Arthropoda
New taxa Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesCamponotitesGen et sp novValid Steinbach Piacenzian Willershausen clay pitA formicine ant, type species C. silvestris Cataglyphis constrictusComb novJr synonym (Mayr, 1868)Middle EoceneBaltic amberFossil formicine ant., moved to Cataglyphoides constrictus in 2008
Archosauromorphs
Dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPisanosaurusGen et sp novValid CasamiquelaCarnianIschigualasto Formation A primitive ornithischian
Birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAechmophorus elasson Sp. nov.Valid MurrayLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formation ()A Podicipedidae.Asio brevipes Sp. nov.Valid Ford & MurrayLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formation A Strigidae.Eogrus wetmorei Sp. nov.Valid BrodkorbLate MioceneTungur Formation An Eogruidae Gallinula kansarum Sp. nov.Valid BrodkorbEarly PlioceneBone Valley Formation A Rallidae. originally Fulica americana, redescribed 1967.Hirundo aprica Sp. nov.Valid FeducciaLate PlioceneRexroad Formation A Hirundinidae.Limosa ossivallis Sp. nov.Valid BrodkorbEarly PlioceneBone Valley Formation A Scolopacidae.Ortalis affinis Sp. nov.Valid Feduccia & WilsonEarly PlioceneOgallala Formation A Cracidae.Pararallus hassenkampi Gen. et sp. nov.Valid MartiniEarly/Middle Oligocene Described in Rallidae, better treated as Aves Incertae Sedis.Pliolymbus Gen. et sp. nov.Valid MurrayLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formation A Podicipedidae, type species P. baryosteusPliopicus Gen et sp. nov.Valid Feduccia & WilsonEarly PlioceneOgallala Formation ()A Picidae. Type species P. brodkorbiPodiceps discors Sp. nov.Valid MurrayLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formation ()A Podicipedidae.Podilymbus majusculus Sp. nov.Valid MurrayLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formation]A Podicipedidae.
Pterosaurs Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Pteromonodactylus Junior synonym Teriaev Late Jurassic (Tithonian)Solnhofen LimestoneA junior synonym of Rhamphorhynchus.
Synapids Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesMassetognathusValidAlfred Sherwood RomerMiddle TriassicChañares Formation A traversodontid cynodont.LimnostygisValidCarrollPennsylvanian ()A member of Limnoscelidae.
Popular culture
Literature Bronto the Dinosaur was published. Its storyline was similar to another 1960s work aimed at children,Pataud, le petit dinosaure. The book was marketed as "educationally sound, paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant said the book "cannot justly make that claim" on the basis of several scientific improbabilities.
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