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Arthropods
Insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Pierce |
A Stylotermitid termite. |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named non-avian dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Yang (as Young C. C.) |
Late Campanian |
A tyrannosauroid .
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid taxon |
Yang (as Young C. C.) |
Late Campanian |
Jingangkou Formation |
A hadrosaurid .
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Birds
Newly named birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Late Pliocene
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An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Middle Pliocene
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A Scolopacidae .
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Middle Pliocene
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An Odontophoridae .
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Miller
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Late Pliocene
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A Sulidae. |
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Gen. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Strigidae , the types species of the new genus is Ornimegalonyx oteroi.
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Rallidae , described as Porzana lacustris but transferred by Storrs L. Olson in 1977 to Pardirallus Bonaparte, 1856.
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Late Pliocene
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A Phalacrocoracidae .
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
(Miller
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Middle Pliocene
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Blancan, San Diego Formation |
A Podicipedidae , described as Colymbus subparvus.
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
An Accipitridae, the type species of the genus is Proictinia effera Wetmore, 1923. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
An Accipitridae, the type species of the genus is Proictinia effera Wetmore, 1923. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Miller
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Middle Pliocene
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An Alcidae .
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Gen. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Late Pliocene
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A Furnariidae , Dendrocolaptinae, The type species is Querandiornis romani, described in the Tinamiidae, transferred by Tonni & Tambussi, 1986 to Aves Incertae Sedis, transferred by Agnolin, 2016 to Dendrocolaptinae
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Sulidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid? |
A Troglodytidae , better seen as a Passeriformes Incertae Sedis.
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Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Basicranodon | Junior synonym | Vaughn | Early Permian | US | A junior synonym of the varanopid Mycterosaurus .
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Diarthrognathus | Valid | Crompton | Early Jurassic | Elliot Formation | South Africa | A member of Trithelodontidae .
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Other Animals
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Charnia | Valid | Ford | Ediacaran | Maplewell Group | United Kingdom | ||
Charniodiscus | Valid | Ford | Ediacaran | Maplewell Group | United Kingdom | ||
Spriggina | Valid | Glaessner | Ediacaran | Australia |
References
- OCLC 46769716.
- ^ Pierce, W.D. (1958). "Fossil arthropods of California. No. 21. Termites from Calico Mountains nodules" (PDF). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 575 (1): 13–24.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Young C.-C. 1958. The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shanrung. Palaeontol. Sinica (ser. C) 16: pp. 1-138.
- ^ Burchak-Abramovisch, Nikolaj Iosifovich (1958). "Tertiary Birds of the USSR Tertiary Birds of the USSR". Uchenie Zapiski Azerbaijan State University, Serie Biology. 1: 81–88.
- ^ JSTOR 1365194.
- ^ a b c Pierce Brodkorb (1958). "Fossil Birds from Idaho". Wilson Bulletin. 70: 237–242.
- ^ a b c Loye Holmes Miller & Robert I. Bowman (1958). "Further Bird Remains from the San Diego Pliocene". Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science. 20: 1–15.
- ^ Oscar Arredondo (1958). "Aves Gigantes de Nuestro Pasado Prehistórico, El Cartero Cubana". La Habana. XVII (7): 10–12.
- ^ a b Alexander Wetmore (1958). "Miscellaneous Notes on Fossil Birds". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 135 (8): 1–11.
- ^ Carlos Rusconi (1958). "Ave Fósil del Plioceno de Buenos Aires". Revista del Museo del Historia Natural de Mendoza. 11: 157–160.
- ^ Hildegarde Howard (1958). "Miocene Sulids of Southern California". Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science. 25: 3–15.
- ^ G. Brunner (1958). "Nachtrag zur Breitenberghöhle bei Gösswenstein Ofr". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte. 1958: 500–517.