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This article records new taxa of [[Biology:Fossil|fossil]] [[Biology:Mammal|mammal]]s of every kind that have been [[Biology:Binomial nomenclature|described]] during the year 2017, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to [[Biology:Paleontology|paleontology]] of mammals that occurred in the year 2017.

==Metatherians==

===Research===
* A study on the [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] and phylogenetic relationships of ''Eobrasilia coutoi'' is published by Carneiro & Oliveira (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Leonardo M. Carneiro |author2=Édison Vicente de Oliveira |year=2017 |title=Systematic affinities of the extinct metatherian ''Eobrasilia coutoi'' Simpson, 1947, a South American Early Eocene Stagodontidae: implications for "Eobrasiliinae" |journal=Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=355–372 |doi=10.4072/rbp.2017.3.07 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* New information on the skull anatomy of ''[[Biology:Peratherium|Peratherium]] cuvieri'' is published by Selva & Ladevèze (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Charlène Selva |author2=Sandrine Ladevèze |year=2017 |title=Computed microtomography investigation of the skull of Cuvier's famous 'opossum' (Marsupialiformes, Herpetotheriidae) from the Eocene of Montmartre |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=180 |issue=3 |pages=672–693 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12495 }}</ref>
* ''Zeusdelphys complicatus'' from the [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] of {{wipe|Brazil}} is interpreted as a member of Hatcheriformes by Carneiro & Oliveira (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Leonardo M. Carneiro |author2=Édison Vicente Oliveira |year=2017 |title=The Eocene South American metatherian ''Zeusdelphys complicatus'' is not a protodidelphidid but a hatcheriform: Paleobiogeographic implications |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=497–507 |doi=10.4202/app.00351.2017 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Description of the skull [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] of ''[[Biology:Epidolops|Epidolops]] ameghinoi'' and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of [[Biology:Polydolopimorphia|Polydolopimorphia]] is published by Beck (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author=Robin M. D. Beck |year=2017 |title=The Skull of ''Epidolops ameghinoi'' from the Early Eocene Itaboraí Fauna, Southeastern Brazil, and the Affinities of the Extinct Marsupialiform Order Polydolopimorphia |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=373–414 |doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9357-6 |pmid=29187780 |pmc=5684316 }}</ref>
* A study on the causes of decline and extinction of [[Biology:Sparassodonta|sparassodonts]] is published by López-Aguirre ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Camilo López-Aguirre |author2=Michael Archer |author3=Suzanne J. Hand |author4=Shawn W. Laffan |year=2017 |title=Extinction of South American sparassodontans (Metatheria): environmental fluctuations or complex ecological processes? |journal=Palaeontology |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=91–115 |doi=10.1111/pala.12272 }}</ref>
* A study on the age of a specimen of ''[[Biology:Zygomaturus|Zygomaturus]] trilobus'' recovered from the Willandra Lakes locality ({{wipe|Australia}}), indicating that this species persisted for a considerable time after the first arrival of Indigenous Australians, is published by Westaway, Olley & Grün (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Michael C. Westaway |author2=Jon Olley |author3=Rainer Grün |year=2017 |title=At least 17,000 years of coexistence: Modern humans and megafauna at the Willandra Lakes, South-Eastern Australia |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |volume=157 |pages=206–211 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.11.031 |bibcode=2017QSRv..157..206W }}</ref>
* A study evaluating whether the decline of Australian [[Biology:Megafauna|megafauna]]l population in the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]], leading to megafaunal extinction in Australia, was caused by the climate changes is published by van der Kaars ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Sander van der Kaars |author2=Gifford H. Miller |author3=Chris S. M. Turney |author4=Ellyn J. Cook |author5=Dirk Nürnberg |author6=Joachim Schönfeld |author7=A. Peter Kershaw |author8=Scott J. Lehman |year=2017 |title=Humans rather than climate the primary cause of Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in Australia |journal=Nature Communications |volume=8 |pages=Article number 14142 |doi=10.1038/ncomms14142 |pmid=28106043 |pmc=5263868 |bibcode=2017NatCo...814142V }}</ref>
* A study on the environmental setting and diet of marsupials from two concentrated, fossil bone horizons at Cuddie Springs ({{wipe|Australia}}: one from the middle [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]], and the second from the late Pleistocene, based on isotopic data and teeth microwear, is published by DeSantis ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Larisa R. G. DeSantis |author2=Judith H. Field |author3=Stephen Wroe |author4=John R. Dodson |year=2017 |title=Dietary responses of Sahul (Pleistocene Australia–New Guinea) megafauna to climate and environmental change |journal=Paleobiology |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=181–195 |doi=10.1017/pab.2016.50 |s2cid=13134989 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] marsupial ''[[Biology:Diprotodon|Diprotodon]] optatum'', indicating it undertook seasonal, two-way [[Biology:Animal migration|migration]] in eastern [[Earth:Australia (continent)|Sahul]], is published by Price ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Gilbert J. Price |author2=Kyle J. Ferguson |author3=Gregory E. Webb |author4=Yue-xing Feng |author5=Pennilyn Higgins |author6=Ai Duc Nguyen |author7=Jian-xin Zhao |author8=Renaud Joannes-Boyau |author9=Julien Louys |year=2017 |title=Seasonal migration of marsupial megafauna in Pleistocene Sahul (Australia–New Guinea) |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=284 |issue=1863 |pages=20170785 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2017.0785 |pmid=28954903 |pmc=5627191 }}</ref>
* A study on the species richness and relative abundance of [[Biology:Macropodiformes|macropodiform]] marsupials from Riversleigh is published by Butler ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kaylene Butler |author2=Kenny J. Travouillon |author3=Gilbert J. Price |author4=Michael Archer |author5=Suzanne J. Hand |year=2017 |title=Species abundance, richness and body size evolution of kangaroos (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes) throughout the Oligo-Miocene of Australia |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=487 |pages=25–36 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.08.016 |bibcode=2017PPP...487...25B }}</ref>
* A study exploring the potential of the collagen fingerprinting method also known as Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry in studying Australian vertebrate palaeobiodiversity, using it to identify Late Pleistocene kangaroo fossils from two caves in Tasmania, is published by Buckley ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Michael Buckley |author2=Richard Cosgrove |author3=Jillian Garvey |author4=Gavin J. Prideaux |year=2017 |title=Identifying remains of extinct kangaroos in Late Pleistocene deposits using collagen fingerprinting |journal=Journal of Quaternary Science |volume=32 |issue=5 |pages=653–660 |doi=10.1002/jqs.2964 |bibcode=2017JQS....32..653B |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the Oligo-Miocene local faunas from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area ({{wipe|Australia}}), aiming to identify potential mammalian [[Biology:Community (ecology)|palaeocommunities]] and palaeocommunity types, is published by Myers ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Troy J. Myers |author2=Karen H. Black |author3=Michael Archer |author4=Suzanne J. Hand  |year=2017 |title=The identification of Oligo-Miocene mammalian palaeocommunities from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia and an appraisal of palaeoecological techniques |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3511 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3511 |pmid=28674663 |pmc=5494167 }}</ref>

===New taxa===
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''[[Biology:Anatoliadelphys|Anatoliadelphys]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=A. Murat Maga |author2=Robin M. D. Beck |year=2017 |title=Skeleton of an unusual, cat-sized marsupial relative (Metatheria: Marsupialiformes) from the middle Eocene (Lutetian: 44-43 million years ago) of Turkey |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=8 |pages=e0181712 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0181712 |pmid=28813431 |pmc=5559079 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1281712M |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Maga & Beck
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] ([[Earth:Lutetian|Lutetian]])
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Uzunçarşıdere Formation
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{{Flag|Turkey}}
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A probable non-[[Biology:Marsupial|marsupial]] member of [[Biology:Marsupialiformes|Marsupialiformes]]. The type species is ''A. maasae''.
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''[[Biology:Barinya|Barinya kutjamarpensis]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Pippa Binfield |author2=Michael Archer |author3=Suzanne J. Hand |author4=Karen H. Black |author5=Troy J. Myers|author6=Anna K. Gillespie |author7=Derrick A. Arena |name-list-style=amp |year=2017 |title=A new Miocene carnivorous marsupial, ''Barinya kutjamarpensis'' (Dasyuromorphia), from central Australia |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=46–53 |doi=10.1080/03115518.2016.1180029 |s2cid=133283494 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Binfield ''et al.''
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Miocene
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Wipajiri Formation
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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''Perameles wilkinsonorum''<ref name=Silvicultor>{{cite journal |author1=Kenny J. Travouillon |author2=Julien Louys |author3=Gilbert J. Price |author4=Michael Archer |author5=Suzanne J. Hand |author6=Jeanette Muirhead |year=2017 |title=A review of the Pliocene bandicoots of Australia, and descriptions of new genus and species |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=e1360894 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1360894 |s2cid=90107606 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320122676 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Travouillon ''et al.''
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Pliocene
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A [[Biology:Bandicoot|bandicoot]], a species of ''[[Biology:Perameles|Perameles]]''.
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''Silvicultor''<ref name=Silvicultor />
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Gen. et comb. et 2 sp. nov
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Valid
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Travouillon ''et al.''
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Pliocene
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A [[Biology:Bandicoot|bandicoot]]. The type species is ''"[[Biology:Peroryctes|Peroryctes]]" tedfordi'' Turnbull, Ludelius & Archer (2003); genus also includes new species ''S. karae'' and ''S. hamiltonensis''.
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''[[Biology:Wakaleo|Wakaleo schouteni]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Anna K. Gillespie |author2=Michael Archer |author3=Suzanne J. Hand |year=2017 |title=A new Oligo–Miocene marsupial lion from Australia and revision of the family Thylacoleonidae |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=59–89 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2017.1391885 |s2cid=90758394 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Gillespie, Archer & Hand
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Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] and early Miocene
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Riversleigh World Heritage Area
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{{Flag|Australia}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Thylacoleonidae|Thylacoleonidae]].
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==Eutherians==

