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Anomalocaridids

Newly named anomalocaridids
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Amplectobelua stephenensis

Valid
  • Daley
  • Budd

Middle Cambrian

Burgess Shale Formation

 Canada

A second species of Amplectobelua.

Caryosyntrips
Caryosyntrips
Caryosyntrips is an extinct genus of anomalocaridid which existed in Canada, during the middle Cambrian. Caryosyntrips is known only from a handful of 12-segmented appendages, which resemble nut-crackers, recovered from the Burgess Shale Formation. It was first named by Allison C. Daley, Graham E....


Valid
  • Daley
  • Budd

Middle Cambrian

Burgess Shale Formation

 Canada

Stanleycaris
Stanleycaris
Stanleycaris is an extinct, monotypic genus of anomalocaridid which existed in Canada, during the middle Cambrian . It was first named by Jean-Bernard Caron, Robert R. Gaines, M. Gabriela Mángano, Michael Streng and Allison C. Daley in 2010 and the type species is Stanleycaris hirpex...


Valid
  • Caron
  • Gaines
  • et al.

Middle Cambrian

Stephen Formation
Stephen Formation
The Stephen Formation is a middle Cambrian unit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of soft-bodied fossils: the Burgess Shale biota...


 Canada

Newly named crustaceans

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Aciculopoda
Aciculopoda
Aciculopoda is an extinct prawn which existed in what is now Oklahoma approximately . It was described in 2010 on the basis of a single fossil from Oklahoma. The single species, Aciculopoda mapesi, was named by Rodney Feldmann and Carrie Schweitzer in honour of Royal Mapes, a paleontologist who...


Valid
  • Feldmann
  • Schweitzer

Devonian
Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya , to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya...


Oldest known shrimp
Shrimp
Shrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic animals living close to the bottom. They can live in schools and can swim rapidly backwards. Shrimp are an important...

.



Chenops
Chenops
Chenops is an extinct genus of notostracan which existed in the Yixian Formation, Inner Mongolia, and the Jehol fauna of China during the early Cretaceous period . The genus was erected by Thomas A. Hegna and Ren Dong in 2010 to describe the Yixian species, Chenops yixianensis...


Valid
  • Hegna
  • Ren

Barremian

Yixian Formation
Yixian Formation
The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...


A notostracan

Jeholops
Jeholops
Jeholops is an extinct genus of notostracan which existed in the Yixian Formation, inner Mongolia, China during the early Cretaceous period . It was described by Thomas A. Hegna and Ren Dong in 2010, and the only species is Jeholops hongi.As with the genus Chenops, and unlike the modern genera...


Valid
  • Hegna
  • Ren

Barremian

Yixian Formation
Yixian Formation
The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...


A notostracan

Nasunaris
Nasunaris
Nasunaris flata is an extinct ostracod which existed in the United Kingdom during the Silurian period. It was first named by David J. Siveter, Derek E. G. Briggs, Derek J. Siveter and Mark D. Sutton in 2010....


Valid
  • David J. Siveter
  • Derek E. G. Briggs
  • Derek J. Siveter
  • Mark D. Sutton

Silurian

An ostracod

Newly named insects

  • A new family, Cascopleciidae, is published by Poinar Jr.
  • A new family of ceraphronoid
    Ceraphronoidea
    Ceraphronoidea is a small Hymenopteran superfamily that includes only two families, and a total of some 800 species, though a great many species are still undescribed...

     Hymenopters, Radiophronidae, is published by Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, and Delclòs.
  • A new family, Mendozachoristidae, is published by Brauckmann et al.
  • A new family of Moths, Mesokristenseniidae, is published by Huang, Nel and Minet.
  • A new order of holometabolous insects, Nakridletia
    Nakridletia
    Nakridletia are an extinct Mesozoic order of holometabolous insects, comprising three genera and species in two families...

    , is published by Vršanský, Ren & Shih.
  • A new family of holometabolous insects, Vosilidae, is published by Vršanský, Ren & Shih.
  • A new family of Cockroaches, Socialidae, is published by Vršanský.
  • A new family of fulgoroid hemipterans, Weiwoboidae, is published by Lin, Szwedo, Huang and Stroiński.
    Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Bohemiatupus elegans
    Bohemiatupus
    Bohemiatupus is an extinct genus of griffenfly in the family Meganeuridae and containing a single species Bohemiatupus elegans. The species is known only from the Late Carboniferous, Bolsovian stage, Kladno Formation near the village of Radnice in the Radnice Basin, Czech Republic.-History and...


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Prokop & Nel

    Westphalian
    Westphalian
    Westphalian may refer to:* The culture or people of the Westphalia region of Germany* Westphalian language, one of the major dialect groups of West Low German* Westphalian sovereignty, a concept in international relations* Westphalian , in geology...


    Kladno Formation

     Czech Republic

    Camptoneurites soyanensis
    Camptoneurites
    Camptoneurites is an extinct insect which existed in Russia during the middle Permian period....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui

    Kazanian

    Soyana locality

     Russia

    Cascoplecia
    Cascoplecia
    Cascoplecia, commonly known as the unicorn fly, is a monotypic genus of extinct dipteran that lived in the Early Cretaceous. Its fossil was found in the Burmese amber. George Poinar, Jr., who described this fossil, coined a new family name for it – Cascopleciidae...


    fam, gen et sp nov

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    Poinar
    George Poinar, Jr.
    George O. Poinar, Jr. is an entomologist and writer. He is known for popularizing the idea of extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber, an idea which received widespread attention when adapted by Michael Crichton for the book and movie Jurassic Park.Poinar earned a B.S. and M.S. at Cornell...


    Early Cretaceous
    Early Cretaceous
    The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...


    Burmese amber

     Myanmar

    A flower-visiting fly.


    Crepidodera decolorata
    Crepidodera decolorata
    Crepidodera decolorata is an extinct species of flea beetle which existed in Ukraine during the late Eocene period....


    sp nov

    Valid

    Nadein & Perkovsky

    Late Eocene

    Rovno amber

     Ukraine

    A flea beetle
    Flea beetle
    Flea beetles is a general name applied to the small, jumping beetles of the leaf beetle family . They make up the tribe Alticini, which is a part of the subfamily Galerucinae, though they were historically classified as a subfamily in their own right...


    Ektatotricha
    Ektatotricha
    Ektatotricha is an extinct, monotypic, genus of ant-like stone beetle in the family Staphylinidae containing the single species Ektatotricha paradoxa....


    gen et sp nov

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    Chatzimanolis, Engel
    Michael S. Engel
    Michael S. Engel is an American paleontologist and entomologist. He has undertaken field work in Central Asia, Asia Minor, and the Western Hemisphere, and published more than 300 papers in scientific journals. He was trained at the University of Kansas where in 1993 he received a B.S. in Cellular...

    , Newton, & Grimaldi
    David Grimaldi
    David A. Grimaldi is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his graduate training at Cornell University, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Dr. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect...


    Middle Cretaceous

    Burmese amber

     Myanmar

    Electroatopos
    Electroatopos
    Electroatopos castaneus is an extinct species of ant-like stone beetle, described in 2010, and the only species in the genus Electroatopos. It existed in what is now Myanmar, during the Middle Cretaceous period....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Chatzimanolis, Engel
    Michael S. Engel
    Michael S. Engel is an American paleontologist and entomologist. He has undertaken field work in Central Asia, Asia Minor, and the Western Hemisphere, and published more than 300 papers in scientific journals. He was trained at the University of Kansas where in 1993 he received a B.S. in Cellular...

    , Newton, & Grimaldi
    David Grimaldi
    David A. Grimaldi is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his graduate training at Cornell University, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Dr. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect...


    Middle Cretaceous

    Burmese amber

     Myanmar

    Iberoevania
    Iberoevania
    Iberoevania is an extinct genus of evaniid which existed in what is now Spain during the early Cretaceous period. It was named by Enrique Peñalver, Jaime Ortega-Blanco, André Nel and Xavier Delclòs in 2010, and the type species is Iberoevania roblesi....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Peñalver, Ortega-Blanco, Nel, & Delclòs

    Early Cretaceous
    Early Cretaceous
    The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...


    Amber

     Spain

    An evaniid
    Evaniidae
    Evaniidae, also known as the ensign wasps or hatchet wasps, is a family of parasitic wasps. It numbers around 20 extant genera containing over 400 described species, and is found all over the world except in the polar regions...


    Jerseyempheria
    Jerseyempheria
    Jerseyempheria is an extinct genus of empheriid psocodean which existed in what is now New Jersey during the Cretaceous period. It was named by Dany Azar, André Nel and Julian F. Petrulevicius in 2010, and the type species is Jerseyempheria grimaldii....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Azar, Nel, & Petrulevicius

    Cretaceous
    Cretaceous
    The Cretaceous , derived from the Latin "creta" , usually abbreviated K for its German translation Kreide , is a geologic period and system from circa to million years ago. In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period of the...


    New Jersey amber

     United States

    A empheriid psocodean

    Kachinus
    Kachinus
    Kachinus is an extinct, monotypic, genus of ant-like stone beetle in the family Staphylinidae containing the single species Kachinus antennatus....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Chatzimanolis, Engel
    Michael S. Engel
    Michael S. Engel is an American paleontologist and entomologist. He has undertaken field work in Central Asia, Asia Minor, and the Western Hemisphere, and published more than 300 papers in scientific journals. He was trained at the University of Kansas where in 1993 he received a B.S. in Cellular...

    , Newton, & Grimaldi
    David Grimaldi
    David A. Grimaldi is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his graduate training at Cornell University, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Dr. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect...


    Middle Cretaceous

    Burmese amber

     Myanmar

    Lichnomesopsyche
    Lichnomesopsyche
    Lichnomesopsyche is an extinct genus of mesopsychid mecopteran which existed in what is now China during the middle Jurassic period. It was named by Ren Dong, Conrad C. Labandeira and Shih ChungKun in 2010....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Ren, Labandeira, & Shih

    Middle Jurassic
    Middle Jurassic
    The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from 176-161 million years ago. In European lithostratigraphy, rocks of this Middle Jurassic age are called the Dogger....


    Jiulongshan Formation

     Mainland China

    A mesopsychid mecoptera
    Mecoptera
    Mecoptera are an order of insects with about 550 species in nine families worldwide. Mecoptera are sometimes called scorpionflies after their largest family, Panorpidae, in which the males have enlarged genitals that look similar to the stinger of a scorpion...

    n

    Manobiomorpha
    Manobiomorpha
    Manobiomorpha is an extinct genus of flea beetle which existed in what is now Ukraine during the late Eocene period. It was named by Konstantin Nadein and Evgeny Perkovsky in 2010, and the type species is Manobiomorpha eocenica....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Nadein & Perkovsky

    Late Eocene

    Rovno amber

     Ukraine

    A flea beetle

    Mendozachorista
    Mendozachorista
    Mendozachorista is an extinct genus of insect which existed in Argentina during the late Triassic period. It was named by Carsten Brauckmann, Oscar F. Gallego, Norbert Hauschke, Rafael G. Martins-Neto, Elke Groening, Jan-M. Ilger and María B. Lara in 2010, and the type and only species is...


    fam, gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Brauckmann, Gallego, Hauschke, Martins-Neto, Groening, Ilger, & Lara

    Late Triassic
    Late Triassic
    The Late Triassic is in the geologic timescale the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic period. The corresponding series is known as the Upper Triassic. In the past it was sometimes called the Keuper, after a German lithostratigraphic group that has a roughly corresponding age...


    Llantenes Formation

     Argentina

    The species is M. volkheimeri

    Mesokristensenia
    Mesokristensenia
    Mesokristensenia is an extinct genus of moth in the family Mesokristenseniidae. It existed in what is now China during the middle Jurassic period. It was named by Huang Diying, André Nel and Joël Minet in 2010, and the type species is Mesokristensenia latipenna.Currently, three species are known...


    fam, gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Huang, Nel, & Minet

    Middle Jurassic
    Middle Jurassic
    The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from 176-161 million years ago. In European lithostratigraphy, rocks of this Middle Jurassic age are called the Dogger....


    Daohugou Beds
    Daohugou Beds
    The Daohugou Beds are a series of fossil-bearing rock deposits located in northeastern China, with the type locality around Daohugou village of Ningcheng County south of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, but extending into southwest Liaoning. The rocks are grey, finely bedded, lacustrine, sandy mudstones...


     Mainland China

    Microcostaphron
    Microcostaphron
    Microcostaphron parvus is an extinct species of wasp which existed in Spain during the early Cretaceous period. Only a single specimen is known, which was found near Peñacerrada-Urizaharra in the Basque Country....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs

    Early Cretaceous
    Early Cretaceous
    The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...


    Álava amber

     Spain

    The species is M. parvus

    Paleophaedon
    Paleophaedon
    Paleophaedon is an extinct genus of chrysomeline leaf beetle which existed in what is now Ukraine during the late Eocene period. It was named by Konstantin Nadein and Evgeny Perkovsky in 2010, and the type species is Paleophaedon minutus....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Nadein & Perkovsky

    Late Eocene

    Rovno amber

     Ukraine

    A chrysomeline
    Chrysomelinae
    The Chrysomelinae are a subfamily of leaf beetles . There are some 2000 species, found worldwide. The most well-known member is the notorious Colorado potato beetle .-Genera:* Alfius* Cecchiniola...

     leaf beetle

    Parazila

    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Vršanský, Ren, & Shih

    Late Jurassic
    Late Jurassic
    The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.2 ± 4.0 to 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago , which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata. In European lithostratigraphy, the name "Malm" indicates rocks of Late Jurassic age...


     Siberia

    A giant pterosaur parasite

    Psyllototus
    Psyllototus
    Psyllototus is an extinct genus of flea beetle which existed in what is now Ukraine during the late Eocene period. It was named by Konstantin Nadein and Evgeny Perkovsky in 2010, and the type species is Psyllototus progenitor....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Nadein & Perkovsky

    Late Eocene

    Rovno amber

     Ukraine

    A flea beetle

    Radiophron
    Radiophron
    Radiophron is an extinct genus of wasp which existed in Spain during the early Cretaceous period. The only species is Radiophron ibericus....


    fam, gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs

    Early Cretaceous
    Early Cretaceous
    The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...


    Álava amber

     Spain

    The species is R. ibericus

    Raptorapax
    Raptorapax
    Raptorapax is an extinct genus of rhachiberothid which existed in what is now Lebanon during the early Cretaceous period. It was named by Julian F. Petrulevicius, Dany Azar and André Nel in 2010, and the type species is Raptorapax terribilissima....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Petrulevicius, Azar, & Nel

    Early Cretaceous
    Early Cretaceous
    The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...


    Amber

     Lebanon

    A rhachiberothid
    Rhachiberothidae
    The thorny lacewings, Rhachiberothidae, are a family of winged insects of the order Neuroptera.Long included in the Berothidae , they are usually considered a separate family by current authors...

     lacewing

    Renphasma
    Renphasma
    Renphasma is an extinct genus of stick insect which existed in what is now China during the early Cretaceous period. It was named by André Nel and Emmanuel Delfosse in 2010, and the type species is Renphasma sinica. The generic name refers to Dr. Ren Dong, while the specific name refers to Sinica,...


    gen et sp nov

    In press

    Nel & Delfosse

    Early Cretaceous
    Early Cretaceous
    The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...


    Yixian Formation
    Yixian Formation
    The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...


     Mainland China

    A stick insect

    Sociala
    Sociala
    Sociala is an extinct genus of cockroach which existed in what is now France during the early Cretaceous period . It was named by Peter Vršanský in 2010, and the type species is Sociala perlucida.- Phylogeny :...


    fam, gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Vršanský

    Albian
    Albian
    The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous epoch/series. Its approximate time range is 112.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 99.6 ± 0.9 Ma...


    Amber

     Early Modern France

    A cockroach
    Cockroach
    Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattaria or Blattodea, of which about 30 species out of 4,500 total are associated with human habitations...


    Tyulkinia
    Tyulkinia
    Tyulkinia is an extinct genus of camptoneuritid insects which existed in what is now Russia during the lower Permian period . It was named by Danil S. Aristov, Sergey Yu. Storozhenko, Cui Yingying in 2010, and the type species is Tyulkinia bashkuevi....


    gen et sp nov

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    Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui

    Kungurian
    Kungurian
    In the geologic timescale, the Kungurian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is the latest or upper of four subdivisions of the Cisuralian epoch or series. The Kungurian lasted between 275.6 ± 0.7 and 270.6 ± 0.7 million years ago...


    Tyulkino locality

     Russia

    Vitimopsyche kozlovi
    Vitimopsyche
    Vitimopsyche is an extinct genus of Mecopteran which existed in what is now northeastern China during the early Cretaceous period. It contains the species Vitimopsyche kozlovi and V. torta....


    gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Ren, Labandeira, & Shih

    Early Cretaceous
    Early Cretaceous
    The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...


    Jehol Biota
    Jehol Biota
    The Jehol Biota includes all the living organisms - the ecosystem - of northeastern China between 133 to 120 million years ago. This is the Lower Cretaceous ecosystem which left fossils in the Yixian Formation and Jiufotang Formation. It is also believed to have left fossils in the Sinuiju series...


     Mainland China

    A mesopsychid mecopteran

    Vosila

    fam, gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Vršanský, Ren, & Shih

    Middle Jurassic
    Middle Jurassic
    The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from 176-161 million years ago. In European lithostratigraphy, rocks of this Middle Jurassic age are called the Dogger....


     Mainland China

    Weiwoboa
    Weiwoboa
    Weiwoboa is an extinct genus of weiwoboid fulgoroid which existed in what is now China during the early Eocene period. It was named by Lin Qibin, Jacek Szwedo, Huang Diying and Adam Stroiński in 2010, and the type species is Weiwoboa meridiana....


