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This [[Biology:Mammalogy|paleomammalogy]] list records new  [[Biology:Fossil|fossil]] [[Biology:Mammal|mammal]] taxa that were [[Biology:Binomial nomenclature|described]] during the year 2016, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries and events which occurred during that year.

==Metatherians==

===Metatherian research===
* A near-complete skull, a snout and two [[Biology:Maxilla|maxilla]]e assigned to the species ''[[Biology:Didelphodon|Didelphodon]] vorax'' are described from the [[Earth:Late Cretaceous|Late Cretaceous]] [[Earth:Hell Creek Formation|Hell Creek Formation]] (Montana and North Dakota, {{wipe|United States}}) by Wilson ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Gregory P. Wilson |author2=Eric G. Ekdale |author3=John W. Hoganson |author4=Jonathan J. Calede |author5=Abby Vander Linden |year=2016 |title=A large carnivorous mammal from the Late Cretaceous and the North American origin of marsupials |journal=Nature Communications |volume=7 |pages=Article number 13734 |doi=10.1038/ncomms13734 |pmid=27929063|pmc=5155139 |bibcode=2016NatCo...713734W }}</ref>
* Description of a new specimen of ''[[Biology:Malleodectes|Malleodectes]] mirabilis'' and a study of phylogenetic relationships of this species is published by Archer ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=M. Archer |author2=S. J. Hand |author3=K. H. Black |author4=R. M. D. Beck |author5=D. A. Arena |author6=L. A. B. Wilson |author7=S. Kealy |author8=T.-t. Hung |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 26911 |doi=10.1038/srep26911 |pmc=4882580 |pmid=27229325|bibcode=2016NatSR...626911A }}</ref>
* A study on the shape of the [[Medicine:Elbow|elbow]] joint of ''[[Biology:Thylacoleo carnifex|Thylacoleo carnifex]]'' and its implications for the predatory behavior of the species is published by Figueirido, Martín-Serra & Janis (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Borja Figueirido |author2=Alberto Martín-Serra |author3=Christine M. Janis |year=2016 |title=Ecomorphological determinations in the absence of living analogues: the predatory behavior of the marsupial lion (''Thylacoleo carnifex'') as revealed by elbow joint morphology |journal=Paleobiology |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=508–531 |doi=10.1017/pab.2015.55 |bibcode=2016Pbio...42..508F |hdl=1983/1f3ac566-0b08-48fb-b27c-63fe4256c138 |s2cid=87168573 |url=https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/ecomorphological-determinations-in-the-absence-of-living-analogs(1f3ac566-0b08-48fb-b27c-63fe4256c138).html |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
* Claw marks are described from the Tight Entrance Cave (southwestern {{wipe|Australia}}) by Arman & Prideaux (2016), who interpret the marks as left by the marsupial lions.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Samuel D. Arman |author2=Gavin J. Prideaux |year=2016 |title=Behaviour of the Pleistocene marsupial lion deduced from claw marks in a southwestern Australian cave |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 21372 |doi=10.1038/srep21372 |pmid=26876952 |pmc=4753435|bibcode=2016NatSR...621372A }}</ref>
* A study evaluating whether the climate changes were the primary driver of [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] [[Biology:Megafauna|megafauna]] extinctions in Australia is published by Saltré ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Frédérik Saltré |author2=Marta Rodríguez-Rey |author3=Barry W. Brook |author4=Christopher N. Johnson |author5=Chris S. M. Turney |author6=John Alroy |author7=Alan Cooper |author8=Nicholas Beeton |author9=Michael I. Bird |author10=Damien A. Fordham |author11=Richard Gillespie |author12=Salvador Herrando-Pérez |author13=Zenobia Jacobs |author14=Gifford H. Miller |author15=David Nogués-Bravo |author16=Gavin J. Prideaux |author17=Richard G. Roberts |author18=Corey J. A. Bradshaw |year=2016 |title=Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia |journal=Nature Communications |volume=7 |pages=Article number 10511 |doi=10.1038/ncomms10511 |pmc=4740174 |pmid=26821754 |bibcode=2016NatCo...710511S }}</ref>

===New taxa===
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''Chaeropus baynesi''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Kenny J. Travouillon |year=2016 |title=Oldest fossil remains of the enigmatic pig-footed bandicoot show rapid herbivorous evolution |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=3 |issue=8 |pages=160089 |doi=10.1098/rsos.160089 |pmid=27853588 |pmc=5108938 |bibcode=2016RSOS....360089T }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Kenny J. Travouillon |year=2016 |title=Correction to 'Oldest fossil remains of the enigmatic pig-footed bandicoot show rapid herbivorous evolution' |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=3 |issue=11 |pages=160778 |doi=10.1098/rsos.160778 |pmid=28018666 |pmc=5180164 |bibcode=2016RSOS....360778T }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Travouillon
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Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene
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Moorna Formation
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A relative of the [[Biology:Pig-footed bandicoot|pig-footed bandicoot]].
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''Chimeralestes''<ref name=Chimeralestes>{{cite journal |author1=Russell K. Engelman |author2=Federico Anaya |author3=Darin A. Croft |year=2016 |title=New palaeothentid marsupials (Paucituberculata) from the middle Miocene of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia, and their implications for the palaeoecology, decline and extinction of the Palaeothentoidea |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=10 |pages=787–820 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1240112 |s2cid=88758358 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/New_palaeothentid_marsupials_Paucituberculata_from_the_middle_Miocene_of_Quebrada_Honda_Bolivia_and_their_implications_for_the_palaeoecology_decline_and_extinction_of_the_Palaeothentoidea/4216506 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid<ref name=ChimeralestesZB>http://zoobank.org/References/DA7E10BA-7203-4F5A-A3AB-F0E7352B101C {{Dead link|date=May 2022}}</ref>
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Engelman, Anaya & Croft
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Miocene
| Honda Group
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{{Flag|Bolivia}}
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A palaeothentid [[Biology:Paucituberculata|paucituberculate]]. Genus includes new species ''C. ambiguus''.
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''[[Biology:Cookeroo|Cookeroo]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kaylene Butler |author2=Kenny J. Travouillon |author3=Gilbert J. Price |author4=Michael Archer |author5=Suzanne J. Hand |year=2016 |title=''Cookeroo'', a new genus of fossil kangaroo (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=e1083029 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1083029 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E3029B |s2cid=86923117 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/2304106 }}</ref>
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Gen. et 2 sp. nov
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Valid
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Butler ''et al.''
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Oligocene-Miocene
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Riversleigh World Heritage Area
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Macropodidae|Macropodidae]]. Genus includes ''Cookeroo bulwidarri'' and ''Cookeroo hortusensis''.
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''[[Biology:Ektopodon|Ektopodon tommosi]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Neville S. Pledge |year=2016 |title=New specimens of ektopodontids (Marsupialia: Ektopodontidae) from South Australia |journal=Memoirs of Museum Victoria |volume=74 |pages=173–187 |doi=10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.15 |url=https://museumsvictoria.com.au/about/books-and-journals/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/2010-2019/2016-vol-74-special-issue-in-honour-of-dr-thomas-h-rich/pledge/ |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Pledge
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Late Oligocene
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Namba Formation
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Phalangeroidea|Phalangeroidea]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Ektopodontidae|Ektopodontidae]].
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''Gumardee richi''<ref name=MMV74Gumardee>{{cite journal |author1=Kenny J. Travouillon |author2=Kaylene Butler |author3=Michael Archer |author4=Suzanne J. Hand |year=2016 |title=New material of ''Gumardee pascuali'' Flannery et al., 1983 (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes) and two new species from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia |journal=Memoirs of Museum Victoria |volume=74 |pages=189–207 |doi=10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.16 |url=https://museumsvictoria.com.au/about/books-and-journals/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/2010-2019/2016-vol-74-special-issue-in-honour-of-dr-thomas-h-rich/travouillon-butler-archer-and-hand/ |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Travouillon ''et al.''
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Early Miocene
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Riversleigh World Heritage Area
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Potoroidae|Potoroinae]].
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''Gumardee springae''<ref name=MMV74Gumardee />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Travouillon ''et al.''
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Late Oligocene
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Riversleigh World Heritage Area
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Potoroidae|Potoroinae]].
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''Gurbanodelta''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Xijun Ni |author2=Qiang Li |author3=Thomas A. Stidham |author4=Lüzhou Li |author5=Xiaoyu Lu |author6=Jin Meng |year=2016 |title=A late Paleocene probable metatherian (?deltatheroidan) survivor of the Cretaceous mass extinction |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 38547 |doi=10.1038/srep38547 |pmid=27924847 |pmc=5141426|bibcode=2016NatSR...638547N }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Ni ''et al.''
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Late Paleocene ([[Earth:Gashatan|Gashatan]])
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{{Flag|China}}
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A probable member of the [[Biology:Deltatheroida|deltatheroida]]n family [[Biology:Deltatheridiidae|Deltatheridiidae]]. The type species is ''G. kara''.
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''Kutjamarcoot''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=P.M. Chamberlain |author2=K.J. Travouillon |author3=M. Archer |author4=S.J. Hand |year=2016 |title=''Kutjamarcoot brevirostrum'' gen. et sp. nov., a new short-snouted, early Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) from the Kutjamarpu Local Fauna (Wipajiri Formation) in South Australia |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=197–206 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2016.1103525 |bibcode=2016Alch...40..197C |s2cid=87342707 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Chamberlain ''et al.''
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Early Miocene
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Wipajiri Formation
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A [[Biology:Bandicoot|bandicoot]]. The type species is ''Kutjamarcoot brevirostrum''.
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''Lemdubuoryctes''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Benjamin P. Kear |author2=Ken P. Aplin |author3=Michael Westerman |year=2016 |title=Bandicoot fossils and DNA elucidate lineage antiquity amongst xeric-adapted Australasian marsupials |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 37537 |doi=10.1038/srep37537 |pmid=27881865 |pmc=5121598|bibcode=2016NatSR...637537K }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Kear, Aplin & Westerman
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Latest Pleistocene to Holocene
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{{Flag|Indonesia}}
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Originally described as a member of the [[Biology:Crown group#Stem groups|stem group]] of [[Biology:Peramelemorphia|Peramelemorphia]]. The type species is ''L. aruensis''. Travouillon & Phillips (2018) transferred this species to the genus ''[[Biology:Peroryctes|Peroryctes]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kenny J. Travouillon |author2=Matthew J. Phillips |year=2018 |title=Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and description of a new species |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4378 |issue=2 |pages=224–256 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4378.2.3 |pmid=29690027}}</ref>
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''[[Biology:Microleo|Microleo]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Anna K. Gillespie |author2=Michael Archer |author3=Suzanne J. Hand |year=2016 |title=A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 19.2.26A |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1490-new-marsupial-lion |doi=10.26879/632 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Gillespie, Archer & Hand
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Early Miocene
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Riversleigh World Heritage Area
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Thylacoleonidae|Thylacoleonidae]]. The type species is ''M. attenboroughi''.
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''Minusculodelphis modicum''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Édison Vicente Oliveira |author2=Natalia Zimicz |author3=Francisco J. Goin |year=2016 |title=Taxonomy, affinities, and paleobiology of the tiny metatherian mammal ''Minusculodelphis'', from the early Eocene of South America |journal=The Science of Nature |volume=103 |issue=1–2 |pages=6 |doi=10.1007/s00114-015-1331-2 |pmid=26743194 |bibcode=2016SciNa.103....6O |s2cid=16588602 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Oliveira, Zimicz & Goin
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[[Earth:Itaboraian|Itaboraian]]
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[[Earth:Itaboraí Formation|Itaboraí Formation]]
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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A member of Jaskhadelphyidae, a species of ''Minusculodelphis''.
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''Palaeothentes relictus''<ref name=Chimeralestes />
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Sp. nov
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Valid<ref name=ChimeralestesZB />
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Engelman, Anaya & Croft
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Miocene
| Honda Group
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{{Flag|Bolivia}}
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A palaeothentid [[Biology:Paucituberculata|paucituberculate]].
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''Palaeothentes serratus''<ref name=Chimeralestes />
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Sp. nov
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Valid<ref name=ChimeralestesZB />
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Engelman, Anaya & Croft
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Miocene
| Honda Group
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{{Flag|Bolivia}}
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A palaeothentid [[Biology:Paucituberculata|paucituberculate]].
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''Stelakoala''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Karen H. Black |year=2016 |title=Middle Miocene origins for tough-browse dietary specialisations in the koala (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) evolutionary tree: description of a new genus and species from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area |journal=Memoirs of Museum Victoria |volume=74 |pages=255–262 |doi=10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.19 |url=https://museumsvictoria.com.au/about/books-and-journals/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/2010-2019/2016-vol-74-special-issue-in-honour-of-dr-thomas-h-rich/black/ |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Black
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Middle Miocene
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Riversleigh World Heritage Area
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Phascolarctidae|Phascolarctidae]]. The type species is ''S. riversleighensis''.
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''[[Biology:Whollydooleya|Whollydooleya]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Michael Archer |author2=Olivia Christmas |author3=Suzanne J. Hand |author4=Karen H. Black |author5=Phil Creaser |author6=Henk Godthelp |author7=Ian Graham |author8=David Cohen |author9=Derrick A. Arena |author10=Caitlin Anderson |author11=Georgia Soares |author12=Naomi Machin |author13=Robin M.D. Beck |author14=Laura A.B. Wilson |author15=Troy J. Myers |author16=Anna K. Gillespie |author17=Bok Khoo |author18=Kenny J. Travouillon |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=Earliest known record of a hypercarnivorous dasyurid (Marsupialia), from newly discovered carbonates beyond the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north Queensland |journal=Memoirs of Museum Victoria |volume=74 |pages=137–150 |doi=10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.13 |url=https://museumsvictoria.com.au/about/books-and-journals/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/2010-2019/2016-vol-74-special-issue-in-honour-of-dr-thomas-h-rich/archer-et-al/ |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Archer ''et al.''
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Possibly middle or late Miocene
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Dasyuridae|Dasyuridae]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''W. tomnpatrichorum''.
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==Eutherians==

