Arthropods Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPenthetria? fryiSp novvalidRiceYpresianDriftwood Shales A bibionid fly Penthetria whipsawensisSp novvalidRiceYpresianAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Plecia angustipennisComb novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales" A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria angustipennis (1910) Plecia avusComb novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria avus (1910) Plecia cairnesiSp novvalidRiceYpresianDriftwood Shales A bibionid fly Plecia canadensisComb novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria canadensis (1910) Plecia curtulaComb and syn novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales" A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria curtula (1910) Senior synonym of Penthetria avunculus (1910) Plecia dilatataComb novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales" A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria dilatata (1910) Plecia elatiorComb novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria elatior (1910) Plecia intermediaComb novjr synonym(Scudder)PriabonianFlorissant Formation A bibionid fly Moved from Mycetophaetus intermedius (1892) Moved to Penthetria intermedia (1999) Plecia kelownaensisSp novvalidRiceYpresianColdwater Beds A bibionid fly Plecia minutulaSp novvalidRiceYpresianAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Plecia nanaComb novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria nana (1910) Plecia pictipennisComb and syn novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria pictipennis (1910) Senior synonym of Penthetria lambei, Pe. ovalis, & Pe. separanda (1910) Plecia platypteraComb novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales" A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria platyptera (1910) Plecia pulchra Comb novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria pulchra (1910) Plecia pullaComb and syn novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby Formation A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria pulla (1910) Senior synonym of Penthetria brevipes (1910) Plecia reducta Comb novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales" A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria reducta (1910) Plecia transitoriaComb and syn novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales" A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria transitoria (1910) Senior synonym of Penthetria falcatula & Pe. fragmentum (1910) Plecia tulameenensisSp novvalidRiceYpresianAllenby Formation A bibionid fly

Conodonts German paleontologist Klaus J. Müller (1923-2010) described the conodont family Westergaardodinidae.Kambrische conodonten. KJ Müller, Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, 1959, volume 111, pages 434-485 (URL at Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDollymaeConodonts from the Chappel limestone of Texas. Wilbert H. Hass, 1959 validHassCarboniferousType species D. sagittulaFurnishinaGen et sp nov. valid MüllerCambrianType species F. furnishiHertzina validMüllerCambrianType species H. bisulcataWestergaardodinaGen et sp nov validMüllerCambrianType species W. bicuspidata

Archosauromorphs Incertae sedis

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPalaeosauriscus Junior synonym KuhnLate TriassicJunior synonym of Palaeosaurus.

Newly named pseudosuchians Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images ClarenceaBrink, A.S. 1959. A new small thecodont from the Red Beds of the Stormberg series. Palaeontologia Africana 6: pp. 109–115. Junior synonym BrinkEarly Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location NotesImages ChialingosaurusYoung C.-C. 1959. On a new Stegosauria from Szechuan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 3: pp. 1-8. Valid taxon. Yang Zhongjian (as Young C. C.)Late Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian) A stegosaur. PachysauriscusKuhn, O. 1959. Ein neuer Microsaurier aus dem deutschen Rotliegenden. N. Jb. Geol. Palaeontol. Mh. 1959: pp. 424-426; Disputed KuhnLate Triassic (Norian)Possible junior synonym of Plateosaurus.

Plesiosaurs

Newly named Plesiosaurs

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Stretosaurus Nomen dubium Tarlo Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)A dubious pliosaurid belonging to Thalassophonea.

Birds

Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnthropodyptes Gen. et Sp. nov.valid SimpsonMiddle Miocene, Balcombian StageA Spheniscidae, type species A. gilliBathoceleus Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbPleistocene-Late HoloceneBanana Hole, New Providence Island A Picidae, type species B. hyphalus.Burhinus nanus Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbPleistocene-Late HoloceneBanana Hole, New Providence IslandA Burhinidae.Caracara creightoni Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbPleistoceneBanana Hole, New Providence IslandA Falconidae.Colinus suilium Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbMiddle PleistoceneReddics beds, Arredondo clayAn Odontophoridae.Cremaster tytthus Gen. et Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbMiddle PleistoceneArredondo clayAn Icteridae, type species C. tytthus.Henocitta Gen. et Sp. nov.valid HolmanPleistoceneArredondo clayA Corvidae, type species H. brodkorbi.Falco readei Sp. nov.synonym BrodkorbPleistoceneArredondo clayA Falconidae, moved to Milvago readei.Pliogyps Gen. et Sp. nov.valid TordoffPlioceneRexroad Formation A Cathartidae, type species P. fisheriColtonia recurvirostra Sp. nov.synonym HardyEarly EoceneColton FormationA Presbyornithidae, moved to Presbyornis recurvirostrus.

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Titanopteryx Preoccupied Arambourg Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)Phosphate deposits

()Later renamed Arambourgiana Nesov, Kanznyshkina, and Cherepanov, 1987

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