Molluscs
Bivalves Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesOryzoconchagen et sp novnot validHe & PeiEarly CambrianHenan province synonym of Pojetaia runnegariTuarangiaOrd, Supfam, fam, gen et sp novvalidMacKinnonlate Middle CambrianTasman Formationone of four accepted Cambrian bivalves
Arthropods
Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAzteca alpha Sp novvalidPoinarBurdigalian Dominican AmberA dolichoderine antAzteca eumeces Sp novvalidPoinarBurdigalian Dominican AmberA dolichoderine antDominickus gen et sp. novvalidTindalePriabonian Florissant FormationA castniid butterfly-moth, monotypic
Echinoderms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesCastericystisGen et sp novValid Ubaghs & RobisonMiddle CambrianMarjum Formation A solutan.MarjumicystisGen et sp novValid Ubaghs & RobisonMiddle CambrianMarjum Formation An eocrinoid.
Fish Newly named Cartilaginous fish Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesLissodus wirksworthensisSp novjr synonymDuffinEarly CarboniferousEyam LimestoneA hybodont, moved to Reesodus wirksworthensis in 2013
Archosauromorphs Psittacosaurus gastroliths documented.Bird (1985). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
Newly named pseudosuchians
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPostosuchusGen et sp novValid ChatterjeeCarnian–NorianCooper Canyon Formation Chinle Formation Newark SupergroupA rauisuchid.
Newly named pterosaurs
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnhangueraGen et sp Valid Campos & KellnerAptianCrato FormationA pterodactyloid belonging to Anhangueridae."Palaeolimnornis"Jurcsak, T. and E. Kessler. 1985. La paleofaune de Comet- implications phylogenetiques et ecologiques. Evolution et Adaptation 11: pp. 137-147.Gen et sp novNomen nudum Jurcsák & Kessler Early CretaceousBauxite mineAn informal name applied to Palaeocursornis. An azhdarchoid pterosaur.Federico L. Agnolin and David Varricchio (2012). "Systematic reinterpretation of Piksi barbarulna Varricchio, 2002 from the Two Medicine Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Western USA (Montana) as a pterosaur rather than a bird". Geodiversitas 34 (4): 883–894. doi:10.5252/g2012n4a10.
Newly named non-avian dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Status AuthorsLocation NotesImages AbelisaurusBonaparte, J.F. and F.E. Novas. 1985. Abelisaurus comahuensis, ng, n. sp., Carnosauria from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Ameghiniana 21: pp. 259-265. Valid taxon Jose Bonaparte Novas A short-handed Flesh-eating Dinosaur. "Aliwalia"Galton, P.M. 1985. The poposaurid thecodontian Teratosaurus suevicus v. Meyer, plus referred specimens mostly based on prosauropod dinosaurs, from the Middle Stubensandstein (Upper Triassic) of Nordwurttenburg. Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. (ser. B) 116: pp. 1-29.Junior synonym. Peter GaltonJunior subjective synonym of Eucnemosaurus. BlikanasaurusGalton, P.M. and Heerden, J. 1985. Partial hindlimb of Blikanasaurus cromptoni n. gen. and n. sp. representing a new family of prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of South Africa. Geobios 18: pp. 509-516. Valid taxon Peter Galton van Heerden CamelotiaGalton, P. M. 1985. Notes on the Melanorosauridae, a family of large prosauropod dinosaurs (Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha). Geobios 19: pp. 671-676. Valid taxon Peter Galton A British Melanorosaur. CarnotaurusBonaparte, J.E. 1985. A horned Cretaceous Carnosaur from Patagonia. Natl. Geogr. Res. Winter: pp. 149-152. Valid taxon Jose Bonaparte An Abelisaurid. The Horned Cheetah of the Cretaceous. "Dachungosaurus"Chao Shichin. 