===Research===
* A study on the date of the origin of the [[Biology:Placentalia|Placentalia]] and an analysis of the effect of the [[Earth:Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event|Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event]] on placental evolution is published by Halliday, Upchurch & Goswami (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Thomas John Dixon Halliday |author2=Paul Upchurch |author3=Anjali Goswami |year=2016 |title=Eutherians experienced elevated evolutionary rates in the immediate aftermath of the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=283 |issue=1833 |pages=20153026 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2015.3026 |pmid=27358361 |pmc=4936024}}</ref>
* A study on the influence of the methods used to establish [[Biology:Divergent evolution|divergence]] dates on the studies reconstructing body-size evolution of the Cretaceous and Paleogene eutherian mammals is published by Halliday & Goswami (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Thomas John Dixon Halliday |author2=Anjali Goswami |year=2016 |title=The impact of phylogenetic dating method on interpreting trait evolution: a case study of Cretaceous–Palaeogene eutherian body-size evolution |journal=Biology Letters |volume=12 |issue=8 |pages=20160051 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2016.0051 |pmid=27484642 |pmc=5014015}}</ref>
* A study on the relationship between the primary productivity of plant communities and the diversity of terrestrial large mammals in North America and Europe through the [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]] is published by Fritz ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Susanne A. Fritz |author2=Jussi T. Eronen |author3=Jan Schnitzler |author4=Christian Hof |author5=Christine M. Janis |author6=Andreas Mulch |author7=Katrin Böhning-Gaese |author8=Catherine H. Graham |year=2016 |title=Twenty-million-year relationship between mammalian diversity and primary productivity |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=113 |issue=39 |pages=10908–10913 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1602145113 |pmid=27621451 |pmc=5047207|bibcode=2016PNAS..11310908F |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Studies of the phylogenetic relationships of the [[Biology:Glyptodont|glyptodont]]s within [[Biology:Xenarthra|Xenarthra]], indicating that the glyptodonts were nested within the [[Biology:Armadillo|armadillo]] [[Biology:Crown group|crown group]], are published by Delsuc ''et al.'' (2016)<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Frédéric Delsuc |author2=Gillian C. Gibb |author3=Melanie Kuch |author4=Guillaume Billet |author5=Lionel Hautier |author6=John Southon |author7=Jean-Marie Rouillard |author8=Juan Carlos Fernicola |author9=Sergio F. Vizcaíno |author10=Ross D.E. MacPhee |author11=Hendrik N. Poinar |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts |journal=Current Biology |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=R155–R156 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.039 |pmid=26906483|s2cid=9874777 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and Mitchell ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kieren J. Mitchell |author2=Agustin Scanferla |author3=Esteban Soibelzon |author4=Ricardo Bonini |author5=Javier Ochoa |author6=Alan Cooper |year=2016 |title=Ancient DNA from the extinct South American giant glyptodont ''Doedicurus'' sp. (Xenarthra: Glyptodontidae) reveals that glyptodonts evolved from Eocene armadillos |journal=Molecular Ecology |volume=25 |issue=14 |pages=3499–3508 |doi=10.1111/mec.13695 |pmid=27158910|bibcode=2016MolEc..25.3499M |s2cid=3720645 |url=http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/101557 }}</ref>
* A description of new fossil material of ''[[Biology:Abdounodus|Abdounodus]] hamdii'' and a study of its phylogenetic relationships is published by Gheerbrant, Filippo & Schmitt (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Emmanuel Gheerbrant |author2=Andrea Filippo |author3=Arnaud Schmitt |year=2016 |title=Convergence of Afrotherian and Laurasiatherian Ungulate-Like Mammals: First Morphological Evidence from the Paleocene of Morocco |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=7 |pages=e0157556 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0157556 |pmid=27384169 |pmc=4934866|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1157556G |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A description of new fossil material of ''[[Biology:Palaeoamasia|Palaeoamasia]] kansui'' and a study of phylogenetic relationships of [[Biology:Embrithopoda|embrithopods]] is published by Erdal, Antoine & Sen (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ozan Erdal |author2=Pierre-Olivier Antoine |author3=Sevket Sen |year=2016 |title=New material of ''Palaeoamasia kansui'' (Embrithopoda, Mammalia) from the Eocene of Turkey and a phylogenetic analysis of Embrithopoda at the species level |journal=Palaeontology |volume=59 |issue=5 |pages=631–655 |doi=10.1111/pala.12247 |bibcode=2016Palgy..59..631E |s2cid=89418652 |url=https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01346066/file/Erdal_2016_New_material_of.pdf }}</ref>
* A study on the patterns of mastication in [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]] and [[Earth:Quaternary|Quaternary]] [[Biology:Proboscidea|proboscidea]]ns as indicated by the anatomy of their teeth is published by von Koenigswald (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Wighart von Koenigswald |year=2016 |title=The diversity of mastication patterns in Neogene and Quaternary proboscideans |journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung A |volume=307 |issue=1–6 |pages=1–41 |doi=10.1127/pala/307/2016/1 |bibcode=2016PalAA.307....1V |url= https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/pala/detail/307/87173/}}</ref>
* Part of a [[Biology:Humerus|humerus]] of a large [[Biology:Proboscidea|proboscidea]]n, probably a member of the genus ''[[Biology:Deinotherium|Deinotherium]]'', is described from the Miocene of {{wipe|Finland}} by Salonen ''et al.'', representing the northernmost record of a Miocene proboscidean fossil in the world so far.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=J. Sakari Salonen |author2=Juha Saarinen |author3=Arto Miettinen |author4=Heikki Hirvas |author5=Marina Usoltseva |author6=Mikael Fortelius |author7=Marja Sorsa |year=2016 |title=The northernmost discovery of a Miocene proboscidean bone in Europe |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=454 |pages=202–211 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.04.034 |bibcode=2016PPP...454..202S |hdl=10138/237339 }}</ref>
* Presence of lower incisors is reported in immature individuals of ''[[Biology:Cuvieronius|Cuvieronius]] hyodon'' by Mothé, Ferretti & Avilla (2018).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Dimila Mothé |author2=Marco P. Ferretti |author3=Leonardo S. Avilla |year=2016 |title=The dance of tusks: rediscovery of lower incisors in the pan-American proboscidean ''Cuvieronius hyodon'' revises incisor evolution in Elephantimorpha |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=e0147009 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0147009 |pmid=26756209 |pmc=4710528 |bibcode=2016PLoSO..1147009M |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the diet of ''[[Biology:Platybelodon|Platybelodon]] grangeri'', as indicated by data from molar microwear analysis of [[Biology:Tooth enamel|tooth enamel]], is published by Semprebon ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Gina M. Semprebon |author2=Deng Tao |author3=Jelena Hasjanova |author4=Nikos Solounias |year=2016 |title=An examination of the dietary habits of ''Platybelodon grangeri'' from the Linxia Basin of China: Evidence from dental microwear of molar teeth and tusks |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=457 |pages=109–116 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.06.012 |bibcode=2016PPP...457..109S |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships and [[Biology:Mitochondrial DNA|mitogenomic]] diversity of North American [[Biology:Mammoth|mammoth]]s, as well as its implications for mammoth population structure and dynamics during the late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]], is published by Enk ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Jacob Enk |author2=Alison Devault |author3=Christopher Widga |author4=Jeffrey Saunders |author5=Paul Szpak |author6=John Southon |author7=Jean-Marie Rouillard |author8=Beth Shapiro |author9=G. Brian Golding |author10=Grant Zazula |author11=Duane Froese |author12=Daniel C. Fisher |author13=Ross D. E. MacPhee |author14=Hendrik Poinar |year=2016 |title=''Mammuthus'' Population Dynamics in Late Pleistocene North America: Divergence, Phylogeography, and Introgression |journal=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |volume=4 |pages=Article 42 |doi=10.3389/fevo.2016.00042 |s2cid=6779472 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the timing, causes, and consequences of the [[Earth:Holocene extinction|Holocene extinction]] of the relict [[Biology:Woolly mammoth|woolly mammoth]] population from [[Earth:Saint Paul Island (Alaska)|Saint Paul Island (Alaska)]] is published by Graham ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Russell W. Graham |author2=Soumaya Belmecheri |author3=Kyungcheol Choy |author4=Brendan J. Culleton |author5=Lauren J. Davies |author6=Duane Froese |author7=Peter D. Heintzman |author8=Carrie Hritz |author9=Joshua D. Kapp |author10=Lee A. Newsom |author11=Ruth Rawcliffe |author12=Émilie Saulnier-Talbot |author13=Beth Shapiro |author14=Yue Wang |author15=John W. Williams |author16=Matthew J. Wooller |year=2016 |title=Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=113 |issue=33 |pages=9310–9314 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1604903113 |pmid=27482085 |pmc=4995940|bibcode=2016PNAS..113.9310G |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the unallocated fossil species of the [[Biology:Hipposideridae|Old World leaf-nosed bats]], particularly Miocene species from Riversleigh ({{wipe|Australia}}) is published by Wilson ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Laura A. B. Wilson|author2=Suzanne J. Hand|author3=Camilo López-Aguirre|author4=Michael Archer|author5=Karen H. Black|author6=Robin M. D. Beck|author7=Kyle N. Armstrong|author8=Stephen Wroe|year=2016|title=Cranial shape variation and phylogenetic relationships of extinct and extant Old World leaf-nosed bats|url=http://usir.salford.ac.uk/39674/|journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology|volume=40|issue=4|pages=509–524|doi=10.1080/03115518.2016.1196434|bibcode=2016Alch...40..509W |s2cid=59432964}}</ref>
* A complete skull of the [[Biology:Macraucheniidae|macraucheniid]] ''[[Biology:Huayqueriana|Huayqueriana]]'' cf. ''H. cristata'' is described from the [[Biology:Huayquerian|Huayquerian]] [[Earth:Huayquerías Formation|Huayquerías Formation]] ({{wipe|Argentina}}) by Forasiepi ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Analía M. Forasiepi |author2=Ross D. E. MacPhee |author3=Santiago Hernández del Pino |author4=Gabriela I. Schmidt |author5=Eli Amson |author6=Camille Grohé |year=2016 |title=Exceptional skull of ''Huayqueriana'' (Mammalia, Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) from the late Miocene of Argentina: anatomy, systematics, and paleobiological implications |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=404 |pages=1–76 |doi=10.1206/0003-0090-404.1.1|hdl=2246/6659 |s2cid=89219979 |url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/124755/1/2016%20-%20Huayqueriana-1.pdf }}</ref>
* A study on the dentaries of several juvenile specimens of ''Prosantorhinus germanicus'' from the Miocene fossil lagerstätte Sandelzhausen ({{wipe|Germany}}) is published by Böhmer, Heissig & Rössner (2016), who reconstruct the tooth replacement pattern, life history and juvenile mortality profile of this taxon.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Christine Böhmer |author2=Kurt Heissig |author3=Gertrud E. Rössner |year=2016 |title=Dental eruption series and replacement pattern in Miocene ''Prosantorhinus'' (Rhinocerotidae) as revealed by macroscopy and X-ray: implications for ontogeny and mortality profile |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=265–279 |doi=10.1007/s10914-015-9313-x |s2cid=16204698 }}</ref>
* An [[Biology:Osteology|osteological]] study on the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] camelid fossils reported from [[Earth:Alaska|Alaska]] and [[Earth:Yukon|Yukon]], assigned to the species ''[[Biology:Camelops|Camelops]] hesternus'', is published by Zazula ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Grant D. Zazula |author2=Ross D. E. MacPhee |author3=Elizabeth Hall |author4=Susan Hewitson |year=2016 |title=Osteological assessment of Pleistocene ''Camelops hesternus'' (Camelidae, Camelinae, Camelini) from Alaska and Yukon |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=3866 |pages=1–45 |doi=10.1206/3866.1 |hdl=2246/6677 |s2cid=59357054 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/266885 }}</ref>
* New fossil material of the Pleistocene [[Biology:Wildebeest|wildebeest]]-like [[Biology:Bovidae|bovid]] ''[[Biology:Rusingoryx|Rusingoryx]] atopocranion'' is described from the Rusinga Island (Kenya) by O’Brien ''et al.'' (2016), who note the presence of large, hollow, bony nasal crests in this mammal, similar to crests present in [[Biology:Hadrosaurid|hadrosaurid]] [[Biology:Dinosaur|dinosaur]]s.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Haley D. O’Brien |author2=J. Tyler Faith |author3=Kirsten E. Jenkins |author4=Daniel J. Peppe |author5=Thomas W. Plummer |author6=Zenobia L. Jacobs |author7=Bo Li |author8=Renaud Joannes-Boyau |author9=Gilbert Price |author10=Yue-xing Feng |author11=Christian A. Tryon |year=2016 |title=Unexpected Convergent Evolution of Nasal Domes between Pleistocene Bovids and Cretaceous Hadrosaur Dinosaurs |journal=Current Biology |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=503–508 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.050 |pmid=26853365|s2cid=47500337 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the age and phylogenetic relationships of late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] bison fossils from North America and their implications for establishing when the Pleistocene ice free corridor along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains was open is published by Heintzman ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Peter D. Heintzman |author2=Duane Froese |author3=John W. Ives |author4=André E. R. Soares |author5=Grant D. Zazula |author6=Brandon Letts |author7=Thomas D. Andrews |author8=Jonathan C. Driver |author9=Elizabeth Hall |author10=P. Gregory Hare |author11=Christopher N. Jass |author12=Glen MacKay |author13=John R. Southon |author14=Mathias Stiller |author15=Robin Woywitka |author16=Marc A. Suchard |author17=Beth Shapiro |year=2016 |title=Bison phylogeography constrains dispersal and viability of the Ice Free Corridor in western Canada |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=113 |issue=29 |pages=8057–8063 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1601077113 |pmid=27274051 |pmc=4961175 |bibcode=2016PNAS..113.8057H |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Studies on the origin and evolutionary history of the [[Biology:European bison|European bison]] based on [[Biology:Ancient DNA|ancient DNA]] recovered from bison fossils are published by Soubrier ''et al.'' (2016)<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Julien Soubrier |author2=Graham Gower |author3=Kefei Chen |author4=Stephen M. Richards |author5=Bastien Llamas |author6=Kieren J. Mitchell |author7=Simon Y. W. Ho |author8=Pavel Kosintsev |author9=Michael S. Y. Lee |author10=Gennady Baryshnikov |author11=Ruth Bollongino |author12=Pere Bover |author13=Joachim Burger |author14=David Chivall |author15=Evelyne Crégut-Bonnoure |author16=Jared E. Decker |author17=Vladimir B. Doronichev |author18=Katerina Douka |author19=Damien A. Fordham |author20=Federica Fontana |author21=Carole Fritz |author22=Jan Glimmerveen |author23=Liubov V. Golovanova |author24=Colin Groves |author25=Antonio Guerreschi |author26=Wolfgang Haak |author27=Tom Higham |author28=Emilia Hofman-Kamińska |author29=Alexander Immel |author30=Marie-Anne Julien |author31=Johannes Krause |author32=Oleksandra Krotova |author33=Frauke Langbein |author34=Greger Larson |author35=Adam Rohrlach |author36=Amelie Scheu |author37=Robert D. Schnabel |author38=Jeremy F. Taylor |author39=Małgorzata Tokarska |author40=Gilles Tosello |author41=Johannes van der Plicht |author42=Ayla van Loenen |author43=Jean-Denis Vigne |author44=Oliver Wooley |author45=Ludovic Orlando |author46=Rafał Kowalczyk |author47=Beth Shapiro |author48=Alan Cooper |year=2016 |title=Early cave art and ancient DNA record the origin of European bison |journal=Nature Communications |volume=7 |pages=Article number 13158 |doi=10.1038/ncomms13158 |pmid=27754477 |pmc=5071849 |bibcode=2016NatCo...713158S }}</ref> and Massilani ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Diyendo Massilani |author2=Silvia Guimaraes |author3=Jean-Philip Brugal |author4=E. Andrew Bennett |author5=Małgorzata Tokarska |author6=Rose-Marie Arbogast |author7=Gennady Baryshnikov |author8=Gennady Boeskorov |author9=Jean-Christophe Castel |author10=Sergey Davydov |author11=Stéphane Madelaine |author12=Olivier Putelat |author13=Natalia N. Spasskaya |author14=Hans-Peter Uerpmann |author15=Thierry Grange |author16=Eva-Maria Geigl |year=2016 |title=Past climate changes, population dynamics and the origin of Bison in Europe |journal=BMC Biology |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=93 |doi=10.1186/s12915-016-0317-7 |pmid=27769298 |pmc=5075162 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the diet and evolution of ecologically-relevant traits in members of the genus ''[[Biology:Hoplitomeryx|Hoplitomeryx]]'' as indicated by tooth wear, hypsodonty and body mass estimations is published by DeMiguel (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author=Daniel DeMiguel |year=2016 |title=Disentangling adaptive evolutionary radiations and the role of diet in promoting diversification on islands |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 29803 |doi=10.1038/srep29803 |pmid=27405690 |pmc=4942836|bibcode=2016NatSR...629803D }}</ref>
* Basu, Falkingham & Hutchinson (2016) present a reconstruction of the skeleton of ''[[Biology:Sivatherium|Sivatherium]] giganteum'' and estimate adult body mass of members of the species.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Christopher Basu |author2=Peter L. Falkingham |author3=John R. Hutchinson |year=2016 |title=The extinct, giant giraffid ''Sivatherium giganteum'': skeletal reconstruction and body mass estimation |journal=Biology Letters |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=20150940 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2015.0940 |pmid=26763212 |pmc=4785933 }}</ref>
* A study estimating the ability of the [[Biology:Cetacea|cetacea]]n ''[[Biology:Ambulocetus|Ambulocetus]]'' and the [[Biology:Desmostylia|desmostylia]]ns ''[[Biology:Paleoparadoxia|Paleoparadoxia]]'', ''[[Biology:Neoparadoxia|Neoparadoxia]]'' and ''[[Biology:Desmostylus|Desmostylus]]'' to support themselves on land as indicated by the strengths of their rib cages against vertical compression is published by Ando & Fujiwara (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Konami Ando |author2=Shin-ichi Fujiwara |year=2016 |title=Farewell to life on land – thoracic strength as a new indicator to determine paleoecology in secondary aquatic mammals |journal=Journal of Anatomy |volume=229 |issue=6 |pages=768–777 |doi=10.1111/joa.12518 |pmid=27396988 |pmc=5108153}}</ref>
* A study on the [[Medicine:Cochlea|cochlea]]r anatomy of a [[Biology:Xenorophidae|xenorophid]] specimen from the [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] Belgrade Formation in North Carolina (subsequently assigned to the genus ''[[Biology:Echovenator|Echovenator]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Robert W. Boessenecker |author2=Erum Ahmed |author3=Jonathan H. Geisler |year=2017 |title=New records of the dolphin ''Albertocetus meffordorum'' (Odontoceti: Xenorophidae) from the lower Oligocene of South Carolina: Encephalization, sensory anatomy, postcranial morphology, and ontogeny of early odontocetes |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=11 |pages=e0186476 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0186476 |pmid=29117197 |pmc=5695589 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1286476B |doi-access=free }}</ref>) and its implications for the evolution of high-frequency hearing and [[Philosophy:Animal echolocation|echolocation]] in early toothed whales is published by Park, Fitzgerald & Evans (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Travis Park |author2=Erich M. G. Fitzgerald |author3=Alistair R. Evans |year=2016 |title=Ultrasonic hearing and echolocation in the earliest toothed whales |journal=Biology Letters |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=20160060 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2016.0060 |pmid=27072406 |pmc=4881348}}</ref>
* Description of an early Miocene [[Biology:Dolphin|dolphin]] from Kaikōura ([[Earth:New Zealand|New Zealand]]), closely related to ''Papahu taitapu'', and a study of the phylogenetic relationships of ''Papahu'' is published by Tanaka & Fordyce (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Y. Tanaka |author2=R.E. Fordyce |year=2016 |title=''Papahu''-like fossil dolphin from Kaikōura, New Zealand, helps to fill the Early Miocene gap in the history of Odontoceti |journal=New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=551–567 |doi=10.1080/00288306.2016.1211540 |bibcode=2016NZJGG..59..551T |s2cid=88953395 }}</ref>
* Description of a new skull of the Pliocene [[Biology:Porpoise|porpoise]] ''Numataphocoena yamashitai'' recovered from the Horokaoshirarika Formation (Hokkaido, {{wipe|Japan}}) and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Tanaka & Ichishima (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Yoshihiro Tanaka |author2=Hiroto Ichishima |year=2016 |title=A new skull of the fossil porpoise ''Numataphocoena yamashitai'' (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) from the upper part of the Horokaoshirarika Formation (lower Pliocene), Numata Town, Hokkaido, Japan, and its phylogenetic position |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=Article number 19.3.49A |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1663-a-new-skull-of-numataphocoena |doi=10.26879/663 |doi-access=free |hdl=2115/63928 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
* A new [[Biology:Aetiocetidae|aetiocetid]] specimen is described from the late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] Pysht Formation ({{wipe|Washington (state)}}, {{wipe|United States}}) by Marx ''et al.'' (2016), who interpret its tooth wear as inconsistent with the presence of baleen, and instead indicative of suction feeding.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Felix G. Marx |author2=David P. Hocking |author3=Travis Park |author4=Tim Ziegler |author5=Alistair R. Evans |author6=Erich M.G. Fitzgerald |year=2016 |title=Suction feeding preceded filtering in baleen whale evolution |journal=Memoirs of Museum Victoria |volume=75 |pages=71–82 |doi=10.24199/j.mmv.2016.75.04 |url=https://museumvictoria.com.au/pages/383548/071-082_MMV75_Marx_3_WEB.pdf |access-date=2017-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209175411/https://museumvictoria.com.au/pages/383548/071-082_MMV75_Marx_3_WEB.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* A study on the evolution of large body size in early [[Biology:Baleen whale|baleen whale]] evolution is published by Tsai & Kohno (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Cheng-Hsiu Tsai |author2=Naoki Kohno |year=2016 |title=Multiple origins of gigantism in stem baleen whales |journal=The Science of Nature |volume=103 |issue=11–12 |pages=89 |doi=10.1007/s00114-016-1417-5 |pmid=27717969 |bibcode=2016SciNa.103...89T |s2cid=6000300 }}</ref>
* A study on the anatomy of the ear region of ''[[Biology:Miocaperea|Miocaperea]] pulchra'' and its implications for the proposed origin of the [[Biology:Pygmy right whale|pygmy right whale]] from the [[Biology:Cetotheriidae|cetotheriids]] is published by Marx & Fordyce (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Felix G. Marx |author2=R. Ewan Fordyce |year=2016 |title=A Link No Longer Missing: New Evidence for the Cetotheriid Affinities of ''Caperea'' |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=10 |pages=e0164059 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0164059 |pmid=27711216 |pmc=5053404|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1164059M |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the baleen [[Physics:Microstructure|microstructure]]s found in association with the skeleton of a late Miocene balaenopteroid whale recovered from the [[Earth:Pisco Formation|Pisco Formation]] (Peru) is published by Gioncada ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Anna Gioncada |author2=Alberto Collareta |author3=Karen Gariboldi |author4=Olivier Lambert |author5=Claudio Di Celma |author6=Elena Bonaccorsi |author7=Mario Urbina |author8=Giovanni Bianucci |year=2016 |title=Inside baleen: Exceptional microstructure preservation in a late Miocene whale skeleton from Peru |journal=Geology |volume=44 |issue=10 |pages=839–842 |doi=10.1130/G38216.1 |bibcode=2016Geo....44..839G |hdl=11568/809640 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the anatomy and [[Biology:Paleobiology|paleobiology]] of the Eocene [[Biology:Pangolin|pangolin]] ''[[Biology:Patriomanis|Patriomanis]] americana'' is published by Gaudin, Emry & Morris (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Timothy J. Gaudin |author2=Robert J. Emry |author3=Jeremy Morris |year=2016 |title=Skeletal Anatomy of the North American Pangolin ''Patriomanis americana'' (Mammalia, Pholidota) from the Latest Eocene of Wyoming (USA) |journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology |volume=98 |issue=98 |pages=1–102 |doi=10.5479/si.1943-6688.98 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/book/Skeletal_Anatomy_of_the_North_American_Pangolin_Patriomanis_americana_Mammalia_Pholidota_from_the_Latest_Eocene_of_Wyoming_USA_/9761852 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A revision of the systematics of the North American members of [[Biology:Nimravidae|Nimravidae]] is published by Barrett (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author=Paul Z. Barrett |year=2016 |title=Taxonomic and systematic revisions to the North American Nimravidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e1658 |doi=10.7717/peerj.1658 |pmid=26893959 |pmc=4756750 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the bone thickness of dentary bones of the specimens of ''[[Biology:Smilodon|Smilodon]] fatalis'' recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits and its implications for the changes in the diet of the saber-toothed cats through the time-periods that are captured at this site, is published by Binder, Cervantes & Meachen (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Wendy J. Binder |author2=Kassaundra S. Cervantes |author3=Julie A. Meachen |year=2016 |title=Measures of Relative Dentary Strength in Rancho La Brea ''Smilodon fatalis'' over Time |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=9 |pages=e0162270 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0162270 |pmid=27598462 |pmc=5012699|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1162270B |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the cave lion, based on the first mitochondrial genome sequences for this taxon, is published by Barnett ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Ross Barnett |author2=Marie Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza |author3=André Elias Rodrigues Soares |author4= Simon Y. W. Ho |author5=Grant Zazula |author6=Nobuyuki Yamaguchi |author7=Beth Shapiro |author8=Irina V. Kirillova |author9=Greger Larson |author10=M. Thomas P Gilbert |year=2016 |title=Mitogenomics of the extinct cave lion, ''Panthera spelaea'' (Goldfuss, 1810), resolve its position within the ''Panthera'' cats |journal=Open Quaternary |volume=2 |pages=4 |doi=10.5334/oq.24 |doi-access=free |hdl=10576/22920 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
* A description of new [[Biology:Bear dog|bear dog]] fossils from the early Miocene of Uganda and Namibia and a systematic revision of the Miocene bear dogs known from Africa is published by Morales, Pickford & Valenciano (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Jorge Morales |author2=Martin Pickford |author3=Alberto Valenciano |year=2016 |title=Systematics of African Amphicyonidae, with descriptions of new material from Napak (Uganda) and Grillental (Namibia) |journal=Journal of Iberian Geology |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=131–150 |doi=10.5209/rev_JIGE.2016.v42.n2.51960 |doi-broken-date=31 January 2024 |hdl=10261/137042}}</ref>
* A description of new fossil material of ''Megalictis ferox'' and a study of phylogenetic relationships of the [[Biology:Oligobuninae|oligobunine]] [[Biology:Mustelidae|mustelids]] is published by Valenciano ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alberto Valenciano |author2=Jon A. Baskin |author3=Juan Abella |author4=Alejandro Pérez-Ramos |author5=M. Ángeles Álvarez-Sierra |author6=Jorge Morales |author7=Adam Hartstone-Rose |year=2016 |title=''Megalictis'', the Bone-Crushing Giant Mustelid (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Oligobuninae) from the Early Miocene of North America |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=e0152430 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0152430 |pmid=27054570 |pmc=4824437|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1152430V |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the feeding strategy of the [[Biology:Arctoidea|arctoid]] ''[[Biology:Kolponomos|Kolponomos]]'' is published by Tseng, Grohe & Flynn (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Z. Jack Tseng |author2=Camille Grohé |author3=John J. Flynn |year=2016 |title=A unique feeding strategy of the extinct marine mammal ''Kolponomos'': convergence on sabretooths and sea otters |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=283 |issue=1826 |pages=20160044 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2016.0044 |pmid=26936242 |pmc=4810869}}</ref>
* A study of phylogenetic relationships of bears belonging to the genus ''[[Biology:Arctotherium|Arctotherium]]'', indicating that they were more closely related to the [[Biology:Spectacled bear|spectacled bear]] than to [[Biology:Arctodus|short-faced bear]]s, is published by Mitchell ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kieren J. Mitchell |author2=Sarah C. Bray |author3=Pere Bover |author4=Leopoldo Soibelzon |author5=Blaine W. Schubert |author6=Francisco Prevosti |author7=Alfredo Prieto |author8=Fabiana Martin |author9=Jeremy J. Austin |author10=Alan Cooper |year=2016 |title=Ancient mitochondrial DNA reveals convergent evolution of giant short-faced bears (Tremarctinae) in North and South America |journal=Biology Letters |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=20160062 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2016.0062 |pmid=27095265 |pmc=4881349}}</ref>
* A study on the anatomy of the auditory region of the Pleistocene bear ''Arctotherium tarijense'' is published by Arnaudo ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Maria Eugenia Arnaudo |author2=Paula Bona |author3=Leopoldo Hector Soibelzon |author4=Blaine W. Schubert |year=2016 |title=Anatomical study of the auditory region of ''Arctotherium tarijense'' (Ursidae, Tremarctinae), an extinct short-faced bear from the Pleistocene of South America |journal=Journal of Anatomy |volume=229 |issue=6 |pages=825–837 |doi=10.1111/joa.12525 |pmid=27460048|pmc=5108154 }}</ref>
* A description of the most recent [[Biology:Cave bear|cave bear]] remains reported so far, recovered from the Stajnia Cave ({{wipe|Poland}}), and a study on the cave bear’s extinction time is published by Baca ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Mateusz Baca |author2=Danijela Popović |author3=Krzysztof Stefaniak |author4=Adrian Marciszak |author5=Mikołaj Urbanowski |author6=Adam Nadachowski |author7=Paweł Mackiewicz |year=2016 |title=Retreat and extinction of the Late Pleistocene cave bear (''Ursus spelaeus'' sensu lato) |journal=The Science of Nature |volume=103 |issue=11–12 |pages=92 |doi=10.1007/s00114-016-1414-8 |pmid=27730265 |pmc=5059403 |bibcode=2016SciNa.103...92B }}</ref>
* A study on the diet of the cave bears, as indicated by the [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] of their mandibles, is published by van Heteren ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Anneke H. van Heteren |author2=Ann MacLarnon |author3=Christophe Soligo |author4=Todd C. Rae |year=2016 |title=Functional morphology of the cave bear (''Ursus spelaeus'') mandible: a 3D geometric morphometric analysis |journal=Organisms Diversity & Evolution |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=299–314 |doi=10.1007/s13127-015-0238-2 |s2cid=15609683 }}</ref>
* A study on the anatomy of ''[[Biology:Enaliarctos|Enaliarctos]]'' and its implications for the evolution of tooth spacing, tooth size and pierce-feeding in [[Biology:Pinniped|pinniped]]s is published by Churchill & Clementz (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=M. Churchill |author2=M. T. Clementz |year=2016 |title=The evolution of aquatic feeding in seals: insights from ''Enaliarctos'' (Carnivora: Pinnipedimorpha), the oldest known seal |journal=Journal of Evolutionary Biology |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=319–334 |doi=10.1111/jeb.12783 |pmid=26538168|s2cid=23219345 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Biology:Tooth enamel|enamel]] [[Physics:Ultrastructure|ultrastructure]] in modern [[Biology:Eared seal|eared seal]]s and extinct ''[[Biology:Pelagiarctos|Pelagiarctos]]'' is published by Loch ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Carolina Loch |author2=Robert W. Boessenecker |author3=Morgan Churchill |author4=Jules Kieser |year=2016 |title=Enamel ultrastructure of fossil and modern pinnipeds: evaluating hypotheses of feeding adaptations in the extinct walrus ''Pelagiarctos'' |journal=The Science of Nature |volume=103 |issue=5–6 |pages=44 |doi=10.1007/s00114-016-1366-z |pmid=27142598 |bibcode=2016SciNa.103...44L |s2cid=17388528 }}</ref>
* Fossils of an [[Biology:Earless seal|earless seal]] belonging to the tribe Miroungini (the tribe containing [[Biology:Elephant seal|elephant seal]]s) are described from the late Pliocene Petane Formation ([[Earth:New Zealand|New Zealand]]) by Boessenecker & Churchill (2016), representing the oldest record of Miroungini reported so far.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=R.W. Boessenecker |author2=M. Churchill |year=2016 |title=The origin of elephant seals: implications of a fragmentary late Pliocene seal (Phocidae: Miroungini) from New Zealand |journal=New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=544–550 |doi=10.1080/00288306.2016.1199437 |bibcode=2016NZJGG..59..544B |s2cid=133343398 }}</ref>
* Virtual [[Biology:Skull|cranial]] [[Biology:Endocast|endocast]]s of the Eocene rodents ''[[Biology:Paramys|Paramys]] copei'' and ''Paramys delicatus'' are described by Bertrand, Amador-Mughal and Silcox (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Ornella C. Bertrand |author2=Farrah Amador-Mughal |author3=Mary T. Silcox |year=2016 |title=Virtual endocasts of Eocene ''Paramys'' (Paramyinae): oldest endocranial record for Rodentia and early brain evolution in Euarchontoglires |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=283 |issue=1823 |pages=20152316 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2015.2316 |pmid=26817776 |pmc=4795019}}</ref>
* The taxonomic revision of the fossil [[Biology:New World porcupine|New World porcupine]]s known from North America is published by Sussman ''et al.'' (2016), who transfer the species ''Erethizon kleini'' Frazier (1981) and ''Erethizon poyeri'' Hulbert (1997), as well as specimens previously identified as [[Biology:North American porcupine|North American porcupine]]s from [[Biology:Irvingtonian|Irvingtonian]] faunas in Florida and Aguascalientes, Mexico, to the genus ''[[Biology:Prehensile-tailed porcupine|Coendou]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=David R. Sussman |author2=Fred W. Croxen III |author3=H. Gregory McDonald |author4=Christopher A. Shaw |year=2016 |title=Fossil Porcupine (Mammalia, Rodentia, Erethizontidae) from El Golfo de Santa Clara, Sonora, Mexico, with a Review of the Taxonomy of the North American Erethizontids |journal=Contributions in Science |volume=524 |pages=1–29 |doi=10.5962/p.241300 |s2cid=135445116 |url=http://stage.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CiS_524-1-29.Sussman_et_al.pdf |access-date=2019-08-29 |archive-date=2019-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829151701/https://stage.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CiS_524-1-29.Sussman_et_al.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Virtual cranial endocasts of the [[Biology:Notharctinae|notharctines]] ''[[Biology:Notharctus|Notharctus]] tenebrosus'' and ''[[Biology:Smilodectes|Smilodectes]] gracilis'', as well as the [[Biology:Adapidae|adapid]] [[Biology:Adapiformes|adapiform]] ''[[Biology:Adapis|Adapis]] parisiensis'' are reconstructed by Harrington ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Arianna R. Harrington |author2=Mary T. Silcox |author3=Gabriel S. Yapuncich |author4=Doug M. Boyer |author5=Jonathan I. Bloch |year=2016 |title=First virtual endocasts of adapiform primates |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=99 |pages=52–78 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.005 |pmid=27650580|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Eocene ([[Earth:Ypresian|Ypresian]]) [[Biology:Adapiformes|adapoid]] and [[Biology:Omomyidae|omomyid]] limb bones are described from the Vastan lignite mine (Gujarat, India) by Dunn ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Rachel H. Dunn |author2=Kenneth D. Rose |author3=Rajendra S. Rana |author4=Kishor Kumar |author5=Ashok Sahni |author6=Thierry Smith |year=2016 |title=New euprimate postcrania from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India, and the strepsirrhine–haplorhine divergence |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=99 |pages=25–51 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.006 |pmid=27650579}}</ref>
* Isolated teeth of a member of the genus ''Cebus'' and a member of the genus ''Cebuella'' are described from the Miocene ([[Biology:Mayoan|Mayoan]]) [[Earth:Pebas Formation|Pebas Formation]] (Peru) by Marivaux ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Laurent Marivaux |author2=Sylvain Adnet |author3=Ali J. Altamirano-Sierra |author4=François Pujos |author5=Anusha Ramdarshan |author6=Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi |author7=Julia V. Tejada-Lara |author8=Pierre-Olivier Antoine |year=2016 |title=Dental remains of cebid platyrrhines from the earliest late Miocene of Western Amazonia, Peru: Macroevolutionary implications on the extant capuchin and marmoset lineages |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=161 |issue=3 |pages=478–493 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.23052 |pmid=27430626|url=https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20220810-751601000 }}</ref>
* Fossils of the probable relative of the [[Biology:Gorilla|gorilla]]s, ''[[Biology:Chororapithecus|Chororapithecus]] abyssinicus'', are dated to ~8.0 Myr by Katoh ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Shigehiro Katoh |author2=Yonas Beyene |author3=Tetsumaru Itaya |author4=Hironobu Hyodo |author5=Masayuki Hyodo |author6=Koshi Yagi |author7=Chitaro Gouzu |author8=Giday WoldeGabriel |author9=William K. Hart |author10=Stanley H. Ambrose |author11=Hideo Nakaya |author12=Raymond L. Bernor |author13=Jean-Renaud Boisserie |author14=Faysal Bibi |author15=Haruo Saegusa |author16=Tomohiko Sasaki |author17=Katsuhiro Sano |author18=Berhane Asfaw |author19=Gen Suwa |year=2016 |title=New geological and palaeontological age constraint for the gorilla–human lineage split |journal=Nature |volume=530 |issue=7589 |pages=215–218 |doi=10.1038/nature16510 |pmid=26863981|bibcode=2016Natur.530..215K |s2cid=205247254 }}</ref>
* Fossils of ''[[Biology:Homo floresiensis|Homo floresiensis]]'' and the deposits containing them are dated to between about 100 000 and 60 000 years ago by Sutikna ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal |author1=Thomas Sutikna |author2=Matthew W. Tocheri |author3=Michael J. Morwood |author4=E. Wahyu Saptomo |author5=Jatmiko |author6=Rokus Due Awe |author7=Sri Wasisto |author8=Kira E. Westaway |author9=Maxime Aubert |author10=Bo Li |author11=Jian-xin Zhao |author12=Michael Storey |author13=Brent V. Alloway |author14=Mike W. Morley |author15=Hanneke J. M. Meijer |author16=Gerrit D. van den Bergh |author17=Rainer Grün |author18=Anthony Dosseto |author19=Adam Brumm |author20=William L. Jungers |author21=Richard G. Roberts |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=Revised stratigraphy and chronology for ''Homo floresiensis'' at Liang Bua in Indonesia |journal=Nature |volume=532 |issue=7599 |pages=366–369 |doi=10.1038/nature17179 |pmid=27027286|bibcode=2016Natur.532..366S |s2cid=4469009 |url=https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4801&context=smhpapers }}</ref>
* Hominin fossils similar in most dimensions and morphological characteristics to those of ''Homo floresiensis'' are described from the early Middle Pleistocene site in Flores, Indonesia by van den Bergh ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal |author1=Gerrit D. van den Bergh |author2=Yousuke Kaifu |author3=Iwan Kurniawan |author4=Reiko T. Kono|author5=Adam Brumm |author6=Erick Setiyabudi |author7=Fachroel Aziz |author8=Michael J. Morwood |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=''Homo floresiensis''-like fossils from the early Middle Pleistocene of Flores |journal=Nature |volume=534 |issue=7606 |pages=245–248 |doi=10.1038/nature17999 |pmid=27279221|bibcode=2016Natur.534..245V |s2cid=205249218 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Adam Brumm |author2=Gerrit D. van den Bergh |author3=Michael Storey |author4=Iwan Kurniawan |author5=Brent V. Alloway |author6=Ruly Setiawan |author7=Erick Setiyabudi |author8=Rainer Grün |author9=Mark W. Moore |author10=Dida Yurnaldi |author11=Mika R. Puspaningrum |author12=Unggul P. Wibowo |author13=Halmi Insani |author14=Indra Sutisna |author15=John A. Westgate |author16=Nick J. G. Pearce |author17=Mathieu Duval |author18=Hanneke J. M. Meijer |author19=Fachroel Aziz |author20=Thomas Sutikna |author21=Sander van der Kaars |author22=Stephanie Flude |author23=Michael J. Morwood |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=Age and context of the oldest known hominin fossils from Flores |journal=Nature |volume=534 |issue=7606 |pages=249–253 |doi=10.1038/nature17663 |pmid=27279222|bibcode=2016Natur.534..249B |s2cid=28608179 |url=http://pure.aber.ac.uk/ws/files/9400924/Brumm_et_al_2016_Age_stratigraphic_context_hominin_fossils_Flores_NAture_DRAFT_MS.pdf }}</ref>
* A study on the cause of death of the ''[[Biology:Australopithecus afarensis|Australopithecus afarensis]]'' specimen [[Biology:Lucy (Australopithecus)|Lucy]] is published by Kappelman ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=John Kappelman |author2=Richard A. Ketcham |author3=Stephen Pearce |author4=Lawrence Todd |author5=Wiley Akins |author6=Matthew W. Colbert |author7=Mulugeta Feseha |author8=Jessica A. Maisano |author9=Adrienne Witzel |year=2016 |title=Perimortem fractures in Lucy suggest mortality from fall out of tall tree |journal=Nature |volume=537 |issue=7621 |pages=503–507 |doi=10.1038/nature19332 |pmid=27571283|bibcode=2016Natur.537..503K |s2cid=4402700 }}</ref>
* A study on the bone structural properties of the [[Biology:Femur|femur]] and [[Biology:Humerus|humerus]] of the ''Australopithecus afarensis'' specimen Lucy and its implications for the [[Biology:Animal locomotion|locomotor]] behavior and ecology of the species is published by Ruff ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Christopher B. Ruff |author2=M. Loring Burgess |author3=Richard A. Ketcham |author4=John Kappelman |year=2016 |title=Limb Bone Structural Proportions and Locomotor Behavior in A.L. 288-1 ("Lucy") |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=11 |pages=e0166095 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0166095 |pmid=27902687 |pmc=5130205|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1166095R |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the locomotor mechanics and footprint formation of the tracemaker of the Pliocene Laetoli footprints is published by Hatala, Demes & Richmond (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kevin G. Hatala |author2=Brigitte Demes |author3=Brian G. Richmond |year=2016 |title=Laetoli footprints reveal bipedal gait biomechanics different from those of modern humans and chimpanzees |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=283 |issue=1836 |pages=20160235 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2016.0235 |pmid=27488647 |pmc=5013756}}</ref>
* Pliocene [[Biology:Hominini|hominin]] tracks discovered in the new site at Laetoli locality are described by Masao ''et al.'' (2016), who estimate the height of one of the trackmakers to be about 1.65 metres, thus exceeding previous estimates for ''Australopithecus afarensis''.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Fidelis T. Masao |author2=Elgidius B. Ichumbaki |author3=Marco Cherin |author4=Angelo Barili |author5=Giovanni Boschian |author6=Dawid A. Iurino |author7=Sofia Menconero |author8=Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi |author9=Giorgio Manzi |year=2016 |title=New footprints from Laetoli (Tanzania) provide evidence for marked body size variation in early hominins |journal=eLife |volume=5 |pages=e19568 |doi=10.7554/eLife.19568 |pmid=27964778 |pmc=5156529 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of ''[[Biology:Homo naledi|Homo naledi]]'' is published by Dembo ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Mana Dembo |author2=Davorka Radovčić |author3=Heather M. Garvin |author4=Myra F. Laird |author5=Lauren Schroeder |author6=Jill E. Scott |author7=Juliet Brophy |author8=Rebecca R. Ackermann |author9=Chares M. Musiba |author10=Darryl J. de Ruiter |author11=Arne Ø. Mooers |author12=Mark Collard |year=2016 |title=The evolutionary relationships and age of ''Homo naledi'': An assessment using dated Bayesian phylogenetic methods |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=97 |pages=17–26 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.04.008 |pmid=27457542|hdl=2164/8796 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
* 1.5-million-year-old footprint assemblages produced by at least 20 different individuals of ''[[Biology:Homo erectus|Homo erectus]]'' are described from multiple sites near [[Place:Ileret|Ileret]], Kenya by Hatala ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Kevin G. Hatala |author2=Neil T. Roach |author3=Kelly R. Ostrofsky |author4=Roshna E. Wunderlich |author5=Heather L. Dingwall |author6=Brian A. Villmoare |author7=David J. Green |author8=John W. K. Harris |author9=David R. Braun |author10=Brian G. Richmond |year=2016 |title=Footprints reveal direct evidence of group behavior and locomotion in ''Homo erectus'' |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 28766 |doi=10.1038/srep28766 |pmid=27403790 |pmc=4941528|bibcode=2016NatSR...628766H }}</ref>
* A study on the tracks of ''Homo erectus'' from Ileret, indicating repeated use of lakeshore habitats by members of this species, is published by Roach ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Neil T. Roach |author2=Kevin G. Hatala |author3=Kelly R. Ostrofsky |author4=Brian A. Villmoare |author5=Jonathan S. Reeves |author6=Andrew Du |author7=David R. Braun |author8=John W. K. Harris |author9=Anna K. Behrensmeyer |author10=Brian G. Richmond |year=2016 |title=Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by ''Homo erectus'' groups |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 26374 |doi=10.1038/srep26374 |pmid=27199261 |pmc=4873780 |bibcode=2016NatSR...626374R }}</ref>
* A study on genomes of a [[Biology:Neanderthal|Neanderthal]] and a [[History:Denisovan|Denisovan]] from the Altai Mountains in Siberia and on sequences of [[Biology:Chromosome 21|chromosome 21]] of two Neanderthals from {{wipe|Spain}} and Croatia, and on their implications for the knowledge of [[Biology:Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans|gene flow events between modern and archaic humans]], is published by Kuhlwilm ''et al.'' (2019).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Martin Kuhlwilm |author2=Ilan Gronau |author3=Melissa J. Hubisz |author4=Cesare de Filippo |author5=Javier Prado-Martinez |author6=Martin Kircher |author7=Qiaomei Fu |author8=Hernán A. Burbano |author9=Carles Lalueza-Fox |author10=Marco de la Rasilla |author11=Antonio Rosas |author12=Pavao Rudan |author13=Dejana Brajkovic |author14=Željko Kucan |author15=Ivan Gušic |author16=Tomas Marques-Bonet |author17=Aida M. Andrés |author18=Bence Viola |author19=Svante Pääbo |author20=Matthias Meyer |author21=Adam Siepel |author22=Sergi Castellano |year=2016 |title=Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals |journal=Nature |volume=530 |issue=7591 |pages=429–433 |doi=10.1038/nature16544 |pmid=26886800 |pmc=4933530 |bibcode=2016Natur.530..429K }}</ref>

