Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Oryzoconcha[1] | gen et sp nov | not valid | He & Pei | Early Cambrian | Henan province | synonym of Pojetaia runnegari | ||
Tuarangia[2] | Ord, Supfam, fam, gen et sp nov | valid | MacKinnon | late Middle Cambrian | Tasman Formation | one of four accepted Cambrian bivalves | ||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Azteca alpha[3] | Sp nov | valid | Poinar | Burdigalian | Dominican Amber | A dolichoderine ant | ||
Azteca eumeces | Sp nov | valid | Poinar | Burdigalian | Dominican Amber | A dolichoderine ant | ||
Dominickus[4] | gen et sp. nov | valid | Tindale | Priabonian | Florissant Formation | A castniid butterfly-moth, monotypic | ||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Castericystis[5] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Ubaghs & Robison | Middle Cambrian | A solutan. | |||
Marjumicystis | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Ubaghs & Robison | Middle Cambrian | An eocrinoid. | |||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Anhanguera | Gen et sp | Valid | Campos & Kellner | Aptian | Crato Formation | A pterodactyloid belonging to Anhangueridae. | ||
"Palaeolimnornis"[10] | Gen et sp nov | Nomen nudum | Jurcsák & Kessler | Early Cretaceous | Bauxite mine | An informal name applied to Palaeocursornis. An azhdarchoid pterosaur.[11] | ||
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[12]
Name | Status | Authors | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Abelisaurus[13] | Valid taxon |
| A short-handed Flesh-eating Dinosaur. | |||
"Aliwalia"[14] | Junior synonym. | Junior subjective synonym of Eucnemosaurus. | ||||
Blikanasaurus[15] | Valid taxon |
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Camelotia[16] | Valid taxon | A British Melanorosaur. | ||||
Carnotaurus[17] | Valid taxon | An Abelisaurid. The Horned Cheetah of the Cretaceous. | ||||
"Dachungosaurus"[18] | Nomen nudum. |
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"Dystylosaurus"[19] | Junior synonym. | Junior synonym of Supersaurus. | ||||
Gasosaurus[20] | Valid taxon | |||||
"Mifunesaurus" | Nomen nudum |
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"Moshisaurus" | Nomen nudum. |
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"Oshanosaurus" | Nomen nudum. |
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"Sanchusaurus" | Nomen nudum |
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Supersaurus | Valid taxon | |||||
"Ultrasaurus" | Preoccupied name. | Preoccupied by Kim H. M., 1983 and renamed Ultrasauros. | ||||
"Xuanhuasaurus" | Nomen nudum. |
| Later renamed Xuanhuaceratops in 2006 | |||
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Aegialornis szarskii [22] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Dieter S. Peters | Middle Eocene | Messel pit, | Germany | An Aegialornithidae | |
Amphipelargus dzabghanensis [23] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Late Miocene-Pliocene | Chono-Harayah | Mongolia | A Gruiformes, Eogruidae | |
Anas molesta | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Late Miocene | Hyargas Nuur 2 | Mongolia | An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Aythya by Nikita V. Zelenkov [24] | |
Anas schneideri [25] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Steven D. Emslie | Late Pleistocene | United States | An Anatidae. | ||
Anser tchikoicus | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Miocene-Pliocene | Mongolia | An Anatidae. | ||
Anthus seductus | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Early Pliocene | Mongolia | A Motacillidae. | ||
Avisaurus archibaldi [26] | Valid | Gen et Sp. nov. | Michael K. Brett-Surman | Maastrichtian | Hell Creek Formation | United States (and) | An Enantiornithes, Avisauridae Brett-Surman & Paul, 1985 this is the type species of the new genus. | |
Aythya magna | Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Early Pliocene | Hyargas Nuur Formation | Mongolia | An Anatidae. | |
Aythya shihuibas [27] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Hou Lianhai | Late Miocene | China | An Anatidae, Nikita V. Zelenkov, 2012 transferred the species to his genus Protomelanitta Zelenkov, 2011.[28] | ||
Bonibernicla ponderosa | Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Late Miocene | Hyargas Nuur Formation | Mongolia United States | An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | |
Brasilogyps faustoi [29] | Valid | Gen et Sp nov. | Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga | Early Oligocene | Taubate | Brazil | A Cathartidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | |
Centropus colossus [30] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Robert F. Baird | Quaternary | Green Waterhole Cave | Australia | A Cuculiformes, Centropodidae. | |
