2009 in paleontology
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Arthropods
Cephalopods
Three new species of extinct
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Fuchs, Bracchi, & Weis |
Upper Cenomanian |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Fuchs, Bracchi, & Weis |
Upper Cenomanian |
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gen nov |
Valid |
De Baets, Klug, & Korn |
Cartilaginous fish
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Wang et al. |
Late Permian |
A member of Hybodontoidea . Genus includes new species G. tungshengi.
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
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A member of Iniopterygidae . The type species is P. stahlae.
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
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A member of Iniopterygidae . The type species is R. zangerli.
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Bony fish
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Aphanius yerevanicus[8] |
Valid |
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Late Miocene |
A pupfish, a species of Aphanius. | |||
Carpathoserranoides[9] |
Valid |
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A member of Percoidei. The type species is C. brnoensis; genus also includes C. polonicus. | ||||
Caucasoserranoides[9] |
Valid |
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A member of Percoidei. The type species is C. morozkiensis. | ||||
Eophryne[10] |
Valid |
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Eocene (late Ypresian) |
Monte Bolca locality |
A frogfish. The type species is Eophryne barbutii. | ||
Gogosardina[11] |
Valid |
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Late Devonian |
An early ray-finned fish. Genus includes new species G. coatesi. | |||
Heddleichthys[12] |
Valid |
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Famennian (Late Devonian) |
Dura Den Formation |
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Hendrixella[13] |
Valid |
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Eocene (late Ypresian) |
Monte Bolca locality |
A member of Percoidei of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Hendrixella grandei. | ||
Langlieria[14] |
Valid |
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Famennian (Late Devonian) |
Evieux Formation |
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Oligoserranoides[9] |
Valid |
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Abkhazia |
A member of Percoidei. The type species is "Smerdis" budensis Heckel (1856); genus also includes "Serranus" comparabilis Daniltshenko (1960). | |||
Ridewoodichthys[15] |
Valid |
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Early Paleocene |
An arowana; a new genus for "Brychaetus" caheni Taverne (1969). | |||
Ungarnia[9] |
Valid |
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A member of Percoidei. The type species is "Serranus" transsylvanicus Bohm (1942). |
- Shimada, K.; Everhart, M.J. (2009). "First record of Anomoeodus (Osteichthyes: Pycnodontiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas". Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 112 (1/2): 98–102. S2CID 83951062.
Amphibians
Newly named amphibians
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Late Carboniferous |
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Valid |
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Lower Cretaceous |
Possible stem neobatrachian |
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Valid |
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Lower Cretaceous |
A hyloid | ||||
Valid |
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The smallest known ostodolepid microsaur | |||||
Valid |
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Turonian |
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Valid |
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Early Cretaceous |
A cryptobranchoid salamander | ||||
Valid |
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Early Permian |
A discosauriscid seymouriamorph
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Basal reptiles
Newly named basal reptiles
Name | Status | Authors | Discovery year | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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A basal parareptile | ||||||
Valid |
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early Late Olenekian |
A procolophonid
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Turtles
Newly named turtles
Name | Status | Authors | Discovery year | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Turonian (Late Cretaceous) |
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Valid |
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Late Cretaceous |
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Valid |
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Late Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous |
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Valid |
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Paleocene |
USA |
New genus for "Plesiobaena" putorius Gaffney, 1972 | ||||
Valid |
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Holocene |
A tortoise. | |||||
Valid |
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Bull Canyon Formation
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A basal member of Testudinata. The type species is C. tenertesta. The genus Chinlechelys was considered to be a junior synonym of the genus Proganochelys by Joyce (2017), though the author maintained C. tenertesta as a distinct species within the latter genus.[30] | |||||
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Junior synonym |
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Early Paleocene |
USA |
Junior synonym of Hutchemys.[32]
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Valid |
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Middle Jurassic |
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Valid |
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Paleocene |
USA |
A plastomenine softshell turtles | ||||
Valid |
Late Cretaceous |
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Valid |
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Maastrichtian |
USA |
A baenid | ||||
Valid |
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Late Cretaceous |
USA |
A baenid | ||||
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Junior synonym |
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Early Paleocene |
USA |
Junior synonym of Hutchemys.[32]
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Archosauromorphs
Basal archosauromorphs
Newly named basal archosauromorphs | |||||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
Valid |
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earliest Late Olenekian |
A long−necked archosauromorph |
Archosaurs
Lepidosauromorphs
Basal lepidosauromorphs
Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs | |||||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
Valid |
Early Olenekian |
A basal kuehneosaurid |
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Valid |
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earliest Late Olenekian |
A basal lepidosauromorph |
Plesiosaurs
- In 2009, in Predator X."
- O'Keefe, F. R.; Street, H. P. (2009). "Osteology of the cryptocleidoid plesiosaur Tatenectes laramiensis, with comments on the taxonomic status of the Cimoliasauridae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (1): 48–57. S2CID 31924376.
Newly named plesiosaurs | |||||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) |
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Valid |
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Early Cretaceous (Albian) |
Replacement name for Nichollsia Druckenmiller & Russell, 2008, preoccupied by an isopod genus Nichollsia Chopra & Tiwari, 1950 |
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Disputed |
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Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
A member of Polycotylidae. The type species is R. singularis. |
Squamates
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov |
Valid |
Schulp, Bardet & Bouya |
A mosasaur. |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Head et al. |
Paleocene |
Cerrejón Formation |
In February, the |
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Middle Triassic (Ladinian) |
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Valid |
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Middle Permian (Roadian) |
Xidagou Formation
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Valid |
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Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) |
Mammals
Plants
Angiosperms
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Coiffard et al. |
uppermost Albian-lowermost Cenomanian |
Charente-Maritimes |
Relevant research in other sciences
Evolutionary biology
- A study is published that proposes that females from certain taxa use ornaments as a criterion for mate choice because other dimorphic structures, like biological "weaponry" could be used to coerce or force them to mate.[50]
- A study concludes that biotic factors have more pronounced local and short term evolutionary impacts than abiotic factors, which in turn have a more pronounced effect through time and on biodiversity as a whole.[51]
Extinction
A study noting the effects of the KT mass extinction on Earth's modern biota is published.[52]
Geology
- Zhang, H.; Wei, Z.-L.; Liu, X.-M.; Li, D. (2009). "Constraints on the age of the Tuchengzi Formation by LA-ICP-MS dating in northern Hebei-western Liaoning, China". Science China Earth Sciences. 52 (4): 461–470. S2CID 129751106.
Ichnology
- Bedatou E., Melchor R.N., Genise J.F. (2009). "Complex palaeosol ichnofabrics from Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous volcaniclastic successions of central Patagonia, Argentina". Sedimentary Geology. 218 (1–4): 74–102. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.04.005.)
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Paleobiogeography
- Pereda-Suberbiola X (2009). "Biogeographical affinities of Late Cretaceous continental tetrapods of Europe: a review". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 180 (1): 57–71. .
Paleoecology
- Nicolas M., Rubidge B.S. (2009). "Changes in Permo-Triassic terrestrial tetrapod ecological representation in the Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup) of South Africa". Lethaia. 43: 45–59. .
Footnotes
Complete author list
As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.
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