===Research===
* A study on the timing of the diversification of [[Biology:Placentalia|placental]] mammals based on genomic data, indicating that the placentals underwent a continuous radiation across the [[Earth:Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary|Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary]] without apparent interruption by the [[Earth:Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event|Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event]], is published by Liu ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Liang Liu |author2=Jin Zhang |author3=Frank E. Rheindt |author4=Fumin Lei |author5=Yanhua Qu |author6=Yu Wang |author7=Yu Zhang |author8=Corwin Sullivan |author9=Wenhui Nie |author10=Jinhuan Wang |author11=Fengtang Yang |author12=Jinping Chen |author13=Scott V. Edwards |author14=Jin Meng |author15=Shaoyuan Wu |year=2017 |title=Genomic evidence reveals a radiation of placental mammals uninterrupted by the KPg boundary |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=35 |pages=E7282–E7290 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1616744114 |pmid=28808022 |pmc=5584403 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=John Gatesy |author2=Mark S. Springer |year=2017 |title=Phylogenomic red flags: Homology errors and zombie lineages in the evolutionary diversification of placental mammals |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=45 |pages=E9431–E9432 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1715318114 |pmid=29078405 |pmc=5692601 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Liang Liu |author2=Jin Zhang |author3=Frank E. Rheindt |author4=Fumin Lei |author5=Yanhua Qu |author6=Yu Wang |author7=Yu Zhang |author8=Corwin Sullivan |author9=Wenhui Nie |author10=Jinhuan Wang |author11=Fengtang Yang |author12=Jinping Chen |author13=Scott V. Edwards |author14=Jin Meng |author15=Shaoyuan Wu |year=2017 |title=Reply to Gatesy and Springer: Claims of homology errors and zombie lineages do not compromise the dating of placental diversification |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=45 |pages=E9433–E9434 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1715371114 |pmid=29078408 |pmc=5692603 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the completeness of the [[Biology:Eutheria|eutheria]]n fossil record, intending to establish whether the lack of placental mammal fossils in the [[Earth:Cretaceous|Cretaceous]] is more likely to be caused by poor fossil record or by genuine absence of placental mammals in the Cretaceous, is published by Davies ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Thomas W. Davies |author2=Mark A. Bell |author3=Anjali Goswami |author4=Thomas J. D. Halliday |year=2017 |title=Completeness of the eutherian mammal fossil record and implications for reconstructing mammal evolution through the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction |journal=Paleobiology |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=521–536 |doi=10.1017/pab.2017.20 |s2cid=89732700 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Revision of the fossil material of the species assigned to the [[Biology:Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] eutherian genus ''Prokennalestes'' and a study on their [[Biology:Morphology|morphological]] and size variability is published by Lopatin & Averianov (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=A. V. Lopatin |author2=A. O. Averianov |year=2017 |title=The stem placental mammal ''Prokennalestes'' from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=51 |issue=12 |pages=1293–1374 |doi=10.1134/S0031030117120048 |s2cid=90148237 }}</ref>
* A study on the impact of biotic (competition pressure) and abiotic factors (environmental change) on the evolutionary success, decline and extinction of large fossil herbivorous mammals from  North America, Europe and [[Biology:Turkana Basin|Turkana Basin]] in Africa is published by Žliobaitė, Fortelius & Stenseth (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Indrė Žliobaitė |author2=Mikael Fortelius |author3=Nils C. Stenseth |year=2017 |title=Reconciling taxon senescence with the Red Queen's hypothesis |journal=Nature |volume=552 |issue=7683 |pages=92–95 |doi=10.1038/nature24656 |pmid=29186124 |bibcode=2017Natur.552...92Z |hdl=10852/65201 |s2cid=4458011 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the impacts of temperature and human activities in causing extirpations on local and regional scales, as well as on the causes of the extinction or major extirpations of four [[Biology:Megafauna|megafauna]] mammalian groups (i.e. mammoth, rhinoceros, horse and deer) in the Late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] and [[Earth:Holocene|Holocene]], is published by Wang & Zhang (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xinru Wan |author2=Zhibin Zhang |year=2017 |title=Climate warming and humans played different roles in triggering Late Quaternary extinctions in east and west Eurasia |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=284 |issue=1851 |pages=20162438 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2016.2438 |pmid=28330916 |pmc=5378077 }}</ref>
* A study of the phylogenetic relationships of the [[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] [[Biology:Placentalia|placental]] mammals is published by Halliday, Upchurch and Goswami (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Thomas J. D. Halliday |author2=Paul Upchurch |author3=Anjali Goswami |year=2017 |title=Resolving the relationships of Paleocene placental mammals |journal=Biological Reviews |volume=92 |issue=1 |pages=521–550 |doi=10.1111/brv.12242 |pmid=28075073 |pmc=6849585 }}</ref>
* A study on the impact of the [[Earth:Eocene Thermal Maximum 2|Eocene Thermal Maximum 2]] on the evolution of the body size in four placental lineages, especially in the early [[Biology:Equidae|equid]] lineage ''Arenahippus pernix'', is published by D'Ambrosia ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Abigail R. D’Ambrosia |author2=William C. Clyde |author3=Henry C. Fricke |author4=Philip D. Gingerich |author5=Hemmo A. Abels |year=2017 |title=Repetitive mammalian dwarfing during ancient greenhouse warming events |journal=Science Advances |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=e1601430 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.1601430 |pmid=28345031 |pmc=5351980 |bibcode=2017SciA....3E1430D }}</ref>
* A study evaluating whether the extinction of the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] [[Biology:Megafauna|megafauna]] of [[Earth:North America|North America]] was caused by rapid overhunting after the appearance of humans by comparing the dates of the last appearances of megafauna and first appearances of humans across North America is published by Emery-Wetherell, McHorse & Davis (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Meaghan M. Emery-Wetherell |author2=Brianna K. McHorse |author3=Edward Byrd Davis |year=2017 |title=Spatially explicit analysis sheds new light on the Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in North America |journal=Paleobiology |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=642–655 |doi=10.1017/pab.2017.15 |s2cid=90330072 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Menéndez ''et al.'' (2017) infer the climatic variables for the middle Miocene of the Somosaguas vertebrate fossil site ({{wipe|Spain}}) on the basis of the body size structure of the mammal fauna known from the site, which is intimately related to climate and vegetation.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Iris Menéndez |author2=Ana R. Gómez Cano |author3=Blanca A. García Yelo |author4=Laura Domingo |author5=M. Soledad Domingo |author6=Juan L. Cantalapiedra |author7=Fernando Blanco |author8=Manuel Hernández Fernández |year=2017 |title=Body-size structure of Central Iberian mammal fauna reveals semidesertic conditions during the middle Miocene Global Cooling Event |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=10 |pages=e0186762 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0186762 |pmid=29073193 |pmc=5658084 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1286762M |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Carnivore marks are identified on mammal bones from the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] of {{wipe|Argentina}}, including three [[Biology:Ground sloth|ground sloth]] bones and one [[Biology:Toxodontidae|toxodontid]] bone, by Chichkoyan ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Karina Vanesa Chichkoyan |author2=Borja Figueirido |author3=Margarita Belinchón |author4=José Luis Lanata |author5=Anne-Marie Moigne |author6=Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro |year=2017 |title=Direct evidence of megamammal-carnivore interaction decoded from bone marks in historical fossil collections from the Pampean region |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3117 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3117 |pmid=28503369 |pmc=5426367 }}</ref>
* Description of the [[Biology:Osteology|osteology]] of the skull of the [[Biology:Pampatheriidae|pampathere]] ''[[Biology:Holmesina|Holmesina]] floridanus'' based on the fossils from the [[Biology:Blancan|Blancan]] of Florida is published by Gaudin & Lyon (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Timothy J. Gaudin |author2=Lauren M. Lyon |year=2017 |title=Cranial osteology of the pampathere ''Holmesina floridanus (Xenarthra: Cingulata; Blancan NALMA), including a description of an isolated petrosal bone |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e4022 |doi=10.7717/peerj.4022 |pmid=29250462 |pmc=5729832 }}</ref>
* A study on the diet of [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] [[Biology:Glyptodont|glyptodont]]s and [[Biology:Ground sloth|ground sloth]]s from the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] of {{wipe|Argentina}} as indicated by [[Biology:Δ13C|δ13C]] values in bone collagen and carbonate is published by Bocherens ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Hervé Bocherens |author2=Martin Cotte |author3=Ricardo A. Bonini |author4=Pablo Straccia |author5=Daniel Scian |author6=Leopoldo Soibelzon |author7=Francisco J. Prevosti |year=2017 |title=Isotopic insight on paleodiet of extinct Pleistocene megafaunal Xenarthrans from Argentina |journal=Gondwana Research |volume=48 |pages=7–14 |doi=10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.003 |bibcode=2017GondR..48....7B |hdl=11336/56592 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Richard A. Fariña |author2=Luciano Varela |title=Comment on "Isotopic insight on paleodiet of extinct Pleistocene megafaunal Xenarthrans from Argentina" by H. Bocherens, M. Cotte, R. A. Bonini, P. Straccia, D. Scian, L. Soibelzon and F. J. Prevosti, Gondwana Research, Volume 48, Issue 1, Pages 7–14 |year=2018 |journal=Gondwana Research |volume=58 |pages=241–242 |doi=10.1016/j.gr.2018.03.004 |bibcode=2018GondR..58..241F }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Hervé Bocherens |author2=Martin Cotte |author3=Ricardo A. Bonini |author4=Pablo Straccia |author5=Daniel Scian |author6=Leopoldo Soibelzon |author7=Francisco J. Prevosti |year=2018 |title=Reply to "Comment on "Isotopic insight on paleodiet of …" by Bocherens et al. (Gondwana Research, 48(1), 7–14)" |journal=Gondwana Research |volume=58 |pages=243–245 |doi=10.1016/j.gr.2018.03.003 |bibcode=2018GondR..58..243B }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic placement of members of the genus ''[[Biology:Thalassocnus|Thalassocnus]]'' within Megatheria is published by Amson, de Muizon & Gaudin (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Eli Amson |author2=Christian de Muizon |author3=Timothy J. Gaudin |year=2017 |title=A reappraisal of the phylogeny of the Megatheria (Mammalia: Tardigrada), with an emphasis on the relationships of the Thalassocninae, the marine sloths |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=179 |issue=1 |pages=217–236 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12450 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Description of new [[Biology:Mylodontidae|mylodontine]] [[Biology:Sloth|sloth]] remains from the late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] of Ecuador and Peru and a revision of the taxonomy of the genus ''[[Biology:Glossotherium|Glossotherium]]'' is published by De Iuliis ''et al.'' (2017), who consider ''Glossotherium tropicorum'' to be a valid species.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Gerardo De Iuliis |author2=Cástor Cartelle |author3=H. Gregory McDonald |author4=François Pujos |year=2017 |title=The mylodontine ground sloth ''Glossotherium tropicorum'' from the late Pleistocene of Ecuador and Peru |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=613–636 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1088 }}</ref>
* A study on a specimen of ''[[Biology:Stegomastodon|Stegomastodon]] platensis'' (or ''[[Biology:Notiomastodon|Notiomastodon]] platensis'') recovered from [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] fluvial sediments in the Santiago Basin ({{wipe|Chile}}), recovering life history information relating to the final four years of life and the season of death, is published by El Adli ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Joseph J. El Adli |author2=Daniel C. Fisher |author3=Michael D. Cherney |author4=Rafael Labarca |author5=Frédéric Lacombat |year=2017 |title=First analysis of life history and season of death of a South American gomphothere |journal=Quaternary International |volume=443, Part A |pages=180–188 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.016 |bibcode=2017QuInt.443..180E }}</ref>
* An incomplete juvenile skull of ''[[Biology:Gomphotherium|Gomphotherium]] wimani'' from the Miocene Hujialiang Formation and cheek teeth of a member of the same species from the Miocene Dongxiang Formation ({{wipe|China}}) are described by Yang, Li & Wang (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Xiang-Wen Yang |author2=Yu Li |author3=Shi-Qi Wang |year=2017 |title=Cranial and dental material of ''Gomphotherium wimani'' (Gomphotheriidae, Proboscidea) from the Middle Miocene of the Linxia Basin, northwestern China |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=331–346 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201705/t20170511_4786911.html |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.170511 }}</ref>
* A study on the dietary differences between members of the genera ''[[Biology:Sinomastodon|Sinomastodon]]'', ''[[Biology:Stegodon|Stegodon]]'' and ''[[Biology:Elephas|Elephas]]'' from the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] of South {{wipe|China}} is published by Zhang ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Hanwen Zhang |author2=Yuan Wang |author3=Christine M. Janis |author4=Robert H. Goodall |author5=Mark A. Purnell |year=2017 |title=An examination of feeding ecology in Pleistocene proboscideans from southern China (''Sinomastodon'', ''Stegodon'', ''Elephas''), by means of dental microwear texture analysis |journal=Quaternary International |volume=445 |pages=60–70 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2016.07.011 |bibcode=2017QuInt.445...60Z |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Pleistocene [[Biology:Proboscidea|proboscidea]]n remains associated with human teeth are described from the Mawokou Cave (Guizhou, {{wipe|China}}) by Wang ''et al.'' (2017), who assign this fossil material to the species ''Stegodon orientalis'' and ''[[Biology:Asian elephant|Elephas maximus]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yuan Wang |author2=Lingxia Zhao |author3=Baopu Du |author4=Lizhao Zhang |author5=Xinjin Wang |author6=Huiyang Cai |year=2017 |title=New proboscidean remains associated with ''Homo sapiens'' from the Mawokou Cave in Bijie, Guizhou Province of south-western China |journal=Acta Anthropologica Sinica |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=414–425 |doi=10.16359/j.cnki.cn11-1963/q.2017.0045 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/rlxxb/xbwzxz/201709/P020170913434441406269.pdf }}</ref>
* A study on the population dynamics of the [[Biology:Mammoth|mammoth]]s and [[Biology:Mastodon|mastodon]]s in the North American Midwest during the late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] and the possible causes of their regional extinction is published by Widga ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Chris Widga |author2=Stacey N. Lengyel |author3=Jeffrey Saunders |author4=Gregory Hodgins |author5=J. Douglas Walker |author6=Alan D. Wanamaker |year=2017 |title=Late Pleistocene proboscidean population dynamics in the North American Midcontinent |journal=Boreas |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=772–782 |doi=10.1111/bor.12235 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the regional variability of the diet of the American [[Biology:Mastodon|mastodon]] (''Mammut americanum'') is published by Green, DeSantis & Smith (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Jeremy L. Green |author2=Larisa R.G. DeSantis |author3=Gregory James Smith |year=2017 |title=Regional variation in the browsing diet of Pleistocene ''Mammut americanum'' (Mammalia, Proboscidea) as recorded by dental microwear textures |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=487 |pages=59–70 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.08.019 |bibcode=2017PPP...487...59G }}</ref>
* Meyer ''et al.'' (2017) report the recovery of full mitochondrial genomes from four and partial nuclear genomes from two fossils of the [[Biology:Straight-tusked elephant|straight-tusked elephant]] (''[[Biology:Palaeoloxodon|Palaeoloxodon]] antiquus''), the analysis of which indicated that the straight-tusked elephant was a close relative of the [[Biology:African forest elephant|African forest elephant]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Matthias Meyer |author2=Eleftheria Palkopoulou |author3=Sina Baleka |author4=Mathias Stiller |author5=Kirsty E. H. Penkman |author5-link= Kirsty Penkman |author6=Kurt W. Alt |author7=Yasuko Ishida |author8=Dietrich Mania |author9=Swapan Mallick |author10=Tom Meijer |author11=Harald Meller |author12=Sarah Nagel |author13=Birgit Nickel |author14=Sven Ostritz |author15=Nadin Rohland |author16=Karol Schauer |author17=Tim Schüler |author18=Alfred L. Roca |author19=David Reich |author20=Beth Shapiro |author21=Michael Hofreiter |year=2017 |title=Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the current view of elephant evolution |journal=eLife |volume=6 |pages=e25413 |doi=10.7554/eLife.25413 |pmid=28585920 |pmc=5461109 }}</ref>
* A study on the detrimental mutations in members of the relict, [[Earth:Holocene|Holocene]] population of the [[Biology:Woolly mammoth|woolly mammoth]] from the Wrangel Island prior to the extinction of the population is published by Rogers & Slatkin (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Rebekah L. Rogers |author2=Montgomery Slatkin |year=2017 |title=Excess of genomic defects in a woolly mammoth on Wrangel island |journal=PLOS Genetics |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=e1006601 |doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006601 |pmid=28253255 |pmc=5333797 }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] woolly mammoth populations based on the data set of 143 mammoth mitochondrial genomes is published by Chang ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Dan Chang |author2=Michael Knapp |author3=Jacob Enk |author4=Sebastian Lippold |author5=Martin Kircher |author6=Adrian Lister |author7=Ross D. E. MacPhee |author8=Christopher Widga |author9=Paul Czechowski |author10=Robert Sommer |author11=Emily Hodges |author12=Nikolaus Stümpel |author13=Ian Barnes |author14=Love Dalén |author15=Anatoly Derevianko |author16=Mietje Germonpré |author17=Alexandra Hillebrand-Voiculescu |author18=Silviu Constantin |author19=Tatyana Kuznetsova |author20=Dick Mol |author21=Thomas Rathgeber |author22=Wilfried Rosendahl |author23=Alexey N. Tikhonov |author24=Eske Willerslev |author25=Greg Hannon |author26=Carles Lalueza-Fox |author27=Ulrich Joger |author28=Hendrik Poinar |author29=Michael Hofreiter |author30=Beth Shapiro |year=2017 |title=The evolutionary and phylogeographic history of woolly mammoths: a comprehensive mitogenomic analysis |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |pages=Article number 44585 |doi=10.1038/srep44585 |pmid=28327635 |pmc=5361112 |bibcode=2017NatSR...744585C }}</ref>
* A study determining the sex of 98 woolly mammoth specimens collected at various locations throughout Siberia is published by Pečnerová ''et al.'' (2017), who report a significant skew toward males among the studied specimens and search for possible explanations of the observed skew in sex ratio.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Patrícia Pečnerová |author2=David Díez-del-Molino |author3=Nicolas Dussex |author4=Tatiana Feuerborn |author5=Johanna von Seth |author6=Johannes van der Plicht |author7=Pavel Nikolskiy |author8=Alexei Tikhonov |author9=Sergey Vartanyan |author10=Love Dalén |year=2017 |title=Genome-based sexing provides clues about behavior and social structure in the woolly mammoth |journal=Current Biology |volume=27 |issue=22 |pages=3505–3510.e3 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.064 |pmid=29103934 |s2cid=6913386 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Fellows Yates ''et al.'' (2017) identify and generate twenty woolly mammoth mitochondrial genomes based on Late Pleistocene material from central Europe.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=James A. Fellows Yates |author2=Dorothée G. Drucker |author3=Ella Reiter |author4=Simon Heumos |author5=Frido Welker |author6=Susanne C. Münzel |author7=Piotr Wojtal |author8=Martina Lázničková-Galetová |author9=Nicholas J. Conard |author10=Alexander Herbig |author11=Hervé Bocherens |author12=Johannes Krause |year=2017 |title=Central European woolly mammoth population dynamics: insights from Late Pleistocene mitochondrial genomes |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 17714 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-17723-1 |pmid=29255197 |pmc=5735091 |bibcode=2017NatSR...717714F }}</ref>
* A study on the habitat preferences of the [[Biology:Desmostylia|desmostylia]]ns ''[[Biology:Desmostylus|Desmostylus]]'' and ''[[Biology:Paleoparadoxia|Paleoparadoxia]]'' as indicated by their fossil occurrences is published by Matsui ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kumiko Matsui |author2=Katsuo Sashida |author3=Sachiko Agematsu |author4=Naoki Kohno |year=2017 |title=Habitat preferences of the enigmatic Miocene tethythere ''Desmostylus'' and ''Paleoparadoxia'' (Desmostylia; Mammalia) inferred from the depositional depth of fossil occurrences in the Northwestern Pacific realm |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=471 |pages=254–265 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.02.005 |bibcode=2017PPP...471..254M }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Biology:Humerus|humeral]] [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] of the desmostylians, intending to establish whether different desmostylian genera can be distinguished on the basis of their humeri, is published by Matsui (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author=Kumiko Matsui |year=2017 |title=How can we reliably identify a taxon based on humeral morphology? Comparative morphology of desmostylian humeri |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e4011 |doi=10.7717/peerj.4011 |pmid=29134151 |pmc=5683048 }}</ref>
* Description of cranial and postcranial remains of ''[[Biology:Pyrotherium|Pyrotherium]]'' from the [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] locality of Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza Province, {{wipe|Argentina}}) is published by Cerdeño & Vera (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Esperanza Cerdeño |author2=Bárbara Vera |year=2017 |title=New anatomical data on ''Pyrotherium'' (Pyrotheriidae) from the late Oligocene of Mendoza, Argentina |journal=Ameghiniana |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=290–306 |doi=10.5710/AMGH.14.11.2016.3052 |s2cid=130439323 }}</ref>
* A study on the diversity of [[Biology:Bat|bat]]s of Haiti through time based on fossil evidence is published by Soto-Centeno, Simmons & Steadman (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=J. Angel Soto-Centeno |author2=Nancy B. Simmons |author3=David W. Steadman |year=2017 |title=The bat community of Haiti and evidence for its long-term persistence at high elevations |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=6 |pages=e0178066 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0178066 |pmid=28574990 |pmc=5456054 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1278066S |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the body size variation in [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]] [[Biology:Odd-toed ungulate|odd-toed ungulate]]s and [[Biology:Even-toed ungulate|even-toed ungulate]]s from Europe and North America and on whether it is correlated with origination and/or extinction rates across [[Biology:Clade|clade]]s and regions is published by Huang ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Shan Huang |author2=Jussi T. Eronen |author3=Christine M. Janis |author4=Juha J. Saarinen |author5=Daniele Silvestro |author6=Susanne A. Fritz |year=2017 |title=Mammal body size evolution in North America and Europe over 20 Myr: similar trends generated by different processes |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=284 |issue=1849 |pages=20162361 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2016.2361 |pmid=28202809 |pmc=5326526 }}</ref>
* A redescription of the skull anatomy of the holotype specimen of ''[[Biology:Eoastrapostylops|Eoastrapostylops]] riolorense'', with an emphasis on the auditory region, is published by Kramarz, Bond & Rougier (2017), who interpret this species as a member of a [[Biology:Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] [[Biology:Meridiungulata|meridiungulate]] lineage that diverged before the differentiation among [[Biology:Astrapotheria|astrapotheres]], [[Biology:Pyrotheria|pyrotheres]] and [[Biology:Notoungulata|notoungulates]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alejandro G. Kramarz |author2=Mariano Bond |author3=Guillermo W. Rougier |year=2017 |title=Re-Description of the Auditory Region of the Putative Basal Astrapothere (Mammalia) ''Eoastrapostylops riolorense'' Soria and Powell, 1981. Systematic and Phylogenetic Considerations |journal=Annals of Carnegie Museum  |volume=84 |issue=2 |pages=95–164 |doi=10.2992/007.084.0204 |s2cid=90493504 }}</ref>
* A description of the [[Physics:Microstructure|microstructure]] of the [[Biology:Tooth enamel|tooth enamel]] of ''[[Biology:Carodnia|Carodnia]] vieirai'' is published by Bergqvist & von Koenigswald (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Lílian Paglarelli Bergqvist |author2=Wighart von Koenigswald |year=2017 |title=The dentition of ''Carodnia vieirai'' (Mammalia: Xenungulata): enamel microstructure and mastication pattern |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 20.2.30A |doi=10.26879/703 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A fossil of the [[Biology:Litopterna|litoptern]] species ''[[Biology:Neolicaphrium|Neolicaphrium]] recens'' is described from the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] deposits of the Río Dulce (Santiago del Estero Province, {{wipe|Argentina}}) by Gaudioso '' et al.'' (2017), representing the northernmost and westernmost record of the species.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Pablo Javier Gaudioso |author2=Germán M. Gasparini |author3=Rafael Herbst |author4=Rubén Mario Barquez |year=2017 |title=First record of the ''Neolicaphrium recens'' Frenguelli, 1921 (Mammalia, Litopterna) in the Pleistocene of Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina |journal=Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=23–29 |url=http://www.journals.usp.br/paz/article/view/128361 |doi=10.11606/0031-1049.2017.57.03 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A nearly complete [[Biology:Mitochondrial DNA|mitochondrial genome]] of the litoptern ''[[Biology:Macrauchenia|Macrauchenia]] patachonica'' is recovered by Westbury ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Michael Westbury |author2=Sina Baleka |author3=Axel Barlow |author4=Stefanie Hartmann |author5=Johanna L.A. Paijmans |author6=Alejandro Kramarz |author7=Analía M Forasiepi |author8=Mariano Bond |author9=Javier N. Gelfo |author10=Marcelo A. Reguero |author11=Patricio López-Mendoza |author12=Matias Taglioretti |author13=Fernando Scaglia |author14=Andrés Rinderknecht |author15=Washington Jones |author16=Francisco Mena |author17=Guillaume Billet |author18=Christian de Muizon |author19=José Luis Aguilar |author20=Ross D.E. MacPhee |author21=Michael Hofreiter |year=2017 |title=A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin's enigmatic South American mammal ''Macrauchenia patachonica'' |journal=Nature Communications |volume=8 |pages=Article number 15951 |doi=10.1038/ncomms15951 |pmid=28654082 |pmc=5490259 |bibcode=2017NatCo...815951W }}</ref>
* A study on variation in teeth growth and eruption in [[Biology:Notoungulata|notoungulates]] in the context of geological, climatic and environmental changes taking place in [[Earth:South America|South America]] from the late [[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] onwards is published by Gomes Rodrigues, Herrel & Billet (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Helder Gomes Rodrigues |author2=Anthony Herrel |author3=Guillaume Billet |year=2017 |title=Ontogenetic and life history trait changes associated with convergent ecological specializations in extinct ungulate mammals |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=5 |pages=1069–1074 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1614029114 |pmid=28096389 |pmc=5293108 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A systematic revision of members of the family [[Biology:Archaeopithecidae|Archaeopithecidae]] from the [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] of Patagonia ({{wipe|Argentina}}) is published by Vera (2017), who recognizes ''Archaeopithecus rogeri'' as the only valid species.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Bárbara Vera |year=2017 |title=Patagonian Eocene Archaeopithecidae Ameghino, 1897 (Notoungulata): systematic revision, phylogeny and biostratigraphy |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=91 |issue=6 |pages=1272–1295 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2017.53 |s2cid=90422549 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of [[Biology:Hegetotheriidae|hegetotheriid]] notoungulates, as well as their possible ancestral area and vicariance, [[Biology:Biological dispersal|dispersal]] and extinction events, is published by Seoane, Roig Juñent & Cerdeño (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Federico D. Seoane |author2=Sergio Roig Juñent |author3=Esperanza Cerdeño |year=2017 |title=Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of Hegetotheriidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=e1278547 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1278547 |s2cid=90855244 }}</ref>
* Revision of the content of the hegetotheriid species ''[[Biology:Prohegetotherium|Prohegetotherium]] sculptum'' based on a reexamination of the type specimens and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of hegetotheriids is published by Kramarz & Bond (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alejandro Gustavo Kramarz |author2=Mariano Bond |year=2017 |title=Systematics and stratigraphical range of the hegetotheriids ''Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus'' and ''Prohegetotherium sculptum'' (Mammalia: Notoungulata) |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=15 |issue=12 |pages=1027–1036 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1266047 |s2cid=90853697 }}</ref>
* Description of a skeleton of ''[[Biology:Thomashuxleya|Thomashuxleya]] externa'' with a well-preserved skull and jaws associated with postcrania, recovered from the [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] of Cañadón Vaca ({{wipe|Argentina}}), and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Carrillo & Asher (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Juan D. Carrillo |author2=Robert J. Asher |year=2017 |title=An exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of ''Thomashuxleya externa'' (Mammalia, Notoungulata), from the Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 20.2.34A |doi=10.26879/759 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study comparing tooth [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] and development in [[Biology:Mesotheriidae|mesotheriid]] notoungulates and extant gundis is published by Gomes Rodrigues ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Helder Gomes Rodrigues |author2=Rémi Lefebvre |author3=Marcos Fernández-Monescillo |author4=Bernardino Mamani Quispe |author5=Guillaume Billet |year=2017 |title=Ontogenetic variations and structural adjustments in mammals evolving prolonged to continuous dental growth |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=4 |issue=7 |pages=170494 |doi=10.1098/rsos.170494 |pmid=28791172 |pmc=5541567 |bibcode=2017RSOS....470494G }}</ref>
* A study on the diet of the three most abundant ungulates from the La Brea Tar Pits (''[[Biology:Bison antiquus|Bison antiquus]]'', ''[[Biology:Camelops|Camelops]] hesternus'' and ''[[Biology:Equus occidentalis|Equus occidentalis]]'') is published by Jones & DeSantis (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Davis Brent Jones |author2=Larisa R.G. DeSantis |year=2017 |title=Dietary ecology of ungulates from the La Brea tar pits in southern California: A multi-proxy approach |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=466 |pages=110–127 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.11.019 |bibcode=2017PPP...466..110J }}</ref>
* Description of the [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] of the skeleton of ''[[Biology:Hyrachyus|Hyrachyus]] modestus'' is published by Bai ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Bin Bai |author2=Jin Meng |author3=Yuan-Qing Wang |author4=Hai-Bing Wang |author5=Luke Holbrook |year=2017 |title=Osteology of the Middle Eocene ceratomorph ''Hyrachyus modestus'' (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=413 |pages=1–70 |doi=10.1206/0003-0090-413.1.1 |hdl=2246/6718 |s2cid=89946672 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/4612938 }}</ref>
* A description of new fossil material of the [[Biology:Helaletidae|helaletid]] [[Biology:Tapiroidea|tapiroids]] ''Paracolodon fissus'' and ''Desmatotherium mongoliense'' from the [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] Irdin Manha Formation ([[Place:Inner Mongolia|Inner Mongolia]], {{wipe|China}}) and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of these species is published by Bai ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Bin Bai |author2=Yuan-Qing Wang |author3=Fang-Yuan Mao |author4=Jin Meng |year=2017 |title=New material of Eocene Helaletidae (Perissodactyla, Tapiroidea) from the Irdin Manha Formation of the Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, China and comments on related localities of the Huheboerhe area |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=3878 |pages=1–44 |doi=10.1206/3878.1 |hdl=2246/6709 |s2cid=55194553 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/262876 }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the rhinoceros genus ''Stephanorhinus'' based on ancient protein sequences is published by Welker ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Frido Welker |author2=Geoff M. Smith |author3=Jarod M. Hutson |author4=Lutz Kindler |author5=Alejandro Garcia-Moreno |author6=Aritza Villaluenga |author7=Elaine Turner |author8=Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser |year=2017 |title=Middle Pleistocene protein sequences from the rhinoceros genus ''Stephanorhinus'' and the phylogeny of extant and extinct Middle/Late Pleistocene Rhinocerotidae |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3033 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3033 |pmid=28316883 |pmc=5354071 }}</ref>
* Skull of ''Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis'' is described from the Chondon River valley (Arctic [[Biography:Sakha Republic|Yakutia]], {{wipe|Russia}}) by Kirillova ''et al.'' (2017), representing the first find of a member of the genus ''Stephanorhinus'' above the Arctic Circle.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Irina V. Kirillova |author2=Olga F. Chernova |author3=Jan van der Made |author4=Vladimir V. Kukarskih |author5=Beth Shapiro |author6=Johannes van der Plicht |author7=Fedor K. Shidlovskiy |author8=Peter D. Heintzman |author9=Thijs van Kolfschoten |author10=Oksana G. Zanina |s2cid=45478220 |year=2017 |title=Discovery of the skull of ''Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis'' (Jäger, 1839) above the Arctic Circle |journal=Quaternary Research |volume=88 |issue=3 |pages=537–550 |doi=10.1017/qua.2017.53 |bibcode=2017QuRes..88..537K |url=https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/55380790/Kirillova_QR_2017.pdf }}</ref> 
* A study on the incidence of developmental abnormalities in the neck vertebrae (the presence of cervical ribs) in the late Pleistocene population of the [[Biology:Woolly rhinoceros|woolly rhinoceros]] (''Coelodonta antiquitatis'') is published by van der Geer & Galis (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alexandra A.E. van der Geer |author2=Frietson Galis |year=2017 |title=High incidence of cervical ribs indicates vulnerable condition in Late Pleistocene woolly rhinoceroses |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3684 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3684 |pmid=28875067 |pmc=5580387 }}</ref> 
* Skeleton of a pregnant mare of ''[[Biology:Eurohippus|Eurohippus]] messelensis'' with preserved soft tissues is described from the [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] Messel pit ({{wipe|Germany}}) by Franzen & Habersetzer (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Jens Lorenz Franzen |author2=Jörg Habersetzer |year=2017 |title=Complete skeleton of ''Eurohippus messelensis'' (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equoidea) from the early middle Eocene of Grube Messel (Germany) |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=97 |issue=4 |pages=807–832 |doi=10.1007/s12549-017-0280-5 |s2cid=135363952 }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Biology:Speciation|speciation]] rates and the evolution of body size and tooth [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] in [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]] and [[Earth:Quaternary|Quaternary]] radiation of horses is published by Cantalapiedra ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=J. L. Cantalapiedra |author2=J. L. Prado |author3=M. Hernández Fernández |author4=M. T. Alberdi |year=2017 |title=Decoupled ecomorphological evolution and diversification in Neogene-Quaternary horses |journal=Science |volume=355 |issue=6325 |pages=627–630 |doi=10.1126/science.aag1772 |pmid=28183978 |bibcode=2017Sci...355..627C |s2cid=206651032 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1000786 }}</ref>
* A study on the fossil horse metapodials, testing how locomotor bone stresses changed with digit reduction and increasing body size across the horse lineage, is published by McHorse, Biewener & Pierce (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Brianna K. McHorse |author2=Andrew A. Biewener |author3=Stephanie E. Pierce |year=2017 |title=Mechanics of evolutionary digit reduction in fossil horses (Equidae) |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=284 |issue=1861 |pages=20171174 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2017.1174 |pmid=28835559 |pmc=5577487 }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Biology:Ontogeny|ontogenetic]] changes in the teeth of the late Miocene [[Biology:Hipparionini|hipparionines]] based on fossils from Fugu (Shaanxi, {{wipe|China}}) is published by Li ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Yangfan Li |author2=Tao Deng |author3=Hong Hua |author4=Yongxiang Li |author5=Yunxiang Zhang |year=2017 |title=Assessment of dental ontogeny in late Miocene hipparionines from the Lamagou fauna of Fugu, Shaanxi Province, China |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=e0175460 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0175460 |pmid=28445536 |pmc=5405952 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1275460L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the diet and habitat of specimens of ''[[Biology:Dinohippus|Dinohippus]] mexicanus'' and ''[[Biology:Neohipparion|Neohipparion]] eurystyle'' known from the late [[Biology:Hemphillian|Hemphillian]] localities in central Mexico as indicated by stable carbon and oxygen isotopes determined in molar [[Biology:Tooth enamel|enamel]] is published by Pérez-Crespo ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Víctor Adrián Pérez-Crespo |author2=Oscar Carranza-Castañeda |author3=Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales |author4=Pedro Morales-Puente |author5=Edith Cienfuegos-Alvarado |author6=Francisco J. Otero |year=2017 |title=Diet and habitat of unique individuals of ''Dinohippus mexicanus'' and ''Neohipparion eurystyle'' (Equidae) from the late Hemphillian (Hh3) of Guanajuato and Jalisco, central Mexico: stable isotope studies |journal=Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=38–44 |url=http://satori.geociencias.unam.mx/34-1/(04)PerezCrespo.pdf |doi=10.22201/cgeo.20072902e.2017.1.470 }}</ref>
* A study on the number of species of horses that inhabited the Western Interior of North America prior to the end-[[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] extinction, based on cheek tooth [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] and [[Biology:Ancient DNA|ancient mtDNA]], is published by Barrón-Ortiz ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Christina I. Barrón-Ortiz |author2=Antonia T. Rodrigues |author3=Jessica M. Theodor |author4=Brian P. Kooyman |author5=Dongya Y. Yang |author6=Camilla F. Speller |year=2017 |title=Cheek tooth morphology and ancient mitochondrial DNA of late Pleistocene horses from the western interior of North America: Implications for the taxonomy of North American Late Pleistocene ''Equus'' |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=8 |pages=e0183045 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0183045 |pmid=28817644 |pmc=5560644 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1283045B |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the growth pattern of the first lower molar in extant and extinct species of ''[[Biology:Equus (genus)|Equus]]'' and its relationship with life history events is published by Nacarino-Meneses ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Carmen Nacarino-Meneses |author2=Xavier Jordana |author3=Guillem Orlandi-Oliveras |author4=Meike Köhler |year=2017 |title=Reconstructing molar growth from enamel histology in extant and extinct ''Equus'' |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 15965 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-16227-2 |pmid=29162890 |pmc=5698294 |bibcode=2017NatSR...715965N }}</ref>
* A study on the morphology of the [[Medicine:Middle ear|middle ear]] and bony labyrinth of the [[Biology:Anoplotheriidae|anoplotheriid]] [[Biology:Even-toed ungulate|even-toed ungulate]] ''Diplobune minor'' and their implications for the locomotion of members of this species is published by Orliac, Araújo & Lihoreau (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Maeva J. Orliac |author2=Ricardo Araújo |author3=Fabrice Lihoreau |year=2017 |title=The petrosal and bony labyrinth of ''Diplobune minor'', an enigmatic Artiodactyla from the Oligocene of Western Europe |journal=Journal of Morphology |volume=278 |issue=9 |pages=1168–1184 |doi=10.1002/jmor.20702 |pmid=28516487 |s2cid=36810178 }}</ref>
* Fossils of a member of the camelid genus ''[[Biology:Hemiauchenia|Hemiauchenia]]'' are described from the late Pliocene of {{wipe|Argentina}} by Gasparini ''et al.'' (2017), representing the oldest record of the tribe [[Biology:Lamini|Lamini]] in [[Earth:South America|South America]] reported so far.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Germán Mariano Gasparini |author2=Martín De los Reyes |author3=Analía Francia |author4=Carolina Saldanha Scherer |author5=Daniel Gustavo Poiré |year=2017 |title=The oldest record of ''Hemiauchenia'' Gervais and Ameghino (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) in South America: comments about its paleobiogeographic and stratigraphic implications |journal=Geobios |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=141–153 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2016.12.003 |url=http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/104786 }}</ref>
