2016 in paleontology

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Flora

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Cultoraquaticus{{Cite journal|author1=Christine Strullu-Derrien |author2=Tomasz Goral |author3=Joyce E. Longcore |author4=Jørgen Olesen |author5=Paul Kenrick |author6=Gregory D. Edgecombe |year=2016 |title=A New Chytridiomycete Fungus Intermixed with Crustacean Resting Eggs in a 407-Million-Year-Old Continental Freshwater Environment |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=12 |pages=e0167301 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0167301 |pmid=27973602|pmc=5156353 |bibcode=2016PLoSO..1167301S|doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Strullu-Derrien in Strullu-Derrien et al.

Early Devonian

Rhynie chert

A fungus belonging to the group Chytridiomycetes.
The type species is C. trewini.

Dennisiellinites{{Cite journal|author1=J.M. Bannister |author2=J.G. Conran |author3=D.E. Lee |year=2016 |title=Life on the phylloplane: Eocene epiphyllous fungi from Pikopiko Fossil Forest, Southland, New Zealand |journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=412–432 |doi=10.1080/0028825X.2016.1208252 |s2cid=88956269}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Bannister, Conran & Lee

Eocene

Pikopiko Fossil Forest

A fungus. Genus includes new species D. pikopikoensis .

Gerontomyces{{Cite journal|author=George Poinar Jr. |year=2016 |title=A gilled mushroom, Gerontomyces lepidotus gen. et sp. nov. (Basidiomycota: Agaricales), in Baltic amber |journal=Fungal Biology |volume=120 |issue=9 |pages=1090–1093 |doi=10.1016/j.funbio.2016.06.008 |pmid=27567715}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Poinar

Eocene

Baltic amber

Europe (Baltic Sea coast)

A gilled mushroom. The type species is G. lepidotus.

Hypoxylonites foyelensis{{Cite journal|author1=Marcelo A. Martínez |author2=M. Virginia Bianchinotti |author3=Ramesh K. Saxena |author4=M. Elina Cornou |author5=Mirta E. Quattrocchio |year=2016 |title=Fungal spores from the Palaeogene El Foyel Group of Ñirihuau Basin, Argentina |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=343–362 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1044|s2cid=130738186 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Bianchinotti, Martínez & Saxena in Martínez et al.

Paleogene (probably Eocene)

Troncoso Formation

A fungus described on the basis of spores.

Monodictysporites{{Cite journal|author=Ashley A. Klymiuk |year=2016 |title=Paleomycology of the Princeton Chert. III. Dictyosporic microfungi, Monodictysporites princetonensis gen. et sp. nov., associated with decayed rhizomes of an Eocene semi-aquatic fern |journal=Mycologia |volume=108 |issue=5 |pages=882–890 |doi=10.3852/15-022 |pmid=27302048|s2cid=7871220}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Klymiuk

Ypresian

Allenby Formation
Princeton Chert

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A ascomycotan fungal spore taxon.
The type species is M. princetonensis.
Likely hosted on Dennstaedtiopsis aerenchymata

Paleocadus{{Cite journal|author=George Poinar Jr. |year=2016 |title=A mid-Cretaceous Eccrinales infesting a primitive wasp in Myanmar amber |journal=Fungal Biology |volume=120 |issue=12 |pages=1537–1539 |doi=10.1016/j.funbio.2016.08.001 |pmid=27890089}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Poinar

Cretaceous

Burmese amber

An Eccrinaceous fungus. Type species P. burmiticus.

Pluricellaesporites patagonicus

Sp. nov

Valid

Bianchinotti, Martínez & Saxena in Martínez et al.

Paleogene

A fungus described on the basis of spores resembling those of members of the genus Bactrodesmium.

Trewinomyces{{Cite journal|author1=Michael Krings |author2=Thomas N. Taylor |author3=Helmut Martin |year=2016 |title=An enigmatic fossil fungus from the 410 Ma Rhynie chert that resembles Macrochytrium (Chytridiomycota) and Blastocladiella (Blastocladiomycota) |journal=Mycologia |volume=108 |issue=2 |pages=303–312 |doi=10.3852/15-224 |pmid=26740543|s2cid=19514447}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Krings, Taylor & Martin

Early Devonian

Rhynie chert

A fungus of uncertain phylogenetic placement,
showing similarities to Macrochytrium (Chytridiomycota) and Blastocladiella (Blastocladiomycota) species.
The type species is T. annulifer.

Cnidarians

=Research=

Yunnanoascus haikouensis, previously thought to be a member of Ctenophora, is reinterpreted as a crown-group medusozoan by Han et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Jian Han |author2=Shixue Hu |author3=Paulyn Cartwright |author4=Fangchen Zhao |author5=Qiang Ou |author6=Shin Kubota |author7=Xing Wang |author8=Xiaoguang Yang |year=2016 |title=The earliest pelagic jellyfish with rhopalia from Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=449 |pages=166–173 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.025 |bibcode=2016PPP...449..166H}}
A study on the fossil corals from the Late Triassic (Norian) outcrops in Antalya Province (Turkey), indicating that the corals lived in symbiosis with photosynthesizing dinoflagellate algae, is published by Frankowiak et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Katarzyna Frankowiak |author2=Xingchen T. Wang |author3=Daniel M. Sigman |author4=Anne M. Gothmann |author5=Marcelo V. Kitahara |author6=Maciej Mazur |author7=Anders Meibom |author8=Jarosław Stolarski |year=2016 |title=Photosymbiosis and the expansion of shallow-water corals |journal=Science Advances |volume=2 |issue=11 |page=e1601122 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.1601122 |pmc=5099983 |pmid=27847868|bibcode=2016SciA....2E1122F}}

=New taxa=

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Aphyllum pachystele{{Cite journal|author1=T.J. Munson |author2=J.S. Jell |year=2016 |title=Wenlock and Ludlow (Silurian) rugose corals from the type section of the Jack Formation, Broken River Province, northeast Queensland |journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature |volume=59 |pages=273–320 |doi=10.17082/j.2204-1478.59.2016.2016-06|s2cid=54772587 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Munson & Jell

Silurian (late Wenlock)

Jack Formation

A rugose coral belonging to the family Tryplasmatidae.

Aulokoninckophyllum potyi{{Cite journal|author1=Ian D. Somerville |author2=Sergio Rodríguez |author3=Ismail Said |year=2016 |title=Carboniferous aulate corals from Azrou-Khenifra Basin (Morocco): distribution and phylogenetic relationships |journal=Geobios |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=303–317 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2016.05.001|bibcode=2016Geobi..49..303S }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Somerville, Rodríguez & Said

Carboniferous

Azrou-Khenifra Basin

An aulate coral.

Axuolites higoensis{{Cite journal|author=Shuji Niko |year=2016 |title=Axuolites higoensis, a new species of tabulate coral from the Silurian Fukami Formation, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan |journal=Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series C |volume=42 |pages=1–4 |url=http://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/publication/geology/download/42/BNMNS_C42_01-04.pdf}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Niko

Silurian (Ludlow)

Fukami Formation

A tabulate coral belonging to the order Favositida and the family Coenitidae.

Bjarmia{{Cite journal|author=Dmitriy Grazhdankin |year=2016 |title=Forbidden fruits in the Garden of Ediacara |journal=PalZ |volume=90 |issue=4 |pages=649–657 |doi=10.1007/s12542-016-0327-3 |s2cid=132483047}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Grazhdankin

Late Ediacaran (~550 Ma)

Erga Formation

A jellyfish-like organism, a possible relative of scyphomedusae. Genus includes new species B. cycloplerusa.

Byronia jaegeri{{Cite journal|author1=Olev Vinn |author2=Kalle Kirsimäe |author3=Luke A. Parry |author4=Ursula Toom |year=2016 |title=A new Byronia species from the Late Ordovician of Estonia |journal=Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=201–206 |doi=10.3176/earth.2016.17}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Vinn et al.

Ordovician (Katian)

A possible thecate scyphozoan.

Calceola collini{{Cite journal|author1=Anthony J. Wright |author2=Yves Plusquellec |author3=Rémy Gourvennec |year=2016 |title=Devonian operculate corals (Calceolidae, Cnidaria) from the Massif Armoricain, France |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=313–340 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2016.1132866 |s2cid=131678184}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Wright, Plusquellec & Gourvennec

Devonian (Eifelian)

Saint-Fiacre Formation

An operculate coral belonging to the family Calceolidae; a species of Calceola.

Cambroctoconus coreaensis{{Cite journal|author1=Tae-Yoon S. Park |author2=Ji-Hoon Kihm |author3=Jusun Woo |author4=Yong-Yi Zhen |author5=Michael Engelbretsen |author6=Jongsun Hong |author7=Suk-Joo Choh |author8= Dong-Jin Lee |year=2016 |title=Cambrian Stem-group Cnidarians with a New Species from the Cambrian Series 3 of the Taebaeksan Basin, Korea |journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) |volume=90 |issue=3 |pages=827–837 |doi=10.1111/1755-6724.12726 |s2cid=131812480 |url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=201603008&flag=1}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Park et al.

Cambrian

Daegi Formation

A stem-cnidarian.

Caninophyllum charli{{Cite journal|author =Julien Denayer |year=2016 |title=Rugose corals across the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in NW Turkey |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=51–70 |doi=10.4202/app.00061.2014 |s2cid=55121749}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Denayer

Carboniferous (Tournaisian)

Yılanlı Formation

A rugose coral belonging to the family Bothrophyllidae; a species of Caninophyllum.

Cystodactylon{{Cite journal|author1=Julien Denayer |author2=Gregory E. Webb |year=2016 |title=Earliest Mississippian rugose corals of eastern Australia: post-disaster fauna across the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary? |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=97 |issue=3 |pages=655–667 |doi=10.1007/s12549-016-0261-0 |s2cid=132109570}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Denayer & Webb

Carboniferous (Tournaisian)

Gudman Formation

A rugose coral. Genus includes new species C. orbum.

Dokophyllum hillae

Sp. nov

Valid

Munson & Jell

Silurian (Ludfordian)

Jack Formation

A rugose coral belonging to the family Ketophyllidae.

Edaphophyllum zhaotongense{{Cite journal|author1=Wei-hua Liao |author2=Xue-ping Ma |year=2016 |title=Devonian rugose corals from Zhaotong, NE Yunnan (1)—some Emsian and Eifelian rugose corals |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Sinica |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=314–326 |url=http://eng.oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbCode=cjfd&QueryID=14&CurRec=4&filename=GSWX201603004&dbname=CJFDTEMP}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Liao & Ma

Devonian (Emsian)

A rugose coral.

Eoaequorea{{Cite journal|author1=Feng Tang |author2=Ling Zhong |author3=Xingsheng Jin |author4=Donghui Guo |author5=Chongyu Yin |year=2016 |title=Hydrozoan-like Ediacaran fossils from South China |journal=Geological Bulletin of China |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=1–9 |url=http://dzhtb.cgs.cn/gbc/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=20160101&flag=1}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Tang et al.

Ediacaran

Doushantuo Formation

A member of Hydrozoa of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Eoaequorea xingi.

Eosiderastrea{{Cite journal|author =Hannes Löser |year=2016 |title=Early evolution of the family Siderastraeidae (Scleractinia; Cretaceous-extant) |journal=Paläontologische Zeitschrift |volume=90 |issue=1 |pages=1–17 |doi=10.1007/s12542-016-0292-x |s2cid=87786446}}

Gen. et comb. et 2 sp. nov

Valid

Löser

Cretaceous (late Valanginian to Santonian)

A stony coral belonging to the family Siderastreidae. The type species is "Siderastrea" cuyleri Wells (1932); genus also includes "Phyllocoenia" cotteaui Orbigny (1850), "Diploastrea" crassa Kuzmicheva (1980), "Diploastrea" crassicostata Morycowa & Masse (1998), "Phyllocoenia" cyclops Felix (1891), "Confusastrea" dollfusi Prever (1909), "Confusastrea" felixi Prever (1909); "Stephanocoenia" grandipora Orbigny (1849), "Diploastrea" harrisi Wells (1932), "Diploastrea" hilli Wells (1933), "Montastraea" nagaoi Eguchi (1951), "Pleurocora" reussi Milne Edwards (1857), "Diplocoenia" splendida Prever (1909), "Diploastrea" vaughani Wells (1933) and "Plesiofavia" villaltai Reig Oriol (1991), as well as new species E. paragrandipora Löser (2016) and E. stefani Löser (2016).{{Cite journal |author=Hannes Löser |year=2016 |title=Taxonomy and distribution of the Cretaceous coral genus Eosiderastrea |journal=Carnets de Géologie |volume=16 |issue=16 |pages=383–416 |url=http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1616/index.html |doi=10.4267/2042/60677 |access-date=2016-06-30 |archive-date=2016-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915065404/http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1616/index.html |url-status=dead }}

Famastraea{{Cite journal|author1=Błażej Berkowski |author2=Mikołaj K. Zapalski |author3=Tomasz Wrzołek |year=2016 |title=New Famennian colonial coral (Rugosa) from the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland): an example of local evolution after Frasnian-Famennian extinction |journal=The Science of Nature |volume=103 |issue=3–4 |page=33 |doi=10.1007/s00114-016-1356-1 |pmc=4794524 |pmid=26983709|bibcode=2016SciNa.103...33B}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Berkowski, Zapalski & Wrzołek

Devonian (Famennian)

A coral belonging to the group Rugosa and the family Campophyllidae. The type species is Famastraea catenata.

Fomichevella najafi{{Cite journal|author1=Mahdi Badpa |author2=Edouard Poty |author3=Alireza Ashouri |author4=Kaveh Khaksar |year=2016 |title=Fasciculate Kleopatrinid corals from the Bashkirian (late Carboniferous) of Sardar Formation (Ozbak-Kuh Mountains, East-Central Iran) |journal=Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=151–166 |doi=10.4072/rbp.2016.2.01}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Badpa et al.

Carboniferous (Bashkirian)

Sardar Formation

A member of Rugosa belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Kleopatrinidae.

Gertholites haikawai{{Cite journal|author1=Shuji Niko |author2=Masayuki Fujikawa |year=2016 |title=Gertholites haikawai, a new Early Carboniferous species of pachyporid tabulate coral from the Akiyoshi Limestone Group, Yamaguchi Prefecture |journal=Bulletin of the Akiyoshi-dai Museum of Natural History |volume=51 |pages=1–4}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Niko & Fujikawa

Early Carboniferous

Akiyoshi Limestone Group

A tabulate coral.

Gerviphyllum

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Wright, Plusquellec & Gourvennec

Early Devonian (likely late Lochkovian to early Pragian)

An operculate coral belonging to the family Calceolidae; a new genus for "Calceola" gervillei Bayle (1878).

Gudmania

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Denayer & Webb

Carboniferous (Tournaisian)

Gudman Formation

A rugose coral. Genus includes new species G. darumbalae.

Heintzella fluegeli

Sp. nov

Valid

Badpa et al.

Carboniferous (Bashkirian)

Sardar Formation

A member of Rugosa belonging to the group Stauriida and the family Kleopatrinidae.

Kullingia rotadiscopsis

Sp. nov

Valid

Tang et al.

Ediacaran

Doushantuo Formation

A member of Hydrozoa of uncertain phylogenetic placement; a species of Kullingia.

Madrepora mitsukurii{{Cite journal|author1=Shuji Niko |author2=Shigeyuki Suzuki |author3=Eiji Taguchi |year=2016 |title=Madrepora mitsukurii, 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=51 |pages=5–8}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Niko, Suzuki & Taguchi

Miocene

Katsuta Group

A madrepore.

Marekostragulum grafi

Sp. nov

Valid

Plusquellec, Galle & Franke

Devonian (Emsian)

A tabulate coral belonging to the family Hyostragulidae.

Mesoconularia (?) lukesi{{Cite journal|author1=Michal Mergl |author2=Lenka Ferrova |author3=Jiří Frýda |year=2016 |title=Armoured test of Early Devonian Mesoconularia (Conulariida) from the Prague Basin (Czech Republic): probable adaptation to increased predation pressure |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |volume=91 |issue=3 |pages=561–581 |doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1601}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Mergl, Ferrova & Frýda

Devonian (late Emsian)

Suchomasty Limestone

A member of Conulariida, possibly a species of Mesoconularia.

?Michelinia vinni{{Cite journal|author1=Mikołaj K. Zapalski|author2=Błażej Berkowski|author3=Tomasz Wrzołek|year=2016|title=Tabulate Corals after the Frasnian/Famennian Crisis: A Unique Fauna from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=11|issue=3|page=e0149767|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0149767|pmid=27007689|pmc=4807921|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1149767Z|doi-access=free}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Zapalski, Berkowski & Wrzołek

Devonian (late Famennian)

A tabulate coral belonging to the family Micheliniidae; possibly a species of Michelinia.

Multicarinophyllum vepreculatum

Sp. nov

Valid

Munson & Jell

Silurian (Ludfordian)

Jack Formation

A rugose coral belonging to the family Amsdenoididae.

Oligophylloides maroccanus{{cite journal |author =Dieter Weyer |year=2016 |title=Solitary and/or colonial growth in the Palaeozoic superorder Heterocorallia Schindewolf, 1941 (Eifelian–Serpukhovian) |journal=Freiberger Forschungshefte C 550 |series=psf - Paläontologie, Stratigraphie, Fazies |volume=23 |pages=59–101}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Weyer

Devonian (late Famennian)

A member of Heterocorallia.

Palaeosiderofungia

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Löser

Cretaceous (Aptian to Santonian)

A stony coral belonging to the family Siderastreidae; a new genus for "Thamnasteria" exigua Reuss (1854).

Parostragulum{{Cite journal|author1=Yves Plusquellec |author2=Arnost Galle |author3=Christian Franke |year=2016 |title=New hyostragulids, Tabulata incertae sedis from the Wiltz-beds, Upper Emsian of Western Eifel (Germany) |journal=Ferrantia |volume=73 |pages=111–126 |url=https://ps.mnhn.lu/ferrantia/publications/Ferrantia73/Ferrantia73_113-126.pdf}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Plusquellec, Galle & Franke

Devonian (Emsian)

A tabulate coral belonging to the family Hyostragulidae. The type species is P. problematicum.

Pleurodictyum goldfussi{{Cite journal|author1=Yves Plusquellec |author2=Christian Franke |year=2016 |title=Pleurodictyformes (Cnidaria, Tabulata) des Couches de Wiltz, Emsien supérieur, de l'Eifel occidental (Luxembourg, Allemagne) |journal=Ferrantia |volume=73 |pages=127–153 |url=https://ps.mnhn.lu/ferrantia/publications/Ferrantia73/Ferrantia73_127-153.pdf}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Plusquellec & Franke

Devonian (Emsian)

Wiltz Beds

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

Pleurodictyum pruemensis

Sp. nov

Valid

Plusquellec & Franke

Devonian (Emsian)

Wiltz Beds

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

Potyphyllum{{Cite journal|author =Marie Coen-Aubert |year=2016 |title=Potyphyllum, a new phillipsastreid genus of rugose corals in the Upper Frasnian of Belgium with precisions about the age of the Petit-Mont Member |journal=Geologica Belgica |volume=19 |issue=1–2 |pages=165–175 |doi=10.20341/gb.2015.016}}

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Coen-Aubert

Devonian (late Frasnian)

A rugose coral belonging to the family Phillipsastreidae. The type species is "Cyathophyllum" ananas Goldfuss (1826); genus also includes "Pseudoacervularia" dybowskii Różkowska (1953), "Pseudoacervularia" intercellulosa (Phillips, 1841) sensu Pickett (1967), "Schlüteria" lyskovensis Ermakova (1957), "Acervularia" macrommata Roemer (1855), "Phillipsastrea" plantana Różkowska (1979), "Cyathophyllum" profundum Michelin (1845), "Phillipsastrea" rozkowskae Scrutton (1968), "Pseudoacervularia" cf. smithi (Różkowska, 1953) sensu Pickett (1967), "Phillipsastrea" ananas veserensis Coen-Aubert (1974) and "Phillipsastrea" zerda Galle, 1992 in Hladil et al. (1992).

Preisingerella{{Cite journal|author1=Olga L. Kossovaya |author2=Matevž Novak |author3=Dieter Weyer |year=2016 |title=Large-sized Early Permian "caninioid" corals from the Karavanke Mountains, Slovenia |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=90 |issue=6 |pages=1049–1067 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.105 |bibcode=2016JPal...90.1049K |s2cid=133217184}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Kossovaya, Novak & Weyer

Early Permian

A coral similar to members of the genus Caninia. The type species is P. stegovnikensis.

Ptychophyllum variatum

Sp. nov

Valid

Munson & Jell

Silurian (late Gorstian to Ludfordian)

Jack Formation

A rugose coral belonging to the family Ptychophyllidae.

Pycnostylus polyphyllodus

Sp. nov

Valid

Munson & Jell

Silurian (late Wenlock)

Jack Formation

A rugose coral belonging to the family Pycnostylidae.

Sokolovia{{Cite journal|author =V. S. Tsyganko |year=2016 |title=A New Coral Genus (Tabulata) from the Upper Devonian of the Subpolar Urals |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=29–33 |url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=25069498 |doi=10.1134/S0031030116010123 |s2cid=132346185}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Junior homonym

Tsyganko

Late Devonian (Famennian)

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A tabulate coral belonging to the family Pachyporidae. The type species is Sokolovia pershinae. The generic name is preoccupied by Sokolovia Ilovaisky (1934) and Sokolovia Shishkinskaya (1964).

Spinaxon{{Cite journal|author =Dieter Weyer |year=2016 |title=Review of some Frasnian ahermatypic coral localities from Germany and description of a new genus Spinaxon (Anthozoa, Rugosa, Upper Devonian) |journal=Geologica Belgica |volume=19 |issue=1–2 |pages=147–163 |doi=10.20341/gb.2015.020}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Weyer

Devonian (late Frasnian)

A member of Rugosa belonging to the family Petraiidae. The type species is Spinaxon potyi.

Syringopora hilarowiczi

Sp. nov

Valid

Zapalski, Berkowski & Wrzołek

Devonian (late Famennian)

A tabulate coral belonging to the family Syringoporidae; a species of Syringopora.

Syringopora kowalensis

Sp. nov

Valid

Zapalski, Berkowski & Wrzołek

Devonian (late Famennian)

A tabulate coral belonging to the family Syringoporidae; a species of Syringopora.

Talfania{{Cite journal|author1=John S. Peel |author2=Patrick D. McDermott |year=2016 |title=An association of problematic corals, crinoids and parasites from the Sholeshook Limestone Formation (Ordovician) of Wales |journal=Geological Journal |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=212–222 |doi=10.1002/gj.2617|s2cid=129186363 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Peel & McDermott

Ordovician (Katian)

Sholeshook Limestone Formation

A solitary coral. The type species is Talfania calicula.

Thamnoptychia mistiaeni

Sp. nov

Valid

Zapalski, Berkowski & Wrzołek

Devonian (late Famennian)

A tabulate coral belonging to the family Pachyporidae; a species of Thamnoptychia.

Turbinolia (Turbinolia) deformis{{cite book |author1=A.A. Berezovsky |author2=D.A. Berezovsky |year=2016 |chapter=РОД Turbiniola (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) В СРЕДНЕЭОЦЕНОВЫХ БУЧАКСКИХ ОТЛОЖЕНИЯХ СЕВЕРНОЙ УКРАИНЫ |title=Сучасна геологічна наука і практика в дослідженнях студентів і молодих фахівців: Матеріали XII Всеукраїнської науково-практичної конференції |pages=10–14 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329277461}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Berezovsky in Berezovsky & Berezovsky

Eocene

A stony coral.

Turbinolia (Turbinolia) emendata

Sp. nov

Valid

Berezovsky in Berezovsky & Berezovsky

Eocene

A stony coral.

Utaratuia yunnanensis

Sp. nov

Valid

Liao & Ma

Devonian (Eifelian)

A rugose coral.

Vassiljukia{{Cite journal|author1=Julien Denayer |author2=Victor Ogar |year=2016 |title=Vassiljukia, a new colonial rugose coral from the Early Visean (Mississippian) of the Donets Basin (Ukraine) and NW Turkey |journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol |volume=15 |issue=8 |pages=911–917 |doi=10.1016/j.crpv.2015.12.006|bibcode=2016CRPal..15..911D |url=https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/377221.pdf }}

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Denayer & Ogar

Carboniferous (Viséan)

A colonial rugose coral; a new genus for "Lithostrotion" columnariformis Vassiljuk (1960).

Vesicospina

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Munson & Jell

Silurian (Ludfordian)

Jack Formation

A rugose coral belonging to the family Kyphophyllidae. The type species is V. julli.

Vulykhia{{Cite journal|author=Alexander B. Doweld |year=2016 |title=Vulykhia, a new generic replacement name for Concavites Bondarenko & Minzhin 1981 (Anthozoa: Heliolitoidea) non Jeannet 1951 (Cephalopoda: Ammonitida) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4139 |issue=3 |pages=419–420 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.5 |pmid=27470811}}

Nom. nov

Valid

Doweld

Late Ordovician

An anthozoan belonging to the superfamily Heliolitoidea; a replacement name for Concavites Bondarenko & Minzhin (1981).

