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Plants
Angiosperms
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et comb nov |
valid |
Middle Eocene
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Clarno Formation
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A walnut relative. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Erwin & Stockey |
A lilialean genus of uncertain placement |
Arthropods
Insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
MacKay |
A ponerin ant |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Nel |
A sieblosiid damselfly |
Mollusca
Newly named bivalves
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Isakar |
Archosauromorphs
- Sankar Chatterjee's discovery of a possible Triassic bird, Protoavis, if genuine, would push avian origins back almost 70 million years. The find ignites controversy over the connection between dinosaurs and birds.
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[8]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid taxon |
Jose Bonaparte
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Late Cretaceous (Santonian) |
An alvarezsaurid .
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Valid taxon |
Salgado and Jose Bonaparte
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Early Cretaceous (Barremian) |
A dicraeosaurid . with Spines on its Neck
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Valid taxon |
Bolotsky & Kurzanov |
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
A hadrosaurid .
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Valid taxon |
Calvo and Bonaparte |
Late Cretaceous (Santonian) |
An alvarezsaurid .
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Junior synonym |
George Olshevsky. |
Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) |
A junior objective synonym of Altispinax; new genus for "Acrocanthosaurus" altispinax Paul (1988). |
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Valid taxon |
Telles-Antunes & Sigogneau-Russell |
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
A troodontid .
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Janenschia[15] |
Valid taxon |
Wild |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
A non-titanosauriform macronarian ; new genus for "Gigantosaurus" robustus E. Fraas (1908).
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Valid taxon |
George Olshevsky |
Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) |
Xiashaximiao Formation
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A sauropod of uncertain affinities.
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" Rioarribasaurus"[16]
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Junior synonym |
Hunt & S.G. Lucas |
A junior synonym of Coelophysis. |
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" Seismosaurus"[17]
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Junior synonym
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Gillette |
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Valid taxon |
Le Loeuff and Buffetaut |
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Valid taxon |
Telles-Antunes & Sigogneau-Russell |
Late Cretaceous |
An ornithischian of unknown affinities. |
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Tochisaurus[19] |
Valid taxon |
Kurzanov and Osmolska |
Cretaceous |
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" Ultrasauros"[13]
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Junior synonym |
George Olshevsky |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) |
Junior synonym of Supersaurus; replacement name for Ultrasaurus Jensen 1985 (preoccupied). |
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Valid taxon |
George Olshevsky |
Early Cretaceous (late Valanginian) |
An ornithomimosaur; new genus for "Megalosaurus" oweni Lydekker (1889). |
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Valid taxon |
Jose Bonaparte
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A Noasaur. |
Newly named birds
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae .
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae , this is the type species of the new genus.
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian, |
A Hesperornithidae Marsh, 1872.
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Anatidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Anatidae, a moa-nalo, this is the type species of the genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
An Accipitridae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Corvidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Corvidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
Trevor H. Worthy
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An Acanthisittidae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae .
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae , the type species of the new genus.
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae, transferred to the genus Akialoa Olson et James, 1995 by Olson et James, 1995.[24]
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Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
Late Eocene
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Phosphorites du Quercy
MP 17
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An Horusornithidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1991, this is the type species of the new genus.
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Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae , this is the type species of the new genus.
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
MN 13
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A Phasianidae, transferred to the genus Plioperdix Kretzoi, 1955 as Plioperdix hungarica Comb. nov. by Nikita V. Zelenkov & Andrey V. Panteleyev.[27] |
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Valid |
Subsp. nov. |
A member of the family Pavo aesculapi; Zelenkov (2016) transferred it to the genus Syrmaticus and raised it to the rank of a separate species Syrmaticus phasianoides.[28]
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Pliocene
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A Phalacrocoracidae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Early Miocene |
A Phoenicopteridae .
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Valid |
Subsp. nov. |
A member of the family |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae .
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Late Carnian-Early Norian
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A Protoaviformes Chatterjee, 1991, the type and only species of the genus, no longer considered a bird.
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Paleocene
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Landenian
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A Pseudodontornithidae Lambrecht, 1933. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Furnariidae, Philydorinae , this is the type species of the new genus.
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Anatidae, a moa-nalo, this is the type species of the genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
MN 13
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A member of the family |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
MN 13
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A Tytonidae .
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae .
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae .
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae .
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae , the type species of the new genus.
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Genera no longer considered to be birds
- Protoavis. The avian status of Protoavis has since been almost universally rejected by paleontologists.
Pseudosuchians
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Willis & Molnar |
Late Oligocene - Early Miocene |
A mekosuchine crocodilian described from a multitude of skeletons. |
Pterosaurs
New taxa
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Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
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Lower Permian |
Formerly assigned as an synapsid.[37]
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Valid |
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Upper Permian |
A sphenacodontid synapsid.
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