2018 in paleoichthyology
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes
Celsiodon Gen. et sp . nov Valid Clack et al Devonian ( late Famennian ) Greenland A lungfish related to Ctenodus . Genus includes new species is C. ahlbergi
Ceratodus tunuensis Sp . nov Valid Agnolin et al Late Triassic Fleming Fjord Greenland A lungfish
Eusthenopteron jenkinsi Sp . nov Valid Downs et al Devonian ( Frasnian ) Fram Canada ( Nunavut )
Mawsonia soba Sp . nov Valid Brito et al Early Cretaceous Babouri Figuil Basin Cameroon A coelacanth
Ptychoceratodus oldhami Sp . nov Valid Bhat & Ray Late Triassic ( Carnian ) Tiki India A lungfish . Announced in 2018 ; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2020
New taxa -- Lobe-finned fishes
This list of fossil fish described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, acanthodians, fossil cartilaginous fish, bony fish, and other fish of every kind that are scheduled to be described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of fish that are scheduled to occur in 2018.