Bryophytes Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDitrichitesGen et sp novvalidKucYpresianAllenby FormationA possible ditrichaceous moss. The type species is D. fylesiMuscites maycockiSp novvalidKucYpresianAllenby FormationA moss of uncertain placementMuscites ritchieiSp novvalidKucYpresianAllenby FormationA moss of uncertain placementPalaeohypnum jovet-astiSp novjr synonymKucYpresianAllenby FormationAn amblystegiaceous moss Moved to Hypnites jovet-astiae in 1980Palaeohypnum steereiSp novjr synonymKucYpresianAllenby FormationAn amblystegiaceous moss Moved to Hypnites steerei in 1980
Plants Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesQuercus paleocarpaGen et sp novvalidManchesterMiddle EoceneClarno FormationAn oak
Archosauromorphs
General research Massospondylus gastroliths are documented.Raath (1974). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesChubutisaurusCorro, G. del. 1974. Un nuevo megalosaurio (Carnosaurio) del Cretacico de Chubut (Argentina). Communicaciones Mus. Argent. Ciencias Nat. "Bernardino Rivadavia" Paleontol. 1:pp. 37-44.gen et sp novValid del CorroAlbianCerro Barcino FormationHomalocephaleMaryanska, T. and H. Osmólska. 1974. Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. Paleontol. Polinica 30: pp. 45-102.gen et sp novValid Maryańska & Osmólskalate Cretaceous Labocaniagen et sp novValid MolnarCampanianLa Bocana Roja Formation possible tyrannosauroidPrenocephalegen et sp novValid Maryańska & Osmólskalate Cretaceous StokesosaurusMadsen, J. H., Jr. 1974. A new theropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Utah. J. Paleontol. 48: pp. 27-31.gen et sp novValid MadsenLate JurassicMorrison Formation, Utah Tylocephalegen et sp novValid Maryańska & Osmólskalate Cretaceous
Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesChunga incerta Sp. nov.ValidEduardo P. TonniLate PlioceneMonte Hermoso Formation A Cariamidae.Cryptociconia indica Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.ValidColin J. O. HarrisonPlioceneSiwalik Series A Ciconiidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Dendrocopos praemedius Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyLate PlioceneMN 17 A Picidae.Francolinus minor Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyLate PleistoceneVillafranchian A Phasianidae.Francolinus villanyiensis Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyLate PlioceneMN 16 A Phasianidae.Francolinus wenzensis Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyEarly PlioceneMN 15 A Phasianidae.Gobipteryx minuta Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.ValidAndrzej ElzanowskiLate Cretaceous?Campanian,
Barun Goyot Formation Described in the Palaeognathae, but transferred to the Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, this is the type species of the new genus.Leptoptilos richae Sp. nov.ValidColin J. O. HarrisonLate MioceneBelgia Formation A Ciconiidae.Leptoptilos siwalikensis Sp. nov.ValidColin J. O. HarrisonPlioceneSiwalik Series A Ciconiidae.Neophrontops slaughteri Sp. nov.ValidAlan FeducciaLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formatie,
Hagerman Local Fauna ()An Accipitridae.Nesotrochis steganinos Sp. nov.ValidStorrs L. OlsonQuaternaryCave deposits A flightless Rallidae.Pachydyptes simpsoni Sp. nov.ValidR. J. F JenkinsLate EoceneBlanche Point Marls,
Aldingan Stage A Spheniscidae.Tetrao conjugens Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyLate Pliocene?Campanian,
Węże 1 A Phasianidae.Tetrastes praebonasia Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyEarly PleistoceneTarkö - lagen 11, 12;
Hundsheim;
Montoussé
A Phasianidae, transferred to the genus Bonasa Stephen, 1819 by Zygmunt Bocheński, 1991.
Newly named pterosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Gallodactylusgen et sp nov subjective synonymFabreLate Jurassic subjective synonym of Cycnorhamphus Herbstosaurusgen et sp nov ValidCasamiquelaTithonian Vaca Muerta Formation
References
Raath, M.A. (1974). Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: further evidence of gastroliths in Prosauropod dinosaurs. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 7 (5): 1–7. 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.