2014 in reptile paleontology explained

This list of fossil reptiles described in 2014 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2014, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2014.

Ichthyopterygians

Research

• Anatomy, taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of Cretaceous ophthalmosaurids Simbirskiasaurus birjukovi and Pervushovisaurus bannovkensis are reevaluated by Fischer et al. (2014).^[1]

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Janusaurus^[2]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Roberts et al.	Late Jurassic	Agardhfjellet Formation		An ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur. The type species is Janusaurus lundi. Zverkov & Prilepskaya (2019) considered Janusaurus to be a junior synonym of the genus Arthropterygius, though the authors maintained J. lundi as a distinct species within the latter genus;^[3] Delsett et al. (2019) rejected this synonymy.^[4]
Leninia^[5]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Fischer et al.	Early Cretaceous (early Aptian)			An ophthalmosaurine ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur. The type species is Leninia stellans.
Sisteronia^[6]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Fischer et al.	Cretaceous (early Albian to early Cenomanian)	Cambridge Greensand Gault Formation Marnes Bleues Formation		A platypterygiine ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur. The type species is Sisteronia seeleyi.
Undorosaurus trautscholdi^[7]	Sp. nov	Valid	Arkhangelsky & Zverkov	Late Jurassic			An ophthalmosaurine ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur, a species of Undorosaurus.

Sauropterygians

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aristonectes quiriquinensis^[8]	Sp. nov	Valid	Otero et al.	Late Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian)	Quiriquina Formation		A plesiosaur, a species of Aristonectes.
Cymatosaurus erikae^[9]	Sp. nov	Valid	Maisch	Middle Triassic (earliest Anisian)	Röt Formation		A species of Cymatosaurus.
Majiashanosaurus^[10]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Jiang et al.	Early Triassic (Olenekian)	Nanlinghu Formation		A basal member of Eosauropterygia. The type species is Majiashanosaurus discocoracoidis.
Nothosaurus zhangi^[11]	Sp. nov	Valid	Liu et al.	Middle Triassic (Anisian)	Guanling Formation		A nothosaur, a species of Nothosaurus.
Odoiporosaurus^[12]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Renesto, Binelli & Hagdorn	Middle Triassic (Anisian)	Besano Formation		A pachypleurosaur. The type species is Odoiporosaurus teruzzii.
Pararcus^[13]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Klein & Scheyer	Middle Triassic (early Anisian)	Vossenveld Formation		A placodont. The type species is Pararcus diepenbroeki.
Pliosaurus patagonicus^[14]	Sp. nov	Valid	Gasparini & O'Gorman	Late Jurassic (middle Tithonian)	Vaca Muerta Formation		A species of Pliosaurus.

Lepidosaurs

Newly named rhynchocephalians

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Kawasphenodon peligrensis^[15]	Sp. nov	Valid	Apesteguia, Gómez & Rougier	Palaeocene	Salamanca Formation		An opisthodontian sphenodontid, a species of Kawasphenodon.
Priosphenodon minimus^[16]	Sp. nov	Valid	Apesteguia & Carballido	Early Cretaceous	Cerro Barcino Formation		An eilenodontine sphenodontid, a species of Priosphenodon.

Newly named lizards

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Blanus mendezi^[17]	Sp. nov	Valid	Bolet et al.	Miocene (11.6 Mya)	Vallès-Penedès Basin		An amphisbaenian, a species of Blanus.
Blanus thomaskelleri^[18]	Sp. nov	Valid	Čerňanský, Rage & Klembara	Early Miocene			An amphisbaenian, a species of Blanus.
Calanguban^[19]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Simões, Caldwell & Kellner	Early Cretaceous	Crato Formation		A scleroglossan lizard with scincomorph affinities. The type species is Calanguban alamoi.
Dakotaseps^[20]	Nom. nov	Valid	Nydam	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Dakota Formation		A member of Scincomorpha of uncertain phylogenetic placement, assigned by Nydam (2013) to an informal paramacellodid-cordylid grade;^[21] a replacement name for Dakotasaurus Nydam (2013) (preoccupied).
Funiusaurus^[22]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Xu et al.	Late Cretaceous	Qiupa Formation		A member of Polyglyphanodontidae. The type species is Funiusaurus luanchuanensis.
Maioricalacerta^[23]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Bailon et al.	Early Pliocene (Zanclean)			A member of Lacertidae. The type species is Maioricalacerta rafelinensis.
Pyrenasaurus^[24]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Bolet & Augé	Late Eocene			A member of Scincoidea, possibly a skink. The type species is Pyrenasaurus evansae.

