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Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Archosauromorphs

Dinosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
last=Yang	first=Z.	year=1958	title=The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shantung	journal=Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C	volume=42	issue=16	pages=1–138}}	Gen et sp nov	Nomen dubium	Yang	Campanian	Jingangkou Formation	China	A tyrannosauroid
Tanius chingkankouensis	Sp. nov.	Valid?	Yang	Campanian	Jingangkou Formation	China	A species of Tanius
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Yang	Campanian	Jingangkou Formation	China	A hadrosaurid	[[File:Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus.png	150px]]

Birds

Newly named birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Basicranodon	Junior synonym	Vaughn	Early Permian		US	A junior synonym of the varanopid Mycterosaurus.
Diarthrognathus	Valid	Crompton	Early Jurassic	Elliot Formation	South Africa	A member of Trithelodontidae.

Other Animals

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Charnia	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Ford	Ediacaran	Maplewell Group	United Kingdom	The type species is C. masoni.	[[File:Charnia.png	150px]]
Charniodiscus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Ford	Ediacaran	Maplewell Group	United Kingdom	The type species is C. concentricus.	[[File:Charniodiscus.png	150px]]
Parvancorina	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Glaessner	Ediacaran		Australia	The type species is P. minchami.	[[File:Parvancorina minchami - MUSE.jpg	150px]]
Spriggina	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Glaessner	Ediacaran		Australia	The type species is S. floundersi.	[[File:Spriggina floundersi - MUSE.jpg	150px]]

References

(1958). "Fossil arthropods of California. No. 21. Termites from Calico Mountains nodules". Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.
Yang, Z.. (1958). "The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shantung". Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C.
(1958). "Tertiary Birds of the USSR Tertiary Birds of the USSR". Uchenie Zapiski Azerbaijan State University, Serie Biology.
Pierce Brodkorb. (1958). "Birds from the Middle Pliocene of McKay, Oregon". Condor.
Pierce Brodkorb. (1958). "Fossil Birds from Idaho". Wilson Bulletin.
Loye Holmes Miller & Robert I. Bowman. (1958). "Further Bird Remains from the San Diego Pliocene". Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science.
Oscar Arredondo. (1958). "Aves Gigantes de Nuestro Pasado Prehistórico, El Cartero Cubana". La Habana.
Alexander Wetmore. (1958). "Miscellaneous Notes on Fossil Birds". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.
Carlos Rusconi. (1958). "Ave Fósil del Plioceno de Buenos Aires". Revista del Museo del Historia Natural de Mendoza.
Hildegarde Howard. (1958). "Miocene Sulids of Southern California". Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science.
G. Brunner. (1958). "Nachtrag zur Breitenberghöhle bei Gösswenstein Ofr". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte.

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