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This list, 2015 in molluscan paleontology, is a list of new taxa of ammonites and other fossil cephalopods, as well as fossil gastropods, bivalves and other molluscs that will be described during the year 2015.

Ammonites

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Aspenites radiatus^[1]	Sp. nov	Valid	Smyshlyaeva & Zakharov	Early Triassic		Russia	A member of Aspenitidae, a species of Aspenites.
Barremites macroumbilicus^[2]	Sp. nov	Valid	Matsukawa & Obata	Early Cretaceous		Japan	A species of Barremites.
Choffatia schilleri^[3]	Sp. nov	Valid	Parent & Garrido	Middle Jurassic (late Callovian)	La Manga Formation	Argentina	A species of Choffatia.
Cyrtoclymenia? magna^[4]	Sp. nov	In press	Zong, Becker & Ma	Late Devonian (Famennian)	Hongguleleng Formation	China	A member of Cyrtoclymeniidae, possibly a species of Cyrtoclymenia.
Deweveria kovalenkoi^[1]	Sp. nov	Valid	Smyshlyaeva & Zakharov	Early Triassic		Russia	A member of Hemilecanitidae, a species of Deweveria.
Docidoceras tolleyi^[5]	Sp. nov	Valid	Sandoval & Chandler	Middle Jurassic		United Kingdom	A species of Docidoceras.
Frogdenites fernandezlopezi^[5]	Sp. nov	Valid	Sandoval & Chandler	Middle Jurassic (early Bajocian)		Spain	A species of Frogdenites.
Idoceras pinonense^[6]	Sp. nov	Valid	Zell & Stinnesbeck	Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)	La Casita Formation	Mexico	A member of Perisphinctidae, a species of Idoceras.
Labyrinthoceras dietzei^[5]	Sp. nov	Valid	Sandoval & Chandler	Middle Jurassic		Spain United Kingdom	A species of Labyrinthoceras.
“Mimimitoceras” transiens^[4]	Sp. nov	In press	Becker & Zong in Zong, Becker & Ma	Late Devonian (Famennian)	Heishantou Formation	China	A member of Prionoceratidae of uncertain phylogenetic placement.
Protactoclymenia junggarensis^[4]	Sp. nov	In press	Zong, Becker & Ma	Late Devonian (Famennian)	Hongguleleng Formation	China	A member of Cyrtoclymeniidae, a species of Protactoclymenia.
Protactoclymenia parallela^[4]	Sp. nov	In press	Zong, Becker & Ma	Late Devonian (Famennian)	Hongguleleng Formation	China	A member of Cyrtoclymeniidae, a species of Protactoclymenia.
Pseudoflemingites evolutus^[1]	Sp. nov	Valid	Smyshlyaeva & Zakharov	Early Triassic		Russia	A member of Flemingitidae, a species of Pseudoflemingites.
Rohillites orientalis^[1]	Sp. nov	Valid	Smyshlyaeva & Zakharov	Early Triassic		Russia	A member of Flemingitidae, a species of Rohillites.
Schrambachoceras^[7]	Gen. et comb. et sp. nov	Valid	Boorová et al.	Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian-early Valanginian,)		Austria Spain	A member of Ancyloceratina related to Protancyloceras. A new genus for "Protancyloceras" obscurocostatum Vašíček & Hoedemaeker (2003); genus also contains a new species Schrambachoceras weidichi.
Sporadoceras impressum^[4]	Sp. nov	In press	Becker & Zong in Zong, Becker & Ma	Late Devonian (Famennian)	Hongguleleng Formation	China	A member of Sporadoceratidae, a species of Sporadoceras.
Subradioceras^[1]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Smyshlyaeva & Zakharov	Early Triassic		Russia	A member of Meekoceratidae. The type species is Subradioceras mikhailovichi.
Veranadaites^[3]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Parent & Garrido	Late Jurassic (early Oxfordian)	La Manga Formation	Argentina	A sphaeroceratid ammonite related to the genus Araucanites. The type species is Veranadaites palmicostatus.