Colius hendeyi [31] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Patricia Vickers Rich Philippa J. Haarhoff | Early Pliocene | Varswater Formation | South Africa | A Coliidae. | |
Corvus solitus | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Miocene-Late Pliocene | Mongolia | A Corvidae. | ||
Diangallus mious | Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Hou Lianhai | Late Miocene | China | A Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||
Egretta subfluvia [32] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Jonathan J. Becker | Late Miocene | Early Hemphillian | United States | An Ardeidae. | |
Eudromia olsoni [33] | Valid | Nom. nov. | Claudia P. Tambussi Eduardo P. Tonni | Late Pliocene | Monte Hermoso Formation | Argentina | A Tinamidae, new name for the preoccupied Tinamisornis intermedius Dabbene et Lillo, 1913 = Eudromia elegans intermedia (Dabbene et Lillo, 1913). | |
Geronticus apelex [34] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Storrs L. Olson | Early Pliocene | Varswater Formation | South Africa | A Threskiornithidae. | |
Grus afghana [35] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Cécile Mourer-Chauviré
Yves Jehenne Émile Heintz | Late Miocene | MN 12 | Afghanistan | A Gruidae. | |
Haliaeetus fortis | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Late Miocene | MN 13, Hyargas-Nuur 2 | Mongolia | An Accipitridae. | |
Heliadornis ashbyi [36] | Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Storrs L. Olson | Middle Miocene | Langhian, | United States Belgium | A Phaethontidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | |
Limosa lacrimosa | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Miocene-Late Pliocene | Mongolia | A Scolopacidae. | ||
“Lophura” inferna | Not Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Miocene | Shaamar | Mongolia | A Phasianidae, not a Lophura, the holotype is not diagnostic to genus. | |
Melopyrrha latirostris [37] | Valid | Sp. nov. | David W. Steadman Gary S. Morgan | Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene | Cayman Brac cave deposits | Cayman Islands | A Thraupidae. | |
Oceanites zaloscarthmus [38] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Storrs L. Olson | Early Pliocene | Varswater Formation | South Africa | An Oceanitidae. | |
Oenanthe infima | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Miocene-Late Pliocene | Sharga | Mongolia | A Muscicapidae. | |
Orthonyx hypsilophus | Valid | Sp. nov. | Robert F. Baird | Quaternary | Green Waterhole Cave | Australia | An Orthonychidae. | |
Pachyptila salax | Valid | Sp. nov. | Storrs L. Olson | Early Pliocene | Varswater Formation | South Africa | A Procellariidae. | |
Paleopsilopterus itaboraiensis [39] | Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga | Itaboraian | Brazil | A Gruiformes, Phorusrhacidae Ameghino, 1889, Psilopterinae Mathilde Dolgopol de Sáez, 1927, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||
Palaeotodus escampsiensis [40] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Cécile Mourer-Chauviré | Late Eocene | Phosphorites du Quercy, | France | A Todidae. | |
Palaeotodus itardiensis | Valid | Sp. nov. | Cécile Mourer-Chauviré | Oligocene | Phosphorites du Quercy | France | A Todidae. | |
Pandion lovensis [41] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Jonathan J. Becker | Latest Clarendonian | United States | A Pandionidae. | ||
Pelecanoides cymatotrypetes | Valid | Sp. nov. | Storrs L. Olson | Early Pliocene | Varswater Formation | South Africa | A Pelecanoididae. | |
Perdix margaritae | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Miocene-Late Pliocene | Chikoi River | A Phasianidae. | ||
Phalaropus eleonorae | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Miocene-Late Pliocene | Mongolia | A Phalaropidae. | ||
Phasianus lufengia | Valid | Sp. nov. | Hou Lianhai | Late Miocene | Shihuiba | China | A Phasianidae. | |
Podiceps solidus | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Late Miocene | Hyargas-Nuur 2:
| Mongolia | A Podicipedidae. | |
Pseudodontornis tenuirostris [42] | Valid ? | Sp. nov. | Colin J. O. Harrison | Late Paleocene | Oldhaven Beds | A Pseudontornithidae, possibly a synonymym of Pseudodontornis longidentata | ||
Siphonorhis daiquiri[43] | Valid | Sp. nov. | Storrs L. Olson | Quaternary, probably Holocene | Cave deposits | Cuba | A Caprimulgidae, may still be living. | |
Syrmaticus kozlovae | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Miocene-Late Pliocene | Khirgis Nur Formation | Mongolia | A Phasianidae. | |
Syrrhaptes kashini | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Miocene-Late Pliocene | Mongolia | A Pteroclidae. | ||
Tadorna petrina | Valid | Sp. nov. | Evgeny N. Kurochkin | Late Pliocene | Mongolia | An Anatidae. | ||
Yunnanus gaoyuansis | Valid | Gen et Sp nov. | Hou Lianhai | Late Miocene | Shihuiba | China | A Passeriformes, family Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. | |