===New taxa===

====Xenarthrans====
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''[[Biology:Aymaratherium|Aymaratherium]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Francois Pujos |author2=Gerardo De Iuliis |author3=Bernardino Mamani Quispe |author4=Sylvain Adnet |author5=Ruben Andrade Flores |author6=Guillaume Billet |author7=Marcos Fernández-Monescillo |author8=Laurent Marivaux |author9=Philippe Münch |author10=Mercedes B. Prámparo |author11=Pierre-Olivier Antoine |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=A new nothrotheriid xenarthran from the early Pliocene of Pomata-Ayte (Bolivia): new insights into the caniniform–molariform transition in sloths |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=178 |issue=3 |pages=679–712 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12429 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Pujos ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Montehermosan|Montehermosan]]
| Umala Formation
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{{Flag|Bolivia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Nothrotheriidae|Nothrotheriidae]]. The type species is ''Aymaratherium jeani''.
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''Parutaetus punaensis''<ref name=Punatherium>{{cite journal |author1=Martín R. Ciancio |author2=Claudia Herrera |author3=Alejandro Aramayo |author4=Patricio Payrola |author5=María J. Babot |year=2016 |title=Diversity of cingulate xenarthrans in the middle-late Eocene of Northwestern Argentina |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=575–590 |doi=10.4202/app.00208.2015 |s2cid=131849217 |doi-access=free |hdl=11336/49016 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Ciancio ''et al.''
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Middle–late Eocene
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[[Earth:Geste Formation|Geste Formation]]
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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An [[Biology:Armadillo|armadillo]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Euphractinae|Euphractinae]]; a species of ''Parutaetus''.
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''Punatherium''<ref name=Punatherium />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Ciancio ''et al.''
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Middle–late Eocene
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[[Earth:Geste Formation|Geste Formation]]
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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An [[Biology:Armadillo|armadillo]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''Punatherium catamarquensis''.
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====Afrotherians====
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''[[Biology:Aphanobelodon|Aphanobelodon]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Shi-Qi Wang |author2=Tao Deng |author3=Jie Ye |author4=Wen He |author5=Shan-Qin Chen |year=2016 |title=Morphological and ecological diversity of Amebelodontidae (Proboscidea, Mammalia) revealed by a Miocene fossil accumulation of an upper-tuskless proboscidean |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=8 |pages=601–615 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1208687 |s2cid=89063787 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://zoobank.org/References/8F30BAC7-4245-4952-BFCF-884E3DB839F6 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-05-03 |archive-date=2020-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208180211/http://zoobank.org/References/8F30BAC7-4245-4952-BFCF-884E3DB839F6 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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Wang ''et al.''
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Middle Miocene
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Zhangenbao Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of [[Biology:Amebelodontidae|Amebelodontidae]]. The type species is ''A. zhaoi''.
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''[[Biology:Eurybelodon|Eurybelodon]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author=W. David Lambert |year=2016 |title=''Eurybelodon shoshanii'', an unusual new shovel-tusked gomphothere (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the late Miocene of Oregon |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=e1091352 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1091352 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E1352L |s2cid=131649785 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Lambert
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Miocene (late [[Earth:Clarendonian|Clarendonian]])
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Juntura Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Oregon}})
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A [[Biology:Gomphothere|gomphothere]]. The type species is ''Eurybelodon shoshanii''.
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''[[Biology:Konobelodon|Konobelodon robustus]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=ShiQi Wang |author2=QinQin Shi |author3=Wen He |author4=ShanQin Chen |author5=XiangWen Yang |year=2016 |title=A new species of the tetralophodont amebelodontine ''Konobelodon'' Lambert, 1990 (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of China |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=65–97 |doi=10.5252/g2016n1a4 |s2cid=87203029 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/38/1/une-nouvelle-espece-de-l-amebelodontine-tetralophodonte-konobelodon-lambert-1990-proboscidea-mammalia-du-miocene-superieur-de-chine }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
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Wang ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
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Liushu Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Gomphothere|gomphothere]], a species of ''Konobelodon''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Lentiarenium|Lentiarenium]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Manja Voss |author2=Björn Berning |author3=Erich Reiter |year=2016 |title=A taxonomic and morphological re-evaluation of ''"Halitherium" cristolii'' Fitzinger, 1842 (Mammalia, Sirenia) from the late Oligocene of Austria, with the description of a new genus |journal=European Journal of Taxonomy |issue=256 |pages=1–32 |doi=10.5852/ejt.2016.256 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Voss ''in'' Voss, Berning & Reiter
|
Oligocene ([[Earth:Chattian|Chattian]])
|
Linz-Melk Formation
|
{{Flag|Austria}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Sirenia|Sirenia]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Dugongidae|Dugongidae]]. The type species is ''"[[Biology:Halitherium|Halitherium]]" cristolii'' Fitzinger (1842).
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|-
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''[[Biology:Prototherium|Prototherium ausetanum]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Jordi Balaguer |author2=David M. Alba |year=2016 |title=A new dugong species (Sirenia, Dugongidae) from the Eocene of Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula) |journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol |volume=15 |issue=5 |pages=489–500 |doi=10.1016/j.crpv.2015.10.002 |bibcode=2016CRPal..15..489B }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Balaguer & Alba
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Dugongidae|Dugongidae]], a species of ''Prototherium''.
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|-
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''Sinomammut''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Dimila Mothé |author2=Leonardo S. Avilla |author3=Desi Zhao |author4=Guangpu Xie |author5=Boyang Sun |year=2016 |title=A new Mammutidae (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Gansu Province, China |journal=Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências |volume=88 |issue=1 |pages=65–74 |doi=10.1590/0001-3765201520150261 |pmid=26839998 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mothé ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
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Xihe-Lixian Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Mammutidae|Mammutidae]]. The type species is ''Sinomammut tobieni''.
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|-
|
''[[Biology:Sinomastodon|Sinomastodon praeintermedius]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Shi-Qi Wang |author2=Xue-Ping Ji |author3=Nina G. Jablonski |author4=Denise F. Su |author5=Jun-Yi Ge |author6=Chang-Fen Ding |author7=Teng-Song Yu |author8=Wen-Qi Li |author9=Jaroon Duangkrayom |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=The Oldest Cranium of ''Sinomastodon'' (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae), Discovered in the Uppermost Miocene of Southwestern China: Implications for the Origin and Migration of This Taxon |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=155–173 |doi=10.1007/s10914-015-9311-z |s2cid=12409623 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wang ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
Zhaotong Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Gomphothere|gomphothere]], a species of ''Sinomastodon''.
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|-
|}

====Bats====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''[[Biology:Aegyptonycteris|Aegyptonycteris]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Nancy B. Simmons |author2=Erik R. Seiffert |author3=Gregg F. Gunnell |year=2016 |title=A New Family of Large Omnivorous Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Late Eocene of the Fayum Depression, Egypt, with Comments on Use of the Name "Eochiroptera" |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=3857 |pages=1–43 |doi=10.1206/3857.1 |hdl=2246/6651 |s2cid=87290447 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/156946 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Simmons, Seiffert & Gunnell
|
Eocene ([[Earth:Priabonian|Priabonian]])
|
Birket Qarun Formation
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
An omnivorous bat belonging to the family [[Biology:Aegyptonycteridae|Aegyptonycteridae]]. The type species is ''Aegyptonycteris knightae''.
|
|-
|
''Chambinycteris''<ref name=Geodiversitas383bats>{{cite journal |author1=Anthony Ravel |author2=Mohammed Adaci |author3=Mustapha Bensalah |author4=Anne-Lise Charruault |author5=El Mabrouk Essid |author6=Hayet Khayati Ammar |author7=Wissem Marzougui |author8=Mohammed Mahboubi |author9=Fateh Mebrouk |author10=Gilles Merzeraud |author11=Monique Vianey-Liaud |author12=Rodolphe Tabuce |author13=Laurent Marivaux |year=2016 |title=Origine et radiation initiale des chauves-souris modernes : nouvelles découvertes dans l'Éocène d'Afrique du Nord |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=355–434 |doi=10.5252/g2016n3a3 |s2cid=132763050 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/38/3/origine-et-radiation-initiale-des-chauves-souris-modernes-nouvelles-decouvertes-dans-l-eocene-d-afrique-du-nord }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ravel ''in'' Ravel ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Tunisia}}
|
A bat of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''C. pusilli''.
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|-
|
''Drakonycteris''<ref name=Geodiversitas383bats />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ravel ''in'' Ravel ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Algeria}}
|
A bat of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''D. glibzegdouensis''.
|
|-
|
''Hipposideros (Pseudorhinolophus) africanum''<ref name=Geodiversitas383bats />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ravel ''in'' Ravel ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Tunisia}}
|
A [[Biology:Hipposideros|roundleaf bat]].
|
|-
|
''Hipposideros (Pseudorhinolophus) amenhotepos''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Gregg F. Gunnell |author2=Alisa J. Winkler |author3=Ellen R. Miller |author4=Jason J. Head |author5=Ahmed N. El-Barkooky |author6=Mohamed Abdel Gawad |author7=William J. Sanders |author8=Philip D. Gingerich |year=2016 |title=Small vertebrates from Khasm El-Raqaba, late Middle Miocene, Eastern Desert, Egypt |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=28 |issue=1–2 |pages=159–171 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2015.1014354 |bibcode=2016HBio...28..159G |s2cid=131030282 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Gunnell ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
A [[Biology:Hipposideros|roundleaf bat]].
|
|-
|
''Khoufechia''<ref name=Geodiversitas383bats />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ravel ''in'' Ravel ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Tunisia}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Nycteridae|Nycteridae]]. The type species is ''K. gunnelli''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Necromantis|?Necromantis fragmentum]]''<ref name=Geodiversitas383bats />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ravel ''in'' Ravel ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Tunisia}}
|
A member of Necromantidae.
|
|-
|
''?Palaeophyllophora tunisiensis''<ref name=Geodiversitas383bats />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ravel ''in'' Ravel ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Tunisia}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Hipposideridae|Hipposideridae]].
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|-
|
''Premonycteris''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Suzanne J. Hand |author2=Bernard Sigé |author3=Michael Archer |author4=Karen H. Black |year=2016 |title=An evening bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the late Early Eocene of France, with comments on the antiquity of modern bats |journal=Palæovertebrata |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=e2 |doi=10.18563/pv.40.2.e2 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Hand ''et al.''
|
Eocene (late [[Earth:Ypresian|Ypresian]])
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
|
A vesper bat. The type species is ''P. vesper''.
|
|-
|
''Pseudovespertiliavus''<ref name=Geodiversitas383bats />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ravel ''in'' Ravel ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Algeria}}
|
A [[Biology:Sac-winged bat|sac-winged bat]]. The type species is ''P. parva''.
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|-
|
''[[Biology:Synemporion|Synemporion]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alan C. Ziegler |author2=Francis G. Howarth |author3=Nancy B. Simmons |year=2016 |title=A second endemic land mammal for the Hawaiian Islands: a new genus and species of fossil bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=3854 |pages=1–52 |doi=10.1206/3854.1 |hdl=2246/6641 |s2cid=56234957 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/263249 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ziegler, Howarth & Simmons
|
Middle Pleistocene to late Holocene
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Hawaii}})
|
A vesper bat. The type species is ''Synemporion keana''.
|
|-
|
''?Vespertiliavus aenigma''<ref name=Geodiversitas383bats />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ravel ''in'' Ravel ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Tunisia}}
|
A [[Biology:Sac-winged bat|sac-winged bat]].
|
|-
|
''Vespertiliavus kasserinensis''<ref name=Geodiversitas383bats />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ravel ''in'' Ravel ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Tunisia}}
|
A [[Biology:Sac-winged bat|sac-winged bat]].
|
|-
|}

====Odd-toed ungulates====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''[[Biology:Cadurcodon|Cadurcodon maomingensis]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alexander Averianov |author2=Igor Danilov |author3=Jianhua Jin |author4=Yingyong Wang |year=2016 |title=A new amynodontid from the Eocene of South China and phylogeny of Amynodontidae (Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotoidea) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=11 |pages=927–945 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1256914 |s2cid=89118812 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Averianov ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
Youganwo Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Amynodontidae|Amynodontidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Hipparion|Hipparion philippus]]''<ref name=GeobiosHipparion>{{cite journal |author1=George D. Koufos |author2=Theodora D. Vlachou |year=2016 |title=Palaeontology of the upper Miocene vertebrate localities of Nikiti (Chalkidiki Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece) Equidae |journal=Geobios |volume=49 |issue=1–2 |pages=85–118 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2016.01.001 |s2cid=243159348 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Koufos & Vlachou
|
Miocene (early Turolian)
|
|
{{Flag|Greece}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Equidae|Equidae]], a species of ''Hipparion''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Hipparion|Hipparion sithonis]]''<ref name=GeobiosHipparion />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Koufos & Vlachou
|
Miocene (early Turolian)
|
|
{{Flag|Greece}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Equidae|Equidae]], a species of ''Hipparion''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Pappaceras|Pappaceras meiomenus]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Haibing Wang |author2=Bin Bai |author3=Jin Meng |author4=Yuanqing Wang |year=2016 |title=Earliest known unequivocal rhinocerotoid sheds new light on the origin of Giant Rhinos and phylogeny of early rhinocerotoids |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 39607 |doi=10.1038/srep39607 |pmid=28000789 |pmc=5175171|bibcode=2016NatSR...639607W }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
|
Wang ''et al.''
|
Late Early Eocene
|
Arshanto Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Rhinocerotoidea|Rhinocerotoidea]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Paraceratheriidae|Paraceratheriidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Propalaeotherium|Propalaeotherium sudrei]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Jean-Albert Remy |author2=Gabriel Krasovec |author3=Bernard Marandat |year=2016 |title=A new species of ''Propalaeotherium'' (Palaeotheriidae, Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Middle Eocene locality of Aumelas (Hérault, France) |journal=Palæovertebrata |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=e1 |doi=10.18563/pv.40.2.e1 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Remy, Krasovec & Marandat
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Palaeotheriidae|Palaeotheriidae]].
|
|-
|
''Victoriaceros hooijeri''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Denis Geraads |author2=Thomas Lehmann |author3=Daniel J. Peppe |author4=Kieran P. Mcnulty |year=2016 |title=New Rhinocerotidae from the Kisingiri localities (lower Miocene of Western Kenya) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=e1103247 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1103247 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E3247G |s2cid=87488319 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/New_Rhinocerotidae_from_the_Kisingiri_localities_lower_Miocene_of_Western_Kenya_/3083644 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Geraads ''et al.''
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Kenya}}
|
A rhinoceros, tentatively assigned to the genus ''Victoriaceros''.
|
|-
|
''Xylotitan''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Matthew C. Mihlbachler |author2=Joshua X. Samuels |year=2016 |title=A small-bodied species of Brontotheriidae from the middle Eocene Nut Beds of the Clarno Formation, John Day Basin, Oregon |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=90 |issue=6 |pages=1233–1244 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.61 |bibcode=2016JPal...90.1233M |s2cid=133469205 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mihlbachler & Samuels
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Clarno Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Oregon}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Brontotheriidae|Brontotheriidae]]. Genus includes new species ''X. cenosus''.
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|-
|}