    Fam, gen et sp nov

    Valid

    Lin, Szwedo, Huang, & Stroiński

    Lower Eocene

     Mainland China

    Newly named spiders

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Eoplectreurys
    Eoplectreurys
    Eoplectreurys is an extinct monotypic genus of spider from the family Plectreuridae, with a sole species, Eoplectreurys gertschi...


    Valid
    • Selden
    • Huang

    Middle Jurassic

    Daohugou Beds
    Daohugou Beds
    The Daohugou Beds are a series of fossil-bearing rock deposits located in northeastern China, with the type locality around Daohugou village of Ningcheng County south of Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, but extending into southwest Liaoning. The rocks are grey, finely bedded, lacustrine, sandy mudstones...


    The oldest known haplogyne
    Haplogynae
    The Haplogynae are a series of araneomorph spiders.Unlike the Entelegynae, they lack hardened female genitalia .Most of the species within this group have six eyes, as opposed to most other spiders...

     spider.

    Newly named placoderms

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Potangaspis
    Potangaspis
    Potangaspis is an extinct genus of placoderm fish which existed in China during the Devonian period. It was first named by Zhu Min, Wang Jun-qing, and Wang Shi-tao in 2010, and the type species is Potangaspis parvoculatus....


    Valid
    • Zhu Min
    • Wang Jun-qing
    • Wang Shi-tao

    early Emsian (Early Devonian)

    Yukiang Formation

     Mainland China

    An antarctaspid arthrodire. The species is P. parvoculatus.

    Newly named cartilaginous fishes

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Akaimia
    Akaimia
    Akaimia is an extinct genus of carpet sharks which existed in Ogrodzieniec near Zawiercie, southern Poland, during the middle or late Jurassic . It was first named by Jan Rees in 2010 and the type species is Akaimia altucuspis....


    Valid
    • Rees

    Callovian – Oxfordian

    Ogrodzieniec
    Ogrodzieniec
    Ogrodzieniec is town Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,499 inhabitants .It is noted for the extensive ruins of a medieval castle, damaged during the Swedish invasion of Poland in the years 1655–1660.- External links :...


     Poland

    A primitive carpet shark
    Carpet shark
    The carpet sharks are an order, Orectolobiformes, of sharks, so called because many members have ornate patterns reminiscent of carpets....

    .

    Jiaodontus
    Jiaodontus
    Jiaodontus is an extinct genus of lonchidiid cartilaginous fish which existed in Liuhuanggou, Xingjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwestern China, during the late Jurassic . Fossils have been found in the Qigu Formation, China...


    Valid
    • Klug
    • Tütken
    • et al.

    Oxfordian

    Qigu Formation
    Qigu Formation
    The Qigu Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.-See also:* List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations...


     Mainland China

    A lonchidiid hybodontiform
    Hybodontiformes
    Hybodontiformes was an order of sharks, they were characterised by possessing 1-2 pairs of hooked protrusions on their heads.-External links:* http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/070Chondrichthyes/070.600.html#Hybodontiformes...

    .

    Newly named bony fishes

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Bonnerichthys
    Bonnerichthys
    Bonnerichthys is a new genus of fossil fish within the family Pachycormidae that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period Fossil remains of this taxon are known from the Smoky Hill Member of the Niobrara Chalk Formation of Kansas...


    Valid
    • Friedman
    • Shimada
    • et al.

    Cenomanian

    Niobrara Chalk Formation

     United States

    A gigantic pachycormid
    Pachycormidae
    Pachycormidae is an extinct family of ray-finned fish known from Mesozoic deposits from Eurasia and the Americas. They were characterized by having serrated pectoral fins, reduced pelvic fins and a bony rostrum. Certain members of the group were large filter-feeding planktivores...

     fish. The species is B. gladius.

    Bullichthys
    Bullichthys
    Bullichthys is an extinct genus of albuliform fish which existed in Brazil during the Lower Cretaceous period. The type species is B. santanensis....


    Valid
    • Mayrincka
    • Britob
    • Otero

    Lower Cretaceous

    Santana Formation
    Santana Formation
    The Santana Formation is a geologic Lagerstätte in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piauí and Ceará come together. The geological formation, named after the village of Santana do Cariri, lies at the base of the Araripe Plateau...


     Brazil

    An albuliform
    Bonefishes
    The bonefishes are a family of ray-finned fish that are popular as game fish in Florida, select locations in the South Pacific, and the Bahamas and elsewhere. The family is small, with twelve species in two genera.Presently the bonefishes are in their own order: Albuliformes...

     fish. The species is B. santanensis.

    Macropycnodon
    Macropycnodon
    Macropycnodon is an extinct genus of bony fish which existed in New Mexico, USA during the upper Cretaceous period....


    Valid
    • Shimada
    • Williamson
    • Sealey

    Upper Cretaceous

    Mancos Shale Formation

     United States

    A gigantic pycnodont fish.

    Polazzodus
    Polazzodus
    Polazzodus is an extinct pycnodontid from the late Cretaceous of the Polazzo locality of northeastern Italy. The paleoenvironment of Polazzo was a large marine carbonate platform and shallow internal lagoons formed from rudist reefs. P...


    Valid
    • Poyoto-Ariza

    Late Cretaceous

     Italy

    A pycnodont fish. The species is P. coronatus.

    Potamoceratodus
    Potamoceratodus
    Potamoceratodus is an extinct genus of sarcopterygiian lungfish which existed in Colorado, USA, during the late Jurassic. It was first named by Jason D. Pardo, Adam K. Huttenlocker, Bryan J. Small and Mark A. Gorman II in 2010 and the type species is Potamoceratodus guentheri....


    Valid
    • Pardo
    • Huttenlocker
    • et al.

    Late Jurassic

    Morrison Formation
    Morrison Formation
    The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic sedimentary rock that is found in the western United States, which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. It is composed of mudstone, sandstone, siltstone and limestone and is light grey, greenish...


     United States

    A lungfish
    Lungfish
    Lungfish are freshwater fish belonging to the Subclass Dipnoi. Lungfish are best known for retaining characteristics primitive within the Osteichthyes, including the ability to breathe air, and structures primitive within Sarcopterygii, including the presence of lobed fins with a well-developed...

    .

    Rhinconichthys
    Rhinconichthys
    Rhinconichthys taylori is an extinct species of bony fish which existed during the upper Cretaceous period. It is the only species in the genus Rhinconichthys....


    Valid
    • Friedman
    • Shimada
    • et al.

    Cenomanian

     Japan

    A gigantic pachycormid fish. The species is Rhinconichthys taylori

    Rhombichthys
    Rhombichthys
    Rhombichthys is an extinct genus of bony fish which existed in West Bank during the upper Cretaceous period....


    Valid
    • Khalloufi
    • Zaragueta-Bagils
    • Lelievre

    Cenomanian

    Ein Yabrud
    Ein Yabrud
    Ein Yabrud is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank. It is located approximately 7 km northeast of the city of Ramallah and its elevation is 800 m. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics the town had a population of 3,000...


     West Bank

    A double-armored member of the Ellimmichthyiformes.

    Shuleichthys
    Shuleichthys
    Shuleichthys brachypteryx is an extinct species of bony fish which existed in China during the Cretaceous period. It is the only species in the genus Shuleichthys and cannot be placed in any order of the Osteoglossomorpha without making that order paraphyletic....


    Valid
    • Murry
    • You
    • Peng

    Cretaceous

     Mainland China

    A osteoglossomorph fish. The species is S. brachypteryx.

    Xeradipterus
    Xeradipterus
    Xeradipterus is an extinct genus of lungfish which existed in Australia during the Frasnian period. Of moderate size , it is believed to be a primitive member of the family Holodontidae characterized by its powerful crushing dentition with thick heels on the lower jaw tooth plates...


    Valid
    • Clement
    • Long

    Late Devonian (Frasnian)

    Gogo Formation
    Gogo Formation
    The Gogo Formation in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is a Lagerstätte that exhibits exceptional preservation of a Devonian reef community.- Sedimentology :...


     Australia

    A holodontid lungfish
    Lungfish
    Lungfish are freshwater fish belonging to the Subclass Dipnoi. Lungfish are best known for retaining characteristics primitive within the Osteichthyes, including the ability to breathe air, and structures primitive within Sarcopterygii, including the presence of lobed fins with a well-developed...

    .

    Newly named amphibians

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Deltaherpeton
    Deltaherpeton
    Deltaherpeton is an extinct genus of colosteid from middle Mississippian deposits of Delta, Iowa, USA. It was first named by John R. Bolt and R. Eric Lombard in 2010 and the type species is Deltaherpeton hiemstrae....


    Valid
    • Bolt
    • Lombard

    Late Viséan

    A colosteid
    Colosteidae
    The Colosteidae are a family of amphibian tetrapods that lived in the Carboniferous period. They appear to be a fairly primitive group, a sister group to the reptile-like amphibians and the other temnospondylans....

    .


    Fedexia
    Fedexia
    Fedexia is an extinct genus of carnivorous temnospondyl within the family Trematopidae. It lived 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period. It is estimated to have been two feet long, and likely resembled a salamander. Fedexia is known from a single skull found in Pittsburgh,...


    Valid
    • Berman
    • Henrici
    • et al.

    Gzhelian

    Casselman Formation
    Casselman Formation
    The Casselman Formation mapped sedimentary bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia, of Pennsylvanian age. It is the uppermost of two formations in the Conemaugh Group, the lower being the Glenshaw Formation. The boundary between these two units is the top of the marine Ames...


    A trematopid genus currently among the oldest known vertebrates with a primarily terrestrial lifestyle.

    Hungarobatrachus
    Hungarobatrachus
    Hungarobatrachus is an extinct genus of advanced frog. It is a ranoid which lived during the upper Cretaceous period in what is now Hungary. It is known from isolated ilia and tibio-fibulae recovered from the Iharkút locality in the Csehbánya Formation...


    Valid
    • Szentesi
    • Venczel

    Santonian

    Csehbánya Formation
    Csehbánya Formation
    The Csehbánya Formation is a geological formation in Hungary whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...


    Advanced frog
    Frog
    Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...

    .

    Madygenerpeton
    Madygenerpeton
    Madygenerpeton is an extinct genus of chroniosuchid reptiliomorph from middle and upper Triassic deposits of Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan. It was first named by paleontologists Rainer R. Schoch, Sebastian Voigt and Michael Buchwitz in 2010 from a nearly complete skull and associated osteoderms....


    Valid
    • Schoch
    • Voigt
    • Buchwitz

    Middle/Upper Triassic

    Madygen Formation

    A chroniosuchid
    Chroniosuchidae
    The Chroniosuchidae are a family of semi-aquatic reptiliomorp amphibians found in sediments from the upper Permian and the upper Triassic periods, most in Russia. They were generally rather large animals, with long jaws similar to those found in modern crocodiles, and probably lived a similar life...

     reptiliomorph.

    Newly named basal anapsids

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Microleter
    Microleter
    Microleter is an extinct genus of parareptile which existed in Oklahoma during the upper Permian period. It was first named by paleontologists Linda A. Tsuji, Johannes Muller, and Robert R. Reisz in 2010. The type species is Microleter mckinzieorum. A very well preserved skull and lower jaw is the...


    Valid
    • Tsuji
    • Muller
    • Reisz
      Robert R. Reisz
      Robert Rafael Reisz is a Canadian paleontologist and specialist in the study of early amniote and tetrapod evolution.Robert Reisz was born August 27, 1947, in Oradea, Romania. He received his B.Sc. , M.Sc. and Ph.D. from McGill University as Robert L. Carroll’s first doctoral graduate...


    Lower Permian

     United States

    A basal parareptile
    Parareptilia
    Parareptilia is a subclass or clade of reptiles which is variously defined as an extinct group of primitive anapsids, or a more cladistically correct alternative to Anapsida...

    . The species is M. mckinzieorum.

    Phonodus
    Phonodus
    Phonodus is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile. It is known from a single skull found from the Early Triassic Katberg Formation in South Africa. It is the oldest known member of the subfamily Leptopleuroninae, and was likely the result of a procolophonid migration into the Karoo Basin...


    Valid
    • Modesto
    • Scott
    • et al.

    Induan (early Triassic)

    Katberg Formation

     South Africa

    The earliest known leptopleuronine procolophonid
    Procolophonid
    The Procolophonids - family Procolophonidae - are a group of small reptiles. Skulls have been discovered, roughly 5 cm in diameter....

    .

    Reiszorhinus
    Reiszorhinus
    Reiszorhinus is an extinct genus of Early Permian captorinid known from the United States. The type species is Reiszorhinus olsoni. Fossils have been found from the Waggoner Ranch Formation in north-central Texas. It is distinguishable by its recurved teeth and extremely large Meckelian foramen on...


    Valid
    • Sumida
    • Dodick
    • et al.

    Lower Permian

    Waggoner Ranch Formation

     United States

    A basal captorhinid
    Captorhinidae
    Captorhinidae is one of the earliest and most basal reptile families.-Description:...

    . The species is Reiszorhinus olsoni.

    Newly named turtles

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Cerrejonemys
    Cerrejonemys
    Cerrejonemys is an extinct genus of turtle which existed in Colombia during the Paleocene period. The type species is Cerrejonemys wayuunaiki.-External links:* at the Fossil Wiki...


    Valid
    • Cadena
    • Bloch
    • Jaramillo

    Paleocene

    Cerrejón Formation
    Cerrejón Formation
    The Cerrejón Formation is a geologic formation in Colombia dating back to the Middle-Late Paleocene. It is found in the El Cerrejón subbasin of the Racheria basin of La Guajira. The formation consists of bituminous coal fields that are an important economic resource. Coal from the Cerrejón...


     Colombia

    Chupacabrachelys
    Chupacabrachelys
    Chupacabrachelys is an extinct genus of bothremydid turtle which existed in western Texas, USA during the late Cretaceous epoch . Its fossils were discovered in Aguja Formation in the Big Bend region, and its type example is one of the most complete bothremydid specimens known. It was first named...


    Valid
    • Lehman
    • Wick

    Campanian

    Aguja Formation
    Aguja Formation
    The Aguja Formation is a geological formation in North America, exposed in Texas, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Ammonites:-Crurotarsans:...


     United States

    A taphrosphyini bothremydid
    Bothremydidae
    Bothremydidae is an extinct family of side-necked turtle. They belong to sub-order Pleurodira and order Testudines. Bothremydidae lived in fresh water and were amphibious. They were actively mobile omnivores.-Taxonomy:...


    Gamerabaena
    Gamerabaena
    Gamerabaena is an extinct genus of baenid turtle which existed in North Dakota during the late Cretaceous period. It is known from a single fragmentary skull that was found in the Maastrichtian-age Hell Creek Formation. It contains the species Gamerabaena sonsalla...


    Valid
    • Lyson
    • Joyce

    Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)

    Hell Creek Formation
    Hell Creek Formation
    The Hell Creek Formation is an intensely-studied division of Upper Cretaceous to lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana...


     United States

    Itilochelys
    Itilochelys
    Itilochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle in the family Cheloniidae containing the single species Itilochelys rasstrigin. The species is known only from the Early Paleocene, Danian stage Rasstrigin 2 locality, Dubovka District, Volgograd, Russia.-History and classification:Itilochelys...


    Valid
    • Danilov
    • Averianov
    • Yarkov

    Danian

    Beryozovaya beds

     Russia

    Jiangxichelys
    Jiangxichelys
    Jiangxichelys is an extinct genus of nanhsiungchelyid turtle which existed in China during the latest Cretaceous epoch. It was first named by Haiyan Tong and Jinyou Mo in 2010 and the type species is Jiangxichelys ganzhouensis....


    Valid
    • Tong
    • Mo

    Late Cretaceous

    Ganzhou
    Ganzhou
    Ganzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong .-History:...


     Mainland China

    A nanhsiungchelyid turtle.

    Liaochelys
    Liaochelys
    Liaochelys is an extinct genus of macrobaenid turtle which existed in western Liaoning, China during the early Cretaceous epoch. It was first named by Chang-Fu Zhou in 2010 and the type species is Liaochelys jianchangensis....


    Valid
    • Zhou

    Early Cretaceous

    Jiufotang Formation
    Jiufotang Formation
    The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...


     Mainland China

    A macrobaenid turtle.

    Mexichelys
    Mexichelys
    Mexichelys is an extinct monotypic genus of sea turtle which lived in Mexico during the Cretaceous. The only species is Mexichelys coahuilaensis...


    Valid
    • Parham
    • Pyenson

    Late Campanian

    Cerro del Pueblo Formation
    Cerro del Pueblo Formation
    The Cerro del Pueblo Formation is a geological formation in Coahuila, Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...


     Mexico

    A sea turtle. A new genus for "Euclastes" coahuilaensis (Brinkman et al., 2009).

    Pacifichelys
    Pacifichelys
    Pacifichelys is an extinct sea turtle from the Miocene of Peru and California. It was first named by James F. Parham and Nicholas D. Pyenson in 2010, and the type species is Pacifichelys urbinai from Peru. A second species, P. hutchisoni, was reassigned from the genus Euclastes. It is known from...


    Valid
    • Parham
    • Pyenson

    Miocene

     Peru
     United States

    A sea turtle.

    Newly named ichthyosaurs

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Arthropterygius
    Arthropterygius
    Arthropterygius is an ichthyosaur which existed in Canada during the late Jurassic period. It contains the type species Arthropterygius chrisorum, named in 2010 by Erin E. Maxwell. Arthropterygius is the generic replacement name for Ophthalmosaurus chrisorum, named in 1993 from fossils found on ...


    Valid
    • Maxwell

    Queen Elizabeth Islands
    Queen Elizabeth Islands
    The Queen Elizabeth Islands are the northernmost cluster of islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, split between Nunavut and Northwest Territories in Northern Canada.-Geography:...


