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Bryophytes
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Janssens |
An aulacomniaceous moss. |
Fish
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
A libotoniid sandroller relative.
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Libotonius pearsoni |
Archosauromorphs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
Non Avian Dinosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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" Gadolosaurus"[5]
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Saito |
informal name created by phonetic translation of the crylic for hadrosaur ("gadrosavr") into Japanese. |
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Gen et comb nov |
Valid |
A hadrosauroid .
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Junior synonym ?
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Wall & Galton |
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A Junior synonym of Stegoceras .
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Valid |
Horner & Makela |
Upper Two Medicine Formation |
Publication of Maiasaura renewed interest in the Two Medicine Formation.[9] |
Maiasaura peeblesorum | ||||
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Gen et sp nov |
Junior synonym |
Described as a . |
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Gen et sp nov |
Yuanpu Formation
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A hadrosaurid .
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Valid |
Bonaparte & Vince
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An anchisaurian. |
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Valid |
Yuanpu Formation
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A therizinosaur .
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Valid |
Bonaparte
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Canadon Asfalto Formation
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A sauropod .
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Valid |
Bonaparte
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Canadon Asfalto Formation
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A piatnitzkysaurid .
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Valid |
A hadrosaurid .
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Valid |
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A therizinosaur .
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A megalosaurid .
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Powell
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A possible Carcharodontosaurian .
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Valid |
Jose Bonaparte
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Canadon Asfalto Formation
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A sauropod. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
He |
A basal ornithopod .
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Birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Accipitridae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Pliocene
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An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Argentina: Centinale del Mar; |
An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Callonetta Delacour, 1936 by Agnolin, 2006.[22] |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Subrecent |
5000 YBP (Years Before Present) |
A giant Ardeidae , not formally described but a photo is published which keeps it from being a Nomen Nudum.
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cyril A. Walker
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Early Middle Oligocene
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Described in the Catharthidae, transferred to Aves Incertae Sedis. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Oligocene/Early Miocene
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A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Charadriidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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A Strigidae, transferred to the genus Asio Brisson, 1760 by Mlíkovský, 1998.[27]
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Middle-Late Miocene |
A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Caprimulgidae -nightjar.
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Oligocene-Miocene
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An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Pliocene
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MN 15
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A Corvidae, possibly a synonym of Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Pliocene
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MN 15
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A Cuculidae .
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
George G. Simpson
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Early Pliocene
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A Spheniscidae , this is the type species of the new genus.
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Pliocene
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Pliocene
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MN 15
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A Scolopacidae .
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Cathartidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
MN 6
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A Glareolidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Cathartidae .
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Pliocene
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A Dromornithidae, not certainly an Ilbandornis Rich, 1979. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Pliocene
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A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cyril A. Walker
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Middle Eocene
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A Rallidae , this is the type species of the new genus.
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cyril A. Walker
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Middle Eocene
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A Rallidae .
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cyril A. Walker
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Middle Eocene
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Described in the Phasianidae, but transferred by Mlíkovský, 2002.[33] to Aves Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae .
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Falconidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cyril A. Walker
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Middle Eocene
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Described as an Accipitridae, known only from a damaged distal end of a right tarsometatarsus, making it not possible to identify it, better treated as Aves Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Miocene Czech Republic; Middle Miocene Germany |
MN 6
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A Glareolidae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
MN 13
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An Otididae , it is the type species of the new genus.
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Buteogallus Lesson, 1830 by Suárez et Olson, 2009,[35] this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
George G. Simpson
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A Spheniscidae , this is the type species of the new genus.
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae , this is the type species of the new genus.
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cyril A. Walker
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Early Middle Oligocene
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Described in the Catharthidae, but the holotype is too fragmentary for identification so best treated as Aves Incertae Sedis. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cyril A. Walker
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Early Middle Oligocene
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An Anseriformes Incertae Sedis. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Eocene
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Greybullian, Middle Wasatchian, Willwood Formation |
Described as a Lithornithiformes, Houde, 1988, Lithornithidae Houde, 1988,[38] it is the type species of the new genus.
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
Cyril A. Walker
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Early Middle Oligocene
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MP 21-23 |
An Anatidae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cyril A. Walker
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Middle Eocene
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A Rallidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cyril A. Walker
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Middle Eocene
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Described as a Cariamidae door Mlíkovský, 2002.[33]
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cyril A. Walker
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Early-Middle Pleistocene |
A Phalacrocoracidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Rallidae .
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
MN 11
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An Anatidae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Ardeidae , it is the type species of the new genus.
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
Cyril A. Walker
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Early Middle Oligocene |
Described as an Eleutherornithidae, based on a fragment of a cervical vertebra, best treated as Aves Incertae Sedis, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Cathartidae , not certain to be a Sarcoramphus Duméril, 1806.
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Pliocene
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MN 15
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A Scolopacidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Phalaropodidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Ardeidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Thinocoridae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae .
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Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
Early Pliocene
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MN 15
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The holotype is a heavily eroded proximal part of a left humerus, best placed in Passeriformes Incertae Sedis.
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
Late Pliocene
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A Phalacrocoracidae , this is the type species of the new genus.
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Charadriidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
Plesiosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Yadagiri & Ayyasami |
Either a Plesiosaur or Stegosaur
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Synapsids
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Bown |
Bridgerian
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An Omomyid primate |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Bown |
Bridgerian
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An Omomyid primate |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Bown |
Bridgerian
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An Omomyid primate |
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries
- While volunteering for field work on a team led by Philip Currie, Darren Tanke learned about the lost "Eoceratops" first excavated by William Edmund Cutler. Tanke would later rediscover the specimen in London's Natural History Museum.[43]
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- ^ a b Peter Ballmann (1979). "Fossile Glareolidae aus dem Miozän des Nördlinger Ries (Southern Germany) (Aves: Charadriifores)". Bonner Zoologische Beiträge. 30: 52–101.
- ^ a b c d e f Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker (1979). "Birds of the British Middle Eocene". Tertiary Research Special Papers. 50: 19–26.
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