Arthropods

Bryozoans

Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! Notes ! Images
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Anisotrypa kjarkiensis{{Cite journal\|author=Z. A. Tolokonnikova \|year=2016 \|title=New data on the Tournaisian bryozoans (Lower Carboniferous) from Azerbaijan and Armenia \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=4 \|pages=388–395 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116040146 \|s2cid=132964116}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Tolokonnikova \| Carboniferous (Tournaisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Armenia}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Trepostomata and the family Anisotrypidae. \|
Beisselina skyscanica{{Cite journal\|author1=A. V. Koromyslova \|author2=A. V. Pakhnevich \|year=2016 \|title=New species of Pachydermopora Gordon, 2002 and Beisselina Canu, 1913 (Bryozoa: Cheilostomida) from a Campanian erratic block (Belarus) and their micro-CT investigation \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=1 \|pages=41–53 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116010044 \|s2cid=89373639}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Koromyslova & Pakhnevich \| Late Cretaceous (Campanian) \| \| {{Flag\|Belarus}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Ascophora and the family Tessaradomidae; a species of Beisselina. \|
Celleporaria pirabasensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Guilherme Muricy \|author2=Celso Domingos \|author3=Vladimir A. Távora \|author4=Laís V. Ramalho \|author5=Andrzej Pisera \|author6=Paul Taylor \|year=2016 \|title=Hexactinellid sponges reported from shallow waters in the Oligo-Miocene Pirabas Formation (N Brazil) are in fact cheilostome bryozoans \|journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences \|volume=72 \|pages=387–397 \|doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2016.10.003 \|bibcode=2016JSAES..72..387M}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Muricy et al. \| Oligocene-Miocene \| Pirabas Formation \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Lepraliellidae. \|
Celleporaria triangulavicularis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Muricy et al. \| Oligocene-Miocene \| Pirabas Formation \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Lepraliellidae. \|
Dybowskiella hupehensiformis{{Cite journal\|author=Andrej Ernst \|year=2016 \|title=Bryozoan fauna from the Permian (Artinskian-Kungurian) Zhongba Formation of southwestern Tibet \|journal=Palaeontologia Electronica \|volume=19 \|issue=2 \|pages=Article number 19.2.15A \|url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1462-bryozoan-fauna-of-tibet \|doi=10.26879/585}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Ernst \| Permian \| Zongba Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Cystoporata belonging to the family Fistuliporidae. \|
Dyscritella lii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Ernst \| Permian \| Zongba Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Trepostomata belonging to the family Dystritellidae. \|
Ehrhardina{{Cite journal\|author1=Silviu O. Martha \|author2=Paul D. Taylor \|year=2016 \|title=A new western European Cretaceous bryozoan genus from the early Cenomanian radiation of neocheilostomes \|journal=Papers in Palaeontology \|volume=2 \|issue=2 \|pages=311–321 \|doi=10.1002/spp2.1042\|s2cid=87906331 }} \| Gen. et 2 sp. nov \| Valid{{Cite web\|title=ZooBank.org\|url=http://zoobank.org/References/69039795-C672-41A6-927E-B3A193E5B947\|access-date=2022-01-19\|website=zoobank.org\|language=en-us}} \| Martha & Taylor \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) \| \| {{Flag\|France}} {{Flag\|Germany}} {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Flustrina and the family Onychocellidae. The type species is Ehrhardina voigti; genus also includes Ehrhardina pikeae. \|
Eridotrypella danzikensis{{Cite journal\|author=Z. A. Tolokonnikova \|year=2016 \|title=New Famennian bryozoans (Upper Devonian) from Azerbaijan and Armenia \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=3 \|pages=245–254 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116030096 \|s2cid=133257626}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Tolokonnikova \| Devonian (Famennian) \| \| {{Flag\|Azerbaijan}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Trepostomata and the family Eridotrypellidae. \|
Etherella tibetensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Ernst \| Permian \| Zongba Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Cystoporata belonging to the family Etherellidae. \|
Fistuliphragma moniliformis{{Cite journal\|author=O. P. Mesentseva \|year=2016 \|title=Cystoporida (Bryozoa) from the Emsian Stage (Lower Devonian) of the Salair Ridge and Gorny and Rudny Altai \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=4 \|pages=376–387 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116040080 \|s2cid=132964632}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mesentseva \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Cystoporida. \|
Fistuliphragma sibirica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mesentseva \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Cystoporida. \|
Fistulipora sakagamii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Ernst \| Permian \| Zongba Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} {{Flag\|Thailand}} \| A member of Cystoporata belonging to the family Fistuliporidae. \|
Fistulipora salairiensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mesentseva \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Cystoporida. \|
Fistuliramus fasciculus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mesentseva \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Cystoporida. \|
Fistulocladia cincinnata \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mesentseva \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Cystoporida. \|
Margaretta amplipora{{Cite journal\|author1=M. A. Sonar \|author2=S. G. Gaikwad \|year=2016 \|title=Some fossil Margaretta (Ascophora:Bryozoa) from the Cenozoic sediments of Western Kachchh, Gujarat \|journal=Journal of the Geological Society of India \|volume=88 \|issue=5 \|pages=620–626 \|doi=10.1007/s12594-016-0528-0 \|s2cid=133518187}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sonar & Gaikwad \| Cenozoic \| \| {{Flag\|India}} \| An ascophoran belonging to the family Margarettidae. \|
Margaretta guhai \| Nom. nov \| Valid \| Sonar & Gaikwad \| Cenozoic \| \| {{Flag\|India}} \| An ascophoran belonging to the family Margarettidae. \|
Margaretta hariparensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sonar & Gaikwad \| Cenozoic \| \| {{Flag\|India}} \| An ascophoran belonging to the family Margarettidae. \|
Metastenodiscus{{Cite journal\|author1=Andrej Ernst \|author2=Priska Schäfer \|author3=Jack A. Grant-Mackie \|year=2016 \|title=New Caledonian Triassic Bryozoa \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=89 \|issue=5 \|pages=730–747 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.50 \|s2cid=131038063}} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Ernst, Schäfer & Grant-Mackie \| Late Triassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Caledonia}} {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A trepostome bryozoan. A new genus for "Stenodiscus" zealandicus Schäfer & Grant-Mackie (1994) and "Stenodiscus" kawhiae Schäfer & Grant-Mackie (1994). \|
Nikiforopora arpaensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Tolokonnikova \| Carboniferous (Tournaisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Azerbaijan}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Trepostomata and the family Stenoporidae. \|
Pachydermopora grodnoensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Koromyslova & Pakhnevich \| Late Cretaceous (Campanian) \| \| {{Flag\|Belarus}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Ascophora and the family Tessaradomidae; a species of Pachydermopora. \|
Petalotrypa myunkhbalaensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Tolokonnikova \| Devonian (Famennian) \| \| {{Flag\|Azerbaijan}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Trepostomata. \|
Planicellaria walsariensis{{Cite journal\|author1=M. A. Sonar \|author2=R. V. Pawar \|year=2016 \|title=Some Calloporid (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) species from the Cenozoic sediments of western Kachchh, Gujarat \|journal=Journal of the Geological Society of India \|volume=88 \|issue=1 \|pages=47–54 \|doi=10.1007/s12594-016-0457-y \|s2cid=132871130}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sonar & Pawar \| Cenozoic \| \| {{Flag\|India}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Calloporidae. \|
Protoretepora irregularis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Ernst \| Permian \| Zongba Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Fenestrata belonging to the family Polyporidae. \|
Pyriporella charopadiensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sonar & Pawar \| Cenozoic \| \| {{Flag\|India}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Calloporidae. \|
Pyriporella vadsariensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sonar & Pawar \| Cenozoic \| \| {{Flag\|India}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Cheilostomata and the family Calloporidae. \|
Rectifenestella famenniensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Tolokonnikova \| Devonian (Famennian) \| \| {{Flag\|Azerbaijan}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the family Fenestellidae. \|
Rectifenestella kadrluiensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Tolokonnikova \| Devonian (Famennian) \| \| {{Flag\|Armenia}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the family Fenestellidae. \|
Stenophragmidium buckhornensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Andrej Ernst \|author2=Barbara Seuss \|author3=Paul D. Taylor \|author4=Alexander Nützel \|year=2016 \|title=Bryozoan fauna of the Boggy Formation (Deese Group, Pennsylvanian) of the Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry, Oklahoma, USA \|journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments \|volume=96 \|issue=4 \|pages=517–540 \|doi=10.1007/s12549-016-0231-6 \|s2cid=132070193}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Ernst et al. \| Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) \| Boggy Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Oklahoma}}) \| \|
Streblotrypa (Streblotrypa) heltzelae \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Ernst et al. \| Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) \| Boggy Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Oklahoma}}) \| \|
Streblotrypa (Streblotrypa) parviformis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Ernst \| Permian \| Zongba Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Cryptostomata belonging to the family Hyphasmoporidae. \|
Tabuliporella nakhichevanica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Tolokonnikova \| Carboniferous (Tournaisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Azerbaijan}} \| A bryozoan belonging to the group Trepostomata and the family Crustoporidae. \|
Tibetiporella \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Ernst \| Permian \| Zongba Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Fenestrata belonging to the family Polyporidae. The type species is T. ornata. \|
Timanotrypa australis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Ernst \| Permian \| Noonkanbah Formation Rat Buri Limestone Zongba Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} {{Flag\|China}} {{Flag\|Thailand}} \| A member of Cryptostomata belonging to the family Timanodictyidae. \|
Zigzagopora{{Cite journal\|author1=Mark A. Wilson \|author2=Paul D. Taylor \|year=2016 \|title=A new runner-like cyclostome bryozoan from the Bromide Formation (Sandbian, Upper Ordovician) of Oklahoma and its phylogenetic affinities \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=3 \|pages=413–417 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.71 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90..413W \|s2cid=133144280}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Wilson & Taylor \| Ordovician (Sandbian) \| Bromide Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Oklahoma}}) \| A cyclostome bryozoan. Genus includes new species Z. wigleyensis. \|

