Plants

Angiosperms

Arthropods

Arachnids

Crustaceans

Insects

Molluscs

Bivalves

Fishes

Newly named placoderms

Newly named cartilaginous fish

Amphibians

Ichthyosaurs

Archosauromorphs

Newly named crurotarsans

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Newly named pterosaurs

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

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

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