Plants Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDicotylophyllum litseafoliaComb novjr synonym(MacGinitie) WolfeEoceneYpresianIone Formation"Chalk Bluff Flora" Loc P3324A dicot of uncertain affinity. Moved from Lauropliyllum litseafolia (1941) Moved from Artocarpoides litseafolia (1968). Moved to Republica litseafolia (1987)
Molluscs
Bivalves
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPraenuculidaeFam novValid McAlesterOrdovician - Devonianextinct family of Nuculoidea bivalves
Fish
Actinopterygii
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesProaracanagen et sp novValid Le DanoisEoceneMonte Bolca
Conodonts
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Location Notes ImagesProtognathodusGen. novValid Willi Ziegler351 Millions of years ago.
PatrognathusBritish Avonian (Carboniferous) conodont faunas, and their value in local and intercontinental correlation. FHT Rhodes, RL Austin, EC Druce - 1969 - British Museum (Natural History)Gen novValid Rhodes, Austin & DruceCarboniferous
Archosauromorphs
Crurotarsans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Location Notes ImagesRiojasuchusBonaparte, J.F. 1969. Dos nuevas "faunas" de reptiles Triasicos de Argentina. I Gondwana Symp. (IVGAS, 1967), Mar del Plata Ciencias Tierra 2: pp. 283-306gen et sp novvalidBonaparteLate Triassic Ornithosuchid archosaur. originally misidentified as a dinosaur
Non-avian dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDeinonychusOstrom, J. H. 1969. A new theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana. Postilia 128: pp. 1-17.gen et sp novValidOstromEarly CretaceousCloverly FormationAn American dromeosaur, that has a name that means: Terrible Claw .Riojasaurusgen et sp novValid.BonaparteTriassicA sauropod.The type species is R. incertus"Strenusaurus"gen et sp novJunior synonym.BonaparteTriassicJunior synonym of Riojasaurus."Syntarsus"Raath, M.A. 1969. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 4 (28): pp. 1-25.gen et sp novPreoccupied name.RaathEarly JurassicPreoccupied by Syntarsus Fairmaire, 1869. Renamed Megapnosaurus.
Birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAlectoris bavarica Sp. nov.Valid BallmannEarly MioceneA Phasianidae.Buteo pusillus Sp. nov.Valid BallmannMiddle MioceneAn Accipitridae.Capitonides Gen. et Sp. nov.jr synonym BallmannEarly MioceneA Lybiidae, jr syn of Trachyphonus europeus.Diomedea thyridata Sp. nov.Valid WilkinsonLate MioceneBlack Rock SandstoneA Diomedeidae.Eogeranoides Gen. et Sp. nov.Valid CracraftEarly EoceneWillwood Formation ()A Geranoididae, type sp. E. campivagus.Geranodornis Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.Valid CracraftMiddle EoceneBridger Formation ()A Geranoididae type sp. G. aenigmaMusophaga meini Sp. nov.jr synonym BallmannMiddle Miocene (MN 8)A Musophagidae jr syn of Veflintornis meiniOtus wintershofensis Sp. nov.jr synonym BallmannEarly MioceneA Strigidae, transferred Strix wintershofensis.Palaeonerpes Gen. et Sp. nov.Valid Cracraft & MoronyEarly PlioceneValentine Formation ()A Picidae, type sp P. shortiPalaeophasianus incompletus Sp. nov.Valid CracraftEarly EoceneWillwood Formation ()A GeranoididaeParacygnus Gen. et Sp. nov.Valid ShortLate PlioceneKimbal Formation ()An Anatidae, type sp P. plattensisParagrus shufeldti Sp. nov.Valid CracraftEarly EoceneWillwood Formation ()A GeranoididaePlotopterum Gen et Sp. nov.Valid HowardEarly MioceneUpper Walker FormationA Plotopteridae, type sp P. joaquinensisPseudodontornis stirtoni Sp. nov.jr synonym Howard & WarterLate PlioceneA Pseudodontornithidae transferred to Neodontornis stirtoniPulsatrix arredondoi Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbPleistoceneCaverna ParedonesA Strigidae.Strix brevis Sp. nov.Valid BallmannEarly MioceneA Strigidae, transferred to Intulula brevis.Taoperdix miocaena Sp. nov.Valid BallmannEarly MioceneA Cracidae.Tetrao praeurogallus Sp. nov.Valid Dénes JánossyEarly Pliocene - Early PleistoceneA Phasianidae.Zenaidura prior Sp. nov.jr synonym BrodkorbLate PlioceneRexroad Formation ()A Columbidae, transferred to Zenaida prior.Zygodactylus Gen et Sp. nov.Valid BallmannMiddle MioceneA Zygodactylidae two sp Z. grivensis & Z. ignotus.
Pterosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Nesodactylusgen et sp nov ValidColbertLate JurassicJagua Formation family placement uncertain
Synapsids
Mammals
NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeType LocalityCountryNotesImagesCrusafontiaHenkel, S. and Krebs, B., 1969. Zwei Säugetier-unterkiefer aus der unteren Kreide von uña (prov. Cuenca, Spanien). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, 1969, pp.449-463.Gen et sp novvalidHenkel & KrebsCretaceousBarremianA dryolestid mammalianThe type species is C. cuencana.SivapardusGen. et. sp. nov.ValidBakrLate Pliocene-Early PleistoceneSar-DhokA felinae large cat.The type species is S. punjabiensis
Paleontologists Death of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist.
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