Arthropoda Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAgroecomyrmexGen et comb novValid WheelerLutetianBaltic amberAn agroecomyrmecine ant, Moved from "Myrmica" duisburgi Aphrophora angustaSp novvalidHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A spittlebug ArchiinocelliaGen et sp novvalidHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan Highlands"Horsefly shales" A Raphidiid snakefly Type species A. oligoneura ArchiraphidiaGen et comb novvalidHandlirschPriabonianFlorissant Formation A Raphidiid snakefly The type species is Inocellia tumulata (1890) also includes Inocellia somnolenta (1890) Raphidia tranquilla (1890) Dictyoraphidia veteranaGen et comb novvalidHandlirschPriabonianFlorissant Formation A baissopterid snakefly New genus for "Inocellia" veterana (1890) ElectromyrmexGen et sp novnom nudum WheelerLutetianBaltic amberA myrmicine ant. Type species E. klebsi Garrus defunctaSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsColdwater Beds A gerrid water strider Moved to Telmatrechus defunctus (1998) Garrus staliComb novjr synonym(Scudder) HandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A gerrid water striderMoved from Telmatrechus defunctus (1890) Moved back to Telmatrechus defunctus (1998) Microphorus defunctusSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A long legged fly Moved to Microphor defunctus (1994) Penthetria angustipennisSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan Highlands"Horsefly shales" A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia angustipennis (1959) Penthetria avunculusSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia curtula (1959) Penthetria avusSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia avus (1959) Penthetria brevipesSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pulla (1959) Penthetria canadensisSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia canadensis (1959) Penthetria curtulaSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan Highlands"Horsefly shales" A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia curtula (1959) Penthetria dilatataSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan Highlands"Horsefly shales" A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia dilatata (1959)Penthetria elatiorSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia elatior (1959) Penthetria falcatulaSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia transitoria (1959) Penthetria fragmentumSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia transitoria (1959)Penthetria lambeiSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959) Penthetria nanaSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia nana (1959) Penthetria ovalisSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959)Penthetria pictipennisSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pictipennis (1959) Penthetria platypteraSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan Highlands"Horsefly shales" A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia platyptera (1959) Penthetria pulchraSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pulchra (1959) Penthetria pullaSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pulla (1959) Penthetria reductaSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan Highlands"Horsefly shales" A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia reducta (1959) Penthetria separandaSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959) Penthetria transitoriaSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan Highlands"Horsefly shales" A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia transitoria (1959) PromastaxGen et sp novvalidHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan Highlands"Horsefly shales" A Promastacid grasshopperType species P. archaicusTipula tulameenaSp novvalidHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A tipuline Crane fly.Xylonomus lambeiSp novjr synonymHandlirschEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby Formation A xoridine ichneumon parasitic wasp. moved to Xorides lambei.
Archosauromorphs AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase, was found isolated during an American Museum of Natural History Barnum Brown-led expedition.
Newly named phytosaurs Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesMesorhinusPreoccupiedJaekelJaekel, O. (1910). Ueber einen neuen Belodonten aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 5:197-229.possibly Late TriassicunknownPreoccupied by Mesorhinus Ameghino, 1885; renamed Mesorhinosuchus Kuhn, 1961.MetarhinusPreoccupiedJaekelLate Triassic (Norian)Chinle FormationNew genus for "Belodon" buceros Cope, 1881; preoccupied by Metarhinus Osborn, 1908; renamed Machaeroprosopus Mehl in Mehl, Toepemann, and Schwartz, 1916
Newly named basal dinosauriforms Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images SaltopusHuene, F. von. 1910. Ein primitiver Dinosaurier aus der mittleren Trias von Elgin. Geol. Palaeontol. Abhandl. 8: pp. 317-322. Valid taxon Friedrich von Huene Late Triassic (Carnian)Lossiemouth SandstoneProbably a non-dinosaurian dinosauriforme.Michael J. Benton and Alick D. Walker†. 2011. "Saltopus, a dinosauriform from the Upper Triassic of Scotland", Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 101, Special Issue 3-4, pp 285 - 299 Royal Society of Edinburgh 2011. Published online: 17 May 2011
Dinosaurs Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images EuoplocephalusLambe, L.M. 1910. Note on the parietal crest of Centrosaurus apertus, and a proposed new generic name for Stereocephalus tutus. Ottawa Nat. 14: pp. 149-151. Gen. nov. Valid Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid Hecatasaurus Gen. nov. Jr. synonym Brown Maastrichtian Sânpetru Formation New genus name for Limnosaurus transsylvanicus, already named Telmatosaurus Kritosaurus Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Brown Campanian Kirtland Formation A hadrosaurid "Nectosaurus navajovius"Versluys, J. 1910. Streptostylie bel Dinosauriern, nebst Bemerkungen uber die Verwandtschaft der Vogel und Dinosaurier. Zool. Jb., Anat. 30: pp. 175-260. Nomen nudum Versluys Campanian Kirtland Formation An unpublished name for Kritosaurus navajovius mentioned in passing attributed to Brown
Synapsids Non-mammalian
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAloposaurusValidRobert BroomMiddle PermianPristerognathus Assemblage ZoneA member of Gorgonopsidae.GalepusValidBroomLate PermianCistecephalus Assemblage ZoneA member of Galeopsidae.PoecilospondylusJunior synonymErmin Cowles CaseEarly PermianArroyo FormationA junior synonym of the pelycosaur Varanosaurus.
Mammalian Name Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPseudaelurus chinjiensisPilgrimTertiaryIndia
Footnotes
References Makovicky, P. J., 2001, A Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) braincase from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 243–262.