Bryophytes Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesMuscites eocenicusSp novjr synonymKucYpresianAllenby FormationA bartramiaceous moss moved to Plagiopodopsis eocenicus in 1980
Mollusca Bivalves Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesConcavodontaGen. et sp. nov.Valid Babin & MelouOrdovicianNew genus for Nucula ponderata.
Archosauromorphs
Newly named archosauromorphs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAzendohsaurusDutuit, J.M. 1972. Decouverte d'un dinosaure ornthischien dans le Trias supericur de l'Atlas occidental marocain. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris D275: pp. 2841-2844.Gen. et sp. nov.ValidDutuitLate TriassicArgana FormationA herbivorous archosauromorph.
Newly named pseudosuchians Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Gracilisuchus Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Romer Late Triassic (Carnian) Chañares Formation
Newly named dinosauriforms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images LewisuchusRomer, A.S. 1972. The Chanares (Argentina) Triassic Reptile Fauna. XIV. Lewisuchus admixtus, gen. et sp. nov., a further Thecodont from the Chanares Beds. Breviora 390: pp. 1-13. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Romer Late Triassic (Carnian) Chañares Formation A silesaurid.
Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images ArchaeornithomimusRussell, D.A. 1972. Ostrich dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Western Canada. Can. J. Earth Sci. 9: pp. 375-402. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Russell Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Iren Dabasu Formation An ornithomimid. Dromiceiomimus Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Russell Maastrichtian Horseshoe Canyon Formation An ornithomimid, possibly a synonym of Ornithomimus. GallimimusOsmolska, H., E. Roniewicz, and R. Barsbold. 1972. A new dinosaur Gallimimus bullatus, n. gen. n. sp. (Ornithomimidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontol. Polonica 27: pp. 103-143. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Osmólska, Roniewicz Barsbold Late Cretaceous (Maastichtian) Nemegt Formation An ornithomimid. "Thotobolosaurus"Ellenberger, P. 1972. Contribution a la classification des pistes de vertebres du Trias: les types du Stormberg d’Afrique du Sud (I). Palaeovertebrata Memories Extraord(1972): pp. 1-152. Nomen nudum Ellenberger Late Triassic (Norian) Formally named Kholumolumo in 2020. VulcanodonRaath, M.A. 1972. Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: a new dinosaur (Reptilia: Saurischia) from near the Trias-Jurassic Boundary. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 5 (30): 1-37. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Raath Early Jurassic (Sinemurian-Pliensbachian) Batoka Formation A sauropod.
Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnserobranta tarabukini Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.Valid Evgeny N. Kurochkin
I. M. GanyaLate MioceneMN 9:An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Aptenodytes ridgeni Sp. nov.Valid George G. SimpsonLate PlioceneWaititaranA Spheniscidae.Apus submelba Sp. nov.Valid Dénes JánossyMiddle PleistoceneMQ 2AAn Apodidae.Ardeagrandis arborea Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.Valid Evgeny N. Kurochkin
I. M. GanyaLate MioceneMN 9:An Ardeidae.Eostrix martinellii Sp. nov.Valid Larry D. Martin
Craig Call BlackEarly EoceneWind River Formation:A Strigiformes, Protostrigidae Wetmore, 1933.Mergus connectens Sp. nov.Valid Dénes JánossyEarly PleistoceneMQ 1b;An Anatidae.Miocitta galbreathi Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.Valid Pierce BrodkorbLate MioceneKenmesaw Local Fauna:A Corvidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Otis kalmani Sp. nov.Valid Dénes JánossyEarly PleistoceneMQ 1aAn Otididae.Paraptenodytes brodkorbi Sp. nov.Synonym of Paraptenodytes robustus (Ameghino, 1895). George G. SimpsonEarly MiocenePatagonian FormationA Spheniscidae, placed in synonymy with Paraptenodytes robustus (Ameghino, 1895) by Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, 2005, but Sara Bertelli, Norberto P. Giannini & Daniel T. Ksepka, 2006 disagree with her and say it needs another genus.Phalacrocorax lautus Sp. nov.Valid Evgeny N. Kurochkin
I. M. GanyaLate Miocene:A Phalacrocoracidae.Probalearica moldavica Sp. nov.Valid Evgeny N. Kurochkin
I. M. GanyaLate MioceneMN 9:A Gruidae, transferred to the genus Grus by Jíří Mlíkovský, 2002.Protocitta ajax Sp. nov.Valid Pierce BrodkorbLate PlioceneBlancan:
;A Corvidae, sometimes placed in the genus Calocitta G. R. Gray, 1841.Pygoscelis tyreei Sp. nov.Valid George G. SimpsonLate PlioceneWaititaranA Spheniscidae.Rustaviornis georgicus Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.Valid Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich
G. K. MeladzeLate Miocene
SarmantianHipparion Fauna:A Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Strix collongensis Sp. nov.Valid Peter BallmannMiddle MioceneMn 5A Strigidae, transferred to and made the type species of the new genus Alasio by Jirí Mlíkovský, 1998.Surnia capeki Sp. nov.Valid Dénes JánossyEarly PleistoceneMQ 1bA Strigidae.Tertiariaporphyrula lungi Sp. nov.ValidEvgeny N. Kurochkin
I. M. GanyaLate MioceneMN 9-11:A Rallidae, transferred to the genus Palaeoaramides Lambrecht, 1933 by Storrs L. Olson, 1977. Subsequently, made the type species of a separate genus Mioporphyrula by Zelenkov (2015).Tyto noeli Sp. nov.Valid Oscar ArredondoLate PleistoceneCave depositsA Tytonidae.Tyto riveroi Sp. nov.Valid Oscar ArredondoPleistoceneCave depositsA Tytonidae.
Synapsids
Newly named therapsids Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images RegisaurusC. H. Mendrez. 1972. On the skull of Regisaurus jacobi, a new genus and species of Bauriamorpha Watson and Romer 1956 (=Scaloposauria Boonstra 1953), from the Lystrosaurus-zone of South Africa. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Mendrez Early Triassic A regisaurid therocephalian.
Mammalian Name Novelty Authors Age Type Locality Country NotesStenailurus teilhardiGen. et. sp. nov.Crusafont-Pairo & AguirreLate Miocene (Turolian)
Other Animals Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Brachina Gen. and sp. nov. Valid Wade Ediacaran The type species is B. delicata.Dickinsonia brachina Sp. nov. Synonym of Dickinsonia tenuis Wade Ediacaran Dickinsonia lissa Sp. nov. Synonym of Dickinsonia tenuis Wade Ediacaran Eoporpita Gen. and sp. nov. Valid Wade Ediacaran The type species is E. medusa. Kimberella Nom. nov. Valid Wade Ediacaran A replacement name for Kimberia Glaessner & Wade (1966). Rangea sibirica Sp. nov. Synonym of Charnia masoni Sokolov Ediacaran Rugoconites tenuirugosus Sp. nov. Valid Wade Ediacaran
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