    A new genus for "Ophthalmosaurus" chirsorum (Russell, 1993).

    Athabascasaurus
    Athabascasaurus
    Athabascasaurus is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur known from the Alberta of Canada.-Description:Athabascasaurus is known from the holotype TMP 2000.29.01, articulated nearly complete postcranial skeleton and nearly complete skull preserved in dorsal view, missing the premaxilla...


    Valid
    • Druckenmiller
    • Maxwell

    Lower Albian

    Clearwater Formation
    Clearwater Formation
    The Clearwater Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Albian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.It takes the name from Clearweater River. The formation is exposed on the banks of the Athabasca River between Brule Falls and Boiler Falls, as well as along the Christina River, a tributary...


    The most complete and stratigraphically oldest known ichthyosaur from the Cretaceous of North America.

    Barracudasauroides
    Barracudasauroides
    Barracudasauroides is a genus of mixosaurid ichthyosaur which lived during the Middle Triassic. Fossils of this genus have been found in Guizhou Province, China. It is known from GMPKU-P-1033, a partial skeleton recovered from the Upper Member of the Guanling Formation of Yangjuan village, Xinmin...


    Valid
    • Maisch

    Middle Triassic

    Guanling Formation
    Guanling Formation
    The Guanling Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Plesiosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from its strata....


    A new genus for "Mixosaurus" panxianensis (Jiang, Schmitz, Hao & Sun, 2006).

    Mixosaurus xindianensis

    Valid
    • Chen
    • Cheng

    Middle Triassic

    Guanling Formation
    Guanling Formation
    The Guanling Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Plesiosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from its strata....


    Newly named plesiosaurs

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Alexeyisaurus
    Alexeyisaurus
    Alexeyisaurus is an extinct genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur known from the upper Triassic of Wilczek Formation, Wilczek Land, of Franz Josef Land, Russia. It was first named by A. G. Sennikov and M. S. Arkhangelsky in 2010 and the type species is Alexeyisaurus karnoushenkoi....


    Valid
    • Sennikov
    • Arkhangelsky

    Norian

    Wilczek Formation

     Russia

    A new elasmosaurid


    Meyerasaurus
    Meyerasaurus
    Meyerasaurus is an extinct genus of rhomaleosaurid known from Holzmaden, Baden-Württemberg of southeastern Germany.-Description:Meyerasaurus is known from the holotype SMNS 12478, articulated and complete skeleton which preserved the skull, exposed in ventral view. The skull has a length of ,...


    Valid
    • Smith
    • Vincent

    Lower Toarcian

    Posidonia Shale
    Posidonia Shale
    The Posidonia Shale is a Lower Jurassic geological formation famous for its exceptionally well-preserved complete skeletons of fossil marine fish and reptiles. The Posidonienschiefer as German paleontologists call it, takes its name from the ubiquitous fossils of Posidonia bronni that characterize...


     Germany

    A pliosaur
    Pliosaur
    Pliosauroidea is an extinct clade of marine reptiles. Pliosauroids, also commonly known as pliosaurs, are known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. The pliosauroids were short-necked plesiosaurs with large heads and massive toothed jaws. These swimming reptiles were not dinosaurs but distant...

    . Previously assigned to Rhomaleosaurus
    Rhomaleosaurus
    Rhomaleosaurus is an extinct genus of Early Jurassic rhomaleosaurid pliosauroid known from Northamptonshire and from Yorkshire of the United Kingdom. It was first named by Harry Seeley in 1874 and the type species is Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni...

    (Seeley, 1874).

    Newly named basal lepidosaurs

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Cargninia
    Cargninia
    Cargninia is an extinct genus of basal lepidosaur from the Late Triassic period. It lived during the late Triassic period in what is now Faxinal do Soturno, Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. It is known from the holotype UFRGS PV 1027 T, a partial dentary, recovered from the...


    Valid
    • Bonaparte
    • Schultz
    • et al.

    Carnian - Norian

    Caturrita Formation
    Caturrita Formation
    The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its sediments were deposited in the Paraná Basin. The formation has a late Carnian to early Norian age and forms part of the Santa Maria Supersequence in the upper section of the Rosário do Sul Group.-Etymology:The...


     Brazil

    A basal
    Basal (phylogenetics)
    In phylogenetics, a basal clade is the earliest clade to branch in a larger clade; it appears at the base of a cladogram.A basal group forms an outgroup to the rest of the clade, such as in the following example:...

     lepidosaur
    Lepidosauria
    The Lepidosauria are reptiles with overlapping scales. This subclass includes Squamata and Sphenodontidae. It is a monophyletic group and therefore contains all descendents of a common ancestor. The squamata includes snakes, lizards, tuataras, and amphisbaenia. Lepidosauria is the sister taxon...

    .

    Newly named lizards

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Adriosaurus skrbinensis
    Adriosaurus
    Adriosaurus is an extinct genus of aquatic lizard that lived about 95 million years ago. It was snake-like and grew 10 to 12 inches. This is the first fossil record of vestigial limbs in lizards, and gives scientists a glimpse back to the time when terrestrial lizards evolved to be limbless...


    Valid
    • Caldwell
    • Palci

    Late Cenomanian

    Skrbina

     Slovenia

    Headonhillia
    Headonhillia
    Headonhillia is an extinct genus of anguine lizard which existed in England during the Eocene epoch. It was first named by Jozef Klembaraa and Bryony Green in 2010, and represents one of the smallest anguines currently known. The type species is Headonhillia parva. Fossils have been found in the...


    Valid
    • Klembara
    • Green

    Late Eocene, Ludian (Priabonian)

    Bembridge Limestone Formation

     Kingdom of England

    An anguine
    Anguidae
    The Anguidae is a large and diverse family of lizards native to the northern hemisphere. The group includes the slowworms, glass lizards, and alligator lizards, among others. Anguidae is divided into three subfamilies and contains 94 species in eight genera. Their closest living relatives are the...

     lizard. The species is H. parva.

    Kleskunsaurus
    Kleskunsaurus
    Kleskunsaurus is an extinct genus of scincomorph lizard from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. It was first named by paleontologists Randall L. Nydam, Michael W. Caldwell, and Federico Fanti in 2010, and the type species is Kleskunsaurus grandeprairiensis. The genus is named after Kleskun...


    Valid
    • Nydam
    • Caldwell
    • Fanti

    Upper Campanian

    Wapiti Formation
    Wapiti Formation
    The Wapiti Formation is a geological formation in Alberta, Canada whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. The Wapiti Formation outcrops in northwestern Wapiti Formation...


     Canada

    A scincomorph lizard. The species is K. grandeprairiensis.

    Liushusaurus
    Liushusaurus
    Liushusaurus, is an extinct lizard described by Susan E. Evans and Yuan Wang in 2010. The genus has a single species Liushusaurus acanthocaudata, and is known from eight fossils, several of which preserve soft tissue detail. The specimens were found in the Lower Cretaceous aged Yixian Formation of...


    Valid
    • Evans
    • Wang

    Lower Cretaceous

    Yixian Formation
    Yixian Formation
    The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...


     Mainland China

    A scincogekkonomorph lizard. The species is L. acanthocaudata.

    Pedrerasaurus
    Pedrerasaurus
    Pedrerasaurus is an extinct genus of scincogekkonomorph lizard from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. The type species is P. latifrontalis. It is similar in appearance to Meyasaurus, a widespread Early Cretaceous lizard that is also known from the Iberian Peninsula...


    Valid
    • Bolet
    • Evans

    Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian-early Valanginan)

    Montsec's Formation
    Montsec
    Montsec may refer to:* Serra del Montsec* Montsec, Meuse, a commune of the Meuse département, in France...


     Spain

    A scincogekkonomorph lizard. The species is P. latifrontalis.

    Newly named snakes

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Kelyophis
    Kelyophis
    Kelyophis is an extinct genus of nigerophiid snake which existed in Madagascar during the Late Cretaceous. The type species is Kelyophis hechti. Trunk vertebrae have been found from the Maastrichtian-age Maevarano Formation in the Mahajanga Basin...


    Valid
    • Laduke
    • Krause
    • Scanlon
    • Kley

    Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)

    Maevarano Formation
    Maevarano Formation
    The Maevarano Formation is an Upper Cretaceous sedimentary rock formation found in the Mahajanga Province of northwestern Madagascar. It is most likely Maastrichtian in age, and records a seasonal, semiarid environment with rivers that had greatly varying discharges...


     Madagascar

    A nigerophiid snake


    Menarana
    Menarana
    Menarana is an extinct genus of madtsoiid snake which existed in Madagascar during the Late Cretaceous. The type species is Menarana nosymena...


    Valid
    • Laduke
    • Krause
    • Scanlon
    • Kley

    Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)

    Maevarano Formation
    Maevarano Formation
    The Maevarano Formation is an Upper Cretaceous sedimentary rock formation found in the Mahajanga Province of northwestern Madagascar. It is most likely Maastrichtian in age, and records a seasonal, semiarid environment with rivers that had greatly varying discharges...


     Madagascar

    A madtsoiid snake

    Sanajeh
    Sanajeh
    Sanajeh is a genus of late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake from western India. A recently described fossil from the Lameta Formation has been found coiled around an egg and an adjacent skeleton of a 50 cm long sauropod dinosaur hatchling...


    Valid
    • Wilson
    • Mohabey
    • et al.

    Maastrichtian

    Lameta Formation
    Lameta Formation
    The Lameta Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, India. It is of Maastrichtian age , and is notable for its dinosaur fossils...


     India

    A madtsoiid
    Madtsoiidae
    Madtsoiidae are an extinct group of mostly Gondwanan snakes with a fossil record extending from early Cenomanian to late Pleistocene strata located in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe...

     snake which preyed on hatchling sauropods.

    Newly named basal archosauromorphs

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis
    Azendohsaurus
    Azendohsaurus was a genus of herbivorous archosauromorph from the Late Triassic Period of Morocco. The type species is known only from a partial jaw fragment from Morocco. Azendohsaurus was previously regarded as a dinosaur, as either an ornithischian or a prosauropod...


    Valid
    • Flynn
    • Nesbitt
    • et al.

    Ladinian/Carnian

    Makay Formation

     Madagascar

    A basal archosauromorph
    Archosauromorpha
    Archosauromorpha is an infraclass of diapsid reptiles that first appeared during the late Permian and became more common during the Triassic. Included in this infraclass are the groups Rhynchosauria, Trilophosauridae, Prolacertiformes, Archosauriformes, and, tentatively, Choristodera...

    .

    Bentonyx
    Bentonyx
    Bentonyx is an extinct genus of rhynchosaur from the middle Triassic epoch of Devon in England. Its fossil, a well preserved skull, BRSUG 27200, was discovered in Otter Sandstone Formation and was first assigned to Rhynchosaurus spenceri, that is known from 25 specimens...


    Valid
    • Langer
    • Montefeltro
    • et al.

    Middle Triassic

    Otter Sandstone Formation

     Kingdom of England

    A rhynchosaur
    Rhynchosaur
    Rhynchosaurs were a group of Triassic diapsid reptiles related to the archosaurs.-Description:Rhynchosaurs were herbivores, and at times abundant , with stocky bodies and a powerful beak...

    .

    Koilamasuchus
    Koilamasuchus
    Koilamasuchus is an extinct genus of Early Triassic archosauriform. Remains have been found from the Quebrada de los Fósiles Formation of the Puesto Viejo Group in Argentina. The holotype specimen of Koilamasuchus gonzalezdiazi, the type species, is the most well preserved and best known specimen...


    Valid
    • Ezcurra
    • Lecuona
    • Martinelli

    Early Triassic
    Early Triassic
    The Early Triassic is the first of three epochs of the Triassic period of the geologic timescale. It spans the time between 251 ± 0.4 Ma and 245 ± 1.5 Ma . Rocks from this epoch are collectively known as the Lower Triassic, which is a unit in chronostratigraphy...


    Quebrada de los Fósiles Formation

     Argentina

    The best-known basal archosauriform from South America.

    Megalancosaurus endennae
    Megalancosaurus
    Megalancosaurus is a genus of extinct reptile from the Late Triassic period of Northern Italy, and one of the best known drepanosaurids. The type species is M. preonensis; a translation of the animal's scientific name would be "long armed reptile from the Preone Valley."-Anatomy:Megalancosaurus was...


    Valid
    • Renesto
    • Spielmann
    • et al.

    Alaunian (early Norian)

    Zorzino Limestone Formation

     Italy

    A drepanosaurid
    Drepanosauridae
    Drepanosaurs are a group of strange reptiles that lived during the Carnian stage of the late Triassic Period, between 220 and 216 million years ago. The various species of drepanosaurid were characterized by odd specialized grasping limbs and often prehensile tails, adaptions for arboreal , and/or...

     that is known from MBSN 25, a partial skeleton
    Skeleton
    The skeleton is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism. There are two different skeletal types: the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, and the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body.In a figurative sense, skeleton can...

     (Partial postcranial skeleton).

    Teyumbaita
    Teyumbaita
    Teyumbaita is an extinct genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur from the Upper Triassic epoch of Paleorrota, Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil...


    Valid
    • Montefeltro
    • Langer
    • Schultz

    Late Triassic

    Caturrita Formation
    Caturrita Formation
    The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its sediments were deposited in the Paraná Basin. The formation has a late Carnian to early Norian age and forms part of the Santa Maria Supersequence in the upper section of the Rosário do Sul Group.-Etymology:The...


     Brazil

    A rhynchosaur
    Rhynchosaur
    Rhynchosaurs were a group of Triassic diapsid reptiles related to the archosaurs.-Description:Rhynchosaurs were herbivores, and at times abundant , with stocky bodies and a powerful beak...

    . A new genus for "Scaphonyx" sulcognathus (Azevedo & Schultz, 1987).

    Uatchitodon schneideri

    Valid
    • Mitchell
    • Heckert
    • Sues

    Late Triassic

    Cumnock Formation 

    Bluewater Creek Formation

     United States

    A venomous archosauriform known only from isolated teeth.

    Vallesaurus zorzinensis
    Vallesaurus
    Vallesaurus is an extinct genus of Late Triassic elyurosaur drepanosauromorph. First found in Northern Italy in 1975, it is one of the most primitive drepanosaurs. V. cenenis is the type species, named in 2006. A second species, V...


    Valid
    • Renesto
    • Spielmann
    • et al.

    Alaunian (early Norian)

    Zorzino Limestone Formation

     Italy

    A basal drepanosauromorph that is known from MCSNB 4783, a set of vertebrae and hindlimbs.

    Newly named crurotarsans

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Baurusuchus albertoi
    Baurusuchus
    Baurusuchus is an extinct genus of baurusuchid mesoeucrocodylian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. It was a terrestrial predator and scavenger, about 3.5 to 4 meters long. Baurusuchus lived during the Turonian to Santonian stages of the Late Cretaceous Period, in Adamantina Formation, Brazil...


    Valid
    • Nascimento
    • Zaher

    Turonian/Santonian

    Adamantina Formation
    Adamantina Formation
    The Adamantina Formation is a geological formation in Brazil whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation...


     Brazil



    Crocodylus anthropophagus
    Crocodylus anthropophagus
    Crocodylus anthropophagus is an extinct species of crocodile from Plio-Pleistocene from Tanzania. It lived 1.84 million years ago.- Etymology :...


    Valid
    • Brochu
    • Njau
    • et al.

    Plio-Pleistocene
    Plio-Pleistocene
    The term Plio-Pleistocene refers to the geological period more recent than circa 5 million years ago, incorporating both the formally defined epochs of the Pliocene and the Pleistocene...


     Tanzania

    A horned crocodile that preyed on early hominids

    Cerrejonisuchus
    Cerrejonisuchus
    Cerrejonisuchus is an extinct genus of dyrosaurid crocodylomorph. It is known from a complete skull and mandible from the Cerrejón Formation in northeastern Colombia, which is Paleocene in age. Specimens belonging to Cerrejonisuchus and to several other dyrosaurids have been found from the Cerrejón...


    Valid
    • Hastings
    • Bloch
    • et al.

    Paleocene

    Cerrejón Formation
    Cerrejón Formation
    The Cerrejón Formation is a geologic formation in Colombia dating back to the Middle-Late Paleocene. It is found in the El Cerrejón subbasin of the Racheria basin of La Guajira. The formation consists of bituminous coal fields that are an important economic resource. Coal from the Cerrejón...


     Colombia

    A short-snouted dyrosaurid
    Dyrosauridae
    Dyrosauridae is a family of extinct neosuchian crocodyliforms that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Eocene. Fossils of this group have been found in almost every continent, specifically Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America....

     which had a generalist feeding strategy. It grew to lengths of about 7 feet.

    Diplocynodon elavericus
    Diplocynodon
    Diplocynodon is an extinct genus of alligatoroid that lived during the Paleocene to middle Miocene 49 million years ago in Europe. It looked very similar to the modern caiman in that it was small and had bony armour scutes covering its neck, back, belly, and tail...


    Valid
    • Martin

    Late Eocene

     Early Modern France

    Eoneustes
    Eoneustes
    Eoneustes is an extinct genus of metriorhynchoid crocodyliform from Middle Jurassic deposits of France. Eoneustes was a carnivore that lived in the oceans and spent much, if not all, its life out at sea.-Discovery and species:*E. bathonicus: Western Europe of the Middle Jurassic...


    Valid
    • Young
    • Brusatte
    • Ruta
    • de Andrade

    Bathonian

     Early Modern France

    Gracilineustes
    Gracilineustes
    Gracilineustes is an extinct genus of marine crocodyliform that lived in the oceans during the Middle to Late Jurassic. Gracilineustes was a carnivore that spent much, if not all, its life out at sea.-Discovery and species:...


