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<h2 id="arthropods">Arthropods</h2> <h3>Newly named Arachnids</h3> <table><tbody><tr><th>Name</th><th>Novelty</th><th>Status</th><th>Authors</th><th>Age</th><th>Unit</th><th>Location</th><th>Notes</th><th>Images</th></tr><tr><td><p><i>Segestria succinei</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></p></td><td><p>Sp nov</p></td><td><p>Valid</p></td><td><p>Berland</p></td><td><p><a href="/facts/Early_Eocene/KdIvHqv5">Early Eocene</a></p></td><td><p><a href="/facts/Baltic_amber/nHdQQKw7">Baltic amber</a></p></td><td><p> <a href="/facts/Europe/DTAtrKfh">Europe</a></p></td><td><p>A <a href="/facts/Segestriidae/czdkNL2T">segestriid</a> spider</p></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <h3>Newly named insects</h3> <table><tbody><tr><th>Name</th><th>Novelty</th><th>Status</th><th>Authors</th><th>Age</th><th>Unit</th><th>Location</th><th>Notes</th><th>Images</th></tr><tr><td><p><i>Ctenobethylus succinalis</i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></p></td><td><p>Gen et sp nov</p></td><td><p>valid </p></td><td><p>Brues</p></td><td><p>Middle Eocene</p></td><td><p>Baltic amber</p></td><td><p> <a href="/facts/Europe/DTAtrKfh">Europe</a></p></td><td><p>Fossil <a href="/facts/Dolichoderinae/9aVECQAf">Dolichoderine</a> ant, type species <i>C. succinalis</i> jr synonym of <i><a href="/facts/Ctenobethylus_goepperti/lccHQu03">Ctenobethylus goepperti</a></i></p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><i><a href="/facts/Metanephrocerus/bJDQTuBq">Protonephrocerus collini</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></p></td><td><p>Sp nov</p></td><td><p>jr synonym</p></td><td><p><a href="/facts/Frank_M._Carpenter/47xs6w5Q">Carpenter</a> & Hull</p></td><td><p><a href="/facts/Priabonian/5ruB70cv">Priabonian</a></p></td><td><p><a href="/facts/Baltic_Amber/nHdQQKw7">Baltic Amber</a></p></td><td><ul><li> <a href="/facts/Russia/jfkCwyxn">Russia</a></li></ul></td><td><p>A <a href="/facts/Big-headed_fly/KEAURIqp">big-headed fly</a>; moved to <i><a href="/facts/Metanephrocerus_collini/bJDQTuBq">Metanephrocerus collini</a></i> in 1948</p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><i><a href="/facts/Priabona_(genus)/bSdTjl6F">Protonephrocerus florissantius</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></p></td><td><p>Sp nov</p></td><td><p>jr synonym</p></td><td><p>Carpenter & Hull</p></td><td><p><a href="/facts/Priabonian/5ruB70cv">Priabonian</a></p></td><td><p><a href="/facts/Florissant_Formation/90MBB6z1">Florissant Formation</a></p></td><td><ul><li> <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">USA</a> ( <a href="/facts/Colorado/IgIHrJI5">Colorado</a>)</li></ul></td><td><p>A <a href="/facts/Big-headed_fly/KEAURIqp">big-headed fly</a>; moved to <i><a href="/facts/Priabona_florissantius/bSdTjl6F">Priabona florissantius</a></i></p></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="dinosaurs">Dinosaurs</h2> <h3>New taxa</h3> <table><tbody><tr><th>Name</th><th>Novelty</th><th>Status</th><th>Authors</th><th>Age</th><th>Type locality</th><th>Location</th><th>Notes</th><th>Images</th></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Bactrosaurus_prynadai/QG5LDKmq">Bactrosaurus prynadai</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></td><td>Sp. nov.</td><td><i><a href="/facts/Nomen_dubium/pxPDpId7">Nomen dubium</a></i></td><td><a href="/facts/Anatoly_Riabinin/0v80Db0x">Riabinin</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Santonian/NWM9bl28">Santonian</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Dabrazinskaya_Svita/XXl7KjXu">Dabrazinskaya Svita</a></td><td> <a href="/facts/Kazakhstan/Vfs8NI6e">Kazakhstan</a></td><td>A species of <i><a href="/facts/Bactrosaurus/QG5LDKmq">Bactrosaurus</a></i></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Jaxartosaurus_aralensis/v0VaBtRB">Jaxartosaurus aralensis</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></td><td>Gen. et sp. nov.</td><td>Valid</td><td><a href="/facts/Anatoly_Riabinin/0v80Db0x">Riabinin</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Santonian/NWM9bl28">Santonian</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Dabrazinskaya_Svita/XXl7KjXu">Dabrazinskaya Svita</a></td><td> <a href="/facts/Kazakhstan/Vfs8NI6e">Kazakhstan</a></td><td>A <a href="/facts/Hadrosaurid/v4t7JSPB">hadrosaurid</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Omeisaurus_junghsiensis/LDbnFrSw">Omeisaurus junghsiensis</a></i></td><td>Gen. et sp. nov .</td><td>Valid</td><td><a href="/facts/Yang_Zhongjian/omh3Hvul">Yang</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Bathonian/wDyT99az">Bathonian</a>-<a href="/facts/Callovian/Ye14aMDu">Callovian</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Shaximiao_Formation/Toffc6nU">Shaximiao Formation</a></td><td> <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a></td><td>A <a href="/facts/Sauropod/8Iqh2yEJ">sauropod</a></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="plesiosaurs">Plesiosaurs</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Plesiosaur/Tbfbj8kH">Plesiosaur</a> <a href="/facts/Gastroliths/UTwaaJIj">gastroliths</a> documented.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li></ul> <ul> <li>Paleontology portal</li></ul> <ul><li>Riggs, Elmer Samuel; 1939a; A specimen of Elasmosaurus serpentinus; Geological Series of Field Museum of Natural History; VI(No. 25) pp. 385–391</li> <li>Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716. <a href="9780070887398" target="_blank">9780070887398</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Berland, L. (1939). "Description de quelques arignées fossils". Revue Française d'Entomologie. 6: 1–9. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Dlussky, G. M. (1997). "Genera of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Baltic amber". Paleontological Journal. 31: 616–627. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Kehlmaier, C; Dierick, M; Skevington, JH (2014). "Micro-CT studies of amber inclusions reveal internal genitalic features of big-headed flies, enabling a systematic placement of Metanephrocerus Aczel, 1948 (Insecta: Diptera: Pipunculidae)". Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 72 (1): 23–36. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Archibald, SB; Kehlmaier, C; Mathewes, RW (2014). "Early Eocene big headed flies (Diptera: Pipunculidae) from the Okanagan Highlands, western North America". The Canadian Entomologist. 146 (4): 429–443. doi:10.4039/tce.2013.79. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Riabinin, A.N. (1939). "The Upper Cretaceous Vertebrate Fauna of South Kazakhstan. I. Reptilia. Part 1. I. Ornithischia". Transactions of the Central Geological and Prospecting Institute (118): 1–39. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Riabinin, A.N. (1939). "The Upper Cretaceous Vertebrate Fauna of South Kazakhstan. I. Reptilia. Part 1. I. Ornithischia". Transactions of the Central Geological and Prospecting Institute (118): 1–39. <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Riggs (1939). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>