Brachiopods

Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! Notes ! Images
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Acritosia ogamensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Jun-Ichi Tazawa \|author2=Yohoko Okumura \|author3=Yukio Miyake \|author4=Takeshi Mizuhara \|year=2016 \|title=A Kungurian (early Permian) Brachiopod Fauna from Ogama, Kuzu Area, Central Japan, and Its Palaeobiogeographical Affinity with the Wolfcampian—Leonardian (early Permian) Brachiopod Fauna of West Texas, USA \|journal=Paleontological Research \|volume=20 \|issue=4 \|pages=367–384 \|doi=10.2517/2016PR012 \|s2cid=133192299}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Tazawa et al. \| Early Permian (Kungurian) \| Nabeyama Formation \| {{Flag\|Japan}} \| \|
Acrosaccus scutatus{{cite journal \|author1=Ian G. Percival \|author2=Michael J. Engelbretsen \|author3=Glenn A. Brock \|author4=John R. Farrell \|year=2016 \|title=Ordovician (Darriwilian-Katian) lingulate brachiopods from central New South Wales, Australia \|journal=Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs \|volume=49 \|pages=447–484 \|url=https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=257916032381601;res=IELNZC}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Percival in Percival et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Discinidae. \|
Alphaprotinus \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous and Permian \| Holodninskaya Suite \| {{Flag\|Russia}} ({{Flag\|Krasnoyarsk Krai}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Spiriferoidea and the family Neospiriferidae. The type species is "Tangshanella" byrangi Chernyak (1963); genus also includes A. taimyrica (Einor, 1939). \|
Anathyris (Anathyris) calestiennensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Bernard Mottequin \|author2=Denise Brice \|author3=Jean-Marc Marion \|author4=Eric Simon \|year=2016 \|title=Plicathyridine brachiopods (Athyridida) from the Frasnian (Late Devonian) of Western Europe and Middle East \|journal=Geobios \|volume=49 \|issue=5 \|pages=381–393 \|doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2016.06.004\|bibcode=2016Geobi..49..381M }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mottequin et al. \| Devonian (Frasnian) \| Nismes Formation \| {{Flag\|Belgium}} \| \|
Angulispirifer{{cite book \|author=John Bruce Waterhouse \|year=2016 \|title=On the evolution and classification of Spiriferida (Brachiopoda) \|series=Earthwise \|volume=14 \|pages=1–434 \|isbn=978-0-98646-015-9 \|url=https://gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/Earthwise/Earthwise-14-On-the-Evolution-and-Classification-of-Spiriferida-Brachiopoda.pdf }} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Junior synonym \| Waterhouse \| Permian \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Trigonotretoidea and the family Georginakingiidae. The type species is "Spirifer" phalaena Dana (1849). Lee et al. (2023) subsequently considered the genus Angulispirifer to be a junior synonym of the genus Sulciplica.{{Cite journal\|author1=Sangmin Lee \|author2=G.R. Shi \|author3=Bruce Runnegar \|author4=John Bruce Waterhouse \|title=Kungurian (Cisuralian/Early Permian) brachiopods from the Snapper Point Formation, southern Sydney Basin, southeastern Australia \|year=2023 \|journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology \|volume=47 \|issue=1 \|pages=67–108 \|doi=10.1080/03115518.2022.2151045 \|s2cid=256076332 }} \|
Anisopleurella antiqua{{cite journal \|author1=Leonid E. Popov \|author2=Mohammad Reza Kebriaee-Zadeh \|author3=Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour \|year=2016 \|title=Emergence of the Saucrorthis Fauna in the middle Ordovician of Northern Iran \|journal=Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs \|volume=49 \|pages=485–514 \|url=https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=257990564266634;res=IELNZC}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Popov, Kebriaee-Zadeh & Pour \| Ordovician (Darriwilian) \| Lashkarak Formation \| {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A member of Strophomenida belonging to the family Sowerbyellidae. \|
Apatobolus anoskelidion \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Percival in Percival et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Obolidae. \|
Apenosia \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Devonian (Frasnian) \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Ambocoelioidea and the family Ladjiidae. The type species is "Crurithyris" apena Veevers (1959). \|
Atansoria australis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Percival in Percival et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Obolidae. \|
Atryparia (Costatrypa) agricolae{{Cite journal\|author1=Andrzej Baliński \|author2=Grzegorz Racki \|author3=Adam T. Halamski \|year=2016 \|title=Brachiopods and stratigraphy of the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) succession of the Radlin Syncline (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland) \|journal=Acta Geologica Polonica \|volume=66 \|issue=2 \|pages=107–156 \|doi=10.1515/agp-2016-0006\|s2cid=54711396 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Halamski & Baliński in Baliński, Racki & Halamski \| Devonian (Frasnian) \| \| {{Flag\|Poland}} \| A member of Atrypidae. \|
Aulacothyris maendlii{{cite journal \|author=Heinz Sulser \|year=2016 \|title=Die Brachiopoden der Klippendecke (Préalpes médianes) in den Préalpes romandes der Südwestschweiz, des Chablais und der zentralschweizerischen Klippen: eine Übersicht und paläogeographische Beziehungen \|journal=Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève \|volume=35 \|issue=2 \|pages=385–416 \|doi=10.5281/zenodo.269007}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sulser \| Middle Jurassic (Callovian) \| \| {{Flag\|Switzerland}} \| A member of Terebratulida belonging to the family Zeilleriidae. \|
Aulacothyris waikatoensis{{Cite journal\|author=Donald Alexander Bankier MacFarlan \|year=2016 \|title=Middle and Late Jurassic terebratulides from New Zealand \|journal=Palaeoworld \|volume=25 \|issue=4 \|pages=467–495 \|doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2016.07.001}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|
Bellimurina fluctuosa \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Popov, Kebriaee-Zadeh & Pour \| Ordovician (Darriwilian) \| Lashkarak Formation \| {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A member of Strophomenida belonging to the family Strophomenidae. \|
Besnossoviella \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous \| Kuznets Basin \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elythynoidea and the family Eomartiniopsidae. The type species is "Eomartiniopsis" glaberiformis Besnossova (1963). \|
Biernatia pseudoplana \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Engelbretsen in Percival et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Lingulata belonging to the family Biernatiidae. \|
Biernatia wrighti \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Engelbretsen in Percival et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Lingulata belonging to the family Biernatiidae. \|
Biernatium minus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Baliński in Baliński, Racki & Halamski \| Devonian (Frasnian) \| \| {{Flag\|Poland}} \| A member of Mystrophoridae. \|
Bingleburria \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous \| Bingleburra Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Martinioidea and the family Brachythyridae. The type species is Brachythyris" elliptica Roberts (1963). \|
Biramus \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Junior homonym \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elitoidea and the family Condrathyridae. The type species is "Phricodothyris" mosquensis Ivanova (1960). The generic name is preoccupied by Biramus Oswald (1993). \|
Buxtonia inexpletucosta{{Cite journal\|author1=Miguel A. Torres-Martínez \|author2=Francisco Sour-Tovar \|year=2016 \|title=New productide brachiopods (Productoidea) from the Carboniferous of Ixtaltepec Formation, Oaxaca, Mexico \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=3 \|pages=418–432 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.54 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90..418T \|s2cid=132864637}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Torres-Martínez & Sour-Tovar \| Carboniferous (middle Pennsylvanian) \| Ixtaltepec Formation \| {{Flag\|Mexico}} \| A member of Productoidea. \|
Canalilatus musculosus{{cite journal \|author1=Ian G. Percival \|author2=Michael J. Engelbretsen \|author3=Shanchi Peng \|year=2016 \|title=Drumian and Guzhangian (middle Cambrian) lingulate brachiopods from Hunan province, China \|journal=Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs \|volume=49 \|pages=433–446 \|url=https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=257543372956437;res=IELNZC}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Percival, Engelbretsen & Peng \| Cambrian \| Huaqiao Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A lingulate brachiopod belonging to the family Zhanatellidae. \|
Carteriopsis \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Illinois}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elythynoidea and the family Eomartiniopsidae. The type species is "Eomartiniopsis" kinderhookensis Carter (1988). \|
Catatonaria \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Texas}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elitoidea and the family Phricodothyridae. The type species is "Neophricadothyris" catatona Cooper & Grant. \|
Centreplicatus \| Gen. nov \| Valid \| Zeng，Zhang & Han in Zeng et al. \| Ordovician (Hirnantian) \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Pentamerida belonging to the family Pentameridae. \|
Cerasinella{{Cite journal\|author =Paul Copper \|year=2016 \|title=Cerasinella, A replacement name for the Silurian brachiopod genus Cerasina Copper 1995, Anticosti Island \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=89 \|issue=5 \|page=894 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.55 \|s2cid=130558774}} \| Nom. nov \| Valid \| Copper \| Silurian (Llandovery) \| Merrimack Formation \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Quebec}}) \| An atrypoid brachiopod; a replacement name for Cerasina Copper (1995) (preoccupied). \|
Chapinella belkovskensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Valeryi V. Baranov \|author2=Elena V. Sokiran \|author3=Robert B. Blodgett \|year=2016 \|title=Late Devonian (Famennian) brachiopods, conodonts, biogeography and sedimentary geology of Bel'kovsky Island (Russian Arctic) \|journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin \|volume=74 \|pages=25–40 \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308784624}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Baranov, Sokiran & Blodgett \| Devonian (Famennian) \| Nerpalakhsk Formation \| {{Flag\|Russia}} ({{Flag\|Sakha Republic}}) \| A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the family Pugnacidae. \|
Chilcatreta{{Cite journal\|author1=Fernando J. Lavié \|author2=Juan L. Benedetto \|year=2016 \|title=Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) linguliform and craniiform brachiopods from the Precordillera (Cuyania Terrane) of west-central Argentina \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=6 \|pages=1068–1080 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.111 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90.1068L \|s2cid=132148237}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Lavié & Benedetto \| Ordovician (Darriwilian) \| San Juan Formation \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} \| A siphonotretid brachiopod. Genus includes new species C. tubulata. \|
Collinusia \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Devonian \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Cyrtioidea and the family Eospiriferidae. The type species is "Spinella" talenti Johnson (1970). \|
Crickmayoria \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Devonian \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Alberta}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Mucrospiriferidae. The type species is "Eleutherokomma" beardi Crickmay (1950). \|
Crispithyris \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. Genus includes new species C. nauarchus. \|
Cyrtina transcaucasica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Gretchishnikova & Oleneva in Oleneva \| Devonian (Givetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Azerbaijan}} \| A member of Spiriferinida belonging to the family Cyrtinidae. \|
Davidsonia enmerkaris \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Halamski in Baliński, Racki & Halamski \| Devonian (Frasnian) \| \| {{Flag\|Poland}} \| A member of Davidsoniidae. \|
Dictyoclostus transversum \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Torres-Martínez & Sour-Tovar \| Carboniferous (middle Pennsylvanian) \| Ixtaltepec Formation \| {{Flag\|Mexico}} \| A member of Productoidea. \|
Disculina mancenidoi \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|
Dolerorthis nadruvensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Juozas Paškevičius \|author2=Linda Hints \|year=2016 \|title=New Early Katian species of Leptestiidae and Hesperorthidae (Brachiopoda) from Lithuania \|journal=Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences \|volume=65 \|issue=2 \|pages=75–84 \|doi=10.3176/earth.2016.05}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Paškevičius & Hints \| Ordovician (Katian) \| \| {{Flag\|Lithuania}} \| A member of Orthida belonging to the family Hesperorthidae. \|
Dulankarella hyrcanica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Popov, Kebriaee-Zadeh & Pour \| Ordovician (Darriwilian) \| Lashkarak Formation \| {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A member of Strophomenida belonging to the family Leptellinidae. \|
Dyoros (Lissosia) maya{{Cite journal\|author1=Miguel A. Torres-Martínez \|author2=Francisco Sour-Tovar \|author3=Ricardo Barragán \|year=2016 \|title=Permian (Leonardian) brachiopods from Paso Hondo Formation, Chiapas, southern Mexico. Paleobiogeographical implications \|journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences \|volume=71 \|pages=71–81 \|doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2016.06.012 \|bibcode=2016JSAES..71...71T}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Torres-Martínez, Sour-Tovar & Barragán \| Permian (Leonardian) \| Paso Hondo Formation \| {{Flag\|Mexico}} \| \|
Echinocoelia parva \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Baliński in Baliński, Racki & Halamski \| Devonian (Frasnian) \| \| {{Flag\|Poland}} \| A member of Ambocoeliidae. \|
Engania \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous \| Enga Sandstone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elythynoidea and the family Eomartiniopsidae. The type species is "Eomartiniopsis" costata Roberts (1971). \|
Eochonetes maearum{{Cite journal\|author1=Jennifer E. Bauer \|author2=Alycia L. Stigall \|year=2016 \|title=A combined morphometric and phylogenetic revision of the Late Ordovician brachiopod genera Eochonetes and Thaerodonta \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=5 \|pages=888–909 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.56 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90..888B \|s2cid=89279521}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bauer & Stigall \| Late Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Wyoming}}) \| \|
Eochonetes minerva \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bauer & Stigall \| Late Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Texas}}) \| \|
Eochonetes voldemortus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bauer & Stigall \| Late Ordovician \| Saturday Mountain Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Idaho}}) \| \|
Eoconulus puteus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Engelbretsen in Percival et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Lingulata belonging to the family Eoconulidae. \|
Eolingularia{{Cite journal \|author1=Maria Aleksandra Bitner \|author2=Christian C. Emig \|year=2016 \|title=On the type species of Lingularia, and description of Eolingularia n. gen. \|journal=Carnets de Géologie \|volume=16 \|issue=22 \|pages=543–555 \|url=http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1622/index.html \|doi=10.4267/2042/56006 \|access-date=2016-12-07 \|archive-date=2016-12-11 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161211053528/http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1622/index.html \|url-status=dead }} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Bitner & Emig \| Carboniferous to Triassic \| \| {{Flag\|China}} {{Flag\|Russia}} {{Flag\|Spain}} \| A member of Lingulata belonging to the group Lingulida and the family Lingulidae. The type species is "Lingularia" siberica Biernat & Emig (1993). \|
Experilingula larga \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Percival, Engelbretsen & Peng \| Cambrian \| Huaqiao Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Obolidae. \|
Flexaria magna \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Torres-Martínez & Sour-Tovar \| Carboniferous (middle Pennsylvanian) \| Ixtaltepec Formation \| {{Flag\|Mexico}} \| A member of Productoidea. \|
Georginakingia aviculiformis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian (Guadalupian) \| Malbina Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Trigonotretoidea and the family Georginakingiidae. \|
Gibbospirifer nazeri \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous \| Ettrain Formation \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Yukon}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Spiriferoidea and the family Spiriferidae. \|
Globiella kamiyassensis{{Cite journal\|author =Jun-Ichi Tazawa \|year=2016 \|title=Three New Brachiopod Species from the Middle Permian (Wordian) of the South Kitakami Belt, Northeastern Japan \|journal=Paleontological Research \|volume=20 \|issue=2 \|pages=80–89 \|doi=10.2517/2015PR021 \|s2cid=130187815}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Tazawa \| Permian (Wordian) \| \| {{Flag\|Japan}} \| \|
Glossella cuyanica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Lavié & Benedetto \| Ordovician (Darriwilian) \| San Juan Formation \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} \| \|
Gondwanorthis{{Cite journal\|author1=Juan L. Benedetto \|author2=Diego F. Muñoz \|year=2016 \|title=Plectorthoid brachiopods from the Lower Ordovician of north-western Argentina; phylogenetic relationships with Tarfaya Havlíček and the origin of heterorthids \|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology \|volume=15 \|issue=1 \|pages=43–67 \|doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1144086 \|s2cid=131008337}} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid{{Cite web\|title=ZooBank.org\|url=http://zoobank.org/References/FFE818F6-FA92-4B26-AE76-077617C3D9EA\|access-date=2022-01-19\|website=zoobank.org\|language=en-us}} \| Benedetto & Muñoz \| Early Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A plectorthoid brachiopod. A new genus for "Nanorthis" calderensis Benedetto (2007); genus also includes "Nanorthis" bastamensis Ghobadi Pour, Kebriaee-Zadeh & Popov (2011). \|
Gowanella{{Cite journal\|author=Norton Hiller \|year=2016 \|title=New Cretaceous brachiopods from the South Island, New Zealand \|journal=Records of the Canterbury Museum \|volume=30 \|pages=5–12 \|url=http://www.canterburymuseum.com/assets/Uploads/Museum-Records-2016-vW.pdf}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Hiller \| Late Cretaceous (probably Maastrichtian) \| Broken River Formation \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida related to Ostreathyris. The type species is G. capralis. \|
Grandispirifer qaidamensis{{Cite journal\|author1=G.R. Shi \|author2=Zhong-Qiang Chen \|author3=Sangmin Lee \|author4=Li-Pei Zhan \|year=2016 \|title=Early Carboniferous spiriferoid brachiopods from the Qaidam Basin, Northwest China: taxonomy, biostratigraphy and biogeography \|journal=Palaeoworld \|volume=25 \|issue=4 \|pages=581–599 \|doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2016.07.003}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Lee, Shi & Chen in Shi et al. \| Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) \| Huaitoulata Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Spiriferoidea belonging to the family Spiriferidae. \|
Gretchispirifer{{Cite journal\|author=N. V. Oleneva \|year=2016 \|title=Devonian brachiopods of the orders Spiriferida and Spiriferinida of the European Russia and Transcaucasia: Systematics, shell microstructure, and microornament \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=11 \|pages=1207–1296 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116110010 \|s2cid=132121592 \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313457023}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Oleneva \| Devonian (Emsian–Eifelian) \| Sharur Formation \| {{Flag\|Azerbaijan}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Adolfiidae. The type species is G. dagnensis. \|
Gundaria{{Cite journal\|author1=Lucia Angiolini \|author2=Mark Campagna \|author3=Letizia Borlenghi \|author4=Tatiana Grunt \|author5=Daniel Vachard \|author6=Giovanni Vezzoli \|author7=Irene Vuolo \|author8=James Worthington \|author9=Alda Nicora \|author10=Andrea Zanchi \|year=2016 \|title=Brachiopods from the Cisuralian–Guadalupian of Darvaz, Tajikistan and implications for Permian stratigraphic correlations \|journal=Palaeoworld \|volume=25 \|issue=4 \|pages=539–568 \|doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2016.05.006\|hdl=2434/448573 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Angiolini et al. \| Permian \| \| {{Flag\|Tajikistan}} \| The type species is G. insolita. \|
Harperoides{{Cite journal\|author1=Valeryi V. Baranov \|author2=Robert B. Blodgett \|year=2016 \|title=Two New Brachiopod Genera from the Lower Pragian (Lower Devonian, Soda Creek Limestone) of West-Central Alaska \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=1 \|pages=34–40 \|url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=25069505 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116010020 \|s2cid=131471145}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Baranov & Blodgett \| Devonian (Pragian) \| Soda Creek Limestone \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Alaska}}) \| A member of Strophomenida belonging to the subfamily Mesodouvillininae. The type species is Harperoides alaskensis. \|
Hemileurus politus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Angiolini et al. \| Permian \| \| {{Flag\|Tajikistan}} \| \|
Holcothyris campbelli \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|
Huaitakithyris \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian (Changhsingian) \| Huai Tak Formation \| {{Flag\|Thailand}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elitoidea and the family Condrathyridae. The type species is "Squamularia" postgrandis Waterhouse (1983). \|
Hubeinomena \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Disputed \| Zeng，Chen & Han in Zeng et al. \| Ordovician (Hirnantian) \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Strophomenida belonging to the family Sinomenidae. Genus includes new species H. wangjiawanensis. Rong et al. (2019) considered it to be a junior synonym of Coolinia. \|
Hustedia shumardi \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Torres-Martínez, Sour-Tovar & Barragán \| Permian (Leonardian) \| Paso Hondo Formation \| {{Flag\|Mexico}} \| \|
Inflatia coodzavuii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Torres-Martínez & Sour-Tovar \| Carboniferous (late Mississippian, middle Pennsylvanian) \| Ixtaltepec Formation \| {{Flag\|Mexico}} \| A member of Productoidea. \|
Iridistrophia (Flabellistrophia){{cite book \|author =Ulrich Jansen \|year=2016 \|chapter=Brachiopod faunas, facies and biostratigraphy of the Pridolian to lower Eifelian succession in the Rhenish Massif (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany) \|editor1=R. T. Becker \|editor2=P. Königshof \|editor3=C. E. Brett \|title=Devonian Climate, Sea Level and Evolutionary Events \|series=Geological Society, London, Special Publications \|volume=423 \|publisher=The Geological Society of London \|pages=45–122 \|isbn=978-1-86239-734-7 \|doi=10.1144/SP423.11 \|s2cid=130682555}} \| Subgen. et comb. sp. nov \| Valid \| Jansen \| Devonian (late Emsian to Eifelian) \| \| {{Flag\|Germany}} {{Flag\|Venezuela}}? \| A member of Chilidiopsidae; a subgenus of Iridistrophia. The type species is "Orthis" hipponyx Schnur (1851); the subgenus also includes new species Iridistrophia (Flabellistrophia) musculosa and possibly also "Orthis" undifera Schnur (1853) and Iridistrophia dendritica Benedetto (1984). \|
Ishimia inflata \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Popov, Kebriaee-Zadeh & Pour \| Ordovician (Darriwilian) \| Lashkarak Formation \| {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A member of Strophomenida belonging to the family Leptellinidae. \|
Isogramma nakamurai \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Tazawa \| Permian (Wordian) \| \| {{Flag\|Japan}} \| \|
Jakutoproductus lenensis{{Cite journal\|author=V.I. Makoshin \|year=2016 \|title=New Species of Jakutoproductus from the Lower Permian of Verkhoyansk Region \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=5 \|pages=463–470 \|url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=26601029 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116050087 \|s2cid=133001175}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Makoshin \| Early Permian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| \|
Jakutoproductus talchanensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Makoshin \| Early Permian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| \|
Johnsononia \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Devonian (Eifelian) \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Alaska}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Ambocoelioidea and the family Ambocoeliidae. The type species is "Verneuilia" langenstrasseni Blodgett & Johnson (1994). \|
Junglelomia \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous (Kasimovian) to Permian (Sakmarian) \| Jungle Creek Formation \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Yukon}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Choristitoidea and the family Palaeochoristitidae. The type species is J. ursus. \|
Khaophrikia \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian (Roadian) \| Rat Buri Limestone \| {{Flag\|Thailand}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elitoidea and the family Condrathyridae. The type species is T. ratburiensis. \|
Kjaerina (Kjaerina) gondwanensis{{Cite journal\|author =Jorge Colmenar \|year=2016 \|title=Ordovician rafinesquinine brachiopods from peri-Gondwana \|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica \|volume=61 \|issue=2 \|pages=293–326 \|doi=10.4202/app.00102.2014 \|s2cid=54862401}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Colmenar \| Ordovician (late Sandbian–Katian) \| Gabian Formation Glauzy Formation Louredo Formation Portixeddu Formation \| {{Flag\|France}} {{Flag\|Italy}} {{Flag\|Portugal}} \| A rafinesquinid strophomenid brachiopod, a species of Kjaerina. \|
Kjaerina (Villasina) \| Subgen. et 3 sp. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Colmenar \| Ordovician (Katian) \| Cavá Formation Gabian Formation Portilla de Luna Limestones Portixeddu Formation Porto de Santa Anna Formation Punta Serpeddi Formation Rosan Formation \| {{Flag\|France}} {{Flag\|Italy}} {{Flag\|Portugal}} {{Flag\|Spain}} \| A rafinesquinid strophomenid brachiopod, a subgenus of Kjaerina. The type species of the subgenus is Kjaerina (Villasina) pedronaensis; the subgenus also contains "Hedstroemina" almadenensis Villas (1995), as well as new species Kjaerina (Villasina) meloui and Kjaerina (Villasina) pyrenaica. \|
Kletsia \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian (Artinskian) \| Wandagee Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elitoidea and the family Toryniferidae. The type species is "Spirelytha" miloradovichi Archbold & Thomas (1984). \|
Koneviella? fuscina \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Percival, Engelbretsen & Peng \| Cambrian \| Huaqiao Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A lingulate brachiopod belonging to the family Zhanatellidae. \|
Krabispirifer \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian \| Ko Yao Noi Formation \| {{Flag\|Thailand}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Martiniidae. The type species is Spinomartinia" prolifica Waterhouse (1981). \|
Kutchithyris challinori \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|
Kutchithyris waitomoensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|
Lacunites jaroslavi{{cite journal \|author1=Michal Mergl \|author2=Petr Kraft \|year=2016 \|title=A new Ordovician paterinate brachiopod from the Barrandian area of the Czech Republic \|journal=Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs \|volume=49 \|pages=283–288 \|url=https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=257040282732466;res=IELNZC}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mergl & Kraft \| Early Ordovician \| Klabava Formation \| {{Flag\|Czech Republic}} \| A paterinate brachiopod. \|
Lampazarorthis \| Gen. et comb. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Benedetto & Muñoz \| Early Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} \| A plectorthoid brachiopod. A new genus for "Eoorthis" bifurcata Harrington (1937); genus also includes "Nanorthis" brachymyaria Benedetto in Benedetto & Carrasco (2002), as well as new species Lampazarorthis alata. \|
Lepidomena multiplicata \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Popov, Kebriaee-Zadeh & Pour \| Ordovician (Darriwilian) \| Lashkarak Formation \| {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A member of Strophomenida belonging to the family Leptellinidae. \|
Leptathyris gornensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Baliński in Baliński, Racki & Halamski \| Devonian (Frasnian) \| \| {{Flag\|Poland}} \| A member of Athyrididae. \|
Liaous{{Cite journal\|author1=Weihong He \|author2=Kexin Zhang \|author3=Zhong-Qiang Chen \|author4=Jiaxin Yan \|author5=Tinglu Yang \|author6=Yang Zhang \|author7=Songzhu Gu \|author8=Shunbao Wu \|year=2016 \|title=A new genus Liaous of early Anisian Stage (Middle Triassic) brachiopods from southwestern China: systematics, reassessment of classification of the Spiriferinioidea, community paleoecology, and paleoenvironmental implications \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=89 \|issue=6 \|pages=966–979 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.6 \|s2cid=88456966}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| He & Chen in He et al. \| Middle Triassic (early Anisian) \| Xinyuan Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A relative of Mentzelia and Paramentzelia. The type species is Liaous shaiwensis. \|
Loboidothyris awakinoensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|
Loboidothyris grantmackiei \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|
Loboidothyris marokopaensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|
Longiusculus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous (Viséan) \| \| {{Flag\|Japan}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Paeckelmanelloidea and the family Strophopleuridae. The type species is L. yanagidai. \|
Lyonia rochacamposi{{Cite journal\|author1=Arturo César Taboada \|author2=Jacqueline Peixoto Neves \|author3=Luiz Carlos Weinschütz \|author4=Maria Alejandra Pagani \|author5=Marcello Guimarães Simões \|year=2016 \|title=Eurydesma-Lyonia Fauna (early Permian) from The Itararé Group, Paraná basin (Brazil): A Paleobiogeographic W-E Trans-Gondwanan Marine connection \|journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology \|volume=449 \|pages=431–454 \|doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.022 \|bibcode=2016PPP...449..431T \|hdl=11449/172653}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Taboada et al. \| Early Permian (latest Asselian-earliest Sakmarian) \| Taciba Formation \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| A member of Productida belonging to the family Auriculispinidae, a species of Lyonia. \|
Mandageryia \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Devonian \| Mandagery Park Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Delthyroidea and the family Xenomartiniidae. The type species is "Quadrathyris robusta" molongensis Savage (1969), raised to the rank of the species M. molongensis. \|
Mendozotreta{{cite journal \|author1=Lars E. Holmer \|author2=Leonid E. Popov \|author3=Oliver Lehnert \|author4=Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour \|year=2016 \|title=Ordovician (Darriwilian-Sandbian) linguliform brachiopods from the Southern Cuyania Terrane of West-central Argentina \|journal=Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs \|volume=49 \|pages=31–50 \|url=https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=256574458451011;res=IELNZC}} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Holmer et al. \| Ordovician \| Antelope Valley Limestone Lindero Formation \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| A member of Acrotretida belonging to the family Acrotretidae. The type species is "Conotreta" devota Krause & Rowell (1975). \|
Mesoleptostrophia belli \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Earp \| Early Devonian \| Montys Hut Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| \|
Minatodina \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Devonian \| \| {{Flag\|Belgium}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Reticularioidea and the family Thomasariidae. The type species is "Spirifer" maureri Holzapfel (1896). \|
Minispinusuria \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous \| Bingleburra Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Reticularioidea and the family Reticulariidae. The type species is "Thomasaria" voiseyi Roberts (1963). \|
Minutella bulgarica{{Cite journal\|author1=Maria Aleksandra Bitner \|author2=Neda Motchurova-Dekova \|year=2016 \|title=Middle Miocene (Badenian) brachiopods from Yasen, northwestern Bulgaria: taxonomic composition and biogeographical significance \|journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen \|volume=279 \|issue=1 \|pages=7–22 \|doi=10.1127/njgpa/2016/0536}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bitner & Motchurova-Dekova \| Miocene (Badenian) \| \| {{Flag\|Bulgaria}} \| \|
Minutomena{{cite book \|author1=Q. L. Zeng \|author2=X. H. Chen \|author3=C. S. Wang \|author4=M. Zhang \|author5=H. Q. Han \|title=Hirnantia fauna of Yichang district, its paleoecology and extinction, and the biotic evolution in Llandovery \|publisher=China University of Geosciences Press \|pages=1–112 \|isbn=9787562538356 \|year=2016}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Zeng，Zhang & Han in Zeng et al. \| Ordovician (Hirnantian) \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of the family Strophomenidae. Genus includes new species M. yichangensis. \|
Minutorthis \| Gen. nov \| Valid \| Zeng，Chen & Zhang in Zeng et al. \| Ordovician (Hirnantian) \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Orthida belonging to the family Toxorthidae. \|
Monelasmina montisjosephi \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Baliński in Baliński, Racki & Halamski \| Devonian (Frasnian) \| \| {{Flag\|Poland}} \| A member of Draboviidae. \|
Nasakia{{Cite journal\|author1=Michael Streng \|author2=Aodhán D. Butler \|author3=John S. Peel \|author4=Russell J. Garwood \|author5=Jean-Bernard Caron \|year=2016 \|title=A new family of Cambrian rhynchonelliformean brachiopods (Order Naukatida) with an aberrant coral-like morphology \|journal=Palaeontology \|volume=59 \|issue=2 \|pages=269–293 \|doi=10.1111/pala.12226\|bibcode=2016Palgy..59..269S \|s2cid=131927840 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Streng et al. \| Cambrian \| Henson Gletscher Formation \| {{Flag\|Greenland}} \| A member of Rhynchonelliformea belonging to the class Obolellata and the order Naukatida. The type species is Nasakia thulensis. \|
Nevadospirifer \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Devonian \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Hysterolitoidea and the family Howellellidae. The type species is N. pulchrum. \|
Numericoma rowelli \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Holmer et al. \| Ordovician (Darriwilian) \| Antelope Valley Limestone Ponon Trehue Formation \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| A member of Lingulata belonging to the family Ephippelasmatidae. \|
Nushbiella kleithria \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Percival in Percival et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Lingulata belonging to the family Siphonotretidae. \|
Obliquorhynchia{{Cite journal\|author1=Ane Elise Schrøder \|author2=Bodil W. Lauridsen \|author3=Finn Surlyk \|year=2016 \|title=Obliquorhynchia (gen. nov.): An asymmetric brachiopod from the middle Danian Faxe Formation, Denmark \|journal=Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark \|volume=64 \|pages=97–109 \|doi=10.37570/bgsd-2016-64-05 \|url=https://2dgf.dk/xpdf/Bull64-97-109.pdf}} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Schrøder, Lauridsen & Surlyk \| Paleocene (Danian) \| Faxe Formation Vigny Formation \| {{Flag\|Denmark}} {{Flag\|France}} {{Flag\|Sweden}} \| A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the superfamily Pugnacoidea and the family Basiliolidae; a new genus for "Terebratula" flustracea von Buch (1834). \|
Orthis dehmollaensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Popov, Kebriaee-Zadeh & Pour \| Ordovician (Darriwilian) \| Lashkarak Formation \| {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A member of Orthida belonging to the family Orthidae. \|
Paramirorthis \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Disputed \| Zeng，Wang & Peng in Zeng et al. \| Ordovician (Hirnantian) \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of the family Dalmanellidae. Genus includes new species P. minuta. Rong et al. (2019) considered it to be a junior synonym of Mirorthis. \|
Paraspirifer (Laurentispirifer) \| Subgen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Jansen \| Middle Devonian \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} {{Flag\|Venezuela}} \| A subgenus of Paraspirifer. The type species is Paraspirifer conradi Godefroid & Fagerstrom (1983); the subgenus also includes "Delthyris" acuminata Conrad (1839), "Terebratula" acuminatissima de Castelnau (1843), "Spirifer" bownockeri Stewart (1927), Paraspirifer halli Godefroid & Fagerstrom (1983) and Paraspirifer clarkei Godefroid & Fagerstrom (1983). \|
Paraspirifer (Mosellospirifer) \| Subgen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Jansen \| Devonian (late Emsian to early Eifelian \| \| {{Flag\|Germany}} {{Flag\|Canada}}? {{Flag\|China}}? \| A subgenus of Paraspirifer. The type species is Paraspirifer sandbergeri Solle (1971); the subgenus also includes Spirifer auriculatus Sandberger & Sandberger (1856), Paraspirifer sandbergeri longimargo Solle (1971) (elevated to species rank), Paraspirifer eos Solle (1971) and Paraspirifer sandbergeri nepos Solle (1971). The subgenus might also include Paraspirifer gigantea Su (1976) and Paraspirifer desbiensi Bizzarro & Lespérance (1999). \|
Parazhanatella \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Percival, Engelbretsen & Peng \| Cambrian \| Huaqiao Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A lingulate brachiopod belonging to the family Zhanatellidae. The type species is P. paibia. \|
Pedderia \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Baranov & Blodgett \| Devonian (Pragian) \| Soda Creek Limestone \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Alaska}}) \| A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the family Pygmaellidae. The type species is Pedderia fragosa. \|
Phragmorthis shahrudensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Popov, Kebriaee-Zadeh & Pour \| Ordovician (Darriwilian) \| Lashkarak Formation \| {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A member of Orthida belonging to the family Phragmorthidae. \|
Pliconodosus \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Silurian \| \| {{Flag\|Sweden}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Hysterolitoidea and the family Costispiriferidae. The type species is "Spirifer" schmidti Lindstrom (1861). \|
Poletaevina \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous \| \| {{Flag\|Ireland}} {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Paeckelmanelloidea and the family Pterospiriferidae. The type species is "Spirifera" rhomboidea Phillips (1836); genus also includes "Spirifer" distans Sowerby (1825). \|
Pristinusia \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous \| Branch Creek Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Spiriferoidea and the family Spiriferidae. The type species is "Neospirifer" pristinus Maxwell (1951). \|
Prospira pseudostruniana{{Cite journal\|author1=Bernard Mottequin \|author2=Denise Brice \|year=2016 \|title=Upper and uppermost Famennian (Devonian) brachiopods from north-western France (Avesnois) and southern Belgium \|journal=Geologica Belgica \|volume=19 \|issue=1–2 \|pages=121–134 \|doi=10.20341/gb.2016.004}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mottequin & Brice \| Devonian (late Famennian) \| Etrœungt Formation \| {{Flag\|France}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Spiriferidae. \|
Psygmakantha \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Percival in Percival et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Lingulata belonging to the family Ephippelasmatidae. The type species is P. malachiensis. \|
Pulvinoconcha \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian \| Cherry Canyon Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Texas}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elythynoidea and the family Eomartiniopsidae. The type species is P. getaway. \|
Punctospirifer gerankalasus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Oleneva \| Carboniferous (Tournaisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Azerbaijan}} \| A member of Spiriferinida belonging to the family Punctospiriferidae. \|
Qaidamospirifer \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen, Lee & Shi in Shi et al. \| Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) \| Huaitoulata Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Spiriferoidea belonging to the family Choristitidae. The type species is Q. elongatus. \|
Radinovia \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Devonian \| Bingleburra Formation \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Alberta}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Theodossioidea and the family Theodossiidae. The type species is "Vandergrachtella" radina Crickmay (1953). \|
Rafinesquina (Mesogeina) \| Subgen. et comb. et 2 sp. nov \| Valid \| Colmenar \| Ordovician (Katian) \| Bohdalec Formation Fombuena Formation Gabian Formation Lower Ktaoua Formation Porto de Santa Anna Formation Upper Tiouririne Formation Zahorany Formation \| {{Flag\|Czech Republic}} {{Flag\|France}} {{Flag\|Germany}} {{Flag\|Morocco}} {{Flag\|Portugal}} {{Flag\|Spain}} \| A rafinesquinid strophomenid brachiopod, a subgenus of Rafinesquina. The type species of the subgenus is "Leptaena" pseudoloricata Barrande (1848); the subgenus also includes Rafinesquina pomoides Havlíček (1971), as well as new species Rafinesquina (Mesogeina) gabianensis and Rafinesquina (Mesogeina) loredensis. \|
Rhipidomella magna \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Tazawa \| Permian (Wordian) \| \| {{Flag\|Japan}} \| \|
Rogorthis? oriens \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Popov, Kebriaee-Zadeh & Pour \| Ordovician (Darriwilian) \| Lashkarak Formation \| {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A member of Orthida belonging to the family Orthidae. \|
Sampo suduvensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Paškevičius & Hints \| Late Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Lithuania}} {{Flag\|Russia}} ({{Flag\|Kaliningrad Oblast}}) \| A member of Strophomenida belonging to the family Leptestiidae. \|
Sartenaerirhynchus \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Jansen \| Devonian (middle Siegenian to late Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Belgium}} {{Flag\|Germany}} {{Flag\|Luxembourg}} \| A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the superfamily Uncinuloidea. The type species is "Terebratula" antiqua Schnur (1853); genus also includes "Uncinulus" frontecostatus Drevermann (1902) \|
Scaphelasma quadratum \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Engelbretsen in Percival et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Lingulata belonging to the family Scaphelasmatidae. \|
Schizocrania equestra{{Cite journal\|author1=Michal Mergl \|author2=Lucie Nolčová \|year=2016 \|title=Schizocrania (Brachiopoda, Discinoidea): taxonomy, occurrence, ecology and history of the earliest epizoan lingulate brachiopod \|journal=Fossil Imprint \|volume=72 \|issue=3–4 \|pages=225–238 \|doi=10.14446/FI.2016.225 \|url=http://fi.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/NM_IF_c3_4_16_Mergl_pokor.pdf}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mergl & Nolčová \| Ordovician (Katian) \| Bohdalec Formation \| {{Flag\|Czech Republic}} \| A member of Discinoidea belonging to the family Trematidae. \|
Septaliphoria felberi \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sulser \| Middle Jurassic (Callovian) \| \| {{Flag\|Switzerland}} \| A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the superfamily Hemithiridoidea and the family Cyclothyrididae. \|
Septimusia \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous \| Septimus Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Choristitoidea and the family Choristitidae. The type species is "Tangshanella" fasciculatia Roberts (1971). \|
Siberioproductus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Baranov, Sokiran & Blodgett \| Devonian (Famennian) \| Chekursk Formation \| {{Flag\|Russia}} ({{Flag\|Sakha Republic}}) \| A member of Rhynchonelliformea belonging to the group Productida and the family Productellidae. The type species is S. boreus. \|
Sinomena \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Disputed \| Zeng，Chen & Han in Zeng et al. \| Ordovician (Hirnantian) \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Strophomenida belonging to the family Sinomenidae. Genus includes new species S. typica. Rong et al. (2019) considered it to be a junior synonym of Eostropheodonta. \|
Skenidioides cretus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Halamski in Baliński, Racki & Halamski \| Devonian (Frasnian) \| \| {{Flag\|Poland}} \| A member of Skenidiidae. \|
Spinobolus{{Cite journal\|author1=Zhi-Fei Zhang \|author2=Zhi-Liang Zhang \|author3=Guo-Xiang Li \|author4=Lars E. Holmer \|year=2016 \|title=The Cambrian brachiopod fauna from the first-trilobite age Shuijingtuo Formation in the Three Gorges area of China \|journal=Palaeoworld \|volume=25 \|issue=3 \|pages=333–355 \|doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2015.10.001}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Zhang et al. \| Cambrian \| Shuijingtuo Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A linguloid brachiopod. The type species is Spinobolus popovi. \|
Spirelytha svartevaegensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Nunavut}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elitoidea and the family Toryniferidae. \|
Suchanaria \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Devonian (Givetian, possibly Frasnian) \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Ambocoelioidea and the family Rhynchospiriferidae. The type species is "Tingella" suchana Veevers (1959). \|
Tapongaspirifer \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Earp \| Early Devonian \| Montys Hut Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Filispiriferidae. The type species is Tapongaspirifer melodiae. \|
Tasmanospirifer \| Gen. et sp. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian \| Berriedale Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Trigonotretoidea and the family Georginakingiidae. The type species is T. clarkei; genus also includes "Spirifer" tasmaniensis Morris (1845). \|
Taungurungetes{{Cite journal\|author =C. Earp \|year=2016 \|title=Late Early Devonian brachiopods from Montys Hut Formation, central Victoria, Australia \|journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology \|volume=40 \|issue=2 \|pages=161–181 \|doi=10.1080/03115518.2016.1102557 \|s2cid=131466671}} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Earp \| Early Devonian \| Montys Hut Formation Norton Gully Sandstone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A possible member of Devonochonetinae. The type species is "Chonetes" taggertyensis Gill (1945) from the Montys Hut Formation; genus also contains second, unnamed species from the Norton Gully Sandstone. \|
Tegulospirifer ogilvieensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Carboniferous \| Ettrain Formation \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Yukon}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Spiriferoidea and the family Spiriferidae. \|
Terebratulina leeae \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|
Terebratulina putiensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|
Thaerodonta notabile{{Cite journal\|author=Juozas Paškevičius \|year=2016 \|title=Pecularities of the lithology and fauna of the early Katian (Ordovician) in the Lithuanian facies zone \|journal=Geologija. Geografija \|volume=2 \|issue=2 \|pages=49–61 \|doi=10.6001/geol-geogr.v2i2.3318}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Paškevičius \| Ordovician (Katian) \| Kaimynai Formation \| {{Flag\|Lithuania}} \| \|
Thulatrypa{{Cite journal\|author1=Bing Huang \|author2=B. Gudveig Baarli \|author3=Ren-Bin Zhan \|author4=Jia-Yu Rong \|year=2016 \|title=A new early Silurian brachiopod genus, Thulatrypa, from Norway and South China, and its palaeobiogeographical significance \|journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology \|volume=40 \|issue=1 \|pages=83–97 \|doi=10.1080/03115518.2016.1092066 \|s2cid=131549550}} \| Gen. et sp. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Huang et al. \| Silurian \| \| {{Flag\|China}} {{Flag\|Norway}} \| An atrypoid brachiopod. The type species is Thulatrypa gregaria; genus also contains "Meifodia" orientalis Rong, Xu & Yang (1974). \|
Tomteluva \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Streng et al. \| Cambrian \| Stephen Formation \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|British Columbia}}) \| A member of Rhynchonelliformea belonging to the class Obolellata and the order Naukatida. The type species is Tomteluva perturbata. \|
Trentingula{{Cite journal\|author=Renato Posenato \|year=2016 \|title=Systematics of lingulide brachiopods from the end-Permian mass extinction interval \|journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia \|volume=122 \|issue=2 \|pages=85–108 \|doi=10.13130/2039-4942/7259\|s2cid=133296529 }} \| Gen. et 3 sp. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Posenato \| Late Permian and Early Triassic \| \| {{Flag\|Hungary}} {{Flag\|Italy}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Wyoming}}) \| A member of Linguloidea belonging to the family Lingulidae. The type species is T. lorigae; genus also includes new species T. mazzinensis and T. prinothi, as well as Trentingula borealis (Bittner, 1899). \|
Triangulospirifer \| Nom. nov \| Valid \| Lee in Shi et al. \| Carboniferous \| \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A member of Spiriferida. A replacement name for Triangularia Poletaev (2001). \|
Trimena \| Gen. nov \| Valid \| Zeng，Wang & Peng in Zeng et al. \| Ordovician (Hirnantian) \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Plectambonitoidea belonging to the family Xenambonitidae. \|
Triramus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian (Asselian) \| Jungle Creek Formation \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Yukon}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elitoidea and the family Condrathyridae. The type species is T. canadensis. \|
Vasculumia \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian \| Ko Yao Noi Formation \| {{Flag\|Thailand}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Trigonotretoidea and the family Angiospiriferidae. The type species is "Brachythyrina" boonlomi Waterhouse (2004). \|
Veeversaria \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Devonian (Frasnian) \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Ambocoelioidea and the family Ladjiidae. The type species is "Emanuella" torrida Veevers (1959). \|
Waddingtonia \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Devonian \| Delorme Formation \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Yukon}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Reticularioidea and the family Reticulariidae. The type species is "Reticulariopsis" warreni Perry (1984). \|
Weberproductus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Torres-Martínez & Sour-Tovar \| Carboniferous (middle Pennsylvanian) \| Ixtaltepec Formation \| {{Flag\|Mexico}} \| A member of Productoidea. Genus includes new species W. donajiae. \|
Wenjukovispirifer \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Oleneva \| Devonian (Famennian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the family Cyrtospiriferidae. The type species is "Spirifer" koscharicus Ljaschenko (1959); genus also includes "Spirifer" archiaci Murchison (1840), "Spirifer" brodi Wenjukov (1886) and W. lebedjanicus (Nalivkin, 1947). \|
Xysticaria \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Waterhouse \| Permian \| Cathedral Mountain Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Texas}}) \| A member of Spiriferida belonging to the superfamily Elythynoidea and the family Eomartiniopsidae. The type species is "Rallacosta" xystica Cooper & Grant (1976). \|
Yichangomena \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Disputed \| Zeng，Zhang & Han in Zeng et al. \| Ordovician (Hirnantian) \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Strophomenida belonging to the family Sinomenidae. Genus includes new species Y. dingjiapoensis. Rong et al. (2019) considered it to be a junior synonym of Eostropheodonta.{{Cite journal\|author1=Jia-Yu Rong \|author2=Kyi Pyar Aung \|author3=Ren-Bin Zhan \|author4=Bing Huang \|author5=David A.T. Harper \|author6=Di Chen \|author7=Hang-Hang Zhou \|author8=Xiao-Le Zhang \|year=2019 \|title=The latest Ordovician Hirnantia brachiopod Fauna of Myanmar: Significance of new data from the Mandalay Region \|journal=Palaeoworld \|volume=29 \|issue=1 \|pages=1–30 \|doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2019.07.002 \|s2cid=199092416 \|url=http://dro.dur.ac.uk/29028/1/29028.pdf}} \|
Zeilleria opuatiaensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|
Zeilleria waiohipaensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| MacFarlan \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A member of Terebratulida. \|