* DNA sequence data is generated for samples of 12 flat-headed peccary specimens from the Sheriden Cave (Ohio, {{wipe|United States}}) by Perry ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Tahlia Perry |author2=Ayla L. van Loenen |author3=Holly Heiniger |author4=Carol Lee |author5=Jaime Gongora |author6=Alan Cooper |author7=Kieren J. Mitchell |year=2017 |title=Ancient DNA analysis of the extinct North American flat-headed peccary (''Platygonus compressus'') |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=112 |pages=258–267 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2017.03.024 |pmid=28363818 }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] of the bony labyrinth of extant and extinct [[Biology:Deer|deer]]s and on the phylogenetic relationships of fossil deers is published by Mennecart ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Bastien Mennecart |author2=Daniel DeMiguel |author3=Faysal Bibi |author4=Gertrud E. Rössner |author5=Grégoire Métais |author6=James M. Neenan |author7=Shiqi Wang |author8=Georg Schulz |author9=Bert Müller |author10=Loïc Costeur |year=2017 |title=Bony labyrinth morphology clarifies the origin and evolution of deer |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 13176 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-12848-9 |pmid=29030580 |pmc=5640792 |bibcode=2017NatSR...713176M }}</ref>
* Deer fossil (almost complete [[Biology:Humerus|humerus]]) is reported from the late Miocene sedimentary sequence of the Bira Formation at Hagal Stream (western margin of the Jordan Valley, [[Place:Israel|Israel]]) by Rozenbaum ''et al.'' (2017), representing the first record of a terrestrial mammal reported from the sequence.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alexis Gabriel Rozenbaum |author2=Dotan Shaked Gelband |author3=Mordechai Stein |author4=Henk K. Mienis |author5=Rivka Rabinovich |year=2017 |title=First evidence of "ancient deer" (cervid) in the late Miocene Bira Formation, Northern Israel |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=11 |pages=e0185268 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0185268 |pmid=29091714 |pmc=5665429 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1285268R |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* An [[Biology:Ossicone|ossicone]] and postcranial remains of [[Biology:Giraffe|giraffe]]s of uncertain specific assignment are described from the Miocene of the Potwar Plateau ({{wipe|Pakistan}}) by Danowitz, Barry & Solounias (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Melinda Danowitz |author2=John C. Barry |author3=Nikos Solounias |year=2017 |title=The earliest ossicone and post-cranial record of ''Giraffa'' |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=9 |pages=e0185139 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0185139 |pmid=28926638 |pmc=5605118 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1285139D |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[Biology:Mouflon|Mouflon]] bones are reported from the late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] of eastern Jordan by Yeomans, Martin & Richter (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Lisa Yeomans |author2=Louise Martin |author3=Tobias Richter |year=2017 |title=Expansion of the known distribution of Asiatic mouflon (''Ovis orientalis'') in the Late Pleistocene of the Southern Levant |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=4 |issue=8 |pages=170409 |doi=10.1098/rsos.170409 |pmid=28878989 |pmc=5579105 |bibcode=2017RSOS....470409Y }}</ref>
* A study on the diet of the Miocene [[Biology:Bovidae|bovid]] ''Hezhengia bohlini'' as indicated by [[Biology:Tooth enamel|enamel]] microwear is published by Semprebon, Solounias & Tao (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Gina M. Semprebon |author2=Nikos Solounias |author3=Deng Tao |year=2017 |title=Dietary reconstruction of ''Hezhengia bohlini'' (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from the late Miocene Basin of China using enamel microwear |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=481 |pages=57–63 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.05.023 }}</ref>
* A study on the timing of [[Biology:Bison|bison]] arrival in North America as indicated by mitochondrial genomes extracted from fossil specimens is published by Froese ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Duane Froese |author2=Mathias Stiller |author3=Peter D. Heintzman |author4=Alberto V. Reyes |author5=Grant D. Zazula |author6=André E. R. Soares |author7=Matthias Meyer |author8=Elizabeth Hall |author9=Britta J. L. Jensen |author10=Lee J. Arnold |author11=Ross D. E. MacPhee |author12=Beth Shapiro |year=2017 |title=Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=13 |pages=3457–3462 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1620754114 |pmid=28289222 |pmc=5380047 |bibcode=2017PNAS..114.3457F |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2017-10-28|title=When did bison arrive in North America?|url=http://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/science-articles/when-did-bison-arrive-in-north-america|website=Science Journal for Kids|date=2017-07-26}}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] species ''[[Biology:Bison schoetensacki|Bison schoetensacki]]'' as indicated by recovered ancient DNA is published by Palacio ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Pauline Palacio |author2=Véronique Berthonaud |author3=Claude Guérin |author4=Josie Lambourdière |author5=Frédéric Maksud |author6=Michel Philippe |author7=Delphine Plaire |author8=Thomas Stafford |author9=Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat |author10=Jean-Marc Elalouf |year=2017 |title=Genome data on the extinct ''Bison schoetensacki'' establish it as a sister species of the extant European bison (''Bison bonasus'') |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=48 |doi=10.1186/s12862-017-0894-2 |pmid=28187706 |pmc=5303235 }}</ref>
* Partial skeleton of a bison related to the [[Biology:Steppe bison|steppe bison]] is described from the middle [[Earth:Holocene|Holocene]] (~ 5,400 years ago) of [[Earth:Yukon|Yukon]] ({{wipe|Canada}}) by Zazula ''et al.'' (2017), confirming local survival of northern steppe bison populations into the Holocene.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Grant Zazula |author2=Elizabeth Hall |author3=P. Greg Hare |author4=Christian Thomas |author5=Rolf W. Mathewes |author6=Catherine La Farge |author7=André L Martel |author8=Peter Heintzman |author9=Beth Shapiro |year=2017 |title=A middle Holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments from the Versleuce Meadows, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=54 |issue=11 |pages=1138–1152 |doi=10.1139/cjes-2017-0100 |bibcode=2017CaJES..54.1138Z |hdl=1807/78639 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
* Description of new [[Biology:Tooth|dental]] remains of the [[Biology:Anthracotheriidae|anthracothere]] ''Hemimeryx blanfordi'' from Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] deposits of the Bugti Hills ([[Earth:Chitarwata Formation|Chitarwata Formation]], {{wipe|Pakistan}}), representing the first undisputed Oligocene occurrence of the species, and a study on the molar [[Biology:Tooth enamel|enamel]] [[Physics:Microstructure|microstructure]] and the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Lihoreau ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Fabrice Lihoreau |author2=Léanie Alloing-Séguier |author3=Pierre-Olivier Antoine |author4=Jean-Renaud Boisserie |author5=Laurent Marivaux |author6=Grégoire Métais |author7=Jean-Loup Welcomme |year=2017 |title=Enamel microstructure defines a major Paleogene hippopotamoid clade: the Merycopotamini (Cetartiodactyla, Hippopotamoidea) |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=7 |pages=947–957 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1274748 |s2cid=90177082 }}</ref>
* Description of the bony labyrinth of two [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] ([[Earth:Lutetian|Lutetian]]) [[Biology:Protocetidae|protocetid]] specimens from Kpogamé (Togo) and a study on the implications of the anatomy of the specimens for the hearing abilities of early whales is published by Mourlam & Orliac (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Mickaël J. Mourlam |author2=Maeva J. Orliac |year=2017 |title=Infrasonic and Ultrasonic Hearing Evolved after the Emergence of Modern Whales |journal=Current Biology |volume=27 |issue=12 |pages=1776–1781.e9 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.061 |pmid=28602653 |s2cid=23076925 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A detailed description of the holotype specimen of ''[[Biology:Cynthiacetus|Cynthiacetus]] peruvianus'' and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of [[Biology:Archaeoceti|archaeocetes]] (especially [[Biology:Basilosauridae|basilosaurids]]) is published by Martínez-Cáceres, Lambert & de Muizon (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Manuel Martínez-Cáceres |author2=Olivier Lambert |author3=Christian de Muizon |year=2017 |title=The anatomy and phylogenetic affinities of ''Cynthiacetus peruvianus'', a large ''Dorudon''-like basilosaurid (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the late Eocene of Peru |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=7–163 |doi=10.5252/g2017n1a1 |s2cid=90142285 |url=http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/39/1/anatomie-et-affinites-phylogenetiques-de-cynthiacetus-peruvianus-un-grand-basilosauride-ressemblant-dorudon-cetacea-mammalia-de-l-eocene-superieur-du-perou }}</ref>
* A study on the anatomy of the inner ear of [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] [[Biology:Mammalodontidae|mammalodontid]] and [[Biology:Aetiocetidae|aetiocetid]] [[Biology:Cetacea|cetacea]]ns and their ability to detect low frequencies is published by Park ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Travis Park |author2=Alistair R. Evans |author3=Stephen J. Gallagher |author4=Erich M. G. Fitzgerald |year=2017 |title=Low-frequency hearing preceded the evolution of giant body size and filter feeding in baleen whales |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=284 |issue=1848 |pages=20162528 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2016.2528 |pmid=28179519 |pmc=5310610 }}</ref>
* New Oligo-Miocene [[Biology:Eomysticetidae|eomysticetid]] specimens are described from [[Earth:New Zealand|New Zealand]] by Boessenecker & Fordyce (2017), including a member of the genus ''Waharoa'' from the earliest Miocene (the most recent eomysticetid specimen reported so far).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=R. W. Boessenecker |author2=R. E. Fordyce |year=2017 |title=Cosmopolitanism and Miocene survival of Eomysticetidae (Cetacea: Mysticeti) revealed by new fossils from New Zealand |journal=New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=145–157 |doi=10.1080/00288306.2017.1300176 |s2cid=133204707 }}</ref>
* Five [[Biology:Xenorophidae|xenorophid]] specimens (four specimens belonging to the species ''[[Biology:Albertocetus|Albertocetus]] meffordorum'' and one member of the genus ''[[Biology:Echovenator|Echovenator]]'') are described from the [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] of North and South Carolina ({{wipe|United States}}) by Boessenecker, Ahmed & Geisler (2017).<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>
* Two teeth of a large toothed whale from the group Physeteroidea (belonging or related to the genus ''[[Biology:Zygophyseter|Zygophyseter]]'') are described from the Middle or Upper Miocene of Netherlands by Reumer, Mens & Post (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Jelle W.F. Reumer |author2=Titus H. Mens |author3=Klaas Post |year=2017 |title=New finds of giant raptorial sperm whale teeth (Cetacea, Physeteroidea) from the Westerschelde Estuary (province of Zeeland, the Netherlands) |journal=Deinsea |volume=17 |pages=32–38 |url=http://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/documents-nmr/Publicaties/Deinsea/Deinsea_17/Deinsea_17_32-38_Reumer_et_al.pdf }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of ''[[Biology:Araeodelphis|Araeodelphis]] natator'' (Miocene relative of the [[Biology:South Asian river dolphin|South Asian river dolphin]]) is published by Godfrey, Barnes & Lambert (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Stephen J. Godfrey |author2=Lawrence G. Barnes |author3=Olivier Lambert |year=2017 |title=The Early Miocene odontocete ''Araeodelphis'' Natator Kellogg, 1957 (Cetacea; Platanistidae), from the Calvert Formation of Maryland, U.S.A. |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=e1278607 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1278607 |s2cid=90362603 }}</ref>
* A study of the fossil record of the [[Biology:Baleen whale|mysticetes]], testing when and how gigantism evolved in mysticetes, is published by Slater, Goldbogen & Pyenson (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Graham J. Slater |author2=Jeremy A. Goldbogen |author3=Nicholas D. Pyenson |year=2017 |title=Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=284 |issue=1855 |pages=20170546 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 |pmid=28539520 |pmc=5454272 }}</ref>
* A study on the teeth sharpness and function in archaic mysticetes is published by Hocking ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=David P. Hocking |author2=Felix G. Marx |author3=Erich M. G. Fitzgerald |author4=Alistair R. Evans |year=2017 |title=Ancient whales did not filter feed with their teeth |journal=Biology Letters |volume=13 |issue=8 |pages=20170348 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2017.0348 |pmid=28855416 |pmc=5582114 }}</ref>
* Exceptionally preserved baleen apparatus of ''[[Biology:Piscobalaena|Piscobalaena]] nana'' from the Miocene [[Earth:Pisco Formation|Pisco Formation]] (Peru) is described by Marx ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Felix G. Marx |author2=Alberto Collareta |author3=Anna Gioncada |author4=Klaas Post |author5=Olivier Lambert |author6=Elena Bonaccorsi |author7=Mario Urbina |author8=Giovanni Bianucci |year=2017 |title=How whales used to filter: exceptionally preserved baleen in a Miocene cetotheriid |journal=Journal of Anatomy |volume=231 |issue=2 |pages=212–220 |doi=10.1111/joa.12622 |pmid=28542839 |pmc=5522891 }}</ref>
* [[Biology:Pygmy right whale|Pygmy right whale]] fossils are described from the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] of Italy and {{wipe|Japan}} by Tsai ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Cheng-Hsiu Tsai |author2=Alberto Collareta |author3=Erich M.G. Fitzgerald |author4= Felix G. Marx |author5=Naoki Kohno |author6=Mark Bosselaers |author7=Gianni Insacco |author8=Agatino Reitano |author9=Rita Catanzariti |author10=Masayuki Oishi |author11=Giovanni Bianucci |year=2017 |title=Northern pygmy right whales highlight Quaternary marine mammal interchange |journal=Current Biology |volume=27 |issue=19 |pages=R1058–R1059 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2017.08.056 |pmid=29017038 |s2cid=23877418 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of the Miocene [[Biology:Balaenidae|balaenid]] ''[[Biology:Morenocetus|Morenocetus]] parvus'' is published by Buono ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Mónica R. Buono |author2=Marta S. Fernández |author3=Mario A. Cozzuol |author4=José I. Cuitiño |author5=Erich M.G. Fitzgerald |year=2017 |title=The early Miocene balaenid ''Morenocetus parvus'' from Patagonia (Argentina) and the evolution of right whales |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e4148 |doi=10.7717/peerj.4148 |pmid=29302389 |pmc=5742523 }}</ref>
* A partial skull of a [[Biology:Right whale|right whale]] (a member or a relative of the genus ''Eubalaena'') is described from the Pliocene Tjörnes Formation (Iceland) by Field ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Daniel J. Field |author2=Robert Boessenecker |author3=Rachel A. Racicot |author4=Lovísa Ásbjörnsdóttir |author5=Kristján Jónasson |author6=Allison Y. Hsiang |author7=Adam D. Behlke |author8=Jakob Vinther |year=2017 |title=The oldest marine vertebrate fossil from the volcanic island of Iceland: a partial right whale skull from the high latitude Pliocene Tjörnes Formation |journal=Palaeontology |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=141–148 |doi=10.1111/pala.12275 |url=http://opus.bath.ac.uk/56217/1/Iceland_Final_resubmission_MS_clean.docx |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A Miocene breeding site for ''[[Biology:Parietobalaena|Parietobalaena]] yamaokai'' known from Itahashi Formation ({{wipe|Japan}}) is reported by Tsai (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author=Cheng-Hsiu Tsai |year=2017 |title=A Miocene breeding ground of an extinct baleen whale (Cetacea: Mysticeti) |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3711 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3711 |pmid=28848691 |pmc=5571789 }}</ref>
* The oldest known fossil of a [[Biology:Fin whale|fin whale]] (a tympanic bulla) is described from the Early [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] of Northern {{wipe|California}} by Tsai & Boessenecker (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Cheng-Hsiu Tsai |author2=Robert W. Boessenecker |year=2017 |title=The earliest-known fin whale, ''Balaenoptera physalus'', from the Early Pleistocene of Northern California, U.S.A. |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=e1306536 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1306536 |s2cid=133846370 }}</ref>
* A study on the correlates between the [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] of the [[Biology:Calcaneus|calcaneum]] and the locomotor mode in extant [[Biology:Carnivora|carnivora]]ns, and their implications for determining the locomotor mode in extinct carnivorans and [[Biology:Creodonta|creodonts]], is published by Panciroli ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Elsa Panciroli |author2=Christine Janis |author3=Maximilion Stockdale |author4=Alberto Martín-Serra |year=2017 |title=Correlates between calcaneal morphology and locomotion in extant and extinct carnivorous mammals |journal=Journal of Morphology |volume=278 |issue=10 |pages=1333–1353 |doi=10.1002/jmor.20716 |pmid=28603865 |hdl=1983/07385c86-7514-47c4-97a3-625ce7fcfb18 |s2cid=7632998 |url=https://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/en/publications/correlates-between-calcaneal-morphology-and-locomotion-in-extant-and-extinct-carnivorous-mammals(07385c86-7514-47c4-97a3-625ce7fcfb18).html }}</ref>
* A study on the morphology of the primary teeth and teeth eruption sequence in hyainailouroid hyaenodonts is published by Borths & Stevens (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Matthew R. Borths |author2=Nancy J. Stevens |year=2017 |title=Deciduous dentition and dental eruption of Hyainailouroidea (Hyaenodonta, "Creodonta," Placentalia, Mammalia) |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=Article number 20.3.55A |doi=10.26879/776 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the anatomy of the bony labyrinth of ''[[Biology:Hyaenodon|Hyaenodon]] exiguus'' and its implications for the [[Biology:Paleobiology|paleobiology]] of the species is published by Pfaff ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Cathrin Pfaff |author2=Doris Nagel |author3=Gregg Gunnell |author4=Gerhard W. Weber |author5=Jürgen Kriwet |author6=Michael Morlo |author7=Katharina Bastl |year=2017 |title=Palaeobiology of ''Hyaenodon exiguus'' (Hyaenodonta, Mammalia) based on morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth |journal=Journal of Anatomy |volume=230 |issue=2 |pages=282–289 |doi=10.1111/joa.12545 |pmid=27666133|pmc=5244453 }}</ref>
* An incus of ''Hyaenodon'' (the first known [[Medicine:Ossicles|auditory ossicle]] of this genus and of any hyaenodont mammal so far) is described and compared to a large set of includes of extant [[Biology:Carnivora|carnivora]]ns by Bastl, Nagel & Solé (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Katharina Bastl |author2=Doris Nagel |author3=Floréal Solé |year=2017 |title=Incus facet morphology in carnivorous mammals from different ecosystems: Taxonomy vs. habitat |journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=284–302 |doi=10.1016/j.crpv.2016.11.008 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the frequency of traumatic injuries across skeletal elements in the [[Biology:Saber-toothed cat|saber-toothed cat]] ''[[Biology:Smilodon|Smilodon]] fatalis'' and the [[Biology:Dire wolf|dire wolf]] (''Canis dirus'') from La Brea Tar Pits is published by Brown ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Caitlin Brown |author2=Mairin Balisi |author3=Christopher A. Shaw |author4=Blaire Van Valkenburgh |year=2017 |title=Skeletal trauma reflects hunting behaviour in extinct sabre-tooth cats and dire wolves |journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=1 |issue=5 |pages=Article number 0131 |doi=10.1038/s41559-017-0131 |pmid=28812696 |s2cid=8008808 }}</ref>
* A revision of [[Biology:Canidae|canid]] fossils from the late Pliocene site of Kvabebi ([[Place:Georgia (country)|Georgia]]), revealing the co-occurrence of members of the genera ''[[Biology:Nyctereutes|Nyctereutes]]'', ''[[Biology:Eucyon|Eucyon]]'' and ''[[Biology:Vulpes|Vulpes]]'', is published by Rook ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Lorenzo Rook |author2=Saverio Bartolini Lucenti |author3=Maia Bukhsianidze |author4=David Lordkipanidze |year=2017 |title=The Kvabebi Canidae record revisited (late Pliocene, Sighnaghi, eastern Georgia) |journal=Journal of Paleontology |doi=10.1017/jpa.2017.73 |volume=91 |issue=6 |pages=1258–1271 |s2cid=134781923 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the morphological adaptations linked to grasping and digging ability, substrate preference and locomotory mode in the forelimb of ''[[Biology:Cyonasua|Cyonasua]]'' is published by Tarquini ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=J. Tarquini |author2=N. Toledo |author3=C. C. Morgan |author4=L. H. Soibelzon |year=2017 |title=The forelimb of †''Cyonasua'' sp. (Procyonidae, Carnivora): ecomorphological interpretation in the context of carnivorans |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |doi=10.1017/S1755691016000207 |volume=106 |issue=4 |pages=325–335 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A reevaluation of the Miocene [[Biology:Mustelidae|mustelid]] ''Hadrictis fricki'' is published by Valenciano ''et al.'' (2017), who consider ''Hadrictis'' to be a junior synonym of the genus ''[[Biology:Eomellivora|Eomellivora]]'' and transfer ''H. fricki'' to the genus ''[[Biology:Eomellivora|Eomellivora]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Alberto Valenciano |author2=Juan Abella |author3=Ursula B. Göhlich |author4=M. Ángeles Álvarez-Sierra |author5=Jorge Morales |year=2017 |title=Re-evaluation of the very large ''Eomellivora fricki'' (Pia, 1939) (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Mellivorinae) from the Late Miocene of Austria |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 20.1.17A |doi=10.26879/691 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* An upper [[Biology:Carnassial|carnassial]] of the [[Biology:Tayra|tayra]] (''Eira barbara'') is described from the Late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] of Entre Ríos ({{wipe|Argentina}}) by Schiaffini ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mauro I. Schiaffini |author2=Francisco J. Prevosti |author3=Brenda S. Ferrero |author4=Jorge I. Noriega |year=2017 |title=A Late Pleistocene Guloninae (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from South America (Argentina, Entre Ríos province), biogeographic implications |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=78 |pages=141–149 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2017.06.006 |bibcode=2017JSAES..78..141S }}</ref>
* Fossil [[Biology:Otter|otter]] ''[[Biology:Enhydritherium terraenovae|Enhydritherium terraenovae]]'' is reported from the late Miocene deposits of Juchipila Basin (Mexico) by Tseng ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Z. Jack Tseng |author2=Adolfo Pacheco-Castro |author3=Oscar Carranza-Castañeda |author4=José Jorge Aranda-Gómez |author5=Xiaoming Wang |author6=Hilda Troncoso |year=2017 |title=Discovery of the fossil otter ''Enhydritherium terraenovae'' (Carnivora, Mammalia) in Mexico reconciles a palaeozoogeographic mystery |journal=Biology Letters |volume=13 |issue=6 |pages=20170259 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2017.0259 |pmid=28615353 |pmc=5493742 }}</ref>
* A study on the mandibular feeding capability of the fossil otter ''[[Biology:Siamogale melilutra|Siamogale melilutra]]'' is published by Tseng ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Z. Jack Tseng |author2=Denise F. Su |author3=Xiaoming Wang |author4=Stuart C. White |author5=Xueping Ji |year=2017 |title=Feeding capability in the extinct giant ''Siamogale melilutra'' and comparative mandibular biomechanics of living Lutrinae |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 15225 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-15391-9 |pmid=29123190 |pmc=5680181 |bibcode=2017NatSR...715225T }}</ref>
* Teeth and [[Biology:Humerus|humerus]] of the fossil otter ''Lutra simplicidens'' are described from the early Middle [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] site of Voigtstedt ({{wipe|Germany}}) by Cherin (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Marco Cherin |year=2017 |title=New material of ''Lutra simplicidens'' (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Lutrinae), a key taxon for understanding the evolution of European otters |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |volume=123 |issue=3 |pages=433–441 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/9024 }}</ref>
* A description of the skull and neck [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] and a study on the feeding behaviour of the [[Biology:Bear dog|bear dog]] ''[[Biology:Magericyon|Magericyon]] anceps'' is published by Siliceo ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Gema Siliceo |author2=Manuel J. Salesa |author3=Mauricio Antón |author4=Stéphane Peigné |author5=Jorge Morales |year=2017 |title=Functional anatomy of the cervical region in the late Miocene amphicyonid ''Magericyon anceps'' (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae): implications for its feeding behaviour |journal=Palaeontology |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=329–347 |doi=10.1111/pala.12286 }}</ref>
* A revision of the fossil bear species ''"[[Biology:Ursus (genus)|Ursus]]" abstrusus'' Bjork (1970) based on new remains from the Pliocene of Ellesmere Island ([[Earth:Nunavut|Nunavut]], {{wipe|Canada}}) is published by Wang ''et al.'' (2017), who transfer this species to the genus ''[[Biology:Protarctos|Protarctos]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiaoming Wang |author2=Natalia Rybczynski |author3=C. Richard Harington |author4=Stuart C. White |author5=Richard H. Tedford |year=2017 |title=A basal ursine bear (''Protarctos abstrusus'') from the Pliocene High Arctic reveals Eurasian affinities and a diet rich in fermentable sugars |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 17722 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-17657-8 |pmid=29255278 |pmc=5735171 |bibcode=2017NatSR...717722W }}</ref>
* A study on the absolute and relative brain size of the [[Biology:Cave bear|cave bear]] (''Ursus spelaeus''), comparing it with brain size of extant bear species, an on potential variables affecting their brain size evolution is published by Veitschegger (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Kristof Veitschegger |year=2017 |title=The effect of body size evolution and ecology on encephalization in cave bears and extant relatives |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=124 |doi=10.1186/s12862-017-0976-1 |pmid=28583080 |pmc=5460516 }}</ref>
* A study estimating the extinction time of the cave bear and ''[[Biology:Ursus ingressus|Ursus ingressus]]'' is published by Mackiewicz ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Paweł Mackiewicz |author2=Mateusz Baca |author3=Danijela Popović |author4=Paweł Socha |author5=Krzysztof Stefaniak |author6=Adrian Marciszak |author7=Adam Nadachowski |year=2017 |title=Estimating the extinction time of two cave bears, ''Ursus spelaeus'' and ''U. ingressus'' |journal=Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.3409/azc.60_2.01 |url=http://www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/journals/azc/pdf/azc/60(2)/60(2)_01.pdf }}</ref>
* A revision and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the Miocene [[Biology:Earless seal|earless seal]]s assigned to the genera ''Prophoca'' and ''[[Biology:Leptophoca|Leptophoca]]'' is published by Dewaele, Lambert & Louwye (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Leonard Dewaele |author2=Olivier Lambert |author3=Stephen Louwye |year=2017 |title=On ''Prophoca'' and ''Leptophoca'' (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Miocene of the North Atlantic realm: redescription, phylogenetic affinities and paleobiogeographic implications |journal=PeerJ |doi=10.7717/peerj.3024 |volume=5 |pages=e3024 |pmid=28243538 |pmc=5322758 }}</ref>
* A skull of ''Hyaenictis'' aff. ''almerai'', representing the most complete European specimen of the genus, is described from the Miocene of Spain by Vinuesa ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Víctor Vinuesa |author2=Joan Madurell-Malapeira |author3=Lars Werdelin |author4=Josep M. Robles |author5=Pau Obradó |author6=David M. Alba |year=2017 |title=A New Skull of ''Hyaenictis'' Gaudry, 1861 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) Shows Incipient Adaptations to Durophagy |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=207–219 |doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9334-0 |s2cid=23453043 |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-1761 }}</ref>
* A study on the dietary ecology of the Pleistocene [[Biology:Hyena|hyena]] ''Crocuta crocuta ultima'' from {{wipe|China}}, evaluating its similarity to the dietary ecology of the extant [[Biology:Spotted hyena|spotted hyena]], is published by DeSantis ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Larisa R. G. DeSantis |author2=Zhijie Jack Tseng |author3=Jinyi Liu |author4=Aaron Hurst |author5=Blaine W. Schubert |author6=Qigao Jiangzuo |year=2017 |title=Assessing niche conservatism using a multiproxy approach: dietary ecology of extinct and extant spotted hyenas |journal=Paleobiology |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=286–303 |doi=10.1017/pab.2016.45 |s2cid=90839982 }}</ref>
* A study on the evolution of the fore- and hindlimbs of sabretooth carnivorans is published by Martín-Serra, Figueirido & Palmqvist (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alberto Martín-Serra |author2=Borja Figueirido |author3=Paul Palmqvist |year=2017 |title=Non-decoupled morphological evolution of the fore- and hindlimb of sabretooth predators |journal=Journal of Anatomy |volume=231 |issue=4 |pages=532–542 |doi=10.1111/joa.12654 |pmid=28703361 |pmc=5603785 }}</ref>
* A study on the growth of forelimb bones of ''[[Biology:Smilodon|Smilodon]] fatalis'' as indicated by the anatomy of specimens recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits is published by Long ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Katherine Long |author2=Donald Prothero |author3=Meena Madan |author4=Valerie J. P. Syverson |year=2017 |title=Did saber-tooth kittens grow up musclebound? A study of postnatal limb bone allometry in felids from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=9 |pages=e0183175 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0183175 |pmid=28953899 |pmc=5617143 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1283175L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Paijmans ''et al.'' (2017) present partial [[Biology:Mitochondrial DNA|mitochondrial genomes]] of ''Smilodon populator'' and members of the genus ''[[Biology:Homotherium|Homotherium]]'', and identify a late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] (∼28,000 years old) mandible recovered from the Brown Bank region in the North Sea as a fossil of a member of the genus ''Homotherium''.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Johanna L.A. Paijmans |author2=Ross Barnett |author3=M. Thomas P. Gilbert |author4=M. Lisandra Zepeda-Mendoza |author5=Jelle W.F. Reumer |author6=John de Vos |author7=Grant Zazula |author8=Doris Nagel |author9=Gennady F. Baryshnikov |author10=Jennifer A. Leonard |author11=Nadin Rohland |author12=Michael V. Westbury |author13=Axel Barlow |author14=Michael Hofreiter |year=2017 |title=Evolutionary history of saber-toothed cats based on ancient mitogenomics |journal=Current Biology |volume=27 |issue=21 |pages=3330–3336.e5 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.033 |pmid=29056454 |s2cid=38005290 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of ''"Felis" pamiri'' Ozansoy (1959) from the late Miocene of Turkey is published by Geraads & Peigné (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Denis Geraads |author2=Stéphane Peigné |year=2017 |title=Re-Appraisal of ''"Felis" pamiri'' Ozansoy, 1959 (Carnivora, Felidae) from the Upper Miocene of Turkey: the Earliest Pantherin Cat? |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=415–425 |doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9349-6 |s2cid=207195894 |url=https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01675275/file/Geraads%26Peign%C3%A9_Felispamiri.pdf }}</ref>
* A study on the braincase anatomy of the [[Biology:American lion|American lion]] (''Panthera atrox'') is published by Cuff, Stockey & Goswami (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Andrew R. Cuff |author2=Christopher Stockey |author3=Anjali Goswami |year=2017 |title=Endocranial Morphology of the Extinct North American Lion (''Panthera atrox'') |journal=Brain, Behavior and Evolution |volume=88 |issue=3–4 |pages=213–221 |doi=10.1159/000454705 |pmid=28092905 |s2cid=8191542 |url=https://researchonline.rvc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11124/1/11124.pdf }}</ref>
* Cuff, Goswami & Hutchinson (2017) estimate the size of the musculature of the limbs and vertebral column of the American lion.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Andrew R. Cuff |author2=Anjali Goswami |author3=John R. Hutchinson |year=2017 |title=Reconstruction of the musculoskeletal system in an extinct lion |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 20.2.23A |doi=10.26879/688 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Fossils of a large [[Biology:Felidae|felid]] from the late Pleistocene localities at southern {{wipe|Chile}} and {{wipe|Argentina}} are interpreted as fossils of the American lion by Chimento & Agnolin (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Nicolás R. Chimento |author2=Federico L. Agnolin |year=2017 |title=The fossil American lion (''Panthera atrox'') in South America: Palaeobiogeographical implications |journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol |volume=16 |issue=8 |pages=850–864 |doi=10.1016/j.crpv.2017.06.009 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the tooth [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] of extant and extinct [[Biology:Murinae|murine]] and non-[[Biology:Arvicolinae|arvicoline]] [[Biology:Cricetidae|cricetid]] [[Biology:Rodent|rodent]]s and its implications for inferring the [[Earth:Paleoecology|paleoecology]] of the [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]] rodents from southern {{wipe|France}} and [[Place:Iberian Peninsula|Iberian Peninsula]] is published by Gomez Cano ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ana R. Gomez Cano |author2=Yuri Kimura |author3=Fernando Blanco |author4=Iris Menéndez |author5=María A. Álvarez-Sierra |author6=Manuel Hernández Fernández |year=2017 |title=Ecomorphological characterization of murines and non-arvicoline cricetids (Rodentia) from south-western Europe since the latest Middle Miocene to the Mio-Pliocene boundary (MN 7/8–MN13) |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3646 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3646 |pmid=28966888 |pmc=5619236 }}</ref>
* First known fossil remains of the [[Biology:Ilin Island cloudrunner|Ilin Island cloudrunner]] (''Crateromys paulus'') are described by Reyes ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Marian C. Reyes |author2=Thomas Ingicco |author3=Philip J. Piper |author4=Noel Amano |author5=Alfred F. Pawlik |year=2017 |title=First fossil evidence of the extinct Philippine cloud rat ''Crateromys paulus'' (Muridae: Murinae: Phloeomyini) from Ilin Island, Mindoro, and insights into its Holocene abundance |journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |volume=130 |issue=1 |pages=84–97 |doi=10.2988/17-00012 |s2cid=135196784 }}</ref>
* Description of new specimens of the [[Biology:Castoridae|castorid]] [[Biology:Rodent|rodent]] ''[[Biology:Propalaeocastor|Propalaeocastor]] irtyshensis'' from the [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] Irtysh River Formation ({{wipe|China}} and a study on the phylogenetic relationships among early castorids is published by Li ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Lüzhou Li |author2=Qiang Li |author3=Xiaoyu Lu |author4=Xijun Ni |year=2017 |title=Morphology of an Early Oligocene beaver ''Propalaeocastor irtyshensis'' and the status of the genus ''Propalaeocastor'' |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3311 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3311 |pmid=28533963 |pmc=5436589 }}</ref>
* Virtual [[Biology:Skull|cranial]] [[Biology:Endocast|endocast]] of the [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] sciurid ''Cedromus wilsoni'' is reconstructed by Bertrand, Amador-Mughal & Silcox (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ornella C. Bertrand |author2=Farrah Amador-Mughal |author3=Mary T. Silcox |year=2017 |title=Virtual endocast of the early Oligocene ''Cedromus wilsoni'' (Cedromurinae) and brain evolution in squirrels |journal=Journal of Anatomy |volume=230 |issue=1 |pages=128–151 |doi=10.1111/joa.12537 |pmid=27580644|pmc=5192888 }}</ref>
* The oldest known [[Biology:Plesiadapiformes|plesiadapiform]] skeleton (partial skeleton of ''[[Biology:Torrejonia|Torrejonia]] wilsoni'') is described from the early [[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] Nacimiento Formation (New Mexico, {{wipe|United States}}) by Chester ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Stephen G. B. Chester |author2=Thomas E. Williamson |author3=Jonathan I. Bloch |author4=Mary T. Silcox |author5=Eric J. Sargis |year=2017 |title=Oldest skeleton of a plesiadapiform provides additional evidence for an exclusively arboreal radiation of stem primates in the Palaeocene |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=4 |issue=5 |pages=170329 |doi=10.1098/rsos.170329 |pmid=28573038 |pmc=5451839 |bibcode=2017RSOS....470329C }}</ref>
* Report on the discovery of a [[Biology:Talus bone|talus bone]] of ''[[Biology:Donrussellia|Donrussellia]] provincialis'' and a study on the anatomy of this bone and on the phylogenetic relationships of this species is published by Boyer, Toussaint & Godinot (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Doug M. Boyer |author2=Séverine Toussaint |author3=Marc Godinot |year=2017 |title=Postcrania of the most primitive euprimate and implications for primate origins |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=111 |pages=202–215 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.005 |pmid=28874272 }}</ref>
* A study on the locomotion and lifestyle of ''[[Biology:Adapis|Adapis]] parisiensis'' as indicated by inner ear [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] is published by Bernardi & Couette (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Margot Bernardi |author2=Sébastien Couette |year=2017 |title=Eocene paleoecology of ''Adapis parisiensis'' (Primate, Adapidae): From inner ear to lifestyle |journal=The Anatomical Record |volume=300 |issue=9 |pages=1576–1588 |doi=10.1002/ar.23609 |pmid=28452186 |s2cid=19045637 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* New material attributed to ''[[Biology:Agerinia|Agerinia]] smithorum'', consisting of isolated teeth and a fragment of [[Biology:Calcaneus|calcaneus]], is described from the [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] locality of Casa Retjo-1 ({{wipe|Spain}}) by Femenias-Gual ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Joan Femenias-Gual |author2=Judit Marigó |author3=Raef Minwer-Barakat |author4=Salvador Moyà-Solà |year=2017 |title=New dental and postcranial material of ''Agerinia smithorum'' (Primates, Adapiformes) from the type locality Casa Retjo-1 (early Eocene, Iberian Peninsula) |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=113 |pages=127–136 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.08.015 |pmid=29054163 }}</ref>
* Jaws referred to the species ''[[Biology:Notharctus|Notharctus]] tenebrosus'' are described from the middle [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] Sheep Pass Formation (Nevada, {{wipe|United States}}) by Perry, Gunnell & Emry (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jonathan M. G. Perry |author2=Gregg F. Gunnell |author3=Robert J. Emry |year=2017 |title=New cranial material of ''Notharctus'' (Mammalia, Primates, Notharctidae) from the Sheep Pass Formation, Elderberry Canyon, Nevada, with implications for incisor morphology and paleogeography of notharctine primates |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=e1331914 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1331914 |s2cid=133982802 }}</ref>
* The first known nearly complete female skull of the [[Biology:Gelada|gelada]] subspecies ''[[Biology:Theropithecus oswaldi|Theropithecus oswaldi]] leakeyi'' is described from the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] site of Makuyuni (Tanzania) by Frost ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Stephen R. Frost |author2=Charles Saanane |author3=Britt M. Starkovich |author4=Hilde Schwartz |author5=Friedemann Schrenk |author6=Katerina Harvati |year=2017 |title=New cranium of the large cercopithecid primate ''Theropithecus oswaldi leakeyi'' (Hopwood, 1934) from the paleoanthropological site of Makuyuni, Tanzania |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=109 |pages=46–56 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.05.007 |pmid=28688459 }}</ref>
* A study on the anatomy of the teeth of ''[[Biology:Mesopithecus|Mesopithecus]] pentelicus'' and its implication for dietary preferences of members of the species is published by Thiery ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ghislain Thiery |author2=Geoffrey Gillet |author3=Vincent Lazzari |author4=Gildas Merceron |author5=Franck Guy |year=2017 |title=Was ''Mesopithecus'' a seed eating colobine? Assessment of cracking, grinding and shearing ability using dental topography |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=112 |pages=79–92 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.09.002 |pmid=29037418 }}</ref>