    Valid
    • Young
    • Brusatte
    • Ruta
    • de Andrade

    Callovian/Kimmeridgian

    Oxford Clay
    Oxford Clay
    The Oxford Clay Formation is a Jurassic marine sedimentary rock formation underlying much of southeast England, from as far west as Dorset and as far north as Yorkshire. The Oxford Clay is of middle Callovian to lower Oxfordian age and comprises 2 main facies. The lower facies comprises the...


     Early Modern France
     Kingdom of England

    Krabisuchus
    Krabisuchus
    Krabisuchus is an extinct alligatorine which existed in what is now Thailand during the late Eocene. It was first named by paleontologists Jeremy A. Martin and Komsorn Lauprasert in 2010, and the type species is K. siamogallicus...


    Valid
    • Martin
    • Lauprasert

    Late Eocene

     Thailand
    An early alligatorine.

    Pakasuchus
    Pakasuchus
    Pakasuchus is a genus of notosuchian crocodyliform distinguished by its unusual mammal-like appearance, including mammal-like teeth that would have given the animal the ability to chew. It also had long, slender legs and a doglike nose. Pakasuchus lived approximately 105 million years ago, in the...


    Valid
    • O’Connor
    • Sertich
    • et al.

    Albian

     Tanzania

    Pravusuchus
    Pravusuchus
    Pravusuchus is an extinct genus of phytosaur known from the late Triassic of Chinle Formation in Arizona. It was first named by Michelle R. Stocker in 2010 and the type species is Pravusuchus hortus....


    Valid
    • Stocker

    Norian

    Chinle Formation
    Chinle Formation
    The Chinle is a geologic formation that is spread across the U.S. states of northern Arizona, Nevada, Utah, western New Mexico, and western Colorado. The Chinle is controversially considered to be synonymous to the Dockum Group in eastern Colorado, eastern New Mexico, southwestern Kansas, the...


     United States

    A phytosaur
    Phytosaur
    Phytosaurs are an extinct group of large semi-aquatic Late Triassic archosaurs. Phytosaurs belong to the family Phytosauridae and the order Phytosauria. They were long-snouted and heavily armoured, bearing a remarkable resemblance to modern crocodiles in size, appearance, and lifestyle, an example...

    .

    Stagonolepis olenkae
    Stagonolepis
    Stagonolepis is an extinct genus of aetosaur. It was about long.An aetosaur, Stagonolepis was a quadrupedal animal covered in thick armoured scales that ran down the length of the its body. A slow-moving browser, it would have used this heavy body armour to repel attacks from contemporary...


    Valid
    • Sulej

    Late Carnian

    Krasiejów deposits

     Poland

    Theriosuchus sympiestodon
    Theriosuchus
    Theriosuchus is an extinct genus of atoposaurid mesoeucrocodylian from the Late Jurassic of Europe, the Early Cretaceous of Asia and the Late Cretaceous of Romania. The five species are T. pusillus from England , T. ibericus from Spain , T. guimarotae from Portugal , T. sympiestodon from Romania...


    Valid
    • Martin
    • Rabi
    • Csiki

    Maastrichtian

    Haţeg Basin

     Kingdom of Romania

    A fourth species of Theriosuchus.

    Torvoneustes
    Torvoneustes
    Torvoneustes is a genus of extinct metriorhynchid mesoeucrocodylian. It is known from a partial skull and some postcranial remains that have been found from the Kimmeridge Clay of Wiltshire, England. The skull was first to be found, and was first assigned to the species Metriorhynchus superciliosus...


    Valid
    • Andrade
    • Young
    • et al.

    Kimmeridgian

    Kimmeridge Clay
    Kimmeridge Clay
    The Kimmeridge Clay Formation is a sedimentary deposit of fossiliferous marine clay which is of Jurassic age. It occurs in Europe.Kimmeridge Clay is arguably the most economically important unit of rocks in the whole of Europe, being the major source rock for oil fields in the North Sea hydrocarbon...


    Previously assigned to Geosaurus
    Geosaurus
    Geosaurus is an extinct genus of marine crocodyliform within the family Metriorhynchidae that lived during the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. Geosaurus was a carnivore that spent much, if not all, its life out at sea...

    and Dakosaurus
    Dakosaurus
    Dakosaurus is an extinct genus within the family Metriorhynchidae that lived during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. It was large, with teeth that were serrated and compressed lateromedially . The genus was established by Friedrich August von Quenstedt in 1856 for an isolated tooth named...


    Tsoabichi
    Tsoabichi
    Tsoabichi is an extinct genus of alligatoroid. Fossils are known from the Eocene Green River Formation in Wyoming, and date back to the Wasatchian. The genus was named and described in 2010, with the type species being T. greenriverensis...


    Valid
    • Brochu

    Eocene (Wasatchian)

    Green River Formation
    Green River Formation
    The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes. The sediments are deposited in very fine layers, a dark layer during the growing season and a light-hue inorganic layer in winter. Each pair of layers is called a varve and...


     United States

    An early caiman
    Caiman
    Caimans are alligatorid crocodylians within the subfamily Caimaninae. The group is one of two subfamilies of the family Alligatoridae, the other being alligators. Caimans inhabit Central and South America. They are relatively small crocodilians, with most species reaching lengths of only a few...

    .

    Newly named birds

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Aquila bullockensis
    Aquila bullockensis
    Aquila bullockensis is an extinct species of large true eagles in the Accipitridae family. A. bullockensis is related to the living species A. audax to which it might be ancestral. The species is solely known from the distal end of a right humerus found in the Middle Miocene , Bullock Creek...


    Valid
    • Gaff
    • Boles

    Middle Miocene

    Bullock Creek
    Bullock Creek
    The Bullock Creek Fossil site is one of three known vertebrate fossil sites in the Australia's Northern Territory, along with the Alcoota Fossil Beds on Alcoota Station and the Kangaroo Well site on Deep Well Station. It is located about 550km south-southeast of Darwin, on Camfield Station...


    Oldest Aquila species in Australia


    Bauxitornis
    Bauxitornis
    Bauxitornis is an extinct genus of avisaurid enantiornithine which existed in what is now Hungary during the late Cretaceous period . It was named by Gareth J. Dyke and Attila Ősi in 2010, and the type species is Bauxitornis mindszentyae....


    Valid
    • Dyke
    • Ősi

    Santonian

    Csehbánya Formation
    Csehbánya Formation
    The Csehbánya Formation is a geological formation in Hungary whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...


    An avisaurid
    Avisauridae
    The Avisauridae are a family of extinct Enantiornithine birds known from Cretaceous North and South America. They are represented by eight genera.Avisauridae was erected by Brett-Surman and Paul in 1985...

     enantiornithine.

    Camptodontus
    Camptodontus
    "Camptodontus" is an extinct genus of enantiornithine bird which existed in what is now Chaoyang in Liaoning Province, China during the early Cretaceous period . It is known from a well-preserved skeleton including a skull found in the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province...


    Valid
    • Li
    • Gong
    • et al.

    Aptian

    Jiufotang Formation
    Jiufotang Formation
    The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...


    An longipterygid
    Longipterygidae
    Longipterygidae is a family of early enantiornithine birds from the early Cretaceous Period of China. All known specimens come from the Jiufotang Formation and Yixian Formation, dating to the early Aptian age, 122-120 million years ago.-Description:...

     enantiornithine.

    Confuciusornis jianchangensis
    Confuciusornis
    Confuciusornis is a genus of primitive crow-sized birds from the Early Cretaceous Yixian and Jiufotang Formations of China, dating from 125 to 120 million years ago...


    Valid
    • Li
    • Wang
    • Hou

    Aptian

    Jiufotang Formation
    Jiufotang Formation
    The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...


    A fourth valid species of Confuciusornis. It is known from a single skeleton.

    Flexomornis
    Flexomornis
    Flexomornis is a genus of enantiornithine bird. Its fossils were found in Texas rocks belonging to the Woodbine Formation dating to the middle Cenomanian age of the late Cretaceous period...


    Valid
    • Tykoski
    • Fiorillo

    Campanian

    Woodbine Formation
    Woodbine Formation
    The Woodbine Formation is a geological formation in east Texas whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...


    An enantiornithine.

    Hollanda
    Hollanda (bird)
    Hollanda is a genus of small, predatory ground bird known from fossils found in the Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia. Found at Khermeen Tsav, it dates from the late Cretaceous period , about 75 million years ago. Known only from partial hind limbs, Hollanda has long legs with an unusual...


    Valid
    • Bell
    • Chiappe
    • et al.

    Campanian

    Barun Goyot Formation
    Barun Goyot Formation
    The Barun Goyot Formation , dating from the Late Cretaceous Period, is located within and is widely represented in the Gobi Desert basin, in the Ömnögovi Province of Mongolia....


    A predatory ground bird known from an unusual hind limb.

    Huoshanornis
    Huoshanornis
    Huoshanornis is an extinct genus of enantiornithine which existed in what is now Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning Province, China during the early Cretaceous period. Its fossil remains were found at Chaoyang City. It was first named by Xia Wang, Zihui Zhang, Chunling Gao, Lianhai Hou,...


    Valid
    • Wang
    • Zhang
    • et al.

    Early Cretaceous

    Jiufotang Formation
    Jiufotang Formation
    The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...


    An enantiornithine.

    Inkayacu
    Inkayacu
    Inkayacu is an extinct genus of penguin. It lived in Peru during the Late Eocene, around 36 million years ago. A nearly complete skeleton was discovered in 2008 and includes fossilized feathers, the first known in penguins. A study of the melanosomes, pigment-containing organelles within the...


    Valid
    • Clarke
    • Ksepka
    • et al.

    Late Eocene

    Ica Region
    Ica Region
    Ica is a region in Peru. It borders the Pacific Ocean on the west; the Lima Region on the north; the Huancavelica and Ayacucho regions on the east; and the Arequipa Region on the south. Its capital is the city of Ica.- Geography :...


    A giant penguin
    Penguin
    Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become flippers...

    .

    Intiornis
    Intiornis
    Intiornis is an extinct genus of avisaurid enantiornithine which existed in what is now North-West Argentina during the late Cretaceous period . It is known from a partial hind limb found in beds of the Upper Cretaceous Las Curtiembres Formation...


    Valid
    • Novas
    • Agnolín
    • Scanferla

    Campanian

    Las Curtiembres Formation

    An avisaurid enantiornithine.

    Leptoptilos robustus
    Leptoptilos robustus
    Leptoptilos robustus or Flores Flightless Stork is an extinct species of stork from the Flores island chain in Indonesia. It was tall and weighed an estimated . Since the bones in the legs and body are very heavy, it is assumed that it rarely, if ever, flew.-References:*...


    Valid
    • Meijer
    • Due

    Late Pleistocene

    Liang Bua

    A giant marabou stork
    Marabou Stork
    The Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, occurring in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation, especially waste tips...

    .

    Longicrusavis
    Longicrusavis
    Longicrusavis is an extinct genus of basal ornithuromorph bird within the family Hongshanornithidae. Remains have been found from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Liaoning Province, China.-Description:...


    Valid
    • O'Connor
    • Gao
    • Chiappe

    Barremian

    Yixian Formation
    Yixian Formation
    The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...


    A hongshanornithid.

    Lophogallus
    Lophogallus
    Lophogallus is a genus of prehistoric phasianid which existed in Naran Bulak Formation, Mongolia during the middle Miocene. It was described by N. V. Zelenkov and E. N. Kurochkin in 2010, and the type species is Lophogallus naranbulakensis....


    Valid
    • Zelenkov
    • Kurochkin

    Middle Miocene

    Naran Bulak Formatiom

    A phasianid
    Phasianidae
    The Phasianidae is a family of birds which consists of the pheasants and partridges, including the junglefowl , Old World Quail, francolins, monals and peafowl. The family is a large one, and is occasionally broken up into two subfamilies, the Phasianinae, and the Perdicinae...

    .

    Mogontiacopsitta
    Mogontiacopsitta
    Mogontiacopsitta is a genus of prehistoric parrot which existed in Mainz Basin, Germany during the late Oligocene or early Miocene. It was described by Gerald Mayr in 2010, from an incomplete tarsometatarsus. The type species is Mogontiacopsitta miocaena....


    Valid
    • Mayr

    Late Oligocene/ Early Miocene

    Mainz Basin

    A small parrot
    Parrot
    Parrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three families: the Psittacidae , the Cacatuidae and the Strigopidae...

    .

    Pelagornis chilensis
    Pelagornis
    Pelagornis is a widely-known genus of the prehistoric pseudotooth birds. These were probably rather close relatives of either pelicans and storks, or of waterfowl, and are here placed in the order Odontopterygiformes to account for this uncertainty....


    Valid
    • Mayr
    • Rubilar-Rogers

    Miocene

    Bahia Inglesa Formation

    A pseudotooth bird with a large wingspan

    Rhenanorallus
    Rhenanorallus
    Rhenanorallus is a genus of prehistoric rail which existed in Mainz Basin, Germany during the late Oligocene or early Miocene. It was described by Gerald Mayr in 2010, from a humerus. The type species is Rhenanorallus rhenanus....


    Valid
    • Mayr

    Late Oligocene/ Early Miocene

    Mainz Basin

    A small rail
    Rail
    Rail or rails may refer to:Railway transportation* A generic term for railroads, railways, rail transport, and related matters* Rail tracks, or railway lines, the running surface of a railway...

    .

    Shenqiornis
    Shenqiornis
    Shenqiornis is a genus of enantiornithine . It was found in the Qiaotou member of the Huajiying Formation of Hebei Province, China, and is therefore of uncertain age. The Qiaotou Member may correlate with the more well-known Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, and so probably dates to around 122 Ma...


    Valid
    • Wang
    • O'Connor
    • et al.

    Aptian

    Qiaotou Formation

    An enantiornithine.

    Shenshiornis
    Shenshiornis
    Shenshiornis is a genus of primitive bird which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period. It is known from one partial skeleton recovered from he Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning province, dating to . The type species is Shenshiornis primita...


    Valid
    • Hu
    • Li
    • et al.

    Aptian

    Jiufotang Formation
    Jiufotang Formation
    The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...


    An sapeornithid.

    Zhongjianornis
    Zhongjianornis
    Zhongjianornis is a genus of long-beaked, pigeon-sized bird from the early Cretaceous period of China. It is known from one fossil found at Jianchang, Liaoning Province, in rocks of the Jiufotang Formation...


    Valid
    • Zhou
    • Zhang
    • Li

    Aptian

    Jiufotang Formation
    Jiufotang Formation
    The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. . It is a member of the Jehol group. The exact age of the Jiufotang has been debated for years, with...


    A beaked basal avialan

    Newly named basal dinosauriforms

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Asilisaurus
    Asilisaurus
    Asilisaurus , and Greek, σαυρος is an extinct genus of silesaurid archosaur. It is the oldest avian-line archosaur, dating to about 245 million years ago....


    Valid
    • Nesbitt
    • Sidor
      Christian Sidor
      Christian A. Sidor is an American biologist and paleontologist, Associate Professor of the Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, curator of vertebrate paleontology in the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Vertebrate...

    • et al.

    Anisian

    Manda Beds

    A silesaurid
    Silesauridae
    Silesauridae is an extinct clade of dinosauriformes, a group of Triassic reptiles that included early ancestors of the dinosaurs. The silesaurids were a sister clade to the dinosaurs. The family was named in 2010 by paleontologist Max C. Langer and colleagues from Brazil and Argentina...

    , and the oldest known ornithodire.


    Newly named non-avian dinosaurs

    • A new family of allosauroid theropods, Neovenatoridae
      Neovenatoridae
      Neovenatoridae is a family of large carnivorous dinosaurs. The group is a branch of the allosauroids, a large group of carnosaurs that also includes the sinraptorids, carcharodontosaurids, and allosaurids...

      , is published by Benson, Carrano, and Brusatte.
    • A new family of tyrannosauroid theropods, Proceratosauridae
      Proceratosauridae
      Proceratosauridae is a family or clade of theropod dinosaurs, probably belonging to the tyrannosaur lineage. It was first named in 2010 by Oliver Rauhut and colleagues in their re-evaluation of the type genus, Proceratosaurus...

       is published by Rauhut, Milner and Moore-Fay.


    62 new genera and additional 2 new species have been described in 2010.
    Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Aardonyx
    Aardonyx
    Aardonyx is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur. It is known from the type species Aardonyx celestae found from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa. A. celestae was named after Celeste Yates, who prepared much of the first known fossil material of the species...


    Valid
    • Yates
    • Bonnan
    • et al.

    Hettangian

    Elliot Formation
    Elliot Formation
    The Elliot Formation is a geological formation dating to roughly 210 to 190 million years ago and covering the Norian to Sinemurian stages. The Elliot Formation is found in South Africa and Lesotho and is a member of the Stormberg Group. It consists mainly of limestone, sandstone, and mudstone...


    A facultively quadrupedal prosauropod which displays transitional characters connecting more primitive obligate bipedal forms with the more derived obligative quadrupedal sauropodomorphs.




    Abydosaurus

    Valid
    • Chure
    • Britt
    • et al.

    Albian

    Cedar Mountain Formation
    Cedar Mountain Formation
    The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to distinctive sedimentary rocks in eastern Utah that occur between the underlying Morrison Formation and overlying Naturita Formation . It is composed of non-marine sediments, that is, sediments deposited in rivers, lakes and on flood plains...


    A narrow toothed brachiosaurid whose remains include the first known cranial material of any Cretaceous sauropod from the Americas.

    Ajkaceratops
    Ajkaceratops
    Ajkaceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described in 2010. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Europe, in what was then the western Tethyan archipelago. The type species, A. kozmai, is most closely related to forms in east Asia, from where its ancestors may have migrated by...


    Valid
    • Ösi
    • Butler
    • Weishampel

    Santonian

    Csehbánya Formation
    Csehbánya Formation
    The Csehbánya Formation is a geological formation in Hungary whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...


    A coronosaurian ceratopsian.