Molluscs

Echinoderms

Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! Notes ! Images
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Alternocidaris{{cite journal \|author1=Gamal M. El Qot \|author2=Marouf A. Abdelhamid \|author3=Medhat S. Abdelghany \|year=2016 \|title=Revision of Cenomanian regular echinoids in collections at the Cairo Geological Museum, Egypt \|journal=Cretaceous Research \|volume=67 \|pages=91–125 \|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2016.07.002\|bibcode=2016CrRes..67...91E }} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| El Qot, Abdelhamid, & Abdelghany \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian, possibly Turonian) \| \| {{Flag\|Egypt}} \| A sea urchin belonging to the group Camarodonta and the family Glyphocyphidae. The type species is "Tiaridia" weldoni Fourtau (1921). \|
Applinocrinus russelli{{cite journal \|author=Andrew Scott Gale \|year=2016 \|title=Roveacrinida (Crinoidea, Articulata) from the Santonian–Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of England, the US Gulf Coast (Texas, Mississippi) and southern Sweden \|journal=Papers in Palaeontology \|volume=2 \|issue=4 \|pages=489–532 \|doi=10.1002/spp2.1050\|s2cid=132079350 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid{{Cite web\|title=ZooBank.org\|url=http://zoobank.org/References/41A6169F-F226-46C6-A4C8-B1697BB00FAD\|access-date=2022-01-19\|website=zoobank.org\|language=en-us}} \| Gale \| Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) \| Prairie Bluff Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Mississippi}}) \| A crinoid belonging to the group Articulata and the family Saccocomidae. \|
Apsidocrinus doreckae{{cite journal \|author1=Krystian Konieczyński \|author2=Andrzej Pisera \|author3=István Fózy \|year=2016 \|title=Early Cretaceous cyrtocrinids (Crinoidea) from the Gerecse Mountains, northern Hungary \|journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen \|volume=279 \|issue=2 \|pages=155–166 \|doi=10.1127/njgpa/2016/0547}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Konieczyński, Pisera & Fózy \| Early Cretaceous \| \| {{Flag\|Hungary}} \| A cyrtocrinid crinoid, a species of Apsidocrinus. \|
Arabicodiadema{{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 }} \| Gen. et comb. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Abdelhamid, El Qot & Abdelghany \| Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian) \| \| {{Flag\|Oman}} {{Flag\|United Arab Emirates}} \| A heterodiadematid sea urchin. The type species is "Trochodiadema" dhofarense Roman (1991); genus also includes new species Arabicodiadema alii. \|
Atalopegaster{{cite journal \|author1=Daniel B. Blake \|author2=Thomas E. Guensburg \|year=2016 \|title=An asteroid (Echinodermata) faunule from the Oxfordian Swift Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Montana \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=6 \|pages=1160–1168 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.70 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90.1160B \|s2cid=132837071}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Blake & Guensburg \| Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) \| Swift Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Montana}}) \| A starfish belonging to the family Stichasteridae. The type species is A. gundersoni. \|
Bystrowicrinus (col.) depressus{{cite journal \|author1=Stephen K. Donovan \|author2=David G. Keighley \|year=2016 \|title=Fossil crinoids from the basal West Point Formation (Silurian), southeast Gaspé Peninsula, Québec, eastern Canada \|journal=Atlantic Geology \|volume=52 \|pages=211–222 \|doi=10.4138/atlgeol.2016.010}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Donovan & Keighley \| Late Silurian \| West Point Formation \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Quebec}}) \| A crinoid. \|
Calliderma lindneri{{Cite journal\|author1=Birgit Niebuhr \|author2=Ekbert Seibertz \|year=2016 \|title=Kreide-Fossilien in Sachsen, Teil 2. 13. Asteroiden (Seesterne) \|journal=Geologica Saxonica \|volume=62 \|pages=113–141 \|url=http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/geologicasaxonica/62/13__geologica-saxonica_62_2016_niebuhr-seibertz.pdf}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Niebuhr & Seibertz \| Late Cretaceous (Turonian) \| Schmilka Formation \| {{Flag\|Germany}} \| A starfish belonging to the family Goniasteridae, a species of Calliderma. \|
Carolinaster{{cite journal \|author1=Adam S. Osborn \|author2=Rich Mooi \|author3=Charles N. Ciampaglio \|year=2016 \|title=Additions to the Eocene echinoid fauna of the southeastern United States, including a new genus and species of prenasterid heart urchin \|journal=Southeastern Geology \|volume=52 \|issue=1 \|pages=33–59}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Osborn, Mooi & Ciampaglio \| Eocene \| Castle Hayne Limestone \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|North Carolina}}) \| A heart urchin belonging to the family Prenasteridae. Genus includes new species C. varnami. \|
Comptoniaster michaelisi{{cite journal \|author1=Birgit Niebuhr \|author2=Ekbert Seibertz \|year=2018 \|title=Comptoniaster michaelisi nom. nov. (Asteroidea, Goniasteridae): Revision of a starfish species from the lower Upper Cretaceous of central Europe previously described as Pentagonaster semilunatus and Asterias schulzii \|journal=Cretaceous Research \|volume=87 \|pages=126–144 \|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.05.018\|bibcode=2018CrRes..87..126N \|s2cid=134314142 }} \| Nom. nov \| Valid \| Niebuhr & Seibertz \| Late Cretaceous (middle Turonian to middle Coniacian) \| \| {{Flag\|Czech Republic}} {{Flag\|Germany}} {{Flag\|Poland}} \| A starfish belonging to the family Goniasteridae; a replacement name for Asterias schulzii Cotta sensu Roemer (1840, 1841). \|
Costatocrinus \| Gen. et 2 sp. nov \| Valid \| Gale \| Late Cretaceous (Campanian) \| Taylor Formation \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Texas}}) \| A crinoid belonging to the group Articulata and the family Saccocomidae. The type species is C. brydonei; genus also includes C. mortimorei. \|
Cultellacrinus \| Gen. et 2 sp. nov \| Valid \| Gale \| Late Cretaceous \| \| {{Flag\|Sweden}} {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A crinoid belonging to the group Articulata and the family Roveacrinidae. The type species is C. gladius; genus also includes C. labyrinthus. \|
Cunidentechinus{{Cite journal\|author=A.B. Smith \|year=2016 \|title=British Jurassic regular echinoids. Part 2 - Carinacea \|journal=Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society \|volume=170 \|issue=646 \|pages=69–176 \|doi=10.1080/02693445.2016.11963957\|s2cid=133723290}} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Smith \| Early Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A stem-carinacean sea urchin; a new genus for "Echinus" minutus Buckman in Murchison (1845). \|
Darwinaster{{cite journal \|author1=Aaron W. Hunter \|author2=Adrian W.A. Rushton \|author3=Philip Stone \|year=2016 \|title=Comments on the ophiuroid family Protasteridae and description of a new genus from the Lower Devonian of the Fox Bay Formation, Falkland Islands \|journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology \|volume=40 \|issue=4 \|pages=429–442 \|doi=10.1080/03115518.2016.1218246 \|s2cid=132650443 \|url=http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515522/1/Alcheringa-abstract.pdf}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Hunter, Rushton & Stone \| Early Devonian \| Fox Bay Formation \| {{Flag\|Falkland Islands}} \| A brittle star related to members of the genus Protaster. Genus includes new species D. coleenbiggsae. \|
Echinolampas andalusiensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Osborn, Mooi & Ciampaglio \| Eocene \| Moodys Branch Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Alabama}}) \| A sea urchin belonging to the family Echinolampadidae. \|
Gitolampas twitchelli \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Osborn, Mooi & Ciampaglio \| Eocene \| Santee Limestone \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|South Carolina}}) \| A sea urchin belonging to the group Cassiduloida. \|
Glyptocrinus nodosus{{Cite journal\|author1=Jack W. Kallmeyer \|author2=William I. Ausich \|year=2016 \|title=Deepwater occurrence of a new Glyptocrinus (Crinoidea, Camerata) from the Late Ordovician of southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky: revision of crinoid paleocommunity composition \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=89 \|issue=6 \|pages=1068–1075 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.72 \|s2cid=131238632}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Kallmeyer & Ausich \| Ordovician (Katian) \| Kope Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Kentucky}} {{Flag\|Ohio}}) \| A camerate crinoid, a species of Glyptocrinus. \|
Goniopygus macrotuberculatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| El Qot, Abdelhamid, & Abdelghany \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) \| Raha Formation \| {{Flag\|Egypt}} \| A sea urchin belonging to the group Arbacioida and the family Acropeltidae. \|
Goniopygus subaequalis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| El Qot, Abdelhamid, & Abdelghany \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) \| Raha Formation \| {{Flag\|Egypt}} \| A sea urchin belonging to the group Arbacioida and the family Acropeltidae. \|
Haimea brooksi \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Osborn, Mooi & Ciampaglio \| Eocene \| Ocala Limestone \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Florida}}) \| A sea urchin belonging to the group Oligopygoida. \|
Hessicrinus \| Gen. et 2 sp. nov \| Valid \| Gale \| Late Cretaceous (Campanian) \| \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A crinoid belonging to the group Articulata and the family Roveacrinidae. The type species is H. filigree; genus also includes H. scalaensis. \|
Hiiumaacrinus{{cite journal \|author1=William I. Ausich \|author2=Mark A. Wilson \|year=2016 \|title=Llandovery (early Silurian) crinoids from Hiiumaa Island, western Estonia \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=6 \|pages=1138–1147 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.120 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90.1138A \|s2cid=133155370}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Ausich & Wilson \| Silurian (Rhuddanian) \| Hilliste Formation \| {{Flag\|Estonia}} \| A crinoid. Genus includes new species H. vinni. \|
Jakeocrinus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Gale \| Late Cretaceous (early Campanian) \| Taylor Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Texas}}) \| A crinoid belonging to the group Articulata and the family Roveacrinidae. The type species is J. ellisensis. \|
Lakotacrinus{{cite journal \|author1=Aaron W. Hunter \|author2=Neal L. Larson \|author3=Neil H. Landman \|author4=Tatsuo Oji \|year=2016 \|title=Lakotacrinus brezinai n. gen. n. sp., a new stalked crinoid from cold methane seeps in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Pierre Shale, South Dakota, United States \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=3 \|pages=506–524 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.21 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90..506H \|s2cid=132578529}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Hunter et al. \| Late Cretaceous (Campanian) \| Pierre Shale \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|South Dakota}}) \| A stalked crinoid. The type species is L. brezinai. \|
Lehmannaster{{Cite journal\|author1=Daniel B. Blake \|author2=Thomas E. Guensburg \|author3=Bertrand Lefebvre \|year=2016 \|title=New Early Paleozoic Asterozoa (Echinodermata) from the Armorican Massif, France, and the Western United States \|journal=Annales de Paléontologie \|volume=102 \|issue=3 \|pages=161–181 \|doi=10.1016/j.annpal.2016.08.002\|bibcode=2016AnPal.102..161B }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Blake, Guensburg & Lefebvre \| Ordovician (late Darriwilian) \| Traveusot Formation \| {{Flag\|France}} \| A stenuroid asterozoan. Genus includes new species L. spinosus. \|
Lopidiaster \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Blake, Guensburg & Lefebvre \| Ordovician (Floian) \| Garden City Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Utah}}) \| A stenuroid asterozoan. Genus includes new species L. jamisoni. \|
Loriolidiadema \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Abdelhamid, El Qot & Abdelghany \| Cretaceous (Aptian-Cenomanian) \| \| {{Flag\|Egypt}} {{Flag\|Portugal}} Border region between {{Flag\|Syria}} and {{Flag\|Lebanon}} \| A heterodiadematid sea urchin. The type species is "Pseudodiadema" libanoticum de Loriol (1887); genus also includes Loriolidiadema sculptile (de Loriol, 1887). \|
Lucernacrinus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Gale \| Late Cretaceous \| \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A crinoid belonging to the group Articulata and the family Roveacrinidae. The type species is L. woodi. \|
Maennilocystis{{Cite journal\|author1=C. R. C. Paul \|author2=S. V. Rozhnov \|year=2016 \|title=Revision of Scoliocystis (Rhombifera: Echinoencrinitidae) and related cystoid genera \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=3 \|pages=255–275 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116030059 \|s2cid=88739526 \|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1040922}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Paul & Rozhnov \| Late Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Estonia}} \| A cystoid belonging to the family Callocystitidae. The type species is M. heckeri. \|
Manfredaster praebulbiferus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Niebuhr & Seibertz \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Coniacian) \| Dölzschen Formation Schrammstein Formation Strehlen Formation \| {{Flag\|Germany}} \| A starfish belonging to the group Valvatida and the family Stauranderasteridae. \|
Mariania comaschicariae{{cite journal \|author1=Paolo Stara \|author2=Enrico Borghi \|author3=Andreas Kroh \|year=2016 \|title=Revision of the genus Mariania (Echinoidea) with the description of two new species from the Miocene of Italy \|journal=Bulletin of Geosciences \|volume=91 \|issue=1 \|pages=65–88 \|doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1576}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Stara, Borghi & Kroh \| Miocene (Aquitanian to early Burdigalian) \| Nurallao Formation \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A heart urchin belonging to the superfamily Spatangoidea, a species of Mariania. \|
Mariania stefaninii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Stara, Borghi & Kroh \| Miocene (late Burdigalian to early Langhian) \| Pantano Formation \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A heart urchin belonging to the superfamily Spatangoidea, a species of Mariania. \|
Meturaster \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Blake, Guensburg & Lefebvre \| Ordovician (middle Darriwilian) \| Lehman Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| A starfish. Genus includes new species M. belli. \|
Monophoraster telfordi{{cite journal \|author1=Rich Mooi \|author2=Sergio A. Martínez \|author3=Claudia J. del Río \|year=2016 \|title=A new South American Miocene species of 'one-holed' sand dollar (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida: Monophorasteridae) \|journal=Zootaxa \|volume=4173 \|issue=1 \|pages=45–54 \|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4173.1.4 \|pmid=27701202 \|hdl=11336/46970\|s2cid=26453463 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mooi, Martínez & del Río \| Early Miocene \| Chenque Formation \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} \| A sand dollar. \|
Nucleolites usoi{{Cite journal\|author=Enric Forner i Valls \|year=2016 \|title=Els neognatostomats (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) de la formació Artoles del Barremià de la conca del Maestrat \|journal=Nemus: Revista de l'Ateneu de Natura \|volume=6 \|pages=35–60 \|url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5757687}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Forner i Valls \| Early Cretaceous (Barremian) \| Artoles Formation \| {{Flag\|Spain}} \| A sea urchin. \|
Osteocrinus sinensis{{cite journal \|author1=Hans Hess \|author2=Walter Etter \|author3=Hans Hagdorn \|year=2016 \|title=Roveacrinida (Crinoidea) from Late Triassic (early Carnian) black shales of Southwest China \|journal=Swiss Journal of Palaeontology \|volume=135 \|issue=2 \|pages=249–274 \|doi=10.1007/s13358-016-0116-3 \|s2cid=129982473}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Hess, Etter & Hagdorn \| Late Triassic (early Carnian) \| Xiaowa Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A crinoid belonging to the group Roveacrinida, a species of Osteocrinus. \|
Pentamerocrinus kosovi{{cite journal \|author =Sergey V. Rozhnov \|year=2016 \|title=Aboral nervous system in two Ordovician crinoids: reconstruction and comparison of Baltic Pentamerocrinus Jaekel and Grammocrinus Eichwald \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=2 \|pages=163–173 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116020064 \|s2cid=89151163 \|url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=25670671}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rozhnov \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} ({{Flag\|Leningrad Oblast}}) \| A crinoid belonging to the group Inadunata, a species of Pentamerocrinus. \|
Petraster crozonensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Blake, Guensburg & Lefebvre \| Ordovician (early Katian) \| Kermeur Formation \| {{Flag\|France}} \| A starfish. \|
Phyllocrinus bersekensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Konieczyński, Pisera & Fózy \| Early Cretaceous \| \| {{Flag\|Hungary}} \| A cyrtocrinid crinoid, a species of Phyllocrinus. \|
Placentinechinus{{Cite journal\|author1=Enrico Borghi \|author2=Vittorio Garilli \|year=2016 \|title=A new subtropical-temperate brooding echinoid with no marsupium: the first Mediterranean and the last European Temnopleuridae from the Early Pleistocene of Italy \|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology \|volume=15 \|issue=4 \|pages=313–337 \|doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1184191 \|s2cid=132652930}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid{{Cite web\|title=ZooBank.org\|url=http://zoobank.org/References/EBB96C8C-943D-4253-82FE-09B9132591E7\|access-date=2022-01-19\|website=zoobank.org\|language=en-us}} \| Borghi & Garilli \| Pleistocene (Gelasian–Calabrian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sea urchin belonging to the family Temnopleuridae. The type species is P. davolii. \|
Plagiochasma saurai \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Forner i Valls \| Early Cretaceous (Barremian) \| Artoles Formation \| {{Flag\|Spain}} \| A sea urchin. \|
Platelicrinus longispinus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Gale \| Late Cretaceous \| \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A crinoid belonging to the group Articulata and the family Roveacrinidae. \|
Protaeropsis{{Cite journal\|author=Alexander B. Doweld \|year=2016 \|title=Protaeropsis, a new replacement generic name for fossil Sphenaster Jeffery, 1999 (Echinoidea: Spatangida) nec Wilcoxon, 1970 (Protista: Haptomonada) \|journal=Zootaxa \|volume=4139 \|issue=3 \|pages=421–423 \|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.6 \|pmid=27470812}} \| Nom. nov \| Valid \| Doweld \| Paleocene (Thanetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Spain}} \| A heart urchin; a replacement name for Sphenaster Jeffery in Smith et al. (1999). \|
Protaxocrinus estoniensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Ausich & Wilson \| Silurian (Rhuddanian) \| Hilliste Formation \| {{Flag\|Estonia}} \| A crinoid. \|
Pseudomilnia \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Smith \| Middle Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|France}} {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A salenioidan sea urchin; a new genus for "Acrosalenia" miliaria Paris (1908). \|
Sagittacrinus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Gale \| Late Cretaceous (early Campanian) \| Taylor Formation \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Texas}}) \| A crinoid belonging to the group Articulata and the family Saccocomidae. The type species is S. torpedo. \|
Salenia buddyi \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Osborn, Mooi & Ciampaglio \| Eocene \| Santee Limestone \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|South Carolina}}) \| A sea urchin belonging to the group Salenioida. \|
Schuchertia sprinklei \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Blake, Guensburg & Lefebvre \| Ordovician (Dapingian) \| Kanosh Shale \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Utah}}) \| A starfish. \|
Stellacrinus \| Gen. et 2 sp. nov \| Valid \| Gale \| Late Cretaceous (Santonian and Campanian) \| Gulpen Formation Taylor Formation Vaals Formation \| {{Flag\|Netherlands}} {{Flag\|Sweden}} {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Texas}}) \| A crinoid belonging to the group Articulata and the family Roveacrinidae. The type species is S. hugesae; genus also includes S. pannosus. \|
Stomechinus phillipsii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Smith \| Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A sea urchin. \|
Thinocrinus akanthos{{cite journal \|author1=Elizabeth C. Rhenberg \|author2=William I. Ausich \|author3=David L. Meyer \|year=2016 \|title=Actinocrinitidae from the Lower Mississippian Fort Payne Formation of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama (Crinoidea, Viséan) \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=6 \|pages=1148–1159 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.85 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90.1148R \|s2cid=133132187}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Rhenberg, Ausich & Meyer \| Carboniferous (Mississippian) \| Fort Payne Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Kentucky}}) \| A camerate crinoid belonging to the group Monobathrida and the family Actinocrinitidae. \|
Trochotiara aalensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Smith \| Middle Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A sea urchin. \|
Wrightechnus \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Smith \| Middle Jurassic \| \| {{Flag\|France}} {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A sea urchin, possibly a stem-salenioidan; a new genus for "Acrosalenia" lycetti Wright (1851). \|

Conodonts

Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! Notes ! Images
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Amydrotaxis corniculans truncus \| Subsp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Mountain Dam Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Spathognathodontidae. \|
Cuspigrandiosa{{Cite journal\|author1=Michael A. Murphy \|author2=Peter Carls \|author3=José Ignacio Valenzuela-Ríos \|year=2016 \|title=Cypricriodus hesperius (Klapper and Murphy, 1975): taxonomy and biostratigraphy \|journal=University of California, Riverside Campus Museum Contribution \|volume=8 \|pages=1–24}} \| Gen. nov \| Valid \| Murphy, Carls & Valenzuela-Ríos \| \| \| {{Flag\|Austria}}{{Cite journal\|author1=Maria Giovanna Corriga \|author2=Carlo Corradini \|author3=Monica Pondrelli \|author4=Hans-Peter Schönlaub \|author5=Lorenzo Nozzi \|author6=Rossana Todesco \|author7=Annalisa Ferretti \|year=2020 \|title=Uppermost Ordovician to lowermost Devonian conodonts from the Valentintörl section and comments on the post Hirnantian hiatus in the Carnic Alps \|journal=Newsletters on Stratigraphy \|volume=54 \|issue=2 \|pages=183–207 \|doi=10.1127/nos/2020/0614}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| \|
Cypricriodus{{Cite journal\|author1=Thomas J. Suttner \|author2=Erika Kido \|author3=Antonino Briguglio \|year=2018 \|title=A new icriodontid conodont cluster with specific mesowear supports an alternative apparatus motion model for Icriodontidae \|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology \|volume=16 \|issue=11 \|pages=909–926 \|doi=10.1080/14772019.2017.1354090 \|pmid=29997454 \|pmc=6023268}} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Murphy, Carls & Valenzuela-Ríos \| Silurian and Early Devonian \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| Genus includes "Icriodus woschmidti" hesperius Klapper & Murphy (1975), raised to the rank of the species C. hesperius. \|
Eurekadonta \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Murphy, Carls & Valenzuela-Ríos \| Silurian and Early Devonian \| \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| Genus includes "Ozarkodina" eurekaensis Klapper & Murphy (1975). \|
Eognathodus kuangi{{Cite journal\|author1=Jian-Feng Lu \|author2=Wen-Kun Qie \|author3=Xiu-Qin Chen \|year=2016 \|title=Pragian and lower Emsian (Lower Devonian) conodonts from Liujing, Guangxi, South China \|journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology \|volume=40 \|issue=2 \|pages=275–296 \|doi=10.1080/03115518.2016.1129490 \|s2cid=132774625}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Earp \| Early Devonian \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| \|
Eognathodus sulcatus lanei \| Subsp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Mountain Dam Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Spathognathodontidae. \|
Eognathodus sulcatus sicatus \| Subsp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Booth Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Spathognathodontidae. \|
Gladigondolella okayi{{Cite journal\|author=Ali Murat Kiliç \|year=2016 \|title=A new pelagic conodont taxon of the Central Pontides (Turkey) \|journal=Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences \|volume=25 \|issue=5 \|pages=456–466 \|doi=10.3906/yer-1602-4\|url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tbtkearth/issue/35065/388933 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Kiliç \| Triassic \| Kayabaşı Limestone \| {{Flag\|Turkey}} \| \|
Gondolella wardlawi{{Cite journal\|author1=Merlynd K. Nestell \|author2=Bruce R. Wardlaw \|author3=John P. Pope \|year=2016 \|title=A well-preserved conodont fauna from the Pennsylvanian Excello Shale of Iowa, U. S. A. \|journal=Micropaleontology \|volume=62 \|issue=2 \|pages=93–114\|doi=10.47894/mpal.62.2.01 \|bibcode=2016MiPal..62...93N \|s2cid=131928898 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Nestell & Pope in Nestell, Wardlaw & Pope \| Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) \| Excello Shale \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Iowa}}) \| \|
Heliagnathus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Mountain Dam Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Ozarkodinida of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is H. parvilabiatus. \|
Icriodus ampliatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Mountain Dam Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Prioniodontida belonging to the family Icriodontidae. \|
Icriodus michiganus{{Cite journal\|author1=Katarzyna Narkiewicz \|author2=Pierre Bultynck \|year=2016 \|title=Taxonomy and biostratigraphic significance of Icriodus orri Klapper and Barrick and related Middle Devonian conodont species \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=6 \|pages=1181–1196 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.41 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90.1181N \|s2cid=131933156}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Narkiewicz & Bultynck \| Devonian (Eifelian) \| Michigan Basin \| {{Flag\|United States}} \| \|
Icriodus praealternatus ferus{{Cite journal\|author1=Z.H. Wang \|author2=R.T. Becker \|author3=Z.S. Aboussalam \|author4=S. Hartenfels \|author5=M.M. Joachimski \|author6=Y.M. Gong \|year=2016 \|title=Conodont and carbon isotope stratigraphy near the Frasnian/Famennian (Devonian) boundary at Wulankeshun, Junggar Basin, NW China \|journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology \|volume=448 \|pages=279–297 \|doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.12.029 \|bibcode=2016PPP...448..279W}} \| Subsp. nov \| Valid \| Wang et al. \| Late Devonian (Frasnian/Famennian boundary) \| Hongguleleng Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A subspecies of Icriodus praealternatus. \|
Icriodus plurinodosus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Wang et al. \| Late Devonian (early Famennian) \| Hongguleleng Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Icriodus. \|
Icriodus stenoancylus junggarensis \| Subsp. nov \| Valid \| Wang et al. \| Late Devonian (early Famennian) \| Hongguleleng Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A subspecies of Icriodus stenoancylus. \|
Idiognathodus lateralis{{Cite journal\|author1=Nicholas J. Hogancamp \|author2=James E. Barrick \|author3=Richard E. Strauss \|year=2016 \|title=Geometric morphometric analysis and taxonomic revision of the Gzhelian (Late Pennsylvanian) conodont Idiognathodus simulator from North America \|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica \|volume=61 \|issue=3 \|pages=477–502 \|doi=10.4202/app.00198.2015 \|s2cid=73714773}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Hogancamp, Barrick & Strauss \| Carboniferous (early Gzhelian) \| \| {{Flag\|China}} {{Flag\|Russia}} {{Flag\|Ukraine}} {{Flag\|United States}} \| Originally described as a species of Idiognathodus, but subsequently transferred to the genus Heckelina.{{cite book \|author1=James E. Barrick \|author2=Nicholas J. Hogancamp \|author3=Steven J. Rosscoe \|year=2022 \|chapter=Evolutionary patterns in Late Pennsylvanian conodonts \|editor1=S.G. Lucas \|editor2=W.A. DiMichele \|editor3=S. Opluštil \|editor4=X. Wang \|title=Ice Ages, Climate Dynamics and Biotic Events: the Late Pennsylvanian World \|series=Geological Society, London, Special Publications \|volume=535 \|pages=383–408 \|publisher=The Geological Society of London \|doi=10.1144/SP535-2022-139 \|s2cid=253194718 }} \|
Idiognathodus tuberis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Nestell, Wardlaw & Pope \| Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) \| Excello Shale \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Iowa}}) \| A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Idiognathodontidae. \|
Neogondolella cuneiforme{{Cite journal\|author1=Martyn L. Golding \|author2=Michael J. Orchard \|year=2016 \|title=New species of the conodont Neogondolella from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of northeastern British Columbia, Canada, and their importance for regional correlation \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=6 \|pages=1197–1211 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.119 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90.1197G \|s2cid=133185157}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Golding & Orchard \| Middle Triassic (Anisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|British Columbia}}) \| \|
Neogondolella curva \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Golding & Orchard \| Middle Triassic (Anisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|British Columbia}}) {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| \|
Neogondolella dilacerata \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Golding & Orchard \| Middle Triassic (Anisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|British Columbia}}) \| Originally described as a species of Neogondolella, but subsequently transferred to the genus Magnigondolella.{{Cite journal\|author1=Martyn L. Golding \|author2=Michael J. Orchard \|year=2018 \|title=Magnigondolella, a new conodont genus from the Triassic of North America \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=92 \|issue=2 \|pages=207–220 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2017.123 \|bibcode=2018JPal...92..207G \|s2cid=133681181}} \|
Neogondolella hastata \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Golding & Orchard \| Middle Triassic (Anisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|British Columbia}}) {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| \|
Neogondolella indicta \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Golding & Orchard \| Middle Triassic (Anisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|British Columbia}}) {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| \|
Neogondolella panlaurentia \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Golding & Orchard \| Middle Triassic (Anisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|British Columbia}}) {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| \|
Neogondolella tenera \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Golding & Orchard \| Middle Triassic (Anisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|British Columbia}}) {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| \|
Neogondolella vellicata \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Golding & Orchard \| Middle Triassic (Anisian) \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|British Columbia}}) {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Nevada}}) \| \|
Neopolygnathus huijunae \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Wang et al. \| Late Devonian (early Famennian) \| Hongguleleng Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A species of Neopolygnathus. \|
Neospathodus planus{{Cite journal\|author1=Yanlong Chen \|author2=Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek \|author3=Bogdan Jurkovšek \|author4=Dunja Aljinović \|author5=Sylvain Richoz \|year=2016 \|title=Early Triassic conodonts and carbonate carbon isotope record of the Idrija-Žiri area, Slovenia \|journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology \|volume=444 \|pages=84–100 \|doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.12.013}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen et al. \| Early Triassic \| \| {{Flag\|Slovenia}} \| Originally described as a species of Neospathodus; Bai et al. (2021) argued that it should be reassigned to the genus Triassospathodus.{{Cite journal\|author1=Ruoyu Bai \|author2=Haijun Song \|author3=Michael J. Benton \|author4=Li Tian \|year=2021 \|title=Phylogenetic classification and evolution of Early Triassic conodonts \|journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology \|volume=585 \|pages=Article 110731 \|doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110731\|s2cid=240307775 }} \|
Oulodus astriatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Booth Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Prioniodinida belonging to the family Prioniodinidae. \|
Ozarkodina multistriola \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Mountain Dam Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Spathognathodontidae. \|
Ozarkodina scoliciformis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Mountain Dam Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Spathognathodontidae. \|
Ozarkodina selfi cordata \| Subsp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Mountain Dam Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Spathognathodontidae. \|
Ozarkodina selfi lanceola \| Subsp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Mountain Dam Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Spathognathodontidae. \|
Ozarkodina selfi lenticula \| Subsp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Mountain Dam Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Ozarkodinida belonging to the family Spathognathodontidae. \|
Panderodus rhytiodus{{Cite journal\|author1= Mathieson \|author2= Mawson \|author3= Simpson \|author4=Talent \|year=2016 \|title=Late Silurian (Ludlow) and Early Devonian (Pragian) conodonts from the Cobar Supergroup, western New South Wales, Australia \|journal=Bulletin of Geosciences \|volume=91 \|issue=3 \|pages=583–652 \|doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1593}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Mountain Dam Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of the family Panderodontidae. \|
Pelekysgnathus inequalis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mathieson et al. \| Early Devonian \| Booth Limestone \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A member of Prioniodontida belonging to the family Icriodontidae. \|
Pelekysgnathus jeppssoni{{Cite journal\|author=V.M. Nazarova \|year=2016 \|title=Pelekysgnathus jeppssoni, a New Conodont Species from the Eifelian Stage of the Bryansk Region, Russia \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=5 \|pages=480–484 \|url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=26601031 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116050105 \|s2cid=132012005}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Nazarova \| Devonian (Eifelian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} ({{Flag\|Bryansk Oblast}}) \| \|
Platyvillosus corniger \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen et al. \| Early Triassic \| \| {{Flag\|Slovenia}} \| \|
Polygnathus abaimovae{{Cite journal\|author1=Valeryi V. Baranov \|author2=Robert B. Blodgett \|year=2016 \|title=Some Emsian (Lower Devonian) polygnathids of Northeast Eurasia \|journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin \|volume=74 \|pages=13–24 \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308747015}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Baranov & Blodgett \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| \|
Polygnathus beckeri \| Nom. nov \| Valid \| Baranov & Blodgett \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A replacement name for Polygnathus inflexus Baranov (1992). \|
Polygnathus datnensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Baranov & Blodgett \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| \|
Polygnathus dogdensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Baranov & Blodgett \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| \|
Polygnathus novozemelicus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Baranov & Blodgett \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| \|
"Polygnathus" pseudocommunis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Wang et al. \| Late Devonian (early Famennian) \| Hongguleleng Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| Possibly a species of Polygnathus. \|
Polygnathus slastenovi \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Baranov & Blodgett \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| \|
Polygnathus tarabukini \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Baranov & Blodgett \| Devonian (Emsian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| \|
Praeicriodus \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Murphy \| Silurian \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} \| Genus includes "Pedavis" thorsteinssoni Uyeno (1980). \|
Siphonodella (Siphonodella) jii{{cite book \|author1=Ralph Thomas Becker \|author2=Sandra Isabella Kaiser \|author3=Markus Aretz \|year=2016 \|chapter=Review of chrono-, litho- and biostratigraphy across the global Hangenberg Crisis and Devonian–Carboniferous Boundary \|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=355–386 \|isbn=978-1-86239-734-7 \|doi=10.1144/SP423.10 \|s2cid=131491081}} \| Nom. nov \| Disputed \| Becker, Kaiser & Aretz \| Carboniferous (Tournaisian) \| Chappel Limestone \| {{Flag\|United States}} \| A replacement name for Siphonodella (Siphonodella) hassi Ji (1985). Plotitsyn and Zhuravlev (2016) considered S. jii to be a junior synonym of Siphonodella quadruplicata (Branson et Mehl), because they considered the specimen selected as the holotype of S. jii to be more likely to represent an ontogenetic stage of S. quadruplicata.{{Cite journal\|author1=Artem Plotitsyn \|author2=Andrey V. Zhuravlev \|year=2016 \|title=Morphology of the early ontogenetic stages of advanced siphonodellids (Conodnta, Early Carboniferous) \|journal=Vestnik IG Komi SC UB RAS \|volume=260 \|pages=21–26 \|doi=10.19110/2221-1381-2016-8-21-26}} \|
Staeschegnathus{{Cite journal\|author =Toshio Koike \|year=2016 \|title=Multielement Conodont Apparatuses of the Ellisonidae from Japan \|journal=Paleontological Research \|volume=20 \|issue=3 \|pages=161–175 \|doi=10.2517/2016PR007 \|s2cid=133138866}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Koike \| Triassic \| Taho Formation \| {{Flag\|Japan}} \| An ellisonid conodont. The type species is S. perrii. \|