Newly named snakes

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Adinophis^[25]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Pritchard et al.	Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Maevarano Formation		A member of Madtsoiidae. The type species is Adinophis fisaka.
Indophis fanambinana	Sp. nov	Valid	Pritchard et al.	Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Maevarano Formation		A member of Nigerophiidae, a species of Indophis.
Rukwanyoka^[26]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	McCartney et al.	Oligocene	Nsungwe Formation		The most ancient booid snake and boa from Africa. The type species is Rukwanyoka holmani.
Seismophis^[27]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Hsiou et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Alcântara Formation		A snake of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a relative of Najash rionegrina. The type species is Seismophis septentrionalis.

Turtles

Research

• Redescription of the rediscovered holotype of the Jurassic turtle Plesiochelys etalloni is published by Anquetin, Deschamps & Claude (2014).^[28]

Newly named turtles

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alienochelys^[29]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	de Lapparent de Broin et al.	Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Oulad Abdoun Basin		A sea turtle, a member of Dermochelyoidae. The type species is Alienochelys selloumi.
Allaeochelys libyca^[30]	Sp. nov	Valid	Havlik, Joyce & Böhme	Miocene (Langhian)			A relative of the pig-nosed turtle, a species of the (possibly paraphyletic) genus Allaeochelys.
Ashleychelys^[31]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Weems & Sanders	Oligocene			A pancheloniid sea turtle. The type species is Ashleychelys palmeri.
Atolchelys^[32]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Romano et al.	Early Cretaceous (Barremian)	Morro do Chaves Formation		A bothremydid pleurodiran. The type species is Atolchelys lepida.
Brodiechelys royoi^[33]	Sp. nov	Valid	Pérez-García, Gasulla & Ortega	Early Aptian	Arcillas de Morella Formation		A xinjiangchelyid, a species of Brodiechelys.
Cheirogaster bacharidisi^[34]	Sp. nov	Valid	Vlachos, Tsoukala & Corsini	Pliocene	Gonia Formation		A tortoise, originally described as a species belonging to the genus Cheirogaster. Subsequently, transferred by Pérez-García & Vlachos (2014) to the genus Titanochelon.
Eodortoka^[35]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Pérez-García, Gasulla & Ortega	Early Cretaceous (Aptian)	Arcillas de Morella Formation		A dortokid, a member of the clade Pan-Pleurodira (containing living pleurodirans and all turtles that are more closely related to them than to cryptodirans). The type species is Eodortoka morellana.
Gobiapalone	Gen. et comb. et sp. nov	Valid	Danilov et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Maastrichtian)	Barun Goyot Formation Bayan Shireh Formation Nemegt Formation		A trionychine trionychid. The type species is "Amyda" orlovi Khosatzky (1976); genus also contains new species Gobiapalone breviplastra. The genus Gobiapalone was considered to be a junior synonym of the genus Kuhnemys by Georgalis & Joyce (2017), though the authors maintained G. orlovi and G. breviplastra as distinct species within the latter genus.^[36]
Hylaeochelys kappa^[37]	Sp. nov	Valid	Pérez-García & Ortega	Late Jurassic (Tithonian)	Freixial Formation		A basal member of Eucryptodira, a species of Hylaeochelys.
Judithemys kranzi^[38]	Sp. nov	Valid	Weems	Paleocene (early Thanetian)	Aquia Formation		A member of (likely paraphyletic) group "Macrobaenidae", a species of Judithemys.
Nemegtemys^[39]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Danilov et al.	Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Nemegt Formation		A cyclanorbine trionychid. The type species is Nemegtemys conflata.
Osonachelus^[40]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	de Lapparent de Broin et al.	Eocene (late Bartonian)	Vic-Manlleu Marls Formation		A cheloniid sea turtle. The type species is Osonachelus decorata.
Procolpochelys charlestonensis	Sp. nov	Valid	Weems & Sanders	Oligocene			A pancheloniid sea turtle; a species of Procolpochelys.
Riodevemys^[41]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Pérez-García, Royo-Torres & Cobos	Late Jurassic			A pleurosternid paracryptodiran. The type species is Riodevemys inumbragigas.
Tacuarembemys^[42]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Perea et al.	Late Jurassic or earliest Cretaceous	Tacuarembó Formation		A turtle of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Tacuarembemys kusterae.
Titanochelon^[43]	Gen. et comb. nov	Valid	Pérez-García & Vlachos	Early Miocene to early Pleistocene		?	A tortoise; a new genus for "Testudo" bolivari Hernández-Pacheco (1917). Genus also contains "Testudo" eurysternum Gervais (1848–1852), "Testudo" ginsburgi de Broin (1977), "Testudo" vitodurana Biedermann (1862), "Cheirogaster" steinbacheri Karl (1996), "Testudo" leberonensis Depéret (1890), "Testudo" schafferi Szalai (1931), "Testudo" perpiniana Depéret (1885) and "Cheirogaster" bacharidisi Vlachos et al. (2014). Genus might also contain "Testudo" gymnesicus Bate (1914).
‘Trionyx’ baynshirensis	Sp. nov	Valid	Danilov et al.	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Santonian)	Bayan Shireh Formation		A trionychine trionychid, a species of Trionyx sensu lato.
‘Trionyx’ dissolutus^[44]	Sp. nov	Valid	Vitek & Danilov	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)			A trionychid, a species of Trionyx sensu lato.
‘Trionyx’ gilbentuensis	Sp. nov	Valid	Danilov et al.	Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Nemegt Formation		A trionychine trionychid, a species of Trionyx sensu lato.
‘Trionyx’ gobiensis	Sp. nov	Valid	Danilov et al.	Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Nemegt Formation		A trionychine trionychid, a species of Trionyx sensu lato.
‘Trionyx’ shiluutulensis	Sp. nov	Valid	Danilov et al.	Late Cretaceous (Campanian)			A trionychine trionychid, a species of Trionyx sensu lato.

