Plants Conifers Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPinus arnoldiiSp novvalidMillerEoceneYpresianOkanogan HighlandsAllenby FormationPrinceton ChertA 5-needle pine cone speciesPinus similkameenensisSp novvalidMillerYpresianOkanogan HighlandsAllenby FormationPrinceton ChertA 5-needle pine needle species
Angiosperms NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeType localityLocationNotesImagesEorhizaGen et sp novvalidRobison & PersonEoceneYpresianOkanogan HighlandsAllenby FormationPrinceton ChertA semi-aquatic flowering plant of uncertain affiliation The type species is E. arnoldiiPossibly a monocot related to Acorus
Arthropods Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesEpiborkhausenitesGen et sp. novvalidSkalskiBartonian Baltic amberAn Oecophoridae moth, type species E. obscurotrimaculatusTortricidrosis Gen. et sp. novValidSkalskiLutetianBaltic amberA Tortricidae moth. The type species is T. inclusa.
Conodonts Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images ProtoprioniodusPrioniodontacean conodonts from the Emanuel Formation (Lower Ordovician) of Western Australia. RA McTavish, Geologica et Palaeontologica, 1973Gen. novvalid McTavishLower Ordovician Emanuel Formation
Archosauromorphs
New pseudosuchian taxa Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images LisboasaurusSeiffert, J. 1973. Upper Jurassic Lizards from Central Portugal. Contribuicao para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimeridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal). Servicox Geologicos de Portugal, Memoria 22 (new series): pp. 7-88.Gen. novvalidSeiffertMiddle JurassicGuimarota lignite Crocodylomorph
Crocodylomorph research William Roger Hamilton describes a second specimen of Tomistoma dowsoni from the Siwa Oasis of Egypt.
Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesEfraasiagen novValid GaltonMiddle NorianLöwenstein Formation basal sauropodomorphKelmayisaurusDong, Z.M. 1973. Dinosaurs from Wuerho. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II), Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memories of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academy of Science 11: pp. 45-52.gen et sp novValid DongEarly CretaceousLianmugin Formation carcharodontosauridPhaedrolosaurusgen et sp novnomen dubium DongEarly CretaceousLianmugin Formation described from a single tooth; a dromaeosauridPhyllodonGen et sp novValid ThulbornMiddle Jurassic Guimarota lignite possible Hypsilophodontid ShantungosaurusHu, C. 1973. A new hadrosaur from the Cretaceous of Chucheng. Shantung. Acta Geol. Sinica 2: pp. 179-202.gen et sp novValid HuLate Cretaceous largest known ornithischian TrimucrodonGen et sp novnomen dubium ThulbornMiddle Jurassic Guimarota lignite Ornithischian of uncertain placementTugulusaurusgen et sp novValidDongEarly CretaceousTugulu Group alvarezsauroid Wuerhosaurusgen et sp novValidDongEarly CretaceousTugulu Group one of the last stegosaurians
Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAtlantisia elpenor Sp. nov.valid Storrs L. OlsonLate Holocene-Subrecent A Rallidae, transferred to the new genus Mundia by Bourne, Ashmole et Simmons, 2003, it is the type species of the new genus.Garganoaetus freudenthali Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.valid Peter BallmannEarly PlioceneMN 14-15 An Accipitridae.Garganoaetus murivorus Sp. nov.valid Peter BallmannEarly PlioceneMN 14-15 An Accipitridae.Gypaetus osseticus Sp. Nov.Nomen Nudum Nikolay I. Burchak-AbramovichMiddle Pleistocene (Now )An Accipitridae.Ichthyophaga australis Sp. nov.valid Collin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. WalkerHoloceneChatham Island An Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Haliaeetus.Idiornis gaillardi Sp. nov.valid Joel CracraftEocene or OligocenePhosphorites du Quercy A Gruiformes, Idiornithidae Brodkorb, 1965, transferred to the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, 2013.Lophopsittacus bensoni Sp. nov.valid David T. HolyoakSubrecentMauritius A Psittacidae, transferred to the genus Psittacula by Julian P. Hume, 2007.Palaeoaramides minutus Sp. nov.valid Joel CracraftMiddle MioceneGrive-St.-Alban A Rallidae.Palaeorallus brodkorbi Sp. nov.valid Joel CracraftEarly EoceneWasatch Formation ()A Rallidae.?Palaeospheniscus huxleyorum Sp. nov.valid George G. SimpsonMioceneYsterplaats A Spheniscidae, not for sure a member of the genus Palaeospheniscus Moreno et Mercerat, 1891.Porzana astrictocarpus Sp. nov.valid Storrs L. OlsonLate Holocene-Subrecent A Rallidae."Primobucco" kestneri Sp. nov.valid Alan FeducciaEarly EoceneWasatchian
Green River Formatie ()A ?Galbulae the species does not belong in Prinobucco, nor in Neanis, it was transferred to by Feduaccia, 1976, it needs a new genus.Quercyrallus quercy Sp. nov.valid Joel CracraftEocene or Early OligocenePhosphorites du Quercy,
MP 16-28 A Rallidae.Tyto gigantea Sp. nov.valid Peter BallmannEarly PlioceneMN 14-15 A Tytonidae.Tyto robusta Sp. nov.valid Peter BallmannEarly PlioceneMN 14-15 A Tytonidae.Wyleyia valdensis Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.valid Colin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. WalkerEarly CretaceousWeald Clay An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Enantiornithidae Nessov & Borkin, 1983, known from a single humerus, this is the type species of the new genus.
Newly named pterosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Eudimorphodon ranzii Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Zambelli Norian Zorzino Formation Noripterus complicidens Gen. et sp. nov Valid Yang early Cretaceous Lianmuqin Formation
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