1895 in paleontology explained

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Cercopis grandescens^[1]	Sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A froghopper
Cercopites torpescens	Sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A froghopper
Dawsonites	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A froghopper Type species D. veter
Cryptocephalites^[2]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A chrysomelid leaf beetle. Type species C. punctatus
Limonius impunctus	Sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		An elaterid click beetle.
Palaeoptysma	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A spittle bug Type species P. venosa
Ptysmaphora	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A spittle bug Type species P. fletcheri
Ricania antiquata	Sp nov	jr synonym	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A Polystoechotid-group moth lacewing^[3] Moved to Ricaniella antiquata (1897)^[4]
Stenecphora	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A froghopper Type species S. punctulata
Stenolocris	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A froghopper Type species S. venosa

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Cryptocynodon	Valid	Seeley	Late Permian
Cynognathus	Valid	Seeley	Middle Triassic
Diademodon	Valid	Seeley	Middle Triassic		A Cynodont.
Esoterodon	Valid	Seeley
Gomphognathus	Valid	Seeley
Microgomphodon	Valid	Seeley
Pristerognathus	Valid	Seeley			A Therocephalian
Trirachodon	Valid	Seeley

References

1. Scudder . S. H . 1895 . Canadian fossil insects, myriapods and arachnids, Vol I. The Tertiary Hemiptera of British Columbia . Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology . 2 . 5–26.
2. Scudder . S. H . 1895 . Canadian fossil insects, myriapods and arachnids, Vol II. The Coleoptera hitherto found fossil in Canada . Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology . 2 . 5–26.
3. Shcherbakov . D. E. . 2006 . The earliest find of Tropiduchidae (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha), representing a new tribe, from the Eocene of Green River, USA, with notes on the fossil record of higher Fulgoroidea . Russian Entomological Journal . 15 . 315-322.
4. Meunier . F. . 1897 . Observations sur quelques insectes du Corallien de la Bavière . Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia . 3 . 18-23.
5. Jorge I. Noriega . Juan I. Areta . Sergio F. Vizcaíno . M. Susana Bargo . 2011 . Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Patagonian Miocene Falcon Thegornis musculosus Ameghino, 1895 (Aves: Falconidae) . Journal of Paleontology. 85 . 6 . 1089–1104 . 10.1666/10-122.1 . 84262902 . 11336/76576 . free .