* New fossil material of ''Krishnapithecus krishnaii'' is described from the late Miocene of Himachal Pradesh ({{wipe|India}}) by Sankhyan, Kelley & Harrison (2017), who confirm the [[Biology:Pliopithecoidea|pliopithecoid]] affinities of the species.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Anek R. Sankhyan |author2=Jay Kelley |author3=Terry Harrison |year=2017 |title=A highly derived pliopithecoid from the Late Miocene of Haritalyangar, India |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=105 |pages=1–12 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.01.010 |pmid=28366196 }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] of the teeth and jaws of ''[[Biology:Morotopithecus|Morotopithecus]] bishopi'' and ''[[Biology:Afropithecus|Afropithecus]] turkanensis'', indicating them to be likely distinct species with dissimilar feeding adaptations, is published by Deane (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Andrew S. Deane |year=2017 |title=Re-evaluating the diets of ''Morotopithecus bishopi'' and ''Afropithecus turkanensis'': An anterior dentognathic perspective |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=112 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.08.012 |pmid=29037412 }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of ''[[Biology:Graecopithecus|Graecopithecus]]'', indicating its possible affinity with hominins (humans and their non-ape ancestors), is published by Fuss ''et al.'' (2017);<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jochen Fuss |author2=Nikolai Spassov |author3=David R. Begun |author4=Madelaine Böhme |year=2017 |title=Potential hominin affinities of ''Graecopithecus'' from the Late Miocene of Europe |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=5 |pages=e0177127 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0177127 |pmid=28531170 |pmc=5439669 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1277127F |doi-access=free }}</ref> a different analysis, aiming to refute the hypothesis that ''Graecopithecus'' is a member of the hominin clade, is subsequently published by Benoit & Thackeray (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Julien Benoit |author2=Francis J. Thackeray |year=2017 |title=A cladistic analysis of ''Graecopithecus'' |journal=South African Journal of Science |volume=113 |issue=11/12 |pages=#a0238 |doi=10.17159/sajs.2017/a0238 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jochen Fuss |author2=Nikolai Spassov |author3=Madelaine Böhme |author4=David R. Begun |year=2018 |title=Response to Benoit and Thackeray (2017): "A cladistic analysis of ''Graecopithecus''" |journal=South African Journal of Science |volume=114 |issue=5/6 |pages=11–12 |doi=10.17159/sajs.2018/a0267 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the age of the fossils of ''Graecopithecus freybergi'', and on the environmental conditions under which it thrived, is published by Böhme ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Madelaine Böhme |author2=Nikolai Spassov |author3=Martin Ebner |author4=Denis Geraads |author5=Latinka Hristova |author6=Uwe Kirscher |author7=Sabine Kötter |author8=Ulf Linnemann |author9=Jérôme Prieto |author10=Socrates Roussiakis |author11=George Theodorou |author12=Gregor Uhlig |author13=Michael Winklhofer |year=2017 |title=Messinian age and savannah environment of the possible hominin ''Graecopithecus'' from Europe |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=5 |pages=e0177347 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0177347 |pmid=28531204 |pmc=5439672 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1277347B |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[Biology:Trachilos footprints|Putative tetrapod footprints with hominin-like characteristics]] are described from the late Miocene of Crete (Greece) by Gierliński ''et al.'' (2017);<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Gerard D. Gierliński |author2=Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki |author3=Martin G. Lockley |author4=Athanassios Athanassiou |author5=Charalampos Fassoulas |author6=Zofia Dubicka |author7=Andrzej Boczarowski |author8=Matthew R. Bennett |author9=Per Erik Ahlberg |year=2017 |title=Possible hominin footprints from the late Miocene (c. 5.7 Ma) of Crete? |journal=Proceedings of the Geologists' Association |volume=128 |issue=5–6 |pages=697–710 |doi=10.1016/j.pgeola.2017.07.006 |doi-access=free }}</ref> the study is subsequently criticized by [[Biography:Jeffrey Meldrum|Meldrum]] & [[Biography:Esteban Sarmiento|Sarmiento]] (2018).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jeff Meldrum |author2=Esteban Sarmiento |year=2018 |title=Comments on possible Miocene hominin footprints |journal=Proceedings of the Geologists' Association |volume=129 |issue=4 |pages=577–580 |doi=10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.05.006 }}</ref>
* A study on the evolution of body mass and stature of hominins is published by Will, Pablos & Stock (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Manuel Will |author2=Adrián Pablos |author3=Jay T. Stock |year=2017 |title=Long-term patterns of body mass and stature evolution within the hominin lineage |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=4 |issue=11 |pages=171339 |doi=10.1098/rsos.171339 |pmid=29291118 |pmc=5717693 }}</ref>
* Partial skeleton of ''[[Biology:Australopithecus afarensis|Australopithecus afarensis]]'', preserving all seven neck vertebrae and 12 rib-bearing vertebrae (like humans, rather than 13 like African apes) is described from Dikika (Ethiopia) by Ward ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Carol V. Ward |author2=Thierra K. Nalley |author3=Fred Spoor |author4=Paul Tafforeau |author5=Zeresenay Alemseged |year=2017 |title=Thoracic vertebral count and thoracolumbar transition in ''Australopithecus afarensis'' |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=23 |pages=6000–6004 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1702229114 |pmid=28533391 |pmc=5468642 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* New fossils attributable to the species ''[[Biology:Australopithecus anamensis|Australopithecus anamensis]]'' are described from Kanapoi (Kenya) by Ward, Plavcan & Manthi (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=C.V. Ward |author2=J.M. Plavcan |author3=F.K. Manthi |year=2017 |title=New fossils of ''Australopithecus anamensis'' from Kanapoi, West Turkana, Kenya (2012–2015) |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=140 |pages=Article 102368 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.008 |pmid=28844328 }}</ref>
* A study on the skeletal maturation of ''[[Biology:Australopithecus sediba|Australopithecus sediba]]'' is published by Cameron ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Noel Cameron |author2=Barry Bogin |author3=Debra Bolter |author4=Lee R. Berger |year=2017 |title=The postcranial skeletal maturation of ''Australopithecus sediba'' |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=163 |issue=3 |pages=633–640 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.23234 |pmid=28464269 |url=https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/25680 }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] of the holotype skull of ''Australopithecus sediba'' and its implications for the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Kimbel & Rak (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=William H. Kimbel |author2=Yoel Rak |year=2017 |title=''Australopithecus sediba'' and the emergence of ''Homo'': Questionable evidence from the cranium of the juvenile holotype MH 1 |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=107 |pages=94–106 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.03.011 |pmid=28526292 }}</ref>
* A study on the aridity in eastern Africa over the past 4.4 million years as indicated by oxygen isotope ratios in fossil herbivore [[Biology:Tooth enamel|tooth enamel]], and on its implications for inferring the role of climate in shaping early hominin environments, is published by Blumenthal ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Scott A. Blumenthal |author2=Naomi E. Levin |author3=Francis H. Brown |author4=Jean-Philip Brugal |author5=Kendra L. Chritz |author6=John M. Harris |author7=Glynis E. Jehle |author8=Thure E. Cerling |year=2017 |title=Aridity and hominin environments |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=28 |pages=7331–7336 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1700597114 |pmid=28652366 |pmc=5514716 |bibcode=2017PNAS..114.7331B |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the environmental changes in the lower Awash Valley and [[Biology:Turkana Basin|Turkana Basin]] from 3.5 to 1 million years ago (with a focus on the latest Pliocene) based on new analyses of mammal communities and new stable carbon isotope data for mammalian [[Biology:Tooth enamel|tooth enamel]], including that of the earliest members of the genus ''[[Biology:Homo|Homo]]'', is published by Robinson ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Joshua R. Robinson |author2=John Rowan |author3=Christopher J. Campisano |author4=Jonathan G. Wynn |author5=Kaye E. Reed |year=2017 |title=Late Pliocene environmental change during the transition from ''Australopithecus'' to ''Homo'' |journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=1 |issue=6 |pages=Article number 0159 |doi=10.1038/s41559-017-0159 |pmid=28812639 |s2cid=7434894 }}</ref>
* A study on the modified mammalian bones from the Plio–Pleistocene of Ethiopia is published by Sahle, El Zaatari & White (2017), who interpret the marks on some of these bones as more likely to be produced by crocodiles than by [[Biology:Hominidae|hominids]] using [[Engineering:Stone tool|stone tool]]s.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yonatan Sahle |author2=Sireen El Zaatari |author3=Tim D. White |year=2017 |title=Hominid butchers and biting crocodiles in the African Plio–Pleistocene |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=50 |pages=13164–13169 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1716317114 |pmid=29109249 |pmc=5740633 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Chemistry:Knapping|knapping]] skills of the hominins inhabiting North {{wipe|China}} during early [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] as indicated by stone tools from the Donggutuo locality is published by Yang ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Shi-Xia Yang |author2=Michael D. Petraglia |author3=Ya-Mei Hou |author4=Jian-Ping Yue |author5=Cheng-Long Deng |author6=Ri-Xiang Zhu |year=2017 |title=The lithic assemblages of Donggutuo, Nihewan basin: Knapping skills of early Pleistocene hominins in North China |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=9 |pages=e0185101 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0185101 |pmid=28934295 |pmc=5608319 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1285101Y |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of ''[[Biology:Homo floresiensis|Homo floresiensis]]'' is published by Argue ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Debbie Argue |author2=Colin P. Groves |author3=Michael S.Y. Lee |author4=William L. Jungers |year=2017 |title=The affinities of ''Homo floresiensis'' based on phylogenetic analyses of cranial, dental, and postcranial characters |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=107 |pages=107–133 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.02.006 |pmid=28438318 }}</ref>
* A study on the age of the fossils of ''[[Biology:Homo naledi|Homo naledi]]'' is published by Dirks ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Paul H.G.M. Dirks |author2=Eric M. Roberts |author3=Hannah Hilbert-Wolf |author4=Jan D. Kramers |author5=John Hawks |author6=Anthony Dosseto |author7=Mathieu Duval |author8=Marina Elliott |author9=Mary Evans |author10=Rainer Grün |author11=John Hellstrom |author12=Andy I.R. Herries |author13=Renaud Joannes-Boyau |author14=Tebogo V. Makhubela |author15=Christa J. Placzek |author16=Jessie Robbins |author17=Carl Spandler |author18=Jelle Wiersma |author19=Jon Woodhead |author20=Lee R. Berger |year=2017 |title=The age of ''Homo naledi'' and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa |journal=eLife |volume=6 |pages=e24231 |doi=10.7554/eLife.24231 |pmid=28483040 |pmc=5423772 }}</ref>
* New fossils of ''Homo naledi'' are described from the Lesedi Chamber of the [[Earth:Rising Star Cave|Rising Star Cave]] system by [[Biography:John D. Hawks|Hawks]] ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=John Hawks |author2=Marina Elliott |author3=Peter Schmid |author4=Steven E. Churchill |author5=Darryl J. de Ruiter |author6=Eric M. Roberts |author7=Hannah Hilbert-Wolf |author8=Heather M. Garvin |author9=Scott A. Williams |author10=Lucas K. Delezene |author11=Elen M. Feuerriegel |author12=Patrick Randolph-Quinney |author13=Tracy L. Kivell |author14=Myra F. Laird |author15=Gaokgatlhe Tawane |author16=Jeremy M. DeSilva |author17=Shara E. Bailey |author18=Juliet K. Brophy |author19=Marc R. Meyer |author20=Matthew M. Skinner |author21=Matthew W. Tocheri |author22=Caroline VanSickle |author23=Christopher S. Walker |author24=Timothy L. Campbell |author25=Brian Kuhn |author26=Ashley Kruger |author27=Steven Tucker |author28=Alia Gurtov |author29=Nompumelelo Hlophe |author30=Rick Hunter |author31=Hannah Morris |author32=Becca Peixotto |author33=Maropeng Ramalepa |author34=Dirk van Rooyen |author35=Mathabela Tsikoane |author36=Pedro Boshoff |author37=Paul H.G.M. Dirks |author38=Lee R. Berger |year=2017 |title=New fossil remains of ''Homo naledi'' from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa |journal=eLife |volume=6 |pages=e24232 |doi=10.7554/eLife.24232 |pmid=28483039 |pmc=5423776 }}</ref>
* A study on the phylogenetic relationships of ''Homo naledi'' as indicated by skull [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] is published by Schroeder ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Lauren Schroeder |author2=Jill E. Scott |author3=Heather M. Garvin |author4=Myra F. Laird |author5=Mana Dembo |author6=Davorka Radovčić |author7=Lee R. Berger |author8=Darryl J. de Ruiter |author9=Rebecca R. Ackermann |year=2017 |title=Skull diversity in the ''Homo'' lineage and the relative position of ''Homo naledi'' |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=104 |pages=124–135 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.09.014 |pmid=27836166 }}</ref>
* Studies on the anatomy of the skeleton of ''Homo naledi'' are published by Laird ''et al.'' (2017),<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Myra F. Laird |author2=Lauren Schroeder |author3=Heather M. Garvin |author4=Jill E. Scott |author5=Mana Dembo |author6=Davorka Radovčić |author7=Charles M. Musiba |author8=Rebecca R. Ackermann |author9=Peter Schmid |author10=John Hawks |author11=Lee R. Berger |author12=Darryl J. de Ruiter |year=2017 |title=The skull of ''Homo naledi'' |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=104 |pages=100–123 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.09.009 |pmid=27855982 }}</ref> Williams ''et al.'' (2017),<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Scott A. Williams |author2=Daniel García-Martínez |author3=Markus Bastir |author4=Marc R. Meyer |author5=Shahed Nalla |author6=John Hawks |author7=Peter Schmid |author8=Steven E. Churchill |author9=Lee R. Berger |year=2017 |title=The vertebrae and ribs of ''Homo naledi'' |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=104 |pages=136–154 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.11.003 |pmid=28094004 }}</ref> Feuerriegel ''et al.'' (2017)<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Elen M. Feuerriegel |author2=David J. Green |author3=Christopher S. Walker |author4=Peter Schmid |author5=John Hawks |author6=Lee R. Berger |author7=Steven E. Churchill |year=2017 |title=The upper limb of ''Homo naledi'' |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=104 |pages=155–173 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.09.013 |pmid=27839696 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and Marchi ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Damiano Marchi |author2=Christopher S. Walker |author3=Pianpian Wei |author4=Trenton W. Holliday |author5=Steven E. Churchill |author6=Lee R. Berger |author7=Jeremy M. DeSilva |year=2017 |title=The thigh and leg of ''Homo naledi'' |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=104 |pages=174–204 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.09.005 |pmid=27855981 |hdl=11568/826512 }}</ref>
* A study on the location, number, and severity of fractures in the teeth of ''Homo naledi'' and their implications for the diet of the taxon is published by Towle, Irish & De Groote (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ian Towle |author2=Joel D. Irish |author3=Isabelle De Groote |year=2017 |title=Behavioral inferences from the high levels of dental chipping in ''Homo naledi'' |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=164 |issue=1 |pages=184–192 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.23250 |pmid=28542710 |url=http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/6367/3/Towle%20et%20al%20Homo%20naledi%20chipping%20%282%29.pdf }}</ref>
* A study on the body size, proportions and absolute and relative brain size in ''Homo naledi'' is published by Garvin ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Heather M. Garvin |author2=Marina C. Elliott |author3=Lucas K. Delezene |author4=John Hawks |author5=Steven E. Churchill |author6=Lee R. Berger |author7=Trenton W. Holliday |year=2017 |title=Body size, brain size, and sexual dimorphism in ''Homo naledi'' from the Dinaledi Chamber |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=111 |pages=119–138 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.06.010 |pmid=28874266 }}</ref>
* A study on the tooth formation and eruption in ''Homo naledi'' is published by Cofran & Walker (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zachary Cofran |author2=Christopher S. Walker |year=2017 |title=Dental development in ''Homo naledi'' |journal=Biology Letters |volume=13 |issue=8 |pages=20170339 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2017.0339 |pmid=28855415 |pmc=5582112 }}</ref>
* A [[Biology:Phenetics|phenetic]] analysis of the fossils of ''Homo naledi'' is published by Neves, Bernardo & Pantaleoni (2017), who consider both ''Homo naledi'' and ''Australopithecus sediba'' to be likely [[Biology:Synonym (taxonomy)|junior synonyms]] of ''[[Biology:Homo habilis|Homo habilis]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Walter A. Neves |author2=Danilo V. Bernardo |author3=Ivan Pantaleoni |year=2017 |title=Morphological affinities of ''Homo naledi'' with other Plio-Pleistocene hominins: a phenetic approach |journal=Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências |volume=89 |issue=3 Suppl |pages=2199–2207 |doi=10.1590/0001-3765201720160841 |pmid=28746621 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the age of the Vallonnet site ({{wipe|France}}) and on its implications for the knowledge of the first dispersals of members of the genus ''[[Biology:Homo|Homo]]'' during the early [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] (Calabrian) in this area of [[Earth:Europe|Europe]] is published by Michel ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Véronique Michel |author2=Chuan-Chou Shen |author3=Jon Woodhead |author4=Hsun-Ming Hu |author5=Chung-Che Wu |author6=Pierre-Élie Moullé |author7=Samir Khatib |author8=Dominique Cauche |author9=Marie-Hélène Moncel |author10=Patricia Valensi |author11=Yu-Min Chou |author12=Sylvain Gallet |author13=Anna Echassoux |author14=François Orange |author15=Henry de Lumley |year=2017 |title=New dating evidence of the early presence of hominins in Southern Europe |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 10074 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-10178-4 |pmid=28855634 |pmc=5577296 |bibcode=2017NatSR...710074M }}</ref>
* Two skulls of archaic members of the genus ''[[Biology:Homo|Homo]]'' of uncertain phylogenetic placement are described from the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] of {{wipe|China}} by Li ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zhan-Yang Li |author2=Xiu-Jie Wu |author3=Li-Ping Zhou |author4=Wu Liu |author5=Xing Gao |author6=Xiao-Mei Nian |author7=Erik Trinkaus |year=2017 |title=Late Pleistocene archaic human crania from Xuchang, China |journal=Science |volume=355 |issue=6328 |pages=969–972 |doi=10.1126/science.aal2482 |pmid=28254945 |bibcode=2017Sci...355..969L |s2cid=206654741 }}</ref>
* A study on the affinities of the Pleistocene hominin cranium from Dali in Shaanxi Province, China is published by Athreya & Wu (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Sheela Athreya |author2=Xinzhi Wu |year=2017 |title=A multivariate assessment of the Dali hominin cranium from China: Morphological affinities and implications for Pleistocene evolution in East Asia |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=164 |issue=4 |pages=679–701 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.23305 |pmid=29068047 }}</ref>
* A description of a hominin skull recovered from the Aroeira cave in Portugal, dated as approximately 400,000 years old, and a study on its implications for the diversity of the Middle [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] European hominins is published by Daura ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Joan Daura |author2=Montserrat Sanz |author3=Juan Luis Arsuaga |author4=Dirk L. Hoffmann |author5=Rolf M. Quam |author6=María Cruz Ortega |author7=Elena Santos |author8=Sandra Gómez |author9=Angel Rubio |author10=Lucía Villaescusa |author11=Pedro Souto |author12=João Mauricio |author13=Filipa Rodrigues |author14=Artur Ferreira |author15=Paulo Godinho |author16=Erik Trinkaus |author17=João Zilhão |year=2017 |title=New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal) |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=13 |pages=3397–3402 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1619040114 |pmid=28289213 |pmc=5380066 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A 130,000-year-old rocks interpreted as hammerstones and stone anvils, associated with remains of a [[Biology:Mastodon|mastodon]] (''Mammut americanum'') showing signs of breakage, are described from the Cerutti Mastodon site in {{wipe|California}} by Holen ''et al.'' (2017), who interpret the finding as indicating that an unidentified species of ''Homo'' reached North America during the early late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]];<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Steven R. Holen |author2=Thomas A. Deméré |author3=Daniel C. Fisher |author4=Richard Fullagar |author5=James B. Paces |author6=George T. Jefferson |author7=Jared M. Beeton |author8=Richard A. Cerutti |author9=Adam N. Rountrey |author10=Lawrence Vescera |author11=Kathleen A. Holen |year=2017 |title=A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA |journal=Nature |volume=544 |issue=7651 |pages=479–483 |doi=10.1038/nature22065 |pmid=28447646 |bibcode=2017Natur.544..479H }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Eric Boëda |author2=Christophe Griggo |author3=Christelle Lahaye |year=2017 |title=The Cerutti Mastodon Site: Archaeological or Paleontological? |journal=PaleoAmerica. A Journal of Early Human Migration and Dispersal |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=193–195 |doi=10.1080/20555563.2017.1338006 |s2cid=90699499 }}</ref> the study is subsequently criticized by Haynes (2017), Braje ''et al.'' (2017), Ferraro ''et al.'' (2018), Ferrell (2019) and Sutton, Parkinson & Rosen (2019).<ref>{{cite journal |author=Gary Haynes |year=2017 |title=The Cerutti Mastodon |journal=PaleoAmerica. A Journal of Early Human Migration and Dispersal |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=196–199 |doi=10.1080/20555563.2017.1330103 |s2cid=134814811 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Todd J. Braje |author2=Tom D. Dillehay |author3=Jon M. Erlandson |author4=Scott M. Fitzpatrick |author5=Donald K. Grayson |author6=Donald K. Grayson |author7=Robert L. Kelly |author8=Richard G. Klein |author9=Richard G. Klein |author10=Torben C. Rick |year=2017 |title=Were hominins in California ∼130,000 years ago? |journal=PaleoAmerica. A Journal of Early Human Migration and Dispersal |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=200–202 |doi=10.1080/20555563.2017.1348091 |s2cid=133673949 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Joseph V. Ferraro |author2=Katie M. Binetti |author3=Logan A. Wiest |author4=Donald Esker |author5=Lori E. Baker |author6=Steven L. Forman |year=2018 |title=Contesting early archaeology in California |journal=Nature |volume=554 |issue=7691 |pages=E1–E2 |doi=10.1038/nature25165 |pmid=29420468 |bibcode=2018Natur.554E...1F |s2cid=205263114 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Steven R. Holen |author2=Thomas A. Deméré |author3=Daniel C. Fisher |author4=Richard Fullagar |author5=James B. Paces |author6=George T. Jefferson |author7=Jared M. Beeton |author8=Richard A. Cerutti |author9=Adam N. Rountrey |author10=Lawrence Vescera |author11=Kathleen A. Holen |year=2018 |title=Holen ''et al.'' reply |journal=Nature |volume=554 |issue=7691 |pages=E3 |doi=10.1038/nature25166 |pmid=29420475 |bibcode=2018Natur.554E...3H |s2cid=4466451 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Steven R. Holen |author2=Thomas A. Deméré |author3=Daniel C. Fisher |author4=Richard Fullagar |author5=James B. Paces |author6=George T. Jefferson |author7=Jared M. Beeton |author8=Adam N. Rountrey |author9=Kathleen A. Holen |year=2018 |title=Broken Bones and Hammerstones at the Cerutti Mastodon Site: A Reply to Haynes |journal=PaleoAmerica. A Journal of Early Human Migration and Dispersal |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=8–11 |doi=10.1080/20555563.2017.1396835 |s2cid=166014283 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Steven R. Holen |author2=Thomas A. Deméré |author3=Daniel C. Fisher |author4=Richard Fullagar |author5=James B. Paces |author6=George T. Jefferson |author7=Jared M. Beeton |author8=Adam N. Rountrey |author9=Kathleen A. Holen |year=2018 |title=Disparate Perspectives on Evidence from the Cerutti Mastodon Site: A Reply to Braje ''et al.'' |journal=PaleoAmerica. A Journal of Early Human Migration and Dispersal |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=12–15 |doi=10.1080/20555563.2017.1396836 |s2cid=165357286 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Patrick M. Ferrell |year=2019 |title=The Cerutti Mastodon Site reinterpreted with reference to freeway construction plans and methods |journal=PaleoAmerica. A Journal of Early Human Migration and Dispersal |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=1–7 |doi=10.1080/20555563.2019.1589663 |s2cid=167172979 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Mark Q. Sutton |author2=Jennifer Parkinson |author3=Martin D. Rosen |year=2019 |title=Observations regarding the Cerutti mastodon |journal=PaleoAmerica. A Journal of Early Human Migration and Dispersal |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=8–15 |doi=10.1080/20555563.2019.1589409 |s2cid=155596679 }}</ref>
* Traces of ancient mammalian DNA, including [[Biology:Neanderthal|Neanderthal]] and [[History:Denisovan|Denisovan]] DNA, are identified in [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] cave sediments, including those lacking skeletal remains, by Slon ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Viviane Slon |author2=Charlotte Hopfe |author3=Clemens L. Weiß |author4=Fabrizio Mafessoni |author5=Marco de la Rasilla |author6=Carles Lalueza-Fox |author7=Antonio Rosas |author8=Marie Soressi |author9=Monika V. Knul |author10=Rebecca Miller |author11=John R. Stewart |author12=Anatoly P. Derevianko |author13=Zenobia Jacobs |author14=Bo Li |author15=Richard G. Roberts |author16=Michael V. Shunkov |author17=Henry de Lumley |author18=Christian Perrenoud |author19=Ivan Gušić |author20=Željko Kućan |author21=Pavao Rudan |author22=Ayinuer Aximu-Petri |author23=Elena Essel |author24=Sarah Nagel |author25=Birgit Nickel |author26=Anna Schmidt |author27=Kay Prüfer |author28=Janet Kelso |author29=Hernán A. Burbano |author30=Svante Pääbo |author31=Matthias Meyer |year=2017 |title=Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments |journal=Science |volume=356 |issue=6338 |pages=605–608 |doi=10.1126/science.aam9695 |pmid=28450384 |bibcode=2017Sci...356..605S |s2cid=206658200 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the evolutionary history of Neanderthals and Denisovans based on genetic data is published by Rogers, Bohlender & Huff (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alan R. Rogers |author2=Ryan J. Bohlender |author3=Chad D. Huff |year=2017 |title=Early history of Neanderthals and Denisovans |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=37 |pages=9859–9863 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1706426114 |pmid=28784789 |pmc=5604018 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Fabrizio Mafessoni |author2=Kay Prüfer |year=2017 |title=Better support for a small effective population size of Neandertals and a long shared history of Neandertals and Denisovans |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=48 |pages=E10256–E10257 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1716918114 |pmid=29138326 |pmc=5715791 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alan R. Rogers |author2=Ryan J. Bohlender |author3=Chad D. Huff |year=2017 |title=Reply to Mafessoni and Prüfer: Inferences with and without singleton site patterns |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=48 |pages=E10258–E10260 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1717085114 |pmid=29138325 |pmc=5715792 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Slon ''et al.'' (2017) report the retrieval of DNA from a molar of a Denisovan, considered by the authors to be one of the oldest hominin remains discovered at Denisova Cave.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Viviane Slon |author2=Bence Viola |author3=Gabriel Renaud |author4=Marie-Theres Gansauge |author5=Stefano Benazzi |author6=Susanna Sawyer |author7=Jean-Jacques Hublin |author8=Michael V. Shunkov |author9=Anatoly P. Derevianko |author10=Janet Kelso |author11=Kay Prüfer |author12=Matthias Meyer |author13=Svante Pääbo |year=2017 |title=A fourth Denisovan individual |journal=Science Advances |volume=3 |issue=7 |pages=e1700186 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.1700186 |pmid=28695206 |pmc=5501502 |bibcode=2017SciA....3E0186S }}</ref>
* A study on the age of Neanderthal remains recovered from Vindija Cave (Croatia) is published by Devièse ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Thibaut Devièse |author2=Ivor Karavanić |author3=Daniel Comeskey |author4=Cara Kubiak |author5=Petra Korlević |author6=Mateja Hajdinjak |author7=Siniša Radović |author8=Noemi Procopio |author9=Michael Buckley |author10=Svante Pääbo |author11=Tom Higham |year=2017 |title=Direct dating of Neanderthal remains from the site of Vindija Cave and implications for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=40 |pages=10606–10611 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1709235114 |pmid=28874524 |pmc=5635904 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Prüfer ''et al.'' (2017) sequence the genome of a Neanderthal woman known from remains found in Vindija Cave.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kay Prüfer |author2=Cesare de Filippo |author3=Steffi Grote |author4=Fabrizio Mafessoni |author5=Petra Korlević |author6=Mateja Hajdinjak |author7=Benjamin Vernot |author8=Laurits Skov |author9=Pinghsun Hsieh |author10=Stéphane Peyrégne |author11=David Reher |author12=Charlotte Hopfe |author13=Sarah Nagel |author14=Tomislav Maricic |author15=Qiaomei Fu |author16=Christoph Theunert |author17=Rebekah Rogers |author18=Pontus Skoglund |author19=Manjusha Chintalapati |author20=Michael Dannemann |author21=Bradley J. Nelson |author22=Felix M. Key |author23=Pavao Rudan |author24=Željko Kućan |author25=Ivan Gušić |author26=Liubov V. Golovanova |author27=Vladimir B. Doronichev |author28=Nick Patterson |author29=David Reich |author30=Evan E. Eichler |author31=Montgomery Slatkin |author32=Mikkel H. Schierup |author33=Aida Andrés |author34=Janet Kelso |author35=Matthias Meyer |author36=Svante Pääbo |year=2017 |title=A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia |journal=Science |volume=358 |issue=6363 |pages=655–658 |doi=10.1126/science.aao1887 |pmid=28982794 |pmc=6185897 |bibcode=2017Sci...358..655P }}</ref>
* Complete mtDNA is reported from a Neanderthal [[Biology:Femur|femur]] from the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave ({{wipe|Germany}}) by Posth ''et al.'' (2017), who evaluate the implications of this finding for the knowledge of the timing of genetic [[Biology:Introgression|introgression]] event from African hominins into Neanderthal populations.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Cosimo Posth |author2=Christoph Wißing |author3=Keiko Kitagawa |author4=Luca Pagani |author5=Laura van Holstein |author6=Fernando Racimo |author7=Kurt Wehrberger |author8=Nicholas J. Conard |author9=Claus Joachim Kind |author10=Hervé Bocherens |author11=Johannes Krause |year=2017 |title=Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals |journal=Nature Communications |volume=8 |pages=Article number 16046 |doi=10.1038/ncomms16046 |pmid=28675384 |pmc=5500885 |bibcode=2017NatCo...816046P }}</ref>
* A study on the growth patterns of Neanderthals based on a partial skeleton of a Neanderthal child from the [[History:Sidrón Cave|El Sidrón]] site ({{wipe|Spain}}) is published by Rosas ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Antonio Rosas |author2=Luis Ríos |author3=Almudena Estalrrich |author4=Helen Liversidge |author5=Antonio García-Tabernero |author6=Rosa Huguet |author7=Hugo Cardoso |author8=Markus Bastir |author9=Carles Lalueza-Fox |author10=Marco de la Rasilla |author11=Christopher Dean |year=2017 |title=The growth pattern of Neandertals, reconstructed from a juvenile skeleton from El Sidrón (Spain) |journal=Science |volume=357 |issue=6357 |pages=1282–1287 |doi=10.1126/science.aan6463 |pmid=28935804 |bibcode=2017Sci...357.1282R |s2cid=206661070 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Jeremy M. DeSilva |year=2018 |title=Comment on "The growth pattern of Neandertals, reconstructed from a juvenile skeleton from El Sidrón (Spain)" |journal=Science |volume=359 |issue=6380 |pages=eaar3611 |doi=10.1126/science.aar3611 |pmid=29590012 |s2cid=4590083 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Antonio Rosas |author2=Luis Ríos |author3=Almudena Estalrrich |author4=Helen Liversidge |author5=Antonio García-Tabernero |author6=Rosa Huguet |author7=Hugo Cardoso |author8=Markus Bastir |author9=Carles Lalueza-Fox |author10=Marco de la Rasilla |author11=Christopher Dean |year=2018 |title=Response to Comment on "The growth pattern of Neandertals, reconstructed from a juvenile skeleton from El Sidrón (Spain)" |journal=Science |volume=359 |issue=6380 |pages=eaar3820 |doi=10.1126/science.aar3820 |pmid=29590013 |s2cid=54507895 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the genetic contribution of Neanderthals to [[Biology:Phenotype|phenotypic]] variation in modern humans is published by Dannemann & Kelso (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Michael Dannemann |author2=Janet Kelso |year=2017 |title=The contribution of Neanderthals to phenotypic variation in modern humans |journal=The American Journal of Human Genetics |volume=101 |issue=4 |pages=578–589 |doi=10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.09.010 |pmid=28985494 |pmc=5630192 }}</ref>
* A reconstruction of the internal nasal cavity of a Neanderthal and a study comparing the breathing cycle in Neanderthals and modern humans is published by de Azevedo ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=S. de Azevedo |author2=M. F. González |author3=C. Cintas |author4=V. Ramallo |author5=M. Quinto-Sánchez |author6=F. Márquez |author7=T. Hünemeier |author8=C. Paschetta |author9=A. Ruderman |author10=P. Navarro |author11=B. A. Pazos |author12=C. C. Silva de Cerqueira |author13=O. Velan |author14=F. Ramírez-Rozzi |author15=N. Calvo |author16=H. G. Castro |author17=R. R. Paz |author18=R. González-José |year=2017 |title=Nasal airflow simulations suggest convergent adaptation in Neanderthals and modern humans |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=114 |issue=47 |pages=12442–12447 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1703790114 |pmid=29087302 |pmc=5703271 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Andrej A. Evteev |author2=Yann Heuzé |year=2018 |title=Impact of sampling strategies and reconstruction protocols in nasal airflow simulations in fossil hominins |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=115 |issue=21 |pages=E4737–E4738 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1804197115 |pmid=29728461 |pmc=6003452 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=S. de Azevedo |author2=M. F. González |author3=C. Cintas |author4=V. Ramallo |author5=M. Quinto-Sánchez |author6=F. Márquez |author7=T. Hünemeier |author8=C. Paschetta |author9=A. Ruderman |author10=P. Navarro |author11=B. A. Pazos |author12=C. C. Silva de Cerqueira |author13=O. Velan |author14=F. Ramírez-Rozzi |author15=N. Calvo |author16=H. G. Castro |author17=R. R. Paz |author18=R. González-José |year=2018 |title=Reply to Evteev and Heuzé: How to overcome the problem of modeling respiration departing from bony structures |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=115 |issue=21 |pages=E4739–E4740 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1804796115 |pmid=29728465 |pmc=6003456 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the hunting strategies of the Neanderthals based on data from the deer and horse remains from the Abric Romaní site (Catalonia, {{wipe|Spain}}) is published by Marín ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Juan Marín |author2=Palmira Saladié |author3=Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo |author4=Eudald Carbonell |year=2017 |title=Neanderthal hunting strategies inferred from mortality profiles within the Abric Romaní sequence |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=11 |pages=e0186970 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0186970 |pmid=29166384 |pmc=5699840 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1286970M |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* The first genetic analysis of dental calculus from five Neanderthal individuals from [[History:Sidrón Cave|El Sidrón cave]] in {{wipe|Spain}}, [[Earth:Spy Cave|Spy Cave]] in Belgium and Breuil Grotta in Italy is published by Weyrich ''et al.'' (2017), who also evaluate the implications of their findings for inferring Neanderthal diet, behaviour, and disease;<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Laura S. Weyrich |author2=Sebastian Duchene |author3=Julien Soubrier |author4=Luis Arriola |author5=Bastien Llamas |author6=James Breen |author7=Alan G. Morris |author8=Kurt W. Alt |author9=David Caramelli |author10=Veit Dresely |author11=Milly Farrell |author12=Andrew G. Farrer |author13=Michael Francken |author14=Neville Gully |author15=Wolfgang Haak |author16=Karen Hardy |author17=Katerina Harvati |author18=Petra Held |author19=Edward C. Holmes |author20=John Kaidonis |author21=Carles Lalueza-Fox |author22=Marco de la Rasilla |author23=Antonio Rosas |author24=Patrick Semal |author25=Arkadiusz Soltysiak |author26=Grant Townsend |author27=Donatella Usai |author28=Joachim Wahl |author29=Daniel H. Huson |author30=Keith Dobney |author31=Alan Cooper |year=2017 |title=Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus |journal=Nature |volume=544 |issue=7650 |pages=357–361 |doi=10.1038/nature21674 |pmid=28273061 |bibcode=2017Natur.544..357W |s2cid=4457717 |url=https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/d6689cb0-38fa-4d3e-98e4-c8be2bd0263e/1 }}</ref> the authors' interpretation of their results is subsequently criticized by Charlier, Gaultier & Héry-Arnaud (2019).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Philippe Charlier |author2=Frédérick Gaultier |author3=Geneviève Héry-Arnaud |year=2019 |title=Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans: Remarks and methodological dangers of a dental calculus microbiome analysis |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=126 |pages=124–126 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.06.007 |pmid=30029803 }}</ref>
* Fossils of early [[Biology:Human|human]]s (''Homo sapiens'') are described from the Middle Stone Age site of [[Biology:Jebel Irhoud|Jebel Irhoud]] (Morocco) by Hublin ''et al.'' (2017)<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Jean-Jacques Hublin |author2=Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer |author3=Shara E. Bailey |author4=Sarah E. Freidline |author5=Simon Neubauer |author6=Matthew M. Skinner |author7=Inga Bergmann |author8=Adeline Le Cabec |author9=Stefano Benazzi |author10=Katerina Harvati |author11=Philipp Gunz |year=2017 |title=New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of ''Homo sapiens'' |journal=Nature |volume=546 |issue=7657 |pages=289–292 |doi=10.1038/nature22336 |pmid=28593953 |bibcode=2017Natur.546..289H |url=https://kar.kent.ac.uk/62267/1/Submission_288356_1_art_file_2637492_j96j1b.pdf }}</ref> and their age is estimated by Richter ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Daniel Richter |author2=Rainer Grün |author3=Renaud Joannes-Boyau |author4=Teresa E. Steele |author5=Fethi Amani |author6=Mathieu Rué |author7=Paul Fernandes |author8=Jean-Paul Raynal |author9=Denis Geraads |author10=Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer |author11=Jean-Jacques Hublin |author12=Shannon P. McPherron |year=2017 |title=The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age |journal=Nature |volume=546 |issue=7657 |pages=293–296 |doi=10.1038/nature22335 |pmid=28593967 |bibcode=2017Natur.546..293R |s2cid=205255853 }}</ref>
* Teeth of modern humans recovered from the Lida Ajer cave in Sumatra (Indonesia) are dated as between 73,000 and 63,000 years old by Westaway ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=K. E. Westaway |author2=J. Louys |author3=R. Due Awe |author4=M. J. Morwood |author5=G. J. Price |author6=J.-x. Zhao |author7=M. Aubert |author8=R. Joannes-Boyau |author9=T. M. Smith |author10=M. M. Skinner |author11=T. Compton |author12=R. M. Bailey |author13=G. D. van den Bergh |author14=J. de Vos |author15=A. W. G. Pike |author16=C. Stringer |author17=E. W. Saptomo |author18=Y. Rizal |author19=J. Zaim |author20=W. D. Santoso |author21=A. Trihascaryo |author22=L. Kinsley |author23=B. Sulistyanto |year=2017 |title=An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–63,000 years ago |journal=Nature |volume=548 |issue=7667 |pages=322–325 |doi=10.1038/nature23452 |pmid=28792933 |bibcode=2017Natur.548..322W |s2cid=4398895 |url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/412591/1/combinbed_files.pdf }}</ref>
* Artifacts recovered at Madjedbebe, a rock shelter in northern {{wipe|Australia}}, indicating that humans colonized Australia at least 65,000 years ago, are reported by Clarkson ''et al.'' (2017);<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Chris Clarkson |author2=Zenobia Jacobs |author3=Ben Marwick |author4=Richard Fullagar |author5=Lynley Wallis |author6=Mike Smith |author7=Richard G. Roberts |author8=Elspeth Hayes |author9=Kelsey Lowe |author10=Xavier Carah |author11=S. Anna Florin |author12=Jessica McNeil |author13=Delyth Cox |author14=Lee J. Arnold |author15=Quan Hua |author16=Jillian Huntley |author17=Helen E. A. Brand |author18=Tiina Manne |author19=Andrew Fairbairn |author20=James Shulmeister |author21=Lindsey Lyle |author22=Makiah Salinas |author23=Mara Page |author24=Kate Connell |author25=Gayoung Park |author26=Kasih Norman |author27=Tessa Murphy |author28=Colin Pardoe |year=2017 |title=Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago |journal=Nature |volume=547 |issue=7663 |pages=306–310 |doi=10.1038/nature22968 |pmid=28726833 |bibcode=2017Natur.547..306C |hdl=2440/107043 |s2cid=205257212 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> their conclusions about the age of these artifacts are subsequently questioned by Allen (2017)<ref>{{cite journal |author=Jim Allen |year=2017 |title=Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus; He just doesn't bring presents to children who don't believe in him |journal=Australian Archaeology |volume=83 |issue=3 |pages=163–165 |doi=10.1080/03122417.2017.1408535 |s2cid=148730099 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Chris Clarkson |author2=Richard G. Roberts |author3=Zenobia Jacobs |author4=Ben Marwick |author5=Richard Fullagar |author6=Lee J. Arnold |author7=Quan Hua |year=2018 |title=Reply to comments on Clarkson ''et al.'' (2017) 'Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago' |journal=Australian Archaeology |volume=84 |issue=1 |pages=84–89 |doi=10.1080/03122417.2018.1462884 |s2cid=150073484 |url=https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/5391 }}</ref> and O’Connell ''et al.'' (2018).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=James F. O’Connell |author2=Jim Allen |author3=Martin A. J. Williams |author4=Alan N. Williams |author5=Chris S. M. Turney |author6=Nigel A. Spooner |author7=Johan Kamminga |author8=Graham Brown |author9=Alan Cooper |year=2018 |title=When did ''Homo sapiens'' first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul? |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=115 |issue=34 |pages=8482–8490 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1808385115 |pmid=30082377 |pmc=6112744 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* A study on the diet of the oldest anatomically modern humans from southeast Europe, based on isotopic data from human bones from the [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]] of Crimea, is published by Drucker ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Dorothée G. Drucker |author2=Yuichi I. Naito |author3=Stéphane Péan |author4=Sandrine Prat |author5=Laurent Crépin |author6=Yoshito Chikaraishi |author7=Naohiko Ohkouchi |author8=Simon Puaud |author9=Martina Lázničková-Galetová |author10=Marylène Patou-Mathis |author11=Aleksandr Yanevich |author12=Hervé Bocherens |year=2017 |title=Isotopic analyses suggest mammoth and plant in the diet of the oldest anatomically modern humans from far southeast Europe |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 6833 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-07065-3 |pmid=28754955 |pmc=5533724 |bibcode=2017NatSR...7.6833D }}</ref>

