Arthropods Crustaceans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesOplophorus roselliSp novjr synonymViaBarremianLas HoyasMoved to the genus DelclosiaPseudastacus llopisiSp novjr synonymViaBarremianLas HoyasA crayfish, moved to the genus Austropotamobius in 1997.
Plants Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesHolmskioldia quilchenensisSp novjr synonymMathewes & BrookeYpresianColdwater BedsA mallow relative. moved to Florissantia quilchenensis (1992)
Conodonts Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes ImageBaltoniodusgen nov valid Maurits LindströmParacordylodusgen nov valid Maurits LindströmMicrozarkodinagen nov valid Maurits Lindström
Archosauromorphs Newly named pseudosuchians Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes ImageVenaticosuchusBonaparte, J.F. 1970. Annotated list of the South American Triassic tetrapods. Second Gondwana Symposium South Africa, Proceedings and Papers: pp. 665-682.gen et sp nov valid BonaparteLate Triassic an ornithosuchid
Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes ImageNemegtosaurusNowinski, A. 1971. Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis n. gen., n. sp (Sauropoda) from the uppermost Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontol. Polonica 25: pp. 57-81.gen et sp novValidNowinskiLate CretaceousNemegt BasinYaverlandiaGalton, P.M. 1971. A primitive dome-headed dinosaur (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of England, and the function of the dome in pachycephalosaurids. J. Paleontol. 45: pp. 40-47.gen et sp novValidGaltonLower CretaceousWessex FormationManiraptoran?
Newly named onithodirans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes ImageLagerpetonRomer, A.S. 1971. The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. X. Two new but incompletely known long-limbed pseudosuchians. Breviora 378: pp. 1-10.gen et sp novValid RomerLadinianChañares FormationA member of the lagerpetonidae.Lagosuchusfam et gen et sp novvalid RomerLadinianChañares Formation
Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes ImageAnser devjatkiniSp. nov. ValidKurochkinLate MioceneHyargas Nuur FormationAn Anatidae.AntillovulturGen. et sp. nov. jr synonymArredondoLate QuaternaryLas Breas de San FelipeAn accipitrid, Type species A. varonai, moved to Gymnogyps varonai (2003),Bathornis minorSp. nov. ValidCracraftEarly MioceneA bathornithidBucorvus brailloniSp. nov. ValidBrunetMiddle MioceneA bucorvid.Campephilus dalquestiSp. nov. ValidBrodkorbLate Pliocene (Blancan)A picid.Cerorhinca minorSp. nov. ValidHowardLate Miocene - Late PlioceneAlmejas FormationAn alcid.Cygnus pristinusSp. nov. ValidKurochkinLate Miocene - Early PlioceneChirgiz-Nur FormationAn anatid.Dolichonyx kruegeriSp. nov. ValidFischer & StephanLate Pleistocene"Cave deposits"An icterid.EutreptornisGen. et sp. nov. ValidCracraftMiddle EoceneUinta FormationA bathornithid. Type species E. uintaeFulica picapicensisSp. nov. jr synonymFischer & StephanQuaternary"Cave deposits"A flightless rallid, moved to Nesotrochis picapicensis (1974).Grus cubensisSp. nov. ValidFischer & StephanLate Pleistocene"Cave deposits"A crane. Moved to Antigone cubensis (2020).Macrorhamphus finitimusSp. nov. ValidKurochkinPlioceneA scolopacid,Moved to Limnodromus finitimus.Mancalla cedrosensisSp. nov. ValidHowardEarly PlioceneAlmejas FormationA mancaline alcidOnychopteryxGen. et sp. nov. ValidCracraftEarly EoceneCasamajor FormationAn onychopterygid Type species O. simpsoniPhalacrocorax mongoliensisSp. nov. ValidKurochkinLate Miocene - PlioceneA phalacrocoracid.?Platydyptes marplesiSp. nov. ValidSimpsonEarly or Middle Oligocene (Duntroonian)A spheniscid.ProgrusGen. et sp. nov. ValidBendukidzeMiddle - Late EoceneKalmakpai RiverAn eogruid. Type species P. turanicus Moved to Eogrus turanicus.ProplegadisGen. et sp. nov. ValidHarrison & WalkerEarly EoceneA possible phaethontid, Type species P. fisheriPuffinus tedfordiSp. nov. ValidHowardEarly PlioceneAlmejas FormationA procellariid.Spheniscus predemersusSp. nov. jr synonymSimpsonLate PlioceneLangebaanweg fossil siteA spheniscid, Moved to Inguza predemersus (1975)Spizaetus tanneriSp. nov. ValidMartinEarly PleistoceneBroadwater FormationAn accipitrid.Struthio transcaucasicusSp. nov. ValidBurchak-Abramovich & VekuaLate Pliocene (Akchagil age)A struthionid.WimanornisGen. et sp. nov. ValidSimpsonEoceneSeymour IslandA basal spheniscid Type species W. seymourensis
Newly named pterosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes Image Araripesaurusgen et sp nov Valid PriceEarly Cretaceous Santana Formationan ornithocheirid Sordesgen et sp nov Valid SharovLate JurassicKarabastau Svitapossible rhamphorhynchid
Other Animals Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Chondroplon Valid Wade Ediacaran Sometimes considered a synonym of Dickinsonia
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