====Even-toed ungulates====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Bransatochoerus''<ref>{{Cite book |author=Martin Pickford |year=2016 |title=Revision of European Hyotheriinae (Suidae) and Doliochoeridae (Mammalia) |journal=Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Reihe A: Geologie und Paläontologie |volume=44 |pages=1–270 |bibcode=2016reh..book.....P |isbn=978-3-89937-216-8 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
| 
Valid
|
Pickford
|
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
|
A member of Suoidea belonging to the family [[Biology:Doliochoeridae|Doliochoeridae]] (previously called the Palaeochoeridae); a new genus for ''"Palaeocherus" meissneri'' mut. ''elaverensis'' Viret (1929) (in the rank of the species ''Bransatochoerus elaverensis'').
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|-
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''[[Biology:Celebochoerus|Celebochoerus cagayanensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=T. Ingicco |author2=G.D. van den Bergh |author3=J. de Vos |author4=A. Castro |author5=N. Amano |author6=A. Bautista |year=2016 |title=A new species of ''Celebochoerus'' (Suidae, Mammalia) from the Philippines and the paleobiogeography of the genus ''Celebochoerus'' Hooijer, 1948 |journal=Geobios |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=285–291 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2016.05.006 |bibcode=2016Geobi..49..285I |url=https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/4158 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ingicco ''in'' Ingicco ''et al.''
|
Middle Pleistocene
|
Awidon Mesa Formation
|
{{Flag|Philippines}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Suidae|Suidae]].
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|-
|
''Diplobunops kardoula''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Meaghan M. Emery |author2=Edward B. Davis |author3=Samantha S. B. Hopkins |year=2016 |title=Systematic reassessment of an agriochoerid oreodont from the Hancock Mammal Quarry, Clarno (Eocene, Duchesnean), Oregon |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=e1041970 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2015.1041970 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E1970E |s2cid=86046657 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/3141937 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Emery, Davis & Hopkins
|
Eocene ([[Earth:Duchesnean|Duchesnean]])
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Oregon}})
|
An agriochoerid [[Biology:Merycoidodontoidea|oreodont]], a species of ''Diplobunops''.
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|-
|
''[[Biology:Dorcatherium|Dorcatherium maliki]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Dimitris S. Kostopoulos |author2=Sevket Sen |year=2016 |title=Late Miocene mammal locality of Küçükçekmece, European Turkey. Suidae, Tragulidae, Giraffidae, and Bovidae |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=273–298 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/38/2/suidae-tragulidae-giraffidae-et-bovidae |doi=10.5252/g2016n2a8 |s2cid=88875658 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kostopoulos & Sen
|
Miocene (Vallesian)
|
Ergene Formation
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A [[Biology:Chevrotain|chevrotain]].
|
|-
|
''Fremdohyus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Donald R. Prothero |year=2016 |title=A new genus of hesperhyine peccary (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae) from the late Oligocene of Oregon |journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin |volume=74 |pages=205–211 |url=http://donaldprothero.com/files/118858286.pdf }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Prothero
|
[[Earth:Arikareean|Arikareean]]
|
John Day Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Oregon}})
|
A peccary. A new genus for ''"Thinohyus" osmonti'' Sinclair (1905).
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Honanotherium|Honanotherium bernori]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Nikos Solounias |author2=Melinda Danowitz |year=2016 |title=The Giraffidae of Maragheh and the identification of a new species of ''Honanotherium'' |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=96 |issue=3 |pages=489–506 |doi=10.1007/s12549-016-0230-7 |bibcode=2016PdPe...96..489S |s2cid=87145752 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Solounias & Danowitz
|
Late Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Iran}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Giraffidae|Giraffidae]], a species of ''Honanotherium''.
|
|-
|
''Magwetherium''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Stéphane Ducrocq |author2=Aung Naing Soe |author3=Chit Sein |author4=Vincent Lazzari |author5=Yaowalak Chaimanee |author6=Xavier Valentin |author7=Jean-Jacques Jaeger |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=First record of a diacodexeid artiodactyl in the middle Eocene Pondaung Formation (Myanmar) |journal=PalZ (Paläontologische Zeitschrift) |volume=90 |issue=3 |pages=611–618 |doi=10.1007/s12542-016-0283-y |bibcode=2016PalZ...90..611D |s2cid=130351020 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ducrocq ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
Pondaung Formation
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
A [[Biology:Diacodexeidae|diacodexeid]] dichobunoid. The type species is ''Magwetherium burmense''.
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|-
|
''Megaloceros stavropolensis''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Vadim V. Titov |author2=Anna K. Shvyreva |year=2016 |title=Deer of the Genus ''Megaloceros'' (Mammalia, Cervidae) from the Early Pleistocene of Ciscaucasia |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=87–95 |url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=25069525 |doi=10.1134/S0031030116010111 |bibcode=2016PalJ...50...87T |s2cid=131336166 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Titov & Shvyreva
|
Early Pleistocene (late Villafranchian)
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br />({{Flag|Stavropol Krai}})
|
A [[Biology:Deer|deer]]. Originally described as a species of ''[[Biology:Megaloceros|Megaloceros]]''; Croitor (2018) transferred this species to the genus ''Arvernoceros''.<ref>{{cite book |author=Roman Croitor |year=2018 |title=Plio-Pleistocene deer of western Palearctic: taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny |publisher=Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova |pages=1–140 |isbn=978-9975-66-609-1 |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01737207/document }}</ref>
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''Nabotherium''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Afifi H. Sileem |author2=Hesham M. Sallam |author3=Abdel Galil A. Hewaidy |author4=Ellen R. Miller |author5=Gregg F. Gunnell |year=2016 |title=A new anthracothere (Artiodactyla) from the early Oligocene, Fayum, Egypt, and the mystery of African ''{{' }}Rhagatherium{{' }}'' solved |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=90 |issue=1 |pages=170–181 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.13 |bibcode=2016JPal...90..170S |s2cid=132618649 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Sileem ''et al.''
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Early Oligocene
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Jebel Qatrani Formation
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{{Flag|Egypt}}
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An [[Biology:Anthracotheriidae|anthracothere]]; a new genus for ''"Rhagatherium" aegyptiacum'' Andrews (1906).
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''[[Biology:Prolibytherium|Prolibytherium fusus]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Melinda Danowitz |author2=Rebecca Domalski |author3=Nikos Solounias |year=2016 |title=A New Species of ''Prolibytherium'' (Ruminantia, Mammalia) from Pakistan, and the Functional Implications of an Atypical Atlanto-Occipital Morphology |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=201–207 |doi=10.1007/s10914-015-9307-8 |s2cid=12666249 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Danowitz, Domalski & Solounias
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Early Miocene
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{{Flag|Pakistan}}
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A member of [[Biology:Ruminantia|Ruminantia]], a species of ''Prolibytherium''.
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''Protovis''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Xiaoming Wang |author2=Qiang Li |author3=Gary T. Takeuchi |year=2016 |title=Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, ''Protovis himalayensis'', genus and species nov. (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=e1169190 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1169190 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E9190W |s2cid=88390564 |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18q9z0cj }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Wang, Li & Takeuchi
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Pliocene
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Zanda Basin
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{{Flag|China}}
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A relative of the [[Biology:Sheep|sheep]]. The type species is ''Protovis himalayensis''.
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''[[Biology:Retroporcus|Retroporcus]]''<ref name=Retroporcus>{{Cite journal|author=Martin Pickford |year=2016 |title=Biochronology of European Miocene Tetraconodontinae (Suidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) flowing from recent revision of the Subfamily |journal=Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A |volume=118 |pages=175–244 |url=http://verlag.nhm-wien.ac.at/pdfs/118A_175244_Pickford.pdf }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Pickford
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Miocene
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{{Flag|Austria}}<br />
{{Flag|France}}<br />
{{Flag|Germany}}<br />
{{Flag|India}}<br />
{{Flag|Pakistan}}<br />
{{Flag|Serbia}}<br />
{{Flag|Spain}}<br />
{{Flag|Switzerland}}<br />
{{Flag|Turkey}}
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A tetraconodontine [[Biology:Suidae|suid]]. The type species is ''Retroporcus complutensis'' Pickford & Laurent (2014); genus also contains ''"[[Biology:Conohyus|Conohyus]]" sindiensis'' Lydekker, 1884 and ''[[Biology:Hyotherium|Hyotherium]] soemmeringi matritensis'' Golpe-Posse, 1972 (recombined as a separate species ''Retroporcus matritensis''). The generic name was originally published in an article from 2014,<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=M. Pickford |author2=Y. Laurent |year=2014 |title=Valorisation of palaeontological collections: nomination of a lectotype for ''Conohyus simorrensis'' (Lartet, 1851), Villefranche d'Astarac, France, and description of a new genus of tetraconodont |journal=Estudios Geológicos |volume=70 |issue=1 |pages=e002 |doi=10.3989/egeol.41261.262 |doi-access=free }}</ref> but without the diagnosis, necessitating its validation in a later publication.<ref name=Retroporcus />
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====Cetaceans====
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''[[Biology:Acrophyseter|Acrophyseter robustus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Olivier Lambert |author2=Giovanni Bianucci |author3=Christian De Muizon |year=2016 |title=Macroraptorial sperm whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteroidea) from the Miocene of Peru |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=179 |issue=2 |pages=404–474 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12456 |hdl=11568/814760 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://zoobank.org/References/362890ED-668D-4326-B295-8DB265D9BF69 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-05-03 |archive-date=2019-08-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821093755/http://zoobank.org/References/362890ED-668D-4326-B295-8DB265D9BF69 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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Lambert, Bianucci & De Muizon
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Miocene (late [[Earth:Serravallian|Serravallian]]–[[Biology:Tortonian|Tortonian]])
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[[Earth:Pisco Formation|Pisco Formation]]
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{{Flag|Peru}}
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''[[Biology:Arktocara|Arktocara]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Alexandra T. Boersma|author2=Nicholas D. Pyenson |year=2016 |title=''Arktocara yakataga'', a new fossil odontocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of Alaska and the antiquity of Platanistoidea |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e2321 |doi=10.7717/peerj.2321 |pmid=27602287 |pmc=4991871 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Boersma & Pyenson
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Oligocene (probably [[Earth:Chattian|Chattian]])
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Poul Creek Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Alaska}})
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A member of Platanistoidea related to ''[[Biology:Allodelphis|Allodelphis]]''. The type species is ''A. yakataga''.
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''Awadelphis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author =Mizuki Murakami |year=2016 |title=A New Extinct Inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Upper Miocene Senhata Formation, Chiba, Central Japan: The First Record of Inioidea from the North Pacific Ocean |journal=Paleontological Research |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=207–225 |doi=10.2517/2015PR031 |s2cid=132209924 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Murakami
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Latest Miocene
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Senhata Formation
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{{Flag|Japan}}
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A member of Inioidea. The type species is ''A. hirayamai''.
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''Awamokoa''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yoshihiro Tanaka |author2=R. Ewan Fordyce |year=2016 |title=''Awamokoa tokarahi'', a new basal dolphin in the Platanistoidea (late Oligocene, New Zealand) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=5 |pages=365–386 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1202339 |s2cid=88599973 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://zoobank.org/References/79CC0BCE-4ED5-425F-897B-F6EBEFC159CA |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-05-03 |archive-date=2019-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901143900/http://zoobank.org/References/79CC0BCE-4ED5-425F-897B-F6EBEFC159CA |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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Tanaka & Fordyce
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Late Oligocene
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[[Earth:Kokoamu Greensand|Kokoamu Greensand]]
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{{Flag|New Zealand}}
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A member of Platanistoidea. The type species is ''A. tokarahi''.
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''[[Biology:Chavinziphius|Chavinziphius]]''<ref name=Chavinziphius>{{Cite journal|author1=Giovanni Bianucci |author2=Claudio Di Celma |author3=Mario Urbina |author4=Olivier Lambert |year=2016 |title=New beaked whales from the late Miocene of Peru and evidence for convergent evolution in stem and crown Ziphiidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti) |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e2479 |doi=10.7717/peerj.2479 |pmid=27688973 |pmc=5036081 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Bianucci ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
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[[Earth:Pisco Formation|Pisco Formation]]
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{{Flag|Peru}}
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A [[Biology:Beaked whale|beaked whale]]. The type species is ''C. maxillocristatus''.
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''Chimuziphius''<ref name=Chavinziphius />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Bianucci ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
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[[Earth:Pisco Formation|Pisco Formation]]
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{{Flag|Peru}}
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A [[Biology:Beaked whale|beaked whale]]. The type species is ''C. coloradensis''.
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''[[Biology:Dagonodum|Dagonodum]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Benjamin Ramassamy |year=2016 |title=Description of a new long-snouted beaked whale from the Late Miocene of Denmark: evolution of suction feeding and sexual dimorphism in the Ziphiidae (Cetacea: Odontoceti) |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=178 |issue=2 |pages=381–409 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12418 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Ramassamy
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Late Miocene
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[[Earth:Gram Formation|Gram Formation]]
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{{Flag|Denmark}}
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A [[Biology:Beaked whale|beaked whale]]. Genus includes new species ''D. mojnum''.
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''[[Biology:Echovenator|Echovenator]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Morgan Churchill |author2=Manuel Martinez-Caceres |author3=Christian de Muizon |author4=Jessica Mnieckowski |author5=Jonathan H. Geisler |year=2016 |title=The Origin of High-Frequency Hearing in Whales |journal=Current Biology |volume=26 |issue=16 |pages=2144–2149 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.004 |pmid=27498568|s2cid=3944589 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
|
Churchill ''et al.''
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Late Oligocene
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Chandler Bridge Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|South Carolina}})
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A member of [[Biology:Xenorophidae|Xenorophidae]]. The type species is ''E. sandersi''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Fragilicetus|Fragilicetus]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Michelangelo Bisconti |author2=Mark Bosselaers |year=2016 |title=''Fragilicetus velponi'': a new mysticete genus and species and its implications for the origin of Balaenopteridae (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti) |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=177 |issue=2 |pages=450–474 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12370 |s2cid=54058530 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Bisconti & Bosselaers
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Early Pliocene
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Kattendijk Sands
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{{Flag|Belgium}}<br>
{{Flag|South Africa}}<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Romala Govender |author2=Felix G. Marx |year=2023 |title=New cetacean fossils from the late Cenozoic of South Africa |journal=Frontiers in Earth Science |volume=10 |at=1058104 |doi=10.3389/feart.2022.1058104 |bibcode=2023FrEaS..1058104G |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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A member of [[Biology:Rorqual|Balaenopteridae]] showing a mix of morphological characters that is intermediate between those of [[Biology:Eschrichtiidae|Eschrichtiidae]] and those of Balaenopteridae. The type species is ''Fragilicetus velponi''.
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''[[Biology:Goedertius|Goedertius]]''<ref name=KB16>{{cite journal |author1=Toshiyuki Kimura |author2=Lawrence G. Barnes |year=2016 |title=New Miocene fossil Allodelphinidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Platanistoidea) from the North Pacific Ocean |journal=Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History |volume=20 |pages=1–58 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299616327 }}</ref>
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Gen. et. sp. nov
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Valid
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Kimura & Barnes
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Miocene (late Aquitanian)
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Nye Formation
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{{Flag|United States}} ({{Flag|Oregon}})
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A member of [[Biology:Allodelphinidae|Allodelphinidae]]. The type species is ''Goedertius oregonensis''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Incakujira|Incakujira]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Felix G. Marx |author2=Naoki Kohno |year=2016 |title=A new Miocene baleen whale from the Peruvian desert |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=3 |issue=10 |pages=160542 |doi=10.1098/rsos.160542 |pmid=27853573 |pmc=5098998 |bibcode=2016RSOS....360542M }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Marx & Kohno
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Miocene
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[[Earth:Pisco Formation|Pisco Formation]]
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{{Flag|Peru}}
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A [[Biology:Rorqual|rorqual]]. The type species is ''I. anillodefuego''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Mammalodon|Mammalodon hakataramea]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=R. Ewan Fordyce |author2=Felix G. Marx |year=2016 |title=Mysticetes baring their teeth: a new fossil whale, ''Mammalodon hakataramea'', from the Southwest Pacific |journal=Memoirs of Museum Victoria |volume=74 |pages=107–116 |doi=10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.11 |url=https://museumsvictoria.com.au/about/books-and-journals/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/2010-2019/2016-vol-74-special-issue-in-honour-of-dr-thomas-h-rich/fordyce-and-marx/ |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Fordyce & Marx
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Oligocene (Duntroonian, 27 Ma)
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[[Earth:Kokoamu Greensand|Kokoamu Greensand]]
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{{Flag|New Zealand}}
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A species of ''Mammalodon'', a member of [[Biology:Mammalodontidae|Mammalodontidae]].
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|-
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''[[Biology:Matapanui|Matapanui]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Robert W. Boessenecker |author2=R. Ewan Fordyce |year=2016 |title=A new eomysticetid from the Oligocene Kokoamu Greensand of New Zealand and a review of the Eomysticetidae (Mammalia, Cetacea) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=429–469 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1191045 |s2cid=132903193 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Robert W. Boessenecker |author2=R. Ewan Fordyce |year=2016 |title=''Matapanui'', a replacement name for ''Matapa'' Boessenecker & Fordyce, 2016 |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=471 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1210070 |s2cid=88670862 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://zoobank.org/References/EE1CB5CC-618B-4ABA-9D97-5B9DEDD3470E |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-05-03 |archive-date=2019-08-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823042826/http://zoobank.org/References/EE1CB5CC-618B-4ABA-9D97-5B9DEDD3470E |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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Boessenecker & Fordyce
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Oligocene (latest Whaingaroan, 28.1–27.3 Ma)
|
[[Earth:Kokoamu Greensand|Kokoamu Greensand]]
|
{{Flag|New Zealand}}
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A member of [[Biology:Eomysticetidae|Eomysticetidae]]. The type species is ''M. waihao''.
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|-
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''Mesoplodon posti''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Olivier Lambert |author2=Stephen Louwye |year=2016 |title=A new early Pliocene species of ''Mesoplodon'': a calibration mark for the radiation of this species-rich beaked whale genus |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=e1055754 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2015.1055754 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E5754L |s2cid=88446578 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Lambert & Louwye
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Pliocene (Zanclean)
|
|
{{Flag|Belgium}}
|
A mesoplodont whale.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Metopocetus|Metopocetus hunteri]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Felix Georg Marx |author2=Mark E.J. Bosselaers |author3=Stephen Louwye |year=2016 |title=A new species of ''Metopocetus'' (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Cetotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of the Netherlands |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e1572 |doi=10.7717/peerj.1572 |pmid=26835183 |pmc=4734074 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Marx, Bosselaers & Louwye
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Miocene (late [[Biology:Tortonian|Tortonian]])
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[[Earth:Breda Formation|Breda Formation]]
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{{Flag|Netherlands}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cetotheriidae|Cetotheriidae]], a species of ''Metopocetus''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Mithridatocetus|Mithridatocetus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Pavel Gol'din |author2=Dmitry Startsev |year=2016 |title=A systematic review of cetothere baleen whales (Cetacea, Cetotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of Crimea and Caucasus, with a new genus |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=49–68 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1066 |s2cid=88690543 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Gol'din & Startsev
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Miocene ([[Biology:Tortonian|Tortonian]])
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Chersonian Formation
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{{Flag|Ukraine}}{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cetotheriidae|Cetotheriidae]]. Genus includes new species ''M. eichwaldi'', as well as ''"[[Biology:Kurdalagonus|Kurdalagonus]]" adygeicus'' Tarasenko & Lopatin (2012) and ''"[[Biology:Cetotherium|Cetotherium]]" mayeri'' (a ''[[Biology:Nomen dubium|nomen dubium]]'').
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|-
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''[[Biology:Ninjadelphis|Ninjadelphis]]''<ref name=KB16/>
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Gen. et. sp. nov
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Valid
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Kimura & Barnes
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Miocene (late [[Earth:Burdigalian|Burdigalian]])
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Hiramatsu Formation
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{{Flag|Japan}}
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A member of [[Biology:Allodelphinidae|Allodelphinidae]]. The type species is ''Ninjadelphis ujiharai''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Rayanistes|Rayanistes]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Ryan M. Bebej |author2=Iyad S. Zalmout |author3=Ahmed A. Abed El-Aziz |author4=Mohammed Sameh M. Antar |author5=Philip D. Gingerich |year=2016 |title=First remingtonocetid archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the middle Eocene of Egypt with implications for biogeography and locomotion in early cetacean evolution |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=5 |pages=882–893 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2015.57 |s2cid=131700344 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Bebej ''et al.''
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Eocene ([[Earth:Lutetian|Lutetian]])
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Midawara Formation
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{{Flag|Egypt}}
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A member of [[Biology:Remingtonocetidae|Remingtonocetidae]]. The type species is ''Rayanistes afer''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Sitsqwayk|Sitsqwayk]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Carlos Mauricio Peredo |author2=Mark D. Uhen |year=2016 |title=A new basal chaeomysticete (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Late Oligocene Pysht Formation of Washington, USA |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=533–554 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1051 |bibcode=2016PPal....2..533P |s2cid=131787838 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Peredo & Uhen
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Late Oligocene
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Pysht Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Washington}})
|
A [[Biology:Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] member of Chaeomysticeti. The type species is ''S. cornishorum''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Whakakai|Whakakai]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=C.H. Tsai |author2=R.E. Fordyce |year=2016 |title=Archaic baleen whale from the Kokoamu Greensand: earbones distinguish a new late Oligocene mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from New Zealand |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=117–138 |doi=10.1080/03036758.2016.1156552 |bibcode=2016JRSNZ..46..117T |s2cid=88688233 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
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Tsai & Fordyce
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Oligocene ([[Earth:Chattian|Chattian]])
|
[[Earth:Kokoamu Greensand|Kokoamu Greensand]]
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{{Flag|New Zealand}}
|
A [[Biology:Baleen whale|baleen whale]]. The type species is ''Whakakai waipata''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Zarhinocetus|Zarhinocetus donnamatsonae]]''<ref name=KB16/>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Kimura & Barnes
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Miocene (late [[Earth:Burdigalian|Burdigalian]]-early [[Earth:Langhian|Langhian]])
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Astoria Formation
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{{Flag|United States}} ({{Flag|Washington}})
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A member of [[Biology:Allodelphinidae|Allodelphinidae]].
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====Carnivorans====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
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''[[Biology:Actiocyon|Actiocyon parverratis]]''<ref name=APPMonarchMillFmcarnivorans>{{Cite journal|author1=Kent Smith |author2=Nicholas Czaplewski |author3=Richard Cifelli |year=2016 |title=Middle Miocene carnivorans from the Monarch Mill Formation, Nevada |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=231–252 |doi=10.4202/app.00111.2014 |s2cid=55011341 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
| 
Valid
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Smith, Czaplewski & Cifelli
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Miocene ([[Earth:Barstovian|Barstovian]])
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Monarch Mill Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Nevada}})
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A simocyonine [[Biology:Ailuridae|ailurid]] (a relative of the [[Biology:Red panda|red panda]]), a species of ''Actiocyon''.
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''Alagtsavbaatar''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Naoko Egi |author2=Takehisa Tsubamoto |author3=Mototaka Saneyoshi |author4=Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar |author5=Mahito Watabe |author6=Buuvei Mainbayar |author7=Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig |author8=Purevdorg Khatanbaatar |year=2016 |title=Taxonomic revisions on nimravids and small feliforms (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Upper Eocene of Mongolia |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=28 |issue=1–2 |pages=105–119 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2015.1012508 |bibcode=2016HBio...28..105E |s2cid=86239933 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Egi ''et al.''
|
Late Eocene
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Ergilin Dzo Formation
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Feliformia|Feliformia]]. The type species is ''"[[Biology:Stenoplesictis|Stenoplesictis]]" indigenus'' Dashzeveg (1996).
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''[[Biology:Angelarctocyon|Angelarctocyon]]''<ref name=Angelarctocyon>{{Cite journal|author1=Susumu Tomiya |author2=Zhijie Jack Tseng |year=2016 |title=Whence the beardogs? Reappraisal of the Middle to Late Eocene '''Miacis''' from Texas, USA, and the origin of Amphicyonidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=3 |issue=10 |pages=160518 |doi=10.1098/rsos.160518 |pmid=27853569 |pmc=5098994|bibcode=2016RSOS....360518T }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
| 
Valid
|
Tomiya & Tseng
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Eocene ([[Earth:Duchesnean|Duchesnean]])
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Chambers Tuff
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Texas}})
|
A [[Biology:Bear dog|bear dog]]. The type species is ''"[[Biology:Miacis|Miacis]]" australis'' Gustafson (1986).
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|-
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''Brevimalictis''<ref name=APPMonarchMillFmcarnivorans />
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Gen. et sp. nov
| 
Valid
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Smith, Czaplewski & Cifelli
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Miocene ([[Earth:Barstovian|Barstovian]])
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Monarch Mill Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Nevada}})
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A member of [[Biology:Mustelidae|Mustelidae]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''Brevimalictis chikasha''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Cynarctus|Cynarctus wangi]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Steven E. Jasinski |author2=Steven C. Wallace |year=2016 |title=A Borophagine canid (Carnivora: Canidae: Borophaginae) from the middle Miocene Chesapeake Group of eastern North America |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=89 |issue=6 |pages=1082–1088 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.17 |s2cid=130958443 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Jasinski & Wallace
|
Middle Miocene
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Choptank Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Maryland}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Canidae|Canidae]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Borophaginae|Borophaginae]], a species of ''Cynarctus''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Enhydrictis|Enhydrictis hoffstetteri]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Denis Geraads |year=2016 |title=Pleistocene Carnivora (Mammalia) from Tighennif (Ternifine), Algeria |journal=Geobios |volume=49 |issue=6 |pages=445–458 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2016.09.001 |bibcode=2016Geobi..49..445G |s2cid=89558550 |url=https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01393484/file/Geraads_Pleistocene.pdf }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Geraads
|
Pleistocene
|
|
{{Flag|Algeria}}
|
An [[Biology:Otter|otter]]-like member of the [[Biology:Mustelidae|Mustelidae]].
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|-
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''[[Biology:Gustafsonia|Gustafsonia]]''<ref name=Angelarctocyon />
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Gen. et comb. nov
| 
Valid
|
Tomiya & Tseng
|
Eocene ([[Earth:Chadronian|Chadronian]])
|
Chambers Tuff
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Texas}})
|
A [[Biology:Bear dog|bear dog]]. The type species is ''"[[Biology:Miacis|Miacis]]" cognitus'' Gustafson (1986).
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|-
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''[[Biology:Lontra weiri|Lontra weiri]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author =Kari A. Prassack |year=2016 |title=''Lontra weiri'', sp. nov., a Pliocene river otter (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae, Lutrinae) from the Hagerman Fossil Beds (Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument), Idaho, U.S.A. |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=e1149075 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1149075 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E9075P |s2cid=87404097 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Prassack
|
Pliocene
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Hagerman Fossil Beds
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Idaho}})
|
An [[Biology:Otter|otter]], a species of ''[[Biology:Lontra|Lontra]]''.
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|-
|
''Lutraeximia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Marco Cherin |author2=Dawid Adam Iurino |author3=Gerard Willemsen |author4=Giorgio Carnevale |year=2016 |title=A new otter from the Early Pleistocene of Pantalla (Italy), with remarks on the evolutionary history of Mediterranean Quaternary Lutrinae (Carnivora, Mustelidae) |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |volume=135 |pages=92–102 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.01.008 |bibcode=2016QSRv..135...92C }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Cherin ''et al.''
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Early Pleistocene (late Villafranchian)
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{{Flag|Azerbaijan}}<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=M.V. Sablin |author2=K.Yu. Iltsevich |year=2022 |title=Early Pleistocene Caniformia from Palan-Tyukan (Azerbaijan) |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences |volume=326 |issue=2 |pages=47–58 |doi=10.31610/trudyzin/2022.326.2.47 |s2cid=250096512 |doi-access=free }}</ref><br>
{{Flag|Italy}}
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An [[Biology:Otter|otter]]. The type species is ''Lutraeximia umbra''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Maofelis|Maofelis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Alexander Averianov |author2=Ekaterina Obraztsova |author3=Igor Danilov |author4=Pavel Skutschas |author5=Jianhua Jin |year=2016 |title=First nimravid skull from Asia |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 25812 |doi=10.1038/srep25812 |pmid=27161785 |pmc=4861911|bibcode=2016NatSR...625812A }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
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Averianov ''et al.''
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Middle-late Eocene
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Youganwo Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of [[Biology:Nimravidae|Nimravidae]]. The type species is ''Maofelis cantonensis''. 
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|-
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''Negodiaetictis''<ref name=APPMonarchMillFmcarnivorans />
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Gen. et sp. nov
| 
Valid
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Smith, Czaplewski & Cifelli
|
Miocene ([[Earth:Barstovian|Barstovian]])
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Monarch Mill Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Nevada}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Mustelidae|Mustelidae]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''Negodiaetictis rugatrulleum''.
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|-