===New taxa===

====Xenarthrans====
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''[[Biology:Baraguatherium|Baraguatherium]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Ascanio D. Rincón |author2=Andrés Solórzano |author3=H. Gregory McDonald |author4=Mónica Núñez Flores |name-list-style=amp |year=2017 |title=''Baraguatherium takumara'', gen. et sp. nov., the earliest mylodontoid sloth (early Miocene) from northern South America |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=179–191 |doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9328-y |s2cid=23667414 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Rincón ''et al.''
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Early Miocene
| [[Earth:Castillo Formation, Venezuela|Castillo Formation]]
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{{Flag|Venezuela}}
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A mylodontoid [[Biology:Sloth|sloth]]. The type species is ''Baraguatherium takumara''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Epipeltephilus|Epipeltephilus caraguensis]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Germán Montoya-Sanhueza |author2=Karen Moreno |author3=René Bobe |author4=Matthew T. Carrano |author5=Marcelo García |author6=Alexandre Corgne |year=2017 |title=Peltephilidae and Mesotheriidae (Mammalia) from late Miocene strata of Northern Chilean Andes, Caragua |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=75 |pages=51–65 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2017.01.009 |bibcode=2017JSAES..75...51M |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Montoya-Sanhueza ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
| Huaylas Formation
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{{Flag|Chile}}
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An [[Biology:Armadillo|armadillo]].
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|-
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''[[Biology:Eutatus|Eutatus crispianii]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Luciano Brambilla |author2=Damián Alberto Ibarra |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Eutatus'' Gervais (Xenarthra, Dasypodidae) from the Late Pleistocene of the Northern Pampean Region, Argentina |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 20.1.13A |doi=10.26879/676 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Brambilla & Ibarra
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[[Earth:Lujanian|Lujanian]]
|
Saladillo Formation
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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An [[Biology:Armadillo|armadillo]].
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|-
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''Lumbreratherium''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Claudia M. R. Herrera |author2=Jaime E. Powell |author3=Graciela I. Esteban |author4=Cecilia del Papa |year=2017 |title=A New Eocene Dasypodid with Caniniforms (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) from Northwest Argentina |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=275–288 |doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9345-x |s2cid=2802243 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Herrera ''et al.''
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Eocene
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Lumbrera Formation
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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An [[Biology:Armadillo|armadillo]]. The type species is ''L. oblitum''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Nohochichak|Nohochichak]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=H. Gregory McDonald |author2=James C. Chatters |author3=Timothy J. Gaudin |year=2017 |title=A new genus of megalonychid ground sloth (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the late Pleistocene of Quintana Roo, Mexico |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=e1307206 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1307206 |s2cid=90414512 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
|
McDonald, Chatters & Gaudin
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Late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]]
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|
{{Flag|Mexico}}
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A [[Biology:Ground sloth|ground sloth]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Megalonychidae|Megalonychidae]]. The type species is ''N. xibalbahkah''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Panochthus|Panochthus hipsilis]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alfredo Eduardo Zurita |author2=Martín Zamorano |author3=Gustavo Juan Scillato-Yané |author4=Sergio Fidel |author5=Martín Iriondo |author6=David D. Gillette |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Panochthus'' Burmeister (Xenarthra, Cingulata, Glyptodontidae) from the Pleistocene of the Eastern Cordillera, Bolivia |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=8 |pages=1076–1088 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1278443 |s2cid=91031708 |url=http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/119248 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Zurita ''et al.''
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Pleistocene
| 
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{{Flag|Bolivia}}
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A [[Biology:Glyptodont|glyptodont]].
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|-
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''Proeocoleophorus''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Fernando A. Sedor |author2=Édison V. Oliveira |author3=David D. Silva |author4=Luiz A. Fernandes |author5=Renata F. Cunha |author6=Ana M. Ribeiro |author7=Eliseu V. Dia |name-list-style=amp |year=2017 |title=A New South American Paleogene Land Mammal Fauna, Guabirotuba Formation (Southern Brazil) |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=39–55 |doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9364-7 |s2cid=14010727 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sedor ''et al.''
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Probably late middle [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
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[[Earth:Guabirotuba Formation|Guabirotuba Formation]]
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{{Flag|Brazil}}
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A member of [[Biology:Cingulata|Cingulata]]. Genus includes new species ''P. carlinii''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Ronwolffia|Ronwolffia]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Bruce J. Shockey  |year=2017 |title=New early diverging cingulate (Xenarthra: Peltephilidae) from the Late Oligocene of Bolivia and considerations regarding the origin of crown Xenarthra |journal=Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=371–396 |doi=10.3374/014.058.0201 |s2cid=214641639 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320468895 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Shockey
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Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Earth:Deseadan|Deseadan]])
| Salla Formation
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{{Flag|Bolivia}}
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A member of [[Biology:Cingulata|Cingulata]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Peltephilidae|Peltephilidae]]. Genus includes new species ''R. pacifica''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Xibalbaonyx|Xibalbaonyx]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Sarah R. Stinnesbeck |author2=Eberhard Frey |author3=Jerónimo Avíles Olguín |author4=Wolfgang Stinnesbeck |author5=Patrick Zell |author6=Heinrich Mallison |author7=Arturo González González |author8=Eugenio Aceves Núñez |author9=Adriana Velázquez Morlet |author10=Alejandro Terrazas Mata |author11=Martha Benavente Sanvicente |author12=Fabio Hering |author13=Carmen Rojas Sandoval |year=2017 |title=''Xibalbaonyx oviceps'', a new megalonychid ground sloth (Folivora, Xenarthra) from the Late Pleistocene of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, and its paleobiogeographic significance |journal=PalZ |volume=91 |issue=2 |pages=245–271 |doi=10.1007/s12542-017-0349-5 |s2cid=134188352 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
|
Stinnesbeck ''et al.''
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Late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Mexico}}
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A [[Biology:Ground sloth|ground sloth]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Megalonychidae|Megalonychidae]]. The type species is ''X. oviceps''.
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|-
|
''Zacatzontli''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=H. Gregory McDonald |author2=Oscar Carranza-Castañeda |year=2017 |title=Increased xenarthran diversity of the Great American Biotic Interchange: a new genus and species of ground sloth (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Megalonychidae) from the Hemphillian (late Miocene) of Jalisco, Mexico |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=91 |issue=5 |pages=1069–1082 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2017.45 |s2cid=133770632 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
McDonald & Carranza-Castañeda
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Late Miocene ([[Biology:Hemphillian|Hemphillian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Mexico}}
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A [[Biology:Ground sloth|ground sloth]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Megalonychidae|Megalonychidae]]. The type species is ''Z. tecolotlanensis''.
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|-
|}

====Afrotherians====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''[[Biology:Gomphotherium|Gomphotherium tassyi]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Shi-Qi Wang |author2=Yu Li |author3=Jaroon Duangkrayom |author4=Xiang-Wen Yang |author5=Wen He |author6=Shan-Qin Chen |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Gomphotherium'' (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from China and the evolution of ''Gomphotherium'' in Eurasia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=e1318284 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1318284 |s2cid=90593535 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Wang ''et al.''
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Late middle Miocene
|
Hujialiang Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
|
|
|-
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''[[Biology:Italosiren|Italosiren]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Manja Voss |author2=Silvia Sorbi |author3=Daryl P. Domning |year=2017 |title=Morphological and systematic re-assessment of the late Oligocene ''"Halitherium" bellunense'' reveals a new crown group genus of Sirenia |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=62 |issue=1 |pages=163–172 |doi=10.4202/app.00287.2016 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Voss, Sorbi & Domning
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Oligocene (late [[Earth:Chattian|Chattian]])
|
Belluno Glauconitic Sandstone Formation
|
{{Flag|Italy}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Dugongidae|Dugongidae]]; a new genus for ''"[[Biology:Halitherium|Halitherium]]" bellunense'' De Zigno (1875).
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|-
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''[[Biology:Kaupitherium|Kaupitherium]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Manja Voss |author2=Oliver Hampe |name-list-style=amp |year=2017 |title=Evidence for two sympatric sirenian species (Mammalia, Tethytheria) in the early Oligocene of Central Europe |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=91 |issue=2 |pages=337–367 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.147 |s2cid=89899052 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. et comb. nov
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Valid
|
Voss & Hampe
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Oligocene ([[Earth:Rupelian|Rupelian]])
|
Alzey Formation<br>
Bodenheim Formation<br>
Böhlen Formation<br>
Boom Clay Formation
|
{{Flag|Belgium}}<br>
{{Flag|France}}<br>
{{Flag|Germany}}<br>
{{Flag|Hungary}}<br>
{{Flag|Switzerland}}
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A member of [[Biology:Dugongidae|Dugongidae]]. The type species is ''K. gruelli''; genus also includes ''"[[Biology:Halitherium|Halitherium]]" bronni'' Krauss (1858).
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|-
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''Libysiren''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Daryl P. Domning |author2=Geoffrey J. Heal |author3=Silvia Sorbi |year=2017 |title=''Libysiren sickenbergi'', gen. et sp. nov.: a new sirenian (Mammalia, Protosirenidae) from the middle Eocene of Libya |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=e1299158 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1299158 |s2cid=89768597 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Domning, Heal & Sorbi
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Eocene ([[Earth:Lutetian|Lutetian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Libya}}
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A member of [[Biology:Protosirenidae|Protosirenidae]]. Genus includes new species ''L. sickenbergi''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Tetralophodon|Tetralophodon euryrostris]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Shi-Qi Wang |author2=Haruo Saegusa |author3=Jaroon Duangkrayom |author4=Wen He |author5=Shan-Qin Chen |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Tetralophodon'' from the Linxia Basin and the biostratigraphic significance of tetralophodont gomphotheres from the Upper Miocene of northern China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=703–717 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2017.03.005 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Wang ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
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Linxia Basin
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{{Flag|China}}
|
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|-
|}

====Bats====
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''Amazonycteris''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Nicholas J. Czaplewski |author2=Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr. |year=2017 |title=Late Miocene Bats from the Jurua River, State of Acre, Brazil, with a Description of a New Genus of Thyropteridae (Chiroptera, Mammalia) |journal=Contributions in Science |volume=525 |pages=55–60 |url=https://stage.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/lacc-525.3.Czaplewski%20and%20Campbell.pdf }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
|
Czaplewski & Campbell
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Late Miocene
|
Içá Formation
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Thyropteridae|Thyropteridae]]. The type species is ''A. divisus''.
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|-
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''Myotis belgicus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Gregg F. Gunnell |author2=Richard Smith |author3=Thierry Smith |year=2017 |title=33 million year old ''Myotis'' (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and the rapid global radiation of modern bats |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=e0172621 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0172621 |pmid=28273112 |pmc=5342209 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1272621G |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Gunnell, Smith & Smith
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[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Earth:Rupelian|Rupelian]])
|
Borgloon Formation
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{{Flag|Belgium}}
|
A [[Biology:Mouse-eared bat|mouse-eared bat]].
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|-
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''Pipistrellus rouresi''<ref name=HBVentadelMoro>{{Cite journal|author1=Vicente D. Crespo |author2=Paloma Sevilla |author3=Samuel Mansino |author4=Plinio Montoya |author5=Francisco Javier Ruiz-Sánchez |year=2017 |title=Bats from the classical site of Venta del Moro (Late Miocene, Eastern Spain) |journal= Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=317–326 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1277995 |s2cid=90270154 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Crespo ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
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A vesper bat, a species of ''[[Biology:Pipistrellus|Pipistrellus]]''.
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|-
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''Rhinolophus antonioi''<ref name=HBVentadelMoro />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
Crespo ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A [[Biology:Horseshoe bat|horseshoe bat]].
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|-
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''Xylonycteris''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Suzanne J. Hand |author2=Bernard Sigé |year=2017 |title=A new archaic bat (Chiroptera: Archaeonycteridae) from an Early Eocene forest in the Paris Basin |journal= Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=1–2 |pages=227–236 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1297435 |s2cid=91146624 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
|
Hand & Sigé
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] ([[Earth:Ypresian|Ypresian]])
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Archaeonycteridae|Archaeonycteridae]]. The type species is ''X. stenodon''.
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|-
|}