    Archaeoceratops yujingziensis
    Archaeoceratops
    Archaeoceratops, meaning "ancient horned face", is a genus of basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of north central China. It appears to have been bipedal and quite small with a comparatively large head...


    Valid
    • You
    • Tanque
    • Dodson

    ?Aptian–Albian

    Xinminpu Group

    A second species of Archaeoceratops.

    Arkharavia
    Arkharavia
    Arkharavia is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur. It lived in what is now Russia, during the Late Cretaceous. It was described in 2010 by Alifanov and Bolotsky. The type species is A. heterocoelica.-Known material:...


    Valid
    • Alifanov
    • Bolotsky

    Maastrichtian

    Udurchukan Formation
    Udurchukan Formation
    The Udurchukan Formation is a palaeontological formation located in Amur Region, Far East Russia. It dates to the Upper Cretaceous period....


    A titanosauriform sauropod known only from weakly heterocoelous tail vertebrae. Heterocoelous vertebrae are those where the centrum or body of a vertebra has saddle-shaped surface where it meets the vertebrae both in front and behind it.

    Atsinganosaurus
    Atsinganosaurus
    Atsinganosaurus is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur which existed in what is now France during the late Cretaceous period. Well-preserved remains of Atsinganosaurus were collected from the Grès à Reptiles Formation of the Aix-en-Provence Basin...


    Valid
    • Garcia
    • Amico
    • et al.

    Late Cretaceous

    Grès à Reptiles Formation

    A titanosaur

    Austrocheirus
    Austrocheirus
    Austrocheirus is an extinct genus of neoceratosaurian theropod dinosaur which existed during the late Cretaceous period. It was named and described by Martín Ezcurra, Federico Agnolin and Fernando Novas in 2010. It contains the type species Austrocheirus isasii. The generic name means "southern hand"...


    Valid
    • Ezcurra
    • Agnolin
    • Novas

    2002

    Maastrichtian

    Pari Aike Formation
    Pari Aike Formation
    The Pari Aike Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....


    A basal abelisauroid

    Balaur
    Balaur (dinosaur)
    Balaur is a uniquely specialized species of carnivorous dinosaur. It lived in what is now Romania during the latter part of the Late Cretaceous. Balaur was described by scientists in August 2010, and was named after the balaur, a dragon of Romanian folklore. It is known from a single partial...


    Valid
    • Csiki
    • Vremir
    • et al.

    Maastrichtian

    Sebeş Formation

    A four-toed, two-fingered dromaeosaurid with twin killing claws

    Banji
    Banji
    Banji is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur. It contains one species, Banji long, named from the Chinese for "striped crest dragon". The species is represented by a single skull and lower jaw. The specimen was donated to the Chinese Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology by an...


    Valid
    • Xu
    • Han

    Maastrichtian

    Nanxiong Formation
    Nanxiong Formation
    The Nanxiong Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Guangdong Province. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation...


    An oviraptorid known from a skull with a striated crest.

    Barilium
    Barilium
    Barilium is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson....


    Valid
    • Norman

    Early Valanginian

    Wealden Group
    Wealden Group
    The Wealden Group is a group in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental facies sedimentary rocks of Valanginian to Barremian age and thus forms part of the English Lower Cretaceous. It is composed of alternating sands and clays...


    A new genus for "Iguanodon" dawsoni (Lydekker, 1888).

    Beishanlong
    Beishanlong
    Beishanlong is a genus of giant ornithomimosaurian theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.-Discovery and naming:Three fossils of Beishanlong were in the early twenty-first century found in northwestern China at the White Ghost Castle site, in the province of Gansu...


    Valid
    • Makovicky
    • Li
    • et al.

    Aptian-Albian

    Xinminpu Group

    A giant ornithomimosaur.

    Bistahieversor
    Bistahieversor
    Bistahieversor is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur. Bistahieversor existed around 75 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous....


    Valid
    • Carr
    • Williamson

    Campanian

    Kirtland Formation
    Kirtland Formation
    The Kirtland Formation is a sedimentary geological formation. It is the product of alluvial muds and overbank sand deposits from the many channels draining the coastal plain that existed on the inland seashore of North America, in the late Cretaceous period. It overlies the Fruitland Formation...


    A 30 foot tyrannosauroid known from the remains of both adults and juveniles.

    Blasisaurus
    Blasisaurus
    Blasisaurus is a genus of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous. It is known from a partial skull and skeleton found in late Maastrichtian-age rocks of Spain. The type species is Blasisaurus canudoi, described in 2010 by Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola...


    Valid
    • Cruzado-Caballero
    • Pereda-Suberbiola
    • Ruiz-Omeñaca

    Late Maastrichtian

    Arén Formation
    Arén Formation
    The Arén Formation is a geological formation in Arén, Spain whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Dinosaurs:...


    A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid

    Bolong
    Bolong
    Bolong is a genus of iguanodontoid dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China. It was named by Wu Wen-hao, Pascal Godefroit and Hu Dong-yu in 2010 and the type species is Bolong yixianensis....


    Valid
    • Wu
    • Godefroit
    • Hu

    Early Cretaceous

    Yixian Formation
    Yixian Formation
    The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...


    An iguanodontoid

    Chromogisaurus
    Chromogisaurus
    Chromogisaurus is a sauropodomorph which existed in Argentina during the late Triassic period.Chromogisaurus was first named by Martín Daniel Ezcurra in 2010, and the type species is Chromogisaurus novasi. The generic name is derived from Greek chroma, "colour", and gè, "earth", a reference to the...


    Valid
    • Ezcurra

    Late Triassic

    Ischigualasto Formation

    A guaibasaurid
    Guaibasauridae
    Guaibasauridae is a family of primitive saurischian dinosaurs, known from fossil remains of late Triassic period formations in Brazil and Argentina....

     sauropodomorph

    Chuxiongosaurus
    Chuxiongosaurus
    Chuxiongosaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic Period. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan Province, southern China...


    Valid
    • Kobayashi
    • et al.

    Early Jurassic

    Lower Lufeng Formation

    A prosauropod.

    Coahuilaceratops
    Coahuilaceratops
    Coahuilaceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now southern Coahuila in northern Mexico. It is known from the holotype CPC 276, a partial skeleton of an adult individual which...


    Valid
    • Loewen
    • Sampson
    • et al.

    Campanian

    Cerro del Pueblo Formation
    Cerro del Pueblo Formation
    The Cerro del Pueblo Formation is a geological formation in Coahuila, Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...


    A chasmosaurine ceratopsid with the largest horns of any dinosaur currently known.

    Concavenator
    Concavenator
    Concavenator is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 130 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period . The type species is C. corcovatus; Concavenator corcovatus means "hump backed hunter from Cuenca"...


    Valid
    • Ortega
    • Escaso
    • Sanz

    Barremian

    Calizas de La Huérguina Formation

    A carcharodontosaurid with a pointed, hump-like crest near the hips and bumps on the ulnae that may be quill knobs.

    Cruxicheiros
    Cruxicheiros
    Cruxicheiros is a genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur which lived in the Middle Jurassic of England. The type species is C. newmanorum, described by Roger Benson and Jonathan Radley in 2010.-Discovery:...


    Valid
    • Benson
    • Radley

    early 1960s

    Lower Bathonian

    Chipping Norton Formation
    Chipping Norton Formation
    The Chipping Norton Formation is a geological formation in Europe. It dates back to the Middle Jurassic.-Vertebrate fauna:The so-called "Scrotum humanum" remains may have come from this formation.-References:...


    A large basal tetanuran known from scant remains.

    Diabloceratops
    Diabloceratops
    Diabloceratops is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur in the infraorder Ceratopsia. It lived in and around Utah during the Campanian stage.-Name:...


    Valid
    • Kirkland
    • DeBlieux

    Middle Campanian

    Wahweap Formation
    Wahweap Formation
    The Wahweap Formation of the Grand Staircase-Escelante National Monument is a geological formation in southern Utah and northern Arizona, around the Lake Powell region, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous...


    A centrosaurinae ceratopsid

    Duriatitan
    Duriatitan
    Duriatitan is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now United Kingdom. The holotype specimen of Duriatitan, BMNH 44635, is a partial left upper arm bone which was found by R.I. Smith near Sandsfoot in the lower Kimmeridge Clay from Dorset,...


    Valid
    • Barrett
    • Benson
    • Upchurch

    Late Jurassic

    Kimmeridge Clay Formation

    A titanosauriform
    Macronaria
    Macronaria is a clade of sauropod dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous Periods of what are now North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The name means 'large nostrils' , in reference to the large nasal openings high on the head that probably supported fleshy...

     sauropod

    Fruitadens
    Fruitadens
    Fruitadens is a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur. The name means "Fruita tooth", in reference to Fruita, Colorado , where its fossils were first found. It is known from partial skulls and skeletons from at least four individuals of differing biological ages, found in Tithonian rocks of the...


    Valid
    • Butler
    • Galton
    • et al.

    late 1970s

    Lower Tithonian

    Morrison Formation
    Morrison Formation
    The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic sedimentary rock that is found in the western United States, which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. It is composed of mudstone, sandstone, siltstone and limestone and is light grey, greenish...


    A heterodontosaurid and the smallest known ornithischian dinosaur.

    Fukuititan
    Fukuititan
    Fukuititan is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now Japan. It is known from FPDM-V8468, the associated partial skeleton of a single individual, recovered from the Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry of the Tetori Group, at Katsuyama City...


    Valid
    • Azuma
    • Shibata

    Barremian

    Kitadani Formation
    Kitadani Formation
    The Kitadani Formation is a geological formation in Fukui, Japan whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...


    A titanosauriform sauropod.

    Geminiraptor
    Geminiraptor
    Geminiraptor is a genus of troodontid dinosaur. Geminiraptor lived during the lower Cretaceous period in what is now Utah, USA. It is known from CEUM 7319, a maxilla recovered from the lower Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, dating to at least the early Barremian stage...


    Valid
    • Senter
    • Kirkland
    • et al.

    ?lower Barremian
    Barremian
    The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale between 130.0 ± 1.5 Ma and 125.0 ± 1.0 Ma). It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous epoch...


    Cedar Mountain Formation
    Cedar Mountain Formation
    The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to distinctive sedimentary rocks in eastern Utah that occur between the underlying Morrison Formation and overlying Naturita Formation . It is composed of non-marine sediments, that is, sediments deposited in rivers, lakes and on flood plains...


    A troodontid.

    Glishades
    Glishades
    Glishades is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous in North America. It is based on AMNH 27414, two partial premaxillae discovered in the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Two Medicine Formation in Montana...


    Valid
    • Prieto-Márquez

    Campanian

    Two Medicine Formation
    Two Medicine Formation
    The Two Medicine Formation is a geologic formation, or rock body, that was deposited between 83.5 ± 0.7 Ma to 70.6 ± 0.6 Ma , during Campanian time, and is located in northwestern Montana...


    A basal hadrosauroid
    Hadrosauroidea
    Hadrosauroidea is a clade or superfamily of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes the "duck-billed" dinosaurs, or hadrosaurids, and their close relatives. Many primitive hadrosauroids, such as the sail-backed Ouranosaurus, have traditionally been included in a paraphyletic "Iguanodontidae"...


    Haplocheirus
    Haplocheirus
    Haplocheirus is a genus of alvarezsauroid theropod dinosaur. It is the most basal member of its clade. It is the oldest known alvarezsauroid, predating all other members by about 63 million years. This also makes it about 15 million years older than the oldest known bird Archaeopteryx...


    Valid
    • Choiniere
    • Xu
    • et al.

    2004

    Oxfordian

    Shishugou Formation
    Shishugou Formation
    The Shishugou Formation is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China, whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic period. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....


    The most primitive known alvarezsauroid.

    Hippodraco
    Hippodraco
    Hippodraco is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It is a basal iguanodontian which lived during the Lower Cretaceous period in what is now Utah, USA...


    Valid
    • McDonald
    • Kirkland
    • et al.

    Upper Barremian
    Barremian
    The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale between 130.0 ± 1.5 Ma and 125.0 ± 1.0 Ma). It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous epoch...

    -lowermost Aptian
    Aptian
    The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is a subdivision of the Early or Lower Cretaceous epoch or series and encompasses the time from 125.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 112.0 ± 1.0 Ma , approximately...


    Cedar Mountain Formation
    Cedar Mountain Formation
    The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to distinctive sedimentary rocks in eastern Utah that occur between the underlying Morrison Formation and overlying Naturita Formation . It is composed of non-marine sediments, that is, sediments deposited in rivers, lakes and on flood plains...


    A basal iguanodontian

    Hypselospinus
    Hypselospinus
    Hypselospinus is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon by Richard Lydekker in 1889, the specific name honouring William Henry Fitton....


    Valid
    • Norman

    Early Valanginian

    Wealden Group
    Wealden Group
    The Wealden Group is a group in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental facies sedimentary rocks of Valanginian to Barremian age and thus forms part of the English Lower Cretaceous. It is composed of alternating sands and clays...


    A new genus for "Iguanodon" fittoni (Lydekker, 1889).

    Ignavusaurus
    Ignavusaurus
    Ignavusaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic in what is now present-day Lesotho. Its fossils were found in the upper Elliot Formation which is probably Hettangian in age. It was described on the basis of a partial, well preserved articulated skeleton...


    Valid
    • Knoll

    Hettangian

    Elliot Formation
    Elliot Formation
    The Elliot Formation is a geological formation dating to roughly 210 to 190 million years ago and covering the Norian to Sinemurian stages. The Elliot Formation is found in South Africa and Lesotho and is a member of the Stormberg Group. It consists mainly of limestone, sandstone, and mudstone...


    A basal sauropodomorph
    Sauropodomorpha
    Sauropodomorpha is an extinct clade of long-necked, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaurs which includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives. Sauropods generally grew to very large sizes, had long necks and tails, were quadrupedal, and became the largest animals to ever walk the Earth. The...


    Iguanacolossus
    Iguanacolossus
    Iguanacolossus is a genus of herbivorous iguanodontian dinosaur. It is a basal iguanodontian which lived during the lower Cretaceous period in what is now Utah, USA...


    Valid
    • McDonald
    • Kirkland
    • et al.

    ?lower Barremian
    Barremian
    The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale between 130.0 ± 1.5 Ma and 125.0 ± 1.0 Ma). It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous epoch...


    Cedar Mountain Formation
    Cedar Mountain Formation
    The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to distinctive sedimentary rocks in eastern Utah that occur between the underlying Morrison Formation and overlying Naturita Formation . It is composed of non-marine sediments, that is, sediments deposited in rivers, lakes and on flood plains...


    A basal iguanodontian

    Jeyawati
    Jeyawati
    Jeyawati is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur which lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous. The type species, J. rugoculus, was described in 2010, based on fossils recovered in the U.S. state of New Mexico....


    Valid
    • Mcdonald
    • Wolfe
    • Kirkland

    Turonian

    Moreno Hill Formation
    Moreno Hill Formation
    The Moreno Hill Formation is a geological formation in New Mexico whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Dinosaurs:-References:...


    Basal hadrosauroid.

    Kayentavenator
    Kayentavenator
    Kayentavenator is a small carnivorous dinosaur genus which lived during the Early Jurassic Period; fossils were recovered from the Kayenta Formation of northeastern Arizona and were described in 2010.-Description:...


    Valid
    • Gay

    Sinemurian/Pliensbachian

    Kayenta Formation
    Kayenta Formation
    The Kayenta Formation is a geologic layer in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the Colorado Plateau province of the United States, including northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. This rock formation is particularly prominent in southeastern Utah, where it is seen in the...


    A basal tetanuran

    Kileskus
    Kileskus
    Kileskus is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur known from partial remains found in Middle Jurassic rocks of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Fossils recovered include the holotype maxilla, a premaxilla, a surangular, and a few bones from the hand and foot. The skull bones are similar to those of...


    Valid
    • Averianov
    • Krasnolutskii
    • Ivantsov

    Bathonian

    Itat Formation
    Itat Formation
    The Itat Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....


    A tyrannosauroid

    Kosmoceratops
    Kosmoceratops
    Kosmoceratops is a genus of herbivorous chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur, which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in the part of the island continent Laramidia that is now Utah, United States...


    Valid
    • Sampson
    • Loewen
    • et al.

    Late Campanian

    Kaiparowits Formation
    Kaiparowits Formation
    The Kaiparowits Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in the Kaiparowits Plateau in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, in the southern part of Utah in the western United States. It is over 2800 feet thick, and is Campanian in age...


    A chasmosaurine ceratopsid.

    Kukufeldia
    Kukufeldia
    Kukufeldia is a genus of iguanodont which existed in what is now England during the Early Cretaceous period. Identified from a nearly complete right dentary found near Cuckfield and originally described in 1848 by Gideon Mantell, it was named by Andrew T. McDonald, Paul M. Barrett, and Sandra D....


    Valid
    • McDonald
    • Barrett
    • Chapman

    1848

    Barremian

    Wealden Formation
    Wealden Formation
    The Wealden Group is a group in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental facies sedimentary rocks of Valanginian to Barremian age and thus forms part of the English Lower Cretaceous. It is composed of alternating sands and clays...


    A basal iguanodont
    Iguanodont
    Iguanodonts were herbivorous dinosaurs that lived from the mid-Jurassic to Late Cretaceous. Some members include Camptosaurus, Callovosaurus, Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus, and the hadrosaurids or "duck-billed dinosaurs". Iguanodonts were one of the first groups of dinosaurs to be found...

    , formerly classified as Iguanodon anglicus

    Linheraptor
    Linheraptor
    Linheraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur which lived in what is now China in the Late Cretaceous. It was named by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2010, and contains the species Linheraptor exquisitus. This bird-like dinosaur was less than 2 m long and was found in Inner Mongolia...