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''Watay''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Win N. F. McLaughlin |author2=Samantha S. B. Hopkins |author3=Mark D. Schmitz |year=2016 |title=A new late Hemingfordian vertebrate fauna from Hawk Rim, Oregon, with implications for biostratigraphy and geochronology |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=e1201095 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1201095 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E1095M |s2cid=133456715 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/A_new_late_Hemingfordian_vertebrate_fauna_from_Hawk_Rim_Oregon_with_implications_for_biostratigraphy_and_geochronology/3502043 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
McLaughlin, Hopkins & Schmitz
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[[Earth:Hemingfordian North American Stage|Hemingfordian]]
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[[Earth:Mascall Formation|Mascall Formation]]
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Oregon}})
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A member of [[Biology:Mustelidae|Mustelidae]]. The type species is ''W. tabutsigwii''.
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====Rodents====
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''Abudhabia abagensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Gerbillinae|gerbil]] related to members of the genus ''[[Biology:Taterillus|Taterillus]]''.
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|-
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''Abudhabia wangi''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Gerbillinae|gerbil]] related to members of the genus ''[[Biology:Taterillus|Taterillus]]''.
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|-
|
''Allodistylomys''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family Distylomyidae. Genus includes new species ''A. stepposus''.
|
|-
|
''Allohuaxiamys''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Muridae|Muridae]]. Genus includes new species ''A. gaotegeensis''.
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|-
|
''Ansomys borealis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Aplodontiidae|Aplodontiidae]].
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|-
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''Ansomys lophodens''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Aplodontiidae|Aplodontiidae]].
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|-
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''Ansomys robustus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Aplodontiidae|Aplodontiidae]].
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|-
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''Apatodemus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=A. Savorelli |author2=S. Colombero |author3=F. Masini |year=2016 |title=''Apatodemus degiulii'' n. gen. et sp. (Rodentia, Muridae), a hitherto undescribed endemite from the Terre Rosse of Gargano (Late Miocene, Southeastern Italy) |journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung A |volume=306 |issue=1–6 |pages=25–49 |doi=10.1127/pala/306/2016/25 |bibcode=2016PalAA.306...25S }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Savorelli, Colombero & Masini
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Italy}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Muridae|Muridae]]. The type species is ''A. degiulii''.
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|-
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''Argouburus''<ref name=Argouburus>{{Cite journal|author1=Laurent Marivaux |author2=Sylvain Adnet |author3=Mohammed Benammi |author4=Rodolphe Tabuce |author5=Mouloud Benammi |year=2016 |title=Anomaluroid rodents from the earliest Oligocene of Dakhla, Morocco, reveal the long-lived and morphologically conservative pattern of the Anomaluridae and Nonanomaluridae during the Tertiary in Africa |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=7 |pages=539–569 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1206977 |s2cid=88750294 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303382183 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid<ref name=ArgouburusZB>{{Cite web |url=http://zoobank.org/References/92621503-34A0-4A61-BB87-2F7D04D66728 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-05-03 |archive-date=2019-08-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821180027/http://zoobank.org/References/92621503-34A0-4A61-BB87-2F7D04D66728 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
Marivaux ''et al.''
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Early Oligocene
|
Samlat Formation
|
Western Sahara
|
An anomalure. The type species is ''A. minutus''.
|
|-
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''Atlantocerus exilis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A relative of the Barbary ground squirrel.
|
|-
|
''Atlantocerus major''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A relative of the Barbary ground squirrel.
|
|-
|
''Ayakozomys mandaltensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Muroidea|muroid]] rodent belonging to the family Tachyoryctoididae.
|
|-
|
''Ayakozomys ultimus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Muroidea|muroid]] rodent belonging to the family Tachyoryctoididae.
|
|-
|
''Birkamys''<ref name=Birkamys>{{Cite journal|author1=Hesham M. Sallam |author2=Erik R. Seiffert |year=2016 |title=New phiomorph rodents from the latest Eocene of Egypt, and the impact of Bayesian "clock"-based phylogenetic methods on estimates of basal hystricognath relationships and biochronology |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e1717 |doi=10.7717/peerj.1717 |pmid=26966657 |pmc=4782727 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sallam & Seiffert
|
Eocene (late [[Earth:Priabonian|Priabonian]])
|
Jebel Qatrani Formation
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Phiomorpha|Phiomorpha]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''Birkamys korai''.
|
|-
|
''Borsodia mengensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides>{{Cite journal|author1=Z.-D. Qiu |author2=Q. Li |year=2016 |title=Neogene rodents from central Nei Mongol, China |journal=Palaeontologia Sinica |volume=198, New Series C30 |pages=1–684 |isbn=978-7030491459 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Arvicolinae|Arvicolinae]].
|
|-
|
''Brachyscirtetes tomidai''<ref>{{Cite journal|author =Q. Li |year=2016 |title=''Brachyscirtetes tomidai'', a new Late Miocene dipodid (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Siziwang Qi, central Nei Mongol, China |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=28 |issue=1–2 |pages=35–42 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2014.996218 |bibcode=2016HBio...28...35L |s2cid=86006524 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li
|
Late Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Dipodidae|Dipodidae]], a species of ''Brachyscirtetes''.
|
|-
|
''Chambiramys''<ref name=Chambiramys>{{Cite journal|author1=Myriam Boivin |author2=Laurent Marivaux |author3=Adriana M. Candela |author4=Maëva J. Orliac |author5=François Pujos |author6=Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi |author7=Julia V. Tejada-Lara |author8=Pierre-Olivier Antoine |year=2016 |title=Late Oligocene caviomorph rodents from Contamana, Peruvian Amazonia |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=69–109 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1068 |s2cid=132094172 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et 2 sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boivin ''et al.''
|
Late Oligocene
|
Chambira Formation
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A [[Biology:Caviomorpha|caviomorph]] [[Biology:Rodent|rodent]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''C. sylvaticus''; genus also includes ''C. shipiborum''.
|
|-
|
''Chukimys''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Franck Barbiere |author2=Laura E. Cruz |author3=Pablo E. Ortiz |author4=Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas |year=2016 |title=A new genus of Sigmodontinae (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae) from the Pliocene of Central Argentina |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=e1199557 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1199557 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E9557B |s2cid=89495030 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Barbiere ''et al.''
|
Late Pliocene
|
Brochero Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Sigmodontinae|Sigmodontinae]]. The type species is ''C. favaloroi''.
|
|-
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''Colloides''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent. Genus includes new species ''C. xiaomingi''.
|
|-
|
''Cricetodon fengi''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent.
|
|-
|
''Cricetodon fikreti''<ref name=BMRECricetodontini>{{Cite journal |author1=Nihal Çinar Durgut |author2=Engin Ünay |year=2016 |title=Cricetodontini from the early Miocene of Anatolia |journal=Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration |volume=152 |pages=85–119 |url=http://dergi.mta.gov.tr/ceviri/20160623124613_176_1735446a.pdf |access-date=2017-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119214944/http://dergi.mta.gov.tr/ceviri/20160623124613_176_1735446a.pdf |archive-date=2016-11-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Çinar Durgut & Ünay
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A member of Cricetodontini.
|
|-
|
''Cricetodon magnesiensis''<ref name=BMRECricetodontini />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Çinar Durgut & Ünay
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A member of Cricetodontini.
|
|-
|
''Cricetodon sonidensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent.
|
|-
|
''Cricetodon trallesensis''<ref name=BMRECricetodontini />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Çinar Durgut & Ünay
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Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A member of Cricetodontini.
|
|-
|
''Cricetodon yapintiensis''<ref name=BMRECricetodontini />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Çinar Durgut & Ünay
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A member of Cricetodontini.
|
|-
|
''Dakhlamys''<ref name=Argouburus />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid<ref name=ArgouburusZB />
|
Marivaux ''et al.''
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Early Oligocene
|
Samlat Formation
|
Western Sahara
|
A possible member of Zegdoumyidae. The type species is ''D. ultimus''.
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|-
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''Dehmisciurus''<ref>{{cite book |author1=Zoran Marković |author2=Hans de Bruijn |author3=Wilma Wessels |year=2016 |chapter=A revision of the new rodent collections from the Early Miocene of Sibnica, Serbia |editor1=Zoran Marković |editor2=Miloš Milivojević |title=Life on the shore – geological and paleontological research in the Neogene of Sibnica and vicinity (Levač basin, Central Serbia) |pages=63–117 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311954756 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Marković, de Bruijn & Wessels
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Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] – Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Austria}}<br />
{{Flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}<br />
{{Flag|Germany}}<br />
{{Flag|Serbia}}<br />
{{Flag|Spain}}<br />
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A member of the family Sciuridae. The type species is ''"[[Biology:Oriental giant squirrel|Ratufa]]" obtusidens'' Dehm (1950).
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Dipoides|Dipoides mengensis]]''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Castoridae|Castoridae]].
|
|-
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''Dipus nanus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A relative of the [[Biology:Northern three-toed jerboa|northern three-toed jerboa]].
|
|-
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''Dipus pliocenicus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A relative of the [[Biology:Northern three-toed jerboa|northern three-toed jerboa]].
|
|-
|
''Dolocylindrodon''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=William W. Korth |author2=Alan R. Tabrum |year=2016 |title=A New Genus of Cylindrodontid Rodent from the Chadronian (Late Eocene) of Southwestern Montana and a Reassessment of the Genus ''Pseudocylindrodon'' Burke, 1935 |journal=Annals of Carnegie Museum |volume=84 |issue=1 |pages=75–93 |doi=10.2992/007.084.0101 |s2cid=90264224 }}</ref>
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Gen. et 2 sp. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Korth & Tabrum
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Eocene-Oligocene
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Montana}}<br />{{Flag|Texas}}<br />{{Flag|Wyoming}})
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A member of Cylindrodontidae. The type species is ''D. vukae''; genus also includes new species ''D. rahnensis'', as well as ''"Pseudocylindrodon" medius'' Burke (1938), ''"Pseudocylindrodon" tobeyi'' Black (1970) and ''"Pseudocylindrodon" texanus'' Wood (1974).
|
|-
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''Elfomys catalaunicus''<ref name=JVPSantJaumedeFrontaya>{{cite journal |author1=Isaac Bonilla-Salomón |author2=Raef Minwer-Barakat |author3=Monique Vianey-Liaud |author4=Salvador Moyà-Solà |year=2016 |title=Middle Eocene rodents from Sant Jaume de Frontanyà (eastern Pyrenees, northern Spain) and biochronological implications |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=e1121149 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1121149 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E1149B |s2cid=88444752 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Bonilla-Salomón ''et al.''
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Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A member of Theridomyidae, a species of ''Elfomys''.
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|-
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''Ellobius (Bramus) pomeli''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Alexey S. Tesakov |year=2016 |title=Early Middle Pleistocene ''Ellobius'' (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Arvicolinae) from Armenia |journal=Russian Journal of Theriology |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=151–158 |doi=10.15298/rusjtheriol.15.2.07 |url=http://zmmu.msu.ru/rjt/articles/ther15_2_151_158.pdf }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Tesakov
|
Early Middle Pleistocene
|
Arapi Formation
|
{{Flag|Armenia}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Ellobius|Ellobius]]''.
|
|-
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''Elymys ? emryi''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Thomas S. Kelly |author2=Paul C. Murphey |year=2016 |title=Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 1: Primates and Rodentia |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 19.2.27A |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1518-earliest-uintan-mammals |doi=10.26879/586 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
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Kelly & Murphey
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Eocene (early [[Earth:Uintan|Uintan]])
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Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Wyoming}})
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A possible member of [[Biology:Dipodidae|Dipodidae]].
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|-
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''Eozapus major''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A relative of the [[Biology:Chinese jumping mouse|Chinese jumping mouse]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Eucastor|Eucastor plionicus]]''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Castoridae|Castoridae]].
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|-
|
''Eucricetodon wangae''<ref name=PLoSONE115cricetids>{{Cite journal|author1=Qian Li |author2=Jin Meng |author3=Yuanqing Wang |year=2016 |title=New Cricetid Rodents from Strata near the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary in Erden Obo Section (Nei Mongol, China) |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=e0156233 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0156233 |pmid=27227833 |pmc=4881996|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1156233L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li, Meng & Wang
|
Late Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]], a species of ''Eucricetodon''.
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|-
|
''Eutypomys productus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=William W. Korth |year=2016 |title=Mammals from the Blue Ash local fauna (Whitneyan, Oligocene), South Dakota. Rodentia Part 7: Additional Eutypomyidae and Castoridae |journal=Paludicola |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=1–7 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Korth
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Biology:Whitneyan|Whitneyan]])
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|South Dakota}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Eutypomyidae|Eutypomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''Geomys tyrioni''<ref>{{Cite journal|author =Robert A. Martin |year=2016 |title=''Geomys tyrioni'', a new species of early Pleistocene dwarf pocket gopher from the Meade Basin of southwestern Kansas |journal=Journal of Mammalogy |volume=97 |issue=3 |pages=949–959 |doi=10.1093/jmammal/gyw024 |s2cid=84840312 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Martin
|
Early Pleistocene
|
Meade Basin
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Kansas}})
|
A pocket gopher, a species of ''[[Biology:Geomys|Geomys]]''.
|
|-
|
''Gliruloides''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Wen-Yu Wu |author2=Jin Meng |author3=Jie Ye |author4=Xi-Jun Ni |author5=Shun-Dong Bi |year=2016 |title=Restudy of the Late Oligocene dormice from northern Junggar Basin |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=36–50 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201602/t20160229_4538934.html |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2016.01.003 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Wu ''et al.''
|
Late Oligocene to early Miocene
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Junggar Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}<br />
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A dormouse related to the [[Biology:Forest dormouse|forest dormouse]]. The type species is ''Gliruloides zhoui''; genus also includes ''"Vasseuromys" duplex'' Ünay (1994).
|
|-
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''Gobicricetodon arshanensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent.
|
|-
|
''Hylopetes bellus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A squirrel, a species of ''[[Biology:Hylopetes|Hylopetes]]''.
|
|-
|
''Hylopetes yani''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A squirrel, a species of ''[[Biology:Hylopetes|Hylopetes]]''.
|
|-
|
''Hystricops mengensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Castoridae|Castoridae]].
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|-
|
''Irtyshogaulus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiaoyu Lu |author2=Xijun Ni |author3=Lüzhou Li |author4=Qiang Li |year=2016 |title=Two New Mylagaulid Rodents from the Early Miocene of China |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=8 |pages=e0159445 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0159445 |pmid=27486803 |pmc=4972310|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1159445L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et 2 sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Lu ''et al.''
|
Early Miocene
|
Junggar Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Mylagaulidae|Mylagaulidae]] belonging to the subfamily Promylagaulinae. The type species is ''I. minor''; genus also includes ''I. major''.
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|-
|
''Karnimatoides''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Murinae|Murinae]]. The type species is ''K. hipparionus'' (Schlosser, 1924).
|
|-
|
''Keramidomys magnus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Eomyidae|Eomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''Khanomys''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Gen. et 2 sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent. Genus includes new species ''K. baii'' and ''K. cheni''.
|
|-
|
''Kowalskia shalaensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent.
|
|-
|
''Lagostomus telenkechanum''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Luciano L. Rasia |author2=Adriana M. Candela |year=2016 |title=''Lagostomus telenkechanum'', sp. nov., a new lagostomine rodent (Caviomorpha, Chinchillidae) from the Arroyo Chasicó Formation (late Miocene; Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=e1239205 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1239205 |s2cid=89551564 |url=http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/106141 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rasia & Candela
|
Late Miocene
|
Arroyo Chasicó Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Lagostomus|Lagostomus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Ligerimys asiaticus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Eomyidae|Eomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''Loretomys''<ref name=Chambiramys />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boivin ''et al.''
|
Late Oligocene
|
Chambira Formation
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A [[Biology:Caviomorpha|caviomorph]] [[Biology:Rodent|rodent]] belonging to the superfamily Octodontoidea. The type species is ''L. minutus''.
|
|-
|
''Megacricetodon hellenicus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Adriana Oliver |author2=Pablo Peláez-Campomanes |year=2016 |title=Early Miocene evolution of the genus ''Megacricetodon'' in Europe and its palaeobiogeographical implications |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=211–219 |doi=10.4202/app.00099.2014 |s2cid=54862435 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Oliver & Peláez-Campomanes
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Greece}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent, a species of ''Megacricetodon''.
|
|-
|
''Metaeucricetodon''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent. Genus includes new species ''M. mengicus''.
|
|-
|
''Microtocricetus shalaensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent.
|
|-
|
''Microtoscoptes fahlbuschi''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent.
|
|-
|
''Mioheteromys subterior''<ref name=ACM833>{{Cite journal|author1=William W. Korth |author2=Robert L. Evander |year=2016 |title=Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia (Mammalia) from Observation Quarry, Earliest Barstovian (Miocene), Dawes County, Nebraska |journal=Annals of Carnegie Museum |volume=83 |issue=3 |pages=219–254 |doi=10.2992/007.083.0301 |s2cid=86929227 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Korth & Evander
|
Miocene (early [[Earth:Barstovian|Barstovian]])
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Nebraska}})
|
A [[Biology:Heteromyidae|heteromyid]] rodent, a species of ''Mioheteromys''.
|
|-
|
''Mimomys chandolensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mikhail P. Tiunov |author2=Fedor N. Golenishchev |author3=Leonid L. Voyta |year=2016 |title=The first finding of ''Mimomys'' in the Russian Far East |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=205–210 |doi=10.4202/app.00082.2014 |s2cid=54511108 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Tiunov, Golenishchev & Voyta
|
Late Pleistocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br />({{Flag|Primorsky Krai}})
|
An [[Biology:Arvicolinae|arvicoline]] [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]], a species of ''[[Biology:Mimomys|Mimomys]]''.
|
|-
|
''Mimomys teilhardi''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Arvicolinae|Arvicolinae]].
|
|-
|
''Minocastor''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Thomas Mörs |author2=Yukimitsu Tomida |author3=Daniela C. Kalthoff |year=2016 |title=A new large beaver (Mammalia, Castoridae) from the early Miocene of Japan |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=e1080720 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1080720 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E0720M |s2cid=130053036 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mörs, Tomida & Kalthoff
|
Early Miocene
|
Nakamura Formation
|
{{Flag|Japan}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Castoridae|Castoridae]]. The type species is ''Minocastor godai''.
|
|-
|
''Mubhammys''<ref name=Birkamys />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sallam & Seiffert
|
Eocene (late [[Earth:Priabonian|Priabonian]])
|
Jebel Qatrani Formation
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Phiomorpha|Phiomorpha]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''Mubhammys vadumensis''.
|
|-
|
''Myocricetodon tomidai''<ref name=HB28ZindaPirDome>{{Cite journal|author1=Everett H. Lindsay |author2=Lawrence J. Flynn |year=2016 |title=Late Oligocene and Early Miocene Muroidea of the Zinda Pir Dome |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=28 |issue=1–2 |pages=215–236 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2015.1027888 |pmid=26681836 |pmc=4673544 |bibcode=2016HBio...28..215L }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Lindsay & Flynn
|
Early Miocene
|
[[Earth:Chitarwata Formation|Chitarwata Formation]]<br />
Vihowa Formation
|
{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]], a species of ''Myocricetodon''.
|
|-
|
''Mystemys''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=A. Savorelli |author2=F. Masini |year=2016 |title=''Mystemys giganteus'' n. gen. et sp.: an enigmatic and rare cricetid from the Terre Rosse M013 fissure filling (Gargano, Southeastern Italy) |journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung A |volume=306 |issue=1–6 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.1127/pala/306/2016/1 |bibcode=2016PalAA.306....1S }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Savorelli & Masini
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Italy}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]]. The type species is ''M. giganteus''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Neochoerus|Neochoerus occidentalis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal |author=Oscar Carranza-Castañeda |year=2016 |title=Roedores caviomorfos (Rodentia Hydrochoeridae) del Blancano temprano-tardío – Irvingtoniano de los Estados de Guanajuato, Jalisco y Sonora, México: relación con ''Phugatherium dichroplax'' |journal=Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=297–315 |url=http://satori.geociencias.unam.mx/33-3/(03)CarranzaCastaneda.pdf |doi=10.22201/cgeo.20072902e.2016.3.445 |doi-broken-date=31 January 2024 |access-date=3 May 2017 |archive-date=21 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221003131/http://satori.geociencias.unam.mx/33-3/(03)CarranzaCastaneda.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
Carranza-Castañeda
|
Late [[Biology:Blancan|Blancan]]-[[Biology:Irvingtonian|Irvingtonian]]
|
|
{{Flag|Mexico}}
|
|
|-
|
''Nonanomalurus parvus''<ref name=Argouburus />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid<ref name=ArgouburusZB />
|
Marivaux ''et al.''
|
Early Oligocene
|
Samlat Formation
|
Western Sahara
|
A member of Anomaluroidea.
|
|-
|
''?Notoparamys blochi''<ref name=Eoictops />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Gunnell, Zonneveld & Bartels
|
[[Earth:Wasatchian|Wasatchian]]
|
[[Earth:Wasatch Formation|Wasatch Formation]]
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of Ischyromyidae belonging to the subfamily Paramyinae, tentatively assigned to the genus ''Notoparamys''.
|
|-
|
''Orientiglis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A dormouse related to members of the genus ''[[Biology:Dryomys|Dryomys]]''. Genus includes ''O. wuae'' (Qiu, 1996).
|
|-
|
''Oromys''<ref name=Argouburus />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid<ref name=ArgouburusZB />
|
Marivaux ''et al.''
|
Early Oligocene
|
Samlat Formation
|
Western Sahara
|
A member of [[Biology:Zenkerellinae|Zenkerellinae]]. The type species is ''O. zenkerellinopsis''.
|
|-
|
''Paciculus walshi''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Everett Lindsay |author2=David P. Whistler |author3=Daniela C. Kalthoff |author4=Wighart von Koenigswald |year=2016 |title=''Paciculus walshi'', new species, (Rodentia, Cricetidae), the origin of the Cricetidae and an Oligocene intercontinental mammal dispersal event |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=28 |issue=1–2 |pages=78–94 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2015.1050389 |bibcode=2016HBio...28...78L |s2cid=85653803 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Lindsay ''et al.''
|
Oligocene
|
[[Earth:Otay Formation|Otay Formation]]
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|California}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]], a species of ''Paciculus''.
|
|-
|
''Palaeosciurus aoerbanensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A ground squirrel.
|
|-
|
''Palaeosteiromys''<ref name=Chambiramys />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boivin ''et al.''
|
Late Oligocene
|
Chambira Formation
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A [[Biology:New World porcupine|New World porcupine]]. The type species is ''P. amazonensis''.
|
|-
|
''Pappocricetodon siziwangqiensis''<ref name=PLoSONE115cricetids />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li, Meng & Wang
|
Late Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]], a species of ''Pappocricetodon''.
|
|-
|
''Paradelomys santjaumensis''<ref name=JVPSantJaumedeFrontaya />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Bonilla-Salomón ''et al.''
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A member of Theridomyidae, a species of ''Paradelomys''.
|
|-
|
''Paralactaga parvidens''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Dipodidae|Dipodidae]] related to members of the genus ''[[Biology:Allactaga|Allactaga]]''.
|
|-
|
''Paralactaga shalaensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Dipodidae|Dipodidae]] related to members of the genus ''[[Biology:Allactaga|Allactaga]]''.
|
|-
|
''Parameniscomys''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Aplodontiidae|Aplodontiidae]]. Genus includes new species ''P. mengensis''.
|
|-
|
''Paranomalurus riodeoroensis''<ref name=Argouburus />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid<ref name=ArgouburusZB />
|
Marivaux ''et al.''
|
Early Oligocene
|
Samlat Formation
|
Western Sahara
|
An anomalure.
|
|-
|
''Paratheridomys''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Monique Vianey-Liaud |author2=Laurent Marivaux |year=2016 |title=Autopsie d'une radiation adaptative : Phylogénie des Theridomorpha, rongeurs endémiques du Paléogène d'Europe - histoire, dynamique évolutive et intérêt biochronologique |journal=Palæovertebrata |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=e1 |doi=10.18563/pv.40.3.e1 |url=https://hal.umontpellier.fr/hal-01813219/file/P112_2017_Palaeovertebrata_Phylogeny-Theridomorpha_Vianey-Liaud%26Marivaux.pdf }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Vianey-Liaud & Marivaux
|
Oligocene
|
|
{{Flag|Belgium}}<br />
{{Flag|France}}<br />
{{Flag|Germany}}<br />
{{Flag|Switzerland}}
|
A member of Theridomyidae. The type species is ''"Theridomys" ludensis'' Vianey-Liaud (1985); genus also includes ''P. margaritae'' (Vianey-Liaud, 1989) and ''P. vassoni'' (Pomel, 1853).
|
|-
|
''Pentabuneomys fejfari''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Eomyidae|Eomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''Plesiodipus robustus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent.
|
|-
|
''Plesiosciurus zhengi''<ref name=Pseudoratufa>{{Cite journal|author1=Zhu-Ding Qiu |author2=Chang-Zhu Jin |year=2016 |title=Sciurid remains from the Late Cenozoic fissure-fillings of Fanchang, Anhui, China |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=286–301 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201607/t20160715_4641412.html |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2016.04.002 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Jin
|
Cenozoic (probably Miocene)
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Sciurini|Sciurini]].
|
|-
|
''Plesiosteiromys''<ref name=Chambiramys />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boivin ''et al.''
|
Late Oligocene
|
Chambira Formation
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A [[Biology:Caviomorpha|caviomorph]] [[Biology:Rodent|rodent]], possibly a [[Biology:New World porcupine|New World porcupine]]. The type species is ''P. newelli''.
|
|-
|
''Postcopemys chapalensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ascanio D. Rincón |author2=Nicholas J. Czaplewski |author3=Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros |author4=Mouloud Benammi |year=2016 |title=New species of ''Postcopemys'' (Cricetidae: Rodentia) from the early Pliocene of Lago de Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico |journal=The Southwestern Naturalist |volume=61 |issue=2 |pages=108–118 |doi=10.1894/15-00082R2.1 |s2cid=88805111 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rincón ''et al.''
|
Early Pliocene
|
Chapala Formation
|
{{Flag|Mexico}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]].
|
|-
|
''Potamarchus adamiae''<ref name=APPpotamarchines>{{Cite journal|author1=Leonardo Kerber |author2=Francisco Ricardo Negri |author3=Ana Maria Ribeiro |author4=Maria Guiomar Vucetich |author5=Jonas Pereira De Souza-Filho |year=2016 |title=Late Miocene potamarchine rodents from southwestern Amazonia, Brazil—with description of new taxa |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=191–203 |doi=10.4202/app.00091.2014 |s2cid=54780478 |url=http://www.zora.uzh.ch/121051/1/app000912014.pdf }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Kerber ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
Solimões Formation
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
A potamarchine [[Biology:Dinomyidae|dinomyid]], a species of ''Potamarchus''.
|
|-
|
''Potwarmus mahmoodi''<ref name=HB28ZindaPirDome />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Lindsay & Flynn
|
Early Miocene
|
Vihowa Formation
|
{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]], a species of ''Potwarmus''.
|
|-
|
''Primus cheemai''<ref name=HB28ZindaPirDome />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Lindsay & Flynn
|
Late Oligocene to Early Miocene
|
[[Earth:Chitarwata Formation|Chitarwata Formation]]<br />
Vihowa Formation
|
{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]], a species of ''Primus''.
|
|-
|
''Proansomys badamae''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Olivier Maridet |author2=Gudrun Daxner-Höck |author3=Paloma López-Guerrero |author4=Ursula B. Göhlich |year=2016 |title=The record of Aplodontidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) in the Oligocene and Miocene of the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia) with some comments on the morphologic variability |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=97 |issue=1 |pages=25–49 |doi=10.1007/s12549-016-0255-y |pmid=28450963 |pmc=5367699 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Maridet ''et al.''
|
Late Oligocene
|
Hsanda Gol Formation
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Aplodontiidae|Aplodontiidae]].
|
|-
|
''Prodistylomys mengensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family Distylomyidae.
|
|-
|
''Progonomys shalaensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Muridae|Muridae]].
|
|-
|
''Protalactaga lophodens''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Dipodidae|Dipodidae]] related to members of the genus ''[[Biology:Allactaga|Allactaga]]''.
|
|-
|
''Pseudaplodon amuwusuensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Aplodontiidae|Aplodontiidae]].
|
|-
|
''Pseudopotamarchus''<ref name=APPpotamarchines />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Kerber ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
Solimões Formation
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
A potamarchine [[Biology:Dinomyidae|dinomyid]]. The type species is ''Pseudopotamarchus villanuevai''.
|
|-
|
''Pseudoratufa''<ref name=Pseudoratufa />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Jin
|
Cenozoic (probably Miocene)
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A relative of the [[Biology:Oriental giant squirrel|oriental giant squirrel]]s. The type species is ''P. wanensis''.
|
|-
|
''Quadrimys''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Aplodontiidae|Aplodontiidae]]. Genus includes new species ''Q. paradoxus''.
|
|-
|
''Rhinocerodon abagensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent.
|
|-
|
''Sayimys negevensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Raquel López-Antoñanzas |author2=Vitaly Gutkin |author3=Rivka Rabinovich |author4=Ran Calvo |author5=Aryeh Grossman |year=2016 |title=A Transitional Gundi (Rodentia: Ctenodactylidae) from the Miocene of Israel |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=e0151804 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0151804 |pmid=27049960 |pmc=4822958|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1151804L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
López-Antoñanzas ''et al.''
|
Early Miocene
|
Middle Hatzeva Formation
|
{{Flag|Israel}}
|
A gundi, a species of ''Sayimys''.
|
|-
|
''Scleromys praecursor''<ref name=Chambiramys />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boivin ''et al.''
|
Late Oligocene
|
Chambira Formation
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A [[Biology:Caviomorpha|caviomorph]] [[Biology:Rodent|rodent]] belonging to the superfamily Chinchilloidea. Originally described as a species of ''Scleromys''; subsequently made the type species of a separate genus ''Maquiamys''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Myriam Boivin |author2=Laurent Marivaux |author3=Pierre-Olivier Antoine |year=2019 |title=New insight from the Paleogene record of Amazonia into the early diversification of Caviomorpha (Hystricognathi, Rodentia): phylogenetic, macroevolutionary, and paleobiogeographic implications |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=143–245 |doi=10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a4 |s2cid=135427987 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/41/4 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
|-
|
''Sicista bilikeensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Birch mouse|birch mouse]].
|
|-
|
''Sicista ertemteensis''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Birch mouse|birch mouse]].
|
|-
|
''Sinozapus parvus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Zapodinae|jumping mouse]].
|
|-
|
''Sonidomys''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] rodent. Genus includes new species ''S. deligeri''.
|
|-
|
''Spermophilinus mongolicus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A relative of the [[Biology:Chipmunk|chipmunk]]s.
|
|-
|
''Tachyoryctoides colossus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Muroidea|muroid]] rodent belonging to the family Tachyoryctoididae.
|
|-
|
''Tachyoryctoides vulgatus''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Muroidea|muroid]] rodent belonging to the family Tachyoryctoididae.
|
|-
|
''Tamiops minor''<ref name=Karnimatoides />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Li
|
[[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An [[Biology:Asiatic striped squirrel|Asiatic striped squirrel]].
|
|-
|
''Ucayalimys''<ref name=Chambiramys />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boivin ''et al.''
|
Late Oligocene
|
Chambira Formation
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A [[Biology:Caviomorpha|caviomorph]] [[Biology:Rodent|rodent]], possibly a member of the superfamily Chinchilloidea. The type species is ''U. crassidens''.
|
|-
|
''Ullumys''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=A. Itatí Olivares |author2=Diego H. Verzi |author3=Victor H. Contreras |author4=Leila Pessôa |year=2016 |title=A new Echimyidae (Rodentia, Hystricomorpha) from the late Miocene of southern South America |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=e1239204 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1239204 |s2cid=88845742 |url=http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/146894 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Olivares ''et al.''
|
Miocene ([[Biology:Huayquerian|Huayquerian]])
|
Las Tapias Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Echimyidae|Echimyidae]]. Genus includes new species ''U. pattoni'', as well as ''"Eumysops" intermedius'' Rovereto.
|
|-
|}

