Plants Conifers Pinaceae Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesAbies rigidaSyn novvalidKnowltonOligoceneChattianCreede FormationAbies longirostris (1923)A possible bristlecone fir speciesPinus crossiiSyn novValidKnowltonOligoceneChattianCreede FormationPinus aristata fossilis(1934) Pinus coloradensis (1923) Pinus similis (1923) Pinus wasonii (1987)A bristle cone pine species
Angiosperms Basal eudicots Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesBerberis coloradensisSyns novValidAxelrodOligoceneChattianCreede FormationA barberry speciesMahonia aceroidesComb et syn novvalid(Knowlton) Schorn & WolfeOligoceneChattianCreede FormationAn Mahonia speciesMoved from Sterculia aceroides (1923)
Superroids Malpighiales Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesPopulus larseniiComb et syn novvalid(Knowlton) Schorn & WolfeOligoceneChattianCreede FormationFirst identified as a possible Alder species Moved from Alnus? larseni (1923)
Paleomycology newly named fungi Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes ImagesCoprinitesGen et sp novValidPoinar & SingerBurdigalianDominican amber.first mushroom genus described from the fossil record
Arthropods Newly named crustaceans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes ImagesOrbitoplaxGen. et sp. novValidTucker & FeldmannEarly Oligocene Poul Creek Formation()A euryplacid crab, type species is O. plafkeri.
Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes ImagesCasaleiaGen novvalidPagliano & ScaramozzinoMiddle Miocene Chon-Tyz mine A replacement name for "Protamblyopone" Dlussky 1981. PaleochrysopaGen et sp novvalidSéméria & NelPriabonianMonteils FormationA green lacewing. The type species is P. monteilsensisTetraponera klebsiComb novValid(Wheeler)LutetianBaltic amberA pseudomyrmecine ant. Moved from Sima klebsi (Wheeler, 1915)
Vertebrates
Conodonts
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes ImagesChiosellaKozur, Cour Forschungsinst Senckenb, 1990, volume 117, page 414Gen novValidKozur ClarkinaGen novValidKozur
Newly named Actinopterygii ("Ray-finned Fish")
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes ImagesVeronaveliferGen et sp novValidBannikovEoceneMonte Bolca
Pseudosuchians NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeType localityCountryNotesImagesBaru darrowiGen. et sp. novValidWillis, Murray & MegirianMioceneBullock CreekA mekosuchine crocodilian. Originally material from the Riversleigh WHA was also assigned to this species, but later research found these fossils to have belonged to a distinct taxon.
Dinosaurs All Anatosaurus species except A. copei were moved to the previously existing genus Edmontosaurus by Brett-Surman "Seismosaurus" gastroliths documented.Gillette, D. (1990). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Status Authors LocationImages AgilisaurusPeng, G-Z. 1990. A new small ornithopod (Agilisaurus louderbacki gen et sp. nov.) from Zigong, Sichuan, China. Zigong Dinosaur Museum Newsletter 2: pp. 19 - 27. Valid taxon Peng G. AnatotitanBrett-Surman vide Chapman, R.E., and M.K. Brett- Surman. 1990. Morphometric observations on hadrosaurid dinosaurs (Chapter 12). In: Dinosaurs Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches (K. Carpenter. and P.J. Currie, P.J., eds.). Cambridge University Press, New York: pp. 163- 177. Junior synonym of Edmontosaurus. Brett-Surman vide: ChapmanMichael K. Brett-Surman () BellusaurusDong, Z. 1990. Sauropoda from the Kelameili Region of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang Autonomous Region. (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica) Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28 (1 - January): pp. 43-58. Valid taxon Dong Zhiming BreviceratopsKurzanov, S.M. 1991. A new Late Cretaceous protoceratopsid genus from Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 1990: pp. 85-91. Valid taxon Kurzanov Coloradisaurus Valid taxon Peter Galton DrinkerBakker, R.T., P. Galton, J. Siegwarth, and J. Filla. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology Part IV. The dinosaurs: a new Othnielia-like hypsilophodontoid. Hunteria, 2: pp. 8-13. Junior synonym of Nanosaurus. Robert Bakker GaltonSiegwarth Filla () EmausaurusHaubold, H. 1990. Ein neuer dinosaurier (Ornithischa, Thyreophora) aus dem unteren Jura des Hordlichen Mitteleuropa: Reviue de Paleobiologie 9 (1) : pp. 149-177. Valid taxon Haubold EpachthosaurusPowell, J.E. 1986. Revision de los titanosauridos de America del Sur Argentina. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina. Valid taxon Jaime Eduardo Powell "Futabasaurus" Nomen nudum; later applied to a plesiosaur. David Lambert "Hadrosauravus"Lambert, D., and the Diagram Group. 1990. The Dinosaur Data Book. Avon Books (320 pages). Nomen nudum David Lambert (, )
"Hisanohamasaurus" Nomen nudum David Lambert "Katsuyamasaurus" Nomen nudum David Lambert "Kitadanisaurus" Nomen nudum David Lambert "Madsenius" Nomen nudum David Lambert MonkonosaurusZhao vide Dong, Z. 1990. Stegosaurs of Asia. In: Dinosaur systematics: approaches and perspectives (K. Carpenter and P.J. Currie, eds.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK: pp. 255- 268. Valid taxon Zhao X. vide: Dong Zhiming Richardoestesia Valid taxon Phillip Currie Rigby andR.E. Sloan () (, , , , , and ) "Sugiyamasaurus" Nomen nudum David Lambert YimenosaurusBai, Z., J. Yang, and G. Wang. 1990. A new genus of prosauropod from the Yuxi (region) of Yunnnan Province [Yunnan Yuxi yuanxijiao lei yi xin shu]. Yuxi Cultural Organization [Yuxi Wen Tuan] 1 (October 1990): pp. 14-23 + plate 1. Valid taxonBai vide: Bai Yang J.Wang G.H.