Other cephalopods

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Amphispirula^[8]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid^[9]	Fuchs & Košťák	Eocene		Czech Republic	A relative of the ram's horn squid. The type species is Amphispirula herspica.
Bactroceras boliviensis^[10]	Sp. nov	In press	Aubrechtová	Ordovician (late Floian)	Pircancha Formation	Bolivia	A baltoceratid orthocerid, a species of Bactroceras.
Euloxoceras buffalowallowense^[11]	Sp. nov	Valid	Niko & Mapes	Carboniferous (Chesterian)	Moorefield Formation	United States	An orthocerid, a species of Euloxoceras.
Haboroteuthis^[12]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Tanabe, Misaki & Ubukata	Late Cretaceous (probably late Santonian)	Haborogawa Formation	Japan	A squid of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Haboroteuthis poseidon.
Moorefieldoceras^[11]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Niko & Mapes	Carboniferous (Chesterian)	Moorefield Formation	United States	An orthocerid. The type species is Moorefieldoceras yochelsoni.
Mutveiceras^[13]	Gen. et sp. nov	In press	Cichowolski et al.	Ordovician (Floian)	Acoite Formation	Argentina	An eothinoceratid nautiloid. The type species is Mutveiceras cienagaensis.
Nanaimoteuthis hikidai^[12]	Sp. nov	Valid	Tanabe, Misaki & Ubukata	Late Cretaceous (early Campanian)	Haborogawa Formation	Japan	A relative of the vampire squid, a species of Nanaimoteuthis.
Peripetoceras milleri^[11]	Sp. nov	Valid	Niko & Mapes	Carboniferous (Chesterian)	Moorefield Formation	United States	A nautilid, a species of Peripetoceras.
Pumiliobelus^[14]	Gen. et 2 sp. nov	Valid	Williamson & Henderson	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Gearle Siltstone of the Carnarvon Basin	Australia	A dimitobelid belemnite. Genus contains two species: P. haigi and P. tumidus.
Rachiteuthis acutali^[15]	Sp. nov	Valid	Jattiot et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)		Lebanon	A coleoid cephalopod, a species of Rachiteuthis.
Saloceras quena^[13]	Sp. nov	In press	Cichowolski et al.	Ordovician (Floian)	Acoite Formation	Argentina	An eothinoceratid nautiloid, a species of Saloceras.
Saloceras sikus^[13]	Sp. nov	In press	Cichowolski et al.	Ordovician (Floian)	Acoite Formation	Argentina	An eothinoceratid nautiloid, a species of Saloceras.

Gastropods

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Anodomaria kosmajae^[16]	Sp. nov	Valid	Ayoub-Hannaa et al.	Late Cretaceous (early Cenomanian)		Serbia	A sea snail, a species of Anodomaria.
Atopippeutis^[17]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Kadolsky	Oligocene		Germany	A segmentinine planorbid. The type species is Atopippeutis muelleri.
Bathrotomaria kronzwilmesorum^[18]	Sp. nov	In press	Gatto et al.	Early Jurassic		France	A species of Bathrotomaria.
Carychium galli^[19]	Sp. nov	Valid	Salvador	Miocene		Germany	A species of Carychium.
Conasprella (Ximeniconus) ageri^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Early Pliocene	Gurabo Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conasprella.
Conus anningae^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Early Pliocene	Gurabo Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conus.
Conus (Stephanoconus) bellacoensis^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Late Miocene to early Pliocene	Cercado Formation Gurabo Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conus.
Conus (Lautoconus?) carlottae^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Late Miocene to early Pliocene	Cercado Formation Gurabo Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conus.
Conus (Ductoconus) cashi^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Late Miocene to early Pliocene	Cercado Formation Gurabo Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conus.
Conus (Atlanticonus?) franklinae^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Late Miocene to early Pliocene	Cercado Formation Gurabo Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conus.
Conus (Dauciconus) garrisoni^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Late Miocene	Cercado Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conus.
Conus (Stephanoconus) gouldi^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Late Miocene	Cercado Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conus.
Conus (Spuriconus?) kaesleri^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Early Pliocene	Gurabo Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conus.
Conus (Spuriconus?) lombardii^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Late Miocene	Cercado Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conus.
Conus lyelli^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Late Miocene to early Pliocene	Cercado Formation Gurabo Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conus.
Conus (Dauciconus?) zambaensis^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Early Pliocene	Gurabo Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, a species of Conus.
Latiala? callositae^[16]	Sp. nov	Valid	Ayoub-Hannaa et al.	Late Cretaceous (early Cenomanian)		Serbia	A sea snail, possibly a species of Latiala.
Lutetiella^[21]	Gen. et sp. et comb. nov	Valid	Kadolsky	Eocene		France Germany	Possibly a member of Hydrobiidae. The type species is Lutetiella hartkopfi; genus also contains "Paludina" conica Prévost (1821).
Peruvispira canningensis^[22]	Sp. nov	Valid	Taboada et al.	Early Permian	Calytrix Formation	Australia	A species of Peruvispira.
Profundiconus? hennigi^[20]	Sp. nov	Valid	Hendricks	Late Miocene	Cercado Formation	Dominican Republic	A member of Conidae, possibly a species of Profundiconus.
Pseudonerinea jovankae^[16]	Sp. nov	Valid	Ayoub-Hannaa et al.	Late Cretaceous (early Cenomanian)		Serbia	A sea snail, a species of Pseudonerinea.