Fishes

Amphibians

=Research=

A study on the histology and growth histories of the humeri of the specimens of Acanthostega recovered from the mass-death deposit of Stensiö Bjerg (Greenland) is published by Sanchez et al. (2016), who argue that even the largest individuals from this deposit are juveniles.{{cite journal |author1=Sophie Sanchez |author2=Paul Tafforeau |author3=Jennifer A. Clack |author4=Per E. Ahlberg |year=2016 |title=Life history of the stem tetrapod Acanthostega revealed by synchrotron microtomography |journal=Nature |volume=537 |issue=7620 |pages=408–411 |doi=10.1038/nature19354 |pmid=27602519|pmc=6485594 |bibcode=2016Natur.537..408S}}
Fossils of a tetrapod resembling Ichthyostega and a probable whatcheeriid-grade tetrapod are described from two Devonian (Famennian) localities from Belgium by Olive et al. (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Sébastien Olive |author2=Per E. Ahlberg |author3=Vincent N. Pernègre |author4=Édouard Poty |author5=Étienne Steurbaut |author6=Gaël Clément |year=2016 |title=New discoveries of tetrapods (ichthyostegid-like and whatcheeriid-like) in the Famennian (Late Devonian) localities of Strud and Becco (Belgium) |journal=Palaeontology |volume=59 |issue=6 |pages=827–840 |doi=10.1111/pala.12261 |bibcode=2016Palgy..59..827O |s2cid=131811104 |url=http://hal.upmc.fr/hal-01472852/file/Olive_2016_New_Discoveries_of.pdf}}
A study on the functional significance of the interpterygoid vacuities (holes in the palate) in temnospondyls is published by Lautenschlager, Witzmann & Werneburg (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Stephan Lautenschlager |author2=Florian Witzmann |author3=Ingmar Werneburg |year=2016 |title=Palate anatomy and morphofunctional aspects of interpterygoid vacuities in temnospondyl cranial evolution |journal=The Science of Nature |volume=103 |issue=9–10 |pages=79 |doi=10.1007/s00114-016-1402-z |pmid=27629858 |pmc=5023724 |bibcode=2016SciNa.103...79L}}
A study on the stress distribution in the skulls of Edingerella madagascariensis and Stanocephalosaurus birdi during the bite, with implications for establishing the ecological niches occupied by these temnospondyls, is published by Fortuny et al. (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Josep Fortuny |author2=Jordi Marcé-Nogué |author3=J.-Sébastien Steyer |author4=Soledad de Esteban-Trivigno |author5=Eudald Mujal |author6=Lluís Gil |year=2016 |title=Comparative 3D analyses and palaeoecology of giant early amphibians (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli) |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 30387 |doi=10.1038/srep30387 |pmid=27457883 |pmc=4960601|bibcode=2016NatSR...630387F}}
A study on the anatomy, ecological niche and life history of members the population of Eocyclotosaurus appetolatus known from the Tecolotito bonebed (Moenkopi Formation; New Mexico, United States) is published by Rinehart & Lucas (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Larry F. Rinehart |author2=Spencer G. Lucas |year=2016 |title=Eocyclotosaurus appetolatus, a Middle Triassic amphibian: osteology, life history, and paleobiology |journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin |volume=70 |pages=1–118 |url=http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/bulletins/id/5799/rec/76}}
A study on the morphology of the skull and braincase of Brachydectes newberryi is published by Pardo & Anderson (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Jason D. Pardo |author2=Jason S. Anderson |year=2016 |title=Cranial Morphology of the Carboniferous-Permian Tetrapod Brachydectes newberryi (Lepospondyli, Lysorophia): New Data from μCT |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=8 |pages=e0161823 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0161823 |pmid=27563722 |pmc=5001628|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1161823P|doi-access=free }}
A study on the locomotor capabilities of Triadobatrachus massinoti is published by Lires, Soto & Gómez (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Andrés I. Lires |author2=Ignacio M. Soto |author3=Raúl O. Gómez |year=2016 |title=Walk before you jump: new insights on early frog locomotion from the oldest known salientian |journal=Paleobiology |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=612–623 |doi=10.1017/pab.2016.11 |bibcode=2016Pbio...42..612L |s2cid=88290108}}
A revised description of the holotype of Triadobatrachus massinoti based on X-ray micro-tomography data is published by Ascarrunz et al. (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Eduardo Ascarrunz |author2=Jean-Claude Rage |author3=Pierre Legreneur |author4=Michel Laurin |year=2016 |title=Triadobatrachus massinoti, the earliest known lissamphibian (Vertebrata: Tetrapoda) re-examined by μCT scan, and the evolution of trunk length in batrachians |journal=Contributions to Zoology |volume=85 |issue=2 |pages=201–234 |doi=10.1163/18759866-08502004 |url=http://www.contributionstozoology.nl/vol85/nr02/a04 |access-date=2016-06-14 |archive-date=2016-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808044305/http://www.contributionstozoology.nl/vol85/nr02/a04 |url-status=dead }}
The first unambiguous frog fossil from the Jurassic of Asia (an atlantal centrum of a possible member of the genus Eodiscoglossus) is described from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) Itat Formation (Russia) by Skutschas, Martin & Krasnolutskii (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Pavel P. Skutschas |author2=Thomas Martin |author3=Sergei A. Krasnolutskii |year=2016 |title=First Jurassic frog from Siberia, Russia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=e1101376 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1101376 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E1376S |s2cid=87712484}}

=New taxa=

==Temnospondyls==

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Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Cyclotosaurus buechneri{{Cite journal|author1=Florian Witzmann |author2=Sven Sachs |author3=Christian J. Nyhuis |year=2016 |title=A new species of Cyclotosaurus (Stereospondyli, Capitosauria) from the Late Triassic of Bielefeld, NW Germany, and the intrarelationships of the genus |journal=Fossil Record |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=83–100 |doi=10.5194/fr-19-83-2016 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Witzmann, Sachs & Nyhuis

Late Triassic (middle Carnian)

Stuttgart Formation

A mastodonsauroid temnospondyl, a species of Cyclotosaurus.

|File:Cyclotosaurus_buechneri_holotype_specimen.jpg

Konzhukovia sangabrielensis{{cite journal |author1=Cristian Pereira Pacheco |author2=Estevan Eltink |author3=Rodrigo Temp Müller |author4=Sérgio Dias-da-Silva |year=2016 |title=A new Permian temnospondyl with Russian affinities from South America, the new family Konzhukoviidae, and the phylogenetic status of Archegosauroidea |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=241–256 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1164763 |s2cid=87860271}}

Sp. nov

Valid{{Cite web|title=ZooBank.org|url=http://zoobank.org/References/4772DC7E-C427-4F5F-89FD-9E68E3B0BFD5|access-date=2022-01-19|website=zoobank.org|language=en-us}}

Pacheco et al.

Permian (early Guadalupian)

Rio do Rasto Formation

Samarabatrachus{{Cite journal|author1=I. V. Novikov |year=2016 |title=New tempospondyl amphibians from the basal Triassic of the Obshchii Syrt Highland, Eastern Europe |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=297–310 |url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=25922750 |doi=10.1134/S0031030116030035 |s2cid=88975304}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Novikov

Early Triassic

Sukhorechka Formation

{{Flag|Russia}}
({{Flag|Samara Oblast}})

A capitosaurid temnospondyl. The type species is S. bjerringi.

Selenocara rossica

Sp. nov

Valid

Novikov

Early Triassic

Sukhorechka Formation

{{Flag|Russia}}
({{Flag|Orenburg Oblast}}
{{Flag|Samara Oblast}})

A capitosaurid temnospondyl.

Stanocephalosaurus amenasensis{{cite journal |author1=Anissa Dahoumane |author2=Ahmed Nedjari |author3=Rachid Aït-Ouali |author4=Philippe Taquet |author5=Renaud Vacant |author6=Jean-Sébastien Steyer |year=2016 |title=A new mastodonsauroid temnospondyl from the Triassic of Algeria: implications for the biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Zarzaïtine Series, northern Sahara |journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol |volume=15 |issue=8 |pages=918–926 |doi=10.1016/j.crpv.2015.09.005|bibcode=2016CRPal..15..918D }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Dahoumane et al.

Early-Middle Triassic

Zarzaïtine Series, Illizi Basin

A mastodonsauroid temnospondyl, a species of Stanocephalosaurus.

Syrtosuchus

Gen. et comb. et sp. nov

Valid

Novikov

Early Triassic

Sukhorechka Formation

{{Flag|Russia}}
({{Flag|Orenburg Oblast}}
{{Flag|Samara Oblast}})

A benthosuchid temnospondyl. The type species is "Wetlugasaurus" samarensis Sennikov (1981); genus also includes new species S. morkovini.

Tomeia{{Cite journal|author1=Estevan Eltink |author2=Átila A. Stock Da-Rosa |author3=Sérgio Dias-da-Silva |year=2016 |title=A capitosauroid from the Lower Triassic of South America (Sanga do Cabral Supersequence: Paraná Basin), its phylogenetic relationships and biostratigraphic implications |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=7 |pages=863–874 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1255736 |s2cid=132509118}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Eltink, Da-Rosa & Dias-da-Silva

Early Triassic

Sanga do Cabral Supersequence

A mastodonsauroid temnospondyl. The type species is T. witecki.

Yuanansuchus maopingchangensis{{Cite journal|author =Jun Liu |year=2016 |title=Yuanansuchus maopingchangensis sp. nov., the second capitosauroid temnospondyl from the Middle Triassic Badong Formation of Yuanan, Hubei, China |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e1903 |doi=10.7717/peerj.1903 |pmid=27069824 |pmc=4824913 |doi-access=free }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Liu

Middle Triassic (Anisian)

Badong Formation

A mastodonsauroid temnospondyl, a species of Yuanansuchus.

==Lissamphibians==

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Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Hyogobatrachus{{cite journal |author1=Tadahiro Ikeda |author2=Hidetoshi Ota |author3=Masafumi Matsui |year=2016 |title=New fossil anurans from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group of Hyogo Prefecture, Western Honshu, Japan |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=61 |pages=108–123 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2015.12.024|bibcode=2016CrRes..61..108I }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Ikeda, Ota & Matsui

Early Cretaceous

Sasayama Group

A frog. The type species is Hyogobatrachus wadai.

Kiyatriton krasnolutskii{{cite journal |author =Pavel P. Skutschas |year=2016 |title=A new crown-group salamander from the Middle Jurassic of Western Siberia, Russia |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=96 |issue=1 |pages=41–48 |doi=10.1007/s12549-015-0216-x |s2cid=131522274}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Skutschas

Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)

Itat Formation

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

A salamander, a species of Kiyatriton.

Kuruleufenia{{cite journal |author =Raúl O. Gómez |year=2016 |title=A new pipid frog from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia and early evolution of crown-group Pipidae |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=62 |pages=52–64 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2016.02.006|bibcode=2016CrRes..62...52G }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Gómez

Late Cretaceous (late Campanian–early Maastrichtian)

Allen Formation

A member of Pipidae. The type species is Kuruleufenia xenopoides.

Litoria lundeliusi{{cite journal |author1=Michael J. Tyler |author2=Gavin J. Prideaux |year=2016 |title=Early to middle Pleistocene occurrences of Litoria, Neobatrachus and Pseudophryne (Anura) from the Nullarbor Plain, Australia: first frogs from the "frog-free zone" |journal=Memoirs of Museum Victoria |volume=74 |pages=403–408 |doi=10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.28 |url=https://museumsvictoria.com.au/about/books-and-journals/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/2010-2019/2016-vol-74-special-issue-in-honour-of-dr-thomas-h-rich/tyler-and-prideaux/}}

Sp. nov

Valid

Tyler & Prideaux

Pleistocene

A species of Litoria.

Nuominerpeton{{cite journal |author1=Jia Jia |author2=Ke-Qin Gao |year=2016 |title=A new hynobiid-like salamander (Amphibia, Urodela) from Inner Mongolia, China, provides a rare case study of developmental features in an Early Cretaceous fossil urodele |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e2499 |doi=10.7717/peerj.2499 |pmid=27761316 |pmc=5068444 |doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Jia & Gao

Early Cretaceous (Barremian–Aptian)

Guanghua Formation

A cryptobranchoid salamander of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is N. aquilonaris.

Palaeobatrachus eurydices{{cite journal |author1=Andrea Villa |author2=Zbyněk Roček |author3=Emanuel Tschopp |author4=Lars W. Van Den Hoek Ostende |author5=Massimo Delfino |year=2016 |title=Palaeobatrachus eurydices, sp. nov. (Amphibia, Anura), the last western European palaeobatrachid |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=e1211664 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1211664 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E1664V |s2cid=88641302|url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/_i_Palaeobatrachus_eurydices_i_sp_nov_Amphibia_Anura_the_last_western_European_palaeobatrachid/3759246 }}

Sp. nov

Valid

Villa et al.

Early Pleistocene (Gelasian)

Phosphotriton{{cite journal |author1=Jérémy Tissier |author2=Jean-Claude Rage |author3=Renaud Boistel |author4=Vincent Fernandez |author5=Nicolas Pollet |author6=Géraldine Garcia |author7=Michel Laurin |year=2016 |title=Synchrotron analysis of a 'mummified' salamander (Vertebrata: Caudata) from the Eocene of Quercy, France |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=177 |issue=1 |pages=147–164 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12341}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Tissier, Rage, Boistel, Fernandez, Pollet, Garcia and Laurin

Eocene

A salamander. The type species is Phosphotriton sigei.

Prospea{{cite journal |author1=Jianye Chen |author2=Gaberiel S. Bever |author3=Hong-Yu Yi |author4=Mark A. Norell |year=2016 |title=A burrowing frog from the late Paleocene of Mongolia uncovers a deep history of spadefoot toads (Pelobatoidea) in East Asia |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 19209 |doi=10.1038/srep19209 |pmid=26750105 |pmc=4707494|bibcode=2016NatSR...619209C}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Chen et al.

Paleocene

Naranbulak Formation

A member of Scaphiopodidae. The type species is Prospea holoserisca.

Qinglongtriton{{cite journal |author1=Jia Jia |author2=Ke-Qin Gao |year=2016 |title=A New Basal Salamandroid (Amphibia, Urodela) from the Late Jurassic of Qinglong, Hebei Province, China |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=e0153834 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0153834 |pmid=27144770 |pmc=4856324|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1153834J|doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Jia & Gao

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

Tiaojishan Formation

A basal member of Salamandroidea. The type species is Qinglongtriton gangouensis.

Tambabatrachus

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Ikeda, Ota & Matsui

Early Cretaceous

Sasayama Group

A frog. The type species is Tambabatrachus kawazu.

==Others==

Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! Notes ! Images
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Aytonerpeton{{Cite journal\|author1=Jennifer A. Clack \|author2=Carys E. Bennett \|author3=David K. Carpenter \|author4=Sarah J. Davies \|author5=Nicholas C. Fraser \|author6=Timothy I. Kearsey \|author7=John E. A. Marshall \|author8=David Millward \|author9=Benjamin K. A. Otoo \|author10=Emma J. Reeves \|author11=Andrew J. Ross \|author12=Marcello Ruta \|author13=Keturah Z. Smithson \|author14=Timothy R. Smithson \|author15=Stig A. Walsh \|year=2016 \|title=Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna \|journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution \|volume=1 \|issue=1 \|pages=Article number 0002 \|doi=10.1038/s41559-016-0002 \|pmid=28812555\|s2cid=22421017 \|url=http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/25383/7/__network.uni_staff_S1_cjoyner_Downloads_109_2_merged_1475152841.pdf}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Otoo, Clack & Smithson in Clack et al. \| Carboniferous (Tournaisian) \| Ballagan Formation \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| An early tetrapod of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is A. microps. \|
Diploradus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Clack & Smithson in Clack et al. \| Carboniferous (Tournaisian) \| Ballagan Formation \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| An early tetrapod of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is D. austiumensis. \|
Koilops \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Clack & Smithson in Clack et al. \| Carboniferous (Tournaisian) \| Ballagan Formation \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| An early tetrapod of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is K. herma. \|
Ossirarus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Clack & Smithson in Clack et al. \| Carboniferous (Tournaisian) \| Ballagan Formation \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| An early tetrapod of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is O. kierani. \|
Perittodus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Clack & Smithson in Clack et al. \| Carboniferous (Tournaisian) \| Ballagan Formation \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| An early tetrapod of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is P. apsconditus. \|

Reptiles

{{main|2016 in reptile paleontology|2016 in archosaur paleontology}}

Synapsids

=Non-mammalian synapsids=

==Research==

A study on the respiratory system and paleobiology of caseids is published by Lambertz et al. (2016), who argue that at least some caseids might have been predominantly aquatic and that a homologue of the mammalian diaphragm might have been present in caseids.{{cite journal |author1=Markus Lambertz |author2=Christen D. Shelton |author3=Frederik Spindler |author4=Steven F. Perry |year=2016 |title=A caseian point for the evolution of a diaphragm homologue among the earliest synapsids |journal=Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |volume=1385 |issue=1 |pages=3–20 |doi=10.1111/nyas.13264 |pmid=27859325|bibcode=2016NYASA1385....3L |s2cid=24680688}}
A redescription of the sphenacodontian taxa Palaeohatteria and Pantelosaurus is published by Spindler (2016), who assigns both these taxa to the clade Palaeohatteriidae, but considers it likely that they represent distinct valid taxa.{{cite journal |author =Frederik Spindler |year=2016 |title=Morphological description and taxonomic status of Palaeohatteria and Pantelosaurus (Synapsida: Sphenacodontia) |journal=Freiberger Forschungshefte C 550 |series=psf - Paläontologie, Stratigraphie, Fazies |volume=23 |pages=1–57 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321129043}}
A study on the paleoneurology of non-mammaliaform therapsids is published by Benoit, Manger & Rubidge (2016), who argue that whiskers, body hair coverage and mammary glands might have been present in some non-mammaliaform therapsids.{{cite journal |author1=J. Benoit |author2=P. R. Manger |author3=B. S. Rubidge |year=2016 |title=Palaeoneurological clues to the evolution of defining mammalian soft tissue traits |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 25604 |doi=10.1038/srep25604 |pmid=27157809 |pmc=4860582|bibcode=2016NatSR...625604B}}
A study on the occurrence and size of the parietal foramen (an opening in which the pineal eye is located) in non-mammaliaform therapsids (especially non-mammaliaform eutheriodonts) known from the Karoo Supergroup of South Africa is published by Benoit et al. (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Julien Benoit |author2=Fernando Abdala |author3=Paul R. Manger |author4=Bruce S. Rubidge |year=2016 |title=The sixth sense in mammalian forerunners: Variability of the parietal foramen and the evolution of the pineal eye in South African Permo-Triassic eutheriodont therapsids |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=61 |issue=4 |pages=777–789 |doi=10.4202/app.00219.2015 |s2cid=59143925}}
A study of life histories and growth patterns as indicated by bone tissue microstructure and body size in members of three synapsid groups that survived Permian–Triassic extinction event (dicynodonts, therocephalians and cynodonts) and one that didn't (gorgonopsians) is published by Botha-Brink et al. (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Jennifer Botha-Brink |author2=Daryl Codron |author3=Adam K. Huttenlocker |author4=Kenneth D. Angielczyk |author5=Marcello Ruta |year=2016 |title=Breeding Young as a Survival Strategy during Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 24053 |doi=10.1038/srep24053 |pmid=27044713 |pmc=4820772|bibcode=2016NatSR...624053B}}
A revision of the systematics of the gorgonopsian subfamily Rubidgeinae is published by Kammerer (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Christian F. Kammerer |year=2016 |title=Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia) |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e1608 |doi=10.7717/peerj.1608 |pmid=26823998 |pmc=4730894 |doi-access=free }}
A study on the anatomy and potential function of the cranial outgrowths of Choerosaurus dejageri is published by Benoit et al. (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Julien Benoit |author2=Paul R. Manger |author3=Vincent Fernandez |author4=Bruce S. Rubidge |year=2016 |title=Cranial Bosses of Choerosaurus dejageri (Therapsida, Therocephalia): Earliest Evidence of Cranial Display Structures in Eutheriodonts |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=8 |pages=e0161457 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0161457 |pmid=27548428 |pmc=4993441|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1161457B|doi-access=free }}
Benoit & Jasinoski (2016) present a digital reconstruction of the lost holotype specimen of the cynodont species Scalopocynodon gracilis (a junior synonym of Procynosuchus delaharpeae).{{cite journal |author1=Julien Benoit |author2=Sandra C. Jasinoski |year=2016 |title=Picking up the pieces: the digital reconstruction of a destroyed holotype from its serial section drawings |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=Article number 19.3.3T |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1478-reconstructing-scalopocynodon |doi=10.26879/645}}
A study on the microstructure of the postcanine teeth of the trirachodontid cynodont Cricodon metabolus is published by Hendrickx, Abdala & Choiniere (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Christophe Hendrickx |author2=Fernando Abdala |author3=Jonah Choiniere |year=2016 |title=Postcanine microstructure in Cricodon metabolus, a Middle Triassic gomphodont cynodont from south-eastern Africa |journal=Palaeontology |volume=59 |issue=6 |pages=851–861 |doi=10.1111/pala.12263|bibcode=2016Palgy..59..851H |s2cid=132919839 }}
A description of a new specimen of Massetognathus ochagaviae collected at the Middle Triassic Dinodontosaurus Assemblage Zone (Brazil) is published by Pavanatto et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Ane Elise Branco Pavanatto |author2=Rodrigo Temp Müller |author3=Átila Augusto Stock Da-Rosa |author4=Sérgio Dias-da-Silva |year=2016 |title=New information on the postcranial skeleton of Massetognathus ochagaviae Barberena, 1981 (Eucynodontia, Traversodontidae), from the Middle Triassic of Southern Brazil |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=28 |issue=7 |pages=978–989 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2015.1070148 |s2cid=130439484}}
A study comparing the growth patterns of the tritylodontid cynodont Oligokyphus and the basal mammaliaform Morganucodon is published by O'Meara & Asher (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Rachel N. O'Meara |author2=Robert J. Asher |year=2016 |title=The evolution of growth patterns in mammalian versus nonmammalian cynodonts |journal=Paleobiology |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=439–464 |doi=10.1017/pab.2015.51 |bibcode=2016Pbio...42..439O |s2cid=67756910 |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267221}}
Hair-like structures found in a coprolite recovered from the Late Permian Vyazniki site (Russia), which might represent the oldest evidence of hair in the stem group of mammals, are described by Bajdek et al. (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Piotr Bajdek |author2=Martin Qvarnström |author3=Krzysztof Owocki |author4=Tomasz Sulej |author5=Andrey G. Sennikov |author6=Valeriy K. Golubev |author7=Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki |year=2016 |title=Microbiota and food residues including possible evidence of pre-mammalian hair in Upper Permian coprolites from Russia |journal=Lethaia |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=455–477 |doi=10.1111/let.12156}}

==New taxa==

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Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Abdalodon{{cite journal |author1=Christian F. Kammerer |year=2016 |title=A new taxon of cynodont from the Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone (upper Permian) of South Africa, and the early evolution of Cynodontia |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=387–397 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1046|s2cid=131743432 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Kammerer

Late Permian

Beaufort Group
(Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone)

An early cynodont related to Charassognathus gracilis. The type species is Abdalodon diastematicus.

|File:Abdalodon_diastematicus_life_restoration.jpg

Bonacynodon{{cite journal |author1=Agustín G. Martinelli |author2=Marina Bento Soares |author3=Cibele Schwanke |year=2016 |title=Two New Cynodonts (Therapsida) from the Middle-Early Late Triassic of Brazil and Comments on South American Probainognathians |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=10 |pages=e0162945 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0162945 |pmid=27706191 |pmc=5051967|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1162945M|doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Martinelli, Soares & Schwanke

Late Triassic (early Carnian)

Santa Maria Supersequence

A member of Probainognathidae. The type species is B. schultzi.

|File:Bonacynodon_skull_restoration.jpg

Montirictus{{cite journal |author1=Hiroshige Matsuoka |author2=Nao Kusuhashi |author3=Ian J. Corfe |year=2016 |title=A new Early Cretaceous tritylodontid (Synapsida, Cynodontia, Mammaliamorpha) from the Kuwajima Formation (Tetori Group) of central Japan |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=e1112289 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1112289 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E2289M |s2cid=130588924}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Matsuoka, Kusuhashi & Korfe

Early Cretaceous (probably Barremian or Aptian)

Kuwajima Formation

A member of Tritylodontidae. The type species is Montirictus kuwajimaensis. Averianov et al. (2017) considered the genus Montirictus to be a junior synonym of the genus Stereognathus.{{cite journal |author1=Alexander O. Averianov |author2=Thomas Martin |author3=Alexey V. Lopatin |author4=Julia A. Schultz |author5=Pavel P. Skutschas |author6=Schellhorn Rico |author7=Sergei A. Krasnolutskii |year=2017 |title=A tritylodontid synapsid from the Middle Jurassic of Siberia and the taxonomy of derived tritylodontids |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=e1363767 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1363767 |bibcode=2017JVPal..37E3767A |s2cid=90249441}}

Mupashi{{cite journal |author1=Adam K. Huttenlocker |author2=Christian A. Sidor |year=2016 |title=The first karenitid (Therapsida, Therocephalia) from the upper Permian of Gondwana and the biogeography of Permo-Triassic therocephalians |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=e1111897 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1111897 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E1897H |s2cid=130994874}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Huttenlocker & Sidor

Late Permian

Madumabisa Mudstone Formation

A therocephalian related to Karenites. The type species is Mupashi migrator.

Rastodon{{cite journal |author1=Alessandra D. S. Boos |author2=Christian F. Kammerer |author3=Cesar L. Schultz |author4=Marina B. Soares |author5=Ana L. R. Ilha |year=2016 |title=A New Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) from the Permian of Southern Brazil and Its Implications for Bidentalian Origins |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=e0155000 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0155000 |pmid=27224287 |pmc=4880204|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1155000B|doi-access=free }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Boos et al.

Permian (Guadalupian/Lopingian)

Rio do Rasto Formation

A dicynodont belonging to the group Bidentalia. The type species is R. procurvidens.

|File:Rastodon.jpg

Santacruzgnathus

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Martinelli, Soares & Schwanke

Late Triassic (early Carnian)

Santa Maria Supersequence

A member of Probainognathia, probably closely related to prozostrodontians. The type species is S. abdalai.

|File:Santacruzgnathus_abdalai.jpg

Sauroscaptor{{cite journal |author1=Christian F. Kammerer |author2=Saswati Bandyopadhyay |author3=Sanghamitra Ray |year=2016 |title=A new taxon of cistecephalid dicynodont from the upper Permian Kundaram Formation of India |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=569–584 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1055|s2cid=88833541 }}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Kammerer, Bandyopadhyay & Ray

Late Permian

Kundaram Formation

A cistecephalid dicynodont. The type species is S. tharavati.