Newly named birds Name Status Novelty Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAgnopterus sicki ValidSp. nov.Herculano M. F. de AlvarengaLate Oligocene / Early MioceneBacia de TaubateA Phoenicopteriformes, Agnopteridae Lambrecht, 1933.Anser arenosus ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian,
Big Sandy Formation:An Anatidae.Anser arizonae ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian,
Big Sandy Formation:An Anatidae.Brachyramphus dunkeli ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan,
San Diego Formation:An Alcidae.Branta woolfendeni Not ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian,
Big Sandy Formation;
:An Anatidae, placed in synonymy with Bonibernicla ponderosa Kurochkin, 1985 by Zelenkov, 2012.Cerorhinca reai ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan,
San Diego Formation:An Alcidae.Chlamydotis mesetaria ValidSp. nov.Antonio Sanchez MarcoEarly PlioceneMN 15:An Otididae.Corvus galushai ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian,
Big Sandy Formation:A Corvidae.Cygnus mariae ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian,
Big Sandy Formation:An Anatidae.Diomedea howardae ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneMarine Beds:A Diomedeidae.Himantopus olsoni ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian,
Big Sandy Formation:A Recurvirostridae"Ichthyornis" minusculus ValidSp. nov.Lev A. NessovLate EoceneConiacian,
Bisekty FormationPossibly an Enantiornithes Walker, 1981.Kievornis rogovitshi ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Alexander O. Averianov
Olga R. Potapova
Lev A. NessovLate EoceneMP 17-20An Aves Incertae Sedis, possibly a Procelariiformes or a Phaethontidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Melanitta ceruttii ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan,
San Diego Formation:An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Histrionicus Lesson, 1828 by Storrs L. Olson & Pamela C. Rasmussen, 2001 Palaeeudyptes klekowskii ValidSp. nov.Andrezej Myrcha
Andrzej Tatur
Rodolfo Del ValleLate EoceneLa Meseta Formatie on Seymour IslandA Spheniscidae.Podiceps arndti ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan,
San Diego Formation:A Podicipedidae.Puffinus gilmorei ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneMarine Beds:A Procellariidae.Puffinus holei ValidSp. nov.Cyril A. Walker
Graham M. Wragg
Colin J. O. HarrisonLate Pleistocene MQ 2C;
Late Pleistocene MQ 2C-D;
Early Holocene MQ 2EPortugal,
Spain: Fuerteventura and Lanzarote,
Portugal;
:A Procellariidae, Mourer-Chauviré & Antunes, 2000 emended the spelling to Puffinus holeae.Puffinus olsoni ValidSp. nov.Miquel McMinn
Damià Jaume
Josep A. AlcoverHoloceneFuerteventura:A Procellariidae.Rissa estesi ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan,
San Diego Formation:A Laridae.Songzia heidangkouensis ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Hou LianhaiEarly EoceneYangxi FormationA Ralliformes, Songziidae Hou, 1990, this is the type species of the new genus.Stictocarbo kumeyaay ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan,
San Diego Formation:A Phalacrocoracidae, transferred to the genus Phalacrocorax Brisson, 1760.Sula clarki ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan,
San Diego Formation:A Sulidae.Struthio dmanisensis ValidSp. nov.Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich
Abesalom K. VekuaEarly PleistoceneDmanisiA Struthionidae.Synthliboramphus rineyi ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan,
San Diego Formation:An Alcidae.
Synapsids Newly named mammals Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesRussellmysGen et sp novValidEstravísEarly EoceneSilveirinha FormationAn apatemyid, type species is R. denisae
References
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