1916 in paleontology explained

Plants

Newly named angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Florissantia[1]	Gen et sp nov	jr synonym (pro part)	Knowlton	Late Eocene	Florissant Formation	United States	A mallow relative. Type species F. physalis, jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1886)
Porana similis	Sp nov	jr synonym	Knowlton	Late Eocene	Florissant Formation	United States	A mallow relative. jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1992)

Echinoderms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Argentinaster[2]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Ruedemann	Early Devonian	Talacasto Formation	Argentina	A brittle star belonging to the family Ophiurinidae, type species is A. bodenbenderi.
Encrinaster yachalensis	Sp nov	Jr synonym	Ruedemann	Early Devonian	Talacasto Formation	Argentina	A brittle star belonging to the family Encrinasteridae, moved to the genus Marginaster in 1995,[3] which was then renamed to Marginix in 2015.[4]

Fish

Bony fish

Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list^[7] and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.^[8]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
"Doryphorosaurus"[9]	Gen et comb nov	Junior synonym	Nopcsa	Late Jurassic	Tendaguru Formation		Invalid replacement name for Kentrosaurus (1915).
"Gigantoscelus"[10]	Gen et sp nov	nomen dubium	van Hoepen	Early Jurassic			A possible Sauropodomorpha of poor description
"Kentrurosaurus"[11]	Gen et comb nov	Junior synonym	Hennig	Late Jurassic	Tendaguru Formation		Invalid replacement name for Kentrosaurus (1915).
Prosaurolophus[12]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Brown	late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	)	A saurolophine hadrosaur

Plesiosaurs

Newly named taxa

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

References

1. Manchester . S.R. . 1992 . Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America . American Journal of Botany . 79 . 9 . 996–1008 . 10.2307/2444909 . 2444909 .
2. Ruedemann . Rudolf . 1916 . Two new starfishes from the Silurian of Argentina . New York State Museum Bulletin . 189 . 116–120.
3. Haude . Reimund . 1995-07-14 . Lower Devonian echinoderms from the Precordillera (Argentina) . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen . en . 197 . 1 . 37–86 . 10.1127/njgpa/197/1995/37 . 0077-7749.
4. Martínez . Sergio . Río . Claudia del . 2015 . Fossil Asterozoa (Echinodermata) of Argentina . Revista de Biología Tropical . en . 63 . 2 . 1–6.
5. Hussakof . L. . 1916 . A new cyprinid fish, Leuciscus rosei, from the Miocene of British Columbia . American Journal of Science . 4 . 247 . 18–20 . 10.2475/ajs.s4-42.247.18.
6. Hilton . E. . Grande . L. . 2008 . Fossil Mooneyes (Teleostei: Hiodontiformes, Hiodontidae) from the Eocene of western North America, with a reassessment of their taxonomy . Geological Society, London, Special Publications . 295 . 221–251. 10.1144/SP295.13 . 128680041 .
7. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
8. Web site: Montague. Jeremy. Dr. Montague's Database . 2008-10-29 .
9. Nopcsa, F. 1916. Doryphorosaurus nov. nom. fiir Kentrosaurus Hennig. Centralbl. Mineral. Geol. Palaeont. 1916: pp. 511-512.
10. Hoepen, E.C.N. van. 1916. De ouderdom der Transvaalsche Karroolagen. Verh. Geol.- mijnbouwkundig genootschap Nederland en kolonien (Geol. Ser.) 3: pp. 107-117.
11. Hennig, E. 1916. Zweite Mirteilung tiber den Stegosauriden vom Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1916: pp.175-182.
12. Brown, B. 1916. A new crested trachodont dinosaur, Prosaurolophus maximus. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 35: pp. 701-708.