====Odd-toed ungulates====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''[[Biology:Haringtonhippus|Haringtonhippus]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Peter D. Heintzman |author2=Grant D. Zazula |author3=Ross D.E. MacPhee |author4=Eric Scott |author5=James A. Cahill |author6=Brianna K. McHorse |author7=Joshua D. Kapp |author8=Mathias Stiller |author9=Matthew J. Wooller |author10=Ludovic Orlando |author11=John Southon |author12=Duane G. Froese |author13=Beth Shapiro |year=2017 |title=A new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America |journal=eLife |volume=6 |pages=e29944 |doi=10.7554/eLife.29944 |pmid=29182148 |pmc=5705217 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Heintzman ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]]
|
Lissie Formation
|
{{Flag|Canada}}<br>({{Flag|Yukon}}<br>{{Flag|Alberta}}?)<br>
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Nevada}}<br>{{Flag|New Mexico}}<br>{{Flag|Texas}}<br>{{Flag|Wyoming}}<br>{{Flag|Alaska}}?)<br>
{{Flag|Mexico}}?
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Equidae|Equidae]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Equinae|Equinae]] and the tribe [[Biology:Equini|Equini]]; a new genus for ''"[[Biology:Equus (genus)|Equus]]" francisci'' Hay (1915).
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''Lophiohippus''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Bin Bai |year=2017 |title=Eocene Pachynolophinae (Perissodactyla, Palaeotheriidae) from China, and their palaeobiogeographical implications |journal=Palaeontology |volume=60 |issue=6 |pages=837–852 |doi=10.1111/pala.12319 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
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Bai
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
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Lunan Basin
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{{Flag|China}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Palaeotheriidae|Palaeotheriidae]] belonging to the subfamily Pachynolophinae; a new genus for ''"Lophialetes" yunnanensis'' Huang & Qi (1982).
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|-
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''Orolophus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Jean-Albert Remy |year=2017 |title=Critical comments on the genus ''Propachynolophus'' Lemoine, 1891 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equoidea) |journal=Palæovertebrata |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=e3 |doi=10.18563/pv.41.1.e3 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Remy
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
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A [[Biology:Palaeotheriidae|palaeotheriid]]; a new genus for ''"Pachynolophus" maldani'' Lemoine (1878).
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|-
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''[[Biology:Paraceratherium|Paraceratherium huangheense]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Yong-Xiang Li |author2=Yun-Xiang Zhang |author3=Ji Li |author4=Zhi-Chao Li |author5=Kun Xie |year=2017 |title=New fossils of paraceratheres (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Early Oligocene of the Lanzhou Basin, Gansu Province, China |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=367–381 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201709/t20170922_4863426.html |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.170922 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li ''et al.''
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Early [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
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Hanjiajing Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
|
|
|-
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''[[Biology:Pliolophus|Pliolophus quesnoyensis]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Constance Bronnert |author2=Emmanuel Gheerbrant |author3=Marc Godinot |author4=Grégoire Métais |year=2017 |title=A primitive perissodactyl (Mammalia) from the early Eocene of Le Quesnoy (MP7, France) |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=1–2 |pages=237–250 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1341502 |s2cid=90407317 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
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Bronnert ''et al.''
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Early [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
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{{Flag|France}}
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|-
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''Samburuceros''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Naoto Handa |author2=Masato Nakatsukasa |author3=Yutaka Kunimatsu |author4=Hideo Nakaya |year=2017 |title=A new Elasmotheriini (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from the upper Miocene of Samburu Hills and Nakali, northern Kenya |journal=Geobios |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=197–209 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2017.04.002 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Handa ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
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|
{{Flag|Kenya}}
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A rhinoceros belonging to the tribe Elasmotheriini. Genus includes new species ''S. ishidai''.
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====Even-toed ungulates====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Afrotragus''<ref name=Afrotragus>{{Cite journal|author=Denis Geraads |year=2019 |title=A reassessment of the Bovidae (Mammalia) from the Nawata Formation of Lothagam, Kenya, and the late Miocene diversification of the family in Africa |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=169–182 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2017.1403493 |s2cid=90461071 |url=https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01684030 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Geraads
|
Miocene
|
Nawata Formation
|
{{Flag|Kenya}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Bovidae|Bovidae]]; a new genus for ''"[[Biology:Aepyceros|Aepyceros]]" premelampus'' Harris (2003).
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Archaeopotamus|Archaeopotamus qeshta]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jean-Renaud Boisserie |author2=Mathieu Schuster |author3=Mark J. Beech |author4=Andrew Hill |author5=Faysal Bibi |year=2017 |title=A new species of hippopotamine (Cetartiodactyla, Hippopotamidae) from the late Miocene Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |journal=Palæovertebrata |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=e2 |doi=10.18563/pv.41.1.e2 |url=https://univoak.eu/islandora/object/islandora%3A85572 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boisserie ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
[[Earth:Baynunah Formation|Baynunah Formation]]
|
{{Flag|United Arab Emirates}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Hippopotamidae|Hippopotamidae]].
|
|-
|
''Beatragus vrbae''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Faysal Bibi |author2=John Rowan |author3=Kaye Reed |year=2017 |title=Late Pliocene Bovidae from Ledi-Geraru (Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia) and their implications for Afar paleoecology |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=e1337639 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1337639 |s2cid=134314018 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Bibi, Rowan & Reed
|
Late Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Ethiopia}}
|
A relative of the [[Biology:Hirola|hirola]]
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Bubalus grovesi|Bubalus grovesi]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Roberto Rozzi |year=2017 |title=A new extinct dwarfed buffalo from Sulawesi and the evolution of the subgenus ''Anoa'': An interdisciplinary perspective |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |volume=157 |pages=188–205 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.12.011 |bibcode=2017QSRv..157..188R |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rozzi
|
Late [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]]-[[Earth:Holocene|Holocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Indonesia}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Bubalus|Bubalus]]''.
|
|-
|
''Choeromorus ibericus''<ref name=Siderochoerus>{{Cite book |author=Martin Pickford |year=2017 |title=Revision of "peccary-like" Suoidea (Artiodactyla: Mammalia) from the Neogene of the Old World |journal=Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Reihe A: Geologie und Paläontologie |volume=46 |pages=1–144 |isbn=978-3-89937-223-6 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Pickford
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|France}}<br>
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A member of Suoidea belonging to the family Siderochoeridae.
|
|-
|
''Choeromorus petersbuchensis''<ref name=Siderochoerus />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Pickford
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A member of Suoidea belonging to the family Siderochoeridae.
|
|-
|
''Chororatherium''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jean-Renaud Boisserie |author2=Gen Suwa |author3=Berhane Asfaw |author4=Fabrice Lihoreau |author5=Raymond L. Bernor |author6=Shigehiro Katoh |author7=Yonas Beyene |year=2017 |title=Basal hippopotamines from the upper Miocene of Chorora, Ethiopia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=e1297718 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1297718 |s2cid=133844851 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boisserie ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Ethiopia}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Hippopotamidae|Hippopotamidae]]. Genus includes new species ''C. roobii''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Decennatherium|Decennatherium rex]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=María Ríos |author2=Israel M. Sánchez |author3=Jorge Morales |year=2017 |title=A new giraffid (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Pecora) from the late Miocene of Spain, and the evolution of the sivathere-samothere lineage |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=11 |pages=e0185378 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0185378 |pmid=29091914 |pmc=5665556 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1285378R |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ríos, Sánchez & Morales
|
Miocene (late Vallesian)
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Giraffidae|Giraffidae]].
|
|-
|
''Grevenobos''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Evelyne Crégut-Bonnoure |author2=Evangelia Tsoukala |year=2017 |title=The Late Pliocene Bovidae and Cervidae (Mammalia) of Milia (Grevena, Macedonia, Greece) |journal=Quaternary International |volume=445 |pages=215–249 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2016.10.043 |bibcode=2017QuInt.445..215C }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Crégut-Bonnoure & Tsoukala
|
Late Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Greece}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Bovidae|Bovidae]] belonging to the tribe [[Biology:Bovini|Bovini]]. Genus includes new species ''G. antiquus''.
|
|-
|
''Merycobunodon? walshi''<ref name=PE202BridgerFm>{{Cite journal|author1=Paul C. Murphey |author2=Thomas S. Kelly |year=2017 |title=Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 2: Apatotheria, Lipotyphla, Carnivoramorpha, Condylartha, Dinocerata, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 20.2.29A |doi=10.26879/720 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Murphey & Kelly
|
[[Earth:Uintan|Uintan]]
|
Bridger Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Oromerycidae|Oromerycidae]].
|
|-
|
''Micromeryx? eiselei''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Manuela Aiglstorfer |author2=Loïc Costeur |author3=Bastien Mennecart |author4=Elmar P. J. Heizmann |year=2017 |title=''Micromeryx? eiselei''—A new moschid species from Steinheim am Albuch, Germany, and the first comprehensive description of moschid cranial material from the Miocene of Central Europe |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=10 |pages=e0185679 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0185679 |pmid=29036194 |pmc=5642927 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1285679A |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Aiglstorfer ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Moschidae|Moschidae]], possibly a species of ''[[Biology:Micromeryx|Micromeryx]]''.
|
|-
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''Muknalia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Sarah R. Stinnesbeck |author2=Eberhard Frey |author3=Wolfgang Stinnesbeck |author4=Jeronimo Avíles Olguínc |author5=Patrick Zell |author6=Alejandro Terrazas Mata |author7=Martha Benavente Sanvicente |author8=Arturo González González |author9=Eugenio Acevez Nuñez |year=2017 |title=A new fossil peccary from the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary of the eastern Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=77 |pages=341–349 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2016.11.003 |bibcode=2017JSAES..77..341S }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Disputed
|
Stinnesbeck ''et al.''
|
Probably latest [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Mexico}}
|
A peccary. The type species is ''M. minima''. Schubert ''et al.'' (2020) considered this species to be [[Biology:Synonym (taxonomy)|synonymous]] with the collared peccary (''Pecari tajacu'').<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Blaine W. Schubert |author2=Joshua X. Samuels |author3=James C. Chatters |author4=Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales |year=2020 |title=''Muknalia minima'' from the Yucatán of Mexico is synonymous with the collared peccary, ''Pecari tajacu'' (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae) |journal=Open Quaternary |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=Article 8 |doi=10.5334/oq.84 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Sarah R. Stinnesbeck |author2=Wolfgang Stinnesbeck |author3=Eberhard Frey |author4=Jerónimo Avilés Olguín |author5=Arturo H. González González |year=2021 |title=Comment on Schubert et al. 2020. ''Muknalia minima'' from the Yucatán of Mexico is synonymous with the collared peccary, ''Pecari tajacu'' (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae). Open Quaternary, 6: 8, pp. 1–9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.84 |journal=Open Quaternary |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article 2 |doi=10.5334/oq.89 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Blaine W. Schubert |author2=Joshua X. Samuels |author3=James C. Chatters |author4=Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales |year=2021 |title=''Muknalia'' is a Collared Peccary (''Pecari tajacu''): A Reply to Stinnesbeck et al. |journal=Open Quaternary |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=Article 3 |doi=10.5334/oq.98 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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|-
|
''Paalitherium''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Grégoire Métais |author2=Bastien Mennecart |author3=Ghazala Roohi |year=2017 |title=A new assemblage of stem pecoran ruminants from the Oligocene Chitarwata Formation, Bugti Hills, Baluchistan, Pakistan: paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographic implications |journal=Journal of Asian Earth Sciences |volume=136 |pages=40–49 |doi=10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.09.009 |bibcode=2017JAESc.136...40M }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Métais, Mennecart & Roohi
|
Oligocene
|
[[Earth:Chitarwata Formation|Chitarwata Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Pakistan}}
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A [[Biology:Crown group#Stem groups|stem]]-pecoran. Genus includes new species ''P. gurki''.
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|-
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''Parabos savelisi''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Evelyne Crégut-Bonnoure |author2=Evangelia Tsoukala |year=2017 |title=The Pliocene Artiodactyla and Proboscidea (Mammalia) from Gephyra (lower Axios valley, Macedonia, Greece). Discovery of a new boselaphine |journal=Quaternary International |volume=445 |pages=200–214 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2016.10.022 |bibcode=2017QuInt.445..200C }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Crégut-Bonnoure & Tsoukala
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Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Greece}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Bovidae|Bovidae]] belonging to the tribe [[Biology:Boselaphini|Boselaphini]].
|
|-
|
''Praeelaphus australorientalis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Roman Croitor |year=2017 |title=Description of a new deer species (Cervidae, Mammalia) from the Early Pliocene of Eastern Europe, with a review of early dispersals and palaeobiogeography of the subfamily Cervinae |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=283 |issue=1 |pages=85–108 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2017/0630 |url=http://zoology.asm.md/uploades/File/Publicatii/Croitor2017.pdf }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Croitor
|
Early Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Romania}}<br>
{{Flag|Ukraine}}
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An [[Biology:Cervinae|Old World deer]].
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|-
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''Protherohyus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Rodrigo Parisi Dutra |author2=Daniel de Melo Casali |author3=Rafaela Velloso Missagia |author4=Germán Mariano Gasparini |author5=Fernando Araujo Perini |author6=Mario Alberto Cozzuol |year=2017 |title=Phylogenetic Systematics of Peccaries (Tayassuidae: Artiodactyla) and a Classification of South American Tayassuids |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=345–358 |doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9347-8 |s2cid=27963274 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Parisi Dutra ''et al.''
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[[Biology:Hemphillian|Hemphillian]]
|
|
{{Flag|Mexico}}<br>
{{Flag|United States}}
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A peccary; a new genus for ''"Desmathyus" brachydontus'' Dalquest & Mooser (1980).
|
|-
|
''Siderochoerus''<ref name=Siderochoerus />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Pickford
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A member of Suoidea belonging to the family Siderochoeridae. Genus includes new species ''S. minimus''.
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|-
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''Turkanatragus''<ref name=Afrotragus />
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Geraads
|
Miocene
|
Nawata Formation
|
{{Flag|Kenya}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Bovidae|Bovidae]]. The type species is ''T. marymuunguae''.
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|-
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''Urmiatherium kassandriensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Georgios Lazaridis |author2=Dimitris S. Kostopoulos |author3=George Lyras |author4=Socrates Roussiakis |year=2017 |title=A new Late Miocene ovibovine-like bovid (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the Kassandra Peninsula (Chalkidiki, Northern Greece) and implications to the phylogeography of the group |journal=PalZ |volume=91 |issue=3 |pages=427–437 |doi=10.1007/s12542-017-0360-x |s2cid=90916164 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Lazaridis ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Greece}}
|
An ovibovine-like [[Biology:Bovidae|bovid]].
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|-
|}

====Cetaceans====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''[[Biology:Africanacetus|Africanacetus gracilis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Hiroto Ichishima |author2=Adolpho H. Augustin |author3=Takashi Toyofuku |author4=Hiroshi Kitazato |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Africanacetus'' (Odontoceti: Ziphiidae) found on the deep ocean floor off the coast of Brazil |journal=Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography |volume=146 |pages=68–81 |doi=10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.12.002 |bibcode=2017DSRII.146...68I }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Ichishima ''et al.''
|
Uncertain (middle Miocene-early Pliocene)
| São Paulo Ridge (offshore)
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
A [[Biology:Beaked whale|beaked whale]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Beneziphius|Beneziphius cetariensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ismael Miján |author2=Stephen Louwye |author3=Olivier Lambert |year=2017 |title=A new ''Beneziphius'' beaked whale from the ocean floor off Galicia, Spain and biostratigraphic reassessment of the type species |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=62 |issue=1 |pages=211–220 |doi=10.4202/app.00309.2016 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Miján, Louwye & Lambert
|
Middle Miocene to early Pliocene
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A [[Biology:Beaked whale|beaked whale]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Brujadelphis|Brujadelphis]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Olivier Lambert |author2=Giovanni Bianucci |author3=Mario Urbina |author4=Jonathan H. Geisler |year=2017 |title=A new inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinida) from the Miocene of Peru and the origin of modern dolphin and porpoise families |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=179 |issue=4 |pages=919–946 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12479 |doi-broken-date=31 May 2021|url= https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/179/4/919/3076080}}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Lambert ''et al.''
|
Miocene ([[Earth:Serravallian|Serravallian]] to early [[Biology:Tortonian|Tortonian]])
|
[[Earth:Pisco Formation|Pisco Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A member of Inioidea. The type species is ''B. ankylorostris''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Coronodon|Coronodon]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Jonathan H. Geisler |author2=Robert W. Boessenecker |author3=Mace Brown |author4=Brian L. Beatty |year=2017 |title=The Origin of Filter Feeding in Whales |journal=Current Biology |volume=27 |issue=13 |pages=2036–2042.e2 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.003 |pmid=28669761 |s2cid=36765725 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Geisler ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Earth:Rupelian|Rupelian]])
|
Ashley Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|South Carolina}})
|
A [[Biology:Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] member of [[Biology:Baleen whale|Mysticeti]]. The type species is ''C. havensteini''.
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|-
|
''[[Biology:Dilophodelphis|Dilophodelphis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Alexandra T. Boersma |author2=Matthew R. McCurry |author3=Nicholas D. Pyenson |year=2017 |title=A new fossil dolphin ''Dilophodelphis fordycei'' provides insight into the evolution of supraorbital crests in Platanistoidea (Mammalia, Cetacea) |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=4 |issue=5 |pages=170022 |doi=10.1098/rsos.170022 |pmid=28573006 |pmc=5451807 |bibcode=2017RSOS....470022B }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boersma, McCurry & Pyenson
|
Miocene (early [[Earth:Burdigalian|Burdigalian]])
|
Astoria Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Oregon}})
|
A relative of the [[Biology:South Asian river dolphin|South Asian river dolphin]]. The type species is ''D. fordycei''.
|
|-
|
''Eubalaena ianitrix''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Michelangelo Bisconti |author2=Olivier Lambert |author3=Mark Bosselaers |year=2017 |title=Revision of ''"Balaena" belgica'' reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, ''Eubalaena glacialis'', and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3464 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3464 |pmid=28663936 |pmc=5490463 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Bisconti, Lambert & Bosselaers
|
Pliocene (Piacenzian)
|
Lillo Formation
|
{{Flag|Belgium}}
|
A [[Biology:Right whale|right whale]].
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|-
|
''[[Biology:Inermorostrum|Inermorostrum]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Robert W. Boessenecker |author2=Danielle Fraser |author3=Morgan Churchill |author4=Jonathan H. Geisler |year=2017 |title=A toothless dwarf dolphin (Odontoceti: Xenorophidae) points to explosive feeding diversification of modern whales (Neoceti) |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=284 |issue=1861 |pages=20170531 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2017.0531 |pmid=28835549 |pmc=5577471 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boessenecker ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|South Carolina}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Xenorophidae|Xenorophidae]]. The type species is ''I. xenops''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Inticetus|Inticetus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Olivier Lambert |author2=Christian de Muizon |author3=Elisa Malinverno |author4=Claudio Di Celma |author5=Mario Urbina |author6=Giovanni Bianucci |year=2017 |title=A new odontocete (toothed cetacean) from the Early Miocene of Peru expands the morphological disparity of extinct heterodont dolphins |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=16 |issue=12 |pages=981–1016 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2017.1359689 |s2cid=90193360 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Lambert ''et al.''
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Miocene ([[Earth:Burdigalian|Burdigalian]])
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Chilcatay Formation
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{{Flag|Peru}}
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A [[Biology:Dolphin|dolphin]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement, assigned to the new family Inticetidae. The type species is ''I. vertizi''.
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|-
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''Koristocetus''<ref>{{Cite journal |author1=Alberto Collareta |author2=Olivier Lambert |author3=Christian de Muizon |author4=Mario Urbina |author5=Giovanni Bianucci |year=2017 |title=''Koristocetus pescei'' gen. et sp. nov., a diminutive sperm whale (Cetacea: Odontoceti: Kogiidae) from the late Miocene of Peru |journal=Fossil Record |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=259–278 |doi=10.5194/fr-20-259-2017 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
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Collareta ''et al.''
|
Miocene (latest [[Biology:Tortonian|Tortonian]] or [[Biology:Messinian|Messinian]])
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[[Earth:Pisco Formation|Pisco Formation]]
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{{Flag|Peru}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Kogiidae|Kogiidae]]. The type species is ''K. pescei''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Mystacodon|Mystacodon]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Olivier Lambert |author2=Manuel Martínez-Cáceres |author3=Giovanni Bianucci |author4=Claudio Di Celma |author5=Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi |author6=Etienne Steurbaut |author7=Mario Urbina |author8=Christian de Muizon |year=2017 |title=Earliest Mysticete from the Late Eocene of Peru Sheds New Light on the Origin of Baleen Whales |journal=Current Biology |volume=27 |issue=10 |pages=1535–1541.e2 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.026 |pmid=28502655 |s2cid=23858246 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
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Lambert ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] (early [[Earth:Priabonian|Priabonian]])
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Yumaque Formation
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{{Flag|Peru}}
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A [[Biology:Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] member of [[Biology:Baleen whale|Mysticeti]]. The type species is ''M. selenensis''.
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''[[Biology:Olympicetus|Olympicetus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Jorge Vélez-Juarbe |year=2017 |title=A new stem odontocete from the late Oligocene Pysht Formation in Washington State, U.S.A. |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=e1366916 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1366916 |s2cid=90151706 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
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Vélez-Juarbe
|
Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
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Pysht Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Washington}})
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A [[Biology:Crown group#Stem groups|stem]]-[[Biology:Toothed whale|odontocete]]. The type species is ''O. avitus''.
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|-
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''Scaldiporia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Klaas Post |author2=Stephen Louwye |author3=Olivier Lambert |year=2017 |title=''Scaldiporia vandokkumi'', a new pontoporiid (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Late Miocene to earliest Pliocene of the Westerschelde estuary (The Netherlands) |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3991 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3991 |pmid=29109917 |pmc=5671118 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Post, Louwye & Lambert
|
Late Miocene or earliest Pliocene
|
[[Earth:Breda Formation|Breda Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Netherlands}}
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A relative of the [[Biology:La Plata dolphin|La Plata dolphin]]. The type species is ''S. vandokkumi''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Tiucetus|Tiucetus]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Felix G. Marx |author2=Olivier Lambert |author3=Christian de Muizon |year=2017 |title=A new Miocene baleen whale from Peru deciphers the dawn of cetotheriids |journal=Royal Society Open Science |volume=4 |issue=9 |pages=170560 |doi=10.1098/rsos.170560 |pmid=28989761 |pmc=5627101 |bibcode=2017RSOS....470560M }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
|
Marx, Lambert & de Muizon
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Miocene ([[Earth:Serravallian|Serravallian]] to early [[Biology:Tortonian|Tortonian]])
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[[Earth:Pisco Formation|Pisco Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Cetotheriidae|Cetotheriidae]]. The type species is ''T. rosae''.
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|-
|
''[[Biology:Urkudelphis|Urkudelphis]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Yoshihiro Tanaka |author2=Juan Abella |author3=Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández |author4=Maria Gregori |author5=R. Ewan Fordyce |year=2017 |title=A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=12 |pages=e0188380 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0188380 |pmid=29261688 |pmc=5737981 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1288380T |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Tanaka ''et al.''
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[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] (probably [[Earth:Chattian|Chattian]])
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[[Earth:Dos Bocas Formation|Dos Bocas Formation]]
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{{Flag|Ecuador}}
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A member of Platanistoidea. The type species is ''U. chawpipacha''.
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|}

====Carnivorans====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''[[Biology:Amphictis|Amphictis timucua]]''<ref name=Floridictis>{{Cite journal|author=Jon A. Baskin |year=2017 |title=Additional carnivorans from the early Hemingfordian Miller Local Fauna, Florida |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=e1293069 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1293069 |s2cid=90182619 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Baskin
|
Early [[Earth:Hemingfordian North American Stage|Hemingfordian]]
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Florida}})
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A member of the  family [[Biology:Ailuridae|Ailuridae]].
|
|-
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''Canis othmanii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Lamjed Amri |author2=Saverio Bartolini Lucenti |author3=Moncef Saïd Mtimet |author4=Narjess Karoui-Yaakoub |author5=Sergio Ros-Montoya |author6=Maria-Patrocinio Espigares |author7=Mabrouk Boughdiri |author8=Nebiha Bel Haj Ali |author9=Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro |year=2017 |title=''Canis othmanii'' sp. nov. (Carnivora, Canidae) from the early Middle Pleistocene site of Wadi Sarrat (Tunisia) |journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol |volume=16 |issue=7 |pages=774–782 |doi=10.1016/j.crpv.2017.05.004 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
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Amri ''et al.''
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Early Middle [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]]
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{{Flag|Tunisia}}
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A member of the family [[Biology:Canidae|Canidae]].
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''Eotaria citrica''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Jorge Velez-Juarbe |year=2017 |title=''Eotaria citrica'', sp. nov., a new stem otariid from the "Topanga" formation of Southern California |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3022 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3022 |pmid=28243536 |pmc=5326546 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Velez-Juarbe
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Miocene (late [[Earth:Burdigalian|Burdigalian]] to early [[Earth:Langhian|Langhian]])
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|California}})
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A [[Biology:Crown group#Stem groups|stem]]-[[Biology:Eared seal|eared seal]].
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|-
|
''Floridictis''<ref name=Floridictis />
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Baskin
|
Early [[Earth:Hemingfordian North American Stage|Hemingfordian]]
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Florida}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Mustelidae|Mustelidae]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Oligobuninae|Oligobuninae]]. Genus includes new species ''F. kerneri''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Leptofelis|Leptofelis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Manuel J. Salesa |author2=Gema Siliceo |author3=Mauricio Antón |author4=Stéphane Peigné |author5=Jorge Morales |year=2019 |title=Functional and systematic implications of the postcranial anatomy of a late Miocene feline (Carnivora, Felidae) from Batallones-1 (Madrid, Spain) |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages= 101–131|doi=10.1007/s10914-017-9414-9 |s2cid=19719645 |hdl=10261/225344 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Salesa ''et al.''
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Late Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Felidae|Felidae]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Felinae|Felinae]]; a new genus for ''"[[Biology:Styriofelis|Styriofelis]]" vallesiensis'' Salesa ''et al.'' (2012). Announced in 2017; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2019. 
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|-
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''[[Biology:Megantereon|Megantereon microta]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Min Zhu |author2=Yaling Yan |author3=Yihong Liu |author4=Zhilu Tang |author5=Dagong Qin |author6=Changzhu Jin |year=2017 |title=The new Carnivore remains from the Early Pleistocene Yanliang ''Gigantopithecus'' fauna, Guangxi, South China |journal=Quaternary International |volume=434, Part A |pages=17–24 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.009 |bibcode=2017QuInt.434...17Z }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Zhu ''et al.''
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Early Pleistocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Machairodontinae|machairodontine]] [[Biology:Felidae|felid]], a species of ''Megantereon''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Miomaci|Miomaci]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=L. de Bonis |author2=J. Abella |author3=G. Merceron |author4=D.R. Begun |year=2017 |title=A new late Miocene ailuropodine (Giant Panda) from Rudabánya (North-central Hungary) |journal=Geobios |volume=50 |issue=5–6 |pages=413–421 |doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2017.09.003 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
De Bonis ''et al.''
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Miocene (Vallesian)
|
|
{{Flag|Hungary}}
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A relative of the [[Biology:Giant panda|giant panda]]. The type species is ''M. panonnicum''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Nanophoca|Nanophoca]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Leonard Dewaele |author2=Eli Amson |author3=Olivier Lambert |author4=Stephen Louwye |year=2017 |title=Reappraisal of the extinct seal ''"Phoca" vitulinoides'' from the Neogene of the North Sea Basin, with bearing on its geological age, phylogenetic affinities, and locomotion |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3316 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3316 |pmid=28533965 |pmc=5436577 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Dewaele ''et al.''
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Miocene
|
Berchem Formation<br>
Diest Formation<br>
Kattendijk Formation
|
{{Flag|Belgium}}
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An [[Biology:Earless seal|earless seal]]; a new genus for ''"[[Biology:Phoca|Phoca]]" vitulinoides'' Van Beneden (1871).
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Panthera spelaea|Panthera spelaea intermedia]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alain Argant |author2=Jean-Philip Brugal |year=2017 |title=The cave lion ''Panthera (Leo) spelaea'' and its evolution: ''Panthera spelaea intermedia'' nov. subspecies |journal=Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=59–104 |doi=10.3409/azc.60_2.59 |url=http://www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/journals/azc/pdf/azc/60(2)/60(2)_04.pdf }}</ref>
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Subsp. nov
|
Valid
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Argant & Brugal
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Late Middle [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
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A subspecies of the Eurasian cave lion.
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|-
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''Parabrachypsalis''<ref name=Floridictis />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
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Baskin
|
Early [[Earth:Hemingfordian North American Stage|Hemingfordian]]
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Florida}})
|
A member of the  family [[Biology:Mustelidae|Mustelidae]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Oligobuninae|Oligobuninae]]. Genus includes new species ''P. janisae''.
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|-
|
''[[Biology:Paramachaerodus|Paramachaerodus transasiaticus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yu Li |author2=Nikolai Spassov |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Paramachaerodus'' (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) from the late Miocene of China and Bulgaria, and revision of ''Promegantereon'' Kretzoi, 1938 and ''Paramachaerodus'' Pilgrim, 1913 |journal=PalZ |volume=91 |issue=3 |pages=409–426 |doi=10.1007/s12542-017-0371-7 |s2cid=134847521 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li & Spassov
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Late Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Bulgaria}}<br>
{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Machairodontinae|machairodontine]] [[Biology:Felidae|felid]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Siamogale melilutra|Siamogale melilutra]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Xiaoming Wang |author2=Camille Grohé |author3=Denise F. Su |author4=Stuart C. White |author5=Xueping Ji |author6=Jay Kelley |author7=Nina G. Jablonski |author8=Tao Deng |author9=Youshan You |author10=Xin Yang |year=2017 |title=A new otter of giant size, ''Siamogale melilutra'' sp. nov. (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in north-eastern Yunnan, south-western China, and a total-evidence phylogeny of lutrines |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=39–65 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2016.1267666 |s2cid=58892181 |url=http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/11b1d0h9 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wang ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene-Pliocene
|
Yushe Basin<br>
Zhaotong Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An [[Biology:Otter|otter]], a species of ''[[Biology:Siamogale|Siamogale]]''.
|
|-
|
''Terranectes''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=S.J. Rahmat |author2=I.A. Koretsky |author3=J.E. Osborne |author4=A.A. Alford |year=2017 |title=New Miocene Monachinae from the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland, USA) |journal=Vestnik Zoologii |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=221–242 |doi=10.1515/vzoo-2017-0029 |s2cid=90197324 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et 2 sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Rahmat ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
|
Eastover Formation<br>
St. Marys Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Virginia}})
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An [[Biology:Earless seal|earless seal]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Monachinae|Monachinae]]. The type species is ''T. magnus''; genus also includes ''T. parvus''.
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====Lagomorphs====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Alilepus parvus''<ref name=lagomorphs>{{cite book |author1=Wen-Yu Wu |author2=Lawrence J. Flynn |year=2017 |chapter=The Lagomorphs (Ochotonidae, Leporidae) of Yushe Basin |editor1=Lawrence J. Flynn |editor2=Wen-Yu Wu |title=Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals. Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of Yushe Basin |publisher=Springer |pages=31–57 |isbn=978-94-024-1049-5 |doi=10.1007/978-94-024-1050-1_4 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wu & Flynn
|
Late [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
Yushe Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Leporidae|Leporidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Hypolagus|Hypolagus mazegouensis]]''<ref name=lagomorphs />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wu & Flynn
|
Late Pliocene
|
Yushe Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Leporidae|Leporidae]].
|
|-
|
''Ochotonoides teilhardi''<ref name=lagomorphs />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wu & Flynn
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Late Pliocene
|
Yushe Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A pika.
|
|-
|
''Paludotona minor''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Chiara Angelone |author2=Stanislav Čermák |author3=Lorenzo Rook |year=2017 |title=New insights on ''Paludotona'', an insular endemic lagomorph (Mammalia) from the Tusco-Sardinian Palaeobioprovince (Italy, Turolian, late Miocene) |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |volume=123 |issue=3 |pages=455–473 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/9082 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Angelone, Čermák & Rook
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Miocene (Turolian)
|
|
{{Flag|Italy}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Lagomorpha|Lagomorpha]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement.
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|-
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''Sericolagus yushecus''<ref name=lagomorphs />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wu & Flynn
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Late [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
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Yushe Basin
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{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Leporidae|Leporidae]].
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|-
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''Sinolagomys badamae''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Margarita Erbajeva |author2=Bayarmaa Baatarjav |author3=Gudrun Daxner-Höck |author4=Lawrence J. Flynn |year=2017 |title=Occurrences of ''Sinolagomys'' (Lagomorpha) from the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia) |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=97 |issue=1 |pages=11–24 |doi=10.1007/s12549-016-0262-z |pmid=28450962 |pmc=5367695 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Erbajeva ''et al.''
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Late Oligocene
|
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{{Flag|Mongolia}}
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A pika.
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|-
|}