1985. The reptilian fauna of the Jurassic in China. In: The Jurassic System of China (Wang S., Z. Cheng, and N. Wang, eds.). Geological Publishing House, Beijing: pp. 286-289, 347, pl. 10, 11 [in Chinese].Nomen nudum. Zhao X. (as Chao S.) "Dystylosaurus"Jensen, J.A. 1985. Three new sauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Colorado. Great Basin Nat. 45 (4): pp. 679-709.Junior synonym. James A. Jensen Junior synonym of Supersaurus. GasosaurusDong, Z. and Z. Tang. 1985. Note on the mid Jurassic carnosaur (Gasosaurus constructus gen. et sp. nov.) from Suchuan Basin. China. Vertebrate Palasiatica 23 (1): pp. 77-83. Valid taxon Dong Zhiming "Mifunesaurus"Nomen nudum Hisa "Moshisaurus"Nomen nudum. Hisa "Oshanosaurus"Nomen nudum. Zhao X. (as Chao S.) "Sanchusaurus"Nomen nudum Hisa Supersaurus Valid taxon James A. Jensen () "Ultrasaurus"Preoccupied name. James A. JensenPreoccupied by Kim H. M., 1983 and renamed Ultrasauros. "Xuanhuasaurus"Nomen nudum. Zhao X. (as Chao S.)Later renamed Xuanhuaceratops in 2006
Literature on fossil birds
Storrs Olson: the fossil record of birds
Newly named birds Name Status Novelty Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAegialornis szarskii ValidSp. nov.Dieter S. PetersMiddle EoceneMessel pit,
MP 11An AegialornithidaeAmphipelargus dzabghanensis ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinLate Miocene-PlioceneChono-HarayahA Gruiformes, EogruidaeAnas molesta ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinLate MioceneHyargas Nuur 2An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Aythya by Nikita V. Zelenkov Anas schneideri ValidSp. nov.Steven D. EmslieLate PleistoceneAn Anatidae.Anser tchikoicus ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinMiocene-PlioceneAn Anatidae.Anthus seductus ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinEarly PlioceneA Motacillidae.Avisaurus archibaldi ValidGen et Sp. nov.Michael K. Brett-Surman
Gregory S. PaulMaastrichtianHell Creek Formation ( and )An Enantiornithes, Avisauridae Brett-Surman & Paul, 1985 this is the type species of the new genus.Aythya magna ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinEarly PlioceneHyargas Nuur FormationAn Anatidae.Aythya shihuibas ValidSp. nov.Hou LianhaiLate MioceneAn Anatidae, Nikita V. Zelenkov, 2012 transferred the species to his genus Protomelanitta Zelenkov, 2011.Bonibernicla ponderosa ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinLate MioceneHyargas Nuur FormationAn Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Brasilogyps faustoi ValidGen et Sp nov.Herculano M. F. de AlvarengaEarly OligoceneTaubateA Cathartidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Centropus colossus ValidSp. nov.Robert F. BairdQuaternaryGreen Waterhole CaveA Cuculiformes, Centropodidae.Colius hendeyi ValidSp. nov.Patricia Vickers Rich
Philippa J. HaarhoffEarly PlioceneVarswater FormationA Coliidae.Corvus solitus ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinMiocene-Late PlioceneA Corvidae.Diangallus mious ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Hou LianhaiLate MioceneA Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Egretta subfluvia ValidSp. nov.Jonathan J. BeckerLate MioceneEarly Hemphillian:An Ardeidae.Eudromia olsoni ValidNom. nov.Claudia P. Tambussi
Eduardo P. TonniLate PlioceneMonte Hermoso FormationA Tinamidae, new name for the preoccupied Tinamisornis intermedius Dabbene et Lillo, 1913 = Eudromia elegans intermedia (Dabbene et Lillo, 1913).Geronticus apelex ValidSp. nov.Storrs L. OlsonEarly PlioceneVarswater FormationA Threskiornithidae.Grus afghana ValidSp. nov.Cécile Mourer-Chauviré
Jean-Christophe Balouet
