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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils . [1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks ( ichnites ), burrows , cast-off parts, fossilised feces ( coprolites ), palynomorphs and chemical residues . Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science . This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2007.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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sp nov | Valid | Bogner, Johnson, Kvacek, & Upchurch | An Orontium species | |||||
sp nov | Valid | Bogner, Johnson, Kvacek, & Upchurch | An Orontium species | |||||
sp nov | Valid | Smith & Stockey | A Saururus species | |||||
sp nov | Valid | Pigg, Dillhoff, DeVore, & Wehr | A Tetracentron species | |||||
sp nov | Valid | Pigg, Dillhoff, DeVore, & Wehr | A Trochodendron species | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Mindell, Stockey, Beard & Currah | Extinct ascomycete fungus | |||||
Gen et sp nov. | Valid | Poinar & Buckley | Late Albian (Cretaceous) | oldest mushroom genus described from the fossil record. | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et. comb. nov./ Gen. et. sp. nov | Valid | Schram | A mantis shrimp, type species is D. acanthocercus (originally described in 1998 as Tyrannophontes acanthocercus), genus also includes the species D. pattoni and D. schoellmanni | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Schram | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | Valid | Schultz | A myrmicin fungus farming ant | |||||
Sp nov | Valid | Schultz | A myrmicin fungus farming ant | |||||
Gen. et sp nov | Valid | Veltz, Azar & Nel | A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Prodiamesinae. The type species is C. arieli. | |||||
Gen. et sp nov | Valid | Veltz, Azar & Nel | A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Tanypodinae and the tribe Pentaneurini. The type species is C. salomea. | |||||
Sp nov | Valid | Engel & Grimaldi | A mantidfly. | |||||
Sp nov | Valid | Engel & Grimaldi | A mantidfly. | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Wedmann, Bradler, Rust | First leaf insect from the fossil record. | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Szwedo | New planthopper genus. | |||||
Gen. et sp nov | Valid | Veltz, Azar & Nel | A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Orthocladiinae. The type species is L. furcatus. | |||||
Gen. et sp nov | Valid | Veltz, Azar & Nel | A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Prodiamesinae. The type species is L. deploegi. | |||||
Gen. et sp nov | Valid | Veltz, Azar & Nel | A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Tanypodinae and the tribe Pentaneurini or Macropelopiini. The type species is L. cretacica. | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | A bittacid | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Makarkin & Menon | An Ithonidae lacewing, type species P. incerta | |||||
Sp nov | Jr synonym of Protosialis casca | Engel & Grimaldi | The only alderfly from the West Indies fossil record. | |||||
Sp nov | Valid | Mohrig & Solórzano Kraemer | A Sciarid fly | |||||
Gen. et sp nov | Valid | Veltz, Azar & Nel | A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Tanypodinae and the tribe Anatopyniini. The type species is W. libanicus. | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid |
| An aetosaur. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid |
| A rauisuchian. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid |
| Late Eocene/Middle Miocene | Parángula Formation, Ipururo Formation & Divisadero Largo Formation | A sebecid. | |||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid |
| Middle Eocene | A member of Tomistominae. | ||||
Gen. nov | Valid |
| Middle Miocene | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid |
| A member of Peirosauridae. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid |
| A member of Crocodyliformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid |
| A member of Pholidosauridae. | |||||
Gen. et comb. nov | Valid |
| A new genus for "Crocodylus" robustus Grandidier & Vaillant (1872). | |||||
Gen. nov | Valid |
| Early Paleocene | A sebecid; a new genus name for Sebecus querejazus. | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Averianov | An azhdarchid | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Wang et al | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Kellner & Campos |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Irmis et al |
| A Lagerpetonidae dinosauromorph reptile | ||||
Data courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list. [26]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Martinelli & Vera | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | A Centrosaurine. the Ceratopsian from Alberta. | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | |||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | A basal sauropodomorph | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | |||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Allain et al | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Gilpin, DiCroce, & Carpenter | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | |||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Wang et al | A sauropod | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | An Early ornithischian | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Wu, Brinkman, Eberth, & Braman | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Calvo, Porfiri, González-Riga, & Kellner | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Xu, et al | A Giantoviraptorosaurian | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Kutty, Chatterjee, Galton, & Upchurch | An Early