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Arthropods

Insects

Archosauromorphs

Newly named non-avian dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[2]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chingkankousaurus	Gen et sp nov	Nomen dubium	Yang (as Young C. C.)	Late Campanian	Jingangkou Formation		A tyrannosauroid.
Tsintaosaurus^[3]	Gen et sp nov	Valid taxon	Yang (as Young C. C.)	Late Campanian	Jingangkou Formation		A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid.

Birds

Newly named birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Anas apscheronica ^[4]	Sp. nov.	valid	Burchak-Abramovisch	Late Pliocene	Apscherion		An Anatidae.
Bartramia umatilla ^[5]	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Middle Pliocene			A Scolopacidae.
Callipepla shotwelli	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Middle Pliocene			An Odontophoridae.
Cygnus hibbardi ^[6]	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Early Pleistocene	Irvingtonian, Hagerman Lake Beds		An Anatidae.
Morus humeralis ^[7]	Sp. nov.	valid	Miller Bowman	Late Pliocene			A Sulidae.
Ornimegalonyx ^[8]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	valid	Arredondo	Late Pleistocene			A Strigidae, the types species of the new genus is Ornimegalonyx oteroi.
Pardirallus lacustris	Sp. nov.	valid	(Brodkorb)	Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene	Hagerman and Rexroad Local Fauna		A Rallidae, described as Porzana lacustris but transferred by Storrs L. Olson in 1977 to Pardirallus Bonaparte, 1856.
Phalacrocorax macer	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Late Pliocene	Irvingtonian, Glenns Ferry Formation, Hagerman Lake Beds		A Phalacrocoracidae.
Podiceps subparvus	Sp. nov.	valid	(Miller Bowman)	Middle Pliocene	Blancan, San Diego Formation		A Podicipedidae, described as Colymbus subparvus.
Promilio epileus ^[9]	Sp. nov.	valid	Wetmore	Early Miocene	Thomas Farm Beds		An Accipitridae, the type species of the genus is Proictinia effera Wetmore, 1923.
Promilio brodkorbi	Sp. nov.	valid	Wetmore	Early Miocene	Thomas Farm Beds		An Accipitridae, the type species of the genus is Proictinia effera Wetmore, 1923.
Ptychoramphus tenuis	Sp. nov.	valid	Miller Bowman	Middle Pliocene	Blancan, San Diego Formation		An Alcidae.
Querandiornis ^[10]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	valid	Rusconi	Late Pliocene	Ensenada Formation		A Furnariidae, Dendrocolaptinae, The type species is Querandiornis romani, described in the Tinamiidae, transferred by Tonni & Tambussi, 1986 to Aves Incertae Sedis, transferred by Agnolin, 2016 to Dendrocolaptinae
Sula pohli ^[11]	Sp. nov.	valid	Howard	Late Miocene			A Sulidae.
Troglodytes gracilis ^[12]	Sp. nov.	valid?	Brunner	Late Pleistocene			A Troglodytidae, better seen as a Passeriformes Incertae Sedis.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Basicranodon	Junior synonym	Vaughn	Early Permian			A junior synonym of the varanopid Mycterosaurus.
Diarthrognathus	Valid	Crompton	Early Jurassic	Elliot Formation		A member of Trithelodontidae.

Other Animals

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Charnia	Valid	Ford	Ediacaran	Maplewell Group	United Kingdom
Charniodiscus	Valid	Ford	Ediacaran	Maplewell Group	United Kingdom
Spriggina	Valid	Glaessner	Ediacaran		Australia

References

1. Pierce . W.D. . 1958 . Fossil arthropods of California. No. 21. Termites from Calico Mountains nodules . Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences . 575 . 1 . 13–24 .
2. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
3. Young C.-C. 1958. The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shanrung. Palaeontol. Sinica (ser. C) 16: pp. 1-138.
4. Burchak-Abramovisch . Nikolaj Iosifovich . 1958 . Tertiary Birds of the USSR Tertiary Birds of the USSR . Uchenie Zapiski Azerbaijan State University, Serie Biology . 1 . 81–88 .
5. Pierce Brodkorb . 1958 . Birds from the Middle Pliocene of McKay, Oregon . Condor . 60 . 4 . 252–255 . 10.2307/1365194. 1365194 .
6. Pierce Brodkorb . 1958 . Fossil Birds from Idaho . Wilson Bulletin . 70 . 237–242 .
7. Loye Holmes Miller & Robert I. Bowman . 1958 . Further Bird Remains from the San Diego Pliocene . Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science . 20 . 1–15 .
8. Oscar Arredondo . 1958 . Aves Gigantes de Nuestro Pasado Prehistórico, El Cartero Cubana . La Habana . XVII . 7 . 10–12 .
9. Alexander Wetmore . 1958 . Miscellaneous Notes on Fossil Birds . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . 135 . 8 . 1–11 .
10. Carlos Rusconi . 1958 . Ave Fósil del Plioceno de Buenos Aires . Revista del Museo del Historia Natural de Mendoza . 11 . 157–160 .
11. Hildegarde Howard . 1958 . Miocene Sulids of Southern California . Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science . 25 . 3–15 .
12. G. Brunner . 1958 . Nachtrag zur Breitenberghöhle bei Gösswenstein Ofr . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte . 1958 . 500–517 .