Other molluscs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Circunula^[23]	Gen. et comb. nov	Valid	Koppka	Late Jurassic		Russia Czech Republic France Germany Poland Switzerland	A foam oyster; a new genus for "Ostrea" cotyledon Contejean (1859).
Cosmetopsis glimmerodensis^[24]	Sp. nov	Valid	Janssen	Oligocene	Kassel Formation	Germany	A limopsid bivalve, a species of Cosmetopsis.
Cosmetopsis latdorfensis^[24]	Sp. nov	Valid	Janssen	Oligocene		Belgium Germany	A limopsid bivalve, a species of Cosmetopsis.
Cosmetopsis mothsorum^[24]	Sp. nov	Valid	Janssen	Oligocene		Germany	A limopsid bivalve, a species of Cosmetopsis.
Enigmaconus? pyramidalis^[25]	Sp. nov	In press	Kouchinsky & Vendrasco in Kouchinsky et al.	Early Cambrian	Emyaksin Formation	Russia	A mollusc of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a monoplacophoran; an enigmaconid, possibly a species of Enigmaconus.
Helvetostrea^[23]	Gen. et comb. nov	Valid	Koppka	Middle? to Late Jurassic		Switzerland Germany? Poland? United Kingdom?	A flemingostreid oyster; a new genus for "Ostrea" sequana Thurmann & Etallon (1862). Genus might also contain "Ostrea" caprina Rollier (1917), "Ostrea" oxfordiana Rollier (1917) and "Ostrea" expansa Sowerby (1819).
Offneria prebetica^[26]	Sp. nov	Valid	Masse et al.	Early Cretaceous (early Aptian)		Spain	A caprinid rudist, a species of Offneria.
Paracratis magdeburgensis^[24]	Sp. nov	Valid	Janssen	Oligocene		Germany	A limopsid bivalve, a species of Paracratis.
Paracratis muelleri^[24]	Sp. nov	Valid	Janssen	Oligocene		Germany	A limopsid bivalve, a species of Paracratis.
Ribeiria johni^[27]	Sp. nov	Valid	Polechová	Ordovician (late Katian)	Králův Dvůr Formation	Czech Republic	A ribeirioid rostroconch, a species of Ribeiria.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 O. P. Smyshlyaeva and Y. D. Zakharov (2015). "New Lower Triassic ammonoids from South Primorye". Paleontological Journal 49 (2): 111–120. doi:10.1134/S0031030115020112.
↑ Masaki Matsukawa and Ikuwo Obata (2015). "Barremian–Albian (Early Cretaceous) ammonite faunas of the Katsuuragawa Basin, southwest Japan". Cretaceous Research 56: 25–52. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2014.11.013.
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↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Pu Zong, R. Thomas Becker and Xueping Ma (2015). "Upper Devonian (Famennian) and Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) ammonoids from western Junggar, Xinjiang, northwestern China—stratigraphy, taxonomy and palaeobiogeography". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. in press. doi:10.1007/s12549-014-0171-y.
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 José Sandoval and Robert B. Chandler (2015). "Labyrinthoceras and Frogdenites (Sphaeroceratidae, Ammonitina) from western Tethys: the origin of the Sphaeroceratidae". Geobios 48 (1): 39–56. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2014.11.005.
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↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Marcela Cichowolski, Beatriz G. Waisfeld, Norberto E. Vaccari and Larisa Marengo (2015). "The nautiloid Family Eothinoceratidae from the Floian of the Central Andean Basin (NW Argentina and South Bolivia)". Geological Journal. in press. doi:10.1002/gj.2595.