Vaughnictis{{cite journal |author1=Neil Brocklehurst |author2=Robert R. Reisz |author3=Vincent Fernandez |author4=Jörg Fröbisch |year=2016 |title=A Re-Description of 'Mycterosaurus' smithae, an Early Permian Eothyridid, and Its Impact on the Phylogeny of Pelycosaurian-Grade Synapsids |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=6 |pages=e0156810 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0156810 |pmid=27333277 |pmc=4917111|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1156810B|doi-access=free }}

Gen. et comb. nov

Valid

Brocklehurst et al.

Permian (Asselian-Sakmarian)

Cutler Group

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

A member of Eothyrididae; a new genus for "Mycterosaurus" smithae Lewis & Vaughn (1965).

|File:Vaughnictis_smithae_Restoration.png

Wantulignathus{{cite journal |author1=Megan R. Whitney |author2=Christian A. Sidor |year=2016 |title=A new therapsid from the Permian Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Mid-Zambezi Basin) of southern Zambia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=e1150767 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1150767 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E0767W |s2cid=130695355}}

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Whitney & Sidor

Permian (Guadalupian)

Madumabisa Mudstone Formation

A biarmosuchian. The type species is Wantulignathus gwembensis.

=Mammals=

Other animals

=Research=

Traces of a wriggling, mucus-secreting animal are described from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (China) by Wang et al. (2016), who name a new ichnotaxon Linbotulitaenia globulus.
New fossils of Ernietta plateauensis are described from the Ediacaran site in southern Namibia by Elliott et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=David A. Elliott |author2=Peter W. Trusler |author3=Guy M. Narbonne |author4=Patricia Vickers-Rich |author5=Nicole Morton |author6=Mike Hall |author7=Karl H. Hoffmann |author8=Gabi I.C. Schneider |year=2016 |title=Ernietta from the late Edicaran Nama Group, Namibia |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=90 |issue=6 |pages=1017–1026 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.94 |bibcode=2016JPal...90.1017E |s2cid=132152164}}
Embryo-like fossils are described from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (China) by Yin et al. (2016), who argue that at least some of these fossils represent crown-animal embryos.{{Cite journal|author1=Zongjun Yin |author2=Maoyan Zhu |author3=David J. Bottjer |author4=Fangchen Zhao |author5=Paul Tafforeau |year=2016 |title=Meroblastic cleavage identifies some Ediacaran Doushantuo (China) embryo-like fossils as metazoans |journal=Geology |volume=44 |issue=9 |pages=735–738 |doi=10.1130/G38262.1 |bibcode=2016Geo....44..735Y}}
New fossil material of Oesia disjuncta is described by Nanglu et al. (2016), who interpret this species as a primitive acorn worm that inhabited the tubes previously identified as the alga Margaretia.{{Cite journal|author1=Karma Nanglu |author2=Jean-Bernard Caron |author3=Simon Conway Morris |author4=Christopher B. Cameron |year=2016 |title=Cambrian suspension-feeding tubicolous hemichordates |journal=BMC Biology |volume=14 |pages=56 |doi=10.1186/s12915-016-0271-4 |pmid=27383414 |pmc=4936055 |doi-access=free }}
A redescription of Helenodora inopinata and a study of its phylogenetic relationships is published by Murdock, Gabbott & Purnell (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Duncan J. E. Murdock |author2=Sarah E. Gabbott |author3=Mark A. Purnell |year=2016 |title=The impact of taphonomic data on phylogenetic resolution: Helenodora inopinata (Carboniferous, Mazon Creek Lagerstätte) and the onychophoran stem lineage |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=16 |pages=19 |doi=10.1186/s12862-016-0582-7 |pmid=26801389 |pmc=4722706 |doi-access=free }}
Description of the anatomy of the fossil velvet worm Cretoperipatus burmiticus and a study on its phylogenetic relationships is published by de Sena Oliveira et al. (2016).{{cite journal |author1=Ivo de Sena Oliveira |author2=Ming Bai |author3=Henry Jahn |author4=Vladimir Gross |author5=Christine Martin |author6=Jörg U. Hammel |author7=Weiwei Zhang |author8=Georg Mayer |year=2016 |title=Earliest Onychophoran in Amber Reveals Gondwanan Migration Patterns |journal=Current Biology |volume=26 |issue=19 |pages=2594–2601 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.023 |pmid=27693140|s2cid=3975189}}
A study on the anatomy of the mouth apparatus of the lobopodian Pambdelurion whittingtoni is published by Vinther et al. (2016), who show that its mouth apparatus was identical to the fossilized feeding apparatus described under the name Omnidens.{{Cite journal|author1=Jakob Vinther |author2=Luis Porras |author3=Fletcher J. Young |author4=Graham E. Budd |author5=Gregory D. Edgecombe |year=2016 |title=The mouth apparatus of the Cambrian gilled lobopodian Pambdelurion whittingtoni |journal=Palaeontology |volume=59 |issue=6 |pages=841–849 |doi=10.1111/pala.12256 |bibcode=2016Palgy..59..841V |hdl=1983/16da11f1-5231-4d6c-9968-69ddc5633a8a |s2cid=88758267 |url=https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/files/89783650/Pambdelurion_mouth_apparatus_18_7_2016.pdf}}

=New taxa=

Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! Notes ! Images
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Acanthograptus lateralis{{cite book \|author1=Xu Chen \|author2=Daniel Goldman \|author3=Yuandong Zhang \|author4=Xuan Ma \|author5=Stanley C. Finney \|author6=Qing Chen \|year=2016 \|chapter=Systematic Palaeontology \|editor1=Yuandong Zhang \|editor2=Daniel Goldman \|editor3=Stig Bergström \|editor4=Stanley Finney \|title=Darriwilian to Katian (Ordovician) Graptolites from Northwest China \|publisher=Elsevier \|pages=95–348 \|isbn=978-0-12-800973-4 \|doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-800973-4.50006-2}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Acoelia norica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan & Link \| Late Triassic (Norian) \| \| {{Flag\|Turkey}} \| A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida. \|
Acrograptus tenuiculus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Amblysiphonella aiyongcuoensis{{Cite journal \|author=Zhan-qiu Deng \|year=2016 \|title=Permian fossil sponges from Rutog of western Xizang, China \|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Sinica \|volume=55 \|issue=4 \|pages=433–438 \|url=http://eng.oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbCode=cjfd&QueryID=13&CurRec=3&filename=GSWX201604003&dbname=CJFDTEMP \|access-date=2017-03-11 \|archive-date=2017-03-12 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312065648/http://eng.oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbCode=cjfd&QueryID=13&CurRec=3&filename=GSWX201604003&dbname=CJFDTEMP \|url-status=dead }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Deng \| Permian \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A sponge. \|
Annulitubus{{Cite journal\|author =Olev Vinn \|author2=Carolina Zabini \|author3=Gustavo Sene-Silva \|author4=Kalle Kirsimäe \|author5= Lara Susan-Marcos \|year=2016 \|title=Possible polychaete tube worms from the Late Emsian (Early Devonian) of the Parana Basin, Brazil \|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica \|volume=61 \|issue=3 \|pages=627–632 \|doi=10.4202/app.00206.2015 \|s2cid=132902646}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Vinn et al. \| Devonian (late Emsian) \| Ponta Grossa Formation \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| An annelid, possibly a polychaete. The type species is Annulitubus mutveii. \|
Antennipatus{{Cite journal\|author1=Russell J. Garwood \|author2=Gregory D. Edgecombe \|author3=Sylvain Charbonnier \|author4=Dominique Chabard \|author5=Daniel Sotty \|author6=Gonzalo Giribet \|year=2016 \|title=Carboniferous Onychophora from Montceau-les-Mines, France, and onychophoran terrestrialization \|journal=Invertebrate Biology \|volume=135 \|issue=3 \|pages=179–190 \|doi=10.1111/ivb.12130 \|pmid=27708504 \|pmc=5042098}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Garwood, Edgecombe & Giribet in Garwood et al. \| Carboniferous (Stephanian) \| Montceau-les-Mines Lagerstätte \| {{Flag\|France}} \| A velvet worm. The type species is A. montceauensis. \|
Apoglossograptus uniformis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Archiasterella dhiraji{{Cite journal\|author1=Ian R. Gilbert \|author2=Nigel C. Hughes \|author3=Paul M. Myrow \|year=2016 \|title=Cambrian microfossils from the Tethyan Himalaya \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=1 \|pages=10–30 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.74 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90...10G \|s2cid=127529967 \|url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/371829xw}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Gilbert, Hughes & Myrow \| Cambrian \| Parahio Formation \| {{Flag\|India}} \| \|
Archiclimacograptus columnus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Baltichaeta{{Cite journal\|author1=Ben J. Slater \|author2=Thomas H. P. Harvey \|author3=Romain Guilbaud \|author4=Nicholas J. Butterfield \|year=2016 \|title=A cryptic record of Burgess Shale-type diversity from the early Cambrian of Baltica \|journal=Palaeontology \|volume=60 \|issue=1 \|pages=117–140 \|doi=10.1111/pala.12273 \|s2cid=55097552 \|url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-319946}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid{{Cite web\|title=ZooBank.org\|url=http://zoobank.org/References/AB48F49C-9D32-44C4-BDE8-349794BBE51A\|access-date=2022-01-19\|website=zoobank.org\|language=en-us}} \| Slater et al. \| Cambrian (Stage 4) \| File Haidar Formation \| {{Flag\|Sweden}} \| A member of the total group of Annelida. The type species is B. jormunganda. \|
Baltiscalida \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Slater et al. \| Cambrian (Stage 4) \| File Haidar Formation \| {{Flag\|Sweden}} \| A member of the total group of Priapulida. The type species is B. njorda. \|
Bistella \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Fedorov in Fedorov, Parkhaev & Demidenko \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A heteractinid sponge belonging to the group Heteractinellida and the family Heterostellidae. The type species is B. inexplicabila. \|
Bohemograptus praecox{{Cite journal\|author1=Petr Štorch \|author2=Štěpán Manda \|author3=Ladislav Slavík \|author4=Zuzana Tasáryová \|year=2016 \|title=Wenlock–Ludlow boundary interval revisited: new insights from the offshore facies of the Prague Synform, Czech Republic \|journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences \|volume=53 \|issue=7 \|pages=666–673 \|doi=10.1139/cjes-2015-0161 \|bibcode=2016CaJES..53..666S \|hdl=1807/72859}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Štorch et al. \| Silurian \| \| {{Flag\|Czech Republic}} \| A graptolite. \|
Bolidium bertii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Frisone, Pisera & Preto \| Eocene (early Lutetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sponge, a species of Bolidium. \|
Burejospermum punctatum{{Cite journal\|author1=Stephen McLoughlin \|author2=Benjamin Bomfleur \|author3=Thomas Mörs \|author4=Marcelo Reguero \|year=2016 \|title=Fossil clitellate annelid cocoons and their microbiological inclusions from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica \|journal=Palaeontologia Electronica \|volume=19 \|issue=1 \|pages=Article number 19.1.11A \|url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1448-eocene-annelid-cocoons \|doi=10.26879/607}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| McLoughlin et al. \| Early Eocene \| La Meseta Formation \| Antarctica (Seymour Island) \| A member of Clitellata of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossilized cocoons; a species of Burejospermum. \|
Burejospermum seymourense \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| McLoughlin et al. \| Early Eocene \| La Meseta Formation \| Antarctica (Seymour Island) \| A member of Clitellata of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossilized cocoons; a species of Burejospermum. \|
Caelispongia \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan & Link \| Late Triassic (Norian) \| Kasımlar Basin \| {{Flag\|Turkey}} \| A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Stellispongiellidae. The type species is C. topukensis. \|
Camerospongia tuberculata \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Frisone, Pisera & Preto \| Eocene (early Lutetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sponge, a species of Camerospongia. \|
Camerospongia visentinae \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Frisone, Pisera & Preto \| Eocene (early Lutetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sponge, a species of Camerospongia. \|
Capsulocyathus petri \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sundukov & Zhuravlev \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A member of Archaeocyatha belonging to the family Cryptoporocyathidae. \|
Cavispongia scarpai \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Frisone, Pisera & Preto \| Eocene (early Lutetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sponge, a species of Cavispongia. \|
Conotheca hensoni{{cite journal \|author1=John S. Peel \|author2=Michael Streng \|author3=Gerd Geyer \|author4=Artem Kouchinsky \|author5=Christian B. Skovsted \|year=2016 \|title=Ovatoryctocara granulata assemblage (Cambrian series 2-series 3 boundary) of Løndal, North Greenland \|journal=Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs \|volume=49 \|pages=241–282 \|url=https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=256947117876175;res=IELNZC}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Peel et al. \| Cambrian \| Henson Gletscher Formation \| {{Flag\|Greenland}} \| A member of Hyolitha belonging to the group Orthothecida. \|
Constellatispongia{{Cite journal\|author1=Joseph P. Botting \|author2=John S. Peel \|year=2016 \|title=Early Cambrian sponges of the Sirius Passet Biota, North Greenland \|journal=Papers in Palaeontology \|volume=2 \|issue=4 \|pages=463–487 \|doi=10.1002/spp2.1048\|s2cid=132191759 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Botting & Peel \| Early Cambrian \| Buen Formation \| {{Flag\|Greenland}} \| A sponge. The type species is C. canismajorii. \|
Corallistes multiosculata \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Frisone, Pisera & Preto \| Eocene (early Lutetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sponge, a species of Corallistes. \|
Cornulites vilcae{{Cite journal\|author1=Olev Vinn \|author2=Juan Carlos Gutiérez-Marco \|year=2016 \|title=New Late Ordovician cornulitids from Peru \|journal=Bulletin of Geosciences \|volume=91 \|issue=1 \|pages=89–95 \|doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1595}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Vinn & Gutiérez-Marco \| Late Ordovician (probably late Sandbian) \| Probably Calapuja Formation \| {{Flag\|Peru}} \| A member of Cornulitida (a group of animals of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly molluscs), a species of Cornulites. \|
Cornulites zatoni \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Vinn & Gutiérez-Marco \| Late Ordovician (Sandbian) \| Calapuja Formation \| {{Flag\|Peru}} \| A member of Cornulitida (a group of animals of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly molluscs), a species of Cornulites. \|
Coronispongia{{Cite journal\|author1=Viviana Frisone \|author2=Andrzej Pisera \|author3=Nereo Preto \|year=2016 \|title=A highly diverse siliceous sponge fauna (Porifera: Hexactinellida, Demospongiae) from the Eocene of north-eastern Italy: systematics and palaeoecology \|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology \|volume=14 \|issue=11 \|pages=949–1002 \|doi=10.1080/14772019.2015.1132015 \|s2cid=87329356\|url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/2064621 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid{{Cite web\|title=ZooBank.org\|url=http://zoobank.org/References/B3466955-8E20-429A-89BE-42BAEB4002E8\|access-date=2022-01-19\|website=zoobank.org\|language=en-us}} \| Frisone, Pisera & Preto \| Eocene (early Lutetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sponge. The type species is Coronispongia confossa. \|
Corynites nanus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Crassicoactum \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Botting & Peel \| Early Cambrian \| Buen Formation \| {{Flag\|Greenland}} \| A sponge. The type species is C. cucumis. \|
Daharella triassica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan & Link \| Late Triassic (Norian) \| Kasımlar Basin \| {{Flag\|Turkey}} \| A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Auriculospongiidae. \|
Dicranograptus ramosus angustus \| Subsp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Eoglyptograptus asymmetros \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Goldman & Zhang in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Eolipastrotethya{{Cite journal\|author1=M. Łukowiak \|author2=A. Pisera \|year=2016 \|title=Bodily preserved Eocene non-lithistid demosponge fauna from southern Australia: taxonomy and affinities \|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology \|volume=15 \|issue=6 \|pages=473–497 \|doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1197329 \|s2cid=89387705}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid{{Cite web\|title=ZooBank.org\|url=http://zoobank.org/References/6AA2FD29-A88E-49FA-B112-2FF4C6BE2787\|access-date=2022-01-19\|website=zoobank.org\|language=en-us}} \| Łukowiak & Pisera \| Late Eocene \| Pallinup Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A heteroscleromorph demosponge belonging to the group Bubarida. The type species is E. picketti. \|
Erismacoscinus lucanoi{{Cite journal \|author1=Silvia Menéndez \|author2=Antonio Perejón \|author3=Elena Moreno-Eiris \|author4=Marta Rodríguez-Martínez \|year=2016 \|title=Arqueociatos del Cámbrico inferior de la Sierra de Córdoba (Sierra Morena, España): nuevo registro \|journal=Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Sección Geológica \|volume=110 \|pages=89–101 \|url=http://historia.bio.ucm.es/rsehn/index.php?d=publicaciones&num=61&w=367 \|access-date=2017-07-29 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730133830/http://historia.bio.ucm.es/rsehn/index.php?d=publicaciones&num=61&w=367 \|archive-date=2017-07-30 \|url-status=dead}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Menéndez et al. \| Cambrian Stage 3 \| Pedroche Formation \| {{Flag\|Spain}} \| A member of Archaeocyatha belonging to the family Asterocyathidae. \|
Esakovella{{cite book \|author1=A.B. Fedorov \|author2=P.Yu. Parkhaev \|author3=Yu.E. Demidenko \|year=2016 \|chapter=Small-shell fossils (SSF) \|editor=Yu.Ya. Shabanov \|title=Stratigraphy of oil and gas basins of Siberia. Cambrian of Siberian Platform. Volume 2. Paleontology \|pages=143–177 \|isbn=978-5-4262-0062-3 \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307995502}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Fedorov in Fedorov, Parkhaev & Demidenko \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A tommotiid belonging to the family Kelanellidae. The type species is E. grigorievae. \|
Fallocyathus accomodatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sundukov in Sundukov & Zhuravlev \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A member of Archaeocyatha belonging to the family Fallocyathidae. \|
Fallocyathus apheles \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sundukov in Sundukov & Zhuravlev \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A member of Archaeocyatha belonging to the family Fallocyathidae. \|
Geodia hopetouni \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Łukowiak & Pisera \| Late Eocene \| Pallinup Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A heteroscleromorph demosponge belonging to the group Tetractinellida, a species of Geodia. \|
Haddingograptus cuneatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Haddingograptus flexibilis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Haddingograptus tarimensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Hadimopanella incubo{{cite journal \|author1=Michael Streng \|author2=Jan Ove R. Ebbestad \|author3=Vivianne Berg-Madsen \|year=2016 \|title=Cambrian palaeoscolecids (Cycloneuralia) of southern Scandinavia \|journal=Papers in Palaeontology \|volume=3 \|issue=1 \|pages=21–48 \|doi=10.1002/spp2.1067\|s2cid=89406537 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid{{Cite web\|title=ZooBank.org\|url=http://zoobank.org/References/96B0809C-3DA8-41C5-810E-DF0262F1E0E5\|access-date=2022-01-19\|website=zoobank.org\|language=en-us}} \| Streng, Ebbestad & Berg-Madsen \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Sweden}} \| A palaeoscolecid worm. \|
Hadimopanella oelandiana \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Streng, Ebbestad & Berg-Madsen \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Sweden}} \| A palaeoscolecid worm. \|
Hallograptus echinatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Hamptonia limatula \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Botting & Peel \| Early Cambrian \| Buen Formation \| {{Flag\|Greenland}} \| A sponge. \|
Hexactinella clampensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Frisone, Pisera & Preto \| Eocene (early Lutetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sponge, a species of Hexactinella. \|
?Hyalostelia spinula \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Fedorov in Fedorov, Parkhaev & Demidenko \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A hexactinellid sponge belonging to the group Hexasterophora and the family Hyalostellidae. \|
Jiangxigraptus? delicatus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Jiangxigraptus ultilis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Kuonamia{{citation needed\|date=September 2019}} \| Nom. nov \| Valid \| Doweld \| Cambrian Stage 4 to Guzhangian \| Holm Dal Formation Kuonamka Formation \| {{Flag\|Greenland}}{{Cite journal\|author=John S. Peel \|year=2018 \|title=Sponge spicules from the Holm Dal Formation (Cambrian Series 3, Guzhangian) of North Greenland (Laurentia) \|journal=GFF \|volume=140 \|issue=4 \|pages= 306–317\|doi=10.1080/11035897.2018.1479444 \|s2cid=135037720}} {{Flag\|Russia}} ({{Flag\|Sakha Republic}}) \| A sponge; a replacement name for Disparella Fedorov in Fedorov & Pereladov (1987). \|
Lenica perversa \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Botting & Peel \| Early Cambrian \| Buen Formation \| {{Flag\|Greenland}} \| A sponge. \|
Lyrarapax trilobus{{Cite journal\|author1=Peiyun Cong \|author2=Allison C. Daley \|author3=Gregory D. Edgecombe \|author4=Xianguang Hou \|author5=Ailin Chen \|year=2016 \|title=Morphology of the radiodontan Lyrarapax from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=4 \|pages=663–671 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.67 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90..663C \|s2cid=88742430 \|url=http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5b38a48f-6c52-4f5f-898f-2db2e5858e90}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Cong et al. \| Early Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| \|File:20210610 Lyrarapax trilobus.png
Milyasa \| Gen. et 2 sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan & Link \| Late Triassic (Norian) \| Dereköy Basin \| {{Flag\|Turkey}} \| A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Preperonidellidae. The type species is M. polysiphonata; genus also includes M. askomorpha. \|
Mimograptus tenuis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Monocrepidium pauli \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Łukowiak & Pisera \| Late Eocene \| Pallinup Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A heteroscleromorph demosponge belonging to the group Bubarida. \|
Monocrepidium unispiculatum \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Łukowiak & Pisera \| Late Eocene \| Pallinup Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A heteroscleromorph demosponge belonging to the group Bubarida. \|
Nganki namak{{Cite journal\|author1=Peter D. Kruse \|author2=Nigel C. Hughes \|year=2016 \|title=Himalayan Cambrian hyoliths \|journal=Papers in Palaeontology \|volume=2 \|issue=3 \|pages=323–341 \|doi=10.1002/spp2.1043\|s2cid=132531901 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Kruse & Hughes \| Cambrian \| Khussak Formation \| {{Flag\|Pakistan}} \| A member of Hyolitha (a group of animals of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly molluscs), a species of Nganki. \|
Obscurospongia \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan & Link \| Late Triassic (Norian) \| Kasımlar Basin \| {{Flag\|Turkey}} \| An inozoid or chaetetid sponge. The type species is O. chaetetiformis \|
Oepikograptus originalis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Orthograptus paracalcaratus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Ottoia guizhouensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Yuning Yang \|author2=Yuanlong Zhao \|author3=Xingliang Zhang \|year=2016 \|title=Fossil priapulid Ottoia from the Kaili biota (Cambrian Series 3) of South China \|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology \|volume=14 \|issue=6 \|pages=527–543 \|doi=10.1080/14772019.2015.1077900 \|s2cid=131177349}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Yang, Zhao & Zhang \| Cambrian \| Kaili Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A stem-group priapulid, a species of Ottoia. \|
Pachastrella australis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Łukowiak & Pisera \| Late Eocene \| Pallinup Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A heteroscleromorph demosponge belonging to the group Tetractinellida. \|
Pachastrella intermedia \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Łukowiak & Pisera \| Late Eocene \| Pallinup Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A heteroscleromorph demosponge belonging to the group Tetractinellida. \|
Palaeoscolex xinglongensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Jianni Liu \|author2=Jian Han \|author3=Jinshu Li \|author4=Yichen Wu \|author5=Jie Peng \|author6=Nan Qi \|author7=Yiyao Yang \|author8=Juan Li \|year=2016 \|title=New Localities and Palaeoscolecid Worms from the Cambrian (Stage 4, Series 2) Guanshan Biota in Kunming, Yunnan, South China \|journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) \|volume=90 \|issue=6 \|pages=1939–1945 \|doi=10.1111/1755-6724.13013 \|s2cid=132216305 \|url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=201606003&flag=1}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Liu et al. \| Cambrian \| Wulongqing Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A palaeoscolecid. \|
Palaeotubus{{Cite journal\|author1=Rossana Sanfilippo \|author2=Agatino Reitano \|author3=Gianni Insacco \|author4=Antonietta Rosso \|year=2016 \|title=A new tubeworm of possible serpulid affinity from the Permian of Sicily \|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica \|volume=61 \|issue=3 \|pages=621–626 \|doi=10.4202/app.00209.2015 \|s2cid=54697552}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Sanfilippo et al. \| Permian \| Pietra di Salomone limestone \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A polychaete, possibly a relative of serpulids. The type species is P. sosiensis. \|
Pegmatothylakos \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| McLoughlin et al. \| Early Eocene \| La Meseta Formation \| Antarctica (Seymour Island) \| A member of Clitellata of uncertain phylogenetic placement, described on the basis of fossilized cocoons. The type species is Pegmatothylakos manumii. \|
Phycopsis arbusculum \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Łukowiak & Pisera \| Late Eocene \| Pallinup Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A heteroscleromorph demosponge belonging to the group Axinellida. \|
Preperonidella asymmetrica{{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=http://www.ville-ge.ch/mhng/paleo/paleo-pdf/35-1/pal_35_1_04.pdf \|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825203558/http://www.ville-ge.ch/mhng/paleo/paleo-pdf/35-1/pal_35_1_04.pdf \|archive-date=2016-08-25 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan & Link \| Late Triassic (Norian) \| Kasımlar Basin \| {{Flag\|Turkey}} \| A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Preperonidellidae. \|
Proclimacograptus angustatus ultimus \| Subsp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|
Pronormalograptus \| Gen. et 2 sp. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A graptolite. The type species is P. acicularis; genus also includes new species P. regularis, as well as P. euglyphus (Lapworth, 1880) and P. siccatus (Elles and Wood, 1907). \|
Pseudosardospongia \| Gen. et 2 sp. nov \| Valid \| Fedorov in Fedorov, Parkhaev & Demidenko \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A calcareous sponge belonging to the family Polyactinellidae. The type species is P. plana; genus also includes P. miriculata. \|
Rajatubulus{{Cite journal\|author1=Ben Yang \|author2=Michael Steiner \|author3=Maoyan Zhu \|author4=Guoxiang Li \|author5=Jianni Liu \|author6=Pengju Liu \|year=2016 \|title=Transitional Ediacaran–Cambrian small skeletal fossil assemblages from South China and Kazakhstan: Implications for chronostratigraphy and metazoan evolution \|journal=Precambrian Research \|volume=285 \|pages=202–215 \|doi=10.1016/j.precamres.2016.09.016 \|bibcode=2016PreR..285..202Y}} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Yang et al. \| Early Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Kazakhstan}} \| A member of Cloudinidae; a new genus for "Pseudorthotheca" costata Mambetov in Missarzhevsky & Mambetov (1981). \|
Rankenella zhangxianensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Jeong-Hyun Lee \|author2=Jusun Woo \|author3=Dong-Jin Lee \|year=2016 \|title=The earliest reef-building anthaspidellid sponge Rankenella zhangxianensis n. sp. from the Zhangxia Formation (Cambrian Series 3), Shandong Province, China \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=1 \|pages=1–9 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.53 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90....1L \|s2cid=133474488}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Lee, Woo & Lee \| Cambrian \| Zhangxia Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A sponge belonging to the family Anthaspidellidae. \|
Ratcliffespongia freuchenensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Botting & Peel \| Early Cambrian \| Buen Formation \| {{Flag\|Greenland}} \| A sponge. \|
Rigonia \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Frisone, Pisera & Preto \| Eocene (early Lutetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sponge. The type species is Rigonia plicata. \|
Rotundocyathus indistinctus{{cite book \|author1=V.M. Sundukov \|author2=A.Yu. Zhuravlev \|year=2016 \|chapter=Archaeocyathids \|editor=Yu.Ya. Shabanov \|title=Stratigraphy of oil and gas basins of Siberia. Cambrian of Siberian Platform. Volume 2. Paleontology \|pages=8–26 \|isbn=978-5-4262-0062-3 \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/307995502}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sundukov in Sundukov & Zhuravlev \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A member of Archaeocyatha belonging to the family Ajacicyathidae. \|
Rugatotheca daibuica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Yang et al. \| Early Cambrian \| Daibu Member of the Xiaotan section \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A small shelly fossil of uncertain phylogenetic placement. \|
Saccoglossus testa{{Cite journal\|author =Christopher B. Cameron \|year=2016 \|title=Saccoglossus testa from the Mazon Creek fauna (Pennsylvanian of Illinois) and the evolution of acorn worms (Enteropneusta: Hemichordata) \|journal=Palaeontology \|volume=59 \|issue=3 \|pages=329–336 \|doi=10.1111/pala.12235\|bibcode=2016Palgy..59..329C \|s2cid=87479662 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Cameron \| Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) \| Mazon Creek fossil beds \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Illinois}}) \| An acorn worm belonging to the family Harrimaniidae, a species of Saccoglossus. \|
Saetaspongia procera \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Botting & Peel \| Early Cambrian \| Buen Formation \| {{Flag\|Greenland}} \| A sponge. \|
Sanxiascolex{{Cite journal\|author1=Yuning Yang \|author2=Xingliang Zhang \|year=2016 \|title=Distinctive Scleritome with Marginal Tubercles of a New Palaeoscolecid Worm from the Shipai Fauna (Cambrian Epoch 2) at Three Gorges, South China \|journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) \|volume=90 \|issue=3 \|pages=807–817 \|doi=10.1111/1755-6724.12724 \|s2cid=132852259 \|url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=201603006&flag=1}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Yang & Zhang \| Cambrian \| Shipai Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A palaeoscolecid. The type species is P. papillogyrus. \|
Sardospongia gigantea \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Fedorov in Fedorov, Parkhaev & Demidenko \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A calcareous sponge belonging to the family Polyactinellidae. \|
Sardospongia triplexa \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Fedorov in Fedorov, Parkhaev & Demidenko \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A calcareous sponge belonging to the family Polyactinellidae. \|
Sarmentofascis zamparelliae{{Cite journal\|author1=Felix Schlagintweit \|author2=Gianluca Frijia \|author3=Mariano Parente \|year=2016 \|title=Sarmentofascis zamparelliae n. sp., a new demosponge from the lower Campanian of southern Italy \|journal=Cretaceous Research \|volume=57 \|pages=157–164 \|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2015.07.018\|bibcode=2016CrRes..57..157S }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Schlagintweit, Frijia & Parente \| Late Cretaceous (early Campanian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sponge, a species of Sarmentofascis. \|
Semigothograptus{{Cite journal\|author=Anna Kozłowska \|year=2016 \|title=A new generic name, Semigothograptus, for Gothograptus? meganassa Rickards & Palmer, 2002, from the Silurian post-lundgreni Biozone recovery phase, and comparative morphology of retiolitids from the lowermost upper Homerian (upper Wenlock) \|journal=Zootaxa \|volume=4208 \|issue=6 \|pages=534–546 \|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4208.6.2 \|pmid=28006796}} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Kozłowska \| Silurian \| \| {{Flag\|Czech Republic}} {{Flag\|Germany}} {{Flag\|Poland}} {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| A graptolite; a new genus for "Gothograptus" meganassa Rickards & Palmer (2002). \|
Sibirecyathus onkhoydokh \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Sundukov & Zhuravlev \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A member of Archaeocyatha belonging to the family Ajacicyathidae. \|
Spathioconchus{{Cite journal\|author1=Michał Zatoń \|author2=Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki \|author3=Henning Blom \|author4=Benjamin P. Kear \|year=2016 \|title=Boreal earliest Triassic biotas elucidate globally depauperate hard substrate communities after the end-Permian mass extinction \|journal=Scientific Reports \|volume=6 \|pages=Article number 36345 \|doi=10.1038/srep36345 \|pmid=27821855 \|pmc=5099577 \|bibcode=2016NatSR...636345Z}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| \| Zatoń et al. \| Early Triassic (Induan) \| \| {{Flag\|Greenland}} \| A member of Microconchida (a group of animals of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly molluscs). The type species is S. weedoni. \|
Spinuliconchus{{Cite journal\|author1=Michał Zatoń \|author2=Ewa Olempska \|year=2016 \|title=A family-level classification of the Order Microconchida (Class Tentaculita) and the description of two new microconchid genera \|journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology \|volume=29 \|issue=7 \|pages=885–894 \|doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1261858 \|s2cid=90129242}} \| Gen. et et comb. sp. nov \| Valid \| Zatoń & Olempska \| Devonian \| \| {{Flag\|Poland}} {{Flag\|United States}} \| A member of Microconchida. The type species is "Spirorbis" angulatus Hall (1861); genus also includes new species S. biernatae. \|
Stauractinella eocenica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Frisone, Pisera & Preto \| Eocene (early Lutetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sponge, a species of Stauractinella. \|
Talacastospongia{{Cite journal\|author1=Marcelo G. Carrera \|author2=Juan José Rustán \|year=2016 \|title=The new genus Talacastospongia: insights on the first record of a Devonian sponge from South America \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=89 \|issue=6 \|pages=912–919 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.9 \|s2cid=131204302}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Carrera & Rustán \| Devonian (Lochkovian) \| Talacasto Formation \| {{Flag\|Argentina}} \| A hexactinellid sponge. The type species is Talacastospongia minima. \|
Tanchajella \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Fedorov in Fedorov, Parkhaev & Demidenko \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A hexactinellid sponge belonging to the group Amphidiscophora and the family Hyalonematidae. The type species is T. aculeata. \|
Taurispongia \| Gen. et 8 sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan & Link \| Late Triassic (Norian) \| Dereköy Basin \| {{Flag\|Turkey}} \| A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Stellispongiellidae. The type species is T. oligocanalis; genus also includes new species T. polycanalis, T. tenuis, T. lamellicanalis, T. fascifera, T. siderifera, T. lamellata and T. polyforma. \|
Tenuipariespongia taurica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan & Link \| Late Triassic (Norian) \| Kasımlar Basin \| {{Flag\|Turkey}} \| A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida. \|
Toulminia italica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Frisone, Pisera & Preto \| Eocene (early Lutetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Italy}} \| A sponge, a species of Toulminia. \|
Triptolemma solida \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Łukowiak & Pisera \| Late Eocene \| Pallinup Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| A heteroscleromorph demosponge belonging to the group Tetractinellida. \|
Tritonychus {{Cite journal\|author1=Xi-Guang Zhang \|author2=Martin R. Smith \|author3=Jie Yang \|author4=Jin-Bo Hou \|year=2016 \|title=Onychophoran-like musculature in a phosphatized Cambrian lobopodian \|journal=Biology Letters \|volume=12 \|issue=9 \|pages=20160492 \|doi=10.1098/rsbl.2016.0492 \|pmid=27677816 \|pmc=5046927}} \| Gen. et sp. nov. \| Valid \| Zhang et al. \| Early Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A lobopodian. The type species is T. phanerosarkus. \|
Tuberoconchus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Zatoń in Zatoń & Olempska \| Silurian (Ludlow) \| Kuressaare Formation \| {{Flag\|Estonia}} {{Flag\|Sweden}} \| A member of Microconchida (a group of animals of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly molluscs). The type species is "Palaeoconchus" wilsoni Zatoń, Vinn & Toom (2016).{{Cite journal\|author1=Michał Zatoń \|author2=Olev Vinn \|author3=Ursula Toom \|year=2016 \|title=A new microconchid species from the Silurian of Baltica \|journal=Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences \|volume=65 \|issue=2 \|pages=115–123 \|doi=10.3176/earth.2016.09}} \|
Tulenicornus? frykmani \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Peel et al. \| Cambrian \| Henson Gletscher Formation \| {{Flag\|Greenland}} \| A member of Hyolitha belonging to the group Hyolithida. \|
Tyanada \| Gen. et comb. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan & Link \| Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) \| \| {{Flag\|Australia}} {{Flag\|Austria}} {{Flag\|Iran}} {{Flag\|Turkey}} \| A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Virgulidae. The type species is "Grossotubenella" variabilis Senowbari-Daryan (2005); genus also includes new species T. irregularis. \|
Unicornigraptus \| Gen. et 3 sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen & Goldman in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} {{Flag\|Sweden}} \| A graptolite. Genus includes new species U. minimus Chen, U. scandinavicus Goldman and U. xinjiangensis Chen and Goldman. \|
Wildspongia? krystyni \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan & Link \| Late Triassic (Norian) \| Dereköy Basin \| {{Flag\|Turkey}} \| A demosponge belonging to the group Agelasida and the family Stellispongiellidae. \|
Wronascolex geyiensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Jin Peng \|author2=Diying Huang \|author3=Yuanlong Zhao \|author4=Haijing Sun \|year=2016 \|title=Palaeoscolecids from the Balang Fauna of the Qiandongian (Cambrian Series 2), Guizhou, China \|journal=Geological Magazine \|volume=153 \|issue=3 \|pages=438–448 \|doi=10.1017/S0016756815000205 \|bibcode=2016GeoM..153..438P \|s2cid=131645777}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Peng et al. \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A palaeoscolecid worm, a species of Wronascolex. \|
Wronascolex? johanssoni \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Streng, Ebbestad & Berg-Madsen \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|Sweden}} \| A palaeoscolecid worm. \|
Wronascolex yichangensis{{cite journal \|author1=Yuning Yang \|author2=Xingliang Zhang \|year=2016 \|title=The Cambrian palaeoscolecid Wronascolex from the Shipai fauna (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4) of the Three Gorges area, South China \|journal=Papers in Palaeontology \|volume=2 \|issue=4 \|pages=555–568 \|doi=10.1002/spp2.1054\|s2cid=88686399 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Yang & Zhang \| Cambrian \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A palaeoscolecid worm, a species of Wronascolex. \|
Xiphograptus aksuensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Chen in Chen et al. \| Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A graptolite. \|

