandre F. Bannikov |year=2016 |title=A new species of the percoid fish genus Pavarottia (Perciformes) from the Eocene of Bolca, northern Italy |journal=Studi e ricerche sui giacimenti terziari di Bolca, XVII - Miscellanea Paleontologica |volume=14 |pages=5–11 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311913472 }}

|

Sp. nov.

|

Valid

|

Bannikov

|

Eocene (late Ypresian)

|

Monte Bolca locality

|

{{Flag|Italy}}

|

A member of Percoidei of uncertain phylogenetic placement.

|

Peltopleurus nitidus{{Cite journal|author1=Guang-Hui Xu |author2=Xin-Ying Ma |year=2016 |title=A Middle Triassic stem-neopterygian fish from China sheds new light on the peltopleuriform phylogeny and internal fertilization |journal=Science Bulletin |volume=61 |issue=22 |pages=1766–1774 |doi=10.1007/s11434-016-1189-5 |bibcode=2016SciBu..61.1766X |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Xu & Ma

|

Middle Triassic (Anisian)

|

|

{{Flag|China}}

|

|

Pentanogmius fritschi{{Cite journal|author =Kenshu Shimada |year=2016 |title=A new species of the Late Cretaceous 'sail-finned' bony fish, Pentanogmius (Actinopterygii: Tselfatiiformes), from Texas, USA |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=61 |pages=188–198 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2015.12.019 |bibcode=2016CrRes..61..188S }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Shimada

|

Late Cretaceous (late Cenomanian–early Turonian)

|

Britton Formation

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Texas}})

|

A member of Tselfatiiformes, a species of Pentanogmius.

|

‘Perca’ lactarioides

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

Possibly a species of Perca

|

‘Perca’ meiformis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

Possibly a species of Perca

|

Phractocephalus ivy{{Cite journal|author =María de las Mercedes Azpelicueta |author2=Alberto Luis Cione |year=2016 |title=A southern species of the tropical catfish genus Phractocephalus (Teleostei: Siluriformes) in the Miocene of South America |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=67 |pages=221–230 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2016.03.002 |bibcode=2016JSAES..67..221A |url=http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/107890 |hdl=11336/50146 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Azpelicueta & Cione

|

Miocene (Tortonian)

|

Ituzaingó Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A member of the family Pimelodidae. Originally described as a species of Phractocephalus; Bogan & Agnolín (2019) transferred this species to the genus Steindachneridion.{{Cite journal|author1=Sergio Bogan |author2=Federico L. Agnolín |year=2019 |title=Phractocephaline catfishes from the late Miocene of Argentina, with the description of a new taxon |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=e1676254 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2019.1676254 |bibcode=2019JVPal..39E6254B |s2cid=209439992 }}

|

Plagioscion ultimus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Pliocene

|

Cubagua Formation

Springvale Formation

|

{{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}

(Trinidad)

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Plagioscion

|

Pleuropholis cisnerosorum{{Cite journal|author1=Jesús Alvarado-Ortega |author2=Paulo M. Brito |year=2016 |title=A Jurassic pleuropholid fish (Teleostei, Pleuropholidae) in the Tethys Sea domain of North America |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=e1201767 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1201767 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E1767A |s2cid=133468722 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Alvarado-Ortega & Brito

|

Late Jurassic

|

Sabinal Formation

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

|

Polycirrhus jaramilloi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Burdigalian to Langhian)

|

Cantaure Formation

Castilletes Formation

Jimol Formation

|

{{Flag|Colombia}}

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Polycirrhus

|

Polycirrhus mustus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Burdigalian to Langhian)

|

Cantaure Formation

Castilletes Formation

Jimol Formation

|

{{Flag|Colombia}}

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Polycirrhus

|

Protonebris

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Aquitanian to early Burdigalian)

|

Castillo Formation

|

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae. The type species is Protonebris sanchezi

|

Ptychoceratodus cuyanus{{Cite journal|author1=Federico L. Agnolín |author2=Sergio Bogan |author3=Federico Brissón Egli |author4=Fernando E. Novas |author5=Marcelo P. Isasi |author6=Claudia Marsicano |author7=Ana Zavattieri |author8=Adriana Mancuso |year=2016 |title=A new lungfish (Dipnoi) from the Late Triassic of South America |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=e1245665 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1245665 |s2cid=132292539 |hdl=11336/48739 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Agnolín et al.

