2017 in paleontology

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Adeonidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Colatooeciidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Romancheinidae.

nov Valid Martha, Niebuhr & Scholz Late Cretaceous (mid-late Turonian) Strehlen Formation Germany A cheilostome bryozoan genus belonging to the family Calloporidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Quadricellariidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Candidae.

nov Valid Wyse Jackson, Ernst & Suárez Andrés Carboniferous (Tournaisian) Hook Head Formation Ireland A member of Cryptostomata belonging to the family Rhabdomesidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Cribrilinidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A Schizoporella-like cheilostome bryozoan of uncertain phylogenetic placement.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Cribrilinidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Schizoporellidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Schizoporellidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Thalamoporellidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Thalamoporellidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Thalamoporellidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Thalamoporellidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Thalamoporellidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Trypostegidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Celleporidae.

nov Valid Di Martino, Taylor & Portell Early Miocene Chipola Formation United States( Florida) A cheilostome bryozoan belonging to the family Vicidae.

nov Valid Baeza-Carratalá, Reolid & García Joral Early Jurassic (late Pliensbachian–early Toarcian) Zegrí Formation Spain A member of Rhynchonellida belonging to the family Norellidae.

nov Valid Mottequin & Simon Carboniferous (Tournaisian) Tournai Formation Belgium A member of Athyridida belonging to the family Nucleospiridae; a replacement name for Athyris globulina de Koninck (1887).

nov Valid McDermott & Paul Ordovician (Katian) Slade and Redhill Beds United Kingdom A mitrate belonging to the family Anomalocystitidae, possibly a species of Ateleocystites.

nov Valid Sheffield, Ausich & Sumrall Ordovician (Hirnantian) Ellis Bay Formation Canada( Quebec) A member of Diploporita belonging to the group Sphaeronitida and the family Holocystitidae.

nov Valid Plasencia et al. Middle Triassic Austria Canada China Egypt Hungary Israel Italy Japan Jordan Russia Spain United States A member of the family Gondolellidae.

nov Valid Plasencia et al. Middle Triassic Austria Bulgaria China France Greece Hungary India Italy Japan Russia Slovakia Slovenia Spain A member of the family Gondolellidae.

nov Valid Ivantsov Late Precambrian Zimnie Gory Formation Russia( Arkhangelsk Oblast) An early eumetazoan, showing similarities to the arthropod species Naraoia longicaudata.

nov Valid Eriksson, Parry & Rudkin Devonian (late Emsian-early Eifelian) Kwataboahegan Formation Canada( Ontario) A eunicidan polychaete of uncertain phylogenetic placement.

nov Valid Schlagintweit & Rashidi Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tarbur Formation Iran A foraminifer belonging to the group Loftusiida, possibly a member of the family Biokovinidae.

nov Valid Schlagintweit & Rashidi Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tarbur Formation Iran A foraminifer belonging to the group Loftusiida, possibly a member of the family Spirocyclinidae.

Important taxa described (but not necessarily validly named) in 2017