Archosauromorphs

Archosaurs

See main article: 2014 in archosaur paleontology.

Basal archosauromorphs

Research

• A redescription of Tasmaniosaurus triassicus is published by Ezcurra (2014).^[45]
• A revision of anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of the archosauriform Dorosuchus neoetus is published by Sookias et al. (2014).^[46]
• A revision of putative euparkeriids from the Triassic of China is published by Sookias et al. (2014).^[47]

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aenigmastropheus^[48]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Ezcurra, Scheyer & Bulter	Late Permian (Wuchiapingian)	Usili Formation		A non-archosauriform archosauromorph, probably a protorosaurian. The type species is Aenigmastropheus parringtoni.
Garjainia madiba^[49]	Sp. nov	Valid	Gower et al.	Early Triassic (late Olenekian)	Burgersdorp Formation		An erythrosuchid archosauriform, a species of Garjainia.
Hyperodapedon tikiensis^[50]	Sp. nov	Valid	Mukherjee & Ray	Late Triassic	Tiki Formation		A rhynchosaur, a species of Hyperodapedon.
Proterosuchus goweri^[51]	Sp. nov	Valid	Ezcurra & Butler	Early Triassic			A proterosuchid archosauriform, a species of Proterosuchus.
Pseudochampsa^[52]	Gen. et comb. nov	Valid	Trotteyn & Ezcurra	Late Triassic (late Carnian or earliest Norian)	Ischigualasto Formation		A proterochampsid archosauriform; a new genus for "Chanaresuchus" ischigualastensis Trotteyn, Martínez & Alcober (2012).

Other reptiles

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Abyssomedon^[53]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Macdougall & Reisz	Early Permian	Garber Formation		A nyctiphruretid parareptile. The type species is Abyssomedon williamsi.
Atopodentatus^[54]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Cheng et al.	Middle Triassic (Anisian)	Guanling Formation		A marine reptile, probably a relative of sauropterygians. The type species is Atopodentatus unicus.
Delorhynchus cifellii^[55]	Sp. nov	Valid	Reisz, Macdougall & Modesto	Early Permian	Garber Formation		A parareptile relative of lanthanosuchoids, a species of Delorhynchus.
Eohupehsuchus^[56]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Chen et al.	Early Triassic	Jialingjiang Formation		A hupehsuchian. The type species is Eohupehsuchus brevicollis.
Horaffia^[57]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Klein & Hagdorn	Middle Triassic (Ladinian)	Erfurt Formation		A marine diapsid reptile of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Horaffia kugleri.
Largocephalosaurus qianensis^[58]	Sp. nov	Valid	Li et al.	Triassic	Guanling Formation		A member of Saurosphargidae, a species of Largocephalosaurus.
Parahupehsuchus^[59]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Chen et al.	Early Triassic	Jialingjiang Formation		A hupehsuchian. The type species is Parahupehsuchus longus.