    Valid
    • Xu
    • Choinere
    • et al.

    Campanian

    Bayan Mandahu Formation
    Bayan Mandahu Formation
    The Bayan Mandahu Formation is a geological unit of "redbeds" located near the village of Bayan Mandahu in Inner Mongolia, China Asia and dates from the Late Cretaceous Period...


    A dromaeosaurid

    Liubangosaurus
    Liubangosaurus
    Liubangosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now southern China. Liubangosaurus is known from the holotype NHMG8152, five nearly complete and articulated middle-caudal dorsal vertebrae referred to as. It was collected from the Napai Formation in...


    Valid
    • Mo
    • Xu
    • Buffetaut

    Early Cretaceous

    Napai Formation

    An eusauropod.

    Machairasaurus
    Machairasaurus
    Machairasaurus is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur which was found in the Bayan Mandahu Formation, China during the late Cretaceous period. It was first named by Nicholas R. Longrich, Philip J. Currie and Dong Zhi-Ming in 2010 and the type species is Machairasaurus leptonychus....


    Valid
    • Longrich
    • Currie
    • Dong

    Late Cretaceous

    Bayan Mandahu Formation
    Bayan Mandahu Formation
    The Bayan Mandahu Formation is a geological unit of "redbeds" located near the village of Bayan Mandahu in Inner Mongolia, China Asia and dates from the Late Cretaceous Period...


    An ingeniine oviraptorid.

    Medusaceratops
    Medusaceratops
    Medusaceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Montana. It is known from two partial parietals, the holotype WDC DJR 001 and the paratype WDC DJR 002...


    Valid
    • Ryan
    • Russell
    • Hartman

    Campanian

    Judith River Formation
    Judith River Formation
    The Judith River Formation is a fossil-bearing geologic formation in Montana, and is part of the Judith River Group. It dates to the upper Cretaceous, between 80 and 75 million years ago, corresponding to the "Judithian" land vertebrate age...


    A chasmosaurine ceratopsid.

    Mojoceratops
    Mojoceratops
    Mojoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Western Canada...


    Valid
    • Longrich

    Late Campanian

    Dinosaur Park Formation
    Dinosaur Park Formation
    The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Judith River Group, a major geologic unit in southern Alberta. It was laid down over a period of time between about 76.5 and 75 million years ago. The formation is made up of deposits of a high-sinuosity fluvial system, and is capped...


    A long-horned chasmosaurine ceratopsid.

    Ojoceratops
    Ojoceratops
    Ojoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur which lived in what is now New Mexico. Ojoceratops fossils have been recovered from strata of the Ojo Alamo Formation , dating to the late Cretaceous period . The type species is Ojoceratops fowleri...


    Valid
    • Sullivan
    • Lucas

    Late Cretaceous

    Ojo Alamo Formation
    Ojo Alamo Formation
    The Ojo Alamo Formation is a geologic formation spanning the Mesozoic/Cenozoic boundary. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, though all dinosaur remains come from the lowest part of the formation, the Naashoibito member The Ojo Alamo Formation is a...


    A chasmosaurine ceratopsid.

    Paludititan
    Paludititan
    Paludititan is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur which existed in what is now Haţeg Basin, Romania during the late Cretaceous period. The type species is Paludititan nalatzensis, after its finding place Nǎlaţ-Vad. The type species was determined and described by Zoltán Csiki, Vlad Codrea, Cǎtǎlin...


    Valid
    • Csiki
    • Codrea
    • et al.

    Maastrichtian

    Haţeg Basin

    A titanosaur

    Panamericansaurus
    Panamericansaurus
    Panamericansaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now South America. It is very similar to the closely related Aeolosaurus, differing only in details of the vertebrae....


    Valid
    • Calvo
    • Porfiri

    Campanian-Maastrichtian

    Allen Formation
    Allen Formation
    The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the...


    An aeolosaurini titanosaur

    Pneumatoraptor
    Pneumatoraptor
    Pneumatoraptor is a genus of small, paravian dinosaur that lived in Hungary. It is known from a single complete left shoulder girdle found in the Csehbánya Formation of the Iharkút locality in the Bakony Mountains of western Hungary...


    Valid
    • Ősi
    • Apesteguía
    • Kowalewski

    Santonian

    Csehbánya Formation
    Csehbánya Formation
    The Csehbánya Formation is a geological formation in Hungary whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...


    A small bird-like paravian estimated to reach slightly more than two feet in length.

    Proplanicoxa
    Proplanicoxa
    Proplanicoxa is a genus of iguanodont which existed in what is now England during the Early Cretaceous period ....


    Valid
    • Carpenter
    • Ishida

    Late Barremian

    Wessex Formation
    Wessex Formation
    The Wessex Formation is an English fossil site and geological formation that dates to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous. It is part of the Wealden Group and underlies the younger Vectis Formation.-Invertebrates:...


    A basal iguanodont

    Psittacosaurus gobiensis
    Psittacosaurus
    Psittacosaurus is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia, about 130 to 100 million years ago. It is notable for being the most species-rich dinosaur genus...


    Valid
    • Sereno
    • Zhao
    • Tan

    Lower Cretaceous

    Bayan Gobi Formation

    A ninth or eleventh species of Psittacosaurus.

    Rahiolisaurus
    Rahiolisaurus
    Rahiolisaurus is a genus of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur which existed in India during the Late Cretaceous period. It was described in 2010, based on fossils recovered from the Lameta Formation in the Indian state of Gujarat...


    Valid
    • Novas
    • Chatterjee
    • et al.

    Maastrichtian

    Lameta Formation
    Lameta Formation
    The Lameta Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, India. It is of Maastrichtian age , and is notable for its dinosaur fossils...


    An abelisaurid

    Rubeosaurus
    Rubeosaurus
    Rubeosaurus is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur which lived in what is now North America. Rubeosaurus fossils have been recovered from strata of the upper Two Medicine Formation of the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, dating to between 75 and 74 million years ago...


    Valid
    • McDonald
    • Horner

    Campanian

    Two Medicine Formation
    Two Medicine Formation
    The Two Medicine Formation is a geologic formation, or rock body, that was deposited between 83.5 ± 0.7 Ma to 70.6 ± 0.6 Ma , during Campanian time, and is located in northwestern Montana...


    A new genus for "Styracosaurus" ovatus Gilmore, 1930.

    Sanjuansaurus
    Sanjuansaurus
    Sanjuansaurus is a genus of herrerasaurid dinosaur from the Late Triassic-age Ischigualasto Formation of northwestern Argentina...


    Valid
    • Alcober
    • Martinez

    Late Carnian

    Ischigualasto Formation

    A herrerasaurid
    Herrerasauridae
    Herrerasaurids are among the oldest known dinosaurs, appearing in the fossil record 231.4 million years ago . They became extinct by the end of the Triassic period. Herrerasaurids were small-sized carnivorous theropods or basal saurischians...


    Seitaad
    Seitaad
    Seitaad is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur which lived during the lower Jurassic period in what is now southern Utah, USA.Seitaad is known from an articulated partial postcranial holotype skeleton referred to as UMNH VP 18040. The skeleton is missing its head, neck and tail...


    Valid
    • Sertich
    • Loewen

    2005

    Pleinsbachian

    Navajo Sandstone
    Navajo Sandstone
    Navajo Sandstone is a geologic formation in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the U.S. states of northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, and Utah; as part of the Colorado Plateau province of the United States...


    A basal sauropodomorph

    Sellacoxa
    Sellacoxa
    Sellacoxa is a genus of iguanodont which existed in what is now England during the Early Cretaceous period ....


    Valid
    • Carpenter
    • Ishida

    Early Valanginian

    Wealden Group
    Wealden Group
    The Wealden Group is a group in the lithostratigraphy of southern England. The Wealden group consists of paralic to continental facies sedimentary rocks of Valanginian to Barremian age and thus forms part of the English Lower Cretaceous. It is composed of alternating sands and clays...


    A basal iguanodont

    Sinoceratops
    Sinoceratops
    Sinoceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur described by Xu Xing and colleagues in 2010. It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now China. The type species is S. zhuchengensis....


    Valid
    • Xu
    • Wang
    • et al.

    Upper Cretaceous

    Wangshi Group
    Wangshi Group
    The Wangshi Group is a geological formation in Shandong, China whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Dinosaurs:-References:...


    A basal centrosaurine.

    Tatankaceratops
    Tatankaceratops
    Tatankaceratops is a controversial genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a small chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now South Dakota. It is known from a single partial skull which was collected from the Hell Creek Formation, dating to...


    Valid
    • Ott
    • Larson

    Maastrichtian

    Hell Creek Formation
    Hell Creek Formation
    The Hell Creek Formation is an intensely-studied division of Upper Cretaceous to lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana...


    A chasmosaurine ceratopsid.

    Texacephale
    Texacephale
    Texacephale is a genus of basal pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. The type species is Texacephale langstoni; its fossils were discovered in the Aguja Formation and described in 2010 by Longrich, Sankey and Tanke...


    Valid
    • Longrich
    • Sankey
    • Tanke

    Upper Campanian

    Aguja Formation
    Aguja Formation
    The Aguja Formation is a geological formation in North America, exposed in Texas, whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Ammonites:-Crurotarsans:...


    A basal pachycephalosaur.

    Tianyuraptor
    Tianyuraptor
    Tianyuraptor is a genus of short-armed dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous, about 122 million years ago. Its remains have been found in western Liaoning, China. It was similar to other dromaeosaurids found in Liaoning, with the exception of being somewhat more primitive...


    Valid
    • Zheng
    • Xu
    • et al.

    Early Cretaceous

    Yixian Formation
    Yixian Formation
    The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...


    A short-armed dromaeosaurid
    Dromaeosauridae
    Dromaeosauridae is a family of bird-like theropod dinosaurs. They were small- to medium-sized feathered carnivores that flourished in the Cretaceous Period. The name Dromaeosauridae means 'running lizards', from Greek dromeus meaning 'runner' and sauros meaning 'lizard'...

    .

    Tonganosaurus
    Tonganosaurus
    Tonganosaurus is a genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur, similar to Omeisaurus. It is known from one specimen consisting of twenty vertebrae, a front limb and pectoral girdle, and a complete hind limb with partial hip. It lived during the early Jurassic period in what is now China...


    Valid
    • Li
    • Yang
    • et al.

    Early Jurassic

    Yimen Formation

    A mamenchisaurid
    Mamenchisauridae
    Mamenchisauridae is an extinct family of sauropod dinosaurs. The family was first named by Chinese paleontologists C.C. Young and H.C. Chao in 1972, in a paper describing Mamenchisaurus. Other mamenchisaurids may include Bellusaurus, Chuanjiesaurus, Eomamenchisaurus, Hudiesaurus, Klamelisaurus,...

     sauropod.

    Torilion

    Junior synonym
    • Carpenter
    • Ishida

    Mid Valanginian

    Wadhurst Clay

    Junior synonym of Barilium
    Barilium
    Barilium is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson....


    Utahceratops
    Utahceratops
    Utahceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Utah. Its fossils have been recovered from the Kaiparowits Formation. It was first named by Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A....


    Valid
    • Sampson
    • Loewen
    • et al.

    Late Campanian

    Kaiparowits Formation
    Kaiparowits Formation
    The Kaiparowits Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in the Kaiparowits Plateau in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, in the southern part of Utah in the western United States. It is over 2800 feet thick, and is Campanian in age...


    A chasmosaurine ceratopsid.

    Vagaceratops
    Vagaceratops
    Vagaceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a chasmosaurine ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Alberta. Its fossils have been recovered from the Upper Dinosaur Park Formation...


    Valid
    • Sampson
    • Loewen
    • et al.

    Late Campanian

    Dinosaur Park Formation
    Dinosaur Park Formation
    The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Judith River Group, a major geologic unit in southern Alberta. It was laid down over a period of time between about 76.5 and 75 million years ago. The formation is made up of deposits of a high-sinuosity fluvial system, and is capped...


    A chasmosaurine ceratopsid. A new genus for "Chasmosaurus" irvinensis Holmes et al., 2001.

    Wadhurstia

    Junior synonym
    • Carpenter
    • Ishida

    Early Valanginian

    Wadhurst Clay

    Junior synonym of Hypselospinus
    Hypselospinus
    Hypselospinus is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon by Richard Lydekker in 1889, the specific name honouring William Henry Fitton....


    Willinakaqe
    Willinakaqe
    Willinakaqe is an extinct genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur which lived during the late Cretaceous of the Río Negro Province of southern Argentina....


    Valid
    • Juárez Valieri
    • Haro
    • et al.

    late Campanian-early Maastrichtian

    Allen Formation
    Allen Formation
    The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous The Allen Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the...


    Second hadrosauroid from South America.

    Xiongguanlong
    Xiongguanlong
    Xiongguanlong is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous of what is now China. The type species is X. baimoensis, described online in 2009 by a group of researchers from China and the United States, and formally published in January 2010. The genus name refers to the...


    Valid
    • Li
    • Norell
    • et al.

    Aptian–Albian

    Xinminpu Group

    A longirostrine tyrannosauroid.

    Xixianykus
    Xixianykus
    Xixianykus is a genus of alvarezsauroid theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of China. It was discovered in Xixia County in Henan, China...


    Valid
    • Xu
    • Wang
    • et al.

    Campanian

    Majiacun Formation
    Majiacun Formation
    The Majiacun Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-See also:* List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations** List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera...


    A parvicursorine.

    Xixiasaurus
    Xixiasaurus
    Xixiasaurus is a genus of troodontid dinosaur described in 2010. The type species is X. henanensis. Fossils of Xixiasaurus were discovered in central China, in the Majiacun Formation of Henan, and are believed to have been from the Late Cretaceous...


    Valid
    • Xu
    • et al.

    Campanian

    Majiacun Formation
    Majiacun Formation
    The Majiacun Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-See also:* List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations** List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera...


    A troodontid.

    Xixiposaurus
    Xixiposaurus
    Xixiposaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur which existed in what is now Lower Lufeng Formation, China during the lower Jurassic period. It was first named by Sekiya Toru in 2010 and the type species is Xixiposaurus suni....


    Valid
    • Sekiya

    Lower Jurassic

    Lower Lufeng Formation

    A prosauropod.

    "Yizhousaurus
    Yizhousaurus
    "Yizhousaurus" is an informally named genus of basal sauropod dinosaur which existed in what is now Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan Province of southern China during the lower Jurassic period. Identified from a nearly complete and exquisitely preserved skeleton, it is the most complete basal...

    "

    Nomen nudum
    Nomen nudum
    The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...

    • Chatterjee
    • Wang
    • et al.

    Lower Jurassic

    Lower Lufeng Formation

    A basal sauropod, informally named in a 2010 abstract with no valid description yet published

    Zhuchengceratops
    Zhuchengceratops
    Zhuchengceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur. It is a derived leptoceratopsid ceratopsian which lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Kugou, Zhucheng County, China. It is known from a partial articulated skeleton including vertebrae, ribs, teeth, and parts of...


    Valid
    • Xu
    • Wang
    • et al.

    Upper Cretaceous

    Wangshi Group
    Wangshi Group
    The Wangshi Group is a geological formation in Shandong, China whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Dinosaurs:-References:...


    A leptoceratopsid
    Leptoceratopsidae
    The family Leptoceratopsidae, its name derived from the type genus Leptoceratops, is a group of several small neoceratopsian genera which appear not to belong to the clade Protoceratopsidae. They resembled, and were closely related to, other ceratopsids, but all discovered species are generally...

    .

    Zuolong
    Zuolong
    Zuolong is a genus of coelurosaur dinosaur which existed in what is now Wucaiwan, Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China during the Late Jurassic period . The holotype fossil of Zuolong, IVPP V15912, a partial skeleton with skull, was discovered in 2001 in China, in the upper part of the...


    Valid
    • Choiniere
    • Clark
    • et al.

    Oxfordian

    Shishugou Formation
    Shishugou Formation
    The Shishugou Formation is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China, whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic period. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....


    Basal coelurosaur

    Newly named pterosaurs

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Aetodactylus
    Aetodactylus
    Aetodactylus is a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur. It is known from a lower jaw discovered in Upper Cretaceous rocks of northeastern Texas, United States...


    Valid
    • Myers

    Cenomanian

    Tarrant Formation
    Tarrant Formation
    The Tarrant Formation is a geologic formation that dates to the Middle Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous....


     United States

    An ornithocheirid
    Ornithocheiroidea
    Ornithocheiroidea is an extinct group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.-Locomotion:Ornithocheiroids, like other pterosaurs, are considered to have been skilled fliers as well as adept at moving on the ground...

     known only from a partial lower jaw.


    Alanqa
    Alanqa
    Alanqa is a genus of pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous Kem Kem Beds of southeastern Morocco....


    Valid
    • Ibrahim
    • Unwin
    • et al.

    Late Cretaceous

    Kem Kem Beds
    Kem Kem Beds
    The Kem Kem Beds is a geological formation in Morocco and Algeria whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous...


     Morocco

    An azhdarchid known only from five fragments of the front upper and lower jaws, and possibly a neck vertebra.

    Darwinopterus
    Darwinopterus
    Darwinopterus is a genus of pterosaur, discovered in China and named after biologist Charles Darwin. Between 30 and 40 fossil specimens have been identified, all collected from the Tiaojishan Formation, which dates to the middle Jurassic period. The type species, D. modularis, was described in...


    Valid
    • Unwin
    • et al.

    Oxfordian

    Tiaojishan Formation
    Tiaojishan Formation
    The Tiaojishan Formation is a geological formation in Hebei and Liaoning, People's Republic of China, dating to the middle-late Jurassic period . It is known for its fossil plants, and is made up mainly of pyroclastic rock interspersed with basic volcanic and sedimentary rocks...


