2005 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.

[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues.

This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2005.

Trypanosoma antiquus[2] Valid Poinar Burdigalian Dominican amber Dominican Republic Oldest record of the vector association between Triatoma and Trypanosoma Eoseria[3] Gen et sp nov valid Wolfe & Edlund Early EoceneYpresian Eocene Okanagan HighlandsHorsefly shales Canada British Columbia An aulacoseiraceous freshwater diatomThe type species is E. wilsonii Homalcoia[4] Gen et Sp nov Valid Hernandez-Castillo, Stockey & Beard Earliest Eocene "Appian Way Beds" Canada British Columbia A cupressaceous pollen cone.The type species is H. littoralis Albertarum[5] Gen et sp nov Bogner, Hoffman, & Aulenback CretaceousLate Campanian Horseshoe Canyon Formation Canada Alberta An orontioid Infructescence.The type species is A. pueri.

Archaeamphora[6] Gen et sp nov dubious Li Early Cretaceous Jianshangou Formation China The type species is Archaeamphora longicervia Corylopsis reedae[7] sp nov Valid Radtke, Pigg, & Wehr Early EoceneYpresian Eocene Okanagan HighlandsKlondike Mountain Formation USA Washington A Corylopsis species Fothergilla malloryi[7] sp nov Valid Radtke, Pigg, & Wehr Early EoceneYpresian Eocene Okanagan HighlandsKlondike Mountain Formation USA Washington A Fothergilla species Shirleya[8] Gen et Sp nov Valid Pigg & DeVore Middle Miocene "Yakima Canyon Flora" USA Washington A crape myrtle relative, type species S. grahamae Ulmus okanaganensis[9] sp nov valid Denk & Dillhoff Early EoceneYpresian Eocene Okanagan HighlandsTranquille FormationMcAbee Fossil Beds Canada British Columbia An elm species.Also found in other Eocene Okanagan Highlands locations.

Teixeiraea[10] Gen et sp nov von Balthazar, Pedersen and Friis Cretaceous Vale de Agua 320 Portugal A plant ascribed to Ranunculales.The type species is T. lusitanica.

Pteropus[11] Gen et sp nov Van der Ham & Dortangs CretaceousMaastrichtian Maastricht Formation The Netherlands A ascomycetous fungus in Brachyphyllum patens foliageThe type species is P. brachyphylli Stigmatomyces succini[12] Sp nov valid Rossi, Kotrba, & Triebel EocenePriabonian Baltic amber Europe A laboulbeniaceous parasite of Prosphyracephala succini Halitherses[13] Gen et sp nov valid Giribet & Dunlop CretaceousCenomanian Burmese amber Myanmar An ortholasmatine nemastomatid harvestman.

Type species is H. grimaldii Acropyga glaesaria[14] Sp nov Valid Lapolla MioceneBurdigalian Dominican amber Dominican Republic Oldest record of trophophoresy in ants Araripenymphes[15] Gen et sp nov Valid Menon, Martins-Neto, & Martill CretaceousAptian Crato Formation Brazil A nymphid lacewing Cananeuretus[16] Gen et sp nov Valid Engel & Grimaldi CretaceousCampanian Canadian amber Canada A possible Aneuretinae ant.

C. occidentalis Culex malariager Sp nov valid Poinar MioceneBurdigalian Dominican amber Dominican Republic A mosquito, a vector of Plasmodium dominicana Dinokanaga[17] Gen et sp nov Valid Archibald EoceneYpresian Eocene Okanagan HighlandsTranquille FormationMcAbee Fossil Beds Canada British Columbia Six species named D. andersoni, D. dowsonae, D. hillsi, D. sternbergi, D. webbi, D. wilsoni Eorhachiberotha[18] Gen et sp nov homonym Nel Et al. EoceneYpresian Oise amber France A rhachiberothide lacewing,Genus name preoccupied by Eorhachiberotha Engel, 2004 Moved to Oisea Nel et al 2005[19] Jeanlegrandia[20] Gen et sp nov valid Nel, Petrulevicius, & Jarzembowski Chattian Les Figons France A Libellulid dragonfly, the type species is J. oligocenica Myanmyrma[16] Gen et sp nov Valid Engel & Grimaldi CretaceousEarliest Cenomanian Burmese amber Myanmar A sphecomyrmine ant.

The type species is M. gracilis Oisea[18][19] Gen et comb nov valid Nel Et al. EoceneYpresian Oise amber France A rhachiberothide lacewing,A new genus name for Eorhachiberotha Nel et al 2005 Sphecomyrma[16] Gen et sp nov jr synonym Engel & Grimaldi Cretaceousearliest Cenomanian Burmese amber Myanmar A stem group ant, jr syn of Gerontoformica orientalis Triatoma dominicana[2] Sp nov Valid Poinar MioceneBurdigalian Dominican amber Dominican Republic Oldest record of the vector association between Triatoma and Trypanosoma Eromangasaurus Valid Kear Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

nov. Antoine Louchart Patrick Vignaud Andossa Likius Hassane Taisso Mackaye Michel Brunet Late Miocene Anthracotheriid Unit Chad An Anatidae, the oldest from Africa.

nov. Estelle Bourdon Baâdi Bouya Mohamed Iarochène Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Thanetian Morocco A Prophaethontidae Harrison et Walker, 1976.

nov. Marcelo Stucchi Steven D. Emslie Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Pisco Formation Peru A Cathartidae.

nov. Santiago Claramunt Andrès Rinderknecht Late Pleistocene Coastal cliffs near Rio de la Plata estuary Uruguay A Furnariidae.

nov. Gerald Mayr Early Oligocene Rupelian Germany: Baden-Württemberg A Pici (sensu Simpson and Cracraft, 1981), family incertae sedis (confer Ramphastidae Vigors, 1825) Struthio kakesiensis[63] Valid Sp.

nov. Terry Harrison Charles P. Msuya Pliocene Lower Laetoli Beds Tanzania Known from eggshells Struthio linxiaensis[64] Valid Sp.

Early Oligocene Hsanda Gol Formation As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common.

To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.