Notes and References

1. Valentin Fischer . Maxim S. Arkhangelsky . Darren Naish. Ilya M. Stenshin . Gleb N. Uspensky . Pascal Godefroit . amp . 2014 . Simbirskiasaurus and Pervushovisaurus reassessed: implications for the taxonomy and cranial osteology of Cretaceous platypterygiine ichthyosaurs . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 171 . 4 . 822–841 . 10.1111/zoj.12158 . 67765108 .
2. Aubrey Jane Roberts . Patrick Scott Druckenmiller . Glenn-Peter Sætre . Jørn Harald Hurum . amp . 2014 . A New Upper Jurassic Ophthalmosaurid Ichthyosaur from the Slottsmøya Member, Agardhfjellet Formation of Central Spitsbergen . PLOS ONE . 9 . 8 . e103152 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0103152 . 25084533 . 4118863 . 2014PLoSO...9j3152R. free .
3. Nikolay G. Zverkov . Natalya E. Prilepskaya . 2019 . A prevalence of Arthropterygius (Ichthyosauria: Ophthalmosauridae) in the Late Jurassic—earliest Cretaceous of the Boreal Realm . PeerJ . 7 . e6799 . 10.7717/peerj.6799 . 31106052 . 6497043 . free .
4. Lene L. Delsett . Aubrey J. Roberts . Patrick S. Druckenmiller . Jørn H. Hurum . 2019 . Osteology and phylogeny of Late Jurassic ichthyosaurs from the Slottsmøya Member Lagerstätte (Spitsbergen, Svalbard) . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 64 . 4 . 717–743 . 10.4202/app.00571.2018 . 210294877 . free . 10852/76089 . free .
5. Valentin Fischer . Maxim S. Arkhangelsky . Gleb N. Uspensky. Ilya M. Stenshin . Pascal Godefroit . Pascal Godefroit . amp . 2014 . A new Lower Cretaceous ichthyosaur from Russia reveals skull shape conservatism within Ophthalmosaurinae . Geological Magazine . 151 . 1 . 60–70 . 10.1017/S0016756812000994 . 2014GeoM..151...60F . 2268/137853 . 49470362 . free .
6. Valentin Fischer . Nathalie Bardet . Myette Guiomar . Pascal Godefroit . amp . 2014 . High Diversity in Cretaceous Ichthyosaurs from Europe Prior to Their Extinction . PLOS ONE . 9 . 1 . e84709 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0084709 . 24465427 . 3897400 . 2014PLoSO...984709F. free .
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29. France de Lapparent de Broin . Nathalie Bardet . Mbarek Amaghzaz . Saïd Meslouh . 2014 . A strange new chelonioid turtle from the Latest Cretaceous Phosphates of Morocco . Comptes Rendus Palevol . 13 . 2 . 87–95 . 10.1016/j.crpv.2013.07.008 .
30. Philipe E. Havlik . Walter G. Joyce . Madelaine Böhme . 2014 . Allaeochelys libyca, a New Carettochelyine Turtle from the Middle Miocene (Langhian) of Libya . Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History . 55 . 2 . 201–214 . 10.3374/014.055.0207 . 56023005 .
31. Robert E. Weems . Albert E. Sanders . 2014 . Oligocene pancheloniid sea turtles from the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A. . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 34 . 1 . 80–99 . 10.1080/02724634.2013.792826 . 128543145 .
32. Pedro S. R. Romano . Valéria Gallo . Renato R. C. Ramos . Luzia Antonioli . 2014 . Atolchelys lepida, a new side-necked turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil and the age of crown Pleurodira . Biology Letters . 10 . 7 . 20140290 . 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0290 . 25079494 . 4126622.
33. Adán Pérez-García . José Miguel Gasulla . Francisco Ortega . 2014 . A new species of Brodiechelys (Testudines, Pan-Cryptodira) from the Early Cretaceous of Spain: Systematic and palaeobiogeographic implications . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 59 . 2 . 333–342 . 10.4202/app.2012.0059. 56200636 . free .
34. Evangelos Vlachos . Evangelia Tsoukala . Joseph Corsini . 2014 . Cheirogaster bacharidisi, sp. nov., a new species of a giant tortoise from the Pliocene of Thessaloniki (Macedonia, Greece) . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 34 . 3 . 560–575 . 10.1080/02724634.2013.821409 . 85589576 .
35. A. Pérez-García . J.M. Gasulla . F. Ortega . 2014 . Eodortoka morellana gen. et sp. nov., the first pan-pleurodiran turtle (Dortokidae) defined in the Lower Cretaceous of Europe . Cretaceous Research . 48 . 130–138 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2013.12.004 .
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