Английская Википедия:1991 in paleontology
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Plants
Angiosperms
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et comb nov |
valid |
A walnut relative. |
Arthropods
Insects
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
MacKay |
A ponerin ant |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Nel |
A sieblosiid damselfly |
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Mollusca
Newly named bivalves
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Isakar |
Archosauromorphs
- Sankar Chatterjee's discovery of a possible Triassic bird, Protoavis, if genuine, would push avian origins back almost 70 million years. The find ignites controversy over the connection between dinosaurs and birds.
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[6]
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Valid taxon |
Late Cretaceous (Santonian) |
An alvarezsaurid. |
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Valid taxon |
Salgado and Jose Bonaparte |
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) |
A dicraeosaurid. with Spines on its Neck |
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Valid taxon |
Bolotsky & Kurzanov |
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
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Valid taxon |
Calvo and Bonaparte |
Late Cretaceous (Santonian) |
An alvarezsaurid. |
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Junior synonym |
George Olshevsky. |
Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) |
A junior objective synonym of Altispinax; new genus for "Acrocanthosaurus" altispinax Paul (1988). |
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Valid taxon |
Telles-Antunes & Sigogneau-Russell |
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
A troodontid. |
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| Janenschia[13] |
Valid taxon |
Wild |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
A non-titanosauriform macronarian; new genus for "Gigantosaurus" robustus E. Fraas (1908). |
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Valid taxon |
George Olshevsky |
Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) |
A sauropod of uncertain affinities. |
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Junior synonym |
Hunt & S.G. Lucas |
A junior synonym of Coelophysis. |
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Gillette |
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Valid taxon |
Le Loeuff and Buffetaut |
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Valid taxon |
Telles-Antunes & Sigogneau-Russell |
Late Cretaceous |
An ornithischian of unknown affinities. |
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| Tochisaurus[17] |
Valid taxon |
Kurzanov and Osmolska |
Cretaceous |
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|
Junior synonym |
George Olshevsky |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) |
Junior synonym of Supersaurus; replacement name for Ultrasaurus Jensen 1985 (preoccupied). |
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Valid taxon |
George Olshevsky |
Early Cretaceous (late Valanginian) |
An ornithomimosaur; new genus for "Megalosaurus" oweni Lydekker (1889). |
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Valid taxon |
A Noasaur. |
Newly named birds
| Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian, |
A Hesperornithiformes Fürbringer, 1888, Hesperornithidae Marsh, 1872. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Anatidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Anatidae, a moa-nalo, this is the type species of the genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
An Accipitridae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Corvidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Corvidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
An Acanthisittidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae, the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae, transferred to the genus Akialoa Olson et James, 1995 by Olson et James, 1995.[22] |
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Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
An Accipitriformes, Horusornithidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1991, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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|
Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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|
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Phasianidae, transferred to the genus Plioperdix Kretzoi, 1955 as Plioperdix hungarica Comb. nov. by Nikita V. Zelenkov & Andrey V. Panteleyev.[25] |
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Valid |
Subsp. nov. |
A member of the family Phasianidae. Originally described as a subspecies of Pavo aesculapi; Zelenkov (2016) transferred it to the genus Syrmaticus and raised it to the rank of a separate species Syrmaticus phasianoides.[26] |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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|
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Early Miocene |
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Valid |
Subsp. nov. |
A member of the family Rallidae. Originally described as a subspecies of Porzana estramosi; Zelenkov (2017) transferred it to the genus Zapornia and raised it to the rank of a separate species Zapornia veterior.[29] |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Protoaviformes Chatterjee, 1991, Protoaviformes Chatterjee, 1991, the type and only species of the genus, no longer considered a bird. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Pseudodontornithidae Lambrecht, 1933. |
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|
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Furnariidae, Philydorinae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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|
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Anatidae, a moa-nalo, this is the type species of the genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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|
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A member of the family Rallidae. Originally described as a species of Rallicrex; Zelenkov (2017) transferred this species to the genus Rallus.[29] |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Tytonidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae, the type species of the new genus. |
Genera no longer considered to be birds
- Protoavis. The avian status of Protoavis has since been almost universally rejected by paleontologists.
Pseudosuchians
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Willis & Molnar |
Late Oligocene - Early Miocene |
A mekosuchine crocodilian described from a multitude of skeletons. |
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Pterosaurs
New taxa
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Synapsids
Non-mammalian
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Valid |
|
Lower Permian |
Formerly assigned as an eosuchian diapsid, was restudied and classified as a varanopid synapsid.[35] |
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Valid |
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Upper Permian |
A sphenacodontid synapsid. |
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