Other organisms

=New taxa=

Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! Notes ! Images
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Accordiella? tarburensis{{Cite journal \|author1=Felix Schlagintweit \|author2=Koorosh Rashidi \|year=2016 \|title=Some new and poorly known benthic Foraminifera from late Maastrichtian shallow-water carbonates of the Zagros Zone, SW Iran \|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae \|volume=12 \|issue=1 \|pages=53–70 \|url=http://www.geo-paleontologica.org/actapalrom/APR_v_12_1/Schlagintweit_Rashidi_Zagros1.pdf \|access-date=2016-09-17 \|archive-date=2016-09-17 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917163430/http://www.geo-paleontologica.org/actapalrom/APR_v_12_1/Schlagintweit_Rashidi_Zagros1.pdf \|url-status=dead }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Schlagintweit & Rashidi \| Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) \| Tarbur Formation \| {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Textulariida and the family Chrysalidinidae. \|
Acuasiphonoria{{Cite journal\|author1=Lijing Liu \|author2=Yasheng Wu \|author3=Haijun Yang \|author4=Robert Riding \|year=2016 \|title=Ordovician calcified cyanobacteria and associated microfossils from the Tarim Basin, Northwest China: systematics and significance \|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology \|volume=14 \|issue=3 \|pages=183–210 \|doi=10.1080/14772019.2015.1030128 \|s2cid=129684955}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Liu et al. \| Ordovician \| Tarim Basin \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Cyanobacteria. The type species is Acuasiphonoria ordovica. \|
Adnatosphaeridium ivoriense{{Cite journal\|author1=Walaa K. Awad \|author2=Francisca E. Oboh-Ikuenobe \|year=2016 \|title=Early Paleogene dinoflagellate cysts from ODP Hole 959D, Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin, West Africa: New species, biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental implications \|journal=Journal of African Earth Sciences \|volume=123 \|pages=123–144 \|doi=10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2016.07.014 \|bibcode=2016JAfES.123..123A}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Awad & Oboh-Ikuenobe \| Late Paleocene and early Eocene \| \| Gulf of Guinea (Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin) {{Flag\|Nigeria}} \| A dinoflagellate belonging to the group Gonyaulacales. \|
Agathammina vachardi{{Cite journal\|author1=Yi-chun Zhang \|author2=Shu-zhong Shen \|author3=Yu-jie Zhang \|author4=Tong-xing Zhu \|author5=Xian-yin An \|year=2016 \|title=Middle Permian non-fusuline foraminifers from the middle part of the Xiala Formation in Xainza County, Lhasa Block, Tibet \|journal=The Journal of Foraminiferal Research \|volume=46 \|issue=2 \|pages=99–114 \|doi=10.2113/gsjfr.46.2.99}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Zhang in Zhang et al. \| Permian \| Xiala Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolata and the family Cornuspiridae. \|
Amsassia koreanensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Mirinae Lee \|author2=Heeju Park \|author3=Nguyen Viet Tien \|author4=Suk-Joo Choh \|author5=Robert J. Elias \|author6=Dong-Jin Lee \|year=2016 \|title=A New Species of Amsassia from the Ordovician of Korea and South China: Paleobiological and Paleogeographical Significance \|journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) \|volume=90 \|issue=3 \|pages=796–806 \|doi=10.1111/1755-6724.12723 \|s2cid=132445766 \|url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=201603005&flag=1}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Lee et al. \| Middle and Late Ordovician (Darriwilian-Katian) \| Duwibong Formation Xiazhen Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} {{Flag\|South Korea}} \| An organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, probably a calcareous alga. \|
Anchisolenopora{{Cite journal\|author1=Daniel Vachard \|author2=Pedro Cózar \|author3=Markus Aretz \|author4=Alain Izart \|year=2016 \|title=Late Viséan-early Serpukhovian cyanobacteria and algae from the Montagne Noire (France); taxonomy and biostratigraphy \|journal=Bulletin of Geosciences \|volume=91 \|issue=3 \|pages=433–466 \|doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1613}} \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Vachard et al. \| Ordovician-Carboniferous \| \| {{Flag\|China}} {{Flag\|France}} {{Flag\|Norway}} {{Flag\|Sweden}} \| A red alga, possibly related to the coralline algae. The type species is "Hedstroemia" serrana Vachard & Aretz (2004); genus also includes "Hedstroemia" nidarosiensis Høeg, 1932 emend. Roux, 1985, "Hedstroemia" koninckoporoides Vachard, 1988 and "Pseudosolenopora" owodenkoi sensu Mamet, 2002 non Chanton-Güvenç, 1972. \|
Annelaurea{{Cite journal\|author1=Carla J. Harper \|author2=Michael Krings \|author3=Jean Galtier \|author4=Thomas N. Taylor \|year=2016 \|title=A microfossil with suggested affinities to the Peronosporomycetes (Oomycota) from the Carboniferous (c. 330 Ma) of France \|journal=Nova Hedwigia \|volume=103 \|issue=3–4 \|pages=315–326 \|doi=10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2016/0352}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Harper et al. \| Carboniferous (late Viséan) \| \| {{Flag\|France}} \| An oomycete. The type species is Annelaurea excornis. \|
Aulacoseira helianthus{{Cite journal\|author1=Joseph Mohan \|author2=Jeffery R. Stone \|author3=Christopher J Campisano \|author4=Robert Riding \|year=2016 \|title=Three novel species of Bacillariophyta (Diatoms) belonging to Aulacoseira and Lindavia from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Afar Depression of Ethiopia \|journal=Phytotaxa \|volume=272 \|issue=4 \|pages=235–247 \|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.272.4.1}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mohan & Stone in Mohan, Stone & Campisano \| Pliocene \| Hadar Formation \| {{Flag\|Ethiopia}} \| A diatom belonging to the group Aulacoseirales and the family Aulacoseiraceae. \|
Aulacoseira jewsonii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mohan & Stone in Mohan, Stone & Campisano \| Pliocene \| Hadar Formation \| {{Flag\|Ethiopia}} \| A diatom belonging to the group Aulacoseirales and the family Aulacoseiraceae. \|
Baltinema \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Slater et al. \| Cambrian (Stage 4) \| File Haidar Formation \| {{Flag\|Sweden}} \| A filamentous organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is B. rana. \|
Barattolites andhuri \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Gallardo-Garcia & Serra-Kiel in Serra-Kiel et al. \| Eocene \| Dammam Formation \| {{Flag\|Oman}} {{Flag\|Yemen}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Globothalamea and the family Orbitolinidae. \|
Berkutaphycus{{Cite journal\|author1=J. William Schopf \|author2=Vladimir N. Sergeev \|author3=Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev \|year=2016 \|title=A new approach to ancient microorganisms: taxonomy, paleoecology, and biostratigraphy of the Lower Cambrian Berkuta and Chulaktau microbiotas of South Kazakhstan \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=89 \|issue=5 \|pages=695–729 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.56 \|s2cid=131314181}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Schopf, Sergeev & Kudryavtsev \| Early Cambrian \| Kyrshabakta Formation \| {{Flag\|Kazakhstan}} \| An organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement; might be related to hormogonian cyanobacteria or to eukaryotic green or chrysophyte algae. The type species is Berkutaphycus elongatus. \|
Bianchina{{Cite journal\|author =Poul Schiøler \|year=2016 \|title=Bianchina hieroglyphica gen. et sp. nov., a new dinoflagellate cyst with a unique archaeopyle type and ornament from the mid-Cretaceous of the East Coast Basin, New Zealand \|journal=Palynology \|volume=40 \|issue=3 \|pages=411–417 \|doi=10.1080/01916122.2015.1092479 \|bibcode=2016Paly...40..411S \|s2cid=140186934}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Schiøler \| Cretaceous (late Aptian–middle Cenomanian) \| East Coast Basin \| {{Flag\|New Zealand}} \| A dinoflagellate. The type species is Bianchina hieroglyphica. \|
Bolivinides intermedius{{Cite journal\|author1=Zofia Dubicka \|author2=Danuta Peryt \|year=2016 \|title=Bolivinoides (benthic Foraminifera) from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland and western Ukraine: taxonomy, evolutionary changes and stratigraphic significance \|journal=The Journal of Foraminiferal Research \|volume=46 \|issue=1 \|pages=75–94 \|doi=10.2113/gsjfr.46.1.75}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Dubicka & Peryt \| Late Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) \| \| {{Flag\|Poland}} {{Flag\|Ukraine}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Rotaliina and the family Bolivinoididae. \|
Braarudosphaera insecta \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Late Paleocene \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the family Braarudosphaeraceae. \|
Braarudosphaera wendleriae \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Lees & Bown \| Late Cretaceous (Turonian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the family Braarudosphaeraceae. \|
Bramletteius cultellus{{Cite journal\|author=P.R. Bown \|year=2016 \|title=Paleocene calcareous nannofossils from Tanzania (TDP Sites 19, 27 and 38) \|journal=Journal of Nannoplankton Research \|volume=36 \|issue=1 \|pages=1–32\|doi=10.58998/jnr2033 }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Paleocene (Selandian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the order Coccolithales and the family Coccolithaceae. \|
Broccoliforma{{Cite journal\|author1=Sara J. Mason \|author2=Guy M. Narbonne \|year=2016 \|title=Two new Ediacaran small fronds from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=2 \|pages=183–194 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.14 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90..183M \|s2cid=89425525}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Mason & Narbonne \| Ediacaran \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Newfoundland and Labrador}}) \| A flabellate, lobate frond with at least superficial similarities to the ivesheadiomorph Blackbrookia. The type species is B. alta. \|
Bulbobaculites felixi{{Cite journal\|author1=George Pleş \|author2=Ioan I. Bucur \|author3=Emanoil Săsăran \|year=2016 \|title=Lower Cretaceous shallow-water carbonates and a new lituolid foraminifer (Bulbobaculites felixi n. sp.) from the Northern Apuseni Mountains (Romania) \|journal=Facies \|volume=62 \|issue=4 \|pages=27 \|doi=10.1007/s10347-016-0478-4 \|s2cid=132761425}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Pleş, Bucur & Săsăran \| Early Cretaceous (late Aptian) \| \| {{Flag\|Romania}} \| A lituolid foraminifer. \|
Caelatimurus{{Cite journal\|author1=Leigh Anne Riedman \|author2=Susannah M. Porter \|year=2016 \|title=Organic-walled microfossils of the mid-Neoproterozoic Alinya Formation, Officer Basin, Australia \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=5 \|pages=854–887 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.49 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90..854R \|s2cid=132652277}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Riedman & Porter \| Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic \| Alinya Formation Chuar Group Muhos Formation Roper Group \| {{Flag\|Australia}} {{Flag\|Finland}} {{Flag\|United States}} \| An acritarch. Genus includes new species C. foveolatus. \|
Chinggiskhaania{{Cite journal\|author1=Stephen Q. Dornbos \|author2=Tatsuo Oji \|author3=Akihiro Kanayama \|author4=Sersmaa Gonchigdorj \|year=2016 \|title=A new Burgess Shale-type deposit from the Ediacaran of western Mongolia \|journal=Scientific Reports \|volume=6 \|pages=Article number 23438 \|doi=10.1038/srep23438 \|pmid=26988136 \|pmc=4796905\|bibcode=2016NatSR...623438D}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| \| Dornbos et al. \| Ediacaran \| Zuun-Arts Formation \| {{Flag\|Mongolia}} \| A multicellular benthic alga of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Chinggiskhaania bifurcata. \|
Clypeorbis? ultima{{Cite journal\|author1=Felix Schlagintweit \|author2=Martin Studeny \|author3=Diethard Sanders \|year=2016 \|title=Clypeorbis? ultima n. sp. from the uppermost Maastrichtian of Austria: The youngest representative of the Clypeorbinae Sigal, 1952 (calcareous benthic foraminifera)? \|journal=Cretaceous Research \|volume=66 \|pages=163–170 \|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2016.06.006\|bibcode=2016CrRes..66..163S }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Schlagintweit, Studeny & Sanders \| Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) \| Kambühel Formation \| {{Flag\|Austria}} \| A foraminifer, possibly a member of Clypeorbinae. \|
Coccolithus subcirculus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Paleocene (Selandian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte, a species of Coccolithus. \|
Cretaciclavulina{{Cite journal\|author1=Felix Schlagintweit \|author2=Blanka Cvetko Tešović \|year=2016 \|title=Cretaciclavulina gusici n. gen., n. sp. (?family Valvulinidae BERTHELIN, 1880), a new larger benthic foraminifer from the lower Campanian of Brač Island, Croatia \|journal=Geologia Croatica \|volume=69 \|issue=2 \|pages=187–194 \|doi=10.4154/gc.2016.17}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Schlagintweit & Cvetko Tešović \| Late Cretaceous (early Campanian) \| Gornji Humac Formation Pučišća Formation \| {{Flag\|Croatia}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the superfamily Textulariacea, possibly a member of the family Valvulinidae. The type species is C. gusici. \|
Cribrionella{{Cite journal\|author1=Elena Jovanovska \|author2=Aleksandra Cvetkoska \|author3=Slavica Tofilovska \|author4=Nadja Ognjanova-Rumenova \|author5=Zlatko Levkov \|year=2016 \|title=Description of a new fossil diatom genus, Cribrionella gen. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from Quaternary sediments of Lake Ohrid \|journal=Phytotaxa \|volume=252 \|issue=1 \|pages=31–42 \|doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.252.1.3}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Jovanovska et al. \| Quaternary \| \| Lake Ohrid \| A diatom belonging to the group Thalassiosirales and the family Stephanodiscaceae. The type species is Cribrionella ohridana \|
Crinisdendrum{{cite journal \|author1=Jerzy Dzik \|author2=Andrzej Baliński \|author3=Yuanlin Sun \|year=2016 \|title=An Early Ordovician clonal organism from China with a zig-zagged suture on branches \|journal=Bulletin of Geosciences \|volume=91 \|issue=2 \|pages=319–329 \|doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1575}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Dzik, Baliński & Sun \| Ordovician (early Floian) \| Fenxiang Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| An organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement; the authors of its description considered it most likely that it was a relative of pterobranchs. The type species is C. sinicum. \|
Cucurbita aggtelekensis{{cite journal \|author=Baba Senowbari-Daryan \|year=2016 \|title=Upper triassic miliolids of "Cucurbita group": aspects of the systematic classification \|journal=Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt \|volume=156 \|issue=1–4 \|pages=187–215 \|url=https://opac.geologie.ac.at/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx?command=getcontent&server=images&value=JB1561_187_A.pdf}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan \| Late Triassic (Carnian) \| \| {{Flag\|Hungary}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolina and the family Milioliporidae. \|
Cucurbita minima \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Senowbari-Daryan \| Late Triassic (Carnian) \| Mufara Formation \| {{Flag\|Hungary}} {{Flag\|Italy}} {{Flag\|Turkey}}? \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolina and the family Milioliporidae. \|
Culcitulisphaera \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Riedman & Porter \| Late Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic \| Alinya Formation Chuar Group Eleonore Bay Group Lakhanda Group Visingsö Group \| {{Flag\|Australia}} {{Flag\|Botswana}}{{cite journal \|author1=Andrew H. Knoll \|author2=Gerard J.B. Germs \|author3=Anthony Tankard \|author4=Herman Welsink \|year=2020 \|title=Tonian microfossils from subsurface shales in Botswana \|journal=Precambrian Research \|volume=345 \|pages=Article 105779 \|doi=10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105779 \|bibcode=2020PreR..345j5779K\|s2cid=218927804 }} {{Flag\|Greenland}} {{Flag\|Moldova}} {{Flag\|Russia}} {{Flag\|Sweden}}{{cite journal \|author1=Corentin Loron \|author2=Małgorzata Moczydłowska \|year=2018 \|title=Tonian (Neoproterozoic) eukaryotic and prokaryotic organic-walled microfossils from the upper Visingsö Group, Sweden \|journal=Palynology \|volume=42 \|issue=2 \|pages=220–254 \|doi=10.1080/01916122.2017.1335656 \|bibcode=2018Paly...42..220L \|s2cid=133730200}} {{Flag\|Ukraine}} {{Flag\|United States}} \| An acritarch. Genus includes new species C. revelata. \|
Delphineis urbinai{{Cite journal\|author=Karen Gariboldi \|year=2016 \|title=A note on diatom stratigraphic markers in upper Miocene sediments of the Pisco Formation, Peru, and description of Delphineis urbinai sp. nov. \|journal=Diatom Research \|volume=31 \|issue=3 \|pages=285–301 \|doi=10.1080/0269249X.2016.1220984 \|s2cid=89047196}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Gariboldi \| Miocene \| Pisco Formation \| {{Flag\|Peru}} \| A diatom. \|
Diphyes digitum \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Awad & Oboh-Ikuenobe \| Early Paleocene \| \| Gulf of Guinea (Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin) \| A dinoflagellate belonging to the group Gonyaulacales. \|
Discocyclina kutchensis{{Cite journal\|author1=E. Özcan \|author2=P. Kumar Saraswati \|author3=M. Hanif \|author4=N. Ali \|year=2016 \|title=Orthophragminids with new axial thickening structures from the Bartonian of the Indian subcontinent \|journal=Geologica Acta \|volume=14 \|issue=3 \|pages=261–282 \|doi=10.1344/GeologicaActa2016.14.3.4}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Özcan & Saraswati in Özcan et al. \| Eocene (Bartonian) \| Fulra Limestone \| {{Flag\|India}} {{Flag\|Pakistan}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the family Discocyclinidae. \|
'Discocyclina' sulaimanensis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Özcan, Ali & Hanif in Özcan et al. \| Eocene (Bartonian) \| Drazinda Formation \| {{Flag\|Pakistan}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the family Discocyclinidae. \|
Elianella brasiliana{{Cite journal \|author1=Bruno Granier \|author2=Dimas Dias-Brito \|year=2016 \|title=On the fossil alga Elianella elegans Pfender & Basse, 1948, and its so-called lookalikes, with description of Elianella brasiliana n.sp. Revision of the Juliette Pfender Collection. Part 1 \|journal=Carnets de Géologie \|volume=16 \|issue=6 \|pages=213–229 \|url=http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1606/index.html \|doi=10.4267/2042/59920 \|access-date=2016-04-09 \|archive-date=2016-05-07 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507223703/http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/1606/index.html \|url-status=dead }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Granier & Dias-Brito \| Early Cretaceous (Albian) \| Riachuelo Formation \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| A red alga belonging to the group Corallinophycidae, possibly a member of Rhodogorgonales; a species of Elianella. \|
Ellipsolithus linnertii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Lees & Bown \| Late Cretaceous (Turonian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte of uncertain phylogenetic placement. \|
Ellipsolithus pumex \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Paleocene (Selandian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte of uncertain phylogenetic placement. \|
Endoceratium immarinum{{Cite journal\|author=E.S. Razumkova \|year=2016 \|title=New dinocyst species (family Ceratiaceae Willey et Hickson) from the Lower Cretaceous of Southwestern Western Siberia \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=6 \|pages=646–652 \|url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=27145982 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116060125 \|s2cid=133244380}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Razumkova \| Early Cretaceous (Aptian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A dinoflagellate belonging to the family Ceratiaceae. \|
Entosolenia intermillerelineata{{Cite journal\|author=Jean-Pierre Margerel \|year=2016 \|title=Étude critique des genres Favulina, Homalohedra, Oolina, Entosolenia et Pseudofavulina n. gen. du Pliocène et du Pléistocène inférieur de la France occidentale et du Sud de l'Angleterre \|journal=Geodiversitas \|volume=38 \|issue=4 \|pages=559–578 \|doi=10.5252/g2016n4a6 \|s2cid=132639070}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Margerel \| Late Pliocene-early Pleistocene \| \| {{Flag\|France}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the family Ellipsolagenidae. \|
Eocladopyxis furculum \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Awad & Oboh-Ikuenobe \| Paleocene to Oligocene \| \| Gulf of Guinea (Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin) \| A dinoflagellate belonging to the group Gonyaulacales. \|
Eohalothece{{Cite journal\|author1=Paul K. Strother \|author2=Charles H. Wellman \|year=2016 \|title=Palaeoecology of a billion-year-old non-marine cyanobacterium from the Torridon Group and Nonesuch Formation \|journal=Palaeontology \|volume=59 \|issue=1 \|pages=89–108 \|doi=10.1111/pala.12212 \|pmid=27609993 \|pmc=4995629}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Strother & Wellman \| Precambrian \| Cailleach Head Formation Diabaig Formation Kinloch Formation Nonesuch Formation \| {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Michigan}}) \| A member of Cyanobacteria belonging to the family Chroococcaceae. The type species is Eohalothece lacustrina. \|
Ercumentina{{Cite journal\|author1=J. Serra-Kiel \|author2=V. Vicedo \|author3=Ph. Razin \|author4=C. Grélaud \|year=2016 \|title=Selandian-Thanetian larger foraminifera from the lower Jafnayn Formation in the Sayq area (eastern Oman Mountains) \|journal=Geologica Acta \|volume=14 \|issue=3 \|pages=315–333 \|doi=10.1344/GeologicaActa2016.14.3.7}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Serra-Kiel & Vicedo in Serra-Kiel et al. \| Paleocene \| Jafnayn Formation \| {{Flag\|Oman}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolida and the superfamily Alveolinoidea. The type species is E. sayqensis. \|
Ericsonia aliquanta \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Paleocene (Selandian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the order Coccolithales and the family Coccolithaceae. \|
Ericsonia media \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Late Paleocene \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the order Coccolithales and the family Coccolithaceae. \|
Ericsonia monilis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Paleocene (Selandian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the order Coccolithales and the family Coccolithaceae. \|
Ericsonia orbis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Paleocene (Selandian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the order Coccolithales and the family Coccolithaceae. \|
Galerosphaera \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Porter & Riedman \| Neoproterozoic \| Chuar Group \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Arizona}}) \| An organic-walled microfossil; a new genus for "Vandalosphaeridium" walcottii Vidal & Ford (1985). \|
Gemmaphyton{{Cite journal\|author1=Ye Wang \|author2=Yue Wang \|author3=Wei Du \|author4=Xunlian Wang \|year=2016 \|title=New Data of Macrofossils in the Ediacaran Wenghui Biota from Guizhou, South China \|journal=Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) \|volume=90 \|issue=5 \|pages=1611–1628 \|doi=10.1111/1755-6724.12805 \|s2cid=131877731 \|url=http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=201605006&flag=1}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Wang et al. \| Ediacaran \| Doushantuo Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A macrofossil organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly an alga. The type species is G. taoyingensis. \|
Glomospirella cantabrica{{Cite journal\|author1=Felix Schlagintweit \|author2=Idoia Rosales \|author3=Maria Najarro \|year=2016 \|title=Glomospirella cantabrica n. sp., and other benthic foraminifera from Lower Cretaceous Urgonian-type carbonates of Cantabria, Spain: Biostratigraphic implications \|journal=Geologica Acta \|volume=14 \|issue=2 \|pages=113–138 \|doi=10.1344/GeologicaActa2016.14.2.3}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Schlagintweit, Rosales & Najarro \| Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) \| Las Peñosas Formation Reocín Formation \| {{Flag\|Spain}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the class Tubothalamea, the order Ammodiscida and the family Ammodiscidae. \|
Gomphosiphon \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Liu et al. \| Ordovician \| Tarim Basin \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A possible member of Cyanobacteria. The type species is Gomphosiphon xinjiangensis. \|
Helicolithus blairiae{{Cite journal\|author1=Zachary A. Kita \|author2=David K. Watkins \|author3=James A. Bergen \|year=2016 \|title=A new calcareous nannofossil species of the genus Helicolithus from the Santonian and its biostratigraphic significance in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway \|journal=Journal of Nannoplankton Research \|volume=36 \|issue=1 \|pages=77–82 \|doi=10.58998/jnr2146 \|url=http://eas2.unl.edu/~dwatkins/Watkins%20images/Kita_Watkins%20JNR%2036-1%202016%20Digital.pdf}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Kita, Watkins & Bergen \| Late Cretaceous (late Santonian) \| Niobrara Formation \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Kansas}}) \| A haptophyte belonging to the family Eiffellithaceae. \|
Hyalolithus tumescens{{Cite journal\|author1=Kenta Abe \|author2=Hideto Tsutsui \|author3=Richard W. Jordan \|year=2016 \|title=Hyalolithus tumescens sp. nov., a siliceous scale-bearing haptophyte from the middle Eocene \|journal=Journal of Micropalaeontology \|volume=35 \|issue=2 \|pages=143–149 \|doi=10.1144/jmpaleo2015-015 \|bibcode=2016JMicP..35..143A \|s2cid=133397013}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Abe, Tsutsui & Jordan \| Eocene \| \| {{Flag\|Barbados}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|California}}) \| A haptophyte belonging to the group Prymnesiales. \|