====Rodents====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Acarechimys pascuali''<ref name=HBAbrocomidae>{{Cite journal|author1=Diego H. Verzi |author2=A. Itatí Olivares |author3=Cecilia C. Morgan |year=2017 |title=Systematics and evolutionary significance of the small Abrocomidae from the early Miocene of southern South America |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=411–422 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1168410 |s2cid=87180597 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Verzi, Olivares & Morgan
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[[Earth:Early Miocene|Early Miocene]] ([[Earth:Santacrucian|Santacrucian]])
| Santa Cruz Formation
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A [[Biology:Crown group#Stem groups|stem]]-[[Biology:Chinchilla rat|abrocomid]], a species of ''Acarechimys''.
|
|-
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''Acritoparamys naomugengensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Qian Li |author2=Fang-Yuan Mao |author3=Yuan-Qing Wang |year=2017 |title=First record of Eocene fossil rodent assemblages from the lower part of the Erden Obo Section, Erlian Basin (Nei Mongol, China) and its biochronological implications |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=98 |issue=2 |pages=259–276 |doi=10.1007/s12549-017-0303-2 |s2cid=134310923 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li, Mao & Wang
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Erlian Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family Ischyromyidae.
|
|-
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''Allactaga fru''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Valentin Nesin |author2=Oleksandr Kovalchuk |year=2017 |title=A new species of jerboa (Mammalia, Rodentia, ''Allactaga'') from the late Miocene of Ukraine |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 20.2.25A |doi=10.26879/751 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Nesin & Kovalchuk
|
Miocene (early Turolian)
|
|
{{Flag|Ukraine}}
|
A [[Biology:Jerboa|jerboa]], a species of ''[[Biology:Allactaga|Allactaga]]''.
|
|-
|
''Allocricetus primitivus''<ref name=hamsters>{{cite book |author1=Wen-Yu Wu |author2=Lawrence J. Flynn |year=2017 |chapter=The Hamsters of Yushe Basin |editor1=Lawrence J. Flynn |editor2=Wen-Yu Wu |title=Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals. Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of Yushe Basin |publisher=Springer |pages=123–137 |isbn=978-94-024-1049-5 |doi=10.1007/978-94-024-1050-1_10 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Wu & Flynn
|
Pliocene
|
Yushe Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Hamster|hamster]].
|
|-
|
''Altasciurus''<ref name=Altasciurus>{{Cite journal|author1=William W. Korth |author2=Alan R. Tabrum |year=2017 |title=A unique rodent fauna from the Whitneyan (middle Oligocene) of southwestern Montana |journal=Annals of Carnegie Museum |volume=84 |issue=4 |pages=319–340 |doi=10.2992/007.084.0401 |s2cid=89650435 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Korth & Tabrum
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Biology:Orellan|Orellan]] to [[Biology:Whitneyan|Whitneyan]])
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Colorado}}<br>{{Flag|Montana}}<br>{{Flag|Nebraska}}<br>{{Flag|South Dakota}}<br>{{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of the family Aplodontidae belonging to the subfamily Prosciurinae. The type species is ''"Paramys" relictus'' Cope (1873); genus also includes ''A. albiclivus'' (Korth, 1994) and ''A. clausulus'' (Korth, 2009).
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|-
|
''Ameghinomys''<ref name=HBAbrocomidae />
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Verzi, Olivares & Morgan
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A [[Biology:Crown group#Stem groups|stem]]-[[Biology:Chinchilla rat|abrocomid]]; a new genus for ''"Acarechimys" constans'' (Ameghino, 1887).
|
|-
|
''Apeomys asiaticus''<ref name=Yuneomys>{{cite journal |author=Zhu-Ding Qiu |year=2017 |title=Several rarely recorded rodents from the Neogene of China |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=92–109 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201703/t20170314_4758701.html |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2017.02.002 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu
|
Late Early Miocene
|
Xiacaowan Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Eomyidae|Eomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''Apeomys oldrichi''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Thomas Mörs |author2=Therese Flink |year=2017 |title=Large apeomyine rodents (Mammalia, Eomyidae) from the early Miocene of Echzell, Germany |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=8 |pages=1102–1111 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1338695 |s2cid=90003340 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mörs & Flink
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Eomyidae|Eomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''Apocricetus darderi''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Enric Torres-Roig |author2=Jordi Agustí |author3=Pere Bover |author4=Josep Antoni Alcover |year=2017 |title=A new giant cricetine from the basal Pliocene of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean): biostratigraphic nexus with continental mammal zones |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=31 |issue=5 |pages=559–573 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1377194 |s2cid=135302585 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Torres-Roig ''et al.''
|
Pliocene (Zanclean)
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]].
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|-
|
''Argyromys cicigei''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Paloma López-Guerrero |author2=Olivier Maridet |author3=Zhaoqun Zhang |author4=Gudrun Daxner-Höck |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Argyromys'' (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene of the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia): Its importance for palaeobiogeographical homogeneity across Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=e0172733 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0172733 |pmid=28328975 |pmc=5362143 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1272733L |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
López-Guerrero ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}<br>
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]].
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|-
|
''Cardiomys leufuensis''<ref name=PPcardiomyines>{{Cite journal|author1=María E. Pérez |author2=Cecilia M. Deschamps |author3=María G. Vucetich |year=2018 |title=Diversity, phylogeny and biogeography of the South American 'cardiomyine' rodents (Hystricognathi, Cavioidea) with a description of two new species |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1095 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Pérez, Deschamps & Vucetich
|
Late Miocene ([[Earth:Chasicoan|Chasicoan]])
|
Arroyo Chasicó Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A relative of the [[Biology:Capybara|capybara]].
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|-
|
''Cavia cabrerai''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Adriana M. Candela |author2=Ricardo A. Bonini |year=2017 |title=A new guinea pig (Rodentia, Caviomorpha) from northwestern Argentina: Implications for the origin of the genus ''Cavia'' |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=4 |pages=e1352591 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1352591 |hdl=11336/58708 |s2cid=89872825 |url=http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/107574 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Candela & Bonini
|
Miocene–Pliocene boundary
|
Andalhuala Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Cavia|Cavia]]'' (a relative of the [[Biology:Guinea pig|guinea pig]]).
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Caviodon|Caviodon andalhualensis]]''<ref name=PPcardiomyines />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Pérez, Deschamps & Vucetich
|
Miocene ([[Biology:Messinian|Messinian]])
|
Andalhuala Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A relative of the [[Biology:Capybara|capybara]].
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|-
|
''Collimys caucasicus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Alexey S. Tesakov |author2=Vadim V. Titov |author3=Alexandra N. Simakova |author4=Pavel D. Frolov |author5=Elena V. Syromyatnikova |author6=Sergey V. Kurshakov |author7=Natalia V. Volkova |author8=Yaroslav I. Trikhunkov |author9=Marina V. Sotnikova |author10=Sergey V. Kruskop |author11=Nikita V. Zelenkov |author12=Ekaterina M. Tesakova |author13=Dmitry M. Palatov |year=2017 |title=Late Miocene (Early Turolian) vertebrate faunas and associated biotic record of the Northern Caucasus: Geology, palaeoenvironment, biochronology |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=73 |issue=3–4 |pages=383–444 |doi= 10.2478/if-2017-0021|s2cid=27201013 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Tesakov ''in'' Tesakov ''et al.''
|
Miocene (Turolian)
|
|
{{Flag|Russia}}<br>({{Flag|Adygea}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]].
|
|-
|
''Cricetinus mesolophidos''<ref name=hamsters />
|
Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Wu & Flynn
|
Pliocene
|
Yushe Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Hamster|hamster]].
|
|-
|
''Cricetodon goklerensis''<ref name=Latocricetodon>{{cite journal |author1=Peter Joniak |author2=Pablo Peláez-Campomanes |author3=Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende |author4=Bora Rojay |year=2017 |title=Early Miocene rodents of Gökler (Kazan Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey) |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=31 |issue=8 |pages=982–1007 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1414211 |s2cid=89700699 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Joniak ''et al.''
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
|
|-
|
''Cricetops auster''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Lüzhou Li |author2=Xijun Ni |author3=Xiaoyu Lu |author4=Qiang Li |year=2017 |title=First record of ''Cricetops'' rodent in the Oligocene of southwestern China |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=488–494 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1196686 |s2cid=132774387 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li ''et al.''
|
Early Oligocene
|
Caijiachong Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Muroidea|muroid]] rodent, a species of ''Cricetops''.
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|-
|
''Debruijnia kostakii''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Hans de Bruijn |year=2017 |title=A new stage in the evolution of the mole rats (Rodentia, Spalacinae) from the Early Miocene of northern Greece |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=571–575 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1208193 |hdl=1874/347767 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
De Bruijn
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Greece}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Spalacidae|Spalacinae]].
|
|-
|
''Democricetodon fejfari''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Everett Lindsay |year=2017 |title=''Democricetodon fejfari'' sp. nov. and replacement of Cricetidae by Muridae in Siwalik deposits of Pakistan |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=73 |issue=3–4 |pages=445–453 |doi= 10.2478/if-2017-0022|s2cid=91838328 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Lindsay
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}<ref name=HB2021Kutch />
{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]].
|
|-
|
''Democricetodon haltmari''<ref name=Latocricetodon />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Joniak ''et al.''
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
|
|-
|
''Desmodillus magnus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Christiane Denys |author2=Thalassa Matthews |year=2017 |title=A new ''Desmodillus'' (Gerbillinae, Rodentia) species from the early Pliocene site of Langebaanweg (South-western Cape, South Africa) |journal=Palæovertebrata |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=e1 |doi=10.18563/pv.41.1.e1 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Denys & Matthews
|
Early Pliocene
|
Varswater Formation
|
{{Flag|South Africa}}
|
A relative of the Cape short-eared gerbil.
|
|-
|
''Eobranisamys javierpradoi''<ref name=Pozomys>{{Cite journal|author1=Myriam Boivin |author2=Laurent Marivaux |author3=Maëva J. Orliac |author4=Francois Pujos |author5=Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi |author6=Julia V. Tejada-Lara |author7=Pierre-Olivier Antoine |year=2017 |title=Late middle Eocene caviomorph rodents from Contamana, Peruvian Amazonia |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 20.1.19A |doi=10.26879/742 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boivin ''et al.''
|
Late middle [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Pozo Formation
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Caviomorpha|Caviomorpha]] belonging to the superfamily Cavioidea.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Eomys|Eomys helveticus]]''<ref name=FIEomys>{{Cite journal|author1=Burkart Engesser |author2=Daniel Kälin |year=2017 |title=''Eomys helveticus'' n. sp. and ''Eomys schluneggeri'' n. sp., two new small eomyids of the Chattian (MP 25/MP 26) subalpine Lower Freshwater Molasse of Switzerland |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=73 |issue=1–2 |pages=213–224 |doi=10.1515/if-2017-0012 |s2cid=172101167 |url=http://fi.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/12_Engesser-Kalin_final.pdf }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Engesser & Kälin
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Earth:Chattian|Chattian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Switzerland}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Eomyidae|Eomyidae]].
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|-
|
''[[Biology:Eomys|Eomys schluneggeri]]''<ref name=FIEomys />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Engesser & Kälin
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Earth:Chattian|Chattian]])
|
|
{{Flag|Switzerland}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Eomyidae|Eomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''Eumyarion lukasi''<ref name=Latocricetodon />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Joniak ''et al.''
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
|
|-
|
''Extrarius''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Hüseyin Erten |year=2017 |title=A new genus and species of Muridae (Rodentia) from the Quaternary deposits of the Denizli Basin, South-western Turkey |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 20.1.12A |doi=10.26879/659 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Erten
|
Quaternary
|
Tosunlar Formation
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Muridae|Muridae]]. The type species is ''E. orhuni''.
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|-
|
''Ferigolomys''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Leonardo Kerber |author2=Marcos César Bissaro Júnior |author3=Francisco R. Negri |author4=Jonas Pereira de Souza-Filho |author5=Edson Guilherme |author6=Annie Schmaltz Hsiou |year=2017 |title=A new rodent (Caviomorpha: Dinomyidae) from the upper Miocene of southwestern Brazilian Amazonia |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=7 |pages=985–993 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1327529 |s2cid=90876830 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kerber ''et al.''
|
Late Miocene
| Solimões Formation
|
{{Flag|Brazil}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Dinomyidae|Dinomyidae]]. Genus includes new species ''F. pacarana''.
|
|-
|
''Germanomys progressiva''<ref name=Germanomys>{{cite book |author1=Wen-Yu Wu |author2=Lawrence J. Flynn |year=2017 |chapter=Yushe Basin Prometheomyini (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) |editor1=Lawrence J. Flynn |editor2=Wen-Yu Wu |title=Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals. Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of Yushe Basin |publisher=Springer |pages=139–151 |isbn=978-94-024-1049-5 |doi=10.1007/978-94-024-1050-1_11 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Wu & Flynn
|
Pliocene
|
Mazegou Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Arvicolinae|Arvicolinae]].
|
|-
|
''Germanomys yusheica''<ref name=Germanomys />
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Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Wu & Flynn
|
Pliocene
|
Gaozhuang Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Arvicolinae|Arvicolinae]].
|
|-
|
''Glirudinus matusi''<ref name=Latocricetodon />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Joniak ''et al.''
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
|
|-
|
''Heosminthus nomogenesis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Qian Li |author2=Yan-Xin Gong |author3=Yuan-Qing Wang |year=2017 |title=New dipodid rodents from the Late Eocene of Erden Obo (Nei Mongol, China) |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=692–703 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1232406 |s2cid=132602246 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li, Gong & Wang
|
Late Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Dipodidae|Dipodidae]].
|
|-
|
''Hispanomys romeroi''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Pedro Piñero |author2=Jordi Agustí |year=2017 |title=The rodent succession in the Sifón de Librilla section (Fortuna Basin, SE Spain): implications for the Mio-Pliocene boundary in the Mediterranean terrestrial record |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=Online edition |issue= 3|pages= 279–321|doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1360876 |s2cid=134225343 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Piñero & Agustí
|
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]].
|
|-
|
''Hydrochoeropsis wayuu''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=María E. Pérez |author2=María C. Vallejo-Pareja |author3=Juan D. Carrillo |author4=Carlos Jaramillo |year=2017 |title=A New Pliocene Capybara (Rodentia, Caviidae) from Northern South America (Guajira, Colombia), and its Implications for the Great American Biotic Interchange |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=111–125 |doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9356-7 |s2cid=30855398 |url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/126570/7/2017_Romano_43-1.pdf }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Pérez ''et al.''
|
Late Pliocene
|
[[Earth:Ware Formation|Ware Formation]]<br>Cocinetas Basin
|
{{Flag|Colombia}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Hydrochoerinae|Hydrochoerinae]].
|
|-
|
''Hylopetes yuncuensis''<ref>{{cite book |author=Zhu-Ding Qiu |year=2017 |chapter=Yushe Squirrels (Sciuridae, Rodentia) |editor1=Lawrence J. Flynn |editor2=Wen-Yu Wu |title=Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals. Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of Yushe Basin |publisher=Springer |pages=59–69 |isbn=978-94-024-1049-5 |doi=10.1007/978-94-024-1050-1_5 |series=Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Qiu
|
Late [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
Yushe Basin
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A squirrel, a species of ''[[Biology:Hylopetes|Hylopetes]]''.
|
|-
|
''Inopinatia''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Zoran Marković |author2=Wilma Wessels |author3=Andrew A. van de Weerd |author4=Hans de Bruijn |year=2017 |title=On a new diatomyid (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Paleogene of south-east Serbia, the first record of the family in Europe |journal=Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments |volume=98 |issue=3 |pages=459–469 |doi=10.1007/s12549-017-0301-4 |pmid=30956714 |pmc=6417379 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Marković ''et al.''
|
Early [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Serbia}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Diatomyidae|Diatomyidae]]. The type species is ''I. balkanica''.
|
|-
|
''Karnimata fejfari''<ref name=FIApodemurini>{{Cite journal|author1=Yuri Kimura |author2=Lawrence J. Flynn |author3=Louis L. Jacobs |year=2017 |title=Early late Miocene murine rodents from the upper part of the Nagri Formation, Siwalik Group, Pakistan, with a new fossil calibration point for the tribe Apodemurini (''Apodemus''/''Tokudaia'') |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=73 |issue=1–2 |pages=197–212 |url=http://fi.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/11_Kimura_final.pdf |doi=10.1515/if-2017-0011 |s2cid=171644924 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kimura, Flynn & Jacobs
|
Late Miocene
|
Nagri Formation
|
{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Muridae|Muridae]].
|
|-
|
''Latocricetodon''<ref name=Latocricetodon />
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Joniak ''et al.''
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A new genus for ''"Spanocricetodon" sinuosus'' Theocharopoulos (2000).
|
|-
|
''Lophicylindrodon''<ref name=Altasciurus />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Korth & Tabrum
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Biology:Whitneyan|Whitneyan]])
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Montana}})
|
A member of the family Cylindrodontidae. The type species is ''L. expiratus''.
|
|-
|
''Metanoiamys norejkoi''<ref name=DiamondORanchLocalFauna>{{Cite journal|author1=William W. Korth |author2=Alan R. Tabrum |year=2017 |title=Rodents (Mammalia) from Diamond O Ranch local fauna, southwestern Montana |journal=Annals of Carnegie Museum |volume=84 |issue=4 |pages=301–318 |doi=10.2992/007.084.0404 |s2cid=90065244 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Korth & Tabrum
|
Possibly [[Earth:Chadronian|Chadronian]]
|
Beaverhead Basin
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Montana}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Eomyidae|Eomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''Milimonggamys''<ref name=Milimonggamys>{{Cite journal|author1=Samuel T. Turvey |author2=Jennifer J. Crees |author3=James Hansford |author4=Timothy E. Jeffree |author5=Nick Crumpton |author6=Iwan Kurniawan |author7=Erick Setiyabudi |author8=Thomas Guillerme |author9=Umbu Paranggarimu |author10=Anthony Dosseto |author11=Gerrit D. van den Bergh |year=2017 |title=Quaternary vertebrate faunas from Sumba, Indonesia: implications for Wallacean biogeography and evolution |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=284 |issue=1861 |pages=20171278 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2017.1278 |pmid=28855367 |pmc=5577490 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
|
Turvey ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Holocene|Holocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Indonesia}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Muridae|Muridae]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Murinae|Murinae]] and the tribe [[Biology:Rattini|Rattini]]. The type species is ''M. juliae''.
|
|-
|
''Montanacastor''<ref name=Altasciurus />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Korth & Tabrum
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Biology:Whitneyan|Whitneyan]])
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Montana}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Castoridae|Castoridae]]. The type species is ''M. simplicidens''.
|
|-
|
''Mubhammys atlanticus''<ref name=Phenacophiomys>{{Cite journal|author1=Laurent Marivaux |author2=Sylvain Adnet |author3=Mohamed Benammi |author4=Rodolphe Tabuce |author5=Johan Yans |author6=Mouloud Benammi |year=2017 |title=Earliest Oligocene hystricognathous rodents from the Atlantic margin of northwestern Saharan Africa (Dakhla, Morocco): systematic, paleobiogeographical, and paleoenvironmental implications |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=e1357567 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1357567 |s2cid=133921627 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Marivaux ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] (earliest [[Earth:Rupelian|Rupelian]])
|
Upper Samlat Formation
|
Western Sahara
|
A member of [[Biology:Phiomorpha|Phiomorpha]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement.
|
|-
|
''Neocometes magna''<ref name=VPANeocometes>{{cite journal |author1=Zhu-Ding Qiu |author2=Chang-Zhu Jin |year=2017 |title=Platacanthomyid remains from the late Cenozoic deposits of East China |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=315–330 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201707/t20170721_4835264.html |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.170721 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Jin
|
Probably Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Platacanthomyidae|Platacanthomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''Neocometes sinensis''<ref name=VPANeocometes />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu & Jin
|
Probably Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Platacanthomyidae|Platacanthomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''Neophiomys minutus''<ref name=Phenacophiomys />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Marivaux ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] (earliest [[Earth:Rupelian|Rupelian]])
|
Upper Samlat Formation
|
Western Sahara
|
A member of [[Biology:Phiomorpha|Phiomorpha]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement.
|
|-
|
''Orelladjidaumo exiguus''<ref name=Altasciurus />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Korth & Tabrum
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Biology:Whitneyan|Whitneyan]])
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Montana}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Eomyidae|Eomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''Palaeocavia? mawka''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=María Carolina Madozzo-Jaén |author2=María Encarnación Pérez |year=2017 |title=The most ancient caviine rodent (Hystricognathi, Cavioidea) comes from the late Miocene of Northwest Argentina (South America) |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=376–383 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1166360 |s2cid=87935789 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Madozzo-Jaén & Pérez
|
Late Miocene
|
Chiquimil Formation
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Caviinae|Caviinae]], possibly a species of ''Palaeocavia''.
|
|-
|
''Parapodemus badgleyae''<ref name=FIApodemurini />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kimura, Flynn & Jacobs
|
Late Miocene
|
Nagri Formation
|
{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Muridae|Muridae]].
|
|-
|
''Phenacophiomys''<ref name=Phenacophiomys />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Marivaux ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] (earliest [[Earth:Rupelian|Rupelian]])
|
Upper Samlat Formation
|
Western Sahara
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Phiomyidae|Phiomyidae]]. The type species is ''P. occidentalis''.
|
|-
|
''Plesiosminthus margaritae''<ref name=PEPlesiosminthus>{{Cite journal|author1=Matthijs Freudenthal |author2=Elvira Martín-Suárez |year=2017 |title=A revision of European ''Plesiosminthus'' (Rodentia, Dipodidae), and new material from the upper Oligocene of Teruel (Spain) |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 20.2.41A |doi=10.26879/678 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Freudenthal & Martín-Suárez
|
Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Dipodidae|Dipodidae]].
|
|-
|
''Plesiosminthus moniqueae''<ref name=PEPlesiosminthus />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Freudenthal & Martín-Suárez
|
Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Dipodidae|Dipodidae]].
|
|-
|
''Pliosiphneus antiquus''<ref>{{cite book |author=Shao-Hua Zheng |year=2017 |chapter=The Zokors of Yushe Basin |editor1=Lawrence J. Flynn |editor2=Wen-Yu Wu |title=Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals. Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of Yushe Basin |publisher=Springer |pages=89–121 |isbn=978-94-024-1049-5 |doi=10.1007/978-94-024-1050-1_9 |series=Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Zheng
|
Late [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
|
Gaozhuang Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[Biology:Zokor|zokor]].
|
|-
|
''Pozomys''<ref name=Pozomys />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Boivin ''et al.''
|
Late middle [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Pozo Formation
|
{{Flag|Peru}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Caviomorpha|Caviomorpha]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''P. ucayaliensis''.
|
|-
|
''Priusaulax wilsoni''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=William W. Korth |year=2017 |title=A new tribe of castoroidine beavers from the late Arikareean to Hemphillian (Oligocene–Miocene) of western North America |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=249–258 |doi=10.4202/app.00339.2017 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Korth
|
Miocene ([[Earth:Hemingfordian|Hemingfordian]])
|
Pawnee Creek Formation<br>
[[Earth:Runningwater Formation|Runningwater Formation]]
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Colorado}}<br>{{Flag|Nebraska}}<br>{{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Castoridae|Castoridae]].
|
|-
|
''Progonomys morganae''<ref name=FIApodemurini />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kimura, Flynn & Jacobs
|
Late Miocene
|
Nagri Formation
|
{{Flag|India}}<ref name=HB2021Kutch>{{cite journal |author1=Ansuya Bhandari |author2=Sunil Bajpai |author3=Lawrence J. Flynn |author4=B N Tiwari |author5=Nivedita Mandal |year=2021 |title=First Miocene rodents from Kutch, western India |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=in press |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2020.1870970 |s2cid=234253921 }}</ref><br>
{{Flag|Pakistan}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Muridae|Muridae]].
|
|-
|
''Proischyromys''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Joshua X. Samuels |author2=William W. Korth |year=2017 |title=The first Eocene rodents from the Pacific Northwest, USA |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=Article number 20.2.24A |doi=10.26879/717 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Samuels & Korth
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] ([[Earth:Chadronian|Chadronian]])
|
John Day Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Oregon}})
|
A member of the family Ischyromyidae. The type species is ''P. perditus''.
|
|-
|
''Raksasamys''<ref name=Milimonggamys />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
|
Turvey ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Holocene|Holocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|Indonesia}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Muridae|Muridae]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Murinae|Murinae]] and the tribe [[Biology:Rattini|Rattini]]. The type species is ''R. tikusbesar''.
|
|-
|
''Sayimys sihongensis''<ref name=Yuneomys />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu
|
Late Early Miocene
|
Xiacaowan Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A gundi.
|
|-
|
''Sciuravus inclinatus''<ref name=Sciuravus>{{Cite journal|author=Deborah K. Anderson |year=2017 |title=Three New Sciuravids (Rodentia) From the Latest-Early to Middle Eocene of Wyoming: Mosaic Evolution and the Alpha Taxonomy of ''Sciuravus nitidus'' |journal=Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan |volume=32 |issue=12 |pages=245–258 |hdl=2027.42/136782 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Anderson
|
[[Earth:Bridgerian North American Stage|Bridgerian]]
|
Bridger Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of the family Sciuravidae.
|
|-
|
''Sciuravus metalinguas''<ref name=Sciuravus />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Anderson
|
[[Earth:Bridgerian North American Stage|Bridgerian]]
|
Bridger Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of the family Sciuravidae.
|
|-
|
''Sciuravus nexus''<ref name=Sciuravus />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Anderson
|
[[Earth:Bridgerian North American Stage|Bridgerian]]
|
Bridger Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of the family Sciuravidae.
|
|-
|
''Spalax denizliensis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Hüseyin Erten |year=2018 |title=''Spalax denizliensis'' sp. nov. (Spalacidae, Rodentia) from an Early Pleistocene-aged locality in the Denizli Basin (southwestern Turkey) |journal=Turkish Journal of Zoology |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=62–67 |doi=10.3906/zoo-1707-35 |url=http://dergipark.org.tr/download/article-file/436652 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Erten
|
Early [[Earth:Pleistocene|Pleistocene]]
|
Tosunlar Formation
|
{{Flag|Turkey}}
|
A species of ''[[Biology:Spalax|Spalax]]''.
|
|-
|
''Spurimus hoffmani''<ref name=DiamondORanchLocalFauna />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Korth & Tabrum
|
Possibly [[Earth:Chadronian|Chadronian]]
|
Beaverhead Basin
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Montana}})
|
A member of the family Ischyromyidae.
|
|-
|
''Tedfordomys''<ref>{{cite book |author1=Wen-Yu Wu |author2=Lawrence J. Flynn |author3=Zhu-Ding Qiu |year=2017 |chapter=The Murine Rodents of Yushe Basin |editor1=Lawrence J. Flynn |editor2=Wen-Yu Wu |title=Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals. Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of Yushe Basin |publisher=Springer |pages=179–198 |isbn=978-94-024-1049-5 |doi=10.1007/978-94-024-1050-1_14 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
| 
Valid
|
Wu, Flynn & Qiu
|
Late Miocene
|
Gaozhuang Formation<br>
Mahui Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Murinae|Murinae]]. The type species is ''T. jinensis''.
|
|-
|
''Willeumys argosorus''<ref name=Altasciurus />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Korth & Tabrum
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Biology:Whitneyan|Whitneyan]])
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Montana}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Cricetidae|Cricetidae]] belonging to the subfamily Eumyinae.
|
|-
|
''Yuneomys''<ref name=Yuneomys />
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Qiu
|
Late Miocene
|
Shihuiba Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Eomyidae|Eomyidae]]; a new genus for ''"Leptodontomys" pusillus'' Qiu (2006).
|
|-
|
''Yuomys altunensis''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Ban-Yue Wang |year=2017 |title=Discovery of ''Yuomys'' from Altun Shan, Xinjiang, China |journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=227–232 |url=http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201703/t20170307_4755947.html |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2017.03.005 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wang
|
Middle Eocene
|
Xishuigou Formation
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A relative of the gundis.
|
|-
|
''Yuomys magnus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Qian Li |year=2019 |title=Eocene ctenodactyloid rodent assemblages and diversification from Erden Obo, Nei Mongol, China |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=31 |issue=7 |pages=813–823 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1395422 |s2cid=91103157 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Li
|
[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A relative of the gundis.
|
|-
|}

