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Arthropods

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
	Gen. et sp. Nov	Valid	Walcott	Cambrian	Burgess Shale

Amphibians

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
	Gen. et sp. Nov	Valid	S.W. Williston	Late Carboniferous to Early Permian	Cutler Formation		Nominal genus for the family Limnoscelidae

Reptiles

Dinosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes
Aetonyx	Gen. et sp. nov	Junior synonym	Broom	Early Jurassic	Upper Elliot Formation	South Africa	Junior synonym of Massospondylus.
Geranosaurus	Gen. et sp. nov	Nomen dubium	Broom	Early Jurassic	Clarens Formation	South Africa
Gryponyx	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid taxon	Broom	Early Jurassic	Upper Elliot Formation	South Africa	A sauropodomorph
Gyposaurus	Gen. et sp. nov	Possibly a Junior synonym	Broom	Early Jurassic	Upper Elliot Formation	South Africa	A probable junior synonym of Massospondylus.
Podokesaurus	Gen. et sp. nov	Disputed	Talbot	Early Jurassic	Portland Formation	USA	Possible Junior synonym of Coelophysis.
Tornieria	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid taxon	Sternfeld	Late Jurassic	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania

Synapsids

Non-mammalian synapsids

Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Late Permian		South Africa	A South African Gorgonopsid.	[[File:Arctognathus curvimola.jpg	center	thumb	150x150px	[[Arctognathus]]]]
Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Teekloof Formation	South Africa	A South African Gorgonopsid.
Gen. et sp. nov	Junior synonym	Broom	Late Permian		South Africa	Junior synonym of Pristerodon
Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Middle Permian	Abrahamskraal Formation	South Africa	Another South African Gorgonopsian.
Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Teekloof Formation	South Africa	A Therocephalian
Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Middle Permian	Abrahamskraal Formation	South Africa	A Dome-Headed Dinocephalian.	[[File:Moschops capensis.jpg	thumb	150px	center	[[Moschops]]]]
Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Late Permian		South Africa	A Dicynodont.

Other Animals

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country	Notes	Images
	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Walcott	Cambrian	Burgess Shale	Canada	A soft-bodied organism of uncertain placement, currently interpreted as a Gnathiferan	[[File:Amiskwia sagittiformis diagram (cropped).png	left	thumb	Diagram, showing the arrangements of the jaws and plates in the mouth (a) morphology of the ventral plate (b) and jaws (c) in comparison to equivalent elements of [[Gnathostomulid	gnathostomulids]] (d,e) and life restoration (g)]]

References

Williston, S.W.. (1911). "A new family of reptiles from the Permian of New Mexico". The American Journal of Science.
Broom, R. 1911. On the dinosaurs of the Stormberg, South Africa: Annals of the South African Museum 7: pp. 291-308.
Talbot, M. 1911. Podokesaurus holyokensis, a new dinosaur from the Triassic of the Connecticut Valley. Amer. J. Sci. (ser. 4) 31: pp. 469-479.
Sternfeld, R. 1911. Zur Nomenklature der Gattung Gigantosaurus Fraas: Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde Fr. Berlin (1911) 8: p. 398.

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