====Primates====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''[[Biology:Agerinia|Agerinia smithorum]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Joan Femenias-Gual |author2=Raef Minwer-Barakat |author3=Judit Marigó |author4=Salvador Moyà-Solà |year=2016 |title=''Agerinia smithorum'' sp. nov., a new early Eocene primate from the Iberian Peninsula |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=161 |issue=1 |pages=116–124 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.23014 |pmid=27306700}}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Femenias-Gual ''et al.''
|
Early Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Apidium|Apidium zuetina]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=K. Christopher Beard |author2=Pauline M.C. Coster |author3=Mustafa J. Salem |author4=Yaowalak Chaimanee |author5=Jean-Jacques Jaeger |year=2016 |title=A new species of ''Apidium'' (Anthropoidea, Parapithecidae) from the Sirt Basin, central Libya: First record of Oligocene primates from Libya |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=90 |pages=29–37 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.08.010 |pmid=26767957|doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Beard ''et al.''
|
Early Oligocene
|
|
{{Flag|Libya}}
|
A species of ''Apidium''.
|
|-
|
''Bahinia banyueae''<ref name=Science352primates>{{Cite journal|author1=Xijun Ni |author2=Qiang Li |author3=Lüzhou Li |author4=K. Christopher Beard |year=2016 |title=Oligocene primates from China reveal divergence between African and Asian primate evolution |journal=Science |volume=352 |issue=6286 |pages=673–677 |doi=10.1126/science.aaf2107 |pmid=27151861|bibcode=2016Sci...352..673N |s2cid=206647184 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ni ''et al.''
|
Early Oligocene
|
Caijiachong Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Eosimiidae|Eosimiidae]], a species of ''Bahinia''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Canaanimico|Canaanimico]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Laurent Marivaux |author2=Sylvain Adnet |author3=Ali J. Altamirano-Sierra |author4=Myriam Boivin |author5=François Pujos |author6=Anusha Ramdarshan |author7=Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi |author8=Julia Tejada |author9=Pierre-Olivier Antoine |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=Neotropics provide insights into the emergence of New World monkeys: New dental evidence from the late Oligocene of Peruvian Amazonia |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=97 |pages=159–175 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.05.011 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302025577 |pmid=27457552}}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Marivaux ''et al.''
|
Late Oligocene
|
Chambira Formation
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A New World monkey related to ''Soriacebus''. The type species is ''C. amazonensis''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Cantius|Cantius lohseorum]]''<ref name=Megaceralemur>{{Cite journal|author=Peter Robinson |year=2016 |title=Diversity starts early: notharctid primates from the Sandcouleean (Early Eocene) of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=1–2 |pages=189–203 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1256398 |s2cid=132766369 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/4249736 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Robinson
|
Early Eocene
|
[[Earth:Powder River Basin|Powder River Basin]]
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Notharctidae|Notharctidae]].
|
|-
|
''Gatanthropus''<ref name=Science352primates />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ni ''et al.''
|
Early Oligocene
|
Caijiachong Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A relative of ''[[Biology:Ekgmowechashala|Ekgmowechashala]]''. The type species is ''Gatanthropus micros''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Laomaki|Laomaki]]''<ref name=Science352primates />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ni ''et al.''
|
Early Oligocene
|
Caijiachong Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Adapiformes|Adapiformes]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Sivaladapidae|Sivaladapidae]]. The type species is ''Laomaki yunnanensis''.
|
|-
|
''Megaceralemur''<ref name=Megaceralemur />
|
Gen. et comb. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Robinson
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Notharctidae|Notharctidae]]. A new genus for ''"[[Biology:Pelycodus|Pelycodus]]" trigonodus'' Matthew (1915); genus also includes new species ''M. matthewi''.
|
|-
|
''Oligotarsius''<ref name=Science352primates />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ni ''et al.''
|
Early Oligocene
|
Caijiachong Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Tarsier|tarsier]]-like primate. The type species is ''Oligotarsius rarus''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Panamacebus|Panamacebus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jonathan I. Bloch |author2=Emily D. Woodruff |author3=Aaron R. Wood |author4=Aldo F. Rincon |author5=Arianna R. Harrington |author6=Gary S. Morgan |author7=David A. Foster |author8=Camilo Montes |author9=Carlos A. Jaramillo |author10=Nathan A. Jud |author11=Douglas S. Jones |author12=Bruce J. MacFadden |year=2016 |title=First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange |journal=Nature |volume=533 |issue=7602 |pages=243–246 |doi=10.1038/nature17415 |pmid=27096364|bibcode=2016Natur.533..243B |s2cid=4445687 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Bloch ''et al.''
|
Early Miocene
|
Las Cascadas Formation
|
{{Flag|Panama}}
|
A New World monkey, probably a member of [[Biology:Cebidae|Cebidae]]. The type species is ''Panamacebus transitus''.
|
|-
|
''Pinolophus''<ref name=Megaceralemur />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Robinson
|
Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Notharctidae|Notharctidae]]. The type species ''P. meikei''.
|
|-
|
''Semnopithecus gwebinensis''<ref>{{cite journal |author =Masanaru Takai |author2=Yuichiro Nishioka |author3=Thaung-Htike, Maung Maung |author4=Kyaw Khaing |author5=Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein |author6=Takehisa Tsubamoto |author7=Naoko Egi |year=2016 |title=Late Pliocene ''Semnopithecus'' fossils from central Myanmar: rethinking of the evolutionary history of cercopithecid monkeys in Southeast Asia |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=28 |issue=1–2 |pages=172–188 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2015.1018018 |bibcode=2016HBio...28..172T |s2cid=86108259 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Takai ''et al.''
|
Late Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Myanmar}}
|
A [[Biology:Gray langur|gray langur]].
|
|-
|
''Yunnanadapis''<ref name=Science352primates />
|
Gen. et 2 sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ni ''et al.''
|
Early Oligocene
|
Caijiachong Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Adapiformes|Adapiformes]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Sivaladapidae|Sivaladapidae]]. The type species is ''Yunnanadapis folivorus''; genus also includes ''Yunnanadapis imperator''.
|
|-
|}

