Protozoans
Diatoms
Plants
Conifers
Angiosperms
Fungi
Arthropoda
Arachnids
Insects
Xiphosurans
- Fossils of Lunataspis, the earliest known xiphosuran, are discovered in Canada. It was not given a formal description until 2008, however.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Archosauromorphs
Newly named Non-Avian dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Newly named pterosaurs
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Mammals
New taxa
Footnotes
Complete author list
As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.
References