|

Late Triassic (Carnian)

|

Potrerillos Formation

|

{{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A lungfish.

|

Rhinconichthys purgatorensis{{Cite journal|author1=Bruce A. Schumacher |author2=Kenshu Shimada |author3=Jeff Liston |author4=Anthony Maltese |year=2016 |title=Highly specialized suspension-feeding bony fish Rhinconichthys (Actinopterygii: Pachycormiformes) from the mid-Cretaceous of the United States, England, and Japan |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=61 |pages=71–85 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2015.12.017 |bibcode=2016CrRes..61...71S |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1258879 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schumacher et al.

|

Late Cretaceous (middle Turonian)

|

Carlile Shale

|

{{Flag|United States}}
({{Flag|Colorado}})

|

A member of Pachycormiformes, a species of Rhinconichthys.

|

Rhinconichthys uyenoi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Schumacher et al.

|

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)

|

Mikasa Formation

|

{{Flag|Japan}}

|

A member of Pachycormiformes, a species of Rhinconichthys.

|

Saurichthys dianneae{{Cite journal|author1=Erin E. Maxwell |author2=Henk Diependaal |author3=Herman Winkelhorst |author4=Gerard Goris |author5=Nicole Klein |year=2016 |title=A new species of Saurichthys (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae) from the Middle Triassic of Winterswijk, The Netherlands |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=280 |issue=2 |pages=119–134 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2016/0569 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Maxwell et al.

|

Middle Triassic (Anisian)

|

Vossenveld Formation

|

{{Flag|Netherlands}}

|

|

Saurida trompensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

A species of Saurida

|

‘Scopelarchus’ gnocco

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

Possibly a species of Scopelarchus

|

Silurus spinosus{{Cite journal|author1=Oleksandr Kovalchuk |author2=Carl J. Ferraris |year=2016 |title=Late Cenozoic catfishes of Southeastern Europe with inference to their taxonomy and palaeogeography |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=19 |issue=3 |page=19.3.34A |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1594-cenozoic-catfishes-of-europe |doi=10.26879/616 |doi-access=free }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Kovalchuk & Ferraris

|

Late Miocene (late Sarmatian)

|

|

{{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A catfish; a species of Silurus.

|

Stellifer abbreviatus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Late Pliocene

|

Río Banano Formation

|

{{Flag|Costa Rica}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Stellifer.

|

Stellifer acerbus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (late Tortonian)

|

Manzanilla Formation

|

{{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}

(Trinidad)

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Stellifer.

|

Stellifer bicornutus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Late Pliocene

|

Río Banano Formation

|

{{Flag|Costa Rica}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Stellifer.

|

Stellifer depressifrons

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (late Burdigalian to Langhian)

|

Cantaure Formation

|

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Stellifer.

|

Stellifer onzole

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (Messinian)

|

Onzole Formation

|

{{Flag|Ecuador}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Stellifer.

|

Ticinolepis{{Cite journal|author1=Adriana López-Arbarello |author2=Toni Bürgin |author3=Heinz Furrer |author4=Rudolf Stockar |year=2016 |title=New holostean fishes (Actinopterygii: Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of the Monte San Giorgio (Canton Ticino, Switzerland) |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e2234 |doi=10.7717/peerj.2234 |pmid=27547543 |pmc=4957996 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

|

Valid

|

López-Arbarello et al.

|

Middle Triassic (Ladinian)

|

Besano Formation

Meride Limestone

|

{{Flag|Switzerland}}

|

A member of Holostei of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is T. longaeva; genus also includes T. crassidens.

|

‘Trachyrincus’ iocosus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

|

Eocene (Lutetian)

|

Aquitaine Basin

|

{{Flag|France}}

|

Possibly a species of Trachyrincus

|

Turboscinetes{{Cite journal|author=Martin Ebert |year=2016 |title=The Pycnodontidae (Actinopterygii) in the late Jurassic: 2) Turboscinetes gen. nov. in the Solnhofen Archipelago (Germany) and Cerin (France) |journal=Archaeopteryx |volume=33 |pages=12–53 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298732638 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

Ebert

|

Late Jurassic

|

|

{{Flag|France}}

{{Flag|Germany}}

|

A member of the family Pycnodontidae. The type species is "Pycnodus" egertoni Thiollière (1852).