====Other eutherians====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Akhnatenavus nefertiticyon''<ref name=Brychotherium>{{cite journal |author1=Matthew R. Borths |author2=Patricia A. Holroyd |author3=Erik R. Seiffert |year=2016 |title=Hyainailourine and teratodontine cranial material from the late Eocene of Egypt and the application of parsimony and Bayesian methods to the phylogeny and biogeography of Hyaenodonta (Placentalia, Mammalia) |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e2639 |doi=10.7717/peerj.2639 |pmid=27867761|pmc=5111901 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Borths, Holroyd & Seiffert
|
Eocene (latest [[Earth:Priabonian|Priabonian]])
|
Jebel Qatrani Formation
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
A hyainailourine hyaenodont.
|
|-
|
''Amphilagus tomidai''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Margarita Erbajeva |author2=Chiara Angelone |author3=Nadezhda Alexeeva |year=2016 |title=A new species of the genus ''Amphilagus'' (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Middle Miocene of south-eastern Siberia |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=28 |issue=1–2 |pages=199–207 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2015.1034119 |bibcode=2016HBio...28..199E |s2cid=131519171 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Erbajeva, Angelone & Alexeeva
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br />({{Flag|Irkutsk Oblast}})
|
A [[Biology:Lagomorpha|lagomorph]], a species of ''Amphilagus''.
|
|-
|
''Antesorex wilsoni''<ref name=ACM833 />
|
Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Korth & Evander
|
Miocene (early [[Earth:Barstovian|Barstovian]])
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Nebraska}})
|
A shrew, a species of ''Antesorex''.
|
|-
|
''Belgoryctes''<ref name=Cingulodon />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid<ref name=CingulodonZB />
|
De Bast & Smith
|
Paleocene
|
Hainin Formation
|
{{Flag|Belgium}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Palaeoryctidae|Palaeoryctidae]]. The type species is ''B. thaleri''.
|
|-
|
''Brychotherium''<ref name=Brychotherium />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Borths, Holroyd & Seiffert
|
Eocene (latest [[Earth:Priabonian|Priabonian]])
|
Jebel Qatrani Formation
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
A teratodontine hyaenodont. The type species is ''B. ephalmos''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Cambaytherium|Cambaytherium gracilis]]''<ref name=Platyspondylophis>{{Cite journal|author1=Thierry Smith |author2=Kishor Kumar |author3=Rajendra S. Rana |author4=Annelise Folie |author5=Floréal Solé |author6=Corentin Noiret |author7=Thomas Steeman |author8=Ashok Sahni |author9=Kenneth D. Rose |year=2016 |title=New early Eocene vertebrate assemblage from western India reveals a mixed fauna of European and Gondwana affinities |journal=Geoscience Frontiers |volume=7 |issue=6 |pages=969–1001 |doi=10.1016/j.gsf.2016.05.001 |bibcode=2016GeoFr...7..969S |s2cid=133398641 |doi-access=free |hdl=1854/LU-8522812 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Smith ''et al.''
|
Eocene ([[Earth:Ypresian|Ypresian]])
|
Cambay Shale Formation
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A [[Biology:Odd-toed ungulate|perissodactyl]]-like [[Biology:Ungulate|ungulate]].
|
|-
|
''Cingulodon''<ref name=Cingulodon>{{cite journal |author1=Eric De Bast |author2=Thierry Smith |year=2016 |title=The oldest Cenozoic mammal fauna of Europe: implication of the Hainin reference fauna for mammalian evolution and dispersals during the Paleocene |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=9 |pages=741–785 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1237582 |s2cid=89203431 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309755968 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid<ref name=CingulodonZB>http://zoobank.org/References/A240BAE2-7446-4DBD-A597-7BEFE58447DF {{Dead link|date=May 2022}}</ref>
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De Bast & Smith
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Paleocene
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Hainin Formation
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{{Flag|Belgium}}
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An eutherian of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a member of the family Louisinidae. The type species is ''C. magioncaldai''.
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|-
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''Eoictops''<ref name=Eoictops>{{Cite journal|author1=Gregg F. Gunnell |author2=John-Paul Zonneveld |author3=William S. Bartels |year=2016 |title=Stratigraphy, mammalian paleontology, paleoecology, and age correlation of the Wasatch Formation, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=90 |issue=5 |pages=981–1011 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.100 |bibcode=2016JPal...90..981G |s2cid=132883994 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Gunnell, Zonneveld & Bartels
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[[Earth:Wasatchian|Wasatchian]]
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[[Earth:Wasatch Formation|Wasatch Formation]]
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Wyoming}})
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A member of [[Biology:Leptictida|Leptictida]] belonging to the family Leptictidae. The type species is ''E. novaceki''.
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|-
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''Eurolestes''<ref name=Cingulodon />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid<ref name=CingulodonZB />
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De Bast & Smith
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Paleocene
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Hainin Formation
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{{Flag|Belgium}}
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A member of Pantolesta belonging to the family Pentacodontidae. The type species is ''E. dupuisi''.
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|-
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''Gomphos progressus''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Qian Li |author2=Yuan-Qing Wang |author3=Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik |year=2016 |title=Small mammal fauna from Wulanhuxiu (Nei Mongol, China) implies the Irdinmanhan–Sharamurunian (Eocene) faunal turnover |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=61 |issue=4 |pages=759–776 |doi=10.4202/app.00292.2016 |s2cid=132588524 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Li, Wang & Fostowicz-Frelik
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Eocene ([[Earth:Irdinmanhan|Irdinmanhan]])
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Ulan Shireh Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of [[Biology:Glires|Glires]] belonging to the family Mimotonidae.
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''[[Biology:Hegetotherium|Hegetotherium cerdasensis]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Darin A. Croft |author2=Alfredo A. Carlini |author3=Martín R. Ciancio |author4=Diego Brandoni |author5=Nicholas E. Drew |author6=Russell K. Engelman |author7=Federico Anaya |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=New mammal faunal data from Cerdas, Bolivia, a middle-latitude Neotropical site that chronicles the end of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum in South America |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=e1163574 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1163574 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E3574C |s2cid=87802865 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Croft ''et al.''
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Miocene ([[Earth:Langhian|Langhian]])
| Cerdas beds
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{{Flag|Bolivia}}
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A [[Biology:Notoungulata|notoungulate]], a species of ''Hegetotherium''.
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|-
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''Indoesthonyx''<ref name=Platyspondylophis />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Smith ''et al.''
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Eocene ([[Earth:Ypresian|Ypresian]])
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Cambay Shale Formation
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{{Flag|India}}
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A member of [[Biology:Tillodontia|Tillodontia]]. The type species is ''I. suratensis''.
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|-
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''Lanthanotherium observatum''<ref name=ACM833 />
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Sp. nov
| 
Valid
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Korth & Evander
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Miocene (early [[Earth:Barstovian|Barstovian]])
|
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Nebraska}})
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A member of [[Biology:Erinaceidae|Erinaceidae]], a species of ''Lanthanotherium''.
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|-
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''Mina''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Chuan-Kui Li |author2=Yuan-Qing Wang |author3=Zhao-Qun Zhang |author4=Fang-Yuan Mao |author5=Jin Meng |year=2016 |title=A new mimotonidan mammal ''Mina hui'' (Mammalia, Glires) from the Middle Paleocene of Qianshan, Anhui, China |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=121–136 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201604/t20160429_4593319.html |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2016.02.002 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Fang-Yuan Mao |author2=Chuan-Kui Li |author3=Yuan-Qing Wang |author4=Qian Li |author5=Jin Meng |year=2016 |title=The incisor enamel microstructure of ''Mina hui'' (Mammalia, Glires) and its implication for the taxonomy of basal Glires |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=137–155 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201604/t20160429_4593473.html |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2016.02.003 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li ''et al.''
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Middle Paleocene
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Wanghudun Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] member of [[Biology:Glires|Glires]]. The type species is ''Mina hui''.
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|-
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''Ounalashkastylus''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kentaro Chiba |author2=Anthony R. Fiorillo |author3=Louis L. Jacobs |author4=Yuri Kimura |author5=Yoshitsugu Kobayashi |author6=Naoki Kohno |author7=Yosuke Nishida |author8=Michael J. Polcyn |author9=Kohei Tanaka |year=2016 |title=A new desmostylian mammal from Unalaska (USA) and the robust Sanjussen jaw from Hokkaido (Japan), with comments on feeding in derived desmostylids |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=28 |issue=1–2 |pages=289–303 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2015.1046718 |bibcode=2016HBio...28..289C |s2cid=86208124 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Chiba ''et al.''
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Miocene
|
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Alaska}})
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A [[Biology:Desmostylia|desmostylia]]n. The type species is ''Ounalashkastylus tomidai''.
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|-
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''Palaeictops altimontis''<ref name=AMN3867>{{cite journal |author1=Paúl M. Velazco |author2=Michael J. Novacek |year=2016 |title=Systematics of the genus ''Palaeictops'' Matthew, 1899 (Mammalia, Leptictidae), with the description of two new species from the Middle Eocene of Utah and Wyoming |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=3867 |pages=1–42 |doi=10.1206/3867.1 |hdl=2246/6691 |s2cid=59368351 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/159205 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Velazco & Novacek
|
Eocene ([[Earth:Uintan|Uintan]])
|
Tepee Trail Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Wyoming}})
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A member of [[Biology:Leptictida|Leptictida]] belonging to the family Leptictidae.
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|-
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''Palaeictops robustus''<ref name=AMN3867 />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
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Velazco & Novacek
|
Eocene ([[Earth:Uintan|Uintan]])
|
[[Earth:Uinta Formation|Uinta Formation]]
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Utah}})
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A member of [[Biology:Leptictida|Leptictida]] belonging to the family Leptictidae.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Palaeosinopa|Palaeosinopa lacus]]''<ref name=Eoictops />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Gunnell, Zonneveld & Bartels
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[[Earth:Wasatchian|Wasatchian]]
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[[Earth:Wasatch Formation|Wasatch Formation]]
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Wyoming}})
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A member of [[Biology:Pantolestidae|Pantolestidae]].
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|-
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''[[Biology:Pternoconius|Pternoconius bondi]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Lucas Cheme Arriaga |author2=María Teresa Dozo |author3=Javier N. Gelfo |year=2016 |title=A new Cramaucheniinae (Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) from the early Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=e1229672 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1229672 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E9672C |s2cid=88586687 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Cheme Arriaga, Dozo & Gelfo
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Miocene ([[Earth:Colhuehuapian|Colhuehuapian]])
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[[Earth:Sarmiento Formation|Sarmiento Formation]]
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A member of [[Biology:Litopterna|Litopterna]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Macraucheniidae|Macraucheniidae]] and the subfamily [[Biology:Cramaucheniinae|Cramaucheniinae]].
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|-
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''Ptilocercus kylin''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Qiang Li |author2=Xijun Ni |year=2016 |title=An early Oligocene fossil demonstrates treeshrews are slowly evolving "living fossils" |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 18627 |doi=10.1038/srep18627 |pmid=26766238 |pmc=4725336|bibcode=2016NatSR...618627L }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Li & Ni
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Earliest Oligocene
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Lijiawa Mammalian Fossil locality
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{{Flag|China}}
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A treeshrew related to the pen-tailed treeshrew.
|
|-
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''[[Biology:Purgatorius|Purgatorius pinecreeensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Craig S. Scott |author2=Richard C. Fox |author3=Cory M. Redman |year=2016 |title=A new species of the basal plesiadapiform ''Purgatorius'' (Mammalia, Primates) from the early Paleocene Ravenscrag Formation, Cypress Hills, southwest Saskatchewan, Canada: further taxonomic and dietary diversity in the earliest primates |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=343–354 |doi=10.1139/cjes-2015-0238 |bibcode=2016CaJES..53..343S |hdl=1807/71784 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Scott, Fox & Redman
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Paleocene ([[Biology:Puercan|Puercan]])
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[[Earth:Ravenscrag Formation|Ravenscrag Formation]]
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{{Flag|Canada}}<br />({{Flag|Saskatchewan}})
|
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|-
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''Quadratodon''<ref name=Cingulodon />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid<ref name=CingulodonZB />
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De Bast & Smith
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Paleocene
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Hainin Formation
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{{Flag|Belgium}}
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An eutherian of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a member of [[Biology:Erinaceomorpha|Erinaceomorpha]]. The type species is ''Q. sigei''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Rzebikia|Rzebikia]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Gabriele Sansalone |author2=Tassos Kotsakis |author3=Paolo Piras |year=2016 |title=New systematic insights about Plio-Pleistocene moles from Poland |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=61 |issue=1 |pages=221–229 |doi=10.4202/app.00116.2014 |s2cid=56411373 |doi-access=free |hdl=11380/1318370 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Sansalone, Kotsakis & Piras
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Pliocene to Pleistocene (Villanyian)
|
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{{Flag|Bulgaria}}<br />
{{Flag|Poland}}
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A relative of the [[Biology:American shrew mole|American shrew mole]]. A new genus for ''"Neurotrichus" polonicus'' Skoczeń (1980) and ''"Neurotrichus" skoczeni'' Zijlstra (2010).
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|-
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''Sanshuilophus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Fang-Yuan Mao |author2=Yuan-Qing Wang |author3=Qian Li |author4=Xun Jin |year=2016 |title=New records of archaic ungulates from the Lower Eocene of Sanshui Basin, Guangdong, China |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=28 |issue=6 |pages=787–802 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2015.1034120 |bibcode=2016HBio...28..787M |s2cid=128615251 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mao ''et al.''
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Early Eocene
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Huayong Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of Phenacolophidae (a group of archaic [[Biology:Ungulate|ungulate]] mammals of uncertain phylogenetic placement). The type species is ''Sanshuilophus zhaoi''.
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|-
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''Scalopoides hutchisoni''<ref name=ACM833 />
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Sp. nov
| 
Valid
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Korth & Evander
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Miocene (early [[Earth:Barstovian|Barstovian]])
|
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Nebraska}})
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A member of [[Biology:Talpidae|Talpidae]], a species of ''Scalopoides''.
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|-
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''Trachytherus ramirezi''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Bruce J. Shockey |author2=Guillaume Billet |author3=Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi |year=2016 |title=A new species of ''Trachytherus'' (Notoungulata: Mesotheriidae) from the late Oligocene (Deseadan) of Southern Peru and the middle latitude diversification of early diverging mesotheriids |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4111 |issue=5 |pages=565–583 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4111.5.3 |pmid=27395103 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Shockey, Billet & Salas-Gismondi
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Oligocene ([[Earth:Deseadan|Deseadan]])
| Moquegua Formation
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{{Flag|Peru}}
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A [[Biology:Mesotheriidae|mesotheriid]] [[Biology:Notoungulata|notoungulate]], a species of ''Trachytherus''.
|
|-
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''[[Biology:Vassacyon|Vassacyon prieuri]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Floréal Solé |author2=Thierry Smith |author3=Eric De Bast |author4=Vlad Codrea |author5=Emmanuel Gheerbrant |year=2016 |title=New carnivoraforms from the latest Paleocene of Europe and their bearing on the origin and radiation of Carnivoraformes (Carnivoramorpha, Mammalia) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=e1082480 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2016.1082480 |bibcode=2016JVPal..36E2480S |s2cid=87537565 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Solé ''et al.''
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Latest Paleocene
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
|
A [[Biology:Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] member of [[Biology:Carnivoraformes|Carnivoraformes]], a species of ''Vassacyon''.
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|-
|
''Zofialestes''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik |year=2016 |title=A new zalambdalestid (Eutheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and its implications for the origin of Glires |journal=Palaeontologia Polonica |volume=67 |pages=127–136 |url=http://www.palaeontologia.pan.pl/PP67/Fostowicz.pdf |doi=10.4202/pp.2016.67_127 |doi-broken-date=31 January 2024 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
|
Fostowicz-Frelik
|
Late Cretaceous (?late Campanian)
|
[[Earth:Barun Goyot Formation|Barun Goyot Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
A relative of ''[[Biology:Zalambdalestes|Zalambdalestes]]''. The type species is ''Z. longidens''.
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|}