Idalina grelaudae{{Cite journal\|author1=J. Serra-Kiel \|author2=A. Gallardo-Garcia \|author3=Ph. Razin \|author4=J. Robinet \|author5=J. Roger \|author6=C. Grelaud \|author7=S. Leroy \|author8=C. Robin \|year=2016 \|title=Middle Eocene-Early Miocene larger foraminifera from Dhofar (Oman) and Socotra Island (Yemen) \|journal=Arabian Journal of Geosciences \|volume=9 \|issue=5 \|pages=344 \|doi=10.1007/s12517-015-2243-3 \|s2cid=131162918}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Gallardo-Garcia & Serra-Kiel in Serra-Kiel et al. \| Eocene \| \| {{Flag\|Oman}} {{Flag\|Yemen}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolida and the family Hauerinidae. \|
Idalina pignattii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Gallardo-Garcia & Serra-Kiel in Serra-Kiel et al. \| Oligocene \| Ashawq Formation \| {{Flag\|Oman}} {{Flag\|Yemen}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolida and the family Hauerinidae. \|
Jimenezberrocosoia{{Cite journal\|author1=Jackie A. Lees \|author2=P.R. Bown \|year=2016 \|title=New and intriguing calcareous nannofossils from the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Tanzania \|journal=Journal of Nannoplankton Research \|volume=36 \|issue=1 \|pages=83–95 \|doi=10.58998/jnr2160 \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305175083}} \| Gen. et comb. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Lees & Bown \| Cretaceous (Aptian-Turonian) \| \| North Sea Basin {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the family Biscutaceae. Genus includes "Crucibiscutum" bosunensis Jeremiah (2001), as well as new species J. birchiae. \|
Jodhpurophycus{{Cite journal\|author1=S. Kumar \|author2=S. Ahmad \|year=2016 \|title=Problematic structures from the Ediacaran Jodhpur Sandstone, Rajasthan, India and their possible affinity \|journal=Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India \|volume=61 \|issue=1 \|pages=63–73 \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304776315 \|issn=0552-9360}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Kumar & Ahmad \| Ediacaran \| Jodhpur Sandstone \| {{Flag\|India}} \| A possible alga of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species J. marwarensis. \|
Kaibabia{{Cite journal\|author1=Susannah M. Porter \|author2=Leigh Anne Riedman \|year=2016 \|title=Systematics of organic-walled microfossils from the ca. 780–740 Ma Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona \|journal=Journal of Paleontology \|volume=90 \|issue=5 \|pages=815–853 \|doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.57 \|bibcode=2016JPal...90..815P \|s2cid=133127087}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Disputed \| Porter & Riedman \| Neoproterozoic \| Chuar Group \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Arizona}}) \| An organic-walled microfossil. Genus includes new species K. gemmulella. Loron & Moczydłowska (2018) considered the genus Kaibabia to be a junior synonym of the genus Leiosphaeridia, and transferred the species K. gemmulella to the latter genus. \|
Karenagare \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Riedman & Porter \| Neoproterozoic \| Alinya Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} {{Flag\|Russia}}? \| An acritarch. Genus includes new species K. alinyaensis. \|
Kokia kayae \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Lees & Bown \| Late Cretaceous (Turonian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A microfossil. \|
Lacazinella rogeri \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Serra-Kiel & Vicedo in Serra-Kiel et al. \| Paleocene \| Jafnayn Formation \| {{Flag\|Oman}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolida and the family Fabulariidae. \|
Lanternithus unicavus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Paleocene (Selandian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the family Calyptrosphaeraceae. \|
Lantianella{{Cite journal\|author1=Bin Wan \|author2=Xunlai Yuan \|author3=Zhe Chen \|author4=Chengguo Guan \|author5=Ke Pang \|author6=Qing Tang \|author7=Shuhai Xiao \|year=2016 \|title=Systematic description of putative animal fossils from the early Ediacaran Lantian Formation of South China \|journal=Palaeontology \|volume=59 \|issue=4 \|pages=515–532 \|doi=10.1111/pala.12242\|bibcode=2016Palgy..59..515W \|s2cid=87161994 }} \| Gen. et 2 sp. nov \| Valid{{Cite web\|title=ZooBank.org\|url=http://zoobank.org/References/439795D9-4202-4D5C-9897-5F72D082CC78\|access-date=2022-01-19\|website=zoobank.org\|language=en-us}} \| Wan et al. \| Early Ediacaran \| Lantian Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| An organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement; might be a cnidarian (the possibility considered to be most likely by the authors of its description), or a macroalga. The type species is Lantianella laevis; genus also includes L. annularis. \|
Lanulatisphaera \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Porter & Riedman \| Neoproterozoic \| Alinya Formation Chuar Group Karuyarvinskaya Formation Visingsö Group \| {{Flag\|Australia}} {{Flag\|Russia}} {{Flag\|Sweden}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Arizona}}) {{Flag\|Greenland}}? {{Flag\|Norway}}? \| An organic-walled microfossil; a new genus for "Trachysphaeridium" laufeldi Vidal (1976). \|
Latiortenuiphyton \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Wang et al. \| Ediacaran \| Doushantuo Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A macroscopic alga of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is L. robusta. \|
Lindavia cohenii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Mohan & Stone in Mohan, Stone & Campisano \| Pliocene \| Hadar Formation \| {{Flag\|Ethiopia}} \| A diatom belonging to the group Thalassiosirales and the family Stephanodiscaceae. \|
Macetadiscus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Hottinger, Serra-Kiel & Gallardo-Garcia in Serra-Kiel et al. \| Eocene \| \| {{Flag\|Oman}} {{Flag\|Yemen}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolida and the family Soritidae. The type species is M. incolumnatus. \|
Mallomonas elephantus{{Cite journal\|author1=Peter A. Siver \|author2=Alexander P. Wolfe \|year=2016 \|title=Mallomonas elephantus sp. nov. (Synurophyceae), an Extinct Fossil Lineage Bearing Unique Scales from the Eocene \|journal=Nova Hedwigia \|volume=103 \|issue=1–2 \|pages=211–223 \|doi=10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2016/0346}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Siver & Wolfe \| Eocene \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} \| A synurophyte, a species of Mallomonas. \|
Megacrassispirella \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Zhang in Zhang et al. \| Permian \| Xiala Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolata and the family Cornuspiridae. A new genus for "Ammodiscus" xarlashanensis Wang (1986). \|
Microlepidopalla \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Porter & Riedman \| Neoproterozoic, possibly also Mesoproterozoic \| Chuar Group Moosehorn Lake Formation Muhos Formation? \| {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Arizona}}) {{Flag\|Finland}}? \| An organic-walled microfossil. Genus includes new species M. mira. \|
Morgensternia \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Riedman & Porter \| Neoproterozoic \| Alinya Formation \| {{Flag\|Australia}} \| An acritarch. Genus includes new species M. officerensis. \|
Nannoconus funiculus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Lees & Bown \| Late Cretaceous (Turonian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the family Nannoconaceae. \|
Nodocantabricus{{Cite journal\|author1=Sylvain Rigaud \|author2=Felix Schlagintweit \|year=2016 \|title=Initiation of a reversal to uniseriality in the polymorphinid Nodocantabricus duplexmurus n. gen., n. sp.: A double-layered Foraminifera from the lower-middle Cenomanian of Cantabria, N-Spain \|journal=Cretaceous Research \|volume=63 \|pages=14–22 \|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2016.02.008\|bibcode=2016CrRes..63...14R }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Rigaud & Schlagintweit \| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) \| Altamira Formation Bielba Formation \| {{Flag\|Spain}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the family Polymorphinidae. Genus includes new species N. duplexmurus. \|
Nyktericysta sibirica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Razumkova \| Early Cretaceous (Aptian) \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A dinoflagellate belonging to the family Ceratiaceae. \|
Omanodiscus \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Hottinger, Serra-Kiel & Gallardo-Garcia in Serra-Kiel et al. \| Eocene \| \| {{Flag\|Oman}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolida and the family Soritidae. The type species is O. tenuissimus. \|
Oolina barkeri \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Margerel \| Late Pliocene-early Pleistocene \| \| {{Flag\|France}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the family Ellipsolagenidae. \|
Oolina falsoscalariformis \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Margerel \| Early Pliocene \| \| {{Flag\|France}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the family Ellipsolagenidae. \|
Ortonellopsis \| Gen. et sp. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Vachard & Cózar in Vachard et al. \| Silurian-Triassic \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} {{Flag\|France}} {{Flag\|Greece}} {{Flag\|Spain}} \| A member of Cyanobacteria belonging to the family Garwoodiaceae. The type species is O. laxa; genus also includes "Ortonella" mansellensis (Poncet, 1986) and "Ortonella" myrae Rácz (1964). \|
Paragraptobranca \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Wang et al. \| Ediacaran \| Doushantuo Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A macrofossil organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, might be a macroalga or an animal. The type species is P. curvus. \|
Perissothallus dekovensis{{Cite journal\|author1=Josef Pšenička \|author2=Michael Krings \|year=2016 \|title=First record of the noncalcareous macroalga Perissothallus from shallow-water deposits (Pennsylvanian) in the Kladno-Rakovník Basin, Czech Republic \|journal=Bulletin of Geosciences \|volume=91 \|issue=1 \|pages=57–64 \|doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1580}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Pšenička & Krings \| Carboniferous (Gzhelian) \| Slaný Formation \| {{Flag\|Czech Republic}} \| An alga of uncertain phylogenetic placement, a species of Perissothallus. \|
Petrarhabdus? kirenii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Lees & Bown \| Late Cretaceous (Turonian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the family Prediscosphaeraceae. \|
Piyuania \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Wan et al. \| Early Ediacaran \| Lantian Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| An organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a cnidarian-grade animal. The type species is P. cyathiformis. \|
Plumeropriscum \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Mason & Narbonne \| Ediacaran \| \| {{Flag\|Canada}} ({{Flag\|Newfoundland and Labrador}}) \| A mop-like rangeomorph. The type species is P. hofmanni. \|
Pontosphaera veta \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Paleocene (Selandian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the order Zygodiscales and the family Pontosphaeraceae. \|
Proaulopora pachydermatica \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Liu et al. \| Ordovician \| Tarim Basin \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A possible member of Cyanobacteria, a species of Proaulopora. \|
Pseudoaccordiella \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Gallardo-Garcia & Serra-Kiel in Serra-Kiel et al. \| Eocene \| \| {{Flag\|Oman}} {{Flag\|Yemen}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Globothalamea and the family Pfenderinidae. The type species is P. ayaki. \|
Pseudodoushantuophyton \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Wang et al. \| Ediacaran \| Doushantuo Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A probably a macroalga. The type species is P. wenghuiensis. \|
Pseudolituonella robineti \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Gallardo-Garcia & Serra-Kiel in Serra-Kiel et al. \| Eocene \| Aydim Formation \| {{Flag\|Oman}} {{Flag\|Yemen}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Globothalamea and the family Coskinolinidae. \|
Pseudonumoloculina kalantarii \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Schlagintweit & Rashidi \| Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) \| Tarbur Formation \| {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the family Hauerinidae. \|
Pseudorhapydionina bilottei{{Cite journal\|author1=L. Consorti \|author2=C. Boix \|author3=E. Caus \|year=2016 \|title=Pseudorhapydionina bilottei sp. nov., an endemic foraminifera from the post-Cenomanian/Turonian boundary (Pyrenees, NE Spain) \|journal=Cretaceous Research \|volume=59 \|pages=147–154 \|doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2015.10.021\|bibcode=2016CrRes..59..147C }} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Consorti, Boix & Caus \| Late Cretaceous (Santonian) \| La Cova Unit \| {{Flag\|Spain}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolida and the family Praerhapydioninidae. \|
Qianchuania \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Wan et al. \| Early Ediacaran \| Lantian Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| An organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a cnidarian-grade animal. The type species is Q. fusiformis. \|
Rogerella \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Gallardo-Garcia & Serra-Kiel in Serra-Kiel et al. \| Eocene \| Aydim Formation \| {{Flag\|Oman}} {{Flag\|Yemen}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Globothalamea and the family Orbitolinidae. The type species is R. aydimi. \|
Rossanella{{Cite journal\|author1=Sylvain Rigaud \|author2=Joachim Blau \|year=2016 \|title=New robertinid foraminifers from the Early Jurassic of Adnet, Austria and their evolutionary importance \|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica \|volume=61 \|issue=4 \|pages=721–734 \|doi=10.4202/app.00250.2016 \|s2cid=54173208}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Rigaud & Blau \| Early Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) \| Schnöll Formation \| {{Flag\|Austria}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Robertinida and the family Conorboididae. The type species is R. martinii. \|
Rothpletzella longita \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Liu et al. \| Ordovician \| Tarim Basin \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A microorganism of uncertain phylogenetic placement, a species of Rothpletzella. \|
Socotraella \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Gallardo-Garcia & Serra-Kiel in Serra-Kiel et al. \| Oligocene \| Ashawq Formation Aydim Formation \| {{Flag\|Oman}} {{Flag\|Yemen}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Globothalamea and the family Valvulinidae. The type species is S. ashawqi. \|
Solisphaera palmula \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Middle-Late Paleocene \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the order Syracosphaerales, related to the family Rhabdosphaeraceae. \|
Solisphaera tegula \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Middle Paleocene to Middle Eocene \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the order Syracosphaerales, related to the family Rhabdosphaeraceae. \|
Sphenolithus pospichalii{{Cite journal\|author1=Shijun Jiang \|author2=Y. Wang \|author3=O. Varol \|author4=R.O.B.P. Da Gama \|author5=T. Blaj \|year=2016 \|title=A new early Miocene Sphenolithus species from South China Sea \|journal=Journal of Nannoplankton Research \|volume=36 \|issue=1 \|pages=61–63 \|doi=10.58998/jnr2132 \|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303189943}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Jiang et al. \| Early Miocene \| \| Northern shelf of the South China Sea \| A microfossil. \|
Spirolina? farsiana \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Schlagintweit & Rashidi \| Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) \| Tarbur Formation \| {{Flag\|Iran}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Miliolida and the superfamily Soritoidea. \|
Surninia{{Cite journal\|author=P. N. Kolosov \|year=2016 \|title=New microorganisms from the Vendian (Ediacaran) of the Berezovsky Trough, southern Siberian Platform \|journal=Paleontological Journal \|volume=50 \|issue=6 \|pages=549–556 \|doi=10.1134/S0031030116060071 \|s2cid=89365902}} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Kolosov \| Ediacaran \| \| {{Flag\|Russia}} \| A microorganism. Genus includes new species S. implicata. \|
Tectatodinium nigeriaense \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Awad & Oboh-Ikuenobe \| Paleocene \| \| Gulf of Guinea (Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin) {{Flag\|Nigeria}} \| A dinoflagellate belonging to the group Gonyaulacales. \|
Tongrenphyton \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Wang et al. \| Ediacaran \| Doushantuo Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A probably a eukaryotic alga. The type species is T. komma. \|
Toweius patellus \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Paleocene (Selandian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the order Isochrysidales and the family Prinsiaceae. \|
Toweius reticulum \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Late Paleocene \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the order Isochrysidales and the family Prinsiaceae. \|
Trochoguembelitria liuae{{Cite journal\|author1=Ignacio Arenillas \|author2=José Antonio Arz \|author3=Carolina Náñez \|year=2016 \|title=New species of the genus Trochoguembelitria from the lowermost Danian of Tunisia – biostratigraphic and evolutionary implications in planktonic foraminifera \|journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung A \|volume=305 \|issue=4–6 \|pages=135–161 \|doi=10.1127/pala/305/2016/135 \|bibcode=2016PalAA.305..135A \|url=http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/75708}} \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Arenillas, Arz & Náñez \| Paleocene (early Danian) \| El Haria Formation \| {{Flag\|Tunisia}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Heterohelicacea and the family Guembelitriidae. \|
Trochoguembelitria olssoni \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Arenillas, Arz & Náñez \| Paleocene (early Danian) \| El Haria Formation \| {{Flag\|Tunisia}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Heterohelicacea and the family Guembelitriidae. \|
Velleditsiella \| Gen. et 2 sp. nov \| Valid \| Rigaud & Blau \| Early Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) \| Schnöll Formation \| {{Flag\|Austria}} \| A foraminifer belonging to the group Robertinida and the family Trochosiphoniidae. The type species is V. felicitaszae; genus also includes V. spinaferra. \|
Vendophycus \| Gen. et 2 sp. nov \| Valid \| Kumar & Ahmad \| Ediacaran \| Jodhpur Sandstone \| {{Flag\|India}} \| A possible alga of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Genus includes new species V. rajasthanensis and V. sursagarensis. \|
Vidalopalla \| Gen. et comb. nov \| Valid \| Riedman & Porter \| Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic \| Alinya Formation Baffin Bay Group Ekkerøy Formation Klubbnes Formation Ruyang Group \| {{Flag\|Australia}} {{Flag\|China}} {{Flag\|Greenland}} {{Flag\|India}} {{Flag\|Norway}} {{Flag\|Russia}} {{Flag\|United States}} \| A microfossil. Genus includes "Kildinosphaera" verrucata Vidal in Vidal & Siedlecka (1983), as well as "Kildinosphaera" granulata Vidal in Vidal & Siedlecka (1983).{{Cite journal\|author1=Heda Agić \|author2=Małgorzata Moczydłowska \|author3=Leiming Yin \|year=2017 \|title=Diversity of organic-walled microfossils from the early Mesoproterozoic Ruyang Group, North China Craton - a window into the early eukaryote evolution \|journal=Precambrian Research \|volume=297 \|pages=101–130 \|doi=10.1016/j.precamres.2017.04.042 \|bibcode=2017PreR..297..101A}} \|
Volleyballia \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Porter & Riedman \| Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic \| Alinya Formation Browne Formation Chuar Group Conselheiro Mata Group \| {{Flag\|Australia}} {{Flag\|Botswana}} {{Flag\|Brazil}} {{Flag\|United States}} ({{Flag\|Arizona}}) \| An organic-walled microfossil. Genus includes new species V. dehlerae. \|
Xianella{{Cite journal\|author1=Jeong-Hyun Lee \|author2=Robert Riding \|year=2016 \|title=Xianella: a new mat-forming calcified cyanobacterium from the Middle–Late Ordovician of North China \|journal=Papers in Palaeontology \|volume=2 \|issue=3 \|pages=439–449 \|doi=10.1002/spp2.1049\|s2cid=132692789 }} \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Lee & Riding \| Middle–Late Ordovician \| \| {{Flag\|China}} \| A member of Cyanobacteria. The type species is X. hongii. \|
Xiuningella \| Gen. et sp. nov \| Valid \| Wan et al. \| Early Ediacaran \| Lantian Formation \| {{Flag\|China}} \| An organism of uncertain phylogenetic placement; might be a worm-like animal or an alga. The type species is X. rara. \|
Youngilithus bipons \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Paleocene (Selandian) \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the family Calyptrosphaeraceae. \|
Youngilithus transversipons \| Sp. nov \| Valid \| Bown \| Middle-Late Paleocene \| \| {{Flag\|Tanzania}} \| A haptophyte belonging to the family Calyptrosphaeraceae. \|
Zuunartsphyton \| Gen. et sp. nov \| \| Dornbos et al. \| Ediacaran \| Zuun-Arts Formation \| {{Flag\|Mongolia}} \| A multicellular benthic alga of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Zuunartsphyton delicatum. \|

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Probable stromatolites are described from the 3,700-Myr-old rocks from the Isua supracrustal belt (Greenland) by Nutman et al. (2016);{{Cite journal|author1=Allen P. Nutman |author2=Vickie C. Bennett |author3=Clark R. L. Friend |author4=Martin J. Van Kranendonk |author5=Allan R. Chivas |year=2016 |title=Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures |journal=Nature |volume=537 |issue=7621 |pages=535–538 |doi=10.1038/nature19355 |pmid=27580034|bibcode=2016Natur.537..535N |s2cid=205250494 |url=https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/4157}} however, Allwood et al. (2018) subsequently argue that these putative stromatolites as more likely to be structures of non-biological origin.{{Cite journal|author1=Abigail C. Allwood |author2=Minik T. Rosing |author3=David T. Flannery |author4=Joel A. Hurowitz |author5=Christopher M. Heirwegh |year=2018 |title=Reassessing evidence of life in 3,700-million-year-old rocks of Greenland |journal=Nature |volume=563 |issue=7730 |pages=241–244 |doi=10.1038/s41586-018-0610-4 |pmid=30333621 |bibcode=2018Natur.563..241A |s2cid=52987320}}
Exceptionally large, organic, smooth-walled, coccoidal microfossils are described from the 2.52 Ga Gamohaan Formation (South Africa) by Czaja, Beukes & Osterhout (2016), who interpret them as fossils of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria similar to members of the modern genus Thiomargarita.{{Cite journal|author1=Andrew D. Czaja |author2=Nicolas J. Beukes |author3=Jeffrey T. Osterhout |year=2016 |title=Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria prior to the Great Oxidation Event from the 2.52 Ga Gamohaan Formation of South Africa |journal=Geology |volume=44 |issue=12 |pages=983–986 |doi=10.1130/G38150.1 |bibcode=2016Geo....44..983C}}
Macroscopic fossils up to 30 cm long and nearly 8 cm wide are described from the 1,56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation (Yanshan area, North China) by Zhu et al. (2016), who interpret them as probable fossils of benthic multicellular eukaryotes of size that is unprecedentedly large for eukaryotes older than the Ediacaran Period.{{Cite journal|author1=Shixing Zhu |author2=Maoyan Zhu |author3=Andrew H. Knoll |author4=Zongjun Yin |author5=Fangchen Zhao |author6=Shufen Sun |author7=Yuangao Qu |author8=Min Shi |author9=Huan Liu |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China |journal=Nature Communications |volume=7 |pages=Article number 11500 |doi=10.1038/ncomms11500 |pmid=27186667 |pmc=4873660|bibcode=2016NatCo...711500Z}}
Organic-walled microfossils (at least some of which are eukaryote fossils) with holes in the walls similar to those formed by predatory protists in the walls of their prey to consume the contents inside are described from the 780–740 million-year-old Chuar Group (Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA) by Porter (2016).{{Cite journal|author=Susannah M. Porter |year=2016 |title=Tiny vampires in ancient seas: evidence for predation via perforation in fossils from the 780–740 million-year-old Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, USA |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=283 |issue=1831 |pages=20160221 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2016.0221 |pmid=27194696 |pmc=4892792}}
Tubular microfossils showing similarities to modern coenocytic green and yellow-green algae are described from the ~2.8 to 2.7 Ga lacustrine deposits in South Africa by Kaźmierczak et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=Józef Kaźmierczak |author2=Barbara Kremer |author3=Wladyslaw Altermann |author4=Ian Franchi |year=2016 |title=Tubular microfossils from ~2.8 to 2.7 Ga-old lacustrine deposits of South Africa: A sign for early origin of eukaryotes? |journal=Precambrian Research |volume=286 |pages=180–194 |doi=10.1016/j.precamres.2016.10.001 |bibcode=2016PreR..286..180K |s2cid=54005560 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/999576}}
Soft-bodied discoidal specimens resembling Aspidella are described from the Ediacaran Cerro Negro Formation (Argentina) by Arrouy et al. (2016).{{Cite journal|author1=María Julia Arrouy |author2=Lucas V. Warren |author3=Fernanda Quaglio |author4=Daniel G. Poiré |author5=Marcello Guimarães Simões |author6=Milena Boselli Rosa |author7=Lucía E. Gómez Peral |year=2016 |title=Ediacaran discs from South America: probable soft-bodied macrofossils unlock the paleogeography of the Clymene Ocean |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 30590 |doi=10.1038/srep30590 |pmid=27460966 |pmc=4962044|bibcode=2016NatSR...630590A}}

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