====Primates====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''[[Biology:Agerinia|Agerinia marandati]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Joan Femenias-Gual |author2=Raef Minwer-Barakat |author3=Judit Marigó |author4=Miquel Poyatos-Moré |author5=Salvador Moyà-Solà |year=2017 |title=''Agerinia marandati'' sp. nov., a new early Eocene primate from the Iberian Peninsula, sheds new light on the evolution of the genus ''Agerinia'' |journal=PeerJ |volume=5 |pages=e3239 |doi=10.7717/peerj.3239 |pmid=28462042 |pmc=5410143 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Femenias-Gual ''et al.''
|
Early [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
| Corçà Formation
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Masradapis|Masradapis]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Erik R. Seiffert |author2=Doug M. Boyer |author3=John G. Fleagle |author4=Gregg F. Gunnell |author5=Christopher P. Heesy |author6=Jonathan M. G. Perry |author7=Hesham M. Sallam |year=2017 |title=New adapiform primate fossils from the late Eocene of Egypt |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=1–2 |pages=204–226 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1306522 |s2cid=89631627 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Seiffert ''et al.''
|
Late [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
| Birket Qarun Formation
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Adapiformes|Adapiformes]] belonging to the subfamily [[Biology:Caenopithecinae|Caenopithecinae]]. The type species is ''M. tahai''.
|
|-
|
''Microchoerus hookeri''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Raef Minwer-Barakat |author2=Judit Marigó |author3=Joan Femenias-Gual |author4=Loïc Costeur |author5=Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno |author6=Salvador Moyà-Solà |year=2017 |title=''Microchoerus hookeri'' nov. sp., a new late Eocene European microchoerine (Omomyidae, Primates): New insights on the evolution of the genus ''Microchoerus'' |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=102 |pages=42–66 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.10.004 |pmid=28012463 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Minwer-Barakat ''et al.''
|
Late Eocene
|
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Omomyidae|Omomyidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Mioeuoticus|Mioeuoticus kichotoi]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Yutaka Kunimatsu |author2=Hiroshi Tsujikawa |author3=Masato Nakatsukasa |author4=Daisuke Shimizu |author5=Naomichi Ogihara |author6=Yasuhiro Kikuchi |author7=Yoshihiko Nakano |author8=Tomo Takano |author9=Naoki Morimoto |author10=Hidemi Ishida |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Mioeuoticus'' (Lorisiformes, Primates) from the early Middle Miocene of Kenya |journal=Anthropological Science |volume=125 |issue=2 |pages=59–65 |doi=10.1537/ase.170322 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kunimatsu ''et al.''
|
Early Middle Miocene
|
Aka Aiteputh Formation
|
{{Flag|Kenya}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Lorisidae|Lorisidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Nyanzapithecus|Nyanzapithecus alesi]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Isaiah Nengo |author2=Paul Tafforeau |author3=Christopher C. Gilbert |author4=John G. Fleagle |author5=Ellen R. Miller |author6=Craig Feibel |author7=David L. Fox |author8=Josh Feinberg |author9=Kelsey D. Pugh |author10=Camille Berruyer |author11=Sara Mana |author12=Zachary Engle |author13=Fred Spoor |year=2017 |title=New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution |journal=Nature |volume=548 |issue=7666 |pages=169–174 |doi=10.1038/nature23456 |pmid=28796200 |bibcode=2017Natur.548..169N |s2cid=4397839 |url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1570349/ }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Nengo ''et al.''
|
Middle Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Kenya}}
|
An [[Biology:Ape|ape]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Ramadapis|Ramadapis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Christopher C. Gilbert |author2=Biren A. Patel |author3=N. Premjit Singh |author4=Christopher J. Campisano |author5=John G. Fleagle |author6=Kathleen L. Rust |author7=Rajeev Patnaik |year=2017 |title=New sivaladapid primate from Lower Siwalik deposits surrounding Ramnagar (Jammu and Kashmir State), India |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=102 |pages=21–41 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.10.001 |pmid=28012462 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Gilbert ''et al.''
|
Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Sivaladapidae|Sivaladapidae]]. The type species is ''R. sahnii''.
|
|-
|}

====Other eutherians====
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''Bharatlestes''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Vivesh V. Kapur |author2=Debasis P. Das |author3=Sunil Bajpai |author4=Guntupalli V.R. Prasad |year=2017 |title=First mammal of Gondwanan lineage in the early Eocene of India |journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol |volume=16 |issue=7 |pages=721–737 |doi=10.1016/j.crpv.2017.01.002 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Vivesh V. Kapur |author2=Debasis P. Das |author3=Sunil Bajpai |author4=Guntupalli V.R. Prasad |year=2017 |title=Corrigendum to "First Mammal of Gondwanan lineage in the early Eocene of India" [C. R. Palevol, Kapur et al. 16 (2017)] |journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol |volume=16 |issue=7 |pages=820 |doi=10.1016/j.crpv.2017.07.001 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Kapur ''et al.''
|
Early [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
|
Cambay Shale Formation
|
{{Flag|India}}
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Adapisoriculidae|Adapisoriculidae]]. Genus includes new species ''B. kalamensis''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Carpolestes|Carpolestes twelvemilensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Spencer G. Mattingly |author2=Oscar Sanisidro |author3=K. Christopher Beard |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Carpolestes'' (Mammalia, Plesiadapoidea) from the late Paleocene of southern Wyoming: assessing changes in size and shape during the evolution of a key anatomical feature |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=8 |pages=1031–1042 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1328509 |s2cid=90479229 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Mattingly, Sanisidro & Beard
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] (late [[Biology:Tiffanian|Tiffanian]])
|
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of [[Biology:Plesiadapiformes|Plesiadapiformes]].
|
|-
|
''Crustulus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=William A. Clemens |year=2018 |title=A pantodont (Mammalia) from the latest Puercan North American Land Mammal Age (earliest Paleocene) of the Western Interior, USA |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=1–2 |pages=183–188 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2016.1276178 |s2cid=132830375 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Clemens
|
[[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]] (latest [[Biology:Puercan|Puercan]])
|
Tullock Member of the [[Earth:Fort Union Formation|Fort Union Formation]]
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Montana}})
|
Probably a member of [[Biology:Pantodonta|Pantodonta]]. The type species is ''C. fontanus''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Deinogalerix|Deinogalerix samniticus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Andrea Savorelli |author2=Federico Masini |author3=Paul P. A. Mazza |author4=Maria Adelaide Rossi |author5=Silvano Agostini |year=2017 |title=New species of ''Deinogalerix'' (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) from the late Miocene of Scontrone (Abruzzo, central Italy) |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=Article number 20.1.16A |doi=10.26879/672 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Savorelli ''et al.''
|
Miocene ([[Biology:Tortonian|Tortonian]])
| Lithothamnion Limestone
|
{{Flag|Italy}}
|
A gymnure.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Durlstodon|Durlstodon]]''<ref name=APPeutherians>{{Cite journal|author1=Steven C. Sweetman |author2=Grant Smith |author3=David M. Martill |year=2017 |title=Highly derived eutherian mammals from the earliest Cretaceous of southern Britain |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=657–665 |doi=10.4202/app.00408.2017 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sweetman, Smith & Martill
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Berriasian|Berriasian]])
|
[[Earth:Purbeck Group|Purbeck Group]]
|
{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
|
An early eutherian of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''D. ensomi''.
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Durlstotherium|Durlstotherium]]''<ref name=APPeutherians />
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Sweetman, Smith & Martill
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Berriasian|Berriasian]])
|
[[Earth:Purbeck Group|Purbeck Group]]
|
{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
|
An early eutherian of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''D. newmani''.
|
|-
|
''Entomolestes westgatei''<ref name=PE202BridgerFm />
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Murphey & Kelly
|
[[Earth:Uintan|Uintan]]
|
Bridger Formation
|
{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
|
A member of the family [[Biology:Erinaceidae|Erinaceidae]].
|
|-
|
''Exiguodon''<ref name=Exiguodon>{{Cite journal|author1=Jorge Morales |author2=Martin Pickford |year=2017 |title=New hyaenodonts (Ferae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Napak (Uganda), Koru (Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia) |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=73 |issue=3–4 |pages=332–359 |doi= 10.2478/if-2017-0019|s2cid=197550278 |url=http://fi.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/07_Morales_Pickford_2017.pdf }}</ref>
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Morales & Pickford
|
Early Miocene
|
|
{{Flag|Kenya}}<br>
{{Flag|Uganda}}
|
A member of Hyaenodonta belonging to the group [[Biology:Hyainailouridae|Hyainailourinae]]. The type species is ''"[[Biology:Hyaenodon|Hyaenodon]]" pilgrimi'' Savage (1965).
|
|-
|
''Falcatodon''<ref name=Exiguodon />
|
Gen. et comb. nov
|
Valid
|
Morales & Pickford
|
[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] ([[Earth:Rupelian|Rupelian]])
|
Jebel Qatrani Formation
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
A member of Hyaenodonta belonging to the group [[Biology:Hyainailouridae|Hyainailourinae]]. The type species is ''"Metapterodon" schlosseri'' Holroyd (1999).
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Hapalodectes|Hapalodectes lopatini]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Floréal Solé |author2=Eric De Bast |author3=Jian Yang |author4=Cheng-Sen Li |author5=Thierry Smith |year=2017 |title=The first species of ''Hapalodectes'' (Mesonychia, Mammalia) from the middle Paleocene of China (Qianshan Basin, Anhui Province) sheds light on the initial radiation of hapalodectids |journal=Palaeontology |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=433–449 |doi=10.1111/pala.12293 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Solé ''et al.''
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Middle [[Earth:Paleocene|Paleocene]]
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Upper Doumu Formation
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Hapalodectidae|hapalodectid]] [[Biology:Mesonychia|mesonychia]]n.
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|-
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''Masrasector nananubis''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Matthew R. Borths |author2=Erik R. Seiffert |year=2017 |title=Craniodental and humeral morphology of a new species of ''Masrasector'' (Teratodontinae, Hyaenodonta, Placentalia) from the late Eocene of Egypt and locomotor diversity in hyaenodonts |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=e0173527 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0173527 |pmid=28422967 |pmc=5396875 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1273527B |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Borths & Seiffert
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] (latest [[Earth:Priabonian|Priabonian]])
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Jebel Qatrani Formation
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{{Flag|Egypt}}
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A member of Hyaenodonta belonging to the group Hyainailouroidea and the subfamily Teratodontinae.
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''[[Biology:Notiolofos|Notiolofos regueroi]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Javier N. Gelfo |author2=Guillermo M. López |author3=Sergio N. Santillana |year=2017 |title=Eocene ungulate mammals from West Antarctica: implications from their fossil record and a new species |journal=Antarctic Science |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=445–455 |doi=10.1017/S0954102017000244 |bibcode=2017AntSc..29..445G |s2cid=86868504 |url=http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/87321 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Gelfo, López & Santillana
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] ([[Earth:Ypresian|Ypresian]])
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[[Earth:La Meseta Formation|La Meseta Formation]]
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{{Flag|Antarctica}}
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A member of [[Biology:Litopterna|Litopterna]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Sparnotheriodontidae|Sparnotheriodontidae]].
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|-
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''Nyctitherium gunnelli''<ref name=PE202BridgerFm />
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Murphey & Kelly
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[[Earth:Uintan|Uintan]]
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Bridger Formation
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{{Flag|United States}}<br>({{Flag|Wyoming}})
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A member of [[Biology:Soricomorpha|Soricomorpha]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Nyctitheriidae|Nyctitheriidae]].
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|-
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''Pakakali''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Matthew R. Borths |author2=Nancy J. Stevens |year=2017 |title=The first hyaenodont from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania: Paleoecological insights into the Paleogene-Neogene carnivore transition |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=10 |pages=e0185301 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0185301 |pmid=29020030 |pmc=5636082 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1285301B |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Borths & Stevens
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Late [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
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[[Earth:Nsungwe Formation|Nsungwe Formation]]
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{{Flag|Tanzania}}
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A member of Hyaenodonta belonging to the group Hyainailouroidea. The type species is ''P. rukwaensis''.
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|-
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''Pampahippus powelli''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Daniel A. García-López |author2=Virginia Deraco |author3=Cecilia del Papa |year=2017 |title=Fossil mammals of the Quebrada de los Colorados Formation (late middle Eocene) at the locality of La Poma, Salta Province, Argentina |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=507–517 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1299150 |s2cid=89628887 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
|
García-López, Deraco & del Papa
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[[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]]
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Quebrada de los Colorados Formation
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A [[Biology:Notoungulata|notoungulate]].
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|-
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''Percymygale''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Marguerite Hugueney |author2=Olivier Maridet |year=2017 |title=Evolution of Oligo-Miocene talpids (Mammalia, Talpidae) in Europe: focus on the genera Myxomygale and ''Percymygale'' n. gen. |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=1–2 |pages=267–275 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1282477 |s2cid=56440927 |url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/279099/files/mar_eom.pdf }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Hugueney & Maridet
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Late [[Earth:Eocene|Eocene]] to early Miocene
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{{Flag|Czech Republic}}<br>
{{Flag|France}}<br>
{{Flag|Germany}}<br>
{{Flag|United Kingdom}}
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A member of [[Biology:Talpidae|Talpidae]] belonging to the tribe [[Biology:Urotrichini|Urotrichini]]. The type species is ''"Myxomygale" minor'' Ziegler (1990); genus also includes ''"Myxomygale" vauclusensis'' Crochet (1995).
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|-
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''Plesiodimylus ilercavonicus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Vicente D. Crespo |author2=Marc Furió |author3=Francisco Javier Ruiz-Sánchez |author4=Plini Montoya |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Plesiodimylus'' (Dimylidae, Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Spain |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=360–371 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1289519 |s2cid=89721449 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Crespo ''et al.''
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Early Miocene
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{{Flag|Spain}}
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A member of Dimylidae.
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|-
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''Plesiosorex fejfari''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Mitsuharu Oshima |author2=Yukimitsu Tomida |author3=Takamichi Orihara |year=2017 |title=A new species of ''Plesiosorex'' (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) from the Early Miocene of Japan: first record of the genus from East Asia |journal=Fossil Imprint |volume=73 |issue=3–4 |pages=292–299 |doi=10.1515/if-2017-0016 |s2cid=171784271 |url=http://fi.nm.cz/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/04_Oshima_et-al_2017.pdf }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Oshima, Tomida & Orihara
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Early Miocene
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Nakamura Formation
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{{Flag|Japan}}
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A member of [[Biology:Eulipotyphla|Eulipotyphla]] belonging to the family Plesiosoricidae.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Protypotherium|Protypotherium colloncurensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Bárbara Vera Nardoni |author2=Marcelo Reguero |author3=Laureano González-Ruiz |year=2017 |title=The Interatheriinae notoungulates from the middle Miocene Collón Curá Formation in Argentina |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=845–863 |doi=10.4202/app.00373.2017 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Nardoni, Reguero & González Ruiz
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Miocene ([[Earth:Colloncuran|Colloncuran]])
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Collón Cura Formation
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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An [[Biology:Interatheriidae|interatheriid]] [[Biology:Notoungulata|notoungulate]].
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|-
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''Sectisodon''<ref name=Exiguodon />
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Gen. et sp. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Morales & Pickford
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[[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]] and Early Miocene
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{{Flag|Egypt}}<br>
{{Flag|Uganda}}
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A member of Hyaenodonta belonging to the group [[Biology:Hyainailouridae|Hyainailourinae]]. The type species is ''S. occultus''; genus also includes ''"Metapterodon" markgrafi'' Holroyd (1999).
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|-
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''Taizimylus''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Fang-Yuan Mao |author2=Qian Li |author3=Yuan-Qing Wang |author4=Chuan-Kui Li |year=2017 |title=''Taizimylus tongi'', a new eurymylid (Mammalia, Glires) from the upper Paleocene of Xinjiang, China |journal=Palaeoworld |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=519–530 |doi=10.1016/j.palwor.2016.12.002 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
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Valid
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Mao ''et al.''
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Late Paleocene
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Crown group#Stem groups|stem]]-[[Biology:Rodent|rodent]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Eurymylidae|Eurymylidae]]. The type species is ''T. tongi''.
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|-
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''Tegulariscaptor''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=G. Sansalone |author2=T. Kotsakis |author3=A. H. Schwermann |author4=L. W. Van den Hoek Ostende |author5=P. Piras |year=2017 |title=When moles became diggers: ''Tegulariscaptor'' gen. nov., from the early Oligocene of south Germany, and the evolution of talpid fossoriality |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=16 |issue=8 |pages=645–657 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2017.1329235 |s2cid=90554706 }}</ref>
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Gen. et comb. nov
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Valid
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Sansalone ''et al.''
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Early [[Earth:Oligocene|Oligocene]]
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{{Flag|Germany}}
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A member of [[Biology:Talpidae|Talpidae]]; a new genus for ''"Geotrypus" minor'' Ziegler (2012).
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''[[Biology:Xotodon|Xotodon maimarensis]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ricardo A. Bonini |author2=Gabriela I. Schmidt |author3=Marcelo A. Reguero |author4=Esperanza Cerdeño |author5=Adriana M. Candela |author6=Natalia Solís |year=2017 |title=First record of Toxodontidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from the late Miocene–early Pliocene of the southern central Andes, NW Argentina |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=91 |issue=3 |pages=566–576 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2016.160 |s2cid=132542112 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Bonini ''et al.''
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Late Miocene–early Pliocene
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Maimará Formation
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{{Flag|Argentina}}
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A [[Biology:Toxodontidae|toxodontid]] [[Biology:Notoungulata|notoungulate]].
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|-
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''Yanshuella yushensis''<ref>{{cite book |author1=Lawrence J. Flynn |author2=Wen-Yu Wu |year=2017 |chapter=The Lipotyphla of Yushe Basin |editor1=Lawrence J. Flynn |editor2=Wen-Yu Wu |title=Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals. Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of Yushe Basin |publisher=Springer |pages=11–26 |isbn=978-94-024-1049-5 |doi=10.1007/978-94-024-1050-1_2 }}</ref>
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Sp. nov
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Valid
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Flynn & Wu
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Late [[Earth:Neogene|Neogene]]
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Yushe Basin
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{{Flag|China}}
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A [[Biology:Mole (animal)|mole]] belonging to the tribe [[Biology:Scalopini|Scalopini]].
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|-
|}

==Other mammals==

===Research===
* A study on the ancestral activity patterns of mammals inferred from the activity patterns of extant mammals is published by Maor ''et al.'' (2017), who argue that mammals most likely originated from ancestors which remained nocturnal throughout the [[Earth:Mesozoic|Mesozoic]] until either shortly before the [[Earth:Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event|Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event]] or just after it (considered more likely by the authors).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Roi Maor |author2=Tamar Dayan |author3=Henry Ferguson-Gow |author4=Kate E. Jones |year=2017 |title=Temporal niche expansion in mammals from a nocturnal ancestor after dinosaur extinction |journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution |volume=1 |issue=12 |pages=1889–1895 |doi=10.1038/s41559-017-0366-5 |pmid=29109469 |s2cid=20732677 |url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10022803/1/Jones_1725_2_merged_1506190101.pdf }}</ref>
* A study on the evolution of jaw muscles across the [[Biology:Cynodont|cynodont]]–[[Biology:Mammaliaformes|mammaliaform]] transition is published by Lautenschlager ''et al.'' (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Stephan Lautenschlager |author2=Pamela Gill |author3=Zhe-Xi Luo |author4=Michael J. Fagan |author5=Emily J. Rayfield |year=2017 |title=Morphological evolution of the mammalian jaw adductor complex |journal=Biological Reviews |volume=92 |issue=4 |pages=1910–1940 |doi=10.1111/brv.12314 |pmid=27878942 |pmc=6849872 |url=https://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/ws/files/93471435/Lautenschlager_et_al_2016_Biological_Reviews.pdf }}</ref>
* A study on the [[Biology:Morphology|morphological]] changes to the jaw [[Biology:Process (anatomy)|processes]] in the evolution of Mesozoic mammals (especially early [[Biology:Cladotheria|cladotheria]]ns) and their implications for changes to the jaw muscle vectors and jaw rotation is published by Grossnickle (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author=David M. Grossnickle |year=2017 |title=The evolutionary origin of jaw yaw in mammals |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=7 |pages=Article number 45094 |doi=10.1038/srep45094 |pmid=28322334 |pmc=5359619 |bibcode=2017NatSR...745094G }}</ref>
* Tracks of a small hopping mammal trackmaker are described from the [[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] [[Earth:Jinju Formation|Jinju Formation]] ({{wipe|South Korea}}) by Kim ''et al.'' (2017), who name a new [[Biology:Ichnotaxon|ichnotaxon]] ''Koreasaltipes jinjuensis'' belonging to the morphofamily Ameghinichnidae.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Kyung Soo Kim |author2=Jong Deock Lim |author3=Martin G. Lockley |author4=Lida Xing |author5=Yeongi Choi |year=2017 |title=Korean trackway of a hopping, mammaliform trackmaker is global first from the Cretaceous |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=74 |pages=188–191 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.02.005 }}</ref>
* Tracks of a raccoon-sized [[Biology:Mammaliaformes|mammaliaform]] representing the morphofamily Ameghinichnidae are described from the [[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] (late [[Earth:Aptian|Aptian]]) Calonda Formation (Angola) by Mateus ''et al.'' (2017), who name a new ichnotaxon ''Catocapes angolanus''.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Octávio Mateus |author2=Marco Marzola |author3=Anne S. Schulp |author4=Louis L. Jacobs |author5=Michael J. Polcyn |author6=Vladimir Pervov |author7=António Olímpio Gonçalves |author8=Maria Luisa Morais |year=2017 |title=Angolan ichnosite in a diamond mine shows the presence of a large terrestrial mammaliamorph, a crocodylomorph, and sauropod dinosaurs in the Early Cretaceous of Africa |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=471 |pages=220–232 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.049 |bibcode=2017PPP...471..220M }}</ref>
* New specimen of the [[Biology:Morganucodonta|morganucodonta]]n species ''[[Biology:Wareolestes|Wareolestes]] rex'' (partial dentary) is described from the Middle Jurassic [[Earth:Kilmaluag Formation|Kilmaluag Formation]] (Scotland) by Panciroli, Benson & Walsh (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Elsa Panciroli |author2=Roger B. J. Benson |author3=Stig Walsh |year=2017 |title=The dentary of ''Wareolestes rex'' (Megazostrodontidae): a new specimen from Scotland and implications for morganucodontan tooth replacement |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=373–386 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1079 |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6a862377-ad73-4435-9bc7-b372c59d5be1 }}</ref>
* A description of the [[Biology:Morphology|morphology]] of the postcranial skeleton of ''[[Biology:Yanoconodon|Yanoconodon]] allini'' and a study on its implications for the posture and locomotion of members of this species is published by Chen, Luo & Wilson (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Meng Chen |author2=Zhe-Xi Luo |author3=Gregory P. Wilson |year=2017 |title=The postcranial skeleton of ''Yanoconodon allini'' from the Early Cretaceous of Hebei, China, and its implications for locomotor adaptation in eutriconodontan mammals |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=e1315425 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1315425 |s2cid=90035415 }}</ref>
* New fossil material of members of the genus ''[[Biology:Gobiconodon|Gobiconodon]]'' is described from the [[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]] of Mongolia by Lopatin (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author=A. V. Lopatin |year=2017 |title=Early Cretaceous mammals from the Khamryn-Us and Shalan-Ikher localities in Mongolia |journal=Doklady Biological Sciences |volume=477 |issue=1 |pages=210–213 |doi=10.1134/S0012496617060011 |pmid=29299807 |s2cid=8643849 }}</ref>
* A [[Biology:Multituberculata|multituberculate]] [[Biology:Femur|femur]] is described from the [[Earth:Upper Cretaceous|Upper Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Maastrichtian|Maastrichtian]]) [[Earth:Maevarano Formation|Maevarano Formation]] ({{wipe|Madagascar}}) by Krause, Hoffmann & Werning (2017), confirming the presence of multituberculates on [[Earth:Gondwana|Gondwana]].<ref>{{cite journal |author1=David W. Krause |author2=Simone Hoffmann |author3=Sarah Werning |year=2017 |title=First postcranial remains of Multituberculata (Allotheria, Mammalia) from Gondwana |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=80 |pages=91–100 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.08.009 }}</ref>
* A study on the anatomy of the skull of ''Necrolestes patagonensis'', with emphasis on its adaptations to a [[Biology:Fossorial|fossorial]] lifestyle, is published by Wible & Rougier (2017).<ref>{{cite journal |author1=John R. Wible |author2=Guillermo W. Rougier |year=2017 |title=Craniomandibular Anatomy of the Subterranean Meridiolestidan ''Necrolestes patagonensis'' Ameghino, 1891 (Mammalia, Cladotheria) from the Early Miocene of Patagonia |journal=Annals of Carnegie Museum |volume=84 |issue=3 |pages=183–252 |doi=10.2992/007.084.0302 |s2cid=89869749 }}</ref>
* [[Biology:Vertebra|Vertebra]]e and fragmentary elements of the fore- and hindlimb of [[Biology:Theria|theria]]n mammals are described from the [[Earth:Upper Cretaceous|Upper Cretaceous]] ([[Earth:Turonian|Turonian]]) [[Earth:Bissekty Formation|Bissekty Formation]] (Uzbekistan) by Averianov & Archibald (2017).<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=A.O. Averianov |author2=J.D. Archibald |year=2017 |title=Therian postcranial bones from the Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences |volume=321 |issue=4 |pages=433–484 |url=https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_321_4/TZ_321_4_Averianov.pdf }}</ref>

===New taxa===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|-
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
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''[[Biology:Arboroharamiya|Arboroharamiya allinhopsoni]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Gang Han |author2=Fangyuan Mao |author3=Shundong Bi |author4=Yuanqing Wang |author5=Jin Meng |year=2017 |title=A Jurassic gliding euharamiyidan mammal with an ear of five auditory bones |journal=Nature |volume=551 |issue=7681 |pages=451–456 |doi=10.1038/nature24483 |pmid=29132143 |bibcode=2017Natur.551..451H |s2cid=4466953 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Han ''et al.''
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Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)
|
[[Earth:Tiaojishan Formation|Tiaojishan Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
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A member of [[Biology:Euharamiyida|Euharamiyida]] belonging to the family Arboroharamiyidae.
|
|-
|
''Baidabatyr''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Alexander Averianov |author2=Alexey Lopatin |author3=Pavel Skutschas |author4=Stepan Ivantsov |author5=Elizaveta Boitsova |author6=Ivan Kuzmin |year=2017 |title=An enigmatic multituberculate mammal from the Early Cretaceous of Siberia, Russia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=e1293070 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2017.1293070 |s2cid=90137175 }}</ref>
|
Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Averianov ''et al.''
|
[[Earth:Early Cretaceous|Early Cretaceous]]
|
[[Earth:Ilek Formation|Ilek Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Russia}}
|
A [[Biology:Multituberculata|multituberculate]] of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is ''B. clivosus''.
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|-
|
''[[Biology:Fluctuodon|Fluctuodon]]''<ref name=Fluctuodon>{{cite journal |author=Maxime Debuysschere |year=2017 |title=The Kuehneotheriidae (Mammaliaformes) from Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (Upper Triassic, France): a Systematic Review |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=127–146 |doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9335-z |s2cid=20444744 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Debuysschere
|
Late Triassic (Rhaetian)
|
|
{{Flag|France}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Kuehneotheriidae|Kuehneotheriidae]]. The type species is ''F. necmergor''.
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|-
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''[[Biology:Kuehneotherium|Kuehneotherium stanislavi]]''<ref name=Fluctuodon />
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Sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Debuysschere
|
Late Triassic (Rhaetian)
|
|
{{Flag|France}}<br>
{{Flag|Luxembourg}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Kuehneotheriidae|Kuehneotheriidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Biology:Maiopatagium|Maiopatagium]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Qing-Jin Meng |author2=David M. Grossnickle |author3=Di Liu |author4=Yu-Guang Zhang |author5=April I. Neander |author6=Qiang Ji |author7=Zhe-Xi Luo |year=2017 |title=New gliding mammaliaforms from the Jurassic |journal=Nature |volume=548 |issue=7667 |pages=291–296 |doi=10.1038/nature23476 |pmid=28792929 |bibcode=2017Natur.548..291M |s2cid=205259206 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Meng ''et al.''
|
Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)
|
[[Earth:Tiaojishan Formation|Tiaojishan Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Haramiyida|Haramiyida]] belonging to the group Eleutherodontida. The type species is ''M. furculiferum''.
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|-
|
''[[Biology:Vilevolodon|Vilevolodon]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Zhe-Xi Luo |author2=Qing-Jin Meng |author3=David M. Grossnickle |author4=Di Liu |author5=April I. Neander |author6=Yu-Guang Zhang |author7=Qiang Ji |year=2017 |title=New evidence for mammaliaform ear evolution and feeding adaptation in a Jurassic ecosystem |journal=Nature |volume=548 |issue=7667 |pages=326–329 |doi=10.1038/nature23483 |pmid=28792934 |bibcode=2017Natur.548..326L |s2cid=4463476 }}</ref>
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Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Luo ''et al.''
|
Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)
|
[[Earth:Tiaojishan Formation|Tiaojishan Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A member of [[Biology:Haramiyida|Haramiyida]] belonging to the family [[Biology:Eleutherodontidae|Eleutherodontidae]]. The type species is ''V. diplomylos''.
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|-
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Prehistoric mammals]]

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