==Other mammals==

===Research===
* A study on the differences in cusp arrangement on the surface of molars of ''[[Biology:Morganucodon|Morganucodon]]'' and ''[[Biology:Kuehneotherium|Kuehneotherium]]'' and its impact on ability of the teeth to fracture prey is published by Conith ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Andrew J. Conith |author2=Michael J. Imburgia |author3=Alfred J. Crosby |author4=Elizabeth R. Dumont |year=2016 |title=The functional significance of morphological changes in the dentitions of early mammals |journal=Journal of the Royal Society Interface |volume=13 |issue=124 |pages=20160713 |doi=10.1098/rsif.2016.0713 |pmid=28339367 |pmc=5134021 }}</ref>
* Description of a new specimen of ''[[Biology:Kollikodon|Kollikodon]] ritchiei'' and a study of its phylogenetic relationships is published by Pian ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Rebecca Pian |author2=Michael Archer |author3=Suzanne J. Hand |author4=Robin M.D. Beck |author5=Andrew Cody |year=2016 |title=The upper dentition and relationships of the enigmatic Australian Cretaceous mammal ''Kollikodon ritchiei'' |journal=Memoirs of Museum Victoria |volume=74 |pages=97–105 |doi=10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.10 |url=https://museumsvictoria.com.au/about/books-and-journals/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/2010-2019/2016-vol-74-special-issue-in-honour-of-dr-thomas-h-rich/pian-archer-hand-beck-and-cody/ |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A redescription of ''[[Biology:Teinolophos|Teinolophos]] trusleri'' is published by Rich ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Thomas H. Rich |author2=James A. Hopson |author3=Pamela G. Gill |author4=Peter Trusler |author5=Sally Rogers-Davidson |author6=Steve Morton |author7=Richard L. Cifelli |author8=David Pickering |author9=Lesley Kool |author10=Karen Siu |author11=Flame A. Burgmann |author12=Tim Senden |author13=Alistair R. Evans |author14=Barbara E. Wagstaff |author15=Doris Seegets-Villiers |author16=Ian J. Corfe |author17=Timothy F. Flannery |author18=Ken Walker |author19=Anne M. Musser |author20=Michael Archer |author21=Rebecca Pian |author22=Patricia Vickers-Rich |display-authors=3 |year=2016 |title=The mandible and dentition of the Early Cretaceous monotreme ''Teinolophos trusleri'' |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=475–501 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2016.1180034 |bibcode=2016Alch...40..475R |s2cid=89034974 }}</ref>
* A study comparing the skull anatomy of the extant [[Biology:Platypus|platypus]] and the Miocene ''[[Biology:Obdurodon|Obdurodon]] dicksoni'' is published by Asahara ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Masakazu Asahara |author2=Masahiro Koizumi |author3=Thomas E. Macrini |author4=Suzanne J. Hand |author5=Michael Archer |year=2016 |title=Comparative cranial morphology in living and extinct platypuses: Feeding behavior, electroreception, and loss of teeth |journal=Science Advances |volume=2 |issue=10 |pages=e1601329 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.1601329 |pmid=27757425 |pmc=5061491|bibcode=2016SciA....2E1329A }}</ref>
* A partial mandible of the [[Biology:Amphitheriida|amphitheriid]] ''[[Biology:Palaeoxonodon|Palaeoxonodon]] ooliticus'', previously known only from isolated teeth, is described from the Middle Jurassic (late Bathonian) [[Earth:Kilmaluag Formation|Kilmaluag Formation]] (Isle of Skye, Scotland, United Kingdom) by Close ''et al.'' (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Roger A. Close |author2=Brian M. Davis |author3=Stig Walsh |author4=Andrzej S. Wolniewicz |author5=Matt Friedman |author6=Roger B. J. Benson |year=2016 |title=A lower jaw of ''Palaeoxonodon'' from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, sheds new light on the diversity of British stem therians |journal=Palaeontology |volume=59 |issue=1 |pages=155–169 |doi=10.1111/pala.12218 |bibcode=2016Palgy..59..155C |s2cid=85925908 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the morphological disparity, dietary trends and generic level taxonomic diversity patterns in early [[Biology:Theria|theria]]ns is published by Grossnickle & Newham (2016).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=David M. Grossnickle |author2=Elis Newham |year=2016 |title=Therian mammals experience an ecomorphological radiation during the Late Cretaceous and selective extinction at the K–Pg boundary |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=283 |issue=1832 |pages=20160256 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2016.0256 |s2cid=23620732 |doi-access=free |pmc=4920311 }}</ref>

===New taxa===
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|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''Anebodon''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Shundong Bi |author2=Xiaoting Zheng |author3=Jin Meng |author4=Xiaoli Wang |author5=Nicole Robinson |author6=Brian Davis |year=2016 |title=A new symmetrodont mammal (Trechnotheria: Zhangheotheriidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China and trechnotherian character evolution |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=6 |pages=Article number 26668 |doi=10.1038/srep26668 |pmid=27215593 |pmc=4877676|bibcode=2016NatSR...626668B }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Bi ''et al.''
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Early Cretaceous
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[[Earth:Yixian Formation|Yixian Formation]]
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Symmetrodonta|symmetrodont]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Zhangheotheriidae|Zhangheotheriidae]]. The type species is ''A. luoi''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Cherwellia|Cherwellia]]''<ref name=Cherwellia>{{cite journal |author1=Percy M. Butler |author2=Denise Sigogneau-Russell |year=2016 |title=Diversity of triconodonts in the Middle Jurassic of Great Britain |journal=Palaeontologia Polonica |volume=67 |pages=35–65 |url=http://www.palaeontologia.pan.pl/PP67/Butler.pdf |doi=10.4202/pp.2016.67_035 |doi-broken-date=31 January 2024 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Butler & Sigogneau-Russell
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Middle Jurassic (late Bathonian)
|
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{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
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A possible member of [[Biology:Morganucodonta|Morganucodonta]]. The type species is ''C. leei''.
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|-
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''Culicolestes''<ref name=Culicolestes>{{cite journal |author1=Richard L. Cifelli |author2=Joshua E. Cohen |author3=Brian M. Davis |year=2016 |title=New tribosphenic mammals from the Mussentuchit Local Fauna (Cedar Mountain Formation, Cenomanian), Utah, USA |journal=Palaeontologia Polonica |volume=67 |pages=67–81 |url=http://www.palaeontologia.pan.pl/PP67/Cifelli.pdf |doi=10.4202/pp.2016.67_067 |doi-broken-date=31 January 2024 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Cifelli, Cohen & Davis
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Late Cretaceous ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
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[[Earth:Cedar Mountain Formation|Cedar Mountain Formation]]
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Utah}})
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A member of [[Biology:Tribosphenida|Tribosphenida]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''C. kielanae''.
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|-
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''Dakotadens pertritus''<ref name=Culicolestes />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Cifelli, Cohen & Davis
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Late Cretaceous ([[Earth:Cenomanian|Cenomanian]])
|
[[Earth:Cedar Mountain Formation|Cedar Mountain Formation]]
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{{Flag|United States}}<br />({{Flag|Utah}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Tribosphenida|Tribosphenida]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement.
|
|-
|
''Eotriconodon''<ref name=Cherwellia />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Butler & Sigogneau-Russell
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Middle Jurassic (late Bathonian)
|
|
{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
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A member of [[Biology:Triconodontidae|Triconodontidae]]. The type species is ''E. sophron''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Gobiconodon|Gobiconodon bathoniensis]]''<ref name=Cherwellia />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Butler & Sigogneau-Russell
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Middle Jurassic (late Bathonian)
|
|
{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
|
|
|-
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''Lactodens''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Gang Han |author2=Jin Meng |year=2016 |title=A new spalacolestine mammal from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota and implications for the morphology, phylogeny, and palaeobiology of Laurasian 'symmetrodontans' |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=178 |issue=2 |pages=343–380 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12416 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Han & Meng
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Early Cretaceous
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A ‘[[Biology:Symmetrodonta|symmetrodont]]’ related to ''Spalacolestes''. Genus includes new species ''L. sheni''.
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''Mangasbaatar''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Guillermo W. Rougier |author2=Amir S. Sheth |author3=Barton K. Spurlin |author4=Minjin Bolortsetseg |author5=Michael J. Novacek |year=2016 |title=Craniodental anatomy of a new Late Cretaceous multituberculate mammal from Udan Sayr, Mongolia |journal=Palaeontologia Polonica |volume=67 |pages=197–248 |url=http://www.palaeontologia.pan.pl/PP67/Rougier.pdf |doi=10.4202/pp.2016.67_197 |doi-broken-date=31 January 2024 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Rougier ''et al.''
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Late Cretaceous (probably late [[Earth:Campanian|Campanian]])
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A [[Biology:Djadochtatheriidae|djadochtatheriid]] [[Biology:Multituberculata|multituberculate]]. The type species is ''M. udanii''.
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''[[Biology:Morganucodon|Morganucodon tardus]]''<ref name=Cherwellia />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Butler & Sigogneau-Russell
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Middle Jurassic (late Bathonian)
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''[[Biology:Phascolotherium|Phascolotherium simpsoni]]''<ref name=Cherwellia />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Butler & Sigogneau-Russell
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Middle Jurassic (late Bathonian)
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A member of [[Biology:Eutriconodonta|Eutriconodonta]].
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''[[Biology:Stylidens|Stylidens]]''<ref name=Cherwellia />
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Butler & Sigogneau-Russell
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Middle Jurassic (late Bathonian)
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A possible member of [[Biology:Morganucodonta|Morganucodonta]]. The type species is ''S. hookeri''.
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''Teutonodon''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Thomas Martin |author2=Julia A. Schultz |author3=Achim H. Schwermann |author4=Oliver Wings |year=2016 |title=First Jurassic mammals of Germany: Multituberculate teeth from Langenberg Quarry (Lower Saxony) |journal=Palaeontologia Polonica |volume=67 |pages=171–179 |url=http://www.palaeontologia.pan.pl/PP67/Martin.pdf |doi=10.4202/pp.2016.67_171 |doi-broken-date=31 January 2024 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Martin ''et al.''
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Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)
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A [[Biology:Plagiaulacida|plagiaulacid]] [[Biology:Multituberculata|multituberculate]]. The type species is ''T. langenbergensis''.
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''[[Biology:Theroteinus|Theroteinus rosieriensis]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Maxime Debuysschere |year=2016 |title=A reappraisal of ''Theroteinus'' (Haramiyida, Mammaliaformes) from the Upper Triassic of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (France) |journal=PeerJ |volume=4 |pages=e2592 |doi=10.7717/peerj.2592 |pmid=27781174 |pmc=5075691 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Debuysschere
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Late Triassic (Rhaetian)
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A member of [[Biology:Haramiyida|Haramiyida]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Theroteinidae|Theroteinidae]].
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==References==
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[[Category:Prehistoric mammals]]

{{Sourceattribution|2016 in paleomammalogy}}