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Bryophytes
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Kuc |
A bartramiaceous moss |
Mollusca
Bivalves
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Babin & Melou |
New genus for Nucula ponderata. |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named archosauromorphs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Argana Formation
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A herbivorous archosauromorph. |
Newly named pseudosuchians
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gracilisuchus[6] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Romer | Late Triassic (Carnian) | Chañares Formation | Argentina |
Newly named dinosauriforms
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Lewisuchus[7] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Romer | Late Triassic (Carnian) | Chañares Formation | Argentina | A silesaurid. |
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[8]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Archaeornithomimus[9] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Russell
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Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) | Iren Dabasu Formation | China | An ornithomimid. | |
Dromiceiomimus[9] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Russell
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Maastrichtian | Horseshoe Canyon Formation | Canada | An ornithomimid, possibly a synonym of Ornithomimus. | |
Gallimimus[10] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Osmólska, Roniewicz Barsbold | Late Cretaceous (Maastichtian) | Nemegt Formation | Mongolia | An ornithomimid. | |
" Thotobolosaurus"[11]
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Nomen nudum | Ellenberger | Late Triassic (Norian) | Lesotho | Formally named Kholumolumo in 2020. | |||
Vulcanodon[12] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Raath | Early Jurassic (Sinemurian-Pliensbachian) | Batoka Formation | Zimbabwe | A sauropod .
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Newly named birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Evgeny N. Kurochkin
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MN 9
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An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
George G. Simpson
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Late Pliocene
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A Spheniscidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Middle Pleistocene
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An Apodidae .
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Evgeny N. Kurochkin
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MN 9
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An Ardeidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Eocene
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USA: |
A Strigiformes, Protostrigidae Wetmore, 1933.
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
USA: |
A Corvidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Otididae .
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Sp. nov. |
Synonym of Paraptenodytes robustus (Ameghino, 1895). |
George G. Simpson
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A |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Evgeny N. Kurochkin
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A Phalacrocoracidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Evgeny N. Kurochkin
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MN 9
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A Gruidae, transferred to the genus Grus by Jíří Mlíkovský, 2002.[21]
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Pliocene
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USA: |
A Corvidae, sometimes placed in the genus Calocitta G. R. Gray, 1841. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
George G. Simpson
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Late Pliocene
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A Spheniscidae .
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Strigidae, transferred to and made the type species of the new genus Alasio by Jirí Mlíkovský, 1998.[24]
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Strigidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Evgeny N. Kurochkin
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A |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cave deposits |
A Tytonidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cave deposits |
A Tytonidae .
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Synapsids
Newly named therapsids
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Regisaurus[30] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Mendrez | Early Triassic | South Africa | A regisaurid therocephalian. |
Mammalian
Name | Novelty | Authors | Age | Type Locality | Country | Notes |
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Stenailurus teilhardi
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Gen. et. sp. nov. | Crusafont-Pairo & Aguirre | Late Miocene (Turolian) | Spain |
Other Animals
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Synonym of Dickinsonia tenuis | Wade | Ediacaran | Australia | |||
Dickinsonia lissa [31] |
Sp. nov | Synonym of Dickinsonia tenuis | Wade | Ediacaran | Australia | |||
Rangea sibirica
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Sp. nov | Synonym of Charnia masoni | Sokolov | Ediacaran | Russia |
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