Sauropodomorph. | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | |||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Lü et al | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Turner et al | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Calvo, González-Riga, & Porfiri | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Mo, Zhao, Wang, & Xu | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | |||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | An ornithopod | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Jr synonym of Sauroposeidon | |||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Galton, Yates, & Kermack | A basal sauropodomorph | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Kutty, Chatterjee, Galton, & Upchurch | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Turner, Hwang, & Norell | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Ji et al | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Li et al | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Averianov & Sues | A troodontid | |||||
‘’Velafrons’’ | Gen et sp nov | Valid | a hadrosaur | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Lü et al | ||||||
Zhongyuansaurus [54] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Xu et al | An ankylosaurid | ||||
Zhuchengosaurus [55] | Gen et sp nov | Jr synonym |
| Junior synonym of Shantungosaurus | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Alethoalaornithidae Li, Hu, Duan, Gong et Hou, 2007, Enantiornithes Walker, 1981. | |||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Early-Middle Campanian |
| Described in Baptornithidae, Hesperornithiformes, transferred to Brodavis Martin, Kurochkin et Tokaryk, 2012, Brodavidae, Hesperornithiformes. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene | A Charadriidae, lapwing, a relative of the southern lapwing. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | ||||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Oligocene | : | First described as ?Oligocorax sp. Mayr, 2001, than as ?Borvocarbo stoeffelensis Mayr, 2007. In 2014 Mayr transferred the species back as ?Oligocorax stoeffelensis (Mayr, 2007). | |||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early-Middle Miocene | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Shigeru Suzuki | Late Cretaceous | An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981. | |||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Miocene | A Bucorvidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | ?Upper Middle Paleocene | ?MP 5 | Described in cf. Lithornithidae, Lithornithiformes, Eoaves. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Subrecent | A Rallidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Subrecent | A Rallidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Subrecent | A Rallidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. | Valid | Upper Middle Paleocene | ?MP 5 | Described in cf. Cariamae sensu Olson, 1985. | |||||
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Eocene | A Spheniscidae from Peru. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Middle Miocene | |||||||
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Late Miocene | A Spheniscidae from Chubut Province. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early-Middle Miocene | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early-Middle Miocene | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian | An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Cretaceous, Late Maastrichtian | An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early-Middle Miocene | A possible Anatidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early-Middle Miocene | A possible Anatidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Middle Pleistocene | An Emberizidae Passeriformes. This is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981. | |||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early-Middle Miocene | |||||||
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. | Valid | Middle Eocene | Another Spheniscidae from Peru. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Middle-Early Late Miocene | Another Spheniscidae from Peru. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Oligocene | A stem Turnicidae. | ||||||
Gen. Nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Eocene, | A stem Psittaciformes, Vastanavidae G. Mayr, Rana, Rose, Sahni, Kumar, Sing et T. Smith, 2010. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Infraorder Cariamides. | |||||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
| 257 million years ago | ||||
Valid |
| 231 million years ago | ||||
Valid |
| 256 million years ago | New genus for "Cryptocynodon" parringtoni | |||
Valid |
| 256 million years ago | ||||
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Africanacetus | Valid |
| Miocene |
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Valid |
| Early Oligocene | A peradectine marsupial | ||||
Valid |
| Tortonian | |||||
Valid |
| Late Miocene | |||||
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.
Fukuiraptor was a medium-sized megaraptoran theropod dinosaur of the Early Cretaceous epoch that lived in what is now Japan. Fukuiraptor is known from the Kitadani Formation and possibly also the Sebayashi Formation.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2000.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2001.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2002.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2003.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2004.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2005.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2006.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2008.
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