|

Umbrina abbreviata

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (late Burdigalian to early Langhian)

|

Castilletes Formation

|

{{Flag|Colombia}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Umbrina

|

Umbrina bananensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Pliocene

|

Cayo Agua Formation

Río Banano Formation

|

{{Flag|Costa Rica}}

{{Flag|Panama}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Umbrina

|

Umbrina laxa

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Miocene (late Burdigalian to early Langhian)

|

Castilletes Formation

|

{{Flag|Colombia}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Umbrina

|

Umbrina opima

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Late Miocene and early Pliocene

|

Chucunaque Formation

Cubagua Formation

Gatún Formation

Tuira Formation

|

{{Flag|Panama}}

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Umbrina

|

Umbrina sublima

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Late Miocene and early Pliocene

|

Cayo Agua Formation

Cubagua Formation

|

{{Flag|Panama}}

{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Umbrina

|

Umbrina surda

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

|

Late Miocene (Tortonian)

|

Angostura Formation

|

{{Flag|Ecuador}}

|

A member of Sciaenidae, a species of Umbrina

|

Unicachichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Jesús Alberto Díaz-Cruz |author2=Jesús Alvarado-Ortega |author3=Gerardo Carbot-Chanona |year=2016 |title=The Cenomanian short snout enchodontid fishes (Aulopifomes, Enchodontidae) from Sierra Madre Formation, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=61 |pages=136–150 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2015.12.026 |bibcode=2016CrRes..61..136D }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

Díaz-Cruz, Alvarado-Ortega & Carbot-Chanona

|

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)

|

|

{{Flag|Mexico}}

|

A member of Aulopiformes belonging to the family Enchodontidae. The type species is Unicachichthys multidentata.

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Venusichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Guang-Hui Xu |author2=Li-Jun Zhao |year=2016 |title=A Middle Triassic stem-neopterygian fish from China shows remarkable secondary sexual characteristics |journal=Science Bulletin |volume=61 |issue=4 |pages=338–344 |doi=10.1007/s11434-016-1007-0 |bibcode=2016SciBu..61..338X |doi-access=free }}

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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Xu & Zhao

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Middle Triassic (Anisian)

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Guanling Formation

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{{Flag|China}}

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A stem-neopterygian. The type species is Venusichthys comptus.

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Whiteia oishii{{Cite journal|author1=Yoshitaka Yabumoto |author2=Paulo M. Brito |year=2016 |title=A New Triassic Coelacanth, Whiteia oishii (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from West Timor, Indonesia |journal=Paleontological Research |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=233–246 |doi=10.2517/2015PR033 |s2cid=133276263 }}

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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Yabumoto & Brito

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Triassic

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{{Flag|Indonesia}}

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A coelacanth.

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Wilsonichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Alison M. Murray |author2=Michael G. Newbrey |author3=Andrew G. Neuman |author4=Donald B. Brinkman |year=2016 |title=New articulated osteoglossomorph from Late Cretaceous freshwater deposits (Maastrichtian, Scollard Formation) of Alberta, Canada |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=e1120737 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1120737 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E0737M |s2cid=130886669 }}

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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Murray et al.

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Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian

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Scollard Formation

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{{Flag|Canada}}
({{Flag|Alberta}})

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A member of Osteoglossomorpha. The type species is Wilsonichthys aridinsulensis.

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Xenotolithus semiostialis

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

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Miocene (late Burdigalian to early Langhian)

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Brasso Formation

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(Trinidad)

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A member of Sciaenidae belonging to the subfamily Stelliferinae, a species of Xenotolithus.

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Xenotolithus semiostialis

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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Aguilera, Schwarzhans & Béarez

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Miocene (Messinian) and early Pliocene

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Gros Morne Formation

Manzanilla Formation

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{{Flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}

(Trinidad)

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A member of Sciaenidae belonging to the subfamily Stelliferinae, a species of Xenotolithus.

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Zenion mattaccino

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

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Eocene (Lutetian)

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Aquitaine Basin

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{{Flag|France}}

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A species of Zenion

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Zenion vetustus

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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Lin, Nolf & Girone in Lin et al.

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Eocene (Lutetian)

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Aquitaine Basin

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{{Flag|France}}

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A species of Zenion

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