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

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, 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

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