Plants
Conifers Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPinus driftwoodensissp. novvalidStockeyEarly Eocene Driftwood Canyon Provincial ParkA Pine species
Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesEnsete oregonenseSp novvalidManchester & KressMiddle EoceneClarno FormationA banana species.
Arthropods Crustaceans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesProtastacusGen novValidAlbrechtEarly Cretaceous (Berriasian-Hauterivian)An astacidean crayfish. The type species is Astacus politus (1868) Genus also includes P. antiquus.
Crustacean research Albrecht (1983) reappraises the relationships of some fossil crustaceans and erects the family Protastacidae.
Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesMastotermes electromexicussp. novvalidKrishna & EmersonLate Oligocene - Early Miocene Mexican amberfirst new world species of MastotermesPolanskiellaGen et sp nov jr synonymRossi de GarciaMiddle EoceneVentana FormationExtinct Myrmeciin ant genus, jr synonym of type species Archimyrmex, sole species A. smekaliArmaniidaeFam. novjr synonymDlusskyCenomanian - TuronianStem-ants, jr synonym of Sphecomyrminae (in part)
Fish Cartilaginous fish Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnachronistesGen. et. sp. novJr. synonymDuffin & WardLate Carboniferous - Early Permian Eyam LimestoneType species is Anachronistes fordi, genus now deemed a junior synonym of Cooleyella
Cartilaginous fish research Duffin & Ward (1983) erect the family Anachronistidae for their new genus Anachronistes, which would later become a junior synonym of Cooleyella.
Reptiles Archosauromorphs
Dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Name Status Authors Country Image AdasaurusBarsbold, R. 1983. Carnivorous Dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia: The Joint Soviet- Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition, Transactions (Volume 19), pp. 1-117.Rinchen Barsbold "Changtusaurus"Zhao, X. 1983. Phylogeny and Evolutionary Stages of Dinosauria. Acta Palaeontologia Polonica 28 (1/2): pp. 295-306. Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin ChungkingosaurusDong, Z., S. Zhou, and Y. Zhang. 1983. Dinosaurs from the Jurassic of Sichuan. Palaeontologica Sinica Whole Number 162 New Series C, Number 23 (edited by Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica): pp. 1-136. Science Press Peking, 1983 + 43 plates. Valid taxon Dong Zhiming Zhou S. Zhang Y. H. "Damalasaurus" Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin EnigmosaurusBarsbold, R. and A. Perle. 1983. On taphonomy of a joint burial of juvenile dinosaurs and some aspects of their ecology. Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongolskaya Paleontologichekaya Ekspeditsia. Trudy 24: pp. 121-125. Valid taxon Rinchen Barsbold Perle Gongbusaurus Valid taxon Dong Zhiming Zhou S. Zhang Y. H. "Lancanjiangosaurus" Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin "Megacervixosaurus" Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin "Microdontosaurus" Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin "Ngexisaurus" Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin OrnatotholusGalton, P.M. and H.-D.Sues. 1983. New data on pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from North America. Can. J. Earth Sci. 20: pp. 462-473. Possible junior synonym of Stegoceras. Peter Galton Hans-Dieter Sues QuaesitosaurusKurzanov, S. M., and A.F. Bannikov. 1983. A new sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontological Journal 17 (2): pp. 91-97. Valid taxon Sergei Kurzanov Bannikov ShamosaurusTumanova, T.A. 1983. The first ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Sovm. Sov.- Mong. Paleontol. Eksped. Trudy 24: pp. 110-120. Valid taxon Tumanova Shunosaurus Valid taxon Dong Zhiming, Zhou S. Zhang Y. H. Stygimoloch Valid taxon Peter Galton Hans-Dieter Sues UltrasaurusKim, H.M. 1983. Cretaceous dinosaurs from Korea. J. Geol. Soc. Korea 19 (3): pp. 115-126. Nomen dubium. Kim H. M. XiaosaurusDong, Z. and Z. Tang. 1983. A short report on the dinosaur fauna from Dashanpu, Zigong, Sichuan. II. Ornithopoda. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 21 (2): pp. 168- 171. Valid taxon Dong Zhiming Tang Z. Zizhongosaurus Valid taxon Dong Zhiming, Zhou S. Zhang Y. H.
Birds Name Status Novelty Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesCapitonides protractus ValidGen et sp nov.Peter BallmannMiddle MioceneMN 6A Lybiidae Diogenornis fragilis ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Herculano M. F. de AlvarengaLate PaleoceneBacia calcária de ItaboraíAn Opisthodactylidae Elaphrocnemus brodkorbi ValidSp. nov.Cécile Mourer-ChauviréEocene or OligocenePhosphorites du Quercy,
MP 16-28An Idiornithidae transferred to Talantatos brodkorbi in 2002 not followed here.Fluviatilavis ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Colin J. O. HarrisonEarly EoceneSilveirinha FormationAves incertae sedis pending restudy, this is the type species of the new genus.Horezmavis ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Lev A. NessovLate AlbianKhodzhakul Formation:An Ornithuromorphae Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus.Idiornis itardiensis ValidSp. nov.Mourer-ChauviréMiddle Eocene or OligoceneMessel pit, Phosphorites du Quercy An Idiornithidae, moved to Dynamopterus itardiensis in 2013.Judinornis nogontsavensis ValidGen. et Sp. nov.Lev A. Nessov
L. J. BorkinLate Campanian-Early Maastrichtian,Nemegt FormationA Hesperornithiformes, Baptornithidae; this is the type species of the new genus.Oblitavis insolitus ValidGen. nov et Sp. nov.Cécile Mourer-ChauviréEocene or OligocenePhosphorites du QuercyAn Idiornithidae, transferred to the genus Propelargus insolitus in 2002.Oligostrix rupelensis ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Karlheinz FischerMiddle OligoceneA Protostrigidae, type species O. rupelensisTasidyptesValid?Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.Gerard F. van Tets
Sue O'ConnorHolocene, ± 1400-800 BPKitchen midden:A Spheniscidae, type species T. hunteri. possibly nomen dubium.Tereingaornis moiseleyi ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Ron J. ScarlettWaipipianA Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus.
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Name Status Authors Notes Angustinaripterus Valid He Xinlu et al. Preondactylus Valid Wild
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