Yves Jehenne
Émile HeintzLate MioceneMN 12A Gruidae.Haliaeetus fortis ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinLate MioceneMN 13,
Hyargas-Nuur 2An Accipitridae.Heliadornis ashbyi ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Storrs L. OlsonMiddle MioceneLanghian,
Calvert Formation A Phaethontidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Limosa lacrimosa ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinMiocene-Late PlioceneA Scolopacidae.“Lophura” inferna Not ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinMioceneShaamarA Phasianidae, not a Lophura, the holotype is not diagnostic to genus.Melopyrrha latirostris ValidSp. nov.David W. Steadman
Gary S. MorganLate Pleistocene-Early HoloceneCayman Brac cave deposits A Thraupidae.Oceanites zaloscarthmus ValidSp. nov.Storrs L. OlsonEarly PlioceneVarswater FormationAn Oceanitidae.Oenanthe infima ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinMiocene-Late PlioceneShargaA Muscicapidae.Orthonyx hypsilophus ValidSp. nov.Robert F. BairdQuaternaryGreen Waterhole CaveAn Orthonychidae.Pachyptila salax ValidSp. nov.Storrs L. OlsonEarly PlioceneVarswater FormationA Procellariidae.Paleopsilopterus itaboraiensis ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Herculano M. F. de AlvarengaItaboraianA Gruiformes, Phorusrhacidae Ameghino, 1889, Psilopterinae Mathilde Dolgopol de Sáez, 1927, this is the type species of the new genus.Palaeotodus escampsiensis ValidSp. nov.Cécile Mourer-ChauviréLate EocenePhosphorites du Quercy,
EscampsA Todidae.Palaeotodus itardiensis ValidSp. nov.Cécile Mourer-ChauviréOligocenePhosphorites du QuercyA Todidae.Pandion lovensis ValidSp. nov.Jonathan J. BeckerLatest ClarendonianA Pandionidae.Pelecanoides cymatotrypetes ValidSp. nov.Storrs L. OlsonEarly PlioceneVarswater FormationA Pelecanoididae.Perdix margaritae ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinMiocene-Late PlioceneChikoi River:A Phasianidae.Phalaropus eleonorae ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinMiocene-Late PlioceneA Phalaropidae.Phasianus lufengia ValidSp. nov.Hou LianhaiLate MioceneShihuibaA Phasianidae.Podiceps solidus ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinLate Miocene;
Early PlioceneHyargas-Nuur 2:
MN 13; Chono-Harayah 1 and 2 Zogsoo-Harhan 1 and 4A Podicipedidae.Pseudodontornis tenuirostris Valid ?Sp. nov.Colin J. O. HarrisonLate PaleoceneOldhaven Beds:A Pseudontornithidae, possibly a synonymym of Pseudodontornis longidentataSiphonorhis daiquiriValidSp. nov.Storrs L. OlsonQuaternary, probably HoloceneCave depositsA Caprimulgidae, may still be living.Syrmaticus kozlovae ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinMiocene-Late PlioceneKhirgis Nur FormationA Phasianidae.Syrrhaptes kashini ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinMiocene-Late PlioceneA Pteroclidae.Tadorna petrina ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinLate PlioceneAn Anatidae.Yunnanus gaoyuansis ValidGen et Sp nov.Hou LianhaiLate MioceneShihuibaA Passeriformes, family Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus.
Lepidosauromorphs
Newly named pleosiosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images YuzhoupliosaurusGen et sp nov Valid ZhangMiddle Jurassic A rhomaleosauride
Synapsids Mammals Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Ictonyx boltiSp. nov Jr. synonymCookeLate Pliocene-Early PleistoceneBolt's FarmA mustelid, reassigned to the genus Propoecilogale in 1987.
References
Bird, R.T. (1985) Bones for Barnum Brown (V.T. Schreiber, Ed.), Texas Christian Univ. Press. Fort Worth, TX. 225 pp. Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.