2009 in paleoathropodology

Arthropods

Anomalocaridids

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Schinderhannes^[1]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Kühl, Briggs, & Rust	Lower Devonian	Hunsrück Slate	Germany

Arachnids

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Palaeoperenethis^[2]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Selden & Penney	Ypresian	Horsefly Lagerstätte, British Columbia	Canada

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Agulla mineralensis^[3]	sp nov	Valid	Engel	Late Barstovian	Stewart Valley Group	USA	only described Neogene snakefly fossil
Allorapisma^[4]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Makarkin & Archibald	Ypresian	Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation	USA		Allorapisma chuorum
Apis (Cascapis) nearctica^[5]	sp nov	Valid	Engel, Hinojosa-Diaz, & Rasnitsyn	Middle Miocene		USA	The first fossil honey bee from the New World.
Aspidopleura^[6]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Gibson	Eocene	Baltic amber			Aspidopleura baltica
Brevivulva^[6]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Gibson	Eocene	Baltic amber			Brevivulva electroma
Cimbrophlebia brooksi^[7]	sp nov	Valid	Archibald	Ypresian	Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation	USA
Cimbrophlebia flabelliformis^[7]	sp nov	Valid	Archibald	Ypresian	Kamloops Group, McAbee, British Columbia	Canada
Cimbrophlebia leahyi^[7]	sp nov	Valid	Archibald	Ypresian	Kamloops Group, McAbee, British Columbia	Canada
Cimbrophlebia westae^[7]	sp nov	Valid	Archibald	Ypresian	Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation	USA
Denaeaspis^[8]	gen et sp nov	valid	Chaboo & Engel	Lutetian	Parachute Member, Green River Formation	USA	One of the oldest tortoise beetles
Eosacantha^[8]	gen et sp nov	valid	Chaboo & Engel	Lutetian	Parachute Member, Green River Formation	USA	One of the oldest tortoise beetles
Gesomyrmex germanicus^[9]	sp nov	Valid	Dlussky, Wappler, & Wedmann	Lutetian	Eckfeld Maar	Germany	A Formicinae ant	Gesomyrmex germanicus
Gesomyrmex pulcher^[9]	sp nov	Valid	Dlussky, Wappler, & Wedmann	Lutetian	Messel Formation	Germany	A Formicinae ant	Gesomyrmex pulcher
Leptofoenus pittfieldae^[10]	sp nov	Valid	Engel	Burdigalian	Dominican amber	Dominican Republic		Leptofoenus pittfieldae
Metapelma archetypon^[6]	sp nov	Valid	Gibson	Eocene	Baltic amber			Metapelma archetypon
Neanaperiallus^[6]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Gibson	Eocene	Baltic amber			Neanaperiallus masneri
Nesagapostemon^[11]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Engel	Burdigalian	Dominican amber	Dominican Republic		Nesagapostemon moronei
Nymphes georgei^[12]	sp nov	Valid	Archibald, Makarkin, & Ansorge	Ypresian	Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation	USA		Nymphes georgei
Oligochlora semirugosa^[11]	sp nov	Valid	Engel	Burdigalian	Dominican amber	Dominican Republic		Oligochlora semirugosa
Principiala rudgwickensis^[13]	sp nov	valid	Jepson, Makarkin, & Jarzembowski	Barremian	Upper Weald Clay	England	An Ithonidae lacewing, a second species of Principiala
Pronymphes hoffeinsorum^[12]	Valid	Archibald, Makarkin, Ansorge	Priabonian	Yantarny [=Palmnicken], Kaliningradskaya Oblast’	Russia
Termitaradus mitnicki^[14]	sp nov	Valid	Engel	Burdigalian	Dominican amber	Dominican Republic		Termitaradus mitnicki

References

↑ Kühl, G; Briggs, DE; Rust, J (February 2009). "A Great-Appendage Arthropod with a Radial Mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany". Science 323 (5915): 771–3. Bibcode:2009Sci...323..771K. doi:10.1126/science.1166586. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 19197061.
↑ Selden, P.A.; Penney, D. (2009). "A fossil spider (Araneae: Pisauridae) of Eocene age from Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada". Contributions to Natural History 12: 1269–1282.
↑ Engel, M. S. (2009). "A Miocene snakefly from Stewart Valley, Nevada (Raphidioptera: Raphidiidae)". Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 112 (4): 211–214. doi:10.1660/062.112.0409.
↑ Makarkin, V.N.; Archibald, S.B. (2009). "A new genus and first Cenozoic fossil record of moth lacewings (Neuroptera: Ithonidae) from the Early Eocene of North America". Zootaxa 2063: 55–63. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
↑ Michael S. Engel, I. A. Hinojosa-Diaz & A. P. Rasnitsyn (2009). "A honey bee from the Miocene of Nevada and the biogeography of Apis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Apini)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 60 (3): 23–38. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Gibson, G.A.P. (2009). "Description of three new genera and four new species of Neanastatinae (Hymenoptera, Eupelmidae) from Baltic amber, with discussion of their relationships to extant taxa". ZooKeys 20: 175–214. doi:10.3897/zookeys.20.161. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Archibald, S.B. (2009). "New Cimbrophlebiidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Early Eocene at McAbee, British Columbia, Canada and Republic, Washington, USA". Zootaxa 2249: 51–62. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
↑ 8.0 8.1 Chaboo, C. S.; Engel, M. S. (2009). "Eocene tortoise beetles from the Green River Formation in Colorado, U.S.A. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)". Systematic Entomology 34 (2): 202–209. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00456.x.
↑ 9.0 9.1 Dlussky, GM; Wappler, T; Wedmann, S (2009). "Fossil ants of the genus Gesomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Eocene of Europe and remarks on the evolution of arboreal ant communities". Zootaxa 2031: 1–20.
↑ Engel, M.S. (2005). "The first fossil leptofoenine wasp (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae): A new species of Leptofoenusin Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic". ZooKeys 13: 57–66. doi:10.3897/zookeys.13.159.
↑ 11.0 11.1 Engel, M.S. (2009). "Two new halictine bees in Miocene Amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera, Halictidae)". ZooKeys 29: 1–12. doi:10.3897/zookeys.29.257.
↑ 12.0 12.1 Archibald, S.B.; Makarkin,V.N.; Ansorge, J. (2009). "New fossil species of Nymphidae (Neuroptera) from the Eocene of North America and Europe". Zootaxa 2157: 59–68.
↑ Jepson, JE; Makarkin, VN; Jarzembowski, E (2009). "New lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden supergroup of Southern England". Cretaceous Research 30: 1325–1338. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.07.012.
↑ Engel, M.S. (2009). "A new termite bug in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hemiptera, Termitaphididae)". ZooKeys 25: 61–68. doi:10.3897/zookeys.25.267.