↑ Toni Williamson and Robert A. Henderson (2015). "Pumiliobelus, a new dwarf coleoid genus (Belemnoidea: Dimitobelidae) from the Cenomanian of Western Australia". Journal of Paleontology 89 (1): 183–188. doi:10.1017/jpa.2014.15.
↑ Romain Jattiot, Arnaud Brayard, Emmanuel Fara and Sylvain Charbonnier (2015). "Gladius-bearing coleoids from the Upper Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstätten: diversity, morphology, and phylogenetic implications". Journal of Paleontology 89 (1): 148–167. doi:10.1017/jpa.2014.13.
↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Wagih Ayoub-Hannaa, Barbara V. Radulović, Vladan J. Radulović and Franz Theodor Fürsich (2015). "Gastropods from the Lower Cenomanian of Koraćica (Kosmaj Mountain, central Serbia)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 276 (1): 27–62. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2015/0474.
↑ Dietrich Kadolsky (2015). "Non-marine and marginally marine mollusk faunas in the European Tertiary, 11. — A mollusk fauna from the Untere Bunte Molasse of the Alpine foreland (Bavaria, Oligocene): The locality Habach 5" (PDF). Geologica Saxonica 61 (1): 53–72.
↑ Roberto Gatto, Stefano Monari, Pascal Neige, Jean-Daniel Pinard and Robert Weis (2015). "Gastropods from upper Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) sediments of Causses Basin, southern France and their recovery after the early Toarcian anoxic event". Geological Magazine. in press. doi:10.1017/S0016756814000788.
↑ Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador (2015). "The fossil pulmonate snails of Sandelzhausen (Early/Middle Miocene, Germany): Ellobiidae, Pupilloidea, and Clausilioidea". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89 (1): 37–50. doi:10.1007/s12542-013-0210-4.
↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 20.6 20.7 20.8 20.9 20.10 20.11 20.12 Jonathan R. Hendricks (2015). "Glowing Seashells: Diversity of Fossilized Coloration Patterns on Coral Reef-Associated Cone Snail (Gastropoda: Conidae) Shells from the Neogene of the Dominican Republic". PLoS ONE 10 (4): e0120924. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120924.
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↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 Ronald Janssen (2015). "A review of the Oligocene Limopsidae of the North Sea Basin (Mollusca: Bivalvia)" (PDF). Geologica Saxonica 61 (1): 7–33.
↑ Artem Kouchinsky, Stefan Bengtson, Sébastien Clausen and Michael J. Vendrasco (2015). "A lower Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Emyaksin Formation, northern Siberia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press. doi:10.4202/app.2012.0004.
↑ Jean-Pierre Masse, Mukerrem Fenerci-Masse, Consuelo Arias and Lorenzo Vilas (2015). "Description of a new species of Offneria (Hippuritida, Caprinidae) from the lower Aptian of southeast Spain. Stratigraphic, evolutionary, palaeobiogeographic and palaeoenvironmental implications". Cretaceous Research 53: 153–166. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2014.10.014.
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