     Mainland China

    A wukongopterid that was described as a derived rhamphorhynchoid with transitional characters connecting it with pterodactyloids.

    D. linglongtaensis
    Darwinopterus
    Darwinopterus is a genus of pterosaur, discovered in China and named after biologist Charles Darwin. Between 30 and 40 fossil specimens have been identified, all collected from the Tiaojishan Formation, which dates to the middle Jurassic period. The type species, D. modularis, was described in...


    Valid
    • Wang
    • Kellner
    • et al.

    Late Jurassic

    Daohugou Formation?

     Mainland China

    A second species of Darwinopterus

    Dawndraco
    Dawndraco
    Dawndraco is a genus of pteranodontid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America.Dawndraco was named by Alexander W.A. Kellner in 2010. The type species is Dawndraco kanzai. The generic name combines the Dawn deity of the Iroquois with a Latin draco, "dragon"...


    Valid
    • Kellner

    Late Coniacian/Early Santonian

    Niobrara Formation
    Niobrara Formation
    The Niobrara Formation, also called the Niobrara Chalk , is a geologic formation in North America that was laid down between 87 and 82 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian, and Campanian ages of the Late Cretaceous. It is composed of two structural units, the Smoky Hill Chalk Member...


     United States

    A pteranodontid. The type species is Dawndraco kanzai.

    Faxinalipterus
    Faxinalipterus
    Faxinalipterus is a genus of pterosaur from the Late Triassic Caturrita Formation of southern Brazil.The type species, Faxinalipterus minima was named and described in 2010 by José Fernando Bonaparte, Marina Bento Soares and César Leandro Schultz. The generic name is derived from Faxinal do Soturno...


    Valid
    • Bonaparte
      José Bonaparte
      José Fernando Bonaparte, Ph.D. , is an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists like Rodolfo Coria...

    • Schultz
    • Soares

    Late Triassic

    Caturrita Formation
    Caturrita Formation
    The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its sediments were deposited in the Paraná Basin. The formation has a late Carnian to early Norian age and forms part of the Santa Maria Supersequence in the upper section of the Rosário do Sul Group.-Etymology:The...


     Brazil

    Fenghuangopterus
    Fenghuangopterus
    Fenghuangopterus is a genus of basal pterosaur that lived in northeastern China during the Middle Jurassic.The type species Fenghuangopterus lii was in 2010 described and named by Lü Junchang e.a. The generic name is derived from the Fenghuang Mountain and a Latinised Ancient Greek pteron, "wing"....


    Valid
    • Fucha
    • Chen

    Middle Jurassic

    Tiaojishan Formation
    Tiaojishan Formation
    The Tiaojishan Formation is a geological formation in Hebei and Liaoning, People's Republic of China, dating to the middle-late Jurassic period . It is known for its fossil plants, and is made up mainly of pyroclastic rock interspersed with basic volcanic and sedimentary rocks...


     Mainland China

    An earliest scaphognathine pterosaur.

    Geosternbergia maiseyi
    Geosternbergia
    Geosternbergia from the Late Cretaceous geological period of North America, was one of the largest pterosaur genera and had a wingspan of up to .-Description:...


    Valid
    • Kellner

    Late Coniacian - Early Campanian

    Sharon Springs Formation

     United States

    A pteranodontid.

    Kunpengopterus
    Kunpengopterus
    Kunpengopterus is a genus of wukongopterid pterosaur from the middle-late Jurassic or early Cretaceous of northeastern China.Kunpengopterus is known from holotype IVPP V16047, an almost complete skeleton with complete skull and lower jaws recovered from rocks of the Tiaojishan Formation or...


    Valid
    • Wang
    • Kellner
    • et al.

    Late Jurassic

    Daohugou Formation?

     Mainland China

    A wukongopterid. The type species is Kunpengopterus sinensis.

    Prejanopterus
    Prejanopterus
    Prejanopterus is an extinct genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous layers of the Leza Formation of La Rioja, Spain....


    Valid
    • Vidarte
    • Calvo

    Lower Aptian

    Leza Formation

     Spain

    Sericipterus
    Sericipterus
    Sericipterus is an extinct genus of rhamphorhynchid pterosaur. It is known from the Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation in Xinjiang, China....


    Valid
    • Andres
    • Clark
    • Xing

    Oxfordian

    Shishugou Formation
    Shishugou Formation
    The Shishugou Formation is a geological formation in Xinjiang, China, whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic period. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....


     Mainland China

    A rhamphorhynchid with a nearly six foot wingspan.

    Zhenyuanopterus
    Zhenyuanopterus
    Zhenyuanopterus is a genus of pterosaur which is known from Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.-Paleaoecology:...


    Valid

    Barremian

    Yixian Formation
    Yixian Formation
    The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...


     Mainland China

    A boreopterid
    Boreopteridae
    Boreopteridae is a group of ornithocheiroid pterosaurs from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.-Palaeoecology:...

    .

    Newly named non-mammalian synapsids

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Beishanodon
    Beishanodon
    Beishanodon is a genus of eucynodont from Lower Triassic of China. The type species is Beishanodon youngi....


    Valid
    • Gao
    • Fox
    • et al.

    Lower Triassic

    Hongyanjing Formation

     Mainland China

    An eucynodont. The type species is Beishanodon youngi.


    Chiniquodon kalanoro

    Valid
    • Kammerer
    • Flynn
    • et al.

    Middle Triassic? (Ladinian or Carnian)

    Makay Formation

     Madagascar

    A cynodont
    Cynodont
    Cynodontia or cynodonts are a taxon of therapsids which first appeared in the Late Permian and were eventually distributed throughout all seven continents by the Early Triassic . This clade includes modern mammals and their extinct close relatives. They were one of the most diverse groups of...

    .

    Kombuisia antarctica

    Valid
    • Fröbisch
    • Angiekczyk
    • Sidor

    Early Triassic (Induan)

    Fremouw Formation
    Fremouw Formation
    The Fremouw Formation is a Triassic-age rock formation in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. Fossils of prehistoric reptiles and amphibians have been found in the formation. Fossilized trees have also been found. The formation's beds were deposited along the banks of rivers and on...


     Antarctica

    A dicynodont.

    Minicynodon
    Minicynodon
    Minicynodon is a genus of carnivorous brasilodontid cynodont from the Late Triassic period. It lived during the late Triassic period in what is now Faxinal do Soturno, Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil...


    Valid
    • Bonaparte
    • Schultz
    • et al.

    Carnian - Norian

    Caturrita Formation
    Caturrita Formation
    The Caturrita Formation is a rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Its sediments were deposited in the Paraná Basin. The formation has a late Carnian to early Norian age and forms part of the Santa Maria Supersequence in the upper section of the Rosário do Sul Group.-Etymology:The...


     Brazil

    A brasilodontid
    Brasilodontidae
    The brasilodontids include non-mammalian cynodonts that are currently considered to be the sister group of mammals. They were small, the size of a mouse. The brasilodontids' remains were found in the municipalities of Candelária and Faxinal do Soturno...

     cynodont.

    Prosictodon
    Prosictodon
    Prosictodon is an extinct genus of pylaecephalid dicynodont from Middle Permian of South Africa. It was first named by Kenneth D. Angielczyk and Bruce S. Rubidge in 2010 and the type species is Prosictodon dubei....


    Valid
    • Angielczyk
    • Rubidge

    Middle Permian

    Abrahamskraal Formation
    Abrahamskraal formation
    The Abrahamskraal is the lowermost formation of the Beaufort group. Early Guadalupian in age it corresponds to the Eodicynodon faunal assemblage zone.-Therapsida:-References:...


     South Africa

    A pylaecephalid dicynodont
    Dicynodont
    Dicynodontia is a taxon of anomodont therapsids or mammal-like reptiles. Dicynodonts were small to large herbivorous animals with two tusks, hence their name, which means 'two dog tooth'...

    . The type species is Prosictodon dubei.

    Trucidocynodon
    Trucidocynodon
    Trucidocynodon is an extinct, monotypic genus of synapsid from Upper Triassic of Brazil. Trucidocynodon riograndensis is the only species descript for genus....


    Valid
    • Oliveira
    • Soares
    • Schultz

    Upper Triassic

    Santa Maria Formation
    Santa Maria Formation
    The Santa Maria Formation is a sedimentary rock formation found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It has a late Ladinian – early Carnian age , and is notable for its fossils of early dinosaurs, including the herrerasaur Staurikosaurus, the basal saurischian Teyuwasu, and the basal sauropodomorph...


     Brazil

    A cynodont. The type species is Trucidocynodon riograndensis.

    Newly named non-eutherian mammals

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Acinacodus
    Acinacodus
    Acinacodus is an extinct genus of amphidontid "eutriconodont" which existed in Shestakovo 1 locality in Western Siberia, Russia during the early Cretaceous period. It was described by A. V. Lopatin, E. N. Maschenko and A. O. Averianov in 2010, and the type species is Acinacodus tagaricus....


    Valid
    • Lopatin
    • Maschenko
    • Averianov

    Early Cretaceous

    Western Siberia
    Siberia
    Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...


     Russia

    An amphidontid
    Amphidontidae
    The Amphidontidae are a family of extinct mammals from the Early Creataceous, belonging to the triconodonts. It contains most of the species previously belonged to Amphilestidae.- Phylogeny :...

     'eutriconodont'
    Eutriconodonta
    Eutriconodonta is a order of early mammals. Eutriconodonts existed in Asia, Europe, North and South America during the Jurassic and the Cretaceous periods. The order was named by Kermack et al. in 1973 as a replacement name for the paraphyletic Triconodonta....

    .

    Galadi
    Galadi
    Galadi is an extinct genus of predatory bandicoot from Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia. It was first named by K.J. Travouillon, Y. Gurovich, R.M.D. Beck and J. Muirhead in 2010 and the type species is Galadi speciosus. The genus is represented by three...


    Valid
    • Travouillon
    • Gurovich
    • et al.

    Oligo-Miocene

     Australia

    A bandicoot
    Bandicoot
    Bandicoots are a group of about 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial marsupial omnivores in the order Peramelemorphia.- Etymology :...

    .

    Heishanobaatar
    Heishanobaatar
    Heishanobaatar is an extinct genus of eobaatarid multituberculate which existed in Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China, during the early Cretaceous . It was first named by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Takeshi Setoguchi and Hiroshige Marsuoka in 2010 and the type species is...


    Valid
    • Kusuhashi
    • Hu
    • et al.

    Aptian/Albian

    Shahai and Fuxin formations

     Mainland China

    An eobaatarid
    Eobaataridae
    Eobaataridae is a family of fossil mammal within the order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe and Asia. These herbivores thus lived during the Mesozoic era, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs". They were among the most derived representatives of the...

     multituberculate
    Multituberculata
    The Multituberculata were a group of rodent-like mammals that existed for approximately one hundred and twenty million years—the longest fossil history of any mammal lineage—but were eventually outcompeted by rodents, becoming extinct during the early Oligocene. At least 200 species are...

    .

    Hutegotherium
    Hutegotherium
    Hutegotherium is an extinct genus of tegotheriid docodont known from partial remains found in Middle Jurassic rocks of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It was first named by Averianov, A. A.; Lopatin, A. V.; Krasnolutskii, S. A.; and Ivantsov, S. V. in 2010 and the type species is Hutegotherium...


    Valid
    • Averianov
    • Lopatin
    • et al.

    Bathonian

    Itat Formation
    Itat Formation
    The Itat Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....


     Russia

    A tegotheriid docodont. The type species is H. yaomingi.

    Juchilestes
    Juchilestes
    Juchilestes is an extinct genus of amphidontid "triconodont" from the early Cretaceous . It lived in what is now the Beipiao of western Liaoning, eastern China. It is known from the holotype D2607, which consists of three-dimensionally preserved, partial skull with mandibles and some teeth...


    Valid
    • Gao
    • Wilson
    • et al.

    Lower Aptian

    Yixian Formation
    Yixian Formation
    The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...


     Mainland China

    An amphidontid 'eutriconodont'. The type species is J. liaoningensis.

    Kielanobaatar
    Kielanobaatar
    Kielanobaatar is an extinct genus of albionbaatarid multituberculate which existed in Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China, during the early Cretaceous . It was first named by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Takeshi Setoguchi and Hiroshige Marsuoka in 2010 and the type species...


    Valid
    • Kusuhashi
    • Hu
    • et al.

    Aptian/Albian

    Shahai and Fuxin formations

     Mainland China

    An albionbaatarid
    Albionbaataridae
    Albionbaataridae is a family of small, extinct mammals within the order Multituberculata. Fossil remains are known from the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Europe and Asia. These herbivores lived their obscure lives during the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs." They were...

     multituberculate.

    Nidimys
    Nidimys
    Nidimys occultus is a multituberculate which existed in the United States during the Edmontonian faunal stage of the upper Cretaceous period, and the only species in the genus Nidimys....


    Valid
    • Hunter
    • Heinrich
    • Weishampel

    Upper Cretaceous

    St. Mary River Formation
    St. Mary River Formation
    The St. Mary River Formation is a geological formation in Alberta, Canada whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. The St. Mary River Formation has produced only a few dinosaur fossils in its Albertan...


     United States

    A neoplagiaulacid
    Neoplagiaulacidae
    Neoplagiaulacidae is a family of mammal within the extinct order Multituberculata. Fossil remains are known from the Upper Cretaceous through the Eocene. Representatives have been found in North America, Europe and Asia....

     multituberculate. The type species is N. occultus.

    Paressonodon
    Paressonodon
    Paressonodon is an extinct genus of multituberculate which existed in Colorado during the late Cretaceous period. It contains the species Paressonodon nelsoni....


    Valid
    • Wilson
    • Dechesne
    • Anderson

    Late Cretaceous

    Laramie Formation
    Laramie Formation
    The Laramie Formation is a geologic formation of Cretaceous age, named by Clarence King in 1876 for exposures in northeastern Colorado, in the United States....


     United States

    A neoplagiaulacid
    Neoplagiaulacidae
    Neoplagiaulacidae is a family of mammal within the extinct order Multituberculata. Fossil remains are known from the Upper Cretaceous through the Eocene. Representatives have been found in North America, Europe and Asia....

     multituberculate. The type species is P. nelsoni.

    Parikimys
    Parikimys
    Parikimys carpenteri is a multituberculate which existed in Colorado at the end of the Cretaceous period. The species is named "in honor of the DMNS vertebrate paleontologist Ken Carpenter, whose initial field work in the sparse, non-marine Cretaceous exposures of Weld County inspired this project."...


    Valid
    • Wilson
    • Dechesne
    • Anderson

    Late Cretaceous

    Laramie Formation
    Laramie Formation
    The Laramie Formation is a geologic formation of Cretaceous age, named by Clarence King in 1876 for exposures in northeastern Colorado, in the United States....


     United States

    A cimolomyid
    Cimolomyidae
    Cimolomyidae is a family of fossil mammal within the extinct order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from the Upper Cretaceous and the Paleocene of North America and perhaps Mongolia. The family is part of the suborder Cimolodonta. Other than that, their systematic relationships are hard...

     multituberculate. The type species is P. carpenteri.

    Paritatodon
    Paritatodon
    Paritatodon is an extinct mammal which existed in Kyrgyzstan during the Jurassic period....


    Valid
    • Martin
    • Averianov

    Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

    Balabansai Formation
    Balabansai Formation
    The Balabansai Fomration is a geological formation in Asia whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.-Vertebrate paleofauna:...


     Kyrgyzstan

    A basal docodont
    Docodonta
    Docodonta is an order of extinct proto-mammals that lived during the mid- to late-Mesozoic era. Their most distinguishing physical features were their relatively sophisticated set of molars, from which the order gets its name. In the fossil record, Docodonta is represented primarily by isolated...

    . A new genus for "Shuotherium" kermacki Sigogneau-Russell, 1988.

    Sineleutherus
    Sineleutherus
    Sineleutherus is an extinct genus of allotherian mammal which existed in China during the late Jurassic period . It was described by Thomas Martin, Alexander O. Averianov and Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner in 2010 and the type species is Sineleutherus uyguricus....


    Valid
    • Martin
    • Averianov
    • Pfretzschner

    Oxfordian

    Qigu Formation
    Qigu Formation
    The Qigu Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.-See also:* List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations...


     Mainland China

    A eleutherodontid allotheria
    Allotheria
    Allotheria was a branch of successful Mesozoic mammals. The most important characteristic was the presence of lower molariform teeth equipped with two longitudinal rows of cusps...

    n.

    Newly named eutherians

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Acristatherium
    Acristatherium
    Acristatherium yanensis is an extinct basal eutherian from the Early Cretaceous Lujiatun Bed of the Yixian Formation. It was described on the basis of a single specimen from Beipiao, Liaoning, China by Yaoming Hu, Jin Meng, Chuankui Li and Yuanqing Wang in 2010. The specimen comprises a partial...


    Valid
    • Hu
    • Meng
    • et al.

    Aptian

    Yixian Formation
    Yixian Formation
    The Yixian Formation is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans 11 million years during the early Cretaceous period...


     Mainland China

    An early eutheria
    Eutheria
    Eutheria is a group of mammals consisting of placental mammals plus all extinct mammals that are more closely related to living placentals than to living marsupials . They are distinguished from noneutherians by various features of the feet, ankles, jaws and teeth...

    n


    Afrotragulus
    Afrotragulus
    Afrotragulus is an extinct genus of tragulid ruminant which existed in Kenya during the early Miocene period. It contains the species Afrotragulus moruorotensis and Afrotragulus parvus, formerly classified in genus Dorcatherium....


    Valid
    • Sánchez
    • Quiralte
    • et al.

    Early Miocene

    Lothidok Formation

     Kenya

    A tragulid ruminant.

    Ageitonomys
    Ageitonomys
    Ageitonomys neimongolensis is an extinct species of rodent which existed in Alxa Left Banner, Inner Mongolia , China during the early Oligocene period. It was first named by Wang Ban-Yue in 2010....


    Valid
    • Wang Ban-Yue

    Early Oligocene

    Ulantatal Formation

     Mainland China

    A ctenodactyloid rodent. The species is A. neimongolensis.

    Alloeumyarion
    Alloeumyarion
    Alloeumyarion is an extinct genus of Cricetidae which existed in China during the early Miocene period. It was first named by Qiu Zhu-Ding in 2010, and the type species is Alloeumyarion sihongensis....


    Valid
    • Qiu Zhu-Ding

    Early Miocene

    Xiacaowan Formation

     Mainland China

    A eumyarionine cricetid
    Cricetidae
    The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, and New World rats and mice...

    . The species is A. sihongensis.

    Australopithecus sediba
    Australopithecus sediba
    Australopithecus sediba is a species of Australopithecus of the early Pleistocene, identified based on fossil remains dated to about 2 million years ago....


    Valid
    • Berger
    • de Ruiter
    • et al.

    Late Tertiary to Early Quaternary

    Cradle of Humankind
    Cradle of Humankind
    The Cradle of Humankind is a World Heritage Site first named by UNESCO in 1999, about 50 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Gauteng province. This site currently occupies ; it contains a complex of limestone caves, including the Sterkfontein Caves, where the 2.3-million...


     South Africa

    One of the youngest known australopithecines to date.

    Basirepomys
    Basirepomys
    Basirepomys is an extinct genus of Cricetidae that existed in the United States during the Late Miocene period. It contains the species B. pliocenicus and B. robertsi....


    Valid
    • Kortha
    • De Blieux

    Late Hemphillian (Late Miocene)

    Sevier River Formation

     United States

    Species:
    • B. pliocenicus (previously Peromyscus pliocenicus Wilson 1937) (type)
    • B. robertsi

    Darocasorex
    Darocasorex
    Darocasorex is an extinct shrew which existed in Europe during the Miocene period. It was first named by Jan A. van Dam in 2010....


    Valid
    • van Dam

    Miocene

    A anourosoricini soricidae.

    Dawsonicyon
    Dawsonicyon
    Dawsonicyon is an extinct genus of basal carnivoramorphan which existed in Wyoming, USA, during the middle Eocene. Fossils are known from the ‘Bridger B’, site of Black’s Fork member of the Bridger Formation and includes an almost complete skeleton . It was first named by Michelle Spaulding, John...


    Valid
    • Spaulding
    • Flynn
    • Stucky

    Middle Eocene

    Bridger Formation

     United States

    A basal carnivoramorpha
    Carnivoramorpha
    Carnivoramorpha are a clade of mammals that includes the modern order Carnivora and its closest extinct relatives in the Miacoidea , but excludes the creodonts. The order Creodonta are a sister taxon to the Carnivoramorpha dating back 58.7 million years ago...

    n.

    Dimaitherium
    Dimaitherium
    Dimaitherium is an extinct hyracoid which existed in what is now Egypt, during the late Eocene period. It was first named by Eugenie Barrow, Erik R. Seiffert, and Elwyn L. Simons in 2010. The type species is Dimaitherium patnaiki....


    Valid
    • Barrow
    • Seiffert
    • Simons

    early Late Eocene (early Priabonian)

    Birket Qarun Formation

     Egypt

    A hyracoid
    Hyrax
    A hyrax is any of four species of fairly small, thickset, herbivorous mammals in the order Hyracoidea. The rock hyrax Procavia capensis, the yellow-spotted rock hyrax Heterohyrax brucei, the western tree hyrax Dendrohyrax dorsalis, and the southern tree hyrax, Dendrohyrax arboreus live in Africa...

    . The type species is D. patnaiki.

    Dilambdogale
    Dilambdogale
    Dilambdogale is an extinct genus of afrosoricid which existed in Fayum, Egypt during the latest Eocene . It was first named by Erik R. Seiffert in 2010 and the type species is Dilambdogale gheerbranti. Dilambdogale is the oldest known afrosoricid and its closest relative was...


    Valid
    • Seiffert

    Earliest Priabonian

    Birket Qarun Formation

     Egypt

    The oldest known afrosoricid
    Afrosoricida
    The order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar and Africa, two families of small mammals that have traditionally been considered to be a part of the order Insectivora.Some biologists use Tenrecomorpha as the name for the tenrec-golden mole clade,...

    .

    Diunatans
    Diunatans
    Diunatans is an extinct genus of rorqual whale. It lived in the North Sea during the Early Pliocene. Two specimens have been found from the Netherlands. They were collected from the Kattendijk Formation in the province of Zeeland, which is Zanclean in age...


    Valid
    • Bosselaers
    • Post

    Early Pliocene (Zanclean)

    Kattendijk Formation

     Netherlands

    A small rorqual
    Rorqual
    Rorquals are the largest group of baleen whales, with nine species in two genera. They include the largest animal that has ever lived, the Blue Whale, which can reach , and another that easily reaches ; even the smallest of the group, the Northern Minke Whale, reaches .-Characteristics:Rorquals...

     whale
    Whale
    Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea. The term whale sometimes refers to all cetaceans, but more often it excludes dolphins and porpoises, which belong to suborder Odontoceti . This suborder also includes the sperm whale, killer whale, pilot whale, and beluga...


    Edworthia
    Edworthia
    Edworthia is an extinct genus of paromomyid plesiadapiform which existed in Alberta, Canada, during the early Paleocene . It was first named by Richard C. Fox, Craig S. Scott and Brian D. Rankin in 2010 and the type species is Edworthia lerbekmoi...


    Valid
    • Fox
    • Scott
    • Rankin

    Middle Torrejonian

    Paskapoo Formation
    Paskapoo Formation
    The Paskapoo Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Paleocene age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.It takes the name from the Blindman River , and was first described in outcrops along the river, north of Red Deer by J. B...


     Canada

    A primitive paromomyid plesiadapiform
    Plesiadapiformes
    Plesiadapiformes is an extinct order of mammals. It is either closely related to the primates or a precursor to them. Many are too derived to be ancestral to primates, but the earliest Plesiadapiformes have teeth that are strongly indicative of a common ancestor...

    .

    Erlianomys
    Erlianomys
    Erlianomys combinatus is an extinct species of myodont rodent which existed in Inner Mongolia, China, during the early Eocene period....


    Valid
    • Li Qian
    • Meng Jin

    Early Eocene

    Arshanto Formation

     Mainland China

    A primitive myodont rodent. The species is E. combinatus.

    Gracilocyon
    Gracilocyon
    Gracilocyon is an extinct genus of miacid carnivoran which existed in USA and in Belgium during the earliest Eocene. It was first named by Thierry Smith and Richard Smith in 2010 and the type species is Gracilocyon winkleri....


    Valid
    • Smith
    • Smith

    earliest Eocene

     Belgium
     United States

    A miacid carnivora
    Carnivora
    The diverse order Carnivora |Latin]] carō "flesh", + vorāre "to devour") includes over 260 species of placental mammals. Its members are formally referred to as carnivorans, while the word "carnivore" can refer to any meat-eating animal...

    n.

    Guiomys
    Guiomys
    Guiomys is an extinct genus of cavioid rodent which existed in west central Patagonia of Argentina, during the middle Miocene. Guiomys is known from mandibular and maxillary fragments with molars, and isolated cheek teeth. It was first named by María E. Pérez in 2010 and the type species is Guiomys...


    Valid
    • Pérez

    Middle Miocene

     Argentina

    A primitive cavioid rodent.

    Homo gautengensis
    Homo gautengensis
    Homo gautengensis is a hominin species proposed by biological anthropologist Darren Curnoe in 2010. The species is composed of South African hominin fossils previously attributed to Homo habilis and is argued by some to be the earliest species in the genus Homo.-Discovery and analysis:Analysis...


    Valid
    • Curnoe

    Pleistocene

    Cradle of Humankind
    Cradle of Humankind
    The Cradle of Humankind is a World Heritage Site first named by UNESCO in 1999, about 50 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Gauteng province. This site currently occupies ; it contains a complex of limestone caves, including the Sterkfontein Caves, where the 2.3-million...


     South Africa

    Identification of H. gautengensis was based on partial skulls, several jaws, teeth and other bones found at various times at the Caves. It emerged over 2 million years ago and died out approximately 600,000 years ago, and is believed to have arisen earlier than Homo habilis.

    Joumocetus
    Joumocetus
    Joumocetus is an extinct baleen whale genus in the family Cetotheriidae and containing the single species Joumocetus shimizui. The species is known only from a partial skeleton found in Miocene age sediments of Japan....


    Valid
    • Kimura
    • Hasegawa

    earliest Late Miocene

    Haraichi Formation

     Japan

    A cetotheriid
    Cetotheriidae
    Cetotheriidae is an extinct family of baleen whales in the suborder Mysticeti. The family existed from the Late Oligocene to the Late Pliocene before going extinct.-Taxonomy:...

     whale
    Whale
    Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea. The term whale sometimes refers to all cetaceans, but more often it excludes dolphins and porpoises, which belong to suborder Odontoceti . This suborder also includes the sperm whale, killer whale, pilot whale, and beluga...

    . The type species is J. shimizui.

    Kabirmys
    Kabirmys
    Kabirmys is an extinct genus of anomaluroid rodent from the earliest late Eocene of the Birket Qarun Formation from northern Egypt. It was described in September 2010 by Hesham Sallam, Erik Seiffert, Elwyn Simons, and Chlöe Brindley based on isolated teeth, partial mandibles, and an edentulous...


    Valid
    • Sallam
    • Seiffert
    • et al.

    earliest late Eocene

    Birket Qarun Formation

     Egypt

    An anomaluroid
    Anomalure
    Anomaluridae is a family of rodents found in central Africa. They are known as anomalures or scaly-tailed squirrels. There are seven extant species, classified into three genera...

     rodent.

    Kutchisiren
    Kutchisiren
    Kutchisiren is an extinct genus of mammal which existed in what is now India during the Miocene period. It was named by S. Bajpai, D. P. Domning, D. P. Das, J. Velez-Juarbe, and V. P. Mishra in 2010, and the type species is Kutchisiren cylindrica. It was originally named Kotadasiren gracilis in...


    Valid
    • Bajpai
    • Domning
    • et al.

    Miocene

    Khari Nadi Formation

     India

    A new name for Kotadasiren gracilis Das & Basu, 1994 (nomen nudum). The type species
    Type species
    In biological nomenclature, a type species is both a concept and a practical system which is used in the classification and nomenclature of animals and plants. The value of a "type species" lies in the fact that it makes clear what is meant by a particular genus name. A type species is the species...

     is Kutchisiren cylindrica.

    Lestobradys
    Lestobradys
    Lestobradys is an extinct genus of mylodontidae which existed in Uruguay during the late Miocene period. The type species is L. sprechmanni....


    Valid
    • Rinderknechta
    • Bostelmann
    • et al.

    Late Miocene (Huayquerian)

    Camacho Formation

     Uruguay

    A mylodontid
    Mylodontidae
    Mylodontidae is a family of extinct mammals within the order of Pilosa and suborder Folivora living from approximately 23 mya—11,000 years ago, existing for approximately . This family of ground sloths is related to the other families of extinct ground sloths, being the Megatheriidae, the...

    . The type species is L. sprechmanni.

    Livyatan
    Livyatan melvillei
    Livyatan melvillei is an extinct species of physeteroid whale, which lived during the Miocene epoch, approximately 12-13 million years ago.- Discovery :...


    Valid
    • Lambert
    • Bianucci
    • et al.

    Miocene

    Pisco Formation

     Peru

    A physeteroid whale
    Whale
    Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea. The term whale sometimes refers to all cetaceans, but more often it excludes dolphins and porpoises, which belong to suborder Odontoceti . This suborder also includes the sperm whale, killer whale, pilot whale, and beluga...

    . The type species is L. melvillei.

    Mendozahippus
    Mendozahippus
    Mendozahippus is an extinct genus of notohippid notoungulate which existed in Mendoza, Argentina, during the late Oligocene. Fossils are known from the site of Quebrada Fiera of the Agua de la Piedra Formation and includes a complete skull and two associated metatarsals, two maxillary fragments and...


    Valid
    • Cerdeño
    • Vera

    Late Oligocene

    Agua de la Piedra Formation

     Argentina

    A notohippid
    Notohippidae
    Notohippidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals from South America. Notohippids are known from the Eocene and Oligocene epochs....

     notoungulate.

    Metaliomys
    Metaliomys
    Metaliomys is an extinct genus of Heteromyidae that existed in the United States during the Late Miocene period. The only species is Metaliomys sevierensis....


    Valid
    • Kortha
    • De Blieux

    Late Hemphillian (Late Miocene)

    Sevier River Formation

     United States

    Species: Metaliomys sevierensis

    Omoiosicista
    Omoiosicista
    Omoiosicista is an extinct genus of dipodid rodent which existed in central Nei Mongol, China, during the early Miocene . It was first named by Yuri Kimura in 2010 and the type species is Omoiosicista fui....


    Valid
    • Kimura

    Early Miocene

     Mainland China

    A dipodid
    Dipodidae
    The Dipodidae, or dipodids, are a family of rodents found across the northern hemisphere. This family includes over 50 species among the 16 genera....

     rodent.

    Plesiobalaenoptera
    Plesiobalaenoptera
    Plesiobalaenoptera is an extinct genus of rorqual whale which existed in Italy during the late Miocene epoch. The type species is P. quarantellii. It is the oldest known rorqual from the Mediterranean basin...


    Valid
    • Bisconti

    Late Miocene (Tortonian)

    Sediments of the Stirone River

     Italy

    A parabalaenopterine balaenopterid. The type species is P. quarantellii.

    Platalearostrum

    Valid
    • Post
    • Kompanje

    early or middle Pleistocene
    Pleistocene
    The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years BP that spans the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....


     Netherlands

    A prehistoric pilot whale
    Pilot whale
    Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala. There are two extant species, the long-finned pilot whale and the short-finned pilot whale . The two are not readily distinguished at sea and analysis of the skulls is the best way to tell the difference between them...

     (Family Delphinidae). The type species is P. hoekmani

    Presbytherium
    Presbytherium
    Presbytherium is an extinct pantodont which existed in what is now Alberta, Canada, during the Paleocene period. It was first named by Craig S. Scott in 2010....


    Valid
    • Scott

    Paleocene

    Paskapoo Formation
    Paskapoo Formation
    The Paskapoo Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Paleocene age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.It takes the name from the Blindman River , and was first described in outcrops along the river, north of Red Deer by J. B...


     Canada

    A cyriacotheriid pantodont. Species:
    • P. rhodorugatus
    • P. taurus

    Saadanius
    Saadanius
    Saadanius is a genus of fossil primate dating to the Oligocene that is closely related to the common ancestor of the Old World monkeys and apes, collectively known as catarrhines. It is represented by a single species, Saadanius hijazensis, which is known only from a single partial skull...


    Valid
    • Zalmout
    • Sanders
    • et al.

    Oligocene

    Shumaysi Formation

     Saudi Arabia

    A catarrhine primate
    Primate
    A primate is a mammal of the order Primates , which contains prosimians and simians. Primates arose from ancestors that lived in the trees of tropical forests; many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging three-dimensional environment...

    . The species was named S. hijazensis.

    Sinodonomys
    Sinodonomys
    Sinodonomys is an extinct genus of dipodid rodent which existed in central Nei Mongol, China, during the early Miocene . It was first named by Yuri Kimura in 2010 and the type species is Sinodonomys simplex....


    Valid
    • Kimura

    Early Miocene

     Mainland China

    A dipodid rodent.

    Qatranilestes
    Qatranilestes
    Qatranilestes is an extinct genus of afrosoricid which existed in Fayum, Egypt during the earliest Oligocene period . It was first named by Erik R. Seiffert in 2010 and the type species is Qatranilestes oligocaenus. Qatranilestes is the youngest known afrosoricid....


    Valid
    • Seiffert

    Rupelian

    Jebel Qatrani Formation
    Jebel Qatrani Formation
    The Jebel Qatrani Formation is a palaeontological formation located in Egypt. It dates to the Eocene-Oligocene period....


     Egypt

    The youngest known afrosoricid
    Afrosoricida
    The order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar and Africa, two families of small mammals that have traditionally been considered to be a part of the order Insectivora.Some biologists use Tenrecomorpha as the name for the tenrec-golden mole clade,...

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    Angiosperms

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Sagaria
    Sagaria
    Sagaria is an extinct plant which existed in Italy during the Albian period. The type species is Sagaria cilentana....


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    • Bravia
    • Barone Lumagab
    • Mickle

    Middle Albian

    Monti Alburni, near Petina

    Solaranthus
    Solaranthus
    Solaranthus is an extinct angiosperm plant which existed in Jiulongshan Formation, China during the middle Jurassic period. It was first named by Shaolin Zheng and Xin Wang in 2010 and the type species is Solaranthus daohugouensis....


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    • Shaolin Zheng
    • Xin Wang

    Middle Jurassic

    Jiulongshan Formation

    An early flowering plant
    Flowering plant
    The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

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    Xingxueanthus
    Xingxueanthus
    Xingxueanthus is an extinct angiosperm plant which existed in China during the middle Jurassic period. It was first named by Xin Wang and Shijun Wang in 2010 and the type species is Xingxueanthus sinensis. This plant was very rare....


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    • Xin Wang
    • Shijun Wang

    Middle Jurassic

    Haifanggou Formation
    Haifanggou Formation
    The Haifanggou Formation is a fossil-bearing rock deposit located in northeastern China, near Daohugou village of Ningcheng County. The rocks consists of coarse conglomerates, sandstone, mudstone and thin coal layers. The formation dates from the Middle Jurassic.-Arthropods:-Flora:...


    An early flowering plant.

    Complete author list

    As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.
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