2005 in paleontology

Protozoans

Diatoms

Plants

Conifers

Angiosperms

Fungi

Arthropoda

Arachnids

Insects

Xiphosurans

• Fossils of Lunataspis, the earliest known xiphosuran, are discovered in Canada. It was not given a formal description until 2008, however.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

|- |}

Archosauromorphs

Newly named Non-Avian dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Newly named pterosaurs

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Mammals

New taxa

Footnotes

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.

References

References

1. Poinar, G.. (2005). "''Triatoma dominicana'' sp. n. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae), and ''Trypanosoma antiquus'' sp. n. (Stercoraria: Trypanosomatidae), the First Fossil Evidence of a Triatomine-Trypanosomatid Vector Association". Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.
2. (2005). "Taxonomy, phylogeny, and paleoecology of ''Eoseira wilsonii'' gen. et sp. nov., a Middle Eocene diatom (Bacillariophyceae: Aulacoseiraceae) from lake sediments at Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
3. (2005). "Taxodiaceous pollen cones from the early Tertiary of British Columbia, Canada". International Journal of Plant Sciences.
4. (2005). "A fossilized aroid infructescence, ''Albertarum pueri'' gen. nov. et sp. nov., of Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian) age from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of southern Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Botany.
5. Li, H.. (2005). "Early Cretaceous sarraceniacean-like pitcher plants from China". Acta Bot. Gallica.
6. (2005). "Fossil ''Corylopsis'' and ''Fothergilla'' Leaves (Hamamelidaceae) from the Lower Eocene Flora of Republic, Washington, U.S.A., and Their Evolutionary and Biogeographic Significance". International Journal of Plant Sciences.
7. (2005). "''Shirleya grahamae'' gen. et sp. nov.(Lythraceae), ''Lagerstroemia''-like fruits from the middle Miocene Yakima Canyon flora, central Washington State, USA". American Journal of Botany.
8. (2005). "''Ulmus'' leaves and fruits from the Early-Middle Eocene of northwestern North America: systematics and implications for character evolution within Ulmaceae". Canadian Journal of Botany.
9. (2005). "Teixeiraea lusitanica, a new fossil flower from the Early Cretaceous of Portugal with affinities to Ranunculales". [[Plant Systematics and Evolution]].
10. (2005). "Structurally preserved ascomycetous fungi from the Maastrichtian type area (NE Belgium)". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.
11. (2005). "A new species of ''Stigmatomyces'' from Baltic amber, the first fossil record of Laboulbeniomycetes". Mycological Research.
12. (August 2021). ["First identifiable Mesozoic harvestman (Opiliones: Dyspnoi) from Cretaceous Burmese amber."](http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/nh5cvh3t3j2k24ga/fulltext.pdf }}{{Dead link). Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
13. (2005). "Ancient Trophophoresy: A Fossil Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Dominican Amber". Transactions of the American Entomological Society.
14. (2005). "A new Lower Cretaceous nymphid (Insecta, Neuroptera, Nymphidae) from the Crato Formation of Brazil". Gaea: Journal of Geoscience.
15. (2005). "Primitive New Ants in Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar, New Jersey, and Canada (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". American Museum Novitates.
16. (2005). "New Dinopanorpidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Eocene Okanogan Highlands (British Columbia, Canada and Washington State, USA)". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
17. (2005). "New Rhachiberothidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) in Early Cretaceous and Early Eocene ambers from France and Lebanon". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen.
18. (2005). "A replacement name for the neuropteran genus ''Eorhachiberotha'' Nel ''et al''., 2005 (Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae).". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France.
19. (2005). "New fossil Odonata from the European Cenozoic (Insecta : Odonata : Thaumatoneuridae, Aeshnidae, ?Idionychidae, Libellulidae". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen.
20. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
21. (2005). "A new genus and species of tyrannosauroid from the Late Cretaceous (Middle Campanian) Demopolis Formation of Alabama". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
22. (2005). "Discovery of a short-necked sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period of Patagonia". Nature.
23. (2005). "The earliest dromaeosaurid theropod from South America". Nature.
24. (2005). "A primitive ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous Quantou Formation of central Jilin, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica.
25. Mahammed, F., E. Läng, L. Mami, L. Mekahl, M. Benhamou, B. Bouterfa, A. Kacemi, S.-A. Chérief, H. Chaouati, and P. Taquet. 2005. The ‘Giant of sour’, a Middle Jurassic sauropod dinosaur from Algeria. Systematic Palaeontology (Vertebrate Palaeontology) Paleovol/Elsevier.
26. Rauhut O.W.M.. (2005). "Osteology and relationships of a new theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Patagonia". Palaeontology.
27. (2005). "A new genus of sauropod from Zigong, Sichuan". Vertebrata PalAsiatica.
28. (2005). "A primitive therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah". Nature.
29. (2005). "Pterosaur and dinosaur remains from the Middle Jurassic Balabansai Svita in the northern Fergana depression, Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia)". Palaeontology.
30. (2005). "Galveosaurus herreroi, a new sauropod dinosaur from Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Spain". Zootaxa.
31. (2005). "Hungarosaurus tormai, a new ankylosaur (Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Hungary". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
32. Ji, Q., S. Ji, J. Lu, H. You, W. Chen, and Y. Liu. 2005. First avialian bird from China. Geological Bulletin of China 24 (3): pp. 197-209.
33. Gomani, E.M. 2005. Sauropod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Malawi, Africa: Palaeontologia Electronica 8 (issue 1 - n. 27a): 37 pages.
34. (2005). "New evidence on deinonychosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia". Nature.
35. Xu, X., and F. Zhang. 2005. A new maniraptoran dinosaur from China with long feathers on the metatarsus" ''Naturwissenschaften'' 92: pp. 173-177Xu, X.
36. Carpenter, K., C. Miles and K. Cloward. 2005. New small theropod from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming. In: the carnivorous dinosaurs (K. Carpenter, ed.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IA: pp. 23-48.
37. (2022). "New specimens of ''Baurutitan britoi'' and a taxonomic reassessment of the titanosaur dinosaur fauna (Sauropoda) from the Serra da Galga Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Brazil". PeerJ.
38. (May 2005). "A large Cretaceous theropod from Patagonia, Argentina, and the evolution of carcharodontosaurids". Naturwissenschaften.
39. (2005). "The small theropod dinosaurs Tugulusaurus and Phaedrolosaurus from the Early Cretaceous of Xinjiang, China". J. Vertebr. Paleontol..
40. (2005). "A New Swan (Aves: Anatidae) in Africa, from the Latest Miocene of Chad and Libya". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
41. (2005). "A New Species of Eagle (Aves: Accipitridae) Close to the Steppe Eagle, from Pleistocene of Corsica and Sardinia, France and Italy". Palaeontographica, Abteilung A.
42. Gerald Mayr. (2005). "A New Eocene Chascacocolius-like Mousebird (Aves: Coliiformes) with a Remarkable Gaping Adaptation". Organisms, Diversity & Evolution.
43. Walter E. Boles. (2005). "A Review of the Australian Fossil Storks of the Genus Ciconia (Aves: Ciconiidae), with the Description of a New Species". Records of the Australian Museum.
44. (2005). "''Crossvallia unienwillia'', a New Sphenicidae (Sphenisciformes, Aves) from the Late Paleocene of Antarctica". Geobios.
45. (2005). "A new avian taxon from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning". Global Geology.
46. Gerald Mayr. (2005). "A ''Fluvioviridavis''-like Bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel, Germany". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
47. Walter E. Boles. (2005). "A New Flightless Gallinule (Aves: Rallidae: Gallinula) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland, Australia". Records of the Australian Museum.
48. (2005). "Rails (Aves: Rallidae: ''Gallirallus'') from Prehistoric Sites in the Kingdom of Tonga, Including a Description of a New Species". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.
49. (2005). "Discovery of an ornithurine bird and its implication for Early Cretaceous avian radiation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
50. (2005). "New Specimens of the Early Eocene Frigatbird Limnofregata (Pelecaniformes: Fregatidae), with the Description of a New Species". Zootaxa.
51. (2005). "Earliest African Neornithine Bird: A New Prophaethontidae (Aves) from the Paleocene of Morocco". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
52. Trevor H. Worthy. (2005). "A New Species of Oxyura (Aves: Anatidae) from the New Zealand Holocene". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.
53. Gerald Mayr. (2005). "A Chicken-sized Crane Precursor from the Early Oligocene of France". Naturwissenschaften.
54. (2005). "A New Condor (Ciconiiformes, Vulturidae) from the Late Miocene/Early Pliocene Pisco Formation, Peru". The Condor.
55. Gerald Mayr. (2005). "A New Cypselomorph Bird from the Middle Eocene of Germany and the Early Diversification of the Avian Aerial Insectivores". The Condor.
56. Gerald Mayr. (2005). "New Trogons from the Early Tertiary of Germany". Ibis.
57. (2005). "A New Fossil Furnariid from the Pleistocene of Uruguay, with Remarks on Nasal Type, Cranial Kinetics, and Relationships of the Extinct Genus ''Pseudoseisuropsis''". The Condor.
58. (2005). "A New Species of Rail (Aves: Rallidae) from the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene of Eivissa (Pityusic Islands, Western Mediterranean)". Ibis.
59. (2005). "The Diversity and Biogeography of Koa-finches (Drepanidini: Rhodacanthis), with Descriptions of Two New Species". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
60. Gerald Mayr. (2005). "A Tiny Barbet-like Bird from the Oligocene of Germany: the Smallest Species and Earliest Substantial Fossil Record of the Pici (Woodpeckers and Allies)". The Auk.
61. (2005). "Fossil Struthionid Eggshells from Laetoli, Tanzania: Taxonomic and Biostratigraphic Significance". Journal of African Earth Sciences.
62. (2005). "A Miocene Ostrich Fossil from Gansu Province, Northwest China". Chinese Science Bulletin.
63. Wang Shuo. (April 2019). "Reexamination of Taxonomic Assignment of ''"Struthio linxianensis"'' Hou et al, 2005". Acta Palaeontologica Sinica.
64. Clarke, J.A.. (2005). "Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous". Nature.
65. (2005). "First evidence of azhdarchid pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
66. (2005). "A new ornithocheirid from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China". Acta Geologica Sinica.
67. Steel, L.. (2005). "A new pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, England". Cretaceous Research.
68. (2005). "New azhdarchid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning". Acta Geologica Sinica.
69. (2005). "New pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning". Geological Review.
70. (2005). "Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China". Nature.
71. (2005). "New tapejarid pterosaur from Western Liaoning, China". Acta Geologica Sinica.
72. Pinheiro, F.L.. "New information on Tupandactylus imperator, with comments on the relationships of Tapejaridae (Pterosauria)". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
73. (2005). "A New Ctenochasmatid Pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province". Acta Geologica Sinica.
74. Martinelli, A.G.. (2005). "A new tritheledontid (Therapsid, Eucynodontia) from the Late Triassic Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and its phylogenetic relationships among carnivorous non-mammalian eucynodonts". Ameghiniana.
75. Tatarinov, L.P.. (2005). "A new cynodont (Reptilia, Theriodontia) from the Magygen Formation (Triassic) of Fergana, Kyrgyzstan". Paleontological Journal.
76. Surkov, M.V.. (2005). "The first dicynodont from the terminal Lower Triassic of European Russia, with special reference to the evolution of the masticatory apparatus of these therapsids". Paleontological Journal.
77. (2005-07-25). "''Amphicticeps'' and ''Amphicynodon'' (Arctoidea, Carnivora) from Hsanda Gol Formation, Central Mongolia and Phylogeny of Basal Arctoids with Comments on Zoogeography". American Museum Novitates.
78. (2005-06-01). "First fossil marsupials from India: Early Eocene ''Indodelphis'' n. gen. and ''Jaegeria'' n. gen. from Vastan Lignite mine, District Surat